This day in military history..

November 15 US Naval History
1882 - LCDR French Chadwick reports to American Legation in London as first Naval Attache.
1942 - Although U.S. lost several ships in Naval Battle of Guadalcanal, Naval Force under Rear Admiral Willlis Lee, USS Washington (BB-56), turns back Japanese transports trying to reinforce Guadalcanal. The Japanese never again try to send large naval forces to Guadalcanal.
1960 - First Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine, USS George Washington (SSBN-598), leaves Charleston, SC, on initial fleet ballistic missile patrol.
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Nov 16
1777 British capture Ft. Washington on Manhattan Island
1805 Battle of Schoingraberg
1864 Sherman's Army begins "The march to the Sea".
 
November 16 US Naval History
1776 - First salute to an American flag (Grand Union flag) flying from Continental Navy ship Andrew Doria, by Dutch fort at St. Eustatius, West Indies.
1856 - Barrier Forts reduction began at Canton China.
1942 - Navy's first Night Fighter squadron (VMF(N)-531) established at Cherry Point, NC.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy on USS Observation Island witnesses launch of Polaris A-2 missile by USS Andrew Jackson (SSBN-619).
1968 - Operation Tran Hung Dao began in Mekong Delta.
1973 - Launch of Skylab 4 under command of LTC Gerald P. Carr, USMC. The missions lasted 84 days and included 1,214 Earth orbits. Recovery by USS New Orleans (LPH-11).
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November 17 US Naval History
1917 - USS Fanning (DD-37) and USS Nicholson (DD-52) sink first enemy submarine, U-58, off Milford Haven, Wales.
1924 - USS Langley, first aircraft carrier, reports for duty.
1941 - Congress amends Neutrality Act to allow U.S. merchant ships to be armed. Navy's Bureau of Navigation directs Navy personnel with Armed Guard training to be assigned for further training before going to Armed Guard Centers for assignment to merchant ships.
1955 - Navy sets up Special Projects Office under Rear Admiral William F. Raborn, USN, to develop a solid propellant ballistic missile for use in submarines.
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Nov 17
1796 Battle of Arcole
1812 Battle of Krasnoi
1862 Army of the Potomac arrives across the river from Fredricksburg
 
Nov 18
1494 French occupy Florence
1803 Battle of Vertieres, Haiti. Last battle of Haitian Revolution
1909 2 US warships sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries, including 2 Americans, are executed
1916 1st Battle of the Somme ends
 
November 18 US Naval History
1890 - USS Maine, first American battleship, is launched.
1922 - CDR Kenneth Whiting in a PT seaplane, makes first catapult launching from aircraft carrier, USS Langley, at anchor in the York River.
1962 - USS Currituck (AV-7) rescues 13 Japanese fishermen from their disabled fishing boat Seiyu Maru, which was damaged in Typhoon Karen.
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Nov 19
1941 HMAS Sydney & the German Raider HSK Kormoran sink each other off Western Australia
1942 Operation Uranus Red Army counterattacks @ Stalingrad
 
Nov 20
1194 Holy Roman Empire conquors Palermo
1700 Battle of Narva
1739 Battle of Porto Bello
1845 Battle of Vuelta de Obligado
1862 Army of Northern Virginia arrives @ Fredricksburg
1917 Battle of Cambrai begins
1940 Hungary joins the Axis
1943 Battle of Tarawa begins
 
