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Today's featured article Union artillery in action at Cane Hill The battle of Cane Hill was fought during the American Civil War on November 28, 1862, near the town of Cane Hill, Arkansas. Union troops under James G. Blunt had pursued Confederate troops commanded by Thomas C. Hindman into northwestern Arkansas, and Hindman saw an opportunity to attack Blunt while the latter was isolated. Confederate cavalry under John S. Marmaduke moved to Cane Hill to collect supplies. Blunt moved to attack Marmaduke on November 27. The Union advance made contact with Confederate troopers the next morning. The Confederates fell back to an elevation known as Reed's Mountain. Blunt continued to pursue after the Confederates abandoned Reed's Mountain, but his leading elements ran into an ambush. The Confederates then presented a flag of truce as a ruse to buy time. Hindman's army and Blunt's reinforced command fought the Battle of Prairie Grove on December 7, which retained Union control of Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. (Full article...) Recently featured: Susanna Hoffs Heptamegacanthus Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome Did you know... Francis L. Sampson ... that German soldiers did not believe that Francis L. Sampson (pictured) was a non-combatant after his capture during the D-Day landings, because they had never seen a paratrooper chaplain before? ... that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty? ... that the myth of Shunten, the legendary first king of Chūzan, was used to justify the 1872 annexation of Okinawa? ... that two best-seller lists initially classified The Children's Book of Virtues as non-fiction, but later moved it to their fiction charts? ... that Bahamian basketball player Waltiea Rolle moved to the United States at the age of 13 after being noticed while walking home from school? ... that the U.S. Air Force considered a bomber version of the F-22 Raptor known as the FB-22? ... that a new soccer team in Boise, Idaho, plans to play at a converted horse racing track? ... that geologist Gilbert Wilson was the fifth Wilson at school, so he was known as "Quintus"? ... that a medieval town in Poland disappeared?

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