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  • Thumbnail for Wounded Knee Massacre
    The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was the deadliest mass shooting in American history, involving nearly three hundred...
    81 KB (9,178 words) - 05:47, 1 July 2024
  • The Gettysburg Cyclorama mistakenly shows General Armistead falling mortally wounded from his horse near the Union lines—he was actually afoot. If this...
    16 KB (1,997 words) - 08:13, 23 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Fall of the Western Roman Empire
    Aetius's forces defeated and Boniface mortally wounded. Aetius temporarily retired to his estates, but after an attempt to murder him he raised another Hunnic...
    144 KB (19,296 words) - 22:57, 15 June 2024
  • Anders Lassen (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    position and he fell mortally wounded, but even while falling he flung a grenade, wounding some of the occupants, and enabling his patrol to dash in and capture...
    15 KB (1,563 words) - 21:13, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez
    a rocket position and suppressed much of the enemy fire before falling mortally wounded. The heroism, courage, and dynamic leadership displayed by Sgt...
    15 KB (1,432 words) - 22:59, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oak Grove Cemetery (Fall River, Massachusetts)
    Joseph S. Milne (1842–1863), mortally wounded at Pickett's Charge, Battle of Gettysburg; died July 8, 1863, temporarily attached to Battery B 1st Rhode Island...
    8 KB (818 words) - 17:48, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thomas W. Bennett (conscientious objector)
    soldiers during operations in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. He was mortally wounded during one of these actions in Pleiku Province, and received the Medal...
    11 KB (1,040 words) - 15:50, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sundiata Acoli
    Sundiata Acoli (category American prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment)
    automatic handguns and Trooper Foerster fired four times before falling mortally wounded. At Acoli's trial, Harper testified that the gunfight started "seconds"...
    16 KB (1,719 words) - 18:18, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for J. Johnston Pettigrew
    Gettysburg. He was wounded, in the right hand, during the Pickett-Pettigrew Charge on July 3, 1863 and was later mortally wounded during the Union Confederate...
    16 KB (1,807 words) - 22:34, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second Battle of Guararapes
    David Marley, Brincks army's disintegrates, the commander himself falling mortally wounded. p. 133 David Marley, Some 3,500 Dutch troops march out of Recife...
    11 KB (1,234 words) - 22:30, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for High-water mark of the Confederacy
    First marker erected to commemorate fallen Confederate commander. Denotes site where Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead was mortally wounded. Located in the Angle...
    12 KB (1,066 words) - 17:03, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Falling Waters, West Virginia
    general J. Johnston Pettigrew, a key leader of Pickett's Charge, was mortally wounded by Union cavalry under George Armstrong Custer. However, his men helped...
    5 KB (323 words) - 19:56, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Frank Lester (VC)
    Frank Lester (VC) (category Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y)
    sniper at close quarters, falling mortally wounded at the same instant. This gallant man well knew it was certain death to go into the street, and the...
    6 KB (649 words) - 01:23, 29 November 2023
  • although we had been advised to crouch and take cover as much as possible. We suddenly saw him fall mortally wounded by a sniper's bullet from the castle...
    9 KB (858 words) - 15:10, 2 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Maximo Yabes
    Yabes then proceeded to attack the enemy machine gun crew. He was able to kill the entire crew before falling mortally wounded. 24 American soldiers...
    12 KB (1,135 words) - 02:25, 30 October 2023
  • slaughtered. Here Col. Thomas A. Napier charged a fence line of federals to fall mortally wounded. Col. Napier in his martial ardor compelled him forward without...
    24 KB (3,638 words) - 03:11, 1 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jan Kubiš
    During the assassination attempt, Kubiš threw a makeshift grenade that mortally wounded Heydrich. Jan Kubiš was born in 1913 in Dolní Vilémovice, Moravia in...
    19 KB (1,863 words) - 13:42, 2 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Strong Vincent
    famous as a U.S. Army officer during the American Civil War. He was mortally wounded while leading his brigade during the fighting at Little Round Top on...
    10 KB (1,172 words) - 01:36, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Líbero Badaró
    Líbero Badaró (category Immigrants to Brazil)
    but he treacherously received from them a charge of gurnard, falling mortally wounded. It is believed that upon dying Badaró pronounced a phrase that...
    9 KB (1,166 words) - 03:35, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Hoke's Run
    Colonel Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel Maj = Major Cpt = Captain w = wounded mw = mortally wounded k = killed c = captured MG Robert Patterson The following Confederate...
    16 KB (1,037 words) - 00:10, 22 March 2024
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