Monday 18 March 2019

Today in Military History 18 March




1241
First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city. w

1644 
The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia. w

1793
Battle of Neerwinden. v

1915 
World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. w

1937 Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara. w

1940 World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. w

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