Tuesday 16 April 2019

Today in Military History


16/04/1799    French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.

16/04/1862    American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia. 

 16/04/ 1863   American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.

 16/04/1941   World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

16/04/1944   World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.

 16/04/1945   World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
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