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  • BATTLE DIGEST: FREDERICKSBURG
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    BATTLE DIGEST: FREDERICKSBURG
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. In the autumn of 1862, Lincoln’s new commander, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, promised swift action by moving south against Fredericksburg to open a route to the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. With Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army divide...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: CANNAE
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    BATTLE DIGEST: CANNAE
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. During the Second Punic War (218 – 201 B.C.), after Hannibal had been handing Rome defeats and losses for nearly two years, the Roman Senate had finally had enough. After raising the largest army they had ever fielded, they sent it against Hannibal, wh...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: OKINAWA
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    BATTLE DIGEST: OKINAWA
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. By early 1945, American forces had been fighting their way across the Pacific for over two and a half years. General Douglas MacArthur’s drive in the Southwest Pacific had reached the Philippines, while Admiral Chester Nimitz’s drive across the Central...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: MIDWAY
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    BATTLE DIGEST: MIDWAY
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. After the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it seemed nothing could stop Japanese offensive momentum in the Pacific. A string of victories and territorial conquests fueled optimism and confidence throughout Japan. But the U.S. Pacifi...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: COWPENS
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    BATTLE DIGEST: COWPENS
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / MICHAEL E. HASKEW
    A concise summary of this turning point in the American Revolution with facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more. By the summer of 1780, Great Britain held the advantage in the American Revolution. A strategic shift to the south had borne fruit. British forces controlled the major ports of Savannah and Charleston, and Maj. Gen. Charles Cornwallis had recently ...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: THE ALAMO
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    BATTLE DIGEST: THE ALAMO
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / MICHAEL E. HASKEW
    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of the Texas Revolution’s legendary “last stand.” During the Texas Revolution, the Mexican Army clashed with Texan forces on several battlefields—the most famous of which was the Alamo. During this thirteen-day siege, a small group of defenders held out against overwhelming odds only to die i...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: GETTYSBURG
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    BATTLE DIGEST: GETTYSBURG
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    A concise guide to the American Civil War battle that set the North on the path to victory, with maps, facts, historical significance, and more. Gettysburg represented a strategic turning point in the American Civil War and has thus been referred to as the “high-water mark” of the Confederacy. Although tactically a draw, strategically it was a major victory for the Union. After...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: LITTLE BIGHORN
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    BATTLE DIGEST: LITTLE BIGHORN
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / MICHAEL E. HASKEW
    A concise history of Custer’s Last Stand with maps, facts, historical significance, and more. The battle of Little Bighorn, despite its relatively small size, was the worst defeat for the U.S. Army in the Indian Wars. Although it was a clear tactical victory for the Plains Indians, it also would be a significant strategic setback for their cause. The outrage resulting from the ...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: CHANCELLORSVILLE
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    BATTLE DIGEST: CHANCELLORSVILLE
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / MICHAEL E. HASKEW
    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of Robert E. Lee’s victory in Virginia. The Confederate victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville is considered the crowning military achievement of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Against the numerically superior Union Army of the Potomac, Lee took a calculated risk by dividing his Army of Northern Virg...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: NEW ORLEANS
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    BATTLE DIGEST: NEW ORLEANS
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / CHRISTOPHER MISKIMON
    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of Andrew Jackson’s, and America’s, War of 1812 triumph. The War of 1812 was not going particularly well for the United States. The British were blockading America’s coasts, damaging commerce, and thwarting any hopes for U.S. territorial gains in Canada. After two years of fighting, Americans...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: D-DAY
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    BATTLE DIGEST: D-DAY
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / FLINT WHITLOCK
    A concise guide to the Normandy invasion with facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more. Operation Overlord, commonly referred to as “D-Day,” was the Allied invasion to secure a foothold in northern France to enable the final offensive into Germany. The Normandy invasion would be the largest combined air-sea assault landing in history. This massive feat would f...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: ANTIETAM
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    BATTLE DIGEST: ANTIETAM
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / MICHAEL E. HASKEW
    Get facts, maps, historical significance, strategies, and more in this concise summary of the notoriously bloody Civil War battle. During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces launched their first invasion of the North. When Union forces met them near Sharpsburg, Maryland, along Antietam Creek, the result was the “bloodiest day” in American military history. Although the ...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: YORKTOWN
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    BATTLE DIGEST: YORKTOWN
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    A concise guide to this resounding American victory in the Revolutionary War, with facts, maps, historical significance, and more. In 1781, after six years of fighting, the future of the American colonies was far from resolved. The British were still dominant on land and sea, and except for a few bright spots like Trenton and Saratoga, the Americans had been unable to match the...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: DESERT STORM
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    BATTLE DIGEST: DESERT STORM
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    A concise guide to the American-led coalition’s speedy defeat of Saddam Hussein in 1991, with maps, facts, historical significance, and more. Just two years after the end of Iraq’s war with Iran, an emboldened Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, invaded Kuwait. Operation Desert Storm was the final phase of the U.S.-led Coalition’s effort to expel Saddam’s forces from his southern n...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: SARATOGA
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    BATTLE DIGEST: SARATOGA
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    A concise guide to this dramatic Revolutionary War campaign with facts, maps, historical significance, and more. In 1777, the British had the confidence to launch a plan to divide the Colonies along the Hudson River. After a promising British start, however, the Saratoga campaign would grind to a halt before turning into a stunning American victory. The battle rejuvenated the c...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: PEARL HARBOR
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    BATTLE DIGEST: PEARL HARBOR
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / MICHAEL E. HASKEW
    A concise guide to the Japanese attack on Hawaii that plunged America into WWII, with facts, maps, historical significance, and more. As America prepared for WWII, everything changed on December 7, 1941—described by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a “date which will live in infamy”—when Japan launched a successful surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Pearl H...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: LEXINGTON-CONCORD
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    BATTLE DIGEST: LEXINGTON-CONCORD
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    A concise summary of the fight that sparked the American Revolution, with key facts, maps, images, historical significance, and more. Tension between Britain and her North American colonies had been building for years. After numerous protests and acts of defiance, things took a serious turn after the December 1773 Boston Tea Party, when an irate King George III and Parliament t...

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: SHILOH
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    BATTLE DIGEST: SHILOH
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY / MICHAEL E. HASKEW
    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. After his early success in the Civil War’s Western Theater, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant moved south to capture the key railroad hub at Corinth and further cut into the Confederate hold on the Tennessee and Mississippi River Valleys. But Confederate Gen....

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  • BATTLE DIGEST: BUNKER HILL
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    BATTLE DIGEST: BUNKER HILL
    CHRISTOPHER J. PETTY
    The Battle Digest summary includes all the key aspects of the campaign and battle, including maps, images, and lessons learned. In the weeks following the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord, Colonial militia and volunteers rallied around Boston to besiege Lt. Gen. Thomas Gage’s British garrison. But when reinforcements arrived from England, Gage devised a plan to regain the in...

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