This day in military history..

December 13
1775 - Continental Congress provides for the construction of 5 ships of 32 guns, 5 ships of 28 guns, and 3 ships of 24 guns
1941 - Commander William A. Sullivan designated the first Supervisor of Salvage with office in New York City.
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Dec 15
533 Battle of Ticameran Byzentines defeat Vandals
1256 Hulagu Khan destroys Alamat
1467 Stephen III of Moldovia defeats Matthias Corvinus @ Battle of Baia
1864 Battle of Nashville, Tn (1st day)
1914 Sebia recaptures Belgrade
 
Dec 16
1598 Battle of Noryang Point Chinese/Korean fleet defeat Japan
1761 Russians take Prussian fortress of Kolobrzes
1838 Battle of Blood River Voortrekkers ve Zulu
1864 Battle of Nashville, Tn 2nd day CS Army of Tennessee shattered
1907 US Great White Fleet starts trip around the world
1914 German Battleships shell Scarborough & Hartlespool, England
1944 Germans start the Ardennes Offensive
 
Dec 17
546 Ostrogoths take Rome by bribing Byzentine garrison.
1718 England declares War on Spain
1788 Russia takes Ochkov on the Black Sea
1939 Graff Spee scuttled of Montevideo
1944 Argonne Offensive-Malmady Massacre
1950 F-86 flies its first mission in Korea
1961 India siezes Goa from Portugal
 
Dec 18
218 B.C. Battle of trebia Hannibal's Cartheginians defeat Romans
1916 Battle of Verdun ends
1944 Large B-29 airstike on Japanese supply base @ Hankow, China
1961 Indonesia invades Netherlands New Guinea
1972 Operation Linebacker II B-52 raids on North Vietnam
 
Dec 19
1777 Continental Army goes into winter quarters @ Valley Forge, Pa.
1793 Napoleon wins his first victory recapturing Toulon from British/Spanish forces.
1795 France & Austria sign an armistice.
 
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1862 Union supply base @ Holly Springs, Miss captured, 1,000 men & over $1 million in supplys.
1864 Confederate Army evacuates Savannah, Ga
1941 Kunming China, The American Volunteer Group, A.K.A. The Flying Tigers, has its 1st fight.
1942 Japanese bomb Calcutta, India.
 
Dec 21
1140 Conrad III besieges Weinsberg
1598 Battle of Curalaba Chileans defeat Spanish troops
1864 CSS Savannah blown up by crew as Sherman takes control of Savannah, Ga
1883 1st permanent Canadian Infantry & cavalry regiments formed.
 
Dec 26
1481 Battle of Westbrook Holland defeats troops from Utrecht
1776 Battle of Trenton, NJ
1793 Battle of Geisberg French defeat Austrians
1806 Battles of Pultusk & Golymin Russians hold French
1943 German Battleship Scharnhorst sunk by British Cruisers off Norway
1944 3rd Army breaks German siege of Bastogne.
 
Dec 27
1814 USS Carolina is sunk by British field artillery in the Missisippi River(preliminary to the Battle of New Orleans).
1922 Japan launches Hosho, 1st purpose built Aircraft Carrier.
 
Dec 28
1862 Sherman begins preliminary probes of CS defenses @ Chickasaw Bayou, Miss
1942 Japanese air raid on Calcutta, India
 
Dec 29
1778 British capture Savannah, Ga
1813 British burn Buffalo, NY
1860 HMS Warrior launched, 1st Ironclad warship
1862 Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Miss. (main battle)
1890 Wounded Knee Massacre
1934 Japan renounces the Washington & London Naval Treaties
 
Dec 30
1460 Battle of Wakefield, War of the Roses
1861 Trent Affair ends with the release of Confederate envoys
1862 With help of Navy mortar boats, Sherman makes 1 last unsucsessfull attack @ Chickasaw Bayou, Miss.
1972 Operation Linebacker II B-52 air raids on North Vietnam ends
 
Dec 31
1775 Battle of Quebec
1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tn. 1st day. USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, NC
 
Jan 1
1861 Diaz takes Mexico City
1862 Near Pensacola. Batteries @ Union held Ft. Pickens open fire @ 2:30 P.M. on the Confederate steamer Neffie that had just arrived @ the Pensacola Navy Yard, setting off a 15 hour exchange of fire between Ft Pickens & Confederate held Ft. Barrancas & batteries @ the P.N.Y.
1863 Battle of Murfreesboro continues, but with manuvers only, no real fighting.
Confederates retake Galveston, Tx, capturing or destroying 4 Navy ships & capturing 600 infantry.
1951 North Korean & Chinese troops break through U.N. lines.
1962 US Navy SEALS formed
 
January 1
1950 - Mary T. Sproul commissioned as first female doctor in Navy
1959 - U.S. Naval Observatory introduces system of uniform atomic time using cesium beam atomic oscillators. This measurement has been adopted as standard by the International Committee on Weights and Measures.
1962 - Navy SEAL teams established
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Jan 2
366 Alamanni cross the Rhine, invading the Roman Empire.
1492 Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain, falls to Spanish forces.
1777 Battle of Assunpink Creek Continental Army holds of British attack near Trenton, NJ
1862 Near Pensacola, Fl US & CS batteries continue to exchange fire in the early hours. Incendiary rounds are fired from Ft. Pickens into the Pensacola Navy Yard, burning most of the buildings, plus the small towns of Woolsley & Warrington. Firing ends around daylight.
Battle of Murfreesboro, Tn 2nd day of actuall fighting.
1905 Russians surrender Port Arthur to the Japanese
1942 Manila falls to the Japanese.
 
Jan 4
46 B.C. Battle of Ruspina Julius Ceasar defeats Titus Labienus.
871 Battle of Reading Invading Danes defeat Ethelred of Wessex.
1762 England declares War on Spain & Naples.
1847 1st US Govt purchase of Colt revolvers.
1878 Sophia liberated from Ottoman rule.
1951 North Korean & chinese forces capture Soul, S. Korea
1989 US Navy fighters shoot down 2 Libyan fighters
 
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