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seceded states are now free. >> confederates respond saying, okay, fine, if we see black men carrying weapons against us, we will consider that as a symbol of the north's complicit in slave rebellion. >> at that moment, the war becomes a war to abolish slavery. >> there occurs the greatest battle of the war at gettysburg on july 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 1863. >> pennsylvania is as far north as the confederate army has ever gotten. if the union lost here, it cleared the way for lee to continue marching into new york. they could cut off the northern states and new england from the mississippi...

that he offered on that de and we're going to leave you with that. >> this morning. >> mighty god prior to ban this day upset upon a mighty endeavor let's criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our siblings and set free a suffering humanity this morning, we are observing a moment in history at the same time is witnessing and effort to define the future. >> we are standing by to hear from president biden on the 80th anniversary of d-day, the allied landing of the beaches of normandy, june 6, 1944 but on june 6, 2024, the president will also speak of the alliance fighting r...

lone piper plays. tonight at 10:00, a vigil in normandy here at the bayeux war cemetery to remember the fallen on the eve of the 80th anniversary of d—day. more than 4,000 gravestones are lit up one by one — a tribute to those who never returned. in portsmouth, the king tells the last surviving d—day veterans, "we are eternally in your debt." more than a0 british veterans have travelled here to normandy — i've been speaking to one of them. all these memories of d—day and all the men in the water, swimming, sinking, scrambling ashore in the sands _ and the other main storie...

as frank gardner reports. war planes from another time. memories from 80 years ago. today, a chance to honor those men and women who took part in d—day, the operation that helped end the second world war. service chiefs, prime ministers past and present, the royalfamily and of course, the veterans. roy haywood was 19 on that day, a trooper in the sherwood rangers. i landed in on the evening of d—day, and three weeks later i was so badly damaged that they had to amputate both my legs below the knee. i returned home eventually, and i have to say that i always considered myself one ...

treasury officials", labour's policies would result in a £2,000 tax rise for every working family. the conservatives say they stand by their figures. it has been confirmed — as expected — that narendra modi will becomes india's prime minister for a third time. the 73—year—old found himself unexpectedly reliant on a number of smaller parties to reach a parliamentary majority, after his own party fell short of the 272 needed to form the next government. it may mean that in power he will need to be more concialatory than he has previously. a boeing spacecraft carrying two nasa ...