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1998 Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide 1996 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician, dies at 77 1994 India army kills 27 Moslem militants 1994 Boris Alexandrov, conductor, Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88 1994 Army shoots to death 23-40 fishermen in Gonaives Haiti 1994 Serbian army bombs distress clinic in Goradze Bosnia, 28 killed 1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed 1994 Battles between army and rebellious indians in South Mexico, kill 57 1993 Serbian army fires on school in Sarajevo, 9 children died 1993 Matthew B Ridgway, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (1953-55), dies at 98 1993 Guatemala president Jorge Serrano overthrown by army 1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma 1992 Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators 1992 Army refused to overturn 127 year old conviction against Dr. Mudd 1992 Yugoslav Army seize Bosnian President Alija Izetbegovic 1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3 1991 Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die 1991 Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93 1991 U.S. acknowledges CIA and U.S. Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career 1990 Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula 1988 Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum 1988 Army in Rangoon shoots on students, 5-10,000 killed 1988 3-judge panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal) 1988 Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83 1988 Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army 1950 - 1953, dies at 76 1987 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes 1987 Syrian army marches into Beirut 1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village 1986 Karachi Pakistan army storms hijacked U.S. B-747, 19 killed 1986 South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia 1986 Suriname army Captain Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling 1986 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda 1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army 1984 Lebanese army fight in Beirut 1983 John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71 1983 Lebanese and Syrian army battle 1983 General Manuel A Noriega becomes commander of Panamanian army 1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents 1982 Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered 1982 Suriname army under Desi Bouterse fires on radio station building 1982 11 soldiers and 6 civilians die by bomb planted by Irish National Liberation Army exploded in a pub in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland 1982 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters by Tyrus; kills 60 1982 Bombs planted by Irish Republican Army explode in 2 London parks 1982 Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena 1982 Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Captain Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66 1981 El Salvador army kills 900 1981 Stanley Clements, actor (Boys' Prison, Army Bound, Hot News), dies 1981 Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76 1981 Heavy battle between Christian militia and Syrian army in East Lebanon 1979 Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum 1979 Red Army beats New York Rangers 5-2 at MSG 1979 U.S.S.R. airlifts invasionary army to Afghanistan 1979 Iran army occupies Piranshahr 1979 Iran army conquerors Baneh 1979 Iran army conquerors Mahabad 1979 Iran army opens offensive against Kurds 1978 Iraqi Ayatollah Khomeini calls for uprising in Irani army 1978 Irani army shoots on Khomeini followers in Teheran, 100s killed 1977 Army shoots on market vendor women in Conakry Guinee 1977 Pakistan's army, led by General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes power 1976 Syrian army conquerors Beirut 1976 Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies 1976 Clifford Alexander, Jr. confirmed as 1st black secretary of Army 1975 Red Army beats New York Rangers 7-3 at MSG 1975 Indonesian army occupies East Timor 1975 Yankees sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, and another part is set afire 1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army 1975 Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia 1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21 1974 Creighton W. Abrams, Jr., U.S. general/army staff chief (Vietnam), dies at 59 1974 Turkish army attacks Nicosia Cyprus 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed 1974 Patricia Hearst (19) kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army 1973 Israeli forces reach Suez, trapping Egyptian army 1972 U.S. Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army 1971 India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders 1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army 1970 Bomb kills 1 at University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison 1970 New York Times falsely reports U.S. Army has ended domestic surveillance 1970 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland) 1969 U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal 1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians 1969 Communist New People's Army found in Philippines 1969 Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies 1968 Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces 1968 James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81 1968 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83 1967 Biafran offensive against Nigerian army 1967 Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City 1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army 1967 Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army 1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title 1967 A J F Moody, 1st U.S. Army General to die in Vietnam 1967 New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments 1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die 1965 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam 1965 Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed 1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms 1962 Chinese army lands in India 1962 Premier Ben Khedda disbands Algerian Liberation Army fighters 1962 2 U.S. Army officers killed in Saigon 1962 Argentine President Frondizi flees from the army 1961 French army revolts in Algeria 1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua 1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA 1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in U.S. Army 1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers 1960 U.S. Army promoted Elvis Presley to Sergeant 1959 George C Marshall, U.S. Army general, dies at 78 1959 France Observator reports torture practice by French army in Algeria 1958 Nancy J. Currie, born in Wilmington, Delaware, Major Army/astronaut, STS-57, 70, sk: 88 1958 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB) 1958 Army launches 4th U.S. successful satellite, Explorer IV 1958 Saddam Hussein and Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy 1958 Bruse Campbell, actor, Army of Darkness 1958 French settlers riot against French army in Algeria 1958 U.S. Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III" 1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761) 1958 Jeffrey N Williams, Superior Wisconsin, Major Army/astronaut 1958 U.S.S.R. shrinks army to 300,000 1957 Elvis Presley given draft notice to join U.S. Army for National Service 1957 Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration 1957 300 U.S. Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark 1957 Patrick G. Forrester, born in El Paso, Texas, Lieutenant Colonel Army/astronaut 1957 U.S. Army sells last homing pigeons 1956 Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109 1956 7 Army trucks loaded with dynamite explode in middle of Cali, Columbia killing 1,100-1,200, destroying 2,000 buildings 1956 East Germany forms own army (National People's Army) 1955 Charles D "Sam" Gemar, Yankton, South Dakota, army/astronaut, STS-38, 48, 62 1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years 1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala, JF Dulles and United Fruit Co 1954 Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends 1954 1st army helicopter battalion forms, Fort Bragg, NC 1954 U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics 1954 Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli 1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams) 1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76 1952 Michael "Rich"ard Clifford, Cal, Army/Astronaut, STS-53, 59, 76 1952 East German SED decides to form East Germany army 1952 Oupa J. Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant, Ciskei 1952 British army occupies Ismailiya, Suez Canal Zone 1951 Egyptian army fires on British troops 1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations 1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing 1951 Indonesian army offensive against Darul Islam on Java 1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas 1950 Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army 1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike 1950 KNIL (Royal Dutch East Indies Army) unites 1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Canton 1949 Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai 1949 Chinese Red army conquerors Nanjing 1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin 1948 1st U.S. woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in 1948 Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria 1948 Beersheba liberated by Israeli army 1948 Operation 10 Plagues - Israeli offensive against Egyptian army 1948 China's Red army occupies Chinchov 1948 Israeli army captures Nazareth 1948 Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army 1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army 1948 Mao Zedong's army occupies Yenan 1948 1st Lt. Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps 1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki 1948 Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff 1947 U.S. Department of Army created 1947 1st political action of Netherlands Army on Java and Sumatra 1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight 1946 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB) 1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45 1946 Michael Wilkes, commander, UK Field Army 1946 Ian Lavender, British actor, Stupid Boy in Dad's Army 1946 U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ 1945 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB) 1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0 1945 Indonesian army forms 1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army 1945 U.S. Army B-25 crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Building, 14 die 1945 Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri 1945 Mitsuri Ushijima, Japanese Lieutenant-General/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri 1945 Simon B Buckner, U.S. Lieutenant-General/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action 1945 German Army in Italy surrenders 1945 Soviet army reach Rostock 1945 Red Army occupies Demmin 1945 Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin 1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp 1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon 1945 U.S. 5th army reaches Swiss border 1945 U.S. 5th army enters Genua 1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin 1945 Russia army arrives at outskirts of Berlin 1945 U.S. 7th Army occupies Neurenberg 1945 U.S. 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg 1945 Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops 1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin 1945 British Army liberates Belsen concentration camp 1945 U.S. 7th Army and allies forces captured Nuremberg and Stuttgart in Germany 1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge and Assen Netherlands from Nazis 1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna) 1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army 1945 U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar 1945 Ruhrgebied sealed off by U.S. 1st and 9th army 1945 U.S. 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden 1945 U.S. 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms 1945 U.S. 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen 1945 U.S. 3rd Army crosses Rhine at Nierstein 1945 Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army 1945 U.S. 7th Army Corps captures Cologne 1945 U.S. 7th Army occupies last part of Westwall 1945 British Army captures Goch 1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder 1945 U.S. Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie 1945 Warsaw freed by Soviet army 1945 U.S. 1st and 3rd army meet at Houffalise 1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp 1944 Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab 1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army 1944 U.S. Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast 1944 Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General) 1944 U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg 1944 U.S. 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen 1944 U.S. 9th Army takes Margraten cemetery 1944 Soviet army invades Hungary 1944 U.S. 1st army wins battle of Aachen 1944 U.S. 6th army lands on Leyte, Philippines 1944 U.S. 1st army begins battle of Aachen 1944 German army retreats from Athens 1944 Rudolf Schmundt, German gen/Hitlers army adjunct, dies from injuries 1944 30th Infantry division of U.S. 1st Army frees Margraten 1944 U.S. Army troops entered Germany for 1st time 1944 General Von Zangens 15th army escape from Zealand 1944 U.S. 1st Army frees Namen 1944 U.S. 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris 1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp reaches Troyes 1944 U.S. 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine 1944 U.S. 12nd Army corp occupies Sens 1944 U.S. and British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap 1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris 1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Mantes-Gassicourt near Paris 1944 U.S. 20th Army corp conquers Chartres 1944 U.S. 12 Army corp occupies Orleans 1944 U.S. 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux 1944 U.S. 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orleans 1944 British 8th army occupies Florence 1944 U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Le Mans 1944 U.S. 3rd Army reaches suburbs of Brest Brittany 1944 U.S. 20th Army corp under general Walker occupies Nantes 1944 British 8th army reaches suburbs of Florence Italy 1944 General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army 1944 U.S. 8th Army corp occupies Coutances France 1944 Soviet Army frees Majdanek concentration camp 1944 Soviet Army marches into Lublin Poland 1944 Rudolf Schmundt, gen/Hitler's Army adjunct, dies from wounds 1944 U.S. V-III-E Army corp opens assault on Coutances Cotentin 1944 U.S. 