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Generals speak often of their military duty to their superiors, but never of their duty to their soldiers. -- Helmut Lindmann |
Quick Lift, Zaire, 24 Sep 1991-07 Oct 1991(33 total words in this text)(2419 Reads)  Between 24 September and 07 October 1991 USEUCOM joint task force Quick Lift deployed French and Belgian troops to Zaire and evacuated 716 people following a mutiny by army troops there. |
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1780:
Charleston, South Carolina falls to British forces.
1864: Close-range firing and hand-to-hand combat at Spotsylvania Court House, Virginia, result in one of the most brutal battles of the Civil War. 1864: Union General Benjamin Butler attacks Drewrys Bluff on the James River. 1865: The last land battle of the Civil war occurs at Palmito Ranch, Texas. It is a Confederate victory. 1885: In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against the Canadian government. 1940: The Nazi conquest of France begins with the crossing Muese River. 1941: Adolf Hitler sends two bombers to Iraq to support Rashid Ali al-Gailani in his revolt against Britain, which is trying to enforce a previously agreed upon Anglo-Iraqi alliance. 1942: The Soviet Army launches its first major offensive of the war, taking Kharkov in the eastern Ukraine. 1943: Axis forces in North Africa surrender. 1949: The Berlin Blockade lifted. |
