The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible multiple fruit consisting of coalesced berries, also called pineapples, and the most economically significant plant in the Bromeliaceae family.
Share. The Battle of Guadalcanal was the Allies' first major offensive action of World War II in the Pacific. Landing on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands on August 7, 1942, Allied troops began a prolonged campaign to take the island.
A skirmish involving over 3,000 soldiers, Philippi was the first battle of the American Civil War. Big Bethel. The skirmish of Big Bethel was the first land battle of the civil war and was a portent of the carnage that was to come.