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Carlson's patrol was an operation by the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion of the U.S. Marine Corps under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson. It took place from 6 November to 4 December 1942 during the Guadalcanal Campaign, which aimed to deny the Imperial Japanese Army use of the Solomon Islands as bases for threatening the supply routes between the U.S. and Australia, and to assist the offensives against Japan. In the operation, the 2nd Raiders attacked forces under the command of Toshinari Shōji, which were escaping from an attempted encirclement in the Koli Point area on Guadalcanal and attempting to rejoin other Japanese army units on the opposite side of the U.S. Lunga perimeter. In a series of small unit engagements over 29 days, the 2nd Raiders (who had been trained to operate as a guerrilla force) killed almost 500 Japanese soldiers while suffering only 16 killed. The raiders also captured a Japanese artillery cannon (pictured) that was delivering harassing gunfire on Henderson Field, the Allied airfield at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal. Seventeen raiders were wounded, and many others developed malaria, dysentery, or other illnesses; one lieutenant said that the living conditions were worse than the combat. (Full article...) Recently featured: Thomas Percy – Gabriel Fauré – Kingdom of Mysore Archive – By email – More featured articles...
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November 6: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844) and Tajikistan (1994); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland 1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll (pictured) as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. 1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków. 1963 – Nguyen Ngoc Tho was appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by the military junta of General Duong Van Minh, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngo Dinh Diem. 1995 – Madagascar's Rova of Antananarivo, which served as the royal palace from the 17th to 19th centuries, was destroyed by fire. 2004 – A man attempting to commit suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people. More anniversaries: November 5 – November 6 – November 7 Archive – By email – List of historical anniversaries It is now November 6, 2012 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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A campaign poster from the 1900 United States presidential election for the incumbent William McKinley, who would eventually win. The poster shows McKinley standing on a gold coin, representing the gold standard, with support from soldiers, businessmen, farmers and professionals, claiming to restore prosperity at home and victory abroad. The election was a repeat of the 1896 election, pitting McKinley against William Jennings Bryan.

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