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Battle of Belmont

1861 CE · United States, North America · War

Battle of Belmont
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The Battle of Belmont was fought on November 7, 1861, in Mississippi County, Missouri. It was the first combat test in the American Civil War for Brig. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the future Union Army general in chief and eventual U. S. president, who was fighting Major General Leonidas Polk.

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