The attack on Fort Sumter began on April 12, 1861, and lasted for 34 hours. The Union forces, led by General Irvin McDowell, bombarded the fort with artillery fire. The Confederate forces, led by General P.G.T. Beauregard, returned fire, but they were eventually forced to surrender.
The attack on Fort Sumter was a major turning point in the Civil War. It marked the beginning of four years of bloody conflict that would ultimately claim the lives of over 600,000 people.
After a sad seventeenth century marked by numerous economic difficulties and social tensions, the eighteenth century was placed under the sign of mutations and significant evolutions. The Age of Enlightenment will see faith in the progress of reason and techniques prevail and become the workhorse of
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