{"slug": "robert-e-lee", "label": "Robert E. Lee", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q165557", "qid": "Q165557", "description": "Confederate States general (1807–1870)", "entries": 9, "years": 6, "span": [1807, 1870], "span_label": ["1807 CE", "1870 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "texas", "label": "Texas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "american-civil-war", "label": "American Civil War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maryland", "label": "Maryland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "potomac-river", "label": "Potomac River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ulysses-s-grant", "label": "Ulysses S. Grant", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1807, "year_label": "1807 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 19", "text": "January 19 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733939#January–June", "title": "1807", "revid": 1362733939, "section": "Births › January–June"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 18", "text": "October 18 – Troops under Colonel Robert E. Lee overpower John Brown at the Federal arsenal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#October–December", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 26", "text": "June 26 – American Civil War: Battle of Mechanicsville – Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats the troops of General George B. McClellan in the first of the Seven Days Battles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358615004#June", "title": "1862", "revid": 1358615004, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358615004#September", "title": "1862", "revid": 1358615004, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1–4 – American Civil War: Battle of Chancellorsville – General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13,000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson (fatally wounded by friendly fire), and 17,500 Union casualties.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#May", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1–3 – Battle of Gettysburg – Union forces under George G. Meade turn back a Confederate invasion by Robert E. Lee in the largest battle of the war (28,000 Confederate casualties, 23,000 Union).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#July", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – American Civil War: Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrenders to Union Army General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#April", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12–13 – American Civil War – Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the civil war with casualties, ends with a Confederate victory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#May", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – Robert E. Lee, Confederate general (b. 1807)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#July–December", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}]}