May 18 1268 The Principality of Antioch, a crusader state, falls to the Mamluk Sultan Baibars in the Siege of Antioch.
May 18 1291 Fall of Acre, the end of Crusader presence in the Holy Land.
May 18 1756 The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
May 18 1794 Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
May 18 1803 Napoleonic Wars: The United Kingdom revokes the Treaty of Amiens and declares war on France.
May 18 1811 Battle of Las Piedras: The first great military triumph of the revolution of the Río de la Plata in Uruguay led by José Artigas.
May 18 1863 American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
May 18 1917 World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
May 18 1944 World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino: Conclusion after seven days of the fourth battle as German paratroopers evacuate Monte Cassino.
May 18 1955 Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
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