Citation: Voluntarily and at the risk of his life carried orders to the brigade commander, which resulted in saving the works his regiment was defending.

On 17 December 1861, the regiment successfully defended a crucial bridge, but 13 were killed and 30 were wounded.

In the Battle of Monte Cassino his regiment defended the fought over hills.

The regiment, he said, had been defending the makeshift palisades on the city's northern edge and had retreated toward the bridge where it had dissolved into panic.

Nevertheless, two regiments bunking here at the time of the sudden German invasion in 1941 defended the aged fort for an astounding month.

The French regiments (6 battalions total) advanced in column and the British defended the hill in a line formation.

During the first day of the battle, his regiment defended the Round Forest as part of Col. William B. Hazen's brigade.

The regiment defended the Union left on McPherson's and Seminary Ridges.

The regiment defended Virginia during the remainder of 1777.

"For a few last moments our little regiment defended angrily its hopeless challenge, but it was useless to fight longer," Abner Small of the 16th Maine wrote after the battle.