In January 1863, the Army of the Potomac, following the Battle of Fredericksburg and the humiliating Mud March, suffered from rising desertions and plunging morale.

On October 9, 1987 the US HOT ROD Mud Bog & Battle of the Monster Trucks show was hosted.

Local residents know this siege and massive bombardment as The Battle of Mud Island.

When Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside was relieved of command of the Union's Army of the Potomac ( following the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg in December 1862 and the fiasco of his Mud March in January 1863 ), his replacement, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, immediately began reorganizing and training his army, in winter quarters outside of Fredericksburg.

After this Confederate defeat at the Battle of Mill Springs, Davis sent Johnston a brigade and a few other scattered reinforcements, and he sent Gen. P. G. T.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs – The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.

* 1781 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, the war's last significant battle in the Southern theater, ends in a narrow British tactical victory.

* Gouyen ( in Mescalero Góyą ́ ń-" the one who is wise " or “ Wise Woman ”) ( c. 1857-1903 ), was a woman from the Warm Springs local group of the Chihenne band noted for her heroism, with her son Kaywaykla and her second husband Ka-ya-ten-nae she escaped the Battle of Tres Castillos, her infant daughter was said to have been killed in the attack

* Tall Bull, chief of the Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, killed at Battle of Summit Springs

*" The Cheyenne Outbreak: The Battle of Turkey Springs and Red Hills ", Freedom Oklahoma

The Pawnee Scouts took part with distinction in the Battle of the Tongue River during the Powder River Expedition ( 1865 ) against Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho and in the Battle of Summit Springs.

Marion commanded the right wing under General Greene at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.

Militia under Penn's command were also involved in the Battle of Eutaw Springs.

Numerous Choctaws left their homes in the present-day county to join the battalions and participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, and at the Battle of Honey Springs in the Cherokee Nation, which pitted them against a Unionist faction of Cherokee Indians.

The defeat of the Sioux at the Battle of Summit Springs in 1869 largely eliminated this threat, and several parties were organized to explore the agricultural possibilities of the area.

* Battle of Mill Springs

The city is the county seat of Greene County and was named in honor of the Battle of Eutaw Springs, the last engagement of the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas.

The Confederates won the Battle of Poison Springs west of the city on April 18, 1864.

The Civil War Battle of Mill Springs took place in nearby Nancy, KY and the reenactments held there often draw large crowds.

The final shots of that war, east of the Mississippi River, were fired near Sulphur Springs and General James Martin surrendered honorably on May 9, 1865 ( See The " Battle " of Waynesville below.

The Battle of Tarrar Springs was fought just one mile east of Lexington on November 16, 1781.

Site of the Battle of Eutaw Springs in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War.

The Civil War Battle of Blue Springs was fought near Mosheim on October 10, 1863.

Thomas was in chief command of only two battles in the Civil War, the Battle of Mill Springs at the beginning and the Battle of Nashville near the end.

Other historical events that form a part of American folklore include: the Salem witch trials, the Boston Massacre, the Siege of Yorktown, California Gold Rush, Battle of the Little Bighorn, the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and The Wreck Of The SS Edmund Fitzgerald

Rush joined with fellow Toronto-based rock band Max Webster on July 28, 1980 to record " Battle Scar " for their 1980 release, Universal Juveniles.

The Battle of Rush Creek between the U. S. army and warriors of the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux, and Arapaho Indian tribes took place in 1865 four miles southeast of Broadwater

** FWA Gold Rush Fifteen Man # 1 Contender Battle Royal ( 2005 )

A portrait by Charles Willson Peale entitled Washington at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 displays Washington in the foreground with Hugh Mercer lying mortally wounded in the background, supported by Dr. Benjamin Rush and Major George Lewis holding the American flag.

Universal Juveniles was recorded with the assistance of various session musicians ; the song " Battle Scar " was recorded live with all three members of Rush playing alongside Max Webster.

Strained relationships between 1850s California Gold Rush miners and the local native Indian populations resulted in the 1855 Battle of Castle Crags, in which the poet Joaquin Miller was wounded, and which he later described in an essay of the same name.

* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.

Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend ( 1814 ), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans ( 1815 ).

* 616: 200-222-2222 Battle Creek / Grand Rapids / Kalamazoo, MI

* 1861 – American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek – the war enters Missouri when a band of raw Confederate troops defeat Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.

The population was 8, 616 at the 2010 census and is part of the Battle Creek Metropolitan Statistical Area.

During the American Civil War, the Union tended to name the battles after the nearest watercourse, such as the Battle of Wilsons Creek and the Battle of Stones River, whereas the Confederates favoured the nearby towns, as in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Murfreesboro.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge in North Carolina breaks up a Loyalist militia.

:* Battle of Utoy Creek, August 5 – 7, 1864, Sherman's failed attempt to break the railroad line into Atlanta from the east, heavy Union losses.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey.

* 1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Stoney Creek – A British force of 700 under John Vincent defeats an American force two times its size under William Winder and John Chandler.

* 1876 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1, 500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.

* 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Peachtree Creek – Near Atlanta, Georgia, Confederate forces led by General John Bell Hood unsuccessfully attack Union troops under General William T. Sherman.

* Kalamazoo / Battle Creek International Airport ( AZO ) ( Kalamazoo )

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps ( ACW ) turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.

* 1863 – Organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.

* 1814 – War of 1812: In central Alabama, U. S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

* 1812 – War of 1812: 17 Indiana Rangers are killed at the Battle of Wild Cat Creek.