The Peninsular Campaign was intended to be a rapid movement of the Army of the Potomac by water, then by land, up the relatively short Virginia Peninsula.
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One notable exception to Napoleon's " strategy of annihilation " and a precursor to trench warfare were the Lines of Torres Vedras during the Peninsular campaign.
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At the Battle of Albuera ( 16 May 1811 ), the " bloodiest battle of the Peninsular Campaign, " Gazan's division was hammered by the British.
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She was deployed in the James rivers, Virginia, and performed service in support of Major General George B . McClellan's Peninsular Campaign of spring, 1862.
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Lieutenant Whitside served with his company in the 6th Cavalry during the Peninsular Campaign of 1862 where he participated in the following battles : Malvern Hill August 5,.
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He was mustered out of the army in June 1864 with the rank of First Sergeant ( he had been a Corporal during the battles of the Peninsular Campaign ).
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As part of Wellington's Army, they saw action in many of the major engagements of Peninsular campaign from 1811 to 1814, including the battles of Pyrenees.
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The Peninsular campaign was notable for the development of another method of warfare which went largely unnoticed at the time, but would become far more common in the 20th century.
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The regiment joined the Army of the James during the Peninsular Campaign leading to Petersburg, Virginia . 1865 saw the regiment back in North Carolina where they finished the war.
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The Ninth participated in the Battle of Malvern Hill on 1 July 1862 as part of the Peninsular Campaign waged by the Union Army intending to capture the city of Richmond.
