May 23 1430 Joan of Arc is captured by the
Burgundians while leading an army to raise the
Siege of Compiègne.
May 23 1568 Dutch rebels led by
Louis of Nassau, defeat
Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the
Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the
Eighty Years' War.
May 23 1706 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies.
May 23 1793 Battle of Famars during the
Flanders Campaign of the
War of the First Coalition.
May 23 1846 Mexican–American War: President
Mariano Paredes of Mexico unofficially declares war on the United States.
May 23 1900 American Civil War: Sergeant
William Harvey Carney is awarded the
Medal of Honor for his heroism in the
Assault on the Battery Wagner in 1863.
May 23 1915 World War I: Italy joins the
Allies, fulfilling its part of the
Treaty of London
May 23 1939 The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians.
May 24 1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
May 24 1667 The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance
May 24 1822 Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
May 24 1861 American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
May 24 1900 Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
May 24 1915 World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
May 24 1941 World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
May 24 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
May 24 1967 Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
May 24 1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
May 24 2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
283 Battle of the Gulf of Naples : Roger of Lauria , admiral to King Peter III of Aragon , captures Charles of Salerno . 1288 Battle...
July 24 1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. July 24 1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus ...
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