Simon Adams
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Simon Adams is a historian and writer living and working in London. He studied history and politics at universities in London and Bristol and has written numerous books for adults and children about modern history and warfare. His work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 1001 Amazing Places You Should See Before You Die and 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History, where the work originally appeared.
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Battle of Five Forks, (1 April 1865), one of the final major engagements of the American Civil War (1861–65). The lengthy Union siege of Confederate-held Petersburg in Virginia was brought to a close in what has been called the "Waterloo of the Confederacy." Union troops overwhelmed their…
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