Grant needed to crack the heavily fortified defenses around Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia and end the war in a timely fashion. The siege, which lasted for nine and a half months, was finally ...

The four days of maneuver and combat around Petersburg (June 15-18 ... Lee, are brought down a notch. Chick’s battle pieces are very well written, clear and careful, and accompanied by some very ...

From Lap 1 calamity to a battle to the finish, relive the top moments from the NTT INDYCAR SERIES season opener in St.

“ARMIES ARE NOT MERE MACHINES”: The 17th Vermont and 31st Maine in the Second Battle of Petersburg This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Ethan Bisbee, “Lyman E. Knapp ...

At the Third Battle of Petersburg, just seven days before Lee's surrender, Hill proclaimed that he had no desire to see the end of the Confederacy. He rode to the front lines and was shot dead.

This year marks the 78th anniversary of the lifting of the German Siege of Leningrad, which lasted 872 days from September 8, 1941, to January 27, 1944 ST. PETERSBURG, January 27. /TASS/.

MOSCOW, September 8. /TASS/. A St. Petersburg Prosecutor has filed a lawsuit to recognize the siege of Leningrad as a war crime and genocide of the Soviet people, the press service of the Russian ...

On June 16, 1864, 150 years ago, during the American Civil War, the Union army arrived at the gates of Petersburg, Virginia, a strategic supply city for Gen. Robert E. Lee's army, as well as for ...