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Seven days’ battles
| Глоссарий по истории гражданской войны в США (английский) |
An 1862 civil war battle in which the confederacy forced the union to retreat before it could capture the southern capital of richmond.
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Confederacy, английский
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Battle of antietam, английский
A civil war battle in 1862 in which 25,000 men were killed or wounded.
Ironclad, английский
- A warship covered with iron.
- A steam-propelled warship protected by iron or steel armor plates of the period from 1859 until the 1890s (when the term "ironclad" fell out of use).
- [1] a 19th century warship with protective iron plates mounted on a heavy wooden backing. [2] generic term for any armor-plated vessel. the concept originated in the far east during the 16th century (see turtle ship).
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