AH Challenge - Your city, site of a crucial battle

since Chicago has already been done, I will do one for the place I moved from
Fargo North Dakota.
(From a confederate Victory timeline simmilar to TL-191)

At the beggining of The first World War the United States faced a difficult challenge of holding of both the confederate and British/Canadian armies.
in first days of the war, Canadian forces advanced into Northernmost United states and attempted to overtake one of the few cities of any size in North Dakota, Fargo. what little forces there suprisingly held off the Canadian army and began what would eventually be the United States Conquest of Canada.
 
Decided to do one for Nanjing since so many people have done Britain and America.

Siege of Nanjing

Despite being ordered by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to evacuate the city of Nanjing ahead of the Japanese army, General Tang was unable to escape with his army due to a rapid Japanese encirclement on December 7th.
Caught in the city General Tang took complete control of all Chinese forces and civilians.
While the International Committee tried to negotiate a surrender of Nanjing with the Japanese, General Tang had messages read out in the dozens of different Chinese dialects to the Chinese soldiers and Nanjing citizens. It listed the slaughter of Chinese troops, villages and cities between Shanghai and Nanjing, emphasizing that surrendered soldiers were almost all killed by the Japanese army.
Tang's Journal which was smuggled out of Nanjing before it fell stated that he wanted every Chinese citizen to realize they were in 'Death Ground' and the only hope of survival was by killing the enemy.
On December 9th a quarter of the army had deserted, hiding in buildings and surrendering to the Japanese. The remaining soldiers, though many were wounded, exhausted and fearful had torn down buildings, dug trenches and created barriers throughout the city.
When the Japanese attacked they rapidly took most of the cities suburbs forcing the Chinese soldiers who were often ill led to fall back or risk extermination. Japanese planes turned much of the inner city into rubble as they bombed incessantly.
These actions actually helped General Tang. The concentration of troops allowed him to control the army almost personally. Any officer who showed cowardice was shot by his security detail, removing much of the useless chaff that had hurt the Chinese army so much early in the fighting. And many Chinese soldiers who escaped after being captured or hid when their unit was captured told stories about hundreds of surrendered Chinese soldiers who were shot even if they had not fired a shot.
These acts hardened the Chinese army.
As the Japanese entered the heart of Nanjing, Chinese soldiers fought them from prepared positions and collapsed buildings. Natives of the city led troops behind enemy lines to strike the Japanese from behind.
When ammunition and food became scarce, the Chinese stole Japanese guns, ammo and food.
The Japanese army was forced to send more and more troops to the running sore that was Nanjing.
Even the civilians of Nanjing joined the effort. As the trapped Chinese army fought on Nanjing citizens joined them, acting as scouts, picking up guns and running messages throughout the ruins. Nanjing women even used themselves as bait to help ambush the Japanese. Pretty Chinese women would let themselves be seen by Japanese soldiers hoping that the soldiers would attempt to rape them. As they came near Chinese soldiers would ambush them. After a week or so of this tactic, Japanese soldiers were told to shoot women on sight.
For two months Nanjing held out before finally being crushed the Japanese army.Nanjing University was the last stronghold of Nanjing where General Tang, his body guards and remnants of the Chinese army, along with the remaining few surviving foreigners of the International Committee, died after shooting the Japanese delegation that was offering them one final chance to surrender.
Nanjing was totally destroyed in the fighting and over 100,000 soldiers, and 400,000 to 500,000 civilians were estimated to have died in the fighting. The Japanese army suffered an estimated 70,000 casualties.
The Chinese sacrifice slowed the Japanese advance, allowing the Chinese army to prepare proper defenses in the West. The vicious fighting also brought respect for the Chinese people as warriors. The Japanese were much more cautious in their tactical approach, especially when attacking a city from then on. More important was the international outcry especially when photo's, letters and diaries from deceased International Committee members where smuggled out of Nanjing and to the West. The subsequent trade ban on all Japanese goods were almost entirely brought about by the brutality of the Japanese army and the valiant defense of Nanjing.
 
After suffering a huge defeat near White Plains, George Washington crosses the Hudson River from Westchester to Rockland, stationing himself in Tappan, New York (He actually did stay here OTL, and John Andre was hanged here as well). The British, gaining wind of the position of his camp, cross the Hudson further south, attempting to cut of his escape route and force him to retreat back towards the Hudson, and towards the awaiting British Navy. On September 20th, 1776, the British launch an attack from the south, hoping to destroy the American forces once and for all....
 
