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1340:
The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1675: King Philips War begins. 1812: Napoleon crosses the Nieman River and invades Russia. 1859: At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army, led by Napoleon III, defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I. 1861: Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia. 1862: U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu forts in China. 1910: The Japanese army invades Korea. 1943: Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base. 1945: Soviet troops parade past Red Square in celebration of their victory over Germany. As drums rolled, 200 soldiers performed a familiar ritual: They threw 200 German military banners at the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum. A little over 130 years earlier, victorious Russian troops threw Napoleons banners at the feet of Czar Alexander I. 1948: The Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade, America responds with the Berlin Airlift. |