Mar 11
1387 Battle of Castagnaro
1865 Union troops take Fayetteville, N.C.
1917 British capture Baghdad
1941 Lend-Lease Act signed into Law
1942 Gen. McArthur evacuated from Corrigidor
1945 Operation Tan #6, Large Kamakaze attack on US ships @ Ulithi.

Mar 12
538 Siege of Rome ends when besiegers retreat home
1811 Battle of Redinha
1862 Union troops occupy Jacksonville, Fla
1864 Red River Campaign begins with 13 Ironclads & 7 gunboats, plus 27,000 Union troops, entering the Red River
1938 Anschluss: Germany annexes Austria
1940 Winter War ends

Mar 13
1884 Siege of khartoum begins(ends Jan 26, '85)
1900 British occupy Bloemfontien, Orange free State
1953 Battle of Dien Bien Phu: Viet Mihn take French position Biatrice

Mar 14
1590 Battle of Ivry
1780 Spanish capture Ft. Charlotte, Mobile, Ala., from the British
1862 1st Battle of New Bern, N.C. Union troops capture New Bern. Union troops capture New Madrid, Mo.
1863 Adm. Farragut tries to run the River Fleet past CS batteries @ Port Hudson, Miss. 2 make it, 4 retreat, & USS Mississippi runs aground within range of CS batteries
1864 Red River Campaign: Union troops capture Ft. DeRussy near Simsport, La
1915 German Light Cruiser SMS Dresden is scuttled off Chile to prevent capture
1951 UN troops recapture Seoul, S.K.
1978 Operation Letani: Israel invades southern Lebanon

Mar 15
933 Battle of Riade
1311 Battle of Halmyros
1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse, N.C.
1863 Under fire from CS batteries USS Mississippi is abandond & set on fire. @ 3 AM she floats free & drifts through the Federal fleet, blowing up down stream when the fire reaches the magazine. Schooner JM Chapman is siezed in port @ San Francisco. She was being fitted with 6 guns as a CS Privateer.
1864 Red River Campaign: Federal fleet arrives @ Alexandria, La
1939 Germany occupies rest of Czechoslovakia
1943 3rd Battle of Kharkov Germans recapture the City.

Mar 16
597 B.C. Babylonians capture Jerusalem
1322 Battle of Boroughbridge
1812 Siege of Badajaz begins
1818 2nd Battle of Cancha Rayada
1865 Battle of Averasbough, N.C.
1945 Battle of Iwo Jima ends
1968 My Lai Massacre

Mar 17
45 B.C. Battle of Munda
624 Battle of Badr
1776 British evacuate Boston
1860 1st Taranaki War begins in N.Z.
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Va
1865 Mobile, Ala Campaign begins
1939 Battle of Nanchang
1947 1st flight B-45
1988 Battle of Afabet, Eritrea

Mar 18
1241 Battle of Chmielnik
1865 Battle of Bentonville begins
1915 Gallipoli Campaign: British/French fleet of 18 Battleships, plus escorts, try to force the Dardenelles. Fleet turns back with loss of a couple Battleships & others heavily damaged
1937 Battle of Guadalajara ends
2002 Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda ends

Mar 19
1279 Battle of Yamen
1861 1st Taranaki War ends
1863 USS Hartford & Albatross run the CS batteries @ Grand Gulf, Miss & take position south of Vicksburg, cutting off shipping to the City
1865 Battle of Bentonville, 2nd day
1944 Germans occupy Hungary
1945 USS Franklin severly damaged by Kamakaze.
1982 Falkland Islands War start when Argentinians invade.

Mar 20
1862 Stonewall Jackson's 1862 Valley Campaign begins
1863 Vicksburg Campaign: Attempt by Federal fleet to by pass Vicksburg by using Steele's Bayou is defeated @ Rolling Fork, Miss.
1865 Battle of Bentonville, 3rd day
1922 USS Langley commision, 1st US Carrier
1988 Battle of Afabet ends
2003 Allies invade Iraq