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Soldier Field is a multi-purpose stadium on the Near South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Opened in 1924 and reconstructed in 2003, the stadium has served as the home of the Chicago Bears from the National Football League (NFL) since 1971, [ a ] as well as Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer (MLS) from 1998 to 2006 and since 2020.
The Battle of the Pelennor Fields ( [pɛˈlɛnnɔr] ), in J. R. R. Tolkien 's novel The Lord of the Rings, was the defence of the city of Minas Tirith by the forces of Gondor and the cavalry of its ally Rohan, against the forces of the Dark Lord Sauron from Mordor and its allies the Haradrim and the Easterlings. It was the largest battle in the ...
440 killed. 695 wounded. 6,222 captured [ 7][ 5] The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign, giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John Burgoyne led an invasion army of 7,200–8,000 men southward from Canada in ...
Soldier Field is located at 1410 Special Olympics Drive in Chicago. Chicago Transit Authority. Check out transitchicago.com for fare information, route schedules and maps. By bus: Use 128 Soldier ...
Harvard Stadium was constructed on 31 acres (13 ha) of land known as Soldiers Field, donated to Harvard University by Henry Lee Higginson in 1890 as a memorial to Harvard men who had died in the Civil War (1861–1865). [8] The structure, similar in shape to the Panathenaic Stadium, was completed in just 4½ months costing $310,000. Much of the ...
Axis prisoners of war (Germans, Italians, Romanians, Hungarians) Soviet troops fighting in a destroyed workshop. Sturmgeschütz III, operated by the German Wehrmacht. Date. 17 July 1942 [ Note 2] – 2 February 1943 [ Note 3] (6 months, 2 weeks and 2 days) Location. Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. 48°42′N 44°31′E.
Leonidas chose to camp at, and defend, the "middle gate", the narrowest part of the pass of Thermopylae, where the Phocians had built a defensive wall some time before. [54] News also reached Leonidas, from the nearby city of Trachis, that there was a mountain track that could be used to outflank the pass of Thermopylae. Leonidas stationed ...
Gates and staff stayed behind the reserve force, Smallwood's 1st Maryland Regiment, about 200 yards behind the battle line. Thus, the total number of Continentals on the field numbered 900. Gates placed seven guns along the line, manned by about 100 men. Also present, but whose disposition was unknown, were 70 mounted volunteer South Carolinians.