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1689:
French and English navies battle at Bantry Bay.
1745: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy. 1862: Confederates scuttle the CSS Virginia off Norfolk, Virginia. 1864: A dismounted Union trooper fatally wounds J.E.B. Stuart, one of the most colorful generals of the South, at the Battle of Yellow Tavern, just six miles north of Richmond. 1944: Allied forces begin a major assault on the Gustav Line, a German defensive line drawn across central Italy just south of Rome. 1961: President Kennedy approves sending 400 Special Forces troops and 100 other U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam. 1967: The siege of Khe Sanh ends and the base is still in American hands. 1969: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces battle North Vietnamese troops for Ap Bia Mountain (Hill 937), one mile east of the Laotian border. The battle was part of Operation Apache Snow, a 2,800-man Allied sweep of the A Shau Valley. |