This day in military history..

April 11
1241 Battle of Muhi
1512 Battle of Ravenna
1544 Battle of Ceresole
1809 naval Battle of the Basque Roads begins
1862 Battle of Ft. Pulaski ends
1865 Mobile Campaign: Confederates evacuate & blow up Battery Huger & Battery Tracy, the last defences on the east side of Mobile.
1900 US Navy accepts its 1st modern sub, USS Holland
1940 Sub HMS Spearfish torpedoes/damages Armored Ship Lutzow
1945 Air attacks off Okinawa damages USS Missouri, Enterprise, Kidd, Samuel S Miles, Essex, Hale, Black, & Hank
1952 Battle of Nanri Island begins
1968 Soviet sub K-129 sinks
 
April 12
1782 naval Battle of the Saintes ends. naval Battle of Providien.
1861 Confederate bombardment of Ft. Sumter begins, US Civil War begins
1862 The Great Locomotive Chase
1863 Battle of the Teche River begins
1864 Ft. Pillow Massacre
1865 CS Army of Mobile evacuates Mobile, Union troops occupy Mobile & Montgomery
1935 1st flight Bristol Blenheim
1970 Soviet sun K-8(or K-12?) sinks
 
April 13
1204 Crusaders capture Constantinople
1776 Battle of Bound Brook, NJ
1813 US captures Mobile
1861 Ft. Sumter surrenders
1868 British capture Maqdala
1940 2nd naval Battle of Narvik
1945 Red Army captures Vienna
1972 Battle of An Loc begins
 
April 15
1071 Robert Guisard captures Bari
1395 Battle of Terek River
1450 Battle of Formigny
1632 Battle of Rain
1797 Royal Navy suffers a Mutiny @ Spithead
1813 US occupys western Spanish Florida
1864 Red River Campaign: USS Eastport strikes a torpedo. Has to be grounded to prevent sinking 40 miles down river. Destroyed to prevent capture April 26th.
1900 Siege of Catubig begins
1918 The first Marine Aviation Force is formed @ Marine Flying Field, Miami, Fla.
1940 British Intelligence cracks the Enigma cypher used in Norway
1952 1st flight B-52
1962 USS Princeton delivers the first Marine helicopters to Vietnam
1969 N. Korea shoots down US Navy EC-121
1986 Operation Eldorado Canyon
 
April 16
1457 B.C. Battle of Megiddo
73 Siege of Masada ends
1746 Battle of Culloden
1799 Battle of Mount Tabor
1818 Rush-Bagot Treaty signed banning warships from the Great Lakes
1862 Battle of Lee's Mills
1863 Federal squadron of 6 warships & 6 transports run the batteries @ Vicksburg, with the loss of one transport
1864 Transport General Hunter hits a torpedo & sinks in the St. John's River, Fla
1920 Poland begins the Vilna Offensive
1941 USS Vincennes arrives in N.Y. with a shipment of gold from So. Africa to pay for U.K. arms purchases
1945 7,000 die when a Soviet sub sinks the refugee ship Goya. Armored Ship Lutzow sunk in air raid by the R.A.F. Kamakazes sink USS Pringle & damage Missouri, Intrepid, Bryant, Bowers, Hobson, Harding & Taluga. Battle of Seelow Heights begins
1987 Target drone acidently sinks Soviet corvette Mussan
2001 5 day border conflict between Pakistan & India begins
 
April 17
69 1st Battle of Badriacum
1555 Siege of Siena ends
1780 naval Battle of Martinique
1797 Battle of San Juan begins
1863 Grierson's Raid begins
1864 Battle of Plymouth begins
1865 Wilson's Raiders capture Columbus, Ga. destroying the Navy Yard & the incomplete Ironclad CSS Jackson. The crew of the gunboat CSS Chattahoochee destroy the ship to prevent capture
1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to Germany
1945 Brazilian troops capture Montese Italy from the Germans
1961 Bay of Pigs invasion begins
1975 Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh
 
