This day in military history..

Feb 24
1739 Battle of Karnal Persians defeat Indians
1862 Union troops capture Nashville, Tn.
1863 After ramming attacks by CSS Cotton, USS Queen of the West is run aground & abandond.
 
feb 25
1836 Colt patents his revolver
1933 USS Ranger, the first US Aircraft carrier to be designed as such, is launched.
1991 Scud missle hits US barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia killing 28.
 
This Day in US Naval History - Feb. 26

1811 - Congress authorizes the first naval hospital.
1944 - Sue Sophia Dauser, superintendent of the Navy's Nurse Corps, is the first woman in the Navy promoted to the rank of captain.
1991 - Navy A-6Es of USS Ranger's (CVA 61) Attack Squadron 155 and Marine aircraft bomb Iraqi troops fleeing Kuwait City to Basra in convoys after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein announces a withdrawal from Kuwait.
 
Feb 26
1266 Battle of Benevento
1815 Napoleon escapes from Elba
1863 US Navy floats a mock Ironclad down the Mississippi River near Vicksburg & panic the Confederates into burning the recently captured USS Indianola.
1935 Lufwaffe reformed
 
Feb 27
1617 Treaty of Stolbovo ends the Ingrian War, Sweden shuts Russia out of the Baltic Sea
1864 1st Union POWs arrive @ Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Ga.
1942 Battle of the Java Sea
 
This Day in US Naval History - Feb. 27

1861 - Congress approves the construction of seven steam sloops.
1928 - A packtrain escorted by 35 Marines is ambushed by 600 Sandinastas near Bromaderos, Nicaragua. The Marines fight off the repeated attacks and are relieved the next day.
1942 - During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied naval force attacks a Japanese invasion convoy.
 
Feb 28
1710 Battle of Helsingborg
1844 An experimental wrought iron cannon explodes on USS Princeton, killing the Secretaries of War & Navy.
1863 USS Montauk destroys CSS Nashville
1864 Union Gen. Judson Kilpatrick sets out on a planned Raid on Richmond, Va
1942 Battle of Sunda Strait Japanese sink USS Houston (loses 693 men) & HMAS Perth (loses 375 men)
1991 1st Gulf War ends
1998 1st flight of umanned RQ-4 Global Hawk
 
This Day in Naval History - Feb. 28


1844 - The Peacemaker, an experimental 14-inch gun, explodes aboard USS Princeton.
1893 - USS Indiana (BB 1), the first true battleship in the U.S. Navy, is launched.
1959 - USS Strong (DD 758) rescues 13 Arab fishermen from Bahrain when their fishing boats flounder in a storm.
1980 - The blue crew of USS Francis Scott Key (SSBN 657) launches four Trident I (C-4) missiles in the first C-4 operational test.
 
Mar 1
1864 Kilpatrick arrives @ Richmond, but is stopped by defenses & chased off by Cavalry detached from the Army of Northern Virginia.
1870 Battle of Cerro Cora ends the War of the Triple Alliance
1896 Battle of Adowa Ethiopians defeat Italians ending 1st Ethiopian-Italian War
1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis
1943 Opening movements leading to the Battle of the Bismark Sea
2002 Afghanistan Operation Anaconda begins
 
US Navy History
March 1
1942 - U-656 becomes the first German submarine of World War II to be sunk by Naval air (VP-82).
1954 - 1st of 6 detonations, Operation Castle nuclear test.
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Mar 2
1801 Spain declares War on Portugal
1862 Confederates evacuate Columbus, Ky.
1865 Battle of Waynesborough, Va
1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins. Battle was a series of air attacks on a Japanese convoy.
 
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March 2
1859 - Launch of Saginaw at Mare Island, first Navy ship built on West Coast of U.S.
1867 - Birthday of Civil Engineer Corps.
1899 - Act of Congress creates the rank Admiral of the Navy for George Dewey.
1973 - Women begin pilot training to U.S. Navy.
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Mar 3
1575 Battle of Tukaroi Mughals defeat Bengalis
1776 Continental Marines achieve 1st victory capturing Ft. Montague, near Nassau, the Bahamas
1857 2nd Opium War begins with France & England declaring War on China
1918 Treary of Brest-Litovsk ends Russian participation in WW1
1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea continues
1945 US & Filipino troops enter Manila
1971 Indo-Pakistani War begins
 
This Day in US Naval History - March 03


1776 - The first amphibious landing operation takes place. A Continental naval squadron, under Commodore Esek Hopkins, lands Sailors and Marines, commanded by Capt. Samuel Nicholas, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas. They capture urgently-needed ordnance and gunpowder.
1871 - The Navy Medical Corps is established.
1883 - Congress authorizes four modern ships of steel, "A, B, C, D Ships"; three cruisers, Atlanta, Boston and Chicago, and dispatch boat Dolphin.
1915 - The Office of Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) is established.
1915 - Congress creates the Federal Naval Reserve. Under it, the Naval Reserve Force is built up.
1960 - USS Sargo (SSN 583) returns to Hawaii from an Arctic cruise of 11,000 miles - 6,003 miles under the polar ice.
 
Mar 4
1238 Battle of Sit River
1665 England declares War on the Netherlands, starting the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War
1776 Americans capture Dorchester Heights overlooking Boston, Mass. Continental Marines capture Nassau, Bahamas
1793 French capture Geetruidberg, Netherlands
1813 Russians capture Berlin from the French
1814 US defeat British @ Battle of Longwoods, Ontario, Canada
1863 Confederates defeats Federals @ Spring Hill, Tn
1970 French submarine Eurydice sunk by underwater explosion
 
This Day in US Naval History - March 04


1911 - The first Naval Appropriations Act that included funds for naval aviation is approved by Congress.
1925 - Congress authorizes restoration of USS Constitution.
1947 - Operation Highjump, air operations in Antarctica, ends.
1963 - A Navy Hercules aircraft completes a 12-day rescue operation of a critically-ill Danish seaman from a Danish freighter off the coast of Antarctica.
 
March 5
US Navy History

1942 - Name "Seabees" and insignia officially authorized
1943 - USS Bogue begins first anti-submarine operations by escort carrier.
1960 - USS Newport News (CA-148) and personnel from Port Lyautey complete emergency relief operatons at Agadir, Morocco after earthquake on 29 February


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Mar 5
1912 Italy becomes the 1st Counrty io use airships for military purposes, doing recon behind Turkish lines
1943 1st flight of Gloster Meteor
 
Mar 6
1836 Mexican troops capture the Alamo in San Antonio, Tx & execute surviving defenders
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark. 1st day
1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Fla. Confederate defenders stop a Union Raid on Tallahassee, leaving it to be the only Confederate State Capitol east of the Mississippi River to go uncaptured during the War.
 
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March 6
1822 - USS Enterprise captures four pirate ships in Gulf of Mexico
1862 - USS Monitor departed New York for Hampton Roads, VA
1942 - U.S. Cruisers and destroyers bombard Vila and Munda, Solomon Islands, sinking 2 Japanese destroyers
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