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1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1948 Last British armies leave Israel 1945 Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed 1945 Cologne taken by allied armies 1944 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies 1943 General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe 1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad 1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad 1942 Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies 1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies 1940 Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg 1940 Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland 1931 Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies 1918 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) 1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) 1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army 1914 General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies 1878 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general, White Armies, WW II 1870 Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies 1868 Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated 1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies 1864 General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins 1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman 1862 Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee 1862 Confederate armies officially divide into corps 1862 General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC 1861 General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies 1861 Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies 1861 St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies 1854 Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea 1813 Danzig surrenders to allied armies 1813 Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies 1813 Lubeck surrenders to allied armies 1813 Stettin surrenders to allied armies 1813 Dresden surrenders to allied armies 1799 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies 1746 Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherlands armies 1689 Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French 1688 Austrian armies occupy Belgrade 1686 Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks 1644 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies 1644 Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win 1643 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies 1643 Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies 1643 Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies 1643 Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies 1643 Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists 1635 Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan 1632 Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein 1632 Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies 1601 Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London 1544 King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France 1544 Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France 1527 Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies 1396 Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies 1241 Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans 1014 Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies |
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