Chris Carter, Author at UNTO THE BREACH

January 27 in U.S. military history

1837: U.S. soldiers and Marines under the command of Col. Archibald Henderson — a serving Marine Corps commandant — defeat

1863: Following the Union general’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December and the failed “Mud March” on

1787: Former Continental Army captain Daniel Shays leads a group of 2,000 American rebels on a raid against the Springfield

1847: Col. Sterling Price (future major general in the Confederate Army) learns a force of nearly 2,000 Mexicans and Pueblo Indians

1870: Following the murder of a Montana rancher and his son, Col. Eugene Baker forms a band of infantry and