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1783:
Portugal recognizes American independence.
1862: Union General Ulysses S. Grant launches a major assault on Fort Donelson, Tenn. 1869: Charges of treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped. 1898: The U.S. battleship Maine blows up in Havana Harbor, killing 268 sailors. 1900: The British threaten to use natives in the Boer War. 1918: The first World War I U.S. Army troop ship is torpedoed and sunk by Germany off Irelands coast. 1923: The U.S. War Department issues a circular on the rules for use of the American flag. This was the first time any such document was issued. 1940: Hitler orders that all British merchant ships will be considered warships. 1942: Singapore, the "Gibraltar of the East" and a strategic British stronghold, falls to Japanese forces. 1943: The Germans break the American Armys lines at the Fanid-Sened Sector in Tunisia, North Africa. |
