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Victory Monument

The Victory Monument was one of the first memorials in the United States to honor the contributions and sacrifices made by black soldiers in an armed conflict. It commemorates the service of the Eighth Illinois regiment in World ...

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Victory Fire Bell

1889

This bell was rung

at the end of

these wars.

Marker is on Russell Avenue near 4th Street, on the right when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

The Battle of Lake Erie

September 10, 1813

American.........................................British

O.H. Perry............Commander............R.H. Barclay

9...............Vessels...............6

54...............Guns...............63

1. The battle begins near this spot at 11:45 A.M. The British open fire when the fleets are approximately one mile apart.

2. Perry's flagship, the Lawrence, is disabled after suffering 80% casualties ...

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Voyages for Victory

Each new ship strikes a blow at the menace to the Nation and for the Liberty of the Free People of the World…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

September 27, 1941

At the launching of the first Liberty ship, Patrick Henry from Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard

In ...

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Anniversary of the Victory at Yorktown

This tablet is dedicated

to the advancement of

the peoples of the Earth

in the arts of civilization

and to the abolishment of war

on the

148th Anniversary of

the Victory at Yorktown

by

Essex Chapter, D.A.R.

Orange Mountain Chapter, D.A.R.

Hannah Arnett Chapter, D.A.R.

Mistress Mary Williams Chapter, D.A.R.

Orange Chapter, D.R.

Janice ...

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Victory

Erected in honor of the seven hundred Belleville men who served in the World War and in perpetual memory of those of their number who gave their lives in the service and whose names are here inscribed:

William Charles S. Bain, ...

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Mt. Victory Church Cemetery

Former site of

Mt. Victory U.B. - E.U.B. - U.M. Church

Founders:

William Coulson •

Calvin Coulson •

Alfred Albert

Dedicated 1889

Razed 1992

Marker is at the intersection of Baltimore - Carlisle Pike (Pennsylvania Route 94) and Victory Church Road, on the right when traveling south on ...

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Fruitless Victory

Lord Rawdon had defeated the American army at Hobkirk’s Hill, but the British gained nothing from the victory. Two days earlier, on April 23, South Carolina partisans under Francis Marion and Henry Lee’s Continental legion had forced the surrender of ...

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Confederate Victory

"The Rebels were all around us and our only refuge was the open canopy of heaven."

Sgt. Charles E. Smith

32nd Ohio Infantry

September 14, 1862

Thousands of Federal soldiers huddled in ravines on Bolivar Heights to escape the Confederate ...

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Peace and Victory Monument

To those who served

in our nation's wars

through whose courage

and sacrifice came

victory and peace

Marker is on Upper Glen Street (U.S. 9), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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