This day in military history..

Oct 25
1147 2nd Battle of Darylaemand Ottomans inflict 90% casulties on German Crusaders
1415 Battle of Agincourt
1747 2nd naval Battle of Cape Finisterre
1813 Battle of Chateauguay
1854 Battle of Balaklava "Charge of the Light Brigade"
1861 Construction of USS Monitor begins
1864 Battle of Mine Creek, Mo
1944 Submarine USS Tang sunk by malfuntioning torpedo
 
Oct 26
1597 naval Battle of Myeongnyand 13 Korean ships defeat 166 Japanese ship fleet, destroying 31 & damaging many others
1912 Thessaloiki & Skopje captured from Ottomans
1917 Brazil declares War on Central Powers
1940 1st flight P-51
1942 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. USS Hornet sunk, Enterprise damaged
1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf ends
 
October 26 US Naval History
1921 - In first successful test, a compressed air, turntable catapult, launches an N-9 seaplane.
1922 - LCDR Godfrey deC. Chevalier makes first landing aboard a carrier (USS Langley) while underway off Cape Henry, Virginia.
1942 - Battle of the Santa Cruz Island. USS Hornet (CV-8) was lost and USS Enterprise (CV-6) was badly damaged during the battle.
1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with Navy carrier and USAAF aircraft attacks on the retreating Japanese ships. U.S. forces sink many Japanese ships including 4 carriers, 3 battleships, 10 cruisers, and 9 destroyers, for a total of 26 capital ships. Afterwards Japanese fleet ceases to exist as an organized fighting fleet.
1944 - Special Task Air Group One makes last attack in month long demonstration of TDR drone missile against Japanese shipping and islands in the Pacific. Of 46 missiles fired, 29 reached their target areas.
1950 - U.S. Amphibious Force Seventh Fleet lands 1st Marine Division at Wonsan, Korea
1963 - USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619) launches first Polaris A-3 missile from a submerged submarine, off Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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George said:
Oct 25
1147 2nd Battle of Darylaemand Ottomans inflict 90% casulties on German Crusaders
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Not wishing to be too picky but the Ottomans weren't around in 1147 - they only came onto the scene in NW Anatolia in around 1280. I think the Turks who defeated the Crusaders would have been Seljuks, forerunners to the Ottomans. The Ottomans were named after their founder, Osman.
 
Cascawriter said:
Not wishing to be too picky but the Ottomans weren't around in 1147 - they only came onto the scene in NW Anatolia in around 1280. I think the Turks who defeated the Crusaders would have been Seljuks, forerunners to the Ottomans. The Ottomans were named after their founder, Osman.
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You're right!

Chukpike said:
October 26 US Naval History

1944 - Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with Navy carrier and USAAF aircraft attacks on the retreating Japanese ships. U.S. forces sink many Japanese ships including 4 carriers, 3 battleships, 10 cruisers, and 9 destroyers, for a total of 26 capital ships. Afterwards Japanese fleet ceases to exist as an organized fighting fleet.

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Cruisers & Destroyers wern't Capitol Ships. Make that 7!

Oct 27
710 Saracins invade Sardinia
1524 French begin siege of Pavia
1644 2nd Battle of Newbury
1863 Union troops capture Brown's Ferry, Al.
1864 CSS Albemarle sunk @ dock, Plymouth, N.C., by Lt. Cushing with a spar torpedo mounted on a steam launch. Petersburg: Union attacks on the Boydton Plank Rd., Darbytown Rd., & @ Fair Oaks are repulsed.
1914 Battleship HMS Audacious sinks in German layed minefield
1962 Cuban Missle Crisis: U-2 shot down, pilot dies.
 
Oct 28
312 Battle of Milvion Bridge
1516 battle of Khan Younis
1531 Battle of Amba Sel, Ethiopia
1628 Siege of La Rachelle ends after 14 months
1664 Royal Marines Est.
1776 Battle of White Plains, N.Y.
1940 Italy invades Greece
 
October 29 US Naval History
1814 - Launching of Fulton I , first American steam powered warship, at New York City. The ship was designed by Robert Fulton.
1980 - USS Parsons (DDG-33) rescues 110 Vietnamese refugees 330 miles south of Saigon.
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Oct 29
936 Byzentines occupy Antioch, Syria
1467 Battle of Brustem
1658 Battle of the Sound. Dutch fleet defeats Swedish fleet during the siege of Copenhagen, Denmark.
1665 Battle of Ambuila, Africa
1859 Spain declares War on Morocco
1861 Port Royal invasion fleet sails from Hampton Roads, Va
1863 Battle of Brown's Ferry, Al. Rare night battle begining @ Midnight & ending before daylight
1864 Gen. Forrest's Cavalry capture Union transport "Muzeppa", carrying 900 pair of shoes, on the Tennessee River.
1918 Sailors of the German High Seas Fleet mutiny
1955 Soviet Battleship Novorossiisk(ex Italian Guilio Cesare) sunk by explosion @ Sevastopol
1956 Israel invades the Sinai
 
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Oct 30
1137 Battle of Rignano
1270 Siege of Tunis ends by agreement
1340 Battle of Rio Salado
1864 Gen. Forrest's Cavalry damage & capture gunboat USS Undine & 2 more transports.
1918 Ottomans sign armistice with The Allies, ending WWI in the Middle East
 
