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    {
      "id": "9495",
      "title": "Battle of Bunker Hill",
      "text": "The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775 on Breed's Hill, as part of the Siege of Boston during the American Revolutionary War. General Israel Putnam was in charge of the revolutionary forces, while Major-General William Howe commanded the British forces. Because most of the fighting di",
      "syear": "1775",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "0",
      "eadbc": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "14174",
      "title": "Battle of Antietam",
      "text": "\n\nThe Battle of Antietam (also known as the Battle of Sharpsburg, particularly in the South), fought on September 17, 1862, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and Antietam Creek, as part of the Maryland Campaign, was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take ",
      "syear": "1862",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "",
      "eadbc": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "9496",
      "title": "Battles of Lexington and Concord",
      "text": "The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near B",
      "syear": "1775",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "",
      "eadbc": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "9566",
      "title": "Battle of Gettysburg",
      "text": "The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 \u2013 July 3, 1863), fought in, and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War[3] and is frequently cited as the war's turning point.[4] Union Maj. Gen.",
      "syear": "1863",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "0",
      "eadbc": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "14285",
      "title": "Battle of Chancellorsville",
      "text": "\n\nThe Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War, fought near the village of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia, from April 30 to May 6 1863. The battle pitted Union Army  Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Army of the Potomac against an army hal",
      "syear": "1863",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "0",
      "eadbc": "AD"
    },
    {
      "id": "14265",
      "title": "Battle of Fredericksburg",
      "text": "The Battle of Fredericksburg, fought in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, from December 11 to December 15, 1862, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by  Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, is remembered as one of the most ",
      "syear": "1862",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "1862",
      "eadbc": "AD"
    },
    {
      "id": "12650",
      "title": "Battle of Harlem Heights",
      "text": "<br \/><br \/>The <strong>Battle of Harlem Heights<\/strong> was fought in the New York Campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The action took place in what is now the Morningside Heights and west Harlem neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City on September 16, 1776.<br \/><br \/>The Americans&md",
      "syear": "1776",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "0",
      "eadbc": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "12648",
      "title": "Battle of Fort Duquesne",
      "text": "<br \/><br \/>The <strong>Battle of Fort Duquesne<\/strong>, which took place on September 14, 1758, was a failed attempt by elements of General John Forbes's British-American army to harass Fort Duquesne in the Ohio Valley during the French and Indian War. Forbes had a total of 6,000 men that he had r",
      "syear": "1758",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "0",
      "eadbc": ""
    },
    {
      "id": "14233",
      "title": "Battle of Seven Pines",
      "text": "The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place on May 31 and June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive up the Virginia Peninsula by Union  Maj. Gen.",
      "syear": "1862",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "0",
      "eadbc": "AD"
    },
    {
      "id": "9565",
      "title": "Battle of Ft. Sumter",
      "text": "The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861 \u2013 April 13, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina that began the American Civil War.<br \/><br \/>At 3:20 a.m., April 12, 1861, the Confederates informed Anderson that they would open fire in one hour. At 4:30",
      "syear": "1861",
      "adbc": "AD",
      "eyear": "",
      "eadbc": ""
    }
  ]
}