The Marylanders’ forlorn assaults allowed hundreds of Americans to escape to the temporary safety of their entrenchments. Gist and several men in his group survived to fight in many crucial ...

This Congressional Gold Medal was awarded on December 17, 1863 to General Grant after his victory at Vicksburg. The battle of Vicksburg was a turning point for the Union Army. The siege lasted six ...

It was one of 13 small polygonal forts built along a carefully surveyed area for a line of entrenchments which could be quickly excavated in an emergency. The London Defence Positions were ...

The last two years of fighting in Ukraine have humbled the overly confident and shown that, without countermeasures and with ...

An overnight attack on a Chad military base left some 40 soldiers dead, with the African nation pledging to hunt down the ...

15, 1865. He was one of 200 marines holding a line of entrenchments in the rear of the fort and maintained his position until ...

Woodward and the rest of the 1st Australian are sent to Europe, where they tunnel under entrenchments and place explosives in a bid to damage German lines and end the Western Front's stalemate.

Exhausted Confederate forces raise the Stars & Bars atop newly-conquered Cemetery Hill while fresh Union reinforcements begin new entrenchments. Other Union reinforcements fortify their flanks ...

General James Wolfe wrote to his mother of his frustration. "My antagonist has wisely shut himself up, in inaccessible entrenchments, so that I can't get at him, without spilling a torrent of ...

During a running fight of 1,200 yards, our forces reached the enemy entrenchments and Corporal. Joseph A. Gowin, U.S.M.C., placed the machinegun, of which he had charge, behind a large log across ...

"This was a period of the war when the fighting was much more fluid than it would soon become," said Ms Chaloner, "Deaths like that of Joseph would soon demonstrate the need for entrenchments ...