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The Union victory at Gettysburg happened on July 3, 1863.

The Union victory at Vicksburg happened on July 4, 1863.



It is time to celebrate.



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What is this Jule your speak off?

Lonestarspeak for July.

Mods, can you fix it?

I have no idea of that of which you speak. Is it a civil war thing?

Hurrah anyway!

Gandalf wrote:I have no idea of that of which you speak. Is it a civil war thing?

Yes, two of the largest Union victories in the American Civil War. Gettysburg was a large field engagement in Pennsylvania. While the fall of Vicksburg remove that last Southern bastion on the Mississippi river, leaving it firmly in the control of the Union. Among other things it allowed for Union farmers in the east to begin exporting there grain once again. It also cut the Confederacy off from the beef of Texas and its main mercury supply, a key component of percussion caps.

Gandalf wrote:I have no idea of that of which you speak. Is it a civil war thing?

Hurrah anyway!

The two biggest Confederate defeats of the war.

Within two days of each other.

total 50,000(mostly confederate) fatalities at Gettysburg, 30,000 Confederates surrendered at Vicksburg.

Don't forget the Battle of Santiago!

By the middle of June, the invasion hour having come and gone, Hitler established another "firm" date to open Citadel—on July 4. It was to be a date, remarked the chief of staff of the XLVIII Panzer Corps in a blunt appreciation of what Citadel was all about, that was "Independence Day for America and the beginning of the end for Germany."

Happy 4th of July USAID4

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