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June 16
1487 Battle of Stokes Field
1745 British capture Cape Breton Island. British capture the Louisborg Fortress
1746 Battle of Piacenza
1755 French surrender Ft. Beavsejour
1779 Siege of Gibraltar begins
1832 1st Battle of Kellogg's Grove
1815 Battle of Ligny. Battle of Quatre Bras
1858 Battle of Morar
1862 Battle of Secessionville
1864 Union troops bottled up @ Burmuda Hundred attack & capture the CS siege lines, but are forced back by a counter-attack.
1898 US Navy bombards Santiago, Cuba
1940 Sub HMS Grampus sunk by Italian Destroyers off Sicily.
1941 Vichy French Destroyer Chevalier Paul sunk by Fleet air Arm Swordfish off Latakia, Syria
1942 Cruiser HMS Hermione sunk by U-205 south of Crete. Polish Destroyer Kujawiak sunk by mine off Malta
1945 Destroyer USS Twiggs sunk by Kamakaze & aireal torpedo off Okinawa
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