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June 23
1180 Battle of Uji 1280 Battle of Moclin 1314 Battle of Bannockburn begins 1757 Battle of Plassey 1758 Battle of Krefeld 1760 Battle of Landslaut 1780 Battle of Springfield, N.J. 1812 HMS Belvidera engages & then escapes from Frigates USS President, Congress & United States 1864 Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road ends ends 1865 CS Gen. Stand Watie surrenders the last CS Army in the field 1913 Battle of Dorian ends 1919 Battle of Cesis 1940 French sub Emeraude scuttled @ Toulouse. Patrol Boat Le Cherbourgeoise scuttled at Le Verdon. Destroyer HMS Khartoum heavily damaged by a her own torpedos, beached but sinks next day off South Yemen. HMIS Pathan sunk by explosion of own depth charged, or an Italian sub, off Bombay. Italian sub Torricelli sunk in Red Sea by R.N. ships 1941 Soviet Destroyer Bystry sunk by bombing @ Sevastopol, Destroyer Gnevnyi sunk by mine off Hiiumaa, Estonia, Sub M-78 sunk off Latvia by U-144, and Sub S-3 by E Boats S-35 & S-60 off Germany. Trawler HMS Nogi bombed/sunk off Cromer. KM Supply/POW ship Alsteror scuttled in the Atlantic when intercepted, 200 Allied POWs rescued 1942 Italian Navy cargo ship L-18 sunk off Libya by HMS Thrasher. US Army Transport Maj. Gen. Henry Gibbons sunk by U-158 west of Key West. Soviet destroyer Smishlionny sunk by mines in the Black Sea. Sperrbrecher 183 sunk by mines off Dunkirk. 1943 US Navy cargo ships USS Aludra & Deimos sunk by Ro-103 off San Cristobal Island. Sub Tender Sagara Maru damaged by Sub USS Harder off Honshu and beached, torpedoed again in July while still aground and abandoned 1944 E Boat S-190 sunk. 1945 Aux Sub Chaser CHa-113 sunk by USS Hardhead in the Java Sea. |
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