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg 1944 2nd British army reaches Grainville-Mouen line 1944 British 14th army frees Imphal Assam 1944 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies 1944 Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino, Italy 1944 Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania 1944 U.S. 1st Army completes invasion plan 1944 Soviet army begins offensive at Oranienbaum/Wolchow 1944 Army defeats Navy 10-7 in football "Arab Bowl," Oran, North Africa 1944 General Clark replaces General Patton as commander of 7th Army 1943 British 8th Army occupies Orsogna/Ortona Italy 1943 U.S. 1st Army establishes headquarter in Bristol 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy 1943 Zjadovs 5th Gardeleger/Managarovs 53rd Army reconquer Kremenchug 1943 Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov 1943 Red Army recaptures Brjansk 1943 Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny 1943 British 8th army occupies Tarente 1943 Red Army occupies Bachmatsj 1943 British 8th army lands at Taranto South Italy 1943 British 8th army lands in South Italy (Messina) 1943 Red Army under General Vatutin recaptures Achtyrka 1943 Red army recaptures Charkow 1943 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk 1943 Red Army recaptures Tchukujev, at Kharkov 1943 Red Army recaptures Bogodukov 1943 5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia 1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis 1943 British and U.S. Army link up in Africa during WW II 1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum 1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane 1943 British 8th army opens assault on Mareth line, Tunisia 1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod 1943 Red Army evacuates Kharkov 1943 New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the U.S. army 1943 Red army conquers Kharkov 1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia 1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk 1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army 1943 German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II 1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli 1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad 1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa 1942 Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja and Morozowsk 1942 North Africa: 5th German pantser army forms under Colonel General von Arnim 1942 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders 1942 German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad 1942 Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don 1942 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya 1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines 1942 German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die 1942 General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1942 Robert Lee Stewart, Washington D.C., Brigadier General U.S. Army/astronaut, STS-41B, 51J 1942 "Monty" appointed commandant of British 8th Army at Alamein 1942 Richard Gott, British gen/commandant of 8th Army, dies in battle at 43 1942 Colonel General Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo 1942 Irving Berlin's musical "This is the Army," premieres in New York City 1942 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks 1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training 1942 Women's Army Auxiliary Corps began basic training at Fort Des Moines 1942 Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj 1942 Colonel General Von Paul' 6th Army enters Ukraine 1942 Jewish Brigade attached by British Army in WW II, forms 1942 German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim 1942 Tank battle at Bir Hakeim: African corps vs British army 1942 U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms 1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship 1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in U.S. army 1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies 1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army 1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army 1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army 1941 German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews 1941 Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk 1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo 1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army 1941 British 13th Army corp reaches Tobruk 1941 GJ Berenschot, general/supreme commander Dutch East Indies army, dies 1941 German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R. 1941 German army occupies Briansk, U.S.S.R. 1941 German army conquerors Kiev 1941 Red army evacuates Smolensk 1941 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman 1941 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman 1941 German army enters Ukraine 1941 Charlie Norwood, born in Georgia, Army Captain, politician, member, U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia 1941 1st U.S. Army flying school for black cadets dedicated 1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government 1941 British army begins evacuation of Kreta 1941 Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia 1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia 1941 English Army breaks German spy codes 1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece 1941 Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt 1941 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed 1941 War Department forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets 1940 Benjamin O. Davis became 1st Black general in U.S. Army 1940 U.S. Army General Benjamin Davis becomes 1st black general 1940 Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr named 1st black general in regular army 1940 General George Marshall sworn in as chief of staff of U.S. army 1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania 1940 Soviet Army occupies Lithuania 1940 Dutch army demobilizes 1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army) 1939 Finnish army recaptures Aglajarvi 1939 Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland 1939 Nazi army reaches Warsaw 1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia 1939 General Reijnders appointed supreme commander of Dutch army 1938 Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander, South Africa army 1938 Hitler seizes control of German army and puts Nazi in key posts 1937 Japans army conquers Shanghai 1937 U.S.S.R. executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues 1937 U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio 1936 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle 1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by U.S. army 1935 Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi 1935 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia 1935 Norman Ralph Augustine, American businessman and Under Secretary of the Army 1975 - 1977 1935 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980- 1934 Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member 1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and Navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles 1934 Norman Schwarzkopf, born in Trenton, New Jersey, nicknamed, Stormin' Norman, The Bear, Commander, Coalition Forces in the Gulf War, 1991, retired U.S. Army General 1934 U.S. contract air mail service canceled, replaced by U.S. Army for 6 months 1933 Hitler, Goring, Prince Ruprecht, Bruning and top army meet in Berlin 1932 William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers 1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol 1928 Chiang Kai-shek's army crosses