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1314:
The Scots, under Robert the Bruce, defeat Edward IIs army at Bannockburn.
1667: The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English. 1862: Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the battle of Chickahominy Creek. 1863: In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing. 1864: Union General Ulysses S. Grant stretches his lines further around Petersburg, Virginia, accompanied by his commander-in-chief, Abraham Lincoln. 1900: General Arthur MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule. 1915: Germany uses poison gas for the first time in warfare in the Argonne Forest. 1919: Germans scuttle their own fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland. 1942: The Allies surrender at Tobruk, Libya. 1945: Japanese forces on Okinawa surrender to American troops. |