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1700:
Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1758: British and Hanoverian armies defeat the French at Krefeld in Germany. 1760: Austrian forces defeat the Prussians at Landshut, Germany. 1776: The final draft of Declaration of Independence was submitted to US Congress. 1812: Marine Lt. John Heath became the first casualty of the War of 1812. 1861: The Confederate Navy began the reconstruction of the ex U.S.S. Merrimack as ironclad C.S.S. Virginia at Norfolk. 1863: Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brasher City in Louisiana. 1865: Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders his army at Fort Towson, in the Oklahoma Territory. 1884: A Chinese Army defeats the French at Bacle, Indochina. 1933: The Navy's last dirigible, the USS Macon, is commissioned. |