Yang-tse 1927 Guomindang Army conquerors Shanghai as British marines flee 1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai 1926 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army 1926 Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) 1926 110,000 watch Army and Navy play a 21-all tie 1925 Italian army takes Somalia 1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco 1925 Kurd rebels surrender to Turkish army 1925 Abd el-Krims Rifkabylen beats French army in Morocco 1924 Notre Dame beats Army 13-7, New York Hearld Tribune dubs them (4 Horsemen) 1924 2 U.S. Army planes end around-world flight, Seattle to Seattle, 57 stops 1923 Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic 1923 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD 1923 Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon 1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople 1923 With Spain's king Alfonso XIII assist, army coup under de Rivera 1923 Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir, Army Nursing Services 1923 Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships 1922 Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help 1922 U.S. intervention army leaves Honduras 1921 Bill Mauldin, cartoonist, WW II Army grunts 1921 Red Army under Trotsky attack sailors of Kronstadt 1920 General Amos Fries appointed 1st U.S. Army chemical warfare chief 1920 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service, QARANC 1920 General Wrangel opens offensive against red Army 1919 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia 1919 Petlyura's Ukrainian Army kills 35 members of a Jewish defense group 1919 Ukranian (Petlyura) Army recaptures Kiev 1919 Ukrainian National Army massacres 25 Jews in Podolia Ukraine 1919 1st jump with Army Air Corp (rip-cord type) parachute (Les Irvin) 1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army 1919 Amritsar Massacre-British Army fires on nationalist rioters in India 1919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews 1919 Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf 1919 Reds hire Pat Moran as manager as Christy Mathewson, is still in France with U.S. Army 1919 Army Archerd, Hollywood columnist/TV host, Movie Game 1918 U.S. Army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany 1918 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns 1918 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) 1918 Alejandro Lanusse, army officer/politician 1918 Christy Mathewson resigns as Reds manager to accept a commission as a captain in chemical warfare branch of Army 1918 President Wilson authorizes U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Medal 1918 1st WW I U.S. Army troop ship torpedoed and sunk by Germany, off Ireland 1918 Army chaplain school organizes at Ft. Monroe Va 1917 Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants 1917 Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army 1917 Buffalo Bill Cody, army scout and Indian fighter, dies 1916 German army under General Mackensen occupies Bucharest 1916 U.S. Army forms Reserve Officers Training Corps 1916 Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines 1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu 1915 British army conquerors Chilly al Imara, Mesopotamie 1915 Arthur Lowe, born in Hayfield, England, actor, Captain Mainwaring-Dad's Army 1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army 1915 Henry McNeal Turner, 1 U.S. black army chaplain, dies at 82 1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle 1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders 1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army 1915 Turkish and German army reach Suez Canal 1914 Netherlands army shoots up geinterneerde Belgian soldiers: 8 killed 1914 Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia 1914 British army conquerors Bazra 1914 Creighton Abrams, U.S., army general, Vietnam War 1914 British expeditionary army/general Lanrezacs army attacks the Marne 1914 Von Glucks army meets up with British expeditionary army 1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army 1914 Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia 1914 Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army 1914 Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium 1914 German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan 1914 German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp 1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad 1914 Belgian army withdraws to Antwerp 1914 German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught 1914 German army occupies forts at Luik 1914 German army occupies city of Liege Belgium 1914 German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice 1914 King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army 1914 Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army 1914 U.S. Army air service 1st comes into being, in Signal Corps 1914 William Westmoreland, born in Saxon, South Carolina, army general, Vietnam era 1914 White Wolf gang beats government army in Jingdezhen China 1913 Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively 1913 Alida Margaretha Bosshardt, Lt-colonel of Dutch Salvation Army 1913 John Lund, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Wackiest Ship in the Army 1912 U.S. Army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane 1912 John Le Mesurier, born in Bedford, England, actor, Jabberwocky, Dad's Army 1912 Army fires on striking mine workers at Lena-gold fields Siberia 1912 Frank Pace, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Army, 1950 - 1953 1911 Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath) 1911 Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany 1911 Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army 1910 Margot Turner, matron-in-chief, Army Nursing Service 1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers 1909 Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army 1909 Orville Wright tests 1st U.S. Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s 1908 Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart' 1907 David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in New York City 1907 Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division 1907 World's 1st air force established in the U.S. Army 1907 Romanian Army puts down Moldavian farmers' revolt 1905 Boris Alexandrov, conductor, Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble 1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang) 1904 Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army 1903 Cornerstone laid for U.S. Army war college, Washington, D.C. 1902 Boers and British army sign peace treaty 1901 Army War College forms in Washington D.C. 1901 General Maxwell D Taylor, former U.S. Army chief of staff 1901 Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever 1901 Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization 1900 Boer army under General Kritzinger take Cape colony 1900 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht 1900 Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria 1900 British army occupiers Pretoria South Africa 1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa 1900 Battle at Driefontein, South Africa (Boers vs. British army) 1900 Battle at Hart's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Battle at Vaalkrans, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1900 Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army) 1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) 1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa - Boers vs British army 1899 Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army) 1899 Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army 1899 Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army 1899 Battle at Elandslaagte Natal: (Boers vs British army) 1899 Battle at Talana Hill Natal: British army vs Boers 1899 San Francisco named as a port of dispatch for Army transports 1898 Lord Kitcheners army bombs Omdurman Sudan 1898 Congress passes Volunteer Army Act calling for a Volunteer Cavalry 1898 Army transfers Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco Bay to Navy 1898 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and writer, Army of the Shadows 1897 Battle at Thessalie: Turkish army beats Greece 1897 Battle at Bida Gold Coast: British troops beat Nupe's army 1896 General Kitcheners army occupies Dongola Sudan 1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed 1894 Commonweal of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for trespassing at Capitol 1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash 1893 Francis Dhanis army occupies Kasongo 1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe 1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria 1891 Captain Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan 1890 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point 1886 Henry "Hap" Arnold, commanding general, U.S. Army Air Force, WW II 1885 Serbian army occupies Bulgaria 1885 George B McClellan, Union army general, dies at 58 1885 U.S. Salvation Army officially organized 1884 Suriname army shoots on British-Indian contract workers, 7 killed 1884 Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army 1883 Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi's army destroys Egyptian army 1883 William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle 1881 Battle at Amajuba, South Africa: Boers vs. British army under General Colley 1880 Victorio, Apache chief/murderer, killed by Mexican army 1880 Salvation Army forms in Londo 1880 Salvation Army of England sets up U.S. welfare and religious activity 1879 Zulus attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana South Africa 1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 1877 U.S. Army breaks railroad strike 1870 Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63 1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French 1870 U.S. Army establishes U.S. National Weather Service 1870 173 Blackfoot (140 women and children) killed in Montana by U.S. Army 1866 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org) 1866 U.S. Grant named 1st general of Army 1866 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army 1865 Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general, 1904-34 1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor 1865 Army commander in South Carolina orders Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land 1865 William Booth founds Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) 1865 At Ft. Towson, General Stand Watie surrenders last sizeable Confederate army 1865 Confederate General J E Johnston surrenders Army of Tennessee, at Durham North Carolina 1865 Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1/3rd of Lee's army cut off 1865 Lee's army arrives at Amelia Courthouse 1865 Battle of 5 Forks Virginia, signalling end of Lee's army 1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough 1865 1st black major in U.S. Army, Martin Robinson Delany 1865 Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army 1864 General Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock 1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army 1863 President Davis orders service duty for confederate army 1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg 1863 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac 1863 End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws 1863 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded 1863 1st black Civil War regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, mustered into U.S. army 1863 Battle at Bear River, Washington: U.S. Army vs indians 1863 General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac 1862 40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC 1862 Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee 1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under General Braxton Bragg 1862 Ambrose Burnside replaces McClellen as head of Army of Potomac 1862 General Read army pulls out of Antietam Creek Virginia 1862 General Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky 1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry 1862 Confederate Army ironclad "Arkansas" is badly damaged in Union attack 1862 U.S. Army authorized to accept blacks as laborers 1862 United army officially divides corps 1862 U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope 1862 French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo 1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac, General Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief 1862 John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32 1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederate Army 1861 Sally Tompkins is only Confederate Army female commissioned officer 1861 U.S. Army abolishes flogging 1861 Union General George McClellan takes command from McDowell of Potamic Army 1861 Battle of Corrick's Ford, Virginia (Carrick's Ford) - Union army takes total control of western Virginia CS20 US53 1861 Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army 1861 Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers and another 18,000 seamen 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army 1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by President Lincoln 1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army 1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army 1857 U.S. Army, Pacific Div HQ permanently forms at Presidio 1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo 1851 Walter Reed, U.S. Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever 1850 Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 1848 Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53 1847 Battle of Buena Vista: U.S. troops beat Mexican army 1846 Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas 1844 Galusha Pennypacker, Major General Union Army 1841 William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 Alexander Swift "Sandie" Pendleton, Lt-colonel Confederate Army 1840 Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 James Dearing, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1839 Emory Upton, Major General Union Army 1839 John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 John Pelham, Major Confederate Army 1838 Basil Wilson Duke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 John Shaw Billings, U.S., librarian and army physician 1838 Thomas Benton Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 Gilbert Moxley Sorrel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1838 William Hugh Young, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Ellison Capers, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 William Clarke Quantrill, Col Confederate Army 1837 Victor Jean Baptiste Girardey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Eli Long, Major General Union Army 1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army 1837 William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Horace Porter, Brigadier General Union Army 1837 Ephraim Elmer Ellsworth, Col Union Army 1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Major General Confederate Army 1837 Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 