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Posted: 6/29/2015 9:21:17 PM EDT
The Little Big Horn thread got me to thinking. I want to go there. But I have been fortunate to visit some other battlefield sites.
Gettysburg Antietam Vicksburg Waterloo Verdun Paris.....sites of the street battles Nancy, France.......serious WWII fighting Omaha Beach/Normandy London (the Blitz) Chalmette (Battle of New Orleans) The Alamo San Jacinto Battlefield Bird Creek (Texas Rangers vs. unwelcoming aboriginal peoples) I'll think of some more. Fort Sumter The deck of the destroyer USS Laffey Pearl Harbor Bastogne Remagen and various parts of Market Garden And you? |
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San Jacinto Vicksburg Mobile Bay Mansfield (Sabine Crossroads) Pearl Harbor Midway Guam Iwo Jima Bataan Leyte Gulf Okinawa Pusan Kuwait (Desert Shield/Storm, Southern Watch) USS Stark Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Little Bighorn, the entire Normandy region, Cold Harbor and a lot of the other sites around Richmond.
One that might be a little more rare: The Battle of Naseby. The decisive battle of the English Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Naseby. Also, Dover, which was the site of Julius Ceasar's invasion of Britain and where you can actually see the remains of one of the Roman lighthouses he built on each end of the harbor. One was rebuilt into a chapel tower in Dover Castle (this article has a picture): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Castle, the other became known as the "Devil's Drop" after it had disintegrated past immediate recognition; Drop Redoubt, a Napoleonic era fortress, later displaced it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Western_Heights |
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Normandy
the Ardennes Battle of the Bulge Verdun Paschandael (sp?) Those are the big ones that stick out. Lots of Revolutionary watr and civil war ones as well, but NOTHING compares to Normandy........NOTHING. You should be required to visit those beaches before you are allowed to vote. |
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Only one...
Basra; a lot of the wrecks from the "Highway Of Death" were still there when I went there in 2003 same with Highway 8; they merely pushed the wrecks to the side or built large tank graveyards nearby. |
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Cowpens
Fredericksburg Gettysburg Pichincha New Orleans Salt River ( site of Columbus's second landing and a skirmish between him and some natives) Yorktown The Alamo |
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Not that many around here.
Nez Perce National Battlefield, Massacre Rocks State Park, and the site of the Bear River Massacre. ETA: Oh, and the Plains of Abraham. |
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Gettysburg
Baltimore Market Garden Battle sites Remagen Bridge |
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Gettysburg
Antietam The Wilderness Chancellorsville Fredericksburg Harper's Ferry Petersburg Ft. McHenry Brandywine Ft. Necessity Bushy Run Ft. Ligonier Ft. Niagara Ft. Oswego Ft. De La Presentation Ft. Ticonderoga Kittanning Crown Point Lexington/Concord Bloody Marsh Castillo de San Marcos |
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Antietam
Fredericksburg Yorktown Gettysburg The Wilderness Chancellorsville I did enjoy Yorktown the best out of all of them. |
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Been to the Chalmette La battlefield a few times.
I work next door to the Sabine pass fort and drive past the battlefield every day when I leave. One of the guys we buy dirt from used to find cannon balls when he was digging out areas for slips. Eta also been to fort jackson in La. |
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Gettysburg, Chickamauga and Kennesaw Mountain are the three biggest i've been to.
I've also been to numerous smaller War of Northern Aggression battlefield's such as Lookout Mountain, Tunnel Hill, Dalton, and Resaca. I also visited Fort Niagara which was really cool. |
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Ticonderoga
Stony point Gettysburg One or two in Germany. I can't remember the names, I was young. |
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Hastings
Utah Beach Omaha Beach Point du Hoc Sainte-Mère-Église Bastogne Crete Operation Varsity Nijmegen Arnhem |
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Picacho Peak, Az (western-most battle of the Civil War)
Alamo San Jacinto Battle of Nashville Pearl Harbor |
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Gettysburg and Valley Forge are the only ones I've been to I believe.
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the wife's family owns some land right next to where pilot knob was fought in the civil war. we have found some cannonballs which its kinda weird considering how hilly it is there. i can barely climb up some hills i couldnt even think of fighting through there.
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Custers Last Stand at the Little Big Horn
Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines Corregidor Island in Manila Bay |
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Chickamauga:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chickamauga My g/g/g/g/grandpa was captured by the Federals at the Battle of Davis Crossroads (in link above), Sept. 11, 1863. Also Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain, Dug Gap, Mc'Lemores Cove, battlefields are everywhere down here. |
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Live near Kennesaw Mountain, Big Shanty, Picketts Mill, and Lots of other battlefields right before Atlanta fell. Metal detecting in this area (on private land as battles were everywhere) tends to be fruitful. Many people have some VERY astonishing collections.
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Yorktown
Petersburg Ft Sumter Ft Johnson Ft Moultrie Cowpens King's Mountain Little Big Horn Afghanistan |
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Gettysburg
Antietam Harpers Ferry Bull Run Richmond Petersburg Sailors Creek Appomattox Fredricksburg Chancellorsville Normandy Beaches and inland areas Berlin Seelow Heights Oder River |
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Gettysburg
Sharpsburg Fredericksburg Chancellorsville The Wilderness Spotsylvania Petersburg Chattanooga Chickamauga 1st and 2nd Manassas Shiloh Mobile Bay Day's Gap Kennesaw Mountain Kolb's Farm Tunnel Hill Resaca Brice's Crossroads Vicksburg Murfreesborough Franklin Wauhatchie Horseshoe Bend Castillo De San Marcos |
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Rorke's Drift Gettysburg Antietam Richmond Fort McHenry Fort Sumter Chickamauga Little Bighorn Chancellorsville The Wilderness Inchon Harpers Ferry Pearl Harbor Andersonville (not a battle but still) Camden Shiloh |
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