MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · December 13
THE DAY IN HISTORY · DECEMBER 13
December 13 in history
1862 — Fredericksburg
13 Dec 1862 — Burnside sends fourteen brigades against a stone wall on Marye’s Heights; 12,600 Union casualties buy nothing at all. Lee, watching: “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.”
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1937
Nanjing falls to the Japanese army; weeks of massacre follow. One of the war’s great atrocities — and it is still 1937.
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