Virginia opposed the idea of the federal government assuming individual states’ debts from the American Revolution for this reason.

The first Jacobite Rebellion ("The Fifteen") ended inconclusively at this battle.

This Union general reportedly said of Confederate sharpshooters, "Why, they couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance" minutes before he was shot and killed.

This event led to construction of the Great Wall of China.

On June 8, 1967, thirty–four American seamen died aboard the USS Liberty when it was attacked by fighter planes and torpedo boats of this nation.

The Craven House can be found on this battlefield of the American Civil War.

On May 18, 1871, about 100 Kiowas attacked and virtually wiped out a wagon train near Salt Creek Prairie, Texas. Had they attacked a smaller train earlier that day, they would have killed or captured this man.