Some bacteria, such as Deinococcus, which stain gram-positive due to the presence of a thick peptidoglycan layer and also possess an outer cell membrane are suggested as intermediates in the transition between monoderm (gram-positive) and diderm (gram-negative) bacteria.
Further information: Battle of Five Forks. The decisive Battle of Five Forks, was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, around the road junction of Five Forks in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Five Forks was a critical crossroads that led to the remaining Confederate supply lines.
The Crimea was the main theater of military operations during the Crimean War of 1853â56. During the war Russian troops and the residents of Sevastopolâ, led by Admirals V. A. Kornilov, P. S. Nakhimov, and V. I. Istomin, heroically defended the city for 11 months (the Sevastopolâ defense of 1854â55).