Feb 8
1807 Battle of Eylau 2nd day
1862 Ft. Bartow, Roanoke Island is captured by Union troops
1904 Japanese surprise attack on the Russian Navy Base @ Port Arthur starts the Russo-Japanese War
1942 Japanese invade Singapore

Feb 9
1864 109 Union Officers escape from Richmond's Libby POW Prison, 59 eventually reach Union lines
1905 naval Battle of Port Arthur ends
1945 British Sub HMS Venturer sinks U-864
1965 Vietnam: 1st US combat troops arive

Feb 10
1258 Mongols capture Baghdad
1763 French & Indian War ends
1814 Battle of Champaubert
1846 Battle of Sobraon
1906 HMS Dreadnought launched
1936 Battle of Amba Aradon, Ethiopia
1943 Battle of krasny Bor

Feb 11
1659 Siege of Copenhagen: Major Swedish attack is defeated
1942 Battle of Bukit Timah, Singapore

Feb 12
1429 Battle of Rouvray
1593 Battle of Huengju 2300 Koreans defeat 30,000 attacking Japanese
1817 Battle of Chacabuco
1935 Zepplin USS Macon crashes @ sea

Feb 13
1862 Battle of Ft. Donelson begins
1945 Budapest surrenders to the Russians. The R.A.F. begins the firebombing of Dresden.
1951 Battle of Chipyong-ni begins
1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos.

Feb 14
1778 1st recognition of US flag when a French Navy ship salutes USS Ranger
1798 naval Battle of Cape St. Vincent
1862 Battle of Ft. Donelson continues. Federal gunboats withdraw temporarily after 2 recive damage
1863 USS Queen of the west captures New Era #5, later runs aground under the guns of Ft. Taylor. Crew abandon ship & flee in New Era #5 & DeSoto. They are pursued by CSS Webb.
1864 Sherman captures Meridian, Miss.
1879 The War of the Pacific begins when Chile invades Bolivia
1900 British invade the Orange Free State
1919 Polish-Soviet War begins
1943 Russians liberate Rostov on Don. Germans counterattack Allied troops in Tunesia
1945 Firebombing of Dresden continues
1951 Battle of Chipyong-ni continues

Feb 15
1862 Battle of ft. Donelson continues. Confederates attack out of the Fort before dawn but are pushed back by nightfall.
1863 Pursuit of New Era#5 by CSS Webb ends when the Ironclad USS Indianola shows up.
1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana Harbor, Cuba
1942 Singapore surrenders
1944 Battle of Monte Cassino begins
1951 Battle of Chipyong-ni ends. Chinese high water mark in the Korean War.

Feb 16
1646 Battle of Torrington
1804 Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a party of burn captured Frigate USS Philidelphia in Tripoli Harbor
1862 Ft. Donelson surrenders
1865 Confederates evacuate Columbia, S.C.
1940 HMS Cossac captures German tanker Altmark in neutral Norwiegan waters, freeing captives from the raider Adm. Graf Spee.
1943 Red Army captures Kharkov
1945 US troops land on Corrigidor
2006 Last US Army MASH unit disbanded.

Feb 17
1370 Battle of Rudau
1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt
1814 Battle of Mormons
1862 CSS Virginia commisioned
1864 Confederate sub H L Hunley sinks USS Housatonic, but sinks mysteriously returning to harbor.
1865 Columbia, S.C. burned by Union troops. Charleston, S.C. & Ft. Sumter evacuated by Confederate forces.
1944 Battle of Eniwetok opens with US Navy bombarding the Island. US Fleet raids Truk.
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War begins when China invades Vietnam