The Battle of Arkansas Post was fought from January 9 to 11, 1863,

along the Arkansas River at Arkansas Post, Arkansas, as part of the

Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. Major General Ulysses S.

Grant of the Union army started to move against Vicksburg in

November 1862. He entrusted William T. Sherman with command of the

riverine movement towards Vicksburg, rather than John A. McClernand,

whom Grant did not trust. Initial advances stalled, and McClernand

arrived and took command in early January 1863. On January 10, 1863,

Union warships bombarded Arkansas Post. At 1:00 pm on January 11,

Union forces again attacked, by land and water. The land attack was

repulsed, but the Confederates agreed to surrender. When Grant learned

of the operation against Arkansas Post, he disapproved, but he was later

convinced of the wisdom of the operation. The siege of Vicksburg ended

with a Confederate surrender on July 4, 1863, a key contribution to the

eventual Union victory.

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Today's selected anniversaries:

1739:

The Stono Rebellion, at the time the largest slave rebellion in

the Thirteen Colonies of British America, erupted near Charleston, South

Carolina.

1969:

Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 collided in mid-air with a Piper

PA-28 Cherokee flown by a student pilot near Fairland, Indiana, killing

all 83 occupants of and destroying both aircraft.

2001:

Two al-Qaeda attackers assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, a

pivotal Afghan resistance leader, two days before the September 11

attacks in the United States.

2015:

Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch of the United

Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.

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Wiktionary's word of the day:

uniformity:

1. The quality or state of being uniform.

2. (uncountable) The quality or state of having the same characteristics

or form as other things, and lacking variety; (countable) an instance of

this.

3. (uncountable) Often followed by of: the quality or state of a thing

always having the same characteristics or form; consistency or

regularity in appearance or operation.

4. (uncountable) Often followed by of: especially of one's life: lack of

variety; tedious sameness; monotony.

5. (uncountable, geology) The condition or state described by

uniformitarianism (“the scientific principle that natural laws and

processes operated in the past in the same way and at the same rates

that they operate today, and sometimes in the same way everywhere in the

universe as well”).

6. (uncountable, especially religion) Adherence to or conformity with

one viewpoint, set of observances, etc.

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Wikiquote quote of the day:

  Nothing is vulgar in itself but that talking and thinking make it

so.  

--Cesare Pavese

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