December 14: Battle of Lake Borgne, Battle of Kinston, US Military Defeats, and Other Events of the Date
Today we'll talk about some battles that didn’t bring us anything good. We'll focus on battles where the United States lost not only people but also its influence on the global level. Battle of Lake Borgne and British victory over the United States Lake Borgne appeared an eligible route for the British to head to New Orleans. There were several routes from it towards the city. The British strategists soon ruled out the one which ran through waterways to the English Turn, 14 miles below New Orleans, because the waterways were not navigable for anything but small boats, an...
December 13: The First US Military Units, U.S. and Mexico Settle Border Dispute, and Other Events of the Date
The first US military units On December 13, 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony organized three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the United States National Guard. The Army National Guard predates the founding of the nation and a standing military by almost a century and a half, and is, therefore, the oldest component of the United States armed forces. Since that time, the Guard has participated in every U.S. conflict from the Pequot War of 1637 to our current deployments in support...
December 12: The Battle for Yazoo, the First Landmark White House State Dinner, and Other Events of the Date
The Civil War comes to Yazoo. December 12, 1862 Originally the name of the “Battle for Yazoo” was compiled many years ago from information provided by Glen Jones of the Mississippi Chemical Corporation, Edwin C. Bearss, a Research Historian at the Vicksburg National Park, and Sam Olden, the President of the Yazoo Historical Society. Later, the most important event in the light of the revolution was renamed the Civil War in Yazoo County, 1862-1864. For Yazooans, the War Between the States at first seemed far away. For its first full year, though scores of Yazoo boys had a...
December 11th: Germany and Italy Declare War on the US, the Birth of the Power Mayor, and Other Events of the Date
Reform Mayor La Guardia is born Fiorello H. La Guardia, who served three consecutive terms as the mayor of New York City, was born on December 11, 1887. He was the first reform mayor ever re-elected in the domain which Tammany Hall had ruled almost continuously for many years. It should be noted that he won elections against the historically corrupt Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, political system, presided during the Great Depression and World War II, implemented New Deal welfare and public works p...
December 10th: The Treaty of Paris Between the U.S. and Spain Is Signed; Teddy Roosevelt Wins the Nobel Peace Prize and Other Events of the Date
A number of important events have taken place on December 10th in U.S. history. Here is our take on the most interesting and valuable of them. 1884 – “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is published Beloved by several generations of teenagers throughout the world, the book was published on this date 134 years ago. “The Adventures” is commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local regionalisms. The story is told in the first perso...
December 8-9th: The Infamy Speech, P. B. S. Pinchback Becomes the First African-American Governor of Louisiana and Other Events of the Dates
A number of interesting events have taken place on December 8th and 9th in U.S. history. Here is our take on the most interesting and valuable of them. December 8, 1941 – The Infamy Speech As Militarist Japan attacked Pearl-Harbor back on December 7, 1941, the American government, despite all the inner controversies it had between different parties, had to react. And this reaction could only be a declaration of war on Japan. President Roosevelt addressed a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress with words that made history. The speech was also broadcast live by radio and att...
December 6th: the Roosevelt Corollary, the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as capital of Israel and other events of the date
A number of important events have taken place on December 6th in U.S. history. Here is our take on the most interesting and valuable of them. 1846 – Mexican-American War: The Battle of San Pasqual As history always repeats itself, we can’t avoid mentioning the battle that took place more than 170 years ago at the border of present-day Southern California and the country of Mexico, in the San Pasqual Valley, which is now a part of San Diego. As the caravan of migrants is storming “the wall” in the same place today, we should remember the real battles that were also fough...
December 5th: Amendment XXI Ratified, the Beginning of Montgomery Bus Boycott and Other Events of the Date
A number of important events have taken place on December 5th in U.S. history. Here is our take on the most interesting and valuable of them. 1933 – Amendment XXI is ratified This amendment is really unique in the political history of the U.S., as it directly negated another amendment which had been passed previously. The ratification of this amendment ended the era of Prohibition in America that was characterized by bootlegging, the rise of gangs and other criminal enterprises. Of course, since America at that time was going through the most severe years of the Great...
December 4th: The end of Operation Long Patrol, Thomas Fire and other events of the date
A number of important events have taken place on December 4th in U.S. history. Here is our take on the most interesting and valuable of them. 1942 – The Second World War: Pacific Theater: Operation Long Patrol The operation which might also be referred to as Carlson’s Patrol or Carlson’s Long Patrol was a series of battles conducted by the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion under the command of Evans Carlson during the Guadalcanal Campaign against the Imperial Japanese Army. The operation lasted for about a month, beginning on November 6, 1942 and ended December 4th. During t...