Elizabethton is also the historical site of the Transylvania Purchase ( 1775 ), a major historic muster site during the American Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill ( 1780 ) and the Battle of Kings Mountain ( 1780 ), and a local community within the secessionist North Carolina " State of Franklin " territory ( 1784 – 1788 ).

Fort Watauga served as the September 26, 1780 staging area for the Overmountain Men who were preparing to trek over the Appalachian Mountains, to both engage, and later defeat, the British Army forces at the Battle of Musgrove Mill in South Carolina and later at the Battle of Kings Mountain in North Carolina.

On August 19, 1780 he led his detachment into the Battle of Musgrove Mill.

Shelby and Clarke elected not to pursue the British fleeing the Battle of Musgrove Mill.

These militia participated in actions against British Loyalists at both the Battle of Musgrove Mill on August 18, 1780 ( near present-day Clinton, South Carolina ) and in the decisive defeat of British Major Patrick Ferguson's command on October 7, 1780 at Kings Mountain ( near present-day Blacksburg, South Carolina ).

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.

For instance, John Stuart Mill famously suggested that " the Battle of Marathon, even as an event in British history, is more important than the Battle of Hastings ".

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

* April 18 – Danish-Prussian War ( Second War of Schleswig ) – Battle of Dybbøl: The Prussian army fielding 10, 000 men defeats the Danish defending army of 9, 200 at Dybbøl Mill, after an artillery bombardment from April 7 to April 18.

The Battle of Verdun — also known as the ' Mincing Machine of Verdun ' or ' Meuse Mill '— became a symbol of French determination and sacrifice.

* Battle of Mill Springs

During the Atlanta Campaign, Confederate cavalry badly defeated Union forces at the nearby Battle of Brown's Mill.

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

Cottage City and Moyer's Mill played a key role in the Battle of Bladensburg during the War of 1812.

These include the War of the Regulation, which took place prior to the actual Revolution, when citizens rebelled against the corrupt British Colonial Government, the Battle of Lindley's Mill, the Battle of Clapp's Mill, and Pyle's Defeat.

In June 1781, Lincolnton's location was the site of the Battle of Ramsour's Mill, a small engagement in which local Loyalists were defeated by pro-independence forces.

This is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Colson's Mill, the Battle of Colson's Ordinary or the Fight at Colson's.

The Battle of Gaines ' Mill was the third of the Seven Days Battles, occurring just east of Mechanicsville.

This was fought over the same ground as the Battle of Gaines ' Mill.

The Battle of Shepherdstown ( also known as the Battle of Boteler's Ford or Cement Mill ) occurred on September 20, 1862, during Lee's retreat.

An artillery duel was fought in Rotselaar in the First World War, known as the ‘ Slag aan de Molen ’ ( English: Battle of the Mill ).

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

It was the opinion of some of us that these must be part of the Committeemen who had been in the Battle of the North Bridge, which entitled them to a sort of veteran status, and we felt that if they employed this tactic, it was likely enough the best one.

For example, it was a battalion of the 7th Cavalry under Colonel George Armstrong Custer that had been wiped out at the Battle of The Little Big Horn.

Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

Hooker was routed by Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in May, but continued to command his troops for some weeks.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.

At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.

Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

The Triumvirate was eventually torn apart under the competing ambitions of its members: Lepidus was driven into exile and stripped of his position, and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium by Augustus in 31 BC.

The early policy of Ambracia was determined by its loyalty to Corinth ( for which it probably served as an entrepot in the Epirus trade ), its consequent aversion to Corcyra ( as Ambracia participated on the Corinthian side at the Battle of Sybota, which took place in 433 BC between the rebellious corinthian colony of Corcyra ( modern Corfu ) and Corinth ).

When Alaric II was killed fighting Clovis I, king of the Franks, in the Battle of Vouillé ( 507 ), his kingdom fell into disarray.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

Absalom eventually rebelled against his father and was killed during the Battle of Ephraim Wood.

Sharing in the attack on the Electorate of Saxony, Albert was taken prisoner at Rochlitz in March 1547 by Elector John Frederick of Saxony, but was released as a result of the Emperor's victory at the Battle of Mühlberg in the succeeding April.

Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.

The Battle of Mantinea, in which Agesilaus took no part, was followed by a general peace: Sparta, however, stood aloof, hoping even yet to recover her supremacy.

As the Battle of the Frigidus, which terminated this campaign, was fought at the passes of the Julian Alps, Alaric probably learned the weakness of Italy's natural defences on its northeastern frontier at the head of the Adriatic.