Re: On This Day in History II

by HawkTheSlayer Sun May 22, 2022 8:21 am

Lone Gunman wrote:334 BC
The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.

337 CE
Emperor Constantine the Great died in Nicomedia. The corpse was brought to Constantinople and placed in a sarcophagus in the Church of the Holy Apostles.

1455
Wars of the Roses: at the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.

1762
Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.

1807
A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.

1809
On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna), Napoleon is repelled by an enemy army for the first time.

1819
The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrived at Liverpool, England on June 20.

1826
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.

1840
The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.

1843
Thousands of people and their cattle head west via wagon train from Independence, Missouri to what would later become the Oregon Territory. It is part of the Great Migration. They follow what is now known as the Oregon Trail.

1848
Slavery is abolished in Martinique.

1856
Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas”).

1863
American Civil War: Siege of Port Hudson – Union forces begin to lay siege to the Confederate-controlled Port Hudson, Louisiana.

1871
The U.S. Army issued an order for abandonment of Fort Kearny in Nebraska.

1872
Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act of 1872 into law restoring full civil rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.

1903
Launch of the White Star Liner, SS Ionic.

1906
The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine”.

1915
Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain other than Mount St. Helens to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century.

1939
World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.

1942
Mexico enters World War II on the side of the Allies.

1942
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee disbands, and a new trade union, the United Steelworkers, is formed.

1942
World War II: Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox enlists in the United States Marine Corps as a flight instructor.

1960
An earthquake measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, now known as the Great Chilean Earthquake, hits southern Chile. It is the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.

1968
The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard 400 miles southwest of the Azores.

1969
Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon’s surface.

I live very close to Port Hudson.

by jirqoadai Sun May 22, 2022 11:46 am

then tell the class the irony of its holdout compared to vicksburg

by HawkTheSlayer Sun May 22, 2022 11:55 am

jirqoadai wrote:then tell the class the irony of its holdout compared to vicksburg

I didn't pay attention in class.

by jirqoadai Sun May 22, 2022 12:00 pm

the deal was, whoever broke their respective siege first, was to become general of all western forces. so had port hudson thrown in the towel, first, Banks wouldve been the general major screwwup who commanded all the federal forces until england and france sent troops to help us convince the north to stop attacking us.

by HawkTheSlayer Sun May 22, 2022 1:20 pm

jirqoadai wrote:the deal was, whoever broke their respective siege first, was to become general of all western forces. so had port hudson thrown in the towel, first, Banks wouldve been the general major screwwup who commanded all the federal forces until england and france sent troops to help us convince the north to stop attacking us.

I used to dip shad on the west bank there from 5 in the morning to 3 pm when I'd leave to sell my catch. I had claimed an awesome "point" there before they "improved" the Mississippi River there by dozing the ledge that stuck out into the river and laying concrete Mat.

It was a deep point with many stepped, ledges. You never knew which the shad were running on so you had to have a 14 foot pole instead of a 12 and many times bend over to get 2 feet deeper where they were running. And a 40 inch wire hoop(1/4 inch stainless hoop) with a nylon mesh bag. Do that 10 hours a day! Those shad are huge in the Mississippi. Each one could weigh 3lbs are more. Try lifting three or 4 like that at a time out of the water high over you head , and flipping them into the boat hundreds of times a day from the end of a 14 foot pole . You aint got no leverage there. You smile! All money
Sometimes they'd run deep. Sometimes shallow all in the same day. God was good when they ran shallow. Lol.

Couldn't dip across the river or downstream on the east bank(Port Hudson side) . GP has a paper mill there. Nasty stuff comes out of those pipes!

by jirqoadai Sun May 22, 2022 1:55 pm

would the shad go up the Red?

by HawkTheSlayer Sun May 22, 2022 2:44 pm

jirqoadai wrote:would the shad go up the Red?

Actually they go up the red/Atchafalaya chute, upcurrent , trying to get into the Mississippi River at 3-Rivers/Old River Control Structure and the Auxiliary Structure. And many spill over down current through the locks from the MISSISSIPPI and try to return up current. But either set of gates may be shut down, but not both, to maintain the federally mandated flow of 30% of the MISSISSIPPI river's flow into the Atchafalaya river and flood basin. Or they could be using both in tandem during low water. But the flow and therefore the current will be minimal. Not enough to swing a pole down current. Need lots of current.

But about a mile above the Control Structure is The Sidney Murray Hydro Electric plant which produce the most reliable, most expensive, guaranteed, power in the nation! Lol. It uses miss river water discharged into the red river and downstream in to Atchafalaya.

That's where you wanna set up! In the discharge channel behind the turbines. Steady flow. Shad and Slickers galore. Many miles from the Hudson site and another river but all in the same county.

You can check out the the 3 chutes on non Google maps.

by Lone Gunman Mon May 23, 2022 8:33 am

1430
Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne.

1498
Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.

1533
The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.

1568
Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, brother of William I of Orange, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Aremberg and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years’ War.

1568
The Netherlands declare their independence from Spain.

1609
Official ratification of the Second Charter of Virginia takes place.

1701
After being convicted of piracy and of murdering William Moore, Captain William Kidd is hanged in London.

1788
South Carolina ratifies the Constitution as the 8th American state.

1805
Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in the Cathedral of Milan.

1813
South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador (“The Liberator”).

1846
Mexican-American War: President Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.

1873
The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

1900
American Civil War: Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American [sic] to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his heroism in the Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.

1915
World War I: Italy joins the Allies after they declare war on Austria-Hungary.

1934
American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Black Lake, Louisiana.

1934
The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the “Battle of Toledo”, a five-day melée between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.

1939
The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.

1945
World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.

1995
Oklahoma City bombing: In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the remains of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building are imploded.

1995
The first version of the Java programming language is released.

by jirqoadai Mon May 23, 2022 9:03 am

1862 - Thomas Jonathan Jackson takes Front Royal VA.

by Red Lily Mon May 23, 2022 6:18 pm

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