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1096:
Seljuk Turks at Chivitot slaughter thousands of German crusaders.
1600: Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats his enemies in battle and affirms his position as Japans most powerful warlord. 1805: Vice Admiral and Viscount Horatio Nelson wins his greatest victory over a Franco-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar. 1837: Under a flag of truce during peace talks, U.S. troops siege the Indian Seminole Chief Osceola in Florida. 1861: Union troops suffer a devastating defeat in the second major engagement of the war. The Battle of Ball's Bluff led to the creation of a Congressional committee to monitor the conduct of the war. 1904: Panamanians clash with U.S. Marines in Panama in a brief uprising. 1917: The first U.S. troops enter the front lines at Sommervillier under French command. 1941: German soldiers go on a rampage, killing thousands of Yugoslavian civilians. 1983: The United States sends a ten-ship task force to Grenada. |
