Bombardment of Forts Jackson and St Philip, Louisiana, American Civil War Product:Postcard Both were assassinated in the

Both were assassinated in the same year

Sammy McMillan

'The Queen in her Store-room'

he discovered that a flame enclosed inside the fine mesh does not ignite firedamp (methane and other flammable gases) thus preventing explosions

The youngest daughter of Henry IV of France

Bombardment of Forts Jackson and St Philip, Louisiana, American Civil War Product:Postcard Both were assassinated in theFirst day's bombardment of Forts Jackson and St Philip, Louisiana, American Civil War, April 1862. First division of the Union squadron preparing for action. A Union fleet commanded by Captain David Farragut laid siege to two Confederate fotrs on the Mississippi River. The Union ships were eventually able to pass the forts, enabling the capture of New Orleans.