This day in military history..

Apr 9
1241 Battle of Liegnitz
1388 Battle of Nafels
1782 naval Battle of the Saints
1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill. La. CSS Squib damages USS Minnesota with a spar torpedo off Newport News, Va
1865 Battle of Appamattox. General Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia after failing to break through Union troops blocking his retreat south. Mobile Campaign: Siege of Ft. Blakely: Union troops capture Ft. Blakely
1917 Battle of Arras
1918 Battle of Lys
1942 Japanese air raid on Trincomalee, Ceylon. HMS Hermes, Carrier & HMAS Venom, destroyer sunk
1945 Armored Ship Adm. Scheer sunk
 
Apr 10
1741 Battle of Mollwitz
1862 Bombardment of Ft. Pulaski begins
1863 a small fort @ Butte-a-la-Rose, La surrenders to a US Navy squardron
1868 Battle of Arogee
1963 Sub USS Thresher sinks
 
April 11
1241 Battle of Muhi
1512 Battle of Ravenna
1809 naval Battle of the Basque Roads begins
1862 Ft. Pulaski surrenders
1863 Longstreet begins the Siege of Suffolk, Va
1865 Mobile Campaign: Confederates abandon Battery Huger & Battery Tracy, two small forts north of Ft. Blakely, after sundown. The full weight of Union artillery that had been pounding Ft. Blakely, plus captured CS guns in Ft. Blakely, had been turned upon the Batterys that morning.
1951 Gen. McArthur relieved of command in Korea
1952 Battle of Nanri Island begins
 
Apr 12
238 Battle of Carthage
1861 US Civil War begins when CS batteries open fire on Ft. Sumter, S.C.
1863 Ft. Pillow Massacre
1865 Mobile Campaign: Union troops capture Mobile. Wilson's Raid: Union troops capture Montgomery, Al
1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge ends
1935 1st Flight Bristol Blenheim
1937 Whittle ground tests 1st jet aircraft engine
1970 Soviet sub K-8 sinks
 
Apr 13
1204 Crusaders capture Constantinople
1861 US troops surrender Ft. Sumter
1863 Battle of the Teche River begins @ Ft. Risland
1865 Union troops capture Raliegh, N.C.
1868 Battle of Magdala
1945 Red Army captures Vienna
1972 Battle of An Loc
 
Apr 14
43B.C. Battle of Forum Gallorum
69 Battle of Bedriacum
70 Siege of Jeruselem, Romans encircle the City
1205 Battle of adrianople
1341 Sacking of Sauzzo
1471 Battle of Barnet
1863 Battle of Teche River: Confederates break through Union troops trying to trap them @ Irish Bend. During fighting on the river CSS Diana & CSS Queen of the West are destroyed
1940 Royal Marines land @ Namsos, Norway
1941 Rommel attacks Tobruk
1944 S.S. Fort Stikine explodes in Bombay harbor, sinking 11 & damaging 26 other ships, killing hundreds & wounding thousands of people & putting the docks out of action for months
1988 USS Samuel B Roberts strikes mine in Persian Gulf
 
Apr 15
1450 Battle of Formigny
1632 Battle of Rain
1900 Siege of Catubig, P.I.
1940 Allies attack Germans @ Narvik
1952 1st flight B-52
1969 N. Korea shoots down EC-121
1986 Operation Eldorado Canyon
 
Apr 16
73 Masada falls to the Romans
1746 Battle of Culloden
1799 Battle of Mt. Tabor
1862 Battle of Lee's Mills, Va
1863 Adm. Porter runs 6 warships & several transports past the CS batteries @ Vicksburg, losing one transport.
1864 Transport Gen. Hunter sinks in the St. John's River after hitting torpedo
1919 Polish-Soviet War: Poland begins the Vilna Campaign
1945 Battle of Seelow Heights begins
 
Apr 17
1555 Siege of Siena ends
1797 British attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1864 Siege of Plymouth, N.C. begins
1865 Union troops capture Columbus, Ga. destroying the unfinished Ironclad CSS Jackson on the stocks. The crew of the gunboat CSS Chattahoochee destroy the ship to prevent capture
1941 Yugoslavia surrenders to the Germans
1945 Brazilian troops capture Montese, Italy from the Germans
1961 Bay of Pigs invasion begins
1975 Cambodian Civil War ends with Khmer Rouge capturing Phnom Penh
 
Apr 18
1775 British expedition leaves Boston for Concord, Mass. Paul Revere & other spread the warning
1848 Battle of Cerro Gordo, Mx
1861 US troops abandon the Harpers Ferry, Va. US Arsenal
1862 Battle of New Orleans: Federal fleet begins bombarding Forts Jackson & St. Phillip downriver from N.O.
1864 Confederates capture 198 wagons @ Poison Springs, Ark.
Battle of Dybbol
1942 60 seconds over Tokyo, the Doolittle Raid
1943 Adm. Yamamoto shot down
1988 US attacks Iranian naval forces
 
