Tuesday 10 August 2021

Today in Military History August 10th

 10th August 955  Battle of Lechfeld.

10th August 991  Battle of Maldon.

10th August 1304 Battle at Zierik Sea.

10th August 1316 Second Battle of Athenry.

10th August 1512 the Battle of Brest.

10th August 1557 Battle of St Quentin.

10th August 1653 The Battle of Scheveningen English Defeat the Dutch fleet.

10th August 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek American Cival war

10th August 1862 Battle of Nueces River.

10th August 1904 Battle of the Yellow Sea.

10th August 1913 2nd Balkan War ends.

10th August 1914 French fall back at Alsace World war 1.

10th August 1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine.

10th August 1942 General Bernard Montgomery appointed commander British 8th Army in North Africa.

10th August 1944 Battle for Guam ends.

10th August 1944 US/French offensive at Alencon

10th August 1953 The French Union withdraws its forces from Operation Camargue against the Viet Minh in central Vietnam.

10th August 1957 US performs nuclear test in Nevada.

10th August 1961 Operation Ranch Hand the spraying of an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of defoliants and herbicides over rural South Vietnam.

10th August 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya.

10th August 1994 Last British troops withdraw from  Hong Kong .


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