1211 results for “World War” (240 ms)
American Revolutionary War: Colbert's Raid: A Spanish garrison under Captain Jacobo du Breuil defeat British irregulars at Arkansas Post.
Aleksander Tõnisson, Estonian general and politician, 5th Estonian Minister of War (died 1941)
The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, having hypothetically been at war for 335 years without a single shot being fired and no casualties incurred.
The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of the Khmer Republic, ending the Cambodian Civil War and establishing the socialist state of Democratic Kampuchea.
George Lucas began writing a 13-page film treatment that later formed the basis of Star Wars.
Napoleonic Wars: After a three-day chase, the French ship D'Hautpoul was captured off Puerto Rico by a British squadron under Alexander Cochrane.
French Revolutionary Wars: British forces commanded by Lieutenant-General Ralph Abercromby invaded the Spanish colonial port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter
American Civil War: African-American Union soldiers were massacred and mutilated during and after the Battle of Poison Spring.
American Revolutionary War: Colonists Paul Revere and William Dawes, later joined by Samuel Prescott, began a midnight ride to warn residents of Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, about the impendi�
South Vietnamese forces withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First�
American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Siege of Boston begins with American militias blocking land access to the British-held city.
Ragnar Ulstein, Norwegian journalist and war historian (died 2019)
Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (born 1530)
The first bloodshed of the American Civil War took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.
War of the Fifth Coalition: French general Louis-Nicolas Davout defeated an Austrian force in Lower Bavaria, allowing him to rejoin the main French army.
The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord in the British colony of Massachusetts.