Congress had just bought the 550-acre site of the Second Battle of Bull Run at Manassas, where the Confederates sent a humiliated Union Army streaming back toward Washington.
Vietnam has turned down a request to scatter the ashes of a French war veteran at the site of a battle which helped end colonial rule by France.
To take one example, at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the last big battle with the Indians in 1890, where almost 200 Sioux were killed, there was a rich haul of artifacts.
It is the site of a constant battle between the track dwellers and the government, which says that living there is illegal and dangerous.
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Historic Scotland are aiming to transform facilities at the site in time for the 700th anniversary of the battle in 2014.
Two rifles from the program were found at the site of a December 2010 gun battle in Arizona that killed U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
The poetry competition was part of the Battle of Bannockburn project to transform the monument to the site.
Expect about 1, 000 pleasure boaters to make the 40-mile trek from Cleveland or Toledo, Ohio, or Detroit to the battle site in the middle of Lake Erie.
He successfully rescued the site of a battle in Mill Springs, Ky.
Long before Ebbets Field existed, beginning in 1883, Brooklyn's baseball team played in Washington Park, which is better known as a Revolutionary War site for the Battle of Brooklyn.
The revolutionary battle site in the northern part of this country, where one can feel the breath of Mt.
In contrast, English Heritage has maintained that the unusual hillside location of Battle Abbey can only be explained if it was the site of the fighting.
Nearly 2, 000 firearms from the program went missing, some turning up at killing scenes in Mexico -- and at the site of a December 2010 gun battle in Arizona that left U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry dead.
The family of guitar legend Jimi Hendrix recently won a battle over the site jimihendrix.com and the Barcelona City Council won back barcelona.com.
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And, almost 550 years later, the site is changing our understanding of medieval battle.
Environmental campaigners have lost a legal battle to limit the life-span of a landfill site near their homes in Wrexham.
In October 2009 UK Coal won a 30-year battle to remove 900, 000 tonnes of coal from the site near the Wrekin in Shropshire.
The battle appeared to be for the area to the north of the site that American forces took on Monday.
Raffaella Sadun, of the London School of Economics, has found that supermarket chains, denied an out-of-town site, are more likely to set up in town centres themselves, bringing the battle straight to the high street.
Miss Ashton has written to the Treasury, asking it to "help preserve the memory of Battle of Britain pilots by funding, directly or indirectly, a museum at the former site of RAF Command at Bentley Priory".
The other day, for example, my techPresident colleague Sarah Lai Stirland reported on a growing battle breaking out on the massive social news filtering site Reddit between Paul supporters and critics tired of their efforts to "spam" Redditors with slanted news favoring Paul.
One casualty in the battle for Timbuktu is the city's library, which was designated a world heritage site because of a treasure of rare books and manuscripts about precolonial Africa, a South Africa professor told CNN on Monday.
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