Mine's sort of easy, as well as a little ironic.

The Confederate States of America becomes independent and the U.S. must cede Kentucky. Thus, Indiana is the only state now connecting the Eastern and Mid-Western/Western states.

WWI or WWII-Just as America planned in the Civil War to divide the Confederacy, the Confederate strategy is to divide the U.S. into halves by capturing Indiana, and then march north to burn Chicago to the ground. Southern Indiana is quickly taken, but the city of Indianapolis stands as a "Yankee" citadel, resulting in a great battle that will determine whether the C.S.A.'s strategy of dividing the Union a second time will lead to its defeat.
 
Just a bit north of where I live the Battle of Cheriton happened. But if it's going to be one in Eastleigh then I'd say:

The Germans had made their presence along the Southern English coast, though less than a month into Operation Sealion they were stalling heavily with supplies not making it in. By this time the remnants of the British army from Dunkirk alongside the Home Guard begin to push back. One of the major battles was the Battle of Eastleigh, in which Home Guard members and the brave British troops fought the German troops out of a key area, Eastleigh which contained both an important railway station and an airport (HMS Raven/Southampton Airport). This allowed for more supplies to come from London down South as the assaults on both Southampton and Portsmouth were being prepared for.
 
I've lived in a lot of places. For starters, I'll do the place where I live now, Dothan, Alabama.

Late November, 1996, Dothan, Alabama. It had been several decades since Auburn University and Georgia Tech met on the gridiron. Starting in 1990, there was a push by fans to get the two schools to meet for a rematch. Traditionally the AU-GT game was in Columbus, GA. However, GA Tech did not want to play a neutral game so close to the enemy campus. The only other good-sized community close to the state line was Dothan, Alabama, which leaped at the chance to have their high school football stadium upgraded with outside money.

When the game was scheduled, no reasonable person could imagine the high stakes involved. Not only was the game a late season contest between the SEC and the ACC, but Auburn and Ga Tech went into the game ranked 2nd and 3rd in the nation. People even reported seeing Bear Bryant's ghost walking the halls of Dothan High School in the week before the game.
 
I currently lived in New Jersey but I lived in Jakarta for most my life so I'll use Jakarta instead.

First Battle of Batavia (previous name of Jakarta)
February 1942

The First Battle of Batavia is the name given to the first Japanese attempt to conquer Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies. With the Netherlands under German control, most of the Dutch forces had been evacuated to defend the Dutch East Indies from the possible threat of the Japanese.

By 1942, the Japanese had overrun most of Eastern Asia and set their targets on the East Indies, their original target for oil. The Japanese originally steamrolled over the mostly Dutch-Allied forces as Sumatra and Borneo fell under the Japanese. However, Java remains standing and the Japanese planned to take Java from Dutch hands.

The Battle of Batavia started in February when the Imperial Japanese Marines landed on the ports of Batavia. Meanwhile, the Japanese Army that were stationed in Southern Sumatra crossed the Strait of Sunda to Merak. The Japanese expected the locals to cooperate with the Japanese with their propaganda. Surprisingly, the locals were resistant towards the Japanese. This was in part because the charismatic revolutionary leader Sukarno had agreed to cooperate with the Dutch Colonial Forces (KNIL) to work together and repel the greater enemy first.

By mid-February, the Japanese army on Banten had finally reached Batavia. However, the Japanese Marines were stuck in the port. Their first landing were met with disaster due to an Allied sabotage. The KNIL held their own in the very devastating urban fighting in Batavia. Civilians fought alongside the KNIL to fight the Japanese, collaborators were usually lynched. By the end of the month, the Japanese were finally repelled. It was a Pyrrhic victory for the Dutch as Batavia was mostly destroyed and the Dutch lost many forces in the fighting.

However, the battle was also considered as the turning point of the Asian part of World War II as it was the first major Japanese defeat. The Japanese defeat in Java forced them to relocate a large number of troops to the East Indies and contributed to their collapse in the Pacific against the mostly-American allied forces.
 
San Francisco CA, July 3, 1999 (Twilight 2000 Timeline)

news release
"6th Army headquarters announced today that elements of the US 6th Army fought off the Mexican 2nd Army advance into Tehachapi and Tejon passes which were attempting to drive into the San Joaquin Valley. Mexican casualties were heavy, while American losses were light. More importantly, the critical oil infrastructure in the Bakersfield/Elk Hills area remains firmly in US Army hands."

