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1758:
British forces capture Frances Fortress of Louisbourg after a seven-week siege.
1759: The French relinquish Fort Ticonderoga in New York to the British under General Jeffrey Amherst. 1790: An attempt at a counter-revolution in France is put down by the National Guard at Lyons. 1794: The French defeat an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus, France. 1848: The French army suppresses the Paris uprising. 1861: George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac after the disaster at Bull Run five days prior. 1863: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his men are captured at Salineville, Ohio, during a spectacular raid on the North. 1912: The first airborne radio communications from naval aircraft to ship is conducted. 1917: Repeated German attacks north of the Aisne and at Mont Haut are repulsed. 1941: President Franklin Roosevelt seizes all Japanese assets in the United States in retaliation for the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China. |
