Showing posts with label Confederate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederate. Show all posts
Monday, August 8, 2011
On this Date in 2000...
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence and 5 years after being filmed by a dive team funded by novelist Clive Cussler. It was later broken into, and searched, by Benjamin Gates for clues to the location of George Washington's lost wooden teeth.
Friday, April 1, 2011
On this Date in 1865...
...American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks – In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive. The battle was short lived, however, as there were only so many times the forks could be thrown before they were completely worn out.
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