Sacramento Bee, July 5, 1999
Reports are still filtering north to central California, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the Army's 40th Mechanized Division suffered heavily in the fighting in the Bakersfield area. The 39th Marine Regiment (a scratch force built from base personnel formerly stationed at Barstow, Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms) as well as the 7th squadron / 11th Cavalry (formed from base and training personnel at Camp Irwin) were both nearly completely destroyed holding the passes, but held on just long enough for the 40th Mechanized to reach Bakersfield, drive the Mexican light armored and mechanized forces from the outskirts of the city and retake the passes and link up with the few surviving American strongpoints that were still harassing the enemy in the difficult mountain terrain a few miles away. However, after counting wrecks and bodies, it is clear that several Mexican brigades have been all but destroyed and the possibility of a counteroffensive south to drive out the invaders would be possible if reinforcements or replacements for battered American units can be found.

Rumors are that the Mexicans have completed their mopping up of remaining resistance in San Diego and Los Angeles, both of which have been depopulated since the Thanksgiving Massacre in 1997.

note: in the Twilight 2000 universe, NATO and the Warsaw Pact have fought World War III (called the Twilight War) which started with a war between the PRC and Soviet Union in 1996 and then spread globally. A Socialist Mexico invades a severely weakened US in 1999, when most of the US economy is severely damaged (or has collapsed) and most US military forces are either overseas, keeping order in major areas that weren't hit by the counterforce/oil infrastructure nuclear exchange, or engaged with Soviet forces in Alaska. Thus the Mexicans make a lot of progress...

Bakersfield has the only oil refineries in California that are not in the nuclear strike zones in Los Angeles or San Francisco areas, and thus is the only oil producing and refining area available to the US on the West Coast (Seattle facilities were hit as well). It is a trickle compared to pre-war, but enough to keep the remaining US forces operating on the West Coast (which aren't very large anymore either).
 
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San Francisco CA, July 3, 1999 (Twilight 2000 Timeline)

news release
"6th Army headquarters announced today that elements of the US 6th Army fought off the Mexican 2nd Army advance into Tehachapi and Tejon passes which were attempting to drive into the San Joaquin Valley. Mexican casualties were heavy, while American losses were light. More importantly, the critical oil infrastructure in the Bakersfield/Elk Hills area remains firmly in US Army hands."

Sacramento Bee, July 5, 1999
Reports are still filtering north to central California, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the Army's 40th Mechanized Division suffered heavily in the fighting in the Bakersfield area. The 39th Marine Regiment (a scratch force built from base personnel formerly stationed at Barstow, Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms) as well as the 7th squadron / 11th Cavalry (formed from base and training personnel at Camp Irwin) were both nearly completely destroyed holding the passes, but held on just long enough for the 40th Mechanized to reach Bakersfield, drive the Mexican light armored and mechanized forces from the outskirts of the city and retake the passes and link up with the few surviving American strongpoints that were still harassing the enemy in the difficult mountain terrain a few miles away. However, after counting wrecks and bodies, it is clear that several Mexican brigades have been all but destroyed and the possibility of a counteroffensive south to drive out the invaders would be possible if reinforcements or replacements for battered American units can be found.

Rumors are that the Mexicans have completed their mopping up of remaining resistance in San Diego and Los Angeles, both of which have been depopulated since the Thanksgiving Massacre in 1997.

note: in the Twilight 2000 universe, NATO and the Warsaw Pact have fought World War III (called the Twilight War) which started with a war between the PRC and Soviet Union in 1996 and then spread globally. A Socialist Mexico invades a severely weakened US in 1999, when most of the US economy is severely damaged (or has collapsed) and most US military forces are either overseas, keeping order in major areas that weren't hit by the counterforce/oil infrastructure nuclear exchange, or engaged with Soviet forces in Alaska. Thus the Mexicans make a lot of progress...

Bakersfield has the only oil refineries in California that are not in the nuclear strike zones in Los Angeles or San Francisco areas, and thus is the only oil producing and refining area available to the US on the West Coast (Seattle facilities were hit as well). It is a trickle compared to pre-war, but enough to keep the remaining US forces operating on the West Coast (which aren't very large anymore either).

incidently, this area was so hellish, that hardly anyone lived here prior to 1900 and the oil strikes in the region.

