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union, gunboats, bombarding, confederate, defenses, battle, grand, gulf, fought, april, 1863, during, american, civil, union, army, forces, commanded, ulysses, grant, failed, several, times, bypass, capture, confederate, held, city, vicksburg, mississippi, gra. Union gunboats bombarding Confederate defenses The Battle of Grand Gulf was fought on April 29 1863 during the American Civil War Union Army forces commanded by Ulysses S Grant had failed several times to bypass or capture the Confederate held city of Vicksburg Mississippi Grant decided to move his army south of Vicksburg cross the Mississippi River and then advance on the city A Confederate division under John S Bowen prepared defenses Forts Wade and Cobun at Grand Gulf Mississippi To clear the way for a Union crossing seven ironclad warships from the Mississippi Squadron of the Union Navy commanded by Admiral David Dixon Porter bombarded the Confederate defenses at Grand Gulf Union fire silenced Fort Wade but the overall Confederate position held Grant decided to cross the river elsewhere The next day Union forces crossed the river at Bruinsburg Mississippi The position at Grand Gulf was abandoned and became a Union supply point The Grand Gulf battlefield is preserved in Grand Gulf Military State Park Full article Recently featured Cross Road Blues After the Deluge painting Into Temptation film Archive By email More featured articles About Did you know G299 2 2 9 that G299 2 2 9 pictured is one of the oldest known supernova remnants in the Milky Way that eccentric Yorkshirewoman Camberley Kate is estimated to have cared for more than 600 dogs in her lifetime that Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth was Wole Soyinka s first novel in nearly fifty years that cricketer William O Rourke has the best match bowling figures by a New Zealander on a Test debut that Biodiversity Impact Credits seek to stop species extinction that the terms Palestine and Palestinians were being increasingly used in 1908 by the emergent Palestinian press which expressed anti Zionist positions that ice hockey player Cameron Butler had the good fortune not to get pulled over as he raced to reach his team s game in time for his NHL debut that the iZombie episode And He Shall Be a Good Man gets its name from an Elton John lyric that Sans s boss theme Megalovania was played at the Vatican as part of a circus act during an audience with Pope Francis Archive Start a new article Nominate an article In the news Ariel Henry Acting prime minister of Haiti Ariel Henry pictured resigns and is replaced by Michel Patrick Boisvert while the Transitional Presidential Council is sworn in The Ownership Unity and Responsibility Party led by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare wins the most seats in the Solomon Islands general election but falls short of a majority NASA announces that the Voyager 1 space probe is sending readable data for the first time in five months The HDZ led coalition wins the most seats in the Croatian parliamentary election but falls short of a majority Ich thy o titan the largest known marine reptile is formally described Ongoing Israel Hamas war Myanmar civil war Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline War in Sudan timeline Recent deaths Samuel Kummer Frank Field Bill Tobin Joel Breman Brian Tobin Dickey Betts Nominate an article On this day April 29 HMS Endeavour 1770 On his first voyage British explorer James Cook and the crew of HMS Endeavour pictured landed at Botany Bay making the first recorded European landfall on the eastern coast of Australia 1903 A rockslide buried part of the Canadian mining town of Frank under 110 million tonnes of rock killing around 70 people 1944 Second World War British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into Auvergne France becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive and the local Maquis group 1968 The controversial Broadway musical Hair a product of the counterculture of the 1960s opened with its songs becoming anthems of the anti Vietnam War movement 2006 Cyclone Mala made landfall near Thandwe Myanmar causing 37 deaths George Farquhar d 1707 Marietta Blau b 1894 Giacomo dalla Torre d 2020 More anniversaries April 28 April 29 April 30 Archive By email List of days of the year, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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