This day in military history..

Mar 12
538 Siege of Rome ends
1550 Battle of Penco
1704 3 R.N. ships capture 3 Spanish ships
1811 Battle of Redinha
1864 Red River Campaign starts when 13 Ironclads, 7 gunboats, Auxilaries & 27,000 Union troops enter the Red River
1916 A French airship sinks British Sub D3
1938 Germany annexes Austria
 
Mar 13
624 Battle of Badr
1560 Spain occupies Tripoli
1811 naval Battle of Lissa
1862 Union troops occupy Point Pleasant, Mo capturing $1 million in CS supplys.
1884 Siege of Khartoum begins
1895 1st US Navy contract for modern sub issued to John Holland Torpedo Boat Co.
1900 British occupy Bloemfontein
1940 Soviet-Finnish Winter War ends
1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu begins
 
Mar 14
1590 Battle of Ivy
1653 naval Battle of Leghorn
1757 Admiral Sir John Byng executed
1780 Spanish capture Ft. Charlotte, Mobile, Ala.
1782 Battle of Wuchale
1795 naval Battle of Genoa
1862 Union troops capture New Madrid, Mo & New Bern, N.C.
1863 US Navy Squardon tries to run the batteries @ Port Hudson at night. USS Hartford & Albatros make it past but 4 others are forced to turn back. USS Mississippi runs aground under the guns of 3 batteries.
1864 Red River Campaign: Union troops capture Ft. DeRussy near Simsport, La
1915 German Light Cruiser SMS Dresden is scuttled to avoid capture
1945 1st use of Grand Slam bomb by RAF
1951 UN troops recapture Seoul
1978 Israel invades Lebanon
 
Mar 15
933 Battle of Riade
1311 Battle of Halmyros
1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse
1863 Port Hudson: The crew of USS Mississippi set her on fire & abandon ship. At 0300 she floats off the bank & drifts ablaze through the Federal fleet, exploding down river.
1864 Red River Campaign: Federal fleet arrives @ Alexandria
1889 Tropical system hits Samoa wrecking USS Trenton, Vandalia & Nipsic & SMS Adler, Olga & Eber
1916 US troops enter Mexico in persuit of Pancho Villa
1939 Germany occupys Czecholslovakia
1943 3rd Battle of Kharkov
1945 Red Army begins an offensive in Upper Silesia
 
Mar 16
597 B.C. Babylonians capture Jerusalem
1244 Siege of Montsegur ends
1322 Battle of Boroughbridge
1781 Battle of Cape Henry
1782 Spanish capture Roatan Island
1801 HMS Invincible wrecked on Hasborough Sands, 400 killed
1802 US Army Corp of Engineers est.
1812 Siege of Badajoz begins
1865 Battle of Averasborough
1911 Hulk of USS Maine sunk @ sea off Cuba
1915 Gallipoli Campaign: Dardanelles: HMS Inflexible & Irresistable sunk by mines
1818 2nd Battle of Cancha Rayada
1968 My Lai Massacre
 
Mar 17
45 B.C. Battle of Munda
1776 Siege of Boston ends, British evacuate Boston
1800 The R.N.'s 1st 100 gun Ship-of-the-Line HMS Queen Charlotte burns & eventually explodes killing apx 700
1860 1st Taranaki War begins in New Zealand
1939 Battle of Nanchang begins
1945 1st flight B-45
1988 Battle of Afabet begins
 
Mar 18
1241 Battle of Clmielnik
1865 Battle of Bentonville, N.C. begins
1915 A British/French fleet of 18 Battleships, plus Cruisers, Destroyers & Minesweepers try to force their way through the Dardanelles. After battering outlaying Turkish forts they run into a new minefield. Battleships HMS Ocean, Irresistable & French Bouvet are sunk & HMS Inflexible & French Sufferen & Gaulois are damaged, the fleet turns back.
1945 US Carriers raid Kyushu
2002 Operation Anaconda ends
 
Mar 19
1279 naval Battle of Yamen
1861 1st Taranaki war ends
1863 USS Hartford & Albatross run the batteries @ Grand Gulf & take blocking positions south of Vicksburg. S.S. Georgiana is destroyed running the blockade with a muntions cargo worth a million dollars. The ship was designed as a warship, but was unarmed. Probably would have been converted into a Cruiser in port.
1941 99th Persuit squadron(Tuskeegee Airmen) activated
1944 Germany occupies Hungary
1945 USS Franklin severly damaged by Kamakaze, 725 killed
1982 Argentinians land on South Georgia
2003 Operation Iraqi Freedom begins
2011 Foriegn intervention in Libya begins
 