Although a battle between US and Mexican/Californian forces in the Mexican War could just barely be possible. The actual fighting was on the coast or near Los Angeles, which is somewhat more bearable at that time.
 
I now live in the Greater Boston area which, as already pointed out, is too easy. But I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, which is more of a challenge.

The best way I can think of to make Anchorage a battle site is to have the Cold War blow up into a conventional war. How we can get the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. into an actual war without just lobbing nukes at each other, I'm not sure. But supposing they did, Alaska would actually be the logical place for the Soviets to strike first. It's the nearest piece of American land to Soviet territory, is already a hub for cross-Pacific traffic, and has a large military presence. And Anchorage, being strategically located by the coast and already having the infrastructure for shipping and as a refueling station, would be a target of invasion. Again, this is assuming the Soviets are invading with an intent to conquer, as opposed to just dropping nukes everywhere. (In the latter case, Anchorage probably would get a nuke, but then so many other cities would as well that it wouldn't really matter anymore to the war at large.)

There's not much room for war in Anchorage before that. I suppose the Japanese could have invaded during WWII if they had ignored places like Indonesia in favor of concentrating all their strength against American targets. Much before that, and there's no Anchorage to invade; the city was only founded in 1914 or so. I suppose the site could have held a battle between the Russians and the Natives in the 19th century. But then, you could say that of any city in the Americas, and that's not as interesting as positing an actual war over a real city.
 
The Ozark Campaign, 1861-1862
Outcome: Strategic Union Victory

After General Fremont was sacked as commander of the Union's Mississippi forces, he was replaced by General Ulyssess Grant. Believing he could take advantage of the situation and turn Missouri wholly to the Confederate side (Fremont had been very unpopular) Leonidas Polk launched an invasion of Southeast Missouri. Albert Sydeny Johnson considered this move stupid, to put things mildly, but Polk had forced his hand and he had no choice but to reinforce Polk's position or let his position in Tennessee collapse from undermanning. Polk and Johnson quickly seized the town of Jackson to use as their headquarters.

Grant, headquartered at nearby Cape Girardeau, decided to act before Johnson could get settled. When Polk moved to take Neely's Landing, he found numerous union troops waiting there, defeating him at the Battles of Hanging Dog Island and Neely's Landing, and chasing him through what is now Trail of Tears National Historic Battlefield. Confederate naval forces, meanwhile, were stopped at Rock Island.

Desperate, and realizing they had Grant cornered in Cape, Polk and Johnson marched on the city. For five days Grant held out, reinforced by Don Carlos Buell from Cairo, Illinois. On the fifth day Johnson took a bullet, and the Army of Tennessee beat a hasty retreat under Polk. Polk attempted to make another stand at Sikeston, reinforced by Earl Van Dorn, but this time Grant outmanuevered them and beat them back to Arkansas.

The Ozark Campaign might not have been the largest conflict in the Civil War, or the bloodiest, but it did ruin the CSA's winning streak. The Middle Mississippi was now seriously undermanned, with General Bragg to far away to do anything. Grant was able to easily march as far south as Vicksburg by July of '62, seizing most of Tennessee in the process and ensuring secession of Missouri and Kentucky would remain pipe dreams. The war ended in late 1864, early enough to ensure Lincoln's victory in the election.
 
Not bad. Not bad at all.{how do you make fake wikis anyway????? I should start a thread on that}

Thanks! As for the question, you either edit a page (if the page actually exists) or make a new one. But DONT SAVE the wiki page, just do a preview. The down-side to this is that you can't see the title.

Of course, for laughs you can actually save it, though that would piss off some people especially if it's a popular topic. :p

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Cool, but the Dutch would probably turn on Sukarno and arrest him as soon as he accepted a peace proposal with them. That may be a bias, but remember in OTL is was actually with Japanese help that Indonesia properly trained it's army to become more than bamboo spears and pitchforks.
 
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Well I live <20 miles from New York, but that would be no fun. So....

The Battle of Pascack Crossroads - August 23rd, 1779 - ARW.

Following the declaration of war on Great Britain by France, British forces in North America were suddenly in quite a precarious position. What with Washington's rebel forces ringing New York City, and the newly landed French Expeditionary Force in Rhode Island, General Clinton, commanding British forces in New York and on Long Island, was unable to plan any major offensive operations.

