Saturday 13 April 2019

Today in Military History 13th April



1777   American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey.

1861     American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.

1865     American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.

1909    The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.


1943  World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.


1945    World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

1945    World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.

1972    Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins

2017  The US drops the largest ever non-nuclear weapon on Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

Data from Wikipedia

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