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The First Battle of Sabine Pass (September 24–25, 1862), also known as the Bombardment of Fort Sabine, was the first American Civil War bombardment by the United States Navy of a Confederate fort below Sabine City (now Sabine Pass, Texas.) It was the apex in a series of naval and land skirmishes around the mouth of the Sabine River, Texas, and preceded by four weeks the Union Navy's first armed entry into Galveston Bay called the Battle of Galveston Harbor. Besides strengthening the Union naval blockade of the Texas coastline, the shelling and capture of Sabine Pass was to deter Confederate ground forces from moving southwestward on the Texas coast to augment Galveston's defense. It was intended to open the way for the Union invasion of Texas, which almost a year later was attempted by a c

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  • First Battle of Sabine Pass (en)
  • Première bataille de Sabine Pass (fr)
  • Prima battaglia di Sabine Pass (it)
  • Eerste Slag bij Sabine Pass (nl)
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  • La prima battaglia di Sabine Pass del settembre 1862 è stata un episodio della guerra di secessione americana durante la quale, mentre la marina unionista bloccava i porti del Texas, le forze terrestri nordiste cercarono di aprire la via per una possibile operazione anfibia contro la città confederata di Sabine Pass. (it)
  • De Eerste Slag bij Sabine Pass vond plaats op 24 september en 25 september 1862 bij Sabine Pass in Texas tijdens de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog. Met dit bombardement van de stad en het fort hadden de Noordelijken twee doelen voor ogen. Enerzijds wilden ze de blokkade van de Zuidelijke staten verstrakken en anderzijds planden ze een amfibische aanval om Sabine Pass in handen te krijgen. (nl)
  • The First Battle of Sabine Pass (September 24–25, 1862), also known as the Bombardment of Fort Sabine, was the first American Civil War bombardment by the United States Navy of a Confederate fort below Sabine City (now Sabine Pass, Texas.) It was the apex in a series of naval and land skirmishes around the mouth of the Sabine River, Texas, and preceded by four weeks the Union Navy's first armed entry into Galveston Bay called the Battle of Galveston Harbor. Besides strengthening the Union naval blockade of the Texas coastline, the shelling and capture of Sabine Pass was to deter Confederate ground forces from moving southwestward on the Texas coast to augment Galveston's defense. It was intended to open the way for the Union invasion of Texas, which almost a year later was attempted by a c (en)
  • La première bataille de Sabine Pass ou le bombardement de Fort Sabine, les 24 et 25 septembre 1862, fut le premier bombardement de la guerre de Sécession par la marine américaine d'un fort confédéré en dessous de Sabine City (aujourd'hui Sabine Pass, Texas). Apogée dans une série d'escarmouches navales et terrestres autour de l'embouchure de la rivière Sabine, au Texas, et précédée de quatre semaines de la première entrée armée de l'Union Navy dans la baie de Galveston appelée la bataille de Galveston Harbour. Outre le renforcement du blocus naval de l'Union du littoral du Texas, le bombardement et la capture de Sabine Pass devaient dissuader les forces terrestres confédérées de se déplacer vers le sud-ouest sur la côte du Texas pour renforcer la défense de Galveston. Et, c'était pour ouvr (fr)
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