May 21 1660 The Battle of Long Sault concludes after five days in which French colonial militia, with their Huron and Algonquin allies, are defeated by the Iroquois Confederacy.
May 21 1809 The first day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling between the Austrian army led by Archduke Charles and the French army led by Napoleon I of France sees the French attack across the Danube held.
May 21 1863 American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
May 21 1864 American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
May 21 1871 French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
May 21 1879 War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
May 21 1966 The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
May 21 1982: British landings begin at San Carlos. HMS Ardent sunk by Argentine aircraft
15 Argentine aircraft shot down.
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