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1969 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)

1948 Event - Last British armies leave Israel

1945 Event - Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed

1945 Event - Cologne taken by allied armies

1944 Event - 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies

1943 Event - General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe

1943 Event - Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad

1942 Event - Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad

1942 Event - Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies

1942 Event - KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies

1940 Event - Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

1940 Event - Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland

1931 Birthday - Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies

1918 Event - Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)

1918 Event - German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)

1915 Event - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army

1914 Event - General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front

1895 Event - Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies

1878 Birthday - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general, White Armies, WW II

1870 Event - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies

1868 Event - Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated

1865 Event - General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

1864 Event - General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins

1864 Event - Grant is named commander of the Union armies

1862 Event - Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman

1862 Event - Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee

1862 Event - Confederate armies officially divide into corps

1862 Event - General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC

1861 Event - General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies

1861 Event - Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies

1861 Event - St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies

1854 Event - Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea

1813 Event - Danzig surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Lubeck surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Stettin surrenders to allied armies

1813 Event - Dresden surrenders to allied armies

1799 Event - King of Naples flees before advancing French armies

1746 Event - Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherlands armies

1689 Event - Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French

1688 Event - Austrian armies occupy Belgrade

1686 Event - Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks

1644 Event - 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies

1644 Event - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win

1643 Event - 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies

1643 Event - Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies

1643 Event - Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies

1643 Event - Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies

1643 Event - Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists

1635 Event - Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan

1632 Event - Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein

1632 Event - Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies

1601 Event - Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London

1544 Event - King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France

1544 Event - Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France

1527 Event - Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies

1396 Event - Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies

1241 Event - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans

1014 Event - Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies













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