Mar 22
1849 Battle of Novara
1862 Opening skirmishing of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign
1942 naval battle 2nd Battle of Sirte

March 22
US Navy History

1820 - Commodore Stephen Decatur dies after duel with Capt. James Barron
1915 - "Naval Aviator" replaces former "Navy Air Pilot" for officers qualified as aviators
1929 - Navy ships protect Americans and their property during Mexican revolution
1946 - USS Missouri departs U.S. to return body of deceased Turkish ambassador to the U.S. back to Turkey for burial. Missouri arrived in Istanbul on 5 April.

Mar 23
1821 Battle of Kalamata
1862 1st Battle of Kernstown
1863 USS Hartford & USS Albatross shell CS positions @ Warrenton, Miss. on the Mississippi River
1942 Japanese capture the Andaman Islands

March 23
US Navy History

1815 - USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin in battle lasting 22 minutes
1882 - SECNAV Hunt issues General Order No. 292 creating Office of Naval Intelligence.
1917 - Launching of USS New Mexico, first dreadnought with turboelectric drive
1945 - Carriers begin pre-assault strikes on Okinawa, kamikaze attacks follow
1958 - First launching of simulated Polaris missile from submerged tactical launcher facility off CA.
1965 - LCDR John W. Young, USN, Pilot of Gemini 3 completed 3 orbits in 4 hours., 53 minutes at an altitude of 224 km. Recovery was by helicopters from USS Intrepid (CVS-11).

Mar 24
1401 Mongols sack Damascus
1862 Union troops begin siege of Ft. Macon in N. Carolina
1878 HMS Eurydice, frigate, sinks with a loss of over 300.
1944 "The Great Escape" 76 men break out of Stalag Luft III
1999 NATO attacks Yugoslavia

March 24
US Navy History

1903 - George Dewey commissioned Admiral of the Navy with the date of rank, 2 March 1899. He was the only person to hold this rank

March 25
US Naval History

1813 - USS Essex takes Neryeda, first capture by U.S. Navy in Pacific
1898 - Assist. SECNAV Theodore Roosevelt proposes Navy investigate military application of Samuel Langley's flying machine, beginning naval aviation

Mar 25
1863 USS Lancaster & USS Switzerland attacked by CS field artillery, in Black Bayou, Miss. Lancaster destroyed & Switzerland damaged
1865 Confederate Army of Northern Virginia launches its final offensive briefly capturing Ft. Stedman near Petersburg, Va. Union counterattack recaptures the position.
1941 Yugoslavia joins the Axis

Mar 26
1793 Holy Roman Empire declares War on France
1862 US & CS troops clash near Denver, Colorado Territory & Apache Canyon, New Mexico Territory
1913 Balkan war Bulgerian troops capture Adrianople
1917 1st Battle of Gaza
1945 Iwo Jima declared secure

Mar 27
1794 US Navy est. by Congress & orders construction of Frigates
1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend
1836 Goliad Massacre Mexican Army kills surrendered Texas troops
1854 Crimean War UK declares War on Russia
1886 Geronimo surrenders, for the most part ending the Indian Wars
1938 Battle of Tuierzhuang, China
1941 Yugoslavian Air Force Officers overthrow pro Axis Govt. in a coup
1943 Battle of the Komandorski Islands
1994 1st Flight of the Eurofighter
1999 F-117 shot down over Yugoslavia