Death of General Joseph E. Johnston
U.S. Army and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnson died on March 21, 1891.
U.S. Army and Confederate General Joseph E. Johnson died on March 21, 1891.
Mountain man James Felix Bridger was born on March 17, 1804, in Richmond, Virginia.
On March 1, 1872, president Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation establishing Yellowstone National Park, the first such park in the world.
On January 26, 1945, Audie Murphy single-handedly held off an entire company of German soldiers at the Colmar Pocket, an action that earned him the Medal of Honor.
On December 18, 1918, war-torn and recently independent Latvia issued its first stamps, printed on the back of German military maps.
On October 25, 1806, Henry Knox died near Thomaston, Massachusetts (present-day Maine).
On October 23, 1944, the Allies launched the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Pacific.
On October 17, 1777, British General Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga – one of the major American victories of the American Revolution.
On September 28, 1781, American forces launched the last major land battle of the Revolutionary War – the Siege of Yorktown.