Apr 19
1775 Battles of Lexington & Concord
1809 Battle of Raszyn. Battle of Teugen-Hausen
1862 Battle of New Orleans: Bombardment of the Forts continues. Return fire sinks Mortar Schooner USS Maria J Carlton
1864 Siege of Plymouth: Ironclad CSS Albemarle arrives sinking USS Southfield, mauling USS Miami & driver her & the rest of the federal squadron off. Albemarle begins bombarding Ft. Williams
1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
1961 Bay of Pigs: Fighting ends
1989 Gun turret explosion on USS Iowa
 
Apr 20
1526 Battle of Panipat
1657 naval Battle of Santa Cruz De Tenerife
1770 Battle of Aspindza
1775 Siege of Boston begins
1809 Battle of Abensberg
1861 US Navy burns the Navy Yard @ Norfolk, along with many, mostly older, warships
1864 Siege of Plymouth ends when the Union garrison of Ft. Williams, not built to withstand an attack on the water side, surrenders after bombardment by CSS Albemarle
1978 KAL Flight 902 shot down by Soviet fighters.
 
Apr 21
43 B.C. Battle of Mutina
1809 Battle of Eckmuhl begins
1836 Battle of san Jacinto, Texas
1894 Norway adopts the Krag-Jorgensen
1918 Red Baron shot down & killed
 
Apr 22
1809 Battle of Eckmuhl ends
1863 Federal supply ships towing barges run past the Vicksburg batteries. 1 transport & 6 barges are lost, but enough supplys get through to reprovision Grant's Army
1915 2nd Battle of Ypers: Battle of Gravenstafel begins
1930 Washington Naval treaty signed
1944 US troops land @ Hollandia & aitape, New Guinea
1948 Isrealis capture Haifa from the arabs
2005 F-117 retired
 
Apr 23
1014 Battle of Clontarf
1521 Battle of Villalar
1915 2nd Battle of Ypers: Battle of Gravenstafel ends
1918 Zeebrugge Raid. British try to block harbor channel
1949 Chinese establish the P.L.A. Navy
 
Apr 24
1862 Battle of New Orleans: Afer a week of bombarding Forts Jackson & St. Phillips with out any obvious results, Adm. Farragut decides to run his fleet past them & press on to New Orleans. At 0300 5 large warships & 12 gunboats set out in 2 collumns. They sucsessfully run past the forts, with out either side doing much damage, except for the last 3 gunboats. It is light as they get in range of the forts & a shell hits the boiler of the lead ship of the trio sending it drifting back down stream & the other 2 turn back. North of the Forts the fleet engages a group of 12 Confederate gunboats & the ironclad ram CSS Manassas. The CS vessels are under three different Commands & quickly lose cohesion with the battle becoming a melee. All 13 CS vessels are lost with only the gunboat USS Varuna sunk by ramming.
1915 2nd Battle of Ypres: Battle of St. Julien begins
1918 1st battle between tanks: 3 British Mk IV vs 3 German A7V
1980 Desert One disaster
 
Apr 26
1805 US Marines capture Derne, Tripoli
1863 CS attack on the town of Cape Girardeau, Mo is repulsed. Union troops abandon Washington, N.C.
1864 Red River Campaign: The Union Army has been fleeing the advancing Confederates & the US Navy has been not only fleeing the Confederates, but the rapidly lowering water levels in the river. Confederates catch up to some of the Federal ships. The Ironclad USS Eastport, having been damaged & run aground on the 15th after hitting a torpedo, is destroyed to prevent capture. The Flagship, gunboat USS Cricket is severly mauled by artillery & musket fire, with the 50 man crew suffering 62% casualties & Adm. Porter personally manning the wheel before escaping. The unarmed pump boat Champion#3 is destroyed when a shell explodes her boiler, killing 90% of the 204 onboard, including her Captain.
1865 The Confederate Army of Tennessee surrenders @ Durham Station, N.C.
1937 Guenica, Spain, Air raid
1945 Battle of Bautzen
 
Apr 27
1296 Battle of Dunbar
1521 Battle of Mactan
1650 Battle of Carbisdale
1777 Battle of Ridgefield, Ct
1813 Battle of York, Canada
1862 Battle of New Orleans: The Garrison of the now isolated Ft. Jackson mutiny.
1865 River boat Sultana's boiler explodes, killing between 1,200 & 1,700 ex POWs heading north for home from Southern prisons
1941 Germans capture Athens
1945 Mussolini captured by Partizans
 
Apr 28
1503 Battle of Cerignola
1789 Mutiny on the Bounty
1792 France invades Austrian Netherlands(Belgium)
1862 Battle of New Orleans: Mutinous soldiers force the surrender of Ft. Jackson. Afterwards the Commander of Ft. St. Phillip decides resistance without support of ft. Jackson is futile & surrenders
1944 Battle of Lyme Bay: German E Boats interupt D Day practice torpedoing & sinking 1 LST & damaging a second, killing 638. Later HMS Hawkins shells the beach with live rounds killing another 305.
1965 US invades the Dominican Republic
 
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