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9780816044023

Encyclopedia of Battles in North America, 1517 to 1916

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    9780816044023

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    0816044023

  • Edition: Reprint
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  • Copyright: 2001-03-01
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Summary

Detailed maps supplement descriptive narratives of more than 350 battles, from battles of Spanish conquest in 1517 to Mexican border raids in 1916, providing information on each battle's context, important leaders, and outcome. Reprint.

Table of Contents

Preface xv
A TO Z ENTRIES 1(304)
Adobe Walls
3(1)
Agua Prieta
4(1)
Alamance
4(1)
Alamo
5(1)
U.S.S. Alfred v. H.M.S. Glasgow
6(1)
Allatoona Pass
6(1)
Annapolis Royal (Port Royal)
6(1)
Antietam (Sharpsburg)
7(3)
Ash Hollow (Blue Lake)
10(1)
Atlanta
10(2)
Augusta (1780)
12(1)
Augusta (1781)
12(2)
Bad Axe River
14(1)
Ball's Bluff
15(1)
Batoche
15(1)
Baton Rouge
16(1)
Bear Paw Mountains
17(1)
Bear River
17(1)
Beaufort (Port Royal Island)
18(1)
Beaver Dams
18(1)
Beecher's Island
19(1)
Belmont
19(1)
Bennington
20(1)
Bentonville
21(1)
Big Bethel
22(1)
Big Black River
22(1)
Big Hole Basin
23(1)
Big Meadows
24(1)
Billingsport
24(1)
Black Mingo Creek
24(1)
Blackstocks
25(1)
Bladensburg
25(1)
Bloody Brook (Pocumtuck, Deerfield)
26(1)
Bloody Swamp (Bloody Marsh, St. Simon's Island)
27(1)
Blue Licks
28(1)
Blue Savannah
28(1)
Bound Brook
28(1)
Brandy Station (Fleetwood Hill, Beverley's Ford)
29(1)
Brandywine
30(1)
Briar Creek
31(1)
Brice's Cross Roads (Brice's Creek Roads, Guntown, Tishomingo Creek)
32(1)
Bristoe Station
32(1)
Buena Vista
33(2)
Bull Run, First (Manassas)
35(2)
Bull Run, Second (Manassas)
37(2)
Bull's Ferry
39(1)
Bunker Hill (Breed's Hill)
39(2)
Bushy Run (Edge Hill)
41(1)
Calderon Bridge (Puente de Calderon)
42(1)
Camden
42(3)
Camerone
45(1)
Camp Texas (Fort Texas)
46(1)
Cedar Creek
46(1)
Cedar Mountain
47(1)
Cedars
48(1)
Celaya
48(1)
Cempoallan
49(1)
Cerro Gordo
50(2)
Chambly
52(1)
Champion's Hill
52(1)
Champoton
53(1)
Chancellorsville
54(1)
Chantilly (Ox Hill)
55(1)
Chapultepec
56(1)
Charleston (Sullivan's Island)
57(2)
Charleston
59(1)
Charlotte
60(1)
Chateaugay (Chateauguay River)
60(1)
Chattanooga (Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge)
61(2)
Cheat Mountain (Elkwater)
63(1)
Cherry Valley
63(1)
U.S.S. Chesapeake v. H.M.S. Shannon
64(1)
Chesapeake Bay
64(1)
Chesapeake Capes
65(1)
Chickamauga
66(1)
Chickasaw Bluffs (Chickasaw Bayou)
67(1)
Chippewa
67(2)
Chrysler's Farm
69(1)
Churubusco
70(1)
Cloyd's Mountain
71(1)
Cold Harbor
71(1)
Columbus
72(1)
Combahee Ferry
73(1)
U.S.S. Congress v. H.M.S.Savage
73(1)
U.S.S. Constitution v. H.M.S. Guerriere
74(1)
Contreras (Padieras)
74(1)
Cooch's Bridge (Iron Hill)
75(1)
Corinth
76(1)
Cowan's Ford
76(1)
Cowpens
77(2)
Crampton's Gap
79(1)
The Crater (Petersburg Mine Assault)
79(1)
Cross Keys (Union Church)
80(2)
Dade's Battle
82(1)
Danbury Raid
82(1)
Drewry's Bluff
83(2)
Emuckfau Creek
85(1)
Enitachopco Creek
86(1)
Eutaw Springs
86(2)
Fair Oaks (Seven Pines)
88(1)
Fallen Timbers
89(1)
Falling Waters
90(1)
Farmville and Highbridge
90(1)
Fetterman Fight
91(1)
Fishdam Ford
91(1)
Fisher's Hill
92(1)
Fishing Creek (Catawba Ford)
