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The Second Battle of Bull Run or Second Manassas was fought August 28 – 30, 1862, as part of the American Civil War.
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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.
* 1939 – 1945, the Second Battle of the Atlantic.
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In the actions at Brawner's farm, just before the Second Battle of Bull Run, he took the initiative to send two of his regiments to reinforce Brig.
* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.
* 1645 – Thirty Years ' War: the Second Battle of Nördlingen sees French forces defeating those of the Holy Roman Empire.
* 1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British.
* 1918 – World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
* 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia.
* 1915 – The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
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In 148 BC, in what the Romans called the Fourth Macedonian War, he was defeated by the Roman praetor Q. Caecilius Metellus ( 148 ) at the Second Battle of Pydna, and fled to Thrace, whose prince gave him up to Rome, thus marking the final end to Andriskos ' reign of Macedonia.
* 1640 – Second Bishop's War: King Charles I's English army loses to a Scottish Covenanter force at the Battle of Newburn.
* 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.
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The first tank versus tank action took place on 24 April 1918 at Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux, when three British Mark IVs met an advance of three German A7Vs, supported by infantry.
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When a battleground is the site of more than one battle in the same conflict, the instances are distinguished by ordinal number, such as the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.
At the Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Manassas ), Stuart's cavalry followed the massive assault by Longstreet's infantry against Pope's army, protecting its flank with artillery batteries.
* 1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
* August 28 – August 30 – American Civil War – Second Battle of Bull Run: Confederate forces inflict a crushing defeat on Union General John Pope.
* September 2 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
That summer, Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia was defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
Longstreet's talents as a general made significant contributions to the Confederate victories at Second Bull Run, Fredericksburg, and Chickamauga, in both offensive and defensive roles.
On August 28 and August 29, the start of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Pope pounded Jackson as Longstreet and the remainder of the army marched north to reach the battlefield.
The 76th was in most of the major battles the Army of the Potomac fought from Second Bull Run through Petersburg, at which time the three-year enlistment of most of the men ran out and the 300 or so men remaining from the 1, 100 who left Cortland either returned home or transferred to other units.
At the Second Battle of Bull Run, the 5th New York, along with another Zouave regiment, the 10th New York " National Zouaves ", held off the flanking attack of James Longstreet's Corps for ten crucial minutes before it was overrun.
The colonel was mortally wounded at the Second Battle of Bull Run in 1862.
Following his victory at the Second Battle of Bull Run ( or Second Manassas ), Confederate General Robert E. Lee directed Major General Thomas J.
During the American Civil War, nearby Thoroughfare Gap in the Bull Run Mountains served as a path for soldiers to reach the First and Second battles of Bull Run.
He partially recovered his strength in time for the Northern Virginia Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run, in which he led his brigade, then assigned to Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell's corps of the Army of Virginia.
* Second Bull Run ( 1862 )
It is believed that he fought in the Second Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia.
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Twelve sawmills were on the Second Fork, six on the First Fork, one each on Canoe Run and the rest were on Larrys Creek itself.
Second and Manassas
Second Manassas 1862: Robert E. Lee's Greatest Victory.
During the 150th commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the famous First and Second Battles of Manassas will be re-enacted.
Ordinance of Secession in 1860 ; killed at Second Battle of Manassas during Civil War
In the Civil War, several battles were fought nearby including the First Battle of Manassas, the Second Battle of Manassas, and the Battle of Chantilly.
Three weeks later at the Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Manassas ), Hill was placed on the Confederate left along the unfinished railroad cut and held it against repeated Union attacks.
* 1862-Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Battle of Manassas )
* Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Manassas ), a later battle that took place at Bull Run
Ewell defeated Banks again at the Battle of Cedar Mountain on August 9 and, returning to the old Manassas battlefield, he fought well at the Second Battle of Bull Run, but was wounded during the battle of Groveton ( or Brawner's Farm ) on August 29, and his left leg was amputated below the knee.
Return to Bull Run: The Campaign and Battle of Second Manassas.
" It took him until November to recuperate so he missed the battles of both Second Manassas and Antietam, but returned in time for the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville.
He had a brief but successful career in the Western Theater, but he is best known for his defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run ( Second Manassas ) in the East.
Another grandson, Samuel Fessenden ( 6 January 1841 Portland, Maine-1 September 1862 Centreville, Virginia ), was mortally wounded at the Second Battle of Manassas.
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