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1670:
Charles II and Louis XIV sign a secret treaty in Dover, England, ending hostilities between England and France.
1736: British and Chickasaw forces defeat the French at the Battle of Ackia. 1831: The Russians defeat the Poles at the Battle of Ostrolenska. 1865: Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender. 1940: Britains Operation Dynamo gets underway as President Roosevelt makes a radio appeal for the Red Cross. 1946: A patent is filed in the United States for the H-bomb. 1965: Eight hundred Australian troops depart for Vietnam and New Zealand announces that it will send an artillery battalion. 1971: In Cambodia, an estimated 1,000 North Vietnamese capture the strategic rubber plantation town of Snoul, driving out 2,000 South Vietnamese as U.S. air strikes support the Allied forces. |
