Today in Military History May 5

Dictionary of Wars

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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