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(December 31, 1862January 2, 1863), bloody but indecisive American Rosetta Stone Spanish Civil War clash in Tennessee that was a psychological victory for Union forces. General Braxton Bragg's 34,700-man Confederate army was confronted on Stones River near Murfreesboro by 41,400 Union troops under General William S. Rosecrans, who had orders to drive Bragg out of eastern Tennessee. After the first day's bitter, seesaw battle, the battered Union army was on the verge of retreating, but Rosecrans decided to hold fast. On January 3, Bragg's equally exhausted Confederate forces withdrew southward. Rosecrans's tenacity thus averted a potentially serious Union defeat. Union casualties numbered 12,906; Confederate losses totaled 11,739. Stones River National Battlefield (established 1927) commemorates the battle.Copyright1994-2009 Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc. The new king, Louis Rosetta Stone Spanish Latin XVIII (1755-1824), fled, and Napoleon began what came to be known as his Hundred Days campaign.Upon Napoleons return to France, a coalition of alliesthe Austrians, British, Prussians and Russianswho considered the French emperor an enemy began to prepare for war. Napoleon raised a new army and planned to strike preemptively, defeating the allied forces one by one before they could launch a united attack against him.In June 1815, his forces invaded Belgium, where British and Prussian troops were stationed. On June 16, Napoleons troops defeated the Prussians at the Battle of Ligny. However, two days later, on June 18, at the Battle of Waterloo near Brussels, the French were crushed by the British, with assistance from the Prussians.On June 22, 1815, Napoleon was once again forced to Rosetta Stone French V3 abdicate.

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