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Burning of Charlestown During the Battle of Bunker Hill
British cannonade destroys the town of Charlestown, Massachusetts, during the British attack on Breed's Hill (Battle of Bunker Hill, 17 June 1775). This is an annotated version of a 1775 engraving...
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Bostonians Watch the Battle of Bunker Hill
The Battle of Bunker Hill - Watching the Fight from Copp's Hill, in Boston, 17 June 1775, wood engraving by Winslow Homer, 1875.
Cleveland Museum of Art.
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War of 1812
The War of 1812 (1812-1815), referred to by some contemporaries as the Second American Revolution, was fought between the United States and the United Kingdom. Often remembered only as a sideshow to the Napoleonic Wars, the war had...
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Siege of the Alamo - The "small affair" That Won Texas Independence
The Siege of the Alamo (23 February to 6 March 1836) was an engagement of Texian forces with the Mexican Army, leading up to the Battle of the Alamo on the morning of 6 March 1836. The 13-day...
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Battle of Majuba Hill
The Battle of Majuba Hill on 27 February 1881, illustration by Richard Woodville, Jr., Illustrated London News, 5 March 1881.
The battle was won by the Boers during the First Anglo-Boer War (1880-1).
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Statue of St. Patrick, Hill of Tara
Statue of St. Patrick, Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland. Erected 2000 CE.
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Saint Patrick's Statue at Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland
Saint Patrick's statue, Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, erected in 2000 to replace an earlier work that had been destroyed.
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Battle of Bunker Hill
Charge of the British soldiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June 1775). Painting by Howard Pyle, c. 1897. The original was owned by the Delaware Art Museum but was presumed stolen in 2001.
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Stone of Destiny, Hill of Tara
The Neolithic Lia Fail (Stone of Destiny), Hill of Tara, County Meath, Ireland, by which the ancient kings were inaugurated.
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Menwith Hill Listening Station
The UK-US military intelligence listening station at RAF Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, England. The satellite ground station is used to intercept communications and warn of missile attacks. The site was built in the mid-1950s...