Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of Big Black River Bridge

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:42, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Battle of Big Black River Bridge

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... that a number of Confederate cannons were captured at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge because battery horses were posted on the wrong side of the river? Source 12 in the text
- ALT1:... that an important charge at the Battle of Big Black River Bridge lasted only three minutes? Source 8 in the text

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Photo negative casting

Improved to Good Article status by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 19:42, 14 June 2020 (UTC).

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
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Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Hook eligibility:

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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Recently elevated to GA status, no plagiarism, grammatical, or spelling problems, and both hooks are interesting. IMO the first hook is more interesting due to the funny incompetence of the army rather than the second hook with the shortness of the charge. Jon698 talk 20:27 17 June 2020