October 30 US Naval History
1775 - Congress authorizes four vessels for the defense of the United Colonies.
1799 - William Balch becomes Navy's first commissioned Chaplain.
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October 31 US Naval History
1941 - German submarine U-552 sinks USS Reuben James (DD- 245), which was escorting Convoy HX 156, with loss of 115 lives. First U.S. ship lost to enemy action in World War II.
1943 - LT Hugh D. O'Neill of VF(N)-75 destroys a Japanese aircraft during night attack off Vella Lavella in first kill by a radar-equipped night fighter of the Pacific Fleet.
1956 - Navy men land in R4D Skytrain on the ice at the South Pole. RADM George Dufek, CAPT Douglas Cordiner, CAPT William Hawkes, LCDR Conrad Shinn, LT John Swadener, AD2 J. P. Strider and AD2 William Cumbie are the first men to stand on the South Pole since Captain Robert F. Scott in 1912.
1956 - USS Burdo (APD-133) and USS Harlan R. Dickson (DD-708) evacuate 166 persons from Haifa, Israel due to the fighting between Egypt and Israel.
1961 - End of Lighter than Air in U.S. Navy with disestablishment of Fleet Airship Wing One and ZP-1 and ZP-3, the last operating units in LTA branch of Naval Aviation, at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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Oct 31
1861 Gen. Winfield Scott 75 resigns as Commander of the US Army.
1917 Battle of Beersheba. Last successfull cavalry charge.
1940 Battle of Britain ends
1954 Algerian revolution begins
1956 Suez Canal Crisis: U.K. & France begin bombing Egypt
 
Nov 1
1805 France invades Austria
1861 USS Sabine sinks in storm off Cape Hatteras
1914 naval Battle of Coronel, Chile. German fleet defeats British fleet. HMS Good Hope & Monmouth lost.
1942 Guadalcanal: Matanikau Offensive begins
1943 Battle of Empress Augusta Bay. Marines land on Bougainville. Carriers Raid Rabaul, New Britain.
1944 British troops land on Walcheren Island, Neth.
 
November 1 US Naval History
1841 - "Mosquito Fleet" commanded by LCDR J. T. McLaughlin, USN, carries 750 Sailors and Marines into the Everglades to fight the Seminole Indians.
1941 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt places Coast Guard under jurisdiction of Department of the Navy for duration of national emergency.
1967 - Operation Coronado IX began in Mekong Delta
1979 - Beginning of retirement of Polaris A-3 program begins with removal of missiles from USS Abraham Lincoln. Last Polaris missile removed in February 1982.
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Nov 2
1864 The armed transport "Vixen", captured a few days earlier by Gen. Forrest's Cavalry, is run ashore to prevent recapture by Federal gunboats.
1899 2nd Boer War: Boers begin the 118 day Siege of British held Ladysmith, So. Africa
1914 Russia declares War on the Ottomans
1947 Only flight of the Hughes H-4 flying boat (Spruce Goose)
 
November 3 US Naval History
1853 - USS Constitution seizes suspected slaver H. N. Gambrill.
1931 - Dirigible USS Los Angeles makes 10 hour flight out of NAS Lakehurst, NJ, carrying 207 persons, establishing a new record for the number of passengers carried into the air by a single craft.
1943 - Battleship Oklahoma, sunk at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, is refloated.
1956 - USS Cambria (APA-36) removes 24 members of United Nations Truce Commission team from the Gaza Strip.
1956 - USS Chilton (APA-38), USS Thuban (AKA-19), and USS Fort Snelling (LSD-30) evacuate more than 1,500 U.S. and foreign nationals from Egypt and Israel because of the fighting.
1961 - After Hurricane Hattie, helicopters from USS Antietam begin relief operations at British Honduras providing medical personnel, medical supplies, general supplies, and water.
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Nov 3
1468 Liege sacked by Burgundian troops
1783 Continental Army disbanded
1812 Battle of Vyazma
1864 Gunboat Undine fights off 3 US Navy gunboats
1867 Battle of Mentana
1918 Austria-Hungary signs armistice with the Allies
1942 guadalcanal: Battle of Koli Point begins
1967 Vietnam:Battle of Dak To begins
 
Nov 4
1429 Joan of Arc captures Saint-Pierre-le-Moutir
1579 Spain captures Antwerp
1791 Battle of the Wabash Western Confederation Indians defeat US troops
1861 Port Royal invasion force arrives off Port Royal, S.C.
1864 Gunboat Undine burned to prevent recapture, Forrest's Cavalry shell the huge Union supply base @ Johnsonville, Tn causing millions in damage.
1942 2nd Battle of El Alamein
1956 Soviet troops enter Hungary to crush the revolution
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis begins
 
November 4 US Naval History
1967 - Landing craft from USS Navarro (APA-215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf.
1971 - USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in first surface launch of Poseidon missile.
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November 5 US Naval History
1775 - Commodore Esek Hopkins appointed to Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy.
1915 - In AB-2 flying boat, LCDR Henry C. Mustin makes first underway catapult launch from a ship, USS North Carolina, atPensacola Bay, FL.
1917 - German submarine torpedoes USS Alcedo off French coast.
1923 - Tests designed to prove the feasibility of launching a small seaplane from a submarine occur at Hampton Roads Naval Base. A Martin MS-1, stored disassembled in a tank on board USS S-1, was removed and assembled. Then the submarine submerged allowing the plane to float free and take off.
1944 - TF 38 (Vice Admiral John S. McCain) begins 2 days of carrier strikes on Luzon, Philippines.
1945 - Ensign Jake C. West (VF-41) makes first jet landing on board a carrier, USS Wake Island (CVE-65) .
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