Peninsula Campaign
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The Peninsula campaign of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March to July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. The operation, commanded by Major General George B. McClellan, was an amphibious turning movement against the Confederate States Army in Northern Virginia, intended to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. Despite the fact that Confederate spy Thomas Nelson Conrad had obtained documents describing McClellan's battle plans from a double agent in the War Department, McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the more aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat.
1862
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Peninsular Campaign
United States, 
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Location: 37.2572, -76.6094, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
13 places
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Battlefield of Gaines' Mill, Va LCCN2012647827
Inflation of the balloon Intrepid
Professor Lowe's military balloon
Unburied Dead on Battlefield. (19948752786)
Tending wounded Union soldiers at Savage's Station, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign LOC 5598353300
William McIlvaine - The Chickahominy - Sumners Upper Bridge
Comte de Paris, Duc de Chartres, Prince de Joinville, and friends, Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown, May 1, 1862
Williamsburg-battle
Battle-williamsburgWilliamsburg-battle| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | Skirmish at Cedar Lane | battle | Wikidata | |
| event | armed conflict | 1775 | Gunpowder Incident | armed conflict | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1781 | Battle of Spencer's Ordinary | United States, Kingdom of Great Britain, battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1781 | Battle of Green Spring | United States, battle, Kingdom of Great Britain | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1781 | Siege of Yorktown | United States, Principality of Ansbach, Kingdom of France, Kingdom of Great Britain, Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel, battle, Loyalist, siege, 2nd Canadian Regiment | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1861 | Battle of Gloucester Point | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1861 | Battle of Big Bethel | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1862 | Siege of Yorktown | battle, siege | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1862 | Battle of Williamsburg | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1862 | Peninsula Campaign | battle, military campaign | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1609 | First Anglo-Powhatan War | war, Powhatan, Kingdom of England | Wikidata |
| event | war | 1609 | Anglo-Powhatan Wars | Colony of Virginia, series of wars, Tsenacommacah | Wikidata |
| organisation | factory | 1886 | Newport News Shipbuilding | shipyard, shipbuilding, shipbuilding company | Wikidata |
| organisation | shipbuilding | 2011 | Huntington Ingalls Industries | shipbuilding, business, public company, enterprise | Wikidata |
| site | museum | 1959 | U.S. Army Transportation Museum | transport museum, military museum | Wikidata |
| commons | image | Battlefield of Gaines' Mill, Va LCCN2012647827 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Inflation of the balloon Intrepid | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Professor Lowe's military balloon | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Unburied Dead on Battlefield. (19948752786) | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Tending wounded Union soldiers at Savage's Station, Virginia, during the Peninsular Campaign LOC 5598353300 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | William McIlvaine - The Chickahominy - Sumners Upper Bridge | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Comte de Paris, Duc de Chartres, Prince de Joinville, and friends, Camp Winfield Scott, near Yorktown, May 1, 1862 | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Williamsburg-battle | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Battle-williamsburg | Commons | ||
| commons | image | Williamsburg-battle | Commons | ||
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