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1775: American troops capture Fort Ticonderoga from the British.

1796: Napoleon Bonaparte wins a brilliant victory against the Austrians at Lodi bridge in Italy.

1857: The Bengal Army in India revolts against the British.

1861: Union troops and civilians riot in St. Louis.

1862: The Battle of Plum Run Bend, Tennessee takes place.

1863: General Thomas J. Jackson dies of pneumonia a week after losing his arm when his own troops accidentally fired on him during the Battle of Chancellorsville.

1865: Union cavalry troops capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis near Irvinville, Georgia.

1917: Allied ships get destroyer escorts to fend off German attacks in the Atlantic.

1940: As Germany invades Holland and Belgium, Winston Churchill becomes prime minister of Great Britain.

1941: Englands House of Commons is destroyed during the worst of the London Blitz as 550 German bombers drop 100,000 incendiary bombs.