Today in Military History May 11

May 11 1560 – Battle of Djerba (Mediterranean Sea) (Naval) https://amzn.to/3o69iLD
May 11 1571 – Japanese daimyo Niwa Nagashige born https://amzn.to/33xl7B5
May 11 1745 – Battle of Fontenoy (War of the Austrian Succession) https://amzn.to/3eCZDJ8
May 11 1862 – CSS Merrimack scuttled (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/3o7lgEy
May 11 1864 – Battle of Yellow Tavern; J.E.B. Stuart shot (US Civil War) https://amzn.to/3tAHaRP
May 11 1888 – US Admiral Willis Augustus Lee born https://amzn.to/2RMBtCZ
May 11 1898 – Second Battle of Cardenas; Battle of Cienfuegos (Spanish-American War) (Naval) https://amzn.to/3uG7JGL
May 11 1905 – Mauritian espionage agent Lise de Baissac born https://amzn.to/3eCIJL1
May 11 1940 – Eben Emael is taken by Germans; Battle of the Grebbeberg begins (WWII) https://amzn.to/3eBfQ1G
May 11 1941 – Allied Operation Josephine B begins (WWII) https://amzn.to/3wbE0G7
May 11 1943 – Battle of Attu begins (WWII) https://amzn.to/33yXsjx
May 11 1945 – Battle of West Henan-North Hubei ends (Second Sino-Japanese War); Date of Action for which Robert J. Archer received the Navy Cross (WWII) https://amzn.to/3tByVF1
May 11 1950 – Battle of Dongshan Island (Chinese Civil War) https://amzn.to/3tDluEL
May 11 1967 – Operations Malheur I and II begin (Vietnam War) https://amzn.to/3o9Mdrb
May 11 2000 – Ambush in Ingushetia (Second Chechen War) https://amzn.to/3uRiBSl

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