Today in Military History June 12

June 12 910   Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors.

June 12 1418   Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Parisians slaughter Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac and his suspected sympathizers, along with all prisoners, foreign bankers, and students and faculty of the College of Navarre.

June 12 1429  Hundred Years' War: On the second day of the Battle of Jargeau, Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.

June 12 1653   First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins and lasts until June 13.

June 12 1758   French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.

June 12  1775   American Revolution: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offer a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms. There would be only two exceptions to the amnesty: Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged.

June 12 1798   Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch.

June 12 1830  Beginning of the Invasion of Algiers: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.

June 12 1864   American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.

June 12 1940   World War II: Thirteen thousand British and French troops surrender to Major General Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.

June 12 1944   World War II: Operation Overlord: American paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division secure the town of Carentan, Normandy, France.

 June 12 1982: British destroyer HMS Glamorgan badly damaged by a Argentine missile attack during the Falklamds conflict.