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Battle of Sitka
1804
Sitka, Alaska
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
The Tlingit had destroyed the first Russian fort two years earlier. They held a timber fort here against naval bombardment for six days, then withdrew in silence overnight when their gunpowder ran out, the last major armed resistance to Russian colonisation.
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