92(1)
Five Forks
93(1)
Fort Anne
94(1)
Fort Beausejour
94(1)
Fort Caroline
95(1)
Fort Clinton and Fort Montgomery
95(1)
Fort Cumberland
96(1)
Fort Donelson
97(1)
Fort Erie, First
98(1)
Fort Erie, Second
99(1)
Fort Fisher (Terry's Expedition)
99(1)
Fort Frontenac
100(1)
Fort George
101(1)
Fort Henry
101(1)
Fort Keyser
102(1)
Fort Lee (Fort Constitution)
102(1)
Fort McHenry
102(1)
Fort Mercer (Red Bank)
103(1)
Fort Mifflin
104(1)
Fort Mims
105(1)
Fort Motte
105(1)
Fort Necessity (Great Meadows)
106(1)
Fort Niagara
106(1)
Fort Pillow
107(1)
Fort Pulaski
108(1)
Fort Ridgely
109(1)
Fort Stanwix
109(1)
Fort Stedman
110(1)
Fort Stephenson
111(1)
Fort Sumter
111(1)
Fort Ticonderoga (Fort Carillon)
112(1)
Fort Ticonderoga (1775)
113(1)
Fort Ticonderoga (July 1777)
113(2)
Fort Ticonderoga (September 1777)
115(1)
Fort Wagner (Battery Wagner)
115(1)
Fort Washington
116(1)
Fort Watson
117(1)
Fort William Henry
117(1)
Franklin
118(1)
Franklin's Crossing (Deep Run)
119(1)
Fredericksburg
119(2)
Frenchtown (River Raisin)
121(1)
Front Royal
122(2)
Gaines's Mill
124(1)
Galveston
125(1)
Garnett's and Golding's Farm
125(1)
Germantown
126(2)
Gettysburg
128(3)
Globe Tavern (Weldon Railroad, Six Mile House)
131(1)
Glorieta Pass
131(1)
Gloucester
132(1)
Goliad
133(1)
Great Bridge
133(1)
Great Savannah
134(1)
Great Swamp
134(1)
Green Spring
135(1)
Guilford Courthouse
136(1)
Gwynn Island
137(2)
Hanging Rock
139(1)
Hanover Courthouse
140(1)
Harlem Heights
140(1)
Harmar's Defeat
141(1)
Harpers Ferry
142(1)
Haw River (Pyle's Defeat)
143(1)
Helena
144(1)
Hillsborough Raid
144(1)
Hobkirk's Hill
145(1)
Holly Springs
145(1)
Horseshoe Bend
146(1)
Hubbardton
147(1)
Irish Bend (Bayou Teche)
148(1)
Island Number 10
149(1)
Iuka
149(1)
Jamestown (1622)
150(1)
Jamestown (1676)
151(1)
Johnstown
152(1)
Julesburg
152(1)
Kernstown, First
153(1)
Kernstown, Second
154(1)
Kettle Creek
154(1)
Killdeer Mountain
155(1)
King's Mountain
155(2)
Kip's Bay
157(1)
Klock's Field
157(1)
Knoxville (Fort Sanders)
157(2)
Lake Erie (Put-in-Bay)
159(1)
Lake George (Bloody Pond)
160(1)
Lake Okeechobee
161(1)
Lazaro
162(1)
Lenud's Ferry
162(1)
Lexington and Concord
163(1)
Lexington
164(1)
Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand, Greasy Grass)
165(2)
Lochry's Defeat
167(1)
Long Island
168(1)
Long Sault
169(1)
Louisbourg (1745)
169(1)
Louisbourg (1758)
170(1)
Lundy's Lane
171(1)
Lynchburg
172(1)
Mackinac Island (Fort Michilimackinac)
173(1)
Malvern Hill
174(1)
McDowell
174(1)
Mechanicsville (Ellison's Mill)
175(1)
Memphis
176(1)
Mesa (La Mesa)
176(1)
Milk Creek
176(1)
Mill Springs (Logan Cross Road)
177(1)
Minisink
178(1)
Mobile Bay
178(1)
Molino del Rey
179(1)
Monck's Corner
180(1)
U.S.S. Monitor v. C.S.S. Virginia (Monitor v. Merrimack)
180(1)
Monmouth
181(2)
Monocacy
183(1)
Monongahela (Braddock's Defeat)
184(1)
Monterrey
185(1)
Montreal
186(1)
Moore's Creek Bridge
187(1)
Munfordville
187(1)
Mystic River
188(2)
Nashville
190(1)
New London Raid
191(1)
New Market
191(1)
New Orleans (1815)
192(2)
New Orleans (1862)
194(1)
New Ulm
195(1)
Newport
195(1)
Newtown
196(1)
Ninety Six
197(1)
La Noche Triste (Tenochtitlan)
198(1)
North Anna River (Hanover Junction, Jericho Mills, Taylor's Bridge)
199(2)
Oak Grove (King's Schoolhouse)
201(1)
Ocean Pond (Olustee)
202(1)
Okolona
202(1)
Oriskany
203(1)
Otumba
