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| 1861 |
| | | The first battle of the American Civil War, fought near Manassas and the Bull Run Creek, is a clear Confederate victory | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The Monitor and the Merrimack fight all morning off the Virginia coast, in history's first clash between ironclad ships | |
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| 1862 |
| | | A two-day engagement at Shiloh is the first Civil War battle to bring massive casualties, with more than 23,000 dead, wounded or missing | |
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| 1862 |
| | | Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee defeat a Union army in the second battle of Bull Run or Manassas | |
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| 1862 |
| | | The Federal victory at Antietam comes at a cost of more than 22,000 casualties in a single day | |
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| 1863 |
| | | The three-day Battle of Gettysburg, inconclusive but more damaging to the Confederates, brings casualties on both sides of more than 50,000 | |
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| 1876 |
| | | George Custer leads a US cavalry attack on the Sioux at the Little Bighorn river, with disastrous results | |
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| 1881 |
| | | The Boers inflict a convincing defeat on a British army at Majuba, in the Transvaal | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Winston Churchill gallops into battle with the Twenty-First Lancers at Omdurman | |
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| 1899 |
| | | Within a single 'Black Week' the British forces in South Africa suffer three defeats, at Stromberg, Magersfontein and Colenso | |
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