11 May 1645 Parliamentary commander Sir John Meldrum was mortally wounded whilst besieging Castle. This was only days after he had survived a fall over a 200 foot cliff there, as his cloak then acted like a parachute!! 😳

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The Battle of Cloyd's Mountain was fought in 1864, near Dublin, VA. The Union Army of West Virginia, under General George Crook, has moved into the area to sever the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad in support of General ’s Overland Campaign.

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4 May 1643 Royalist forces commanded by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, stormed the town of after a skirmish at the town's bridge, defended by local Parliamentarians including 30 boys from the town's grammar school.

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Peterson hands Michael the gun, with a simple mission...

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'Chekov's Gun' - a scene from our upcoming Divided States animatic. Every revolution has a cost...

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20 April 1643 Prince Rupert's engineers detonate the first ever explosive mine used in England to breach the defences and retake Close.

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Questo lavoro
Ci impegniamo a salvare più persone possibili
ma questo non significa tutti
Se non riusciamo a convivere con questo
la prossima volta. . .

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in 1861, rebels in opened fire on the installation, , at the mouth of Charleston Harbor. The bombardment essentially began the

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9 April 1644 Parliamentarian forces under Sir William Waller stormed Winchester. They captured the town but the Royalist garrison held out in the castle.

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In recognition of April being in many southern states, we note that William Pegram was mortally wounded while commanding a battery of Confederate artillery during the Battle of Five Forks, VA, which was a resounding victory for the Union.

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Fayetteville, NC was occupied by Union troops under General William Tecumseh Sherman in 1865 as part of their ongoing Carolinas Campaign. They captured the Confederate Arsenal there, which had produced nearly a million rounds of ammunition in 1864.

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11 March 1645 at in Wiltshire Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller and Oliver Cromwell surprised a party of 400 Royalist Horse on their way to join Lord Goring; only thirty escaped.

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