Four days after Virginia seceded from the Union, April 21, 1861, the Gosport Navy Yard on the Elizabeth River near Norfolk was burned and U.S. Navy ships destroyed by:

This American physician conducted breakthrough research on blood plasma in the years leading up to World War II.

Best known for his role at the Battle of Gettysburg , this U.S. Army captain faced the British in the Pacific Northwest in 1859.

In the struggle to succeed Lenin as leader of the Politburo, he lost to Joseph Stalin and was later exiled from the U.S.S.R.

This Bronze Age site in Britain was accidentally discovered in 1982 by archaeologist Francis Pryor.

She became the first and only woman (as a woman) to receive an officer`s commission in the Confederate army.

Members of the organized bands of craftsmen who rioted against automation in 19th century England were known as this.

Abraham Lincoln bought his first and only house in this town.