This day in military history..

feb 19
197 Battle of Lugdunum
1649 2nd Battle of Guararapes
1865 Battle of Wilmington begins
1915 Gallipoli Campaign: Opening naval bombardment of Ottoman Forts
1942 Darwin Air Raid
1943 Battle of Kasserine Pass begins
1945 Battle of Iwo Jima begins
 
Feb 20
1339 Battle of Parabiagio begins
1653 naval Battle of Portland
1813 Battle of Salta
1815 USS Constitution defeats HMS Cyane & Levant in a 2 vs 1 battle
1862 Confederates evacuate Columbus, Ky
1864 Battle of Olustee
1917 Ammunition ship explodes @ Archangelesk, killing apx 1,500
1942 Butch O'Hare becomes the US Navy's 1st Ace of WWII
1944 Week long series of bombing raids on Germany known as the "Big Week" begin.
1959 AVRO-Canada Arrow cancelled
 
Feg 21
1543 Battle of Wayna Daga
1808 Russia invades Sweden
1862 Battle of Valverde, New Mexico Territory
1865 Battle of Wilmington ends as CS Army evacuates the City
1916 Battle of Verdun begins
1945 Kamakazes damage USS Saratoga & sink USS Bismarck Sea
 
Feb 22
1744 naval Battle of Toulon
1797 French invade Wales @ Fishguard
1799 HMS Espoir captures Spanish ship
1815 Battle of Fort Peter, Ga
1847 Battle of Buena Vista
1864 Forrest's Cavalry defeats Sooy Smith's Cavalry
1865 Union troops occupy Wilmington
1909 Great White Fleet returns to the US from its around the World voyage
1917 Germans torpedo 7 neutral Dutch ships
1942 Mcarthur ordered out of the Phillipines
1945 British capture Ramree Island, Burma
1958 Indonesian Air Force bombs Padang, Sumatra & Menado, Celebes
 
Feb 23
1778 Baron Von Stuben arrives in Valley Forge to train the Continintal Army
1814 HMS Epervier captures the Privateer Alfred
1836 Battle of the Alamo begins
1847 Battle of Buena Vista ends
1900 Battle of Hart's Hill. Guantonomo leased by the US from Cuba in Perpetuity
1918 Battle of Narva
1942 Japanese sub shells a refinery in Ellwood, Ca.
1944 carrier raids in the Marianas
1945 Manilla Liberated. Poznan captured by the Red Army. Iwo Jima flag raising on Mt. Suribachi
1991 Desert Storm begins
 
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Feb 26
1266 Battle of Benevento
1804 Siege of Ft. Amsterdam, Willemsted, ends
1813 British capture Ponza
1815 HMS St. Lawrence captured by U.S. Privateer "Chassuer"
1852 HMS Birkenhead sinks, killing 458
1863 In a ruse a fake Ironclad is floated down the Miss. River @ night, causing the Confederates to burn the USS Indianola, captured the day before
1916 Germans sink French "Provence II" killing 930
1918 USCG Cutter Tampa, escorting a Convoy off Wales, mysteriously explodes & sinks with all hands, 115 crew & 16 passengers.
1942 Gneisenau damaged by a bomb
1993 World Trade Center bombing
 
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Feb 28
1362 naval Battle of Helsingborg
1653 naval Battle of Portland begins
1710 Battle of Helsingborg
1844 Experimental wrought iron 14" gun explodes on USS Princeton, killing the Sec of the Navy, Sec. of State, & the ship's Captain amoungst others. Pres. Tyler was not wounded.
1863 Monitor USS Montauk sinks CS steamer Nashville, unclear if she was still an armed warship or a Govt owned blockade runner @ the time
1893 USS Indiana, 1st US Battleship, launched
1942 Battle of the Sunda Strait
1900 Siege of Ladysmith ends
1991 Gulf war 1 ends
 
Mar 1
1709 naval Battle of The Lizard
1864 Richmond Raid: Kilpatrick & Dahlgren find Richmond well defended & are repulsed.
1870 Battle of Cerro Cora
1896 Battle of Adowa
1901 Australian Army formed
1921 Sailors Mutiny @ Kronstadt
1939 Ammo dump explodes @ Osaka
1940 German Blockade Runner Wangoni evades sub HMS Triton
1941 Bulgaria joins The Axis
1942 2nd Battle of the Java Sea. U-578 sinks USS Jacob Jones. US Naval Air sinks its 1st U Boat, U-656.
2002 US invades Afghanistan
 