203(2)
Palo Alto
205(2)
Paoli
207(1)
Parker's Cross Roads
207(1)
Parker's Ferry
207(1)
Parral
208(1)
Paulus Hook
208(1)
Pea Ridge (Elkhorn Tavern)
209(1)
U.S.S. Peacock v. H.M.S. Epervier
210(1)
Pell's Point
210(1)
Pensacola
211(1)
Perryville
211(1)
Petersburg (1781)
212(1)
Petersburg (1864-1865)
213(1)
Philippi
213(1)
Pilot Knob (Fort Davidson)
214(1)
Plattsburg Bay (Lake Champlain, Plattsburg)
214(2)
Pleasant Hill Landing (Blair's Landing)
216(1)
Point Pleasant
217(1)
Port Gibson
217(1)
Port Hudson
218(1)
Port Republic
219(1)
Port Royal (Annapolis Royal)
220(1)
Port Royal Sound (Forts Beauregard and Walker)
220(1)
Potonchan
221(1)
Prairie Grove
221(1)
Princeton
222(1)
Puebla
223(1)
Puebla (Cinco de Mayo)
224(2)
Quebec (Plains of Abraham)
226(1)
Quebec
227(1)
Queenston
228(2)
Quinby Bridge
230(1)
Quintan's Bridge
230(1)
Ramseur's Mill
231(1)
Raymond
232(1)
Resaca de la Palma (Resaca de Guerrero)
232(1)
Rich Mountain
233(1)
Richmond
233(1)
Ridgeway
234(1)
Roanoke Island
234(1)
Rocky Mount
235(1)
Rosebud Creek
235(1)
Rush Springs (Rush Creek)
236(1)
Sabine Crossroads (Mansfield)
237(1)
Sabine Pass (Fort Griffin)
238(1)
Sackets Harbor
238(1)
Sacramento River
239(1)
St. Augustine (1702)
240(1)
St. Augustine (1740)
241(1)
St. Charles
242(1)
St. Clair's Defeat
242(1)
St. Denis
243(1)
St. Eustache
244(1)
St. John's (St. Jean's) (May 17, 1775)
244(1)
St. John's (St. Jean's) (September 5-November 2, 1775)
245(1)
San Gabriel
245(1)
San Jacinto
246(1)
San Pascual
247(1)
Sand Creek
248(1)
Sandusky (Crawford's Defeat)
248(1)
Santa Fe
249(1)
Saratoga, First (Freeman's Farm)
249(2)
Saratoga, Second (Bemis Heights)
251(2)
Savage's Station (Allen's Farm, Peach Orchard)
253(1)
Savannah (1778)
254(1)
Savannah (1779)
254(2)
Sayler's Creek
256(1)
Shiloh (Pittsburgh Landing)
257(2)
Sitka
259(1)
Slim Buttes
260(1)
South Mountain
260(1)
Spencer's Tavern
261(1)
Spotsylvania
261(1)
Springfield
262(1)
Springfield Arsenal
263(1)
Stones River (Murfreesboro)
264(2)
Stono Ferry
266(1)
Stony Creek (Stoney Creek)
266(1)
Stony Point
267(1)
Stronghold
267(1)
Summit Springs
268(1)
Talladega
269(1)
Tallasahatchee
270(1)
Tarrant's Tavern
270(1)
Tenochtitlan
270(3)
Thames (Moraviantown)
273(1)
Three Rivers (Trois Rivieres)
274(1)
Throg's Neck (Throg's Point)
274(1)
Tippecanoe
275(1)
Tlaxcala
276(1)
Trenton
277(1)
Trevilian Station
278(1)
U.S.S. Trumbull v. Watt
279(1)
U.S.S. Trumbull v. H.M.S. Iris
279(1)
Tupelo (Harrisburg)
279(3)
Valcour Island
282(1)
Veracruz
283(2)
Vicksburg
285(2)
Vincennes
287(2)
Wahab's Plantation
289(1)
Washita
289(1)
Waxhaws
290(1)
Waynesboro
291(1)
Wetzell's Ford
291(1)
White Oak Swamp (Glendale)
292(1)
White Plains
292(1)
Whitemarsh
293(1)
The Wilderness
293(1)
Williamsburg
294(1)
Williamson's Plantation
295(1)
Wilson's Creek (Oak Hill)
295(1)
Winchester, First
296(1)
Winchester, Second
296(1)
Winchester, Third (Opequon Creek)
297(1)
Wolf Mountain
298(1)
Wood Lake (Lone Tree Lake)
298(1)
Wounded Knee
299(1)
Wyoming Valley
299(2)
Yellow Tavern
301(1)
Yorktown
302(3)
Glossary 305(8)
Appendix 1: Alphabetical List of Battles 313(8)
Appendix 2: Chronological List of Battles 321(8)
Appendix 3: List of Battles by War 329(6)
Appendix 4: Battlefield Sites in Alphabetical Order 335(2)
Appendix 5: Battlefield Sites Listed by Region 337(8)
Bibliography 345(18)
Index 363

