Question: Which was fought first Battle of the Wilderness or the Battle of Guam?
Context: William Kirk MacNulty (May 22, 1892 - August 3, 1964) was a U. S. Marine with a long and distinguished record.  He was a young U.S. Marine Corps Second Lieutenant during World War One and saw action at the Battle of the Argonne Forest.  He served as a captain during the Second U.S. Nicaraguan Campaign (1926–33).  During the Second World War as Lieutenant Colonel he commanded the U.S. Marine Corps defense of Guam against overwhelming Imperial Japanese forces during the First Battle of Guam.  He was incarcerated by the Japanese as a prisoners of war.  He was promoted to Brigadier General during captivity and retired from military service in 1946.  He is buried at the Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, San Mateo County, California. The First Battle of Guam was an engagement during the Pacific War in World War II, and took place from 8 December to 10 December 1941 on Guam in the Mariana Islands between Japan and the United States.  The American garrison was defeated by Japanese forces on 10 December, which resulted in an occupation until the Second Battle of Guam in 1944. George Johnson McMillin (November 25, 1889 – August 29, 1983 ) was a United States Navy Rear Admiral who served as the 38th and final Naval Governor of Guam.  He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1911 and served as an officer during four separate conflicts: World War I, the occupation of the Dominican Republic, the United States occupation of Veracruz, and World War II.  He served on the staff of both the Naval Academy and the Naval War College as well.  He is most remembered as the commander who surrendered Guamanian forces to a much larger Japanese force during the First Battle of Guam, only the second battle of World War II involving the United States.  He had previously evacuated all but one civilian American citizen from the island and attempted to rebuild defenses after a strong typhoon devastated the island the year before.  On December 8, 1941, Japanese forces invaded Guam and McMillin surrendered two days later.  He spent the rest of the war at various Japanese prisoner of war camps. The Battle of Sallasil ("Dhat al-Salasil") or the Battle of Chains was the first battle fought between the Rashidun Caliphate and the Sassanid Persian Empire.  The battle was fought in Kuwait (Kazima) soon after the Ridda Wars were over and Eastern Arabia was united under the authority of Caliph Abu Bakr.  It was also the first battle of the Rashidun Caliphate in which the Muslim army sought to extend its frontiers. The First Battle of Champagne (French: "1ère Bataille de Champagne" ) was fought from 20 December 1914 – 17 March 1915 in World War I in the Champagne region of France and was the second offensive by the Allies against the Germans since mobile warfare had ended after the First Battle of Ypres in Flanders(19 October – 22 November 1914).  The battle was fought by the French Fourth Army and the German 3rd Army.  The offensive was part of a strategy by the French army to attack the Noyon Salient, a large bulge in the new Western Front, which ran from Switzerland to the North Sea.  The First Battle of Artois began on the northern flank of the salient on 17 December and the offensive against the southern flank in Champagne began three days later. The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.  Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia.  The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive. The Second Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the American recapture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a U.S. territory in the Mariana Islands captured by the Japanese from the U.S. in the 1941 First Battle of Guam during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Baathi Qaisrani Village is center of Union Council Tuman Qaisrani and historical place of Qaisrani Tribe.  Tuman Qaisrani is a town and union council of Tehsil Tribal Area and District Dera Ghazi Khan at Punjab province of Pakistan.  Bhada Khan Qaisrani, who had son of Qaisar Khan Qaisrani, founder of Qaisrani tribe and his son, Yaro Khan Qaisrani, left Kanwan torrent and occupied the Baathi Torrent and established Baathi Village.  The most important thing of Baathi Qaisrani and Qaisrani's of Baathi village they fought first battle against the British army.  (1893–97) A.H. Diack settlement officer wrote his book (Gazter-of-dera-ghazi-khan). The Battle of Ticinus was a battle of the Second Punic War fought between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and the Romans under Publius Cornelius Scipio in November 218 BC.  The battle took place in the flat country of Pavia county on the right bank of the Ticino River, not far north from its confluence (from the north) with the Po River.  The battle is named from the river, not the nearby contemporaneous settlement of Ticinum (today's Pavia).  Although the precise location is not known, it is generally accepted that a settlement known today as Vigevano is mentioned in Livy's text and that Scipio's camp was to the south at Gambolo, whose coordinates are given on the map.  The conflict would have been west of there.  It was the first battle of the war against the Romans that was fought on Italian soil and the first battle of the war to employ legion-sized forces.  Its loss by the Romans, and the temporary disablement of Scipio's command, set the stage for the Roman disaster at the Battle of Trebbia in December. The First Battle of Ypres (French: "Première Bataille des Flandres" German: "Erste Flandernschlacht" , 19 October – 22 November) was a battle of the First World War, fought on the Western Front around Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium, during October and November 1914.  The battle was part of the First Battle of Flanders, in which German, French and Belgian armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fought from Arras in France to Nieuport on the Belgian coast, from 10 October to mid-November.  The battles at Ypres began at the end of the Race to the Sea, reciprocal attempts by the German and Franco-British armies to advance past the northern flank of their opponents.  North of Ypres, the fighting continued in the Battle of the Yser (16–31 October), fought between the German 4th Army and the Belgian army and French marines.
Answer: The Battle of the Wilderness