James Phillip Simms, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Pierce Manning Butler Young, Major General Confederate Army 1836 Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Major General Confederate Army 1836 George Washington Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 John McCausland, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Joseph Wheeler II, Major General, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee 1836 Evander McIvor Law, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Edwin Gray Lee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 James Patrick Major, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Bryan Morel Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General, Confederate Army 1835 Micah Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Frank Crawford Armstrong, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Fitzhugh Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1835 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General Confederate Army 1835 Adelbert Ames, Major General Union Army 1835 Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director Confederate Army 1835 Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 William Hicks "Red" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 William Wirt Allen, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 William Gaston Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Theodore Washington Brevard, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Ibrahim Pasha's army attacks Jewish settlers of Hebron Palestine 1835 Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1835 Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General Union Army 1834 Dudley McIver DuBose, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Francis Marion Cockrell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 William MacRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Nathaniel Harrison Harris, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 Francis Asbury Shoup, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1834 William Dorsey Pender, Major General Confederate Army 1833 Charles Miller Shelley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col Confederate Army 1833 Edward Dorr Tracy, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Stephen Dill Lee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1833 John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army 1833 Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Major General Union Army 1833 John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Frank Wheaton, Major General Union Army 1833 James Edward Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General Confederate Army 1833 Clement Anselm Evans, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 James Deshler, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 William Whedbee Kirkland, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General Confederate Army 1833 John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp 1832 Archibald Gracie, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 William Woods Averell, Major General Union Army 1832 Henry Harrison Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Theodore Shelton Bowers, Brigadier General Union Army 1832 Samuel Sprigg Carroll, Major General Union Army 1832 George Washington Custis Lee, Major General Confederate Army 1832 Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 James Alexander Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Camille Armand Jules Marie de Polignac, Major General Confederate Army 1832 John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army 1832 John Pegram, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Richard Waterhouse, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army 1831 Claudius Charles Wilson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 ? Gist, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Battle of Hasselt - Dutch army drives out Belgian Army 1831 Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium 1831 Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Otho French Strahl, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 John Bell Hood, General Confederate Army 1831 George Burgwyn Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Edward Cary Walthall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, born in Albany, New York, Major General, Union Army 1831 Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army 1831 Henry Brevard Davidson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 John Bullock Clark, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 James Ronald Chalmers, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Allen Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Esten Cooke, John Confederate Army 1830 John Stevens Bowen, Major General Confederate Army 1830 Stephen Elliott, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 King Willem I mobilizes Dutch army 1830 John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army 1830 Dutch army leaves Brussels, after 100s killed 1830 John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Eugene Asa Carr, Major General Union Army 1830 William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 George Blake Cosby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 William Passmore Carlin, Major General Union Army 1829 Samuel Wylie Crawford, Major General Union Army 1829 Charles Sidney Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Lucius Marshall Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Dandridge McRae, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Bradley Tyler Johnson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Seth Maxwell Barton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 James Conner, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 John Horace Forney, Major General Confederate Army 1829 John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army 1829 William Booth, founder, Salvation Army 1829 Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General Confederate Army 1829 William Robertson Boggs, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Johnson Hagood, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Jean Jacques Alfred Mouton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Alfred Iverson, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1829 Alfred Cummings, Georgia, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Robert Bullock, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer Confederate Army 1828 William McComb, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Byron Grimes, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Turner Ashby, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 William Alexander Hammond, Brigadier General Union Army 1828 Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea 1828 George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Cuvier Grover, Major General Union Army 1828 Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 James Johnston Pettigrew, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 John Austin Wharton, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Junius Daniel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Alexander William Campbell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Alpheus Baker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1828 Charles William Field, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General, Confederate Army 1828 Jefferson Columbus Davis, Major General Union Army 1828 James Fleming Fagan, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Robert