Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
By the time a final ceasefire was signed on 10 June, Israel’s territorial gains had put around a million Arabs under their control, signalling the start of a new phase in Arab-Israeli relations.
On 29th April 1975, America began Operation Frequent Wind – the evacuation of over 1,000 American civilians and a further 6,000 “at-risk” Vietnamese from Saigon.
The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
Over five thousand French Algerian, Moroccan and territorial troops died within ten minutes of the chlorine gas being released.
The German fighter pilot Baron Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, was shot down and killed.
The Canadian Corps successfully captured Vimy Ridge in the First World War.
Lee’s surrender to Grant encouraged other Confederate forces across the south to do the same and marked the beginning of the end of the American Civil War.
The withdrawal of the last regular American troops from South Vietnam ended eight years of direct US military involvement in Vietnam.
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