The Battle of Roanoke Island, February 7–8, 1862. An incident in the Union North Carolina Expedition of January to July 1862 during the American Civil War, when Brigadier General Ambrose E. Burnside landed an amphibious force and took Confederate forts on the island. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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