Today in Military History May 7

Today in Military History May 7

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May 7 1592 – Battle of Okpo ends (Imjin War) (Naval) https://amzn.to/3bb5fbE
May 7 1862 – Battle of West Point (also Barhamsville or Eltham’s Landing) (US Civil War)
May 7 1864 – Sherman’s March on Atlanta begins; Battle of Rocky Face Ridge begins; Battle of Port Walthall Junction ends (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/3xT566k

May 7 1937 – German Condor Legion Fighter Group arrives in Spain

May 7 1941 – German weather ship München captured near Iceland; Battle of South Shanxi begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) https://amzn.to/3xUARvS
May 7 1943 – Allies take Tunis and Bizerta; Japan takes Buthidaung (WWII) https://amzn.to/3f5giEr
May 7 1950 – Battle of Yiwu ends (Chinese Civil War) https://amzn.to/3f0HZhz
May 7 1954 – Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends (First Indochina War) https://amzn.to/3uyNbQk
May 7 1970 – Medal of Honor recipient Kenneth M. Kays actions occur this day
May 7 1975 – The official end of the “Vietnam Era” per US law https://amzn.to/2R4MDDl
May 7 2006 – Second Battle of Mogadishu begins (Somali Civil War)
May 7 2009 – Battle of Am Dam begins (Civil War in Chad)
May 7 2011 – Battle of Kandahar begins (War in Afghanistan) https://amzn.to/3uGqJFb

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Today in Military History May 6

Today in Military History May 6

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May 6 1856 Explorer and US Navy Officer Robert Edwin Perry born https://amzn.to/3eoPtf7

May 6 1527 – Sack of Rome (War of the League of Cognac)

May 6 1537 – Siege of Cuzco begins (Spanish conquest of Peru)

May 6 1592 – Battle of Okpo begins (Imjin War) (Naval) https://amzn.to/2PTLg9R

May 6 1622 – Battle of Wimpfen (Thirty Years’ War) https://amzn.to/3f21Xs6

May 6 1646 – Newark taken (English Civil War) https://amzn.to/3uqtJVX

May 6 1757 – Battle of Prague (Seven Years’ War) https://amzn.to/3eXBrAh

May 6 1780 – Battle of Leund’s Ferry (American Revolutionary War) https://amzn.to/3urLMee

May 6 1782 – British Nassau surrenders to Spain (American Revolutionary War)

May 6 1813 – Raid at Georgetown and Fredericktown, MD (War of 1812) https://amzn.to/3nOdHCR

May 6 1814 – Battle of Fort Oswego ends (War of 1812)

May 6 1827 – Battle of Phaleron (Greek War of Independence) https://amzn.to/3xO7uLE

May 6 1861 – State of war between North and South made official (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/3eT8zsZ

May 6 1864 – Battle of the Wilderness ends; Battle of Port Walthall Junction begins (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/33pChAg

May 6 1915 – Second Battle of Krithia begins (WWI) https://amzn.to/3xQkMr4

May 6 1941 – The German Greenock Blitz on Scotland begins; Operation Tiger begins (WWII) (Naval)

May 6 1942 – Surrender at Corregidor (WWII) https://amzn.to/3tqmSu8

May 6 1945 – US forces liberate the Ebensee concentration camp; US forces take Pilsen (WWII) https://amzn.to/3emKsnC

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Today in Military History May 5

Today in Military History May 5

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1800 – Battle of Moerskirch (also Messkirch) (War of the Second Coalition)
1804 – Battle of Suriname (Napoleonic Wars – Suriname)
1811 – Battle of Fuentes de Onoro ends (Peninsular War) https://amzn.to/3nS7TZ6

1813 – Dudley’s Massacre (War of 1812) https://amzn.to/3nOdHCR
1814 – Battle of Fort Oswego begins (War of 1812)
1862 – Battle of Williamsburg, VA; Actions at Lebanon, TN and Dresden, KY (US Civil War); Battle of Puebla (French intervention in Mexico) https://amzn.to/3vKQLak

1864 –Battle of Albemarle Sound (US Civil War Naval); Battle of the Wilderness begins (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/3eT8zsZ

1943 – Soviets take Krymsk and Neberjaisk (WWII) https://amzn.to/33ldnSB

1945 – German forces in Holland, Denmark and north Germany surrender (WWII); Allies take Swinemunde and Peenemunde (WWII); Japanese balloon bomb kills 6 in Oregon (WWII) https://amzn.to/3emKsnC

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