Battle of Ackia: Kingdom of Great Britain and Chickasaw soldiers repel a French colonization of the Americas and Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day Tupelo, Mississippi, Mississippi. The French, under Louisiana governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with Acadia and the other northern colonies of New France.,
American Civil War: Confederate States of America General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the ConfederateTrans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate States Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.,