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Excerpts

Encyclopedia of Battles in North America is the only one-volume resource to
offer comprehensive coverage of battles from all wars and conflicts in
North America from the first European landings to the twentieth century. In
an authoritative yet lively manner, the authors provide brief descriptions
of 400 individual battles that explain:
•The context of the engagement
•The opposing forces and commanders
•The narrative of the fighting
•The outcome and cost in casualties.
Suggestions for further reading accompany each entry. Detailed appendixes
list battles chronologically and by war; a list of historic battlefield
sites, a general bibliography, and a complete index are included.
Meticulously researched and unmatched in its scope, the Encyclopedia is an
invaluable reference for high school students, military history buffs, and
general readers.
Among the battles profiled are:
•Champoton: Mexico, Spanish Conquest (1517)
•Mystic River: Connecticut, Pequot War (1637)
•Jamestown: Virginia, Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
•Fort Beausejour: Canada, French and Indian War (1755)
•Fort Lee (Fort Constitution): New Jersey, American Revolution (1776)
•Sitka: Alaska, Russian-Indian War (1804)
•U.S.S. Constitution vs. H.M.S. Guerriere: Off Nova Scotia, Canada
(War of 1812)
•Alamo: Texas, Texas War of Independence (1836)
•Monterrey: Mexico, Mexican-American War (1846)
•Antietam: Maryland, American Civil War (1862)
•Gettysburg: Pennsylvania, American Civil War (1863)
•Killdeer Mountain: North Dakota, Sioux Wars (1864)
•Adobe Walls: Texas, Buffalo War (1874)
•Celaya: Mexico, Mexican Revolution (1915).

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