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Mar 20
1801 British capture St. Bartholomew island
1863 Grant's latest attempt to bypass Vicksburg, by sending gunboats through Steele's Bayou, is turned back @ Rolling Fork
1922 US Navy's 1st Carrier USS Langley is Commissioned
1988 Battle of Afabet ends
 
Mar 21
717 Battle of Vincy
1801 Battle of Alexandria
1807 Alexandria surrenders w/o opposition to the British
1813 HMS Brevdrageren & Blazer capture 2 Danish gunboats
1814 Battle of Arcis-Sur-Aube ends
1864 Red River Campaign: CS Gen. Taylor's force suffers a disaster when his only Cavalry unit, the 2nd La. Cav is captured along with 4 guns of Edgar's Battery
1918 Germans begin Operation Michael
1945 British liberate Mandalay. British bomb Gestapo HQ in Copenhagen. Battle of Drava ends
1968 Battle of Karameh
1982 HMS Endurance is dispatched from Port Stanley to South Georgia
1984 USS Kitty Hawk collides with a Soviet Victor 1 class sub during excersises with the So. Korean Navy
 
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Mar 22
1797 HMS Hermione destroys 3 Spanish Privateers @ Puerto Rico
1801 HMS Andromache & Cleopatra capture a Spanish gunboat
1808 Battle of Zealand Point. 3 British Ships-of-the-Line & 2 sloops destroy the last Danish Ship-of-the-Line
1810 British capture Santa Maura
1813 HMS Havannah captures one French gunboat & destroys another
1849 Battle of Novara begins
1865 Wilson's Raid begins. Gen. Wilson leads the largest cavalry force ever assymbled in N. America into Ala.
1939 Germany takes Memel from Lithuania
1942 2nd naval Battle of Serte
 
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Mar 23
1815 USS Hornet defeats HMS Penguin in 22 minutes, Penguin sinks from damage
1821 Battle of Kalamata
1849 Battle of Novara ends
1862 Jackson's Valley Campaign: 1st Battle of Kernstown
1863 USS Hartford & Albatross bombard CS batteries @ Warrington, Miss.
1939 Slovak-Hungarian War begins
1942 Japanese capture the Andaman Islands
1945 Okinawa Campaign: opening carrier strikes on the Island, Japanese send Kamakazes to counter the attacks
 
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Mar 24
1801 British capture the island of St. Martin
1862 Siege of Ft. Macon, N.C. begins
1863 Union attempt to get at Vicksburg by using Black Bayou is stopped
1878 HMS Eurydice sinks, killing 317
1903 George Dewey Commisioned "Admiral of the Navy"
1927 Nanjing Incident
1944 "The Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III
1999 NATO intervienes in the Kosovo War with air raids.
 
Mar 25
1863 Two US Navy Rams withdrawing from Black Bayou are attacked by CS Field Artillery, USS Lancaster is destroyed & USS Switzerland is damaged
1865 Battle of Ft. Stedman. The last offensive by the Army of Northern Virginia is repulsed
1915 US sub F-4 sinks off Hawaii
1958 1st flight AVRO Canada Arrow
1982 Argentine Marines land on South Georgia & Argentine warships are sent to intercept HMS Endurance.
 
26th March 1945
My uncle John was murdered by Japanese guards on the Sandekan death march. He was 22 years old.

Rest in Peace Uncle John, you will never be forgotten.
 
BritinAfrica said:
26th March 1945
My uncle John was murdered by Japanese guards on the Sandekan death march. He was 22 years old.

Rest in Peace Uncle John, you will never be forgotten.
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R.I.P:salute2:
Mar 26
1813 HMS Havannah captures 5 armed & 5 unarmed French ships
1913 Bulgarians capture Adrianople
1917 1st Battle of Gaza
1939 Nationalists begin the final offensive against Spanish Republican forces
1943 Battle of the Komandorski Islands
1945 Battle of Iwo Jima ends
1966 Vietnam: Opaeration Jackstay begins
1968 Operation Bold Dragon III begins
2010 N. Korean sub sinks S. Korean Corvette Cheonan
 
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