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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