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april 18
1797 Battle of Neuwied
1847 Battle of Cerro Gordo
1861 US troops abandon the Harper's Ferry Arsenal
1862 Battle of New Orleans begins
1864 Confederates attack a Union wagon train & capture 198 wagons @ Poison Springs, Ark. Battle of Dybbol
1942 "30 seconds over Tokyo" The Doolittle Raid
1943 US fighters shoot down Adm. Yamamoto
1988 US sinks 2 Iranian Navy ships in retaliation for attack on USS Samuel B, Roberts
 
April 19
1677 French capture Cambrai
1775 battles of Lexington & Concord
1809 Battle of Raszyn. Battle of Teugen-Hausen
1864 Battle of Plymouth: After delays, CSS Albemarle arrives & sinks USS Southfield & mauls USS Miami, forcing its withdrawal. Albemarle then begins bombarding Ft. Williams.
1917 Naval Armed Guard on SS Mongolia fire on & damage a U-boat, 1st US Navy engagement with the enemy in WWI
1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion is defeated
1989 USS Iowa turret explosion
 
April 20
1453 Last Byzantine naval engagement occurs as a Byzantine transport & 3 Genoese galleys fight through the Ottoman blockade of the Golden Horn
1657 naval Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
1770 Battle of Aspindza
1775 Siege of Boston begins
1809 Battle of Abensberg ends
1814 HMS Orpheus & Shelburne capture USS Frolic
1861 US Navy abandons/burns the Norfolk Navy Yard & a number of warships
1863 US Navy captures a small fort @ Butte-a-la-Rose, La
1864 Battle of Plymouth ends
1942 British aircraft fly off USS Wasp to reinforce Malta
1944 SS Paul Hamilton's cargo of explosives is detonated by an air dropped torpedo. The explosion kills all 580 on board
1947 A Japanese Lt & 26 soldiers surrender on Peleliu
1953 USS New Jersey sails into Wonsan Harbor & bombards the city
1978 Soviets shoot down KAL flight 902
 
April 21
43 B.C. Battle of Mutina
1809 Battle of Eckmuhl begins. Battle of Landshut
1836 Battle of San Jacinto
1981 USS Saratoga captures the Slaver "Nightingale" off Cabinda
1894 Norway adopts the Krag-Jorgensen rifle
1918 Red Baron shot down & killed
 
April 22
1778 USS Ranger raids Whitehaven, England
1809 Battle of Eckmuhl ends
1863 9 Union supply ships towing 9 barges run the batteries @ Vicksburg. 1 ship & 6 barges are sunk, but enough supplys get through to keep Grant going.
1898 US begins blockading Cuba. USS Nashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
1930 London Naval Treaty signed
1944 1st combat use of helicopters by the 1st Air Commando Group in Burma
2005 last F-117 retired
 
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April 23
1014 Battle of Clontarf
1521 Battle of Villalar
1815 2nd Serbian uprising begins
1918 USS Stewart sinks a U-Boat off France. Bruges-Zeebrugge Raid.
1941 Greeks evacuate Athens
1948 Israelis capture Haifa
1949 Peoples Liberation Army Navy est.
 
April 24
1547 Battle of Muhlberg
1778 USS Ranger captures HMS Drake
1805 USS Constitution captures a Tunis Privateer & 2 of her Prizes
1813 British capture Poole's Island in Chesapeake Bay & use it for a Raiding base
1862 Battle of New Orleans: US fleet runs past Ft. St. Phillip & Ft. Jackson & the destroy a CS squardron losing only one ship sunk.
1918 1st Tank Vs Tank battle, 3 British Mk IVs Vs 3 German A7Vs
1944 3 week mutiny of exiled Greek forces ends
1973 Minesweeper USS Force burns & sinks off Guam
1980 Desert One disaster
1988 USS Bonefish burns beyond economic repair, later scrapped
 
