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November 23 in U.S. military history

1863:The battles of the Chattanooga campaign begin between newly appointed commander of the Western armies, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S.

1817: The First Seminole War begins when Gen. (and future president) Andrew Jackson leads forces into Spanish-held Florida to reclaim

1942: Just north of Guadalcanal, U.S. and Japanese warships engage in one of only two battleship-on-battleship engagements of the Pacific

1944: On this date, two 90th Infantry Division soldiers earned the Medal of Honor — just miles apart from each

1775: The Continental Congress decrees that two battalions of Marines be raised in Philadelphia, consisting of “good seamen, or so