Ransom, Jr., Major General Confederate Army 1828 Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Major General Confederate Army 1828 August Valentine Kautz, Major General Union Army 1827 Alfred Moore Scales, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Isaac Munroe St. John, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Kenner Garrard, Major General Union Army 1827 Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Julius Adolph de Lagnel, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 William Montague Browne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 John Robert Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 William Richard Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Henry DeLamar Clayton, Major General Confederate Army 1827 Richard W. Johnson, Major General Union Army 1827 James Barnet Fry, Major General Union Army 1827 Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army 1827 Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 John Calvin Brown, Major General Confederate Army 1827 John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1906 1827 William Lewis "Old Tige" Cabell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 George Brinton McClellan, Major General Union Army 1826 William Mahone, Major General Confederate Army 1826 Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 Matt Whitaker Ransom, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 William Denison Whipple, Major General Union Army 1826 Philip Dale Roddey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1826 Richard Taylor, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1826 [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson, Partisan Confederate Army 1825 Romeyn Beck Ayres, Major General Union Army 1825 Henry Heth, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Ambrose Powell Hill, Lieutenant General, Confederate 3rd Army Corp 1825 Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Raleigh Edward Colston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Armistead Lindsay Long, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Thomas Hart Taylor, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 William Duncan Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Benjamin Jefferson Hill, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Edward Lloyd Thomas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 William Nelson Rector Beall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 John Dunovant, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army 1825 George Edward Pickett, Major General Confederate Army 1825 Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1825 Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Arthur Middleton Manigault, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Truman Seymour, Major General Union Army 1824 Absalom Baird, Major General Union Army 1824 William Terry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Battle at Junan - Simon Bolivars army beats Spanish 1824 Gabriel Colvin Wharton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 William Tatus Wofford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 William Montgomery Gardner, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Edmund Kirby Smith, Florida, General Confederate Army 1824 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 William Henry Chase Whiting, Major General Confederate Army 1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General Confederate Army 1824 John Creed Moore, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 James Morrison Hawes, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Preston Smith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 William Henry Forney, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Daniel Marsh Frost, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 James Lawson Kemper, Major General Confederate Army 1823 James Allen Hardie, Major General Union Army 1823 Alfred Gibbs, Major General Union Army 1823 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Major General Union Army 1823 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Simon Bolivar Buckner, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1823 William Thompson Martin, Major General Confederate Army 1823 John Echols, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 William Flank Perry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Franklin Gardner, Major General Confederate Army 1822 William Booth Taliaferro, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 James Byron Gordon, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Mansfield Lovell, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 John George Walker, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Young Marshall Moody, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Samuel Davis Sturgis, Major General Union Army 1822 Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Seth Williams, Major General Union Army 1822 Allison Nelson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Matthew Duncan Ector, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 James Patton Anderson, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General Confederate Army 1821 Rufus Barringer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Richard Heron Anderson, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 William Barksdale, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Clement Hoffman "Rock" Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South 1821 Daniel Harvey Hill, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1821 Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1821 William Read Scurry, Confederate Army Brigadier General 1821 Lafayette McLaws, Major General Confederate Army 1821 Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Brigadier General, Confederate Army 1820 David Allen Russell, Army Major General, Union 1820 Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 James Monroe Goggin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Benjamin Franklin Cheatham, Major General Confederate Army 1820 Williams Carter Wickham, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Earle Van Dorn, Major General Confederate Army 1820 Winfield Scott "Old Swet" Featherston, Army Brigadier General, Confederate 1820 William Miller, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Evander McNair, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Harry Thompson Hays, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Louis Herbert, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General Union Army 1820 John Haskell King, Major General Union Army 1820 Abraham Buford, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Samuel Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1819 Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Zachariah Cantey Deas, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Zebulon York, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Samuel McGowan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 George Washington Getty, Major General Union Army 1819 Henry Jackson Hunt, Major General Union Army 1819 Martin Luther Smith, Major General Confederate Army 1819 William Steele, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 William Wirt Adams, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 James Green Martin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1819 Zealous Bates Tower, Major General Union Army 1818 James Cantey, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 David Addison Weisiger, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Paul Octave