However, a standard practice of the war was for the British to lead raids on colonial settlements near New York, for field practice, and to obtain badly needed forage and cattle. After three years of occupation, the supplies of these on Long Island and Staten Island were seriously depleted. The most common raiding ground by this time was across the Hudson River, in the old Dutch settlements of the Hackensack River Valley, in northern New Jersey.

Washington and the Americans usually stood pat and watched from the highlands in Orange County, New York (including current-day Rockland), but due to the lack of good defensible positions in Bergen County, New Jersey, was unable to directly oppose the British advances. However, in 1779 luck favored the rebels.

(BP) Thanks to the American's greatly improved spy ring in the City, Washington knew when and where the great summer British raid would take place. This year it would consist of two columns. One would be floated up the Hudson to Closter landing, and march west. The other would sail up the Passaic River towards Glen Rock, and march east towards Paramus church. Once united, the British column would march southeast, re-cross the Hackensack River, and south through Schraelenburgh and English Neighborhood, finally ending up at Hoboken landing for ferry back to New York. Each British column would number 3500 men, significantly larger than past raids.

Washington prepared quickly. At Paramus Church he stationed a full division under the command of General Sullivan. It numbered enough to significantly slow down the western British column. At the battle of Paramus Church, August 21st, Sullivan was ordered to fall back to the northeast - towards Pascack Crossroads, further up the valley. However, the key was that this battle was a diversion. At the same time of this battle, another 2 divisions, the whole wing under the command of General Greene, division commanders Von Steuben and Lafayette (the cream of the army) marched south along the River Road. They reached Emerson Church, south of the town of Kinderkamack. These 4500 men stood directly in the path of a British march southward.

Meanwhile, the eastern British column made fair time, but as planned by Washington, still missed Greene's column. They reached the rendevous point with the western column, only to not find it. Desperate scouting on the 22nd found it to be far to the northwest, nearing Pascack Crossroads. The eastern column gamely marched that way, determined to reunite. Greene pursued at a distance, careful to mask his numbers. Meanwhile, at the crossroads itself Sullivan played the same game. His 2000 men were the only *visible* American force in the area. That masked the whole rest of the Continental Army, including Wayne's division and Morgan's riflemen - the whole perhaps another 4000 men.

So, the situation on the 23rd was: The reunited British raiding party, at some 7000 men, just south of the crossroads. Greene's Americans, 4500, steadily marching, unknown to the British, up on them from the south. The rest of the Continental Army at some 6000 at the crossroads itself, but only 2000 of them were known to the British.

The British attacks on Sullivan's men got underway early in the morning on the 23rd. Sullivan fell back to a prepared position, along a few fences crossing over a ridge. The few pieces of American artillery fired directly down the Pascack Road at the oncoming British. The British commanders sent sorties to outflank Sullivan's men on both sides, only to encounter the rest of the American forces. 7000 vs. 6000 men is not enough for a decisive victory for the attackers. The Americans fought gallantly through the morning hours, and their riflemen scored hit after hit on the British high command. However, by early afternoon the British were beginning to make headway, using a small stream and culvert to get at the American left (eastern) flank. Slowly that line fell back through the lowlands.

At 14:00, however, Greene arrived in the rear of the British forces. His men were extended in full battle line, with no reserve to speak of, but their arrival was basically a complete surprise. Catching almost the whole British line in a deadly crossfire, and with most of the main American line holding firm, the British position was now desperate indeed - and they had to time to rectify it. Earlier in the war, maybe. But by 1779 the American forces were well trained, and well equipped with bayonets.

The British right wing fled the trap, via the stream, with some semblance of order, and some 2000 men escaped that way. Perhaps another 500 escaped at random points along the line, eventually making their way back to New York. Less the 500 actual casualties of the battle (American losses were similar), that left 4000 British troops prisoners to the Americans.

It was a victory to rival that at Saratoga, and right at the doorstep of the British fortress in America. It led to several more European countries either recognizing America as independent, and some even declaring war on Britain. Despite some late-game victories in the south, from their new base at Charleston, the British knew they ultimately could not recover from 2 such losses. The war ended in 1782 with the British recognizing America as independent, and practically every other condition of theirs as well.
 
Heres a map of the Mexican invasion of Texas and (Battle for Dallas)
Comments?

