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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms. -- Machiavelli |
The 1st Cavalry Division participated in Operation Lancer Fury in the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. Militiamen loyal to Moktada al-Sadr had entrenched themselves in the city and were resisting coalition forces. Operation Lancer Fury was one of many operations initiated in hopes of disarming and disbanding militia forces.
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1775:
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war. 1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition. 1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends. 1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. 1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |