On July 21, 1861, in the first major land battle of the Civil War,
a large Union force under General Irvin McDowell is routed by
a Confederate army under General Pierre G.T. Beauregard.

Irvin McDowell
(October 15, 1818 – May 4, 1885)

Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard
(May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893)

COMILLE BOHANNON

Teddy Roosevelt on horse leads the charge up San Juan Hill
in 1898.

Gatling guns hauled by mules arrive to turn the tide at San
Juan Hill.

10th Cavalry USCT advances on San Juan Hill.

On June 25, 1876, Native American forces led by Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull defeated the U.S. Army troops of Lt. Col. George
Armstrong Custer in the Battle of the Little Bighorn near
southern Montana’s Little Bighorn River.

Lithograph showing the Battle of Little Bighorn, from the
Indian side.

Crazy Horse  (1840 – September 5, 1877)

George Armstrong Custer
(December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876)

Last Stand Hill overlooking Little Bighorn River and Location
of the Native American encampment on June 25, 1876.

During World War II, the U.S. 10th Army overcomes the last
major pockets of Japanese resistance on Okinawa Island,
ending one of the bloodiest battles of World War II.

The same day, Japanese Lieutenant General Mitsuru Ushijima,
the commander of Okinawa’s defense, committed suicide with
a number of Japanese officers and troops rather than surrender.

On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most decisive
U.S. victories in its war against Japan—came to an end. In the
four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered U.S. Pacific Fleet
succeeded in destroying four Japanese aircraft carriers with the
loss of only one of its own, the Yorktown, thus reversing the tide
against the previously invincible Japanese navy.