Today in Military History April 17th

17/04/1944  Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.

17/04/1362   Kaunas Castle falls to the Teutonic Order after a month-long siege.

 

17/04/1797   Sir Ralph Abercromby attacks San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what would be one of the largest invasions of the Spanish territories in the Americas

17/04/1863   American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.

 

                                                          
17/04/1864    Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.

 17/041912   Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.

17/04/1941   World War II: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany.
                                                        
17/04/1942    French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Königstein Fortress.

17/04/1945   World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from Nazi forces.


17/04/1946   The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.

 17/04/1967  Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

17/04/1975   The Cambodian Civil War ends. The Khmer Rouge captures the capital Phnom Penh and Cambodian government forces surrender.