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The Daily Dispatch: June 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sunday a day of battles. (search)
Sunday a day of battles. --The great battle of Barnet was fought on Easter Sunday, April 14, 1471. The battle of Val, or Laffeld, near Maestricht, was fought on Sunday, the 2d of July, 1757. The Peninsula was fruitful in Sunday fighting. The second battle in Portugal, that in Fimiera, was fought on Sunday, 31st of August, 1863. The battle of Fuentus d'onor was gained on Sunday, 5th of May, 1811, On Sunday evening, 16th of January, 1812, Lord Wellington issued the brief but determined order that "Cuidad Roderigo must be carried by assault this evening at seven o'clock." The battle of Orthes was fought on Sunday, the 27th of February, 1814, and that of Toulouse, the last general action of the Peninsula war, occurred on Easter Sunday, the 10th of April following. The battle of Waterloo was also decided on Sunday, the 18th of June, 1815. The second Burmese war afforded two examples--Easter Sunday, the 11th of April, 1855, the attack on the lines of defence at Rangoon, and the att