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April 25
404 B.C. Spartans defeat Athenians, ending the Pelopenesian War
1607 naval Battle of Gibraltar
1707 Battle of Almansa
1862 Siege of Ft. Macon ends. Battle of New Orleans: Confederates evacuate & the US fleet arrives at N.O.
1864 Battle of Mark's Mills
1915 Battle of Gallipoli: land phase begins with landings of British & Commonwealth troops.
1982 British invade South Georgia
2009 1st flight Boeing P8-A
 
April 26
1805 USMC captures Derne "Shores of Tripoli"
1864 Red River Campaign: The grounded USS Eastport is destroyed to prevent capture. CS troops & Field Artillery shoot up the Flagship USS Cricket, killing 31 of 50 crewmenbers with Adm. Porter taking the helm when the Pilot is killed. Pump boat Champion #3 is destroyed when a shell explodes the boiler scalding to death 189 of 204 on board including her Captain
1865 Gen. Joe Johnson surrenders the Army of Tennessee
1937 Guernica air raid
1942 USS Sturtevant sunk by US mine off Key West
1952 USS Hobson sunk in collision with USS Wasp, 176 killed. Turret explosion on USS St. Paul kills 30
1982 Argentine forces on South Georgia surrender
 
April 27
1296 Battle of Dunbar
1521 Battle of Mactan
1522 Battle of Bicocca
1650 Battle of Carbisdale
1777 Battle of Ridgefield, Conn.
1862 Battle of New Orleans: 4 small forts on the north side of New Orleans surrender or are evacuated
1865 River steamer Sultana's boiler explodes killing 1,200 to 1,700 men of over 2,000 on board, mostly Union Army ex-POWs heading north for home.
1813 US troops capture York, Canada
1945 Okinawa Campaign: Kamakazes sink SS Canada Victory, damage USS Ralph Talbot, USS England, & USS Rathburne. Suicide boats damage a landing craft & USS Hutchins. Shore batteries damage USS Wichita.
 
April 29
711 Moslem invasion of the Iberian Peninsula begins
1091 Battle of Levounion
1483 Castille captures Grand Canaria
1587 Battle of the Bay of Cadiz begins
1672 French invade the Netherlands
1781 naval Battle of Fort Royal
1814 USS Peacock captures HMS Epervier
1862 Battle of Bridgeport, Al.
1898 US ships engage Spanish gunboats & shore batteries @ Cienfuegos, Cuba
1916 Siege of Kut ends
1944 US Carrier Raid on Truk begins
1945 Germans in Italy surrender. HMS Goodall sunk by U-286, last R.N. ship sunk in European waters
1970 US & ARVN troops invade Cambodia
1975 Final US evacuation of South Vietnam begins
 
April 30
313 Battle of Tzirallium
1557 Battle of Mataquito
1798 Dept of the Navy(US) Established
1863 Battle of Camerone
1940 French Destroyer Maille Breze sunk by explosion of its own torpedos. KM Leopard sunk in collision. HMS Duntoon sunk by mine. HMS Bittern sunk by aircraft.
1943 Operation Mincemeat, British Intell Op.
1946 USS Solar destroyed by muntions explosion @ Earle, N.J. killing 165 crew & dockworkers & wounding 65.
1975 North Vietnamese capture saigon
 
May 1
1778 Battle of Crooked Billet Tavern, Pa
1794 Battle of Baulou ends
1795 HMS Boyne burns & explodes @ Spithead
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville begins
1898 Battle of Manila Bay
1945 Australian troops land @ Tarakan
1951 US Carrier planes drop torpedoes @ the Hwachon Dam
1960 Soviets shoot down U-2 flown by Gary Francis Powers
1965 naval Battle of Dong-Yin
1982 Operation Black Buck begins, R.A.F. Vulcan bomber raids on the Falklands
2011 Osama bin Laden killed by SEALs
 
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