On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 12 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 12:
1298 - Battle of the Black Ironside: William Wallace routs the English.
1381 - Peasants' Revolt: In England rebels arrive at Blackheath.
1340 - Naval Battle of Sluys: English defeat the French off Flanders.
1418 - An insurrection delivers Paris to the Burgundians.
1429 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Jargeau begins (ends June 12). It was Joan of Arc's first offensive battle.
1534 - Turkish adm Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder Naples.
1560 - Battle of Okehazama: Oda Nobunaga defeats Imagawa Yoshimoto.
1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard – lasted until June 13.
1672 - French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith.
1673 - Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral.
1758 - French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg – James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: British general Thomas Gage declares martial law in Massachusetts. The British offered a pardon to all colonists who lay down their arms.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: First naval victory of the war following the capture of the British ship, Margaretta, by the USS Unity.
1819 - Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra.
1830 - Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers landed 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.
1862 - American Civil War: Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart begins his ride around the Union Army outside of Richmond, Virginia.
1864 - American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor - Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
1864 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 die in battle .
1916 - World War I: "Bayonet Trench", Verdun: German shells inter the 3rd Co, French 137th Infantry
1918 - World War I: The first airplane bombing raid by an American unit occurs in France.
1937 - Eight of Stalin's generals are sentenced to death during purges in the Soviet Union.
1940 - World War II: 13,000 British and French troops surrender to Field Marshal Erwin Rommel at Saint-Valery-en-Caux.
1942 - World War II: American bombers strike the oil refineries of Ploesti, Rumania for the first time.
1944 - World War II: British 12th battalion conquers Breville.
1944 - World War II: First V-1 rocket lands on London.
1944 - World War II: US troops liberate Carentan and Chaumont, Normandy.
1945 - World War II: U.S. 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa.
1987 - Cold War: Ronald Reagan says, "Mr. Gorbachov, tear down this wall."
1999 - Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins – NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force KFor enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
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