November 20 US Naval History
1856 - CDR Andrew H. Foote lands at Canton, China, with 287 Sailors and Marines to stop attacks by Chinese on U.S. military and civilians.
1917 - USS Kanawha, Noma and Wakiva sink German sub off France.
1933 - Navy crew (LCDR Thomas G. W. Settle, USN, and MAJ Chester I. Fordney, USMC) sets a world altitude record in balloon (62,237 ft.) in flight into stratosphere.
1943 - Operation Galvanic, under command of Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance, lands Navy, Marine, and Army forces on Tarawa and Makin.
1962 - President John F. Kennedy lifts the Blockade of Cuba.
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Nov 21
1984 1st Sino-Japanese War: Japan captures Port Arthur
1910 Brazilian Navy suffers a mutiny
1916 Mine sinks Brittanic, sister ship to Titanic
1962 Ceasefire declared in Sino-Indian War
1970 Vietnam: Son Tay Prison Raid. Attempt to rescue POWs ends when commandos arrive & discovered there wasn't any POWs in the camp.
1971 Battle of Garibpar
 
November 21 US Naval History
1918 - U.S. battleships witness surrender of German High Seas fleet at Rosyth, Firth of Forth, Scotland, to U.S. and British fleets.
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Nov 22
845 Battle of Ballon
1718 Royal Navy kills Blackbeard in a battle off North Carolina
1861 Bombardment begins between US Navy ships USS Niagra, Richmond, & Montgomery, & Union held Ft. Pickens vs Confederate held Ft.s Barrancas, McRee & sand batteries @ the Pensacola Navy Yard. USS Richmond is damaged & has to retire to Key West for repairs. Ft. McRee is wrecked.
1864 March to the Sea: Sherman's troops capture Millidgeville, Georgia's Capitol
1940 Greek counterattack against invading Italians captures Korytsa, Albania
 
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November 23 US Naval History
1940 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints Admiral William D. Leahy as U.S. Ambassador to Vichy France to try to prevent the French fleet and naval bases from falling into German hands.
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Nov 23
1248 Castlle takes Seville
1808 Battle of Tudela
1861 The bombardment between Union & Confederate batteries continues through the night. Ft Pickens fires incendiary rounds setting many buildings on fire @ the Pensacola Navy Yard & burning down the villages of Woolsley & Warrington. The bombardment evetually ends after daylight
1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge: In a preliminary move Union troops sieze the Orchard Knob @ the base of the Ridge
1864 Sherman's troops sack Milllidgeville, Ga.
1940 Romania joins the Axis
2010 N. Korea shells S. Korea's Yeonpyeong Islans
 
Nov 24
1429 Siege of La Charite, France begins
1542 Battle of Lottorf
1861 Union troops sieze Tybee Island @ the mouth of the Savannah River, Georgia
1864 Battle of Missionary Ridge: In another preliminary move Union troops capture Lookout Mountain "The Battle above the Clouds" & a hill near the western end of Missionary Ridge.
1943 Escort Carrier USS Liscome Bay torpedoed & sunk by Japanese Sub I-175. Magazine explosion kills a large % of the crew, including an Admiral.
 
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November 24 US Naval History
1852 - Commodore Matthew Perry sails from Norfolk, VA, to negotiate a treaty with Japan for friendship and commerce.
1964 - USS Princeton (LPH-5) completes 7-days of humanitarian relief to South Vietnam which suffered damage from typhoon and floods.
1969 - HS-4 from USS Hornet (CVS-12) recovers Apollo 12's all-Navy crew of astronauts, Commanders Richard Gordon, Charles Conrad, and Alan Bean, after moon landing by Conrad and Bean.
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November 25 US Naval History
1775 - Continental Congress authorizes privateering.
1943 - In Battle of Cape St. George, 5 destroyers of Destroyer Squadron 23 (Captain Arleigh Burke) intercept 5 Japanese destroyers and sink 3 and damage one without suffering any damage.
1961 - Commissioning of USS Enterprise (CVA(N)-65), the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, at Newport News, VA.
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Nov 25
1177 Battle of Montgisard
1491 Siege of Granada (last Moorish stronghold in Spain) begins
1758 British capture Ft. Duquesne
1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge
1917 Battle of Negomano Germans defeat Portugese on the border between Mozambique & Tanyanika
1940 1st flights of DeHavilland Mosquito & Martin B-26
 
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