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1861:
Robert E. Lee is named commander of Virginia forces.
1863: Colonel Benjamin Griersons troops bring destruction to central Mississippi on a two-week raid along the entire length of the state. 1898: In the first action of the Spanish-American War, the USS Nashville, takes on a Spanish ship. 1915: German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. 1944: Allied forces land in the Hollandia area of New Guinea. 1945: Hitler admits to all in his underground bunker that the war is lost and that suicide is his only recourse. 1951: The Chinese launched their spring offensive with a heavy artillery barrage northeast of Yonchon. The Battle of the Imjin River began. 1995: In Africa, Rwandan troops kill thousands of Hutu refugees in Kibeho. |