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The Battle of Weybridge, April 17th 1882 (TL 191)
The Northeastern Campaign
Part of the British strategy during the Second Mexican War was a two-pronged attack into the Northeastern US. Taking advantage of the Union armies' situation in the west, two British-Canadian armies numbering around 35,000 each marched from Montreal in early March of 1882 down opposite sides of Lake Champlain. Each was to take an important American city in the Northeast; the western army, under Sir John Morrison Gibson, was to strike at New York, while the eastern army under Fredrick Roberts was to sweep down through Vermont and the Berkshires and take Boston.
The Battle
On April 14th, the 4th, 5th, and 6th corps of the recently christened Army of the Connecticut under General Nelson Miles rendezvoused with local militia forces numbering around 6,000 on the outskirts of Brandon, Vermont to intercept Roberts' army. Marching north, cavalry scouts from the two armies met north of Middlebury College in a small town called Weybridge. The Union cavalry, many of them veterans of skirmishes with the Indians during the interbellum period, routed the Canadian Light Horse and cleared the way for the main force. Realizing that a frontal battle against Roberts, a veteran of India and Afghanistan, would result in probable defeat, he ordered his army to prepare defenses on the roads around Weybridge.
On the morning of April 17th, the first British guns opened fire on Miles' headquarters in the center of town. All day Roberts sent wave after wave of infantry, both green Canadian forces and veteran Highlanders and Light Foot, against Miles' forces. Although all were repelled to varying degrees of success, Union forces suffered heavy losses and the army was forced to continuously tighten its position until it was completely surrounded by the British forces. For the next two days the battle was mostly confined to small skirmishes, but on the morning of April 20th, Roberts' scouts reported a surprisingly large force of Vermont volunteers, armed with captured Canadian artillery, were fast approaching the battle. In a moment of desperation, Roberts ordered about a third of his troops into a large column, which would drive at the Americans' weakest point and hopefully break their army. At 10 am, The column surged towards a lightly wooded area of the Union line guarded by several half strength regiments. Using the cover of the trees, the commander of the regiments deployed the men into a skirmish formation and the British entering the woods found themselves peppered with fire from all directions. The Union troops held for 40 minutes before reinforcements arrived and artillery was brought to bear on the British at point-blank range. The attack collapsed, and Roberts ordered a general retreat before they could be attacked by a fresh force. A week later, Gibson abandoned his march on New York before he could be cut off from Canada.
The victory at Weybridge is often hailed as the Union's finest hour during the otherwise disastrous Second War Between the States, Combined with their defeat in Montana at the hands of Theodore Roosevelt, it is a prelude of the incompetence which will plague the Canadian military during the Great War and their ultimate conquest at American hands.
 
Strangely, Buenos Aires has been the capital of Argentina (legally or de facto) since 1810, and was the capital of the Vicerroyalty from 1776 to 1810, ...and yet the only "battle" that took place within the city was during the British invasions of 1806/7. No battle took place within the limits of the city of Buenos Aires during the Independence war (1810-1821), during the war agianst Brazil (1825-1828) nor during the civil wars (1820-1852).

The war against Paraguay didn't touched Buenos Aires. Fighting almost broke out during the civic uprising in 1890, but, in the end, no shot was fired. During Perón's presidency, the naval air force bombed Plaza de Mayo, in an attempted coup against Perón. But the army didn't rebelled, and the coup failed. A coup did succeed in 1955, but most of the fighting took place in cordoba or elsewhere, not in the city. IIRC, the only shots fired here where the once that took place in 1962, when two factions of the military tried to solve their difference on the streets.

So, it's surprisingly that, given that the counbtry did face many wars and civil wars during its 200 years of existance (most of them in the XIX century) there was almost no battle in Buenos Aires proper. I guess this could be changed with just minor Pods. Having Buenos aires involved in a battle during the Civil wars that took place during the first half of the XIX century is harder, because both armies practically didn't have artillery, and would have have quieta a hard time trying to take the city (Montevideo, for example, survived a siege that lasted more than 7 years!)
 

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Battle of Milton Keynes (1987) :eek:

In the chaos following the collapse of the Powell government after the UN ultimatum, the PM and some loyal troops first fled to Cambridge and then tried a last stand in the half-finished Milton Keynes.

After two days of intense house to house fighting against US led UN troops, the remaining loyalists capitulated, surrounded in a shopping mall.

The surviving members of the Powell government were charged for crimes against humanity. :D
 
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