The Battle of King’s Mountain Major Ferguson of the Loyalist Militia was tasked with raising and organizing Loyalist units from the backcountry of South Carolina to help prtotect the British General Cornwallis. Ferguson gathered a few Tory units and marched towards Gilbert Town, North Carolina, where he set up a base camp. He issued a command to the opposition forces to lay down their weapons. […]

The Battle of Hampton Roads had caused an unprecedented disaster to the United States Navy until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. With the events following the battle, traditional naval war had been forever changed. Ironclad battleships had, for the first time, been used in a naval battle and the people involved had found its place in American history. As the Union found it necessary […]

HANNIBAL AND THE BATTLE OF CANNAE The battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War near the town of Cannae, an ancient village in southern part of Italy. The battle took place between the outnumbered Carthaginian army under Hannibal against the Romans under the command of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. For the most part, the Romans were overpowered […]