Talk:Battle of Grand Gulf

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Visitor centre?

Grand Gulf is one of the locations listed as part of Vicksburg National Military Park. Do they have a visitor centre, guided tours, interactive maps and hotel/restaurant facilities? Valetude (talk) 11:57, 13 June 2017 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 20:34, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that a ship was damaged during the Battle of Grand Gulf because its spikes lacked nuts? Source 14 in the text
  • ALT1:... that USS Benton had its ship's wheel destroyed during the Battle of Grand Gulf? Source 13 in the text
  • ALT2:... that only three Confederate soldiers were killed at the Battle of Grand Gulf, but one of them was the commander of Fort Wade? Source 12 in the text and source 13
  • ALT3:... that Colonel William F. Wade had a grand gulf made between his shoulders at the Battle of Grand Gulf? Source 12 in the text

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/1943 Rolls-Royce strike
• Comment: Not my greatest hook ideas in the world. ALT0 is probably just stupid and ALT3 is a morbid joke about taking a cannonball to the face.

• Striking ALT3 as god-awful. Hog Farm (talk) 03:17, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Improved to Good Article status by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 02:16, 27 June 2020 (UTC).

• Hi Hog Farm, review follows: article promoted to GA on 26 June; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; most sources are offline but there's no copyright violation from those that are online; hooks are interesting and mentioned in the article; hooks are cited to offline sources for which I am happy to AGF; I think I prefer ALT2 but any would work; a QPQ has been carried out - Dumelow (talk) 06:57, 29 June 2020 (UTC)