Mar 2
1476 Battle of Grandson
1776 Batte of Yamacraw Bluff begins
1808 British capture the Carribean Island of Marie-Galante
1811 naval Battle of San Nicolas
1862 Confederates evecuate fortifications @ Columbus, Ky
1864 Richmond Raid: Dahlgren's group, seperate from Kilpatrick's group, is ambushed & Dahlgren is killed. On his body is found plans to allegedly kill Davis, his Cabinet & burn Richmond.
1865 Battle of Waynesboro, Va
1899 US Navy creates Rank of "Admiral of the Navy" for George Dewey
1915 2nd round of bombardment of Turkish forts in the Dardanelles begins
1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea
1949 A B-50 completes the 1st around the World non-stop flight
1965 Operation Rolling Thunder begins
 
Mar 3
1575 Battle of Tukuroi
1627 Dutch capture more than 30 Portugese merchantmen in port @ Salvador, Brazil
1776 Battle of Nassau begins. US Continental Marines make their 1st amphibious landing
1779 Battle of Blair Creek, Ga
1801 naval Battle of West Kay
1863 US Navy Monitors bombard Ft. McAlister
1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ends WWI on the Eastern front
1942 Japanese air raid on Broome, Australia
1945 Manila liberated
 
Mar 5
1279 Battle of Aizkraukle
1811 Battle of Barrosa
1865 Gunboat CSS Spray burned to prevent capture on the St. Marks River, Fla.
1906 Battle of Bud Dajo
1912 1st use of an Airship for a military purpose, Italians reconed Turkish lines
1943 USS Bogue conducts 1st anti-sub ops by a CVE. 1st flight Gloster Meteor
1944 Red Army starts the Umon-Botosani Offensive
 
Mar 6
1822 USS Enterprise captures 4 Pirate ships in the Gulf of Mexico
1836 Battle of the Alamo ends
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge begins
1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Fla
1918 USS Cyclops disappears in the Burmuda Triangle
1942 US Destroyers shell Munda & sink 2 Japanese Destroyers
1945 US troops captures Cologne
 
Mar 7
1665 HMS London blows up in the Thames, 300 killed
1796 British take the Banda Isles
1799 Napoleon captures Jaffa
1814 US Privateer Mars destroyed by R.N. Frigates off Sandy Hook. Battle of Craonne.
1827 Brazilian Marines attack Argentine base @ Carmen de Patagones
1902 Battle of Tweebosch
1936 Germany reoccupies The Rhineland
1944 Japanese begin an offensive in Burma
1945 US troops capture the Ludendorff Bridge
1951 Operation Ripper begins
1960 USS Kearsarge resues 4 Soviet soldiers adrift for weeks on a disabled landing craft.
1968 Operation Coronado XII begins. Operation Truong Cong Binh begins.
 
Mar 8
1722 Battle of Gulnabad
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge ends. naval Battle of Hampton Roads begins
1865 Battle of Kinston begins
1916 Battle of Dujaila
1942 Dutch Surrender on Java
1958 USS Wisconsin decommissioned, 1st time the US Navy is w/o Battleships since 1895
1965 US Marines land @ Danang
 
Mar 9
1230 Battle of klokotnitsa
1741 Battle of Cartegena de Indies begins
1778 HMS Ariadne & Cerces captures USS Alfred
1796 R.N. cutting out party recapures & removes HMS Nemisis, & French Navy ships Sardine & Postillon from the Port of Tunis
1811 Battle of Tacuari
1847 Siege of Vera Cruz begins with the US Navy's 1st large scale amphibious assault
1862 Battle of Hampton Roads ends with the 1st combat between Ironclads
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads
1916 Pancho Villa's Columbus, N.M. Raid
1944 Japanese begin a counteroffensive on Bougainville
1974 Last WWII Japanese soldier in the Phillipines surrenders
 
Mar 10
241 B.C. Battle of the Aegates Islands
289 Romans take Carthage
1607 Battle of Gol
1783 USS Alliance captures HMS Sybil
1814 Battle of Laon ends
1830 KNIL Royal Netherlands East India Army formed
1831 French Foriegn Legion formed
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, Va ends in the wee hours. Battle of Kinston, N.C. ends
1948 1st operational use of jets on board a Carrier, USS Boxer
 
Mar 11
1387 Battle of Castagnaro
1865 Union troops capture Fayetteville, N.C.
1895 Spanish cruiser Riena Regenta sinks @ Gibraltar, 400 killed
1917 British capture Baghdad
1941 Lend-Lease authorised
1942 Japanese invade Sumatra
1945 Japanese begin Kamakaze air raids on Ulithi, Operation Tan No. 2. US Navy landing craft ferry troops across the Rhine @ Bad Neuenaw.
1965 Vietnam: Operation Market Time patrols begin
 
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