Hebert, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Major General Confederate Army 1818 Samuel Gibbs French, Major General Confederate Army 1818 Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Rufus Ingalls, Major General Union Army 1818 William Farquhar Barry, Major General Union Army 1818 John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Wade Hampton, born in South Carolina, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1818 Albion Parris Howe, Major General Union Army 1818 John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 William Raine Peck, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 James Jay Archer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Richard Brooke Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Bushrod Rust Johnson, Major General Confederate Army 1817 Carter Littlepage Stevenson, Major General Confederate Army 1817 Philip Cook, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army 1817 Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, U.S., army nurse, union 1817 James Brewerton Ricketts, Major General Union Army 1817 Braxton Bragg, General Confederate Army 1817 Lewis Henry Little, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Lewis Addison Armistead, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1817 Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1817 San Martin leads a revolutionary army over Andes 1817 John Selden Roane, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General Confederate Army 1816 Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General Confederate Army 1816 William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General Confederate Army 1816 William Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Francis Stebbins Bartow, Col Confederate Army 1816 John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army 1816 George Henry Thomas, Major General Union Army 1816 Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general 1816 Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Major General Union Army 1816 Louis Trezevant Wigfall, Confederate Army 1816 Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General Confederate Army 1816 Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Henry Gray, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 George Gordon Meade, Major General Union Army 1815 James Hewward Trapier, General Confederate Army 1815 Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 William Joseph Hardee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1815 Henry Constantine Wayne, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Tyree Harris Bell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 John Porter McCown, Major General Confederate Army 1815 Stewart Van Vliet, Major General Union Army 1815 Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia 1815 Paul Jones Semmes, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Martin Edward Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army 1815 James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 James Chesnut, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Henry Wagner "Old Brains" Halleck, Major-General Union Army 1815 Alexander Brydie Dyer, Major General Union Army 1814 James Henry Carleton, Major General Union Army 1814 Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 John Clifford Pemberton, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1814 Maxcy Gregg, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Henry Lewis "Old Rock" Benning, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Jones Mitchell Withers, Major General Confederate Army 1814 Richard Griffith, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1814 Thomas Green, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1813 William Scott Ketchum, Major General Union Army 1813 Henry Washington Benham, Major General Union Army 1813 Thomas West Sherman, Major General Union Army 1813 Office of surgeon general of the U.S. Army forms 1813 Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1813 Thomas Neville Waul, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia 1812 French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow 1812 Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia 1812 Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1812 Daniel Henry Rucker, Major General Union Army 1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy, Major General Union Army 1812 George Bibb Crittenden, Major General Confederate Army 1812 Humphrey Marshall, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Ben McCulloch, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 English expeditionary army conquerors Dutch Indies 1811 Goode Bryan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Charles Clark, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1811 Robert Allen, Major General Union Army 1811 Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army 1810 Adley Hogan Gladden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1810 Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1810 Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Albert Pike, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 William Nelson Pendleton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Sterline "Old Pap" Price, Major General Confederate Army 1809 English invasion army lands in Walcheren 1809 Battle at Talavera: British/Spanish army vs French army 1809 George Philip St. Cooke, Major General Union Army 1809 John Smith Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Philip St. George Cocke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 George Washington Cullom, Major General Union Army 1809 Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Hugh Weedon Mercer, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1808 Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians 1808 Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1807 Richard Lucian Page, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1807 John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General Confederate Army 1807 Joseph Eggleston Johnston, General Confederate Army 1807 Alfred Eugene "Mudwall" Jackson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1807 Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army 1806 Stand Watie, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Henry Alexander Wise, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 John Breckinridge Grayson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1862 1806 Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Amos Beebe Eaton, Major General Union Army 1806 Leonidas Polk, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1805 Benjamin Hugur, Major General Confederate Army 1805 Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French 1805 Napoleons army draws into the Rhine 1805 Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army 1804 Theophilus Hunter Holmes, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1804 Lorenzo Thomas, Major General Union Army 1804 Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1803 Battle of Assaye-British-Indian forces beat Maratha Army 1803 Gabriel James Rains, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1803 Albert Sidney Johnston, General Confederate Army 1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General Confederate Army 1802 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) 1802 George Douglas Ramsey, Major general Union Army 1801 Daniel Smith Donelson, Major General Confederate Army 1801 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66 1800 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo 1800 