1689 Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
1792 France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1809 Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1861 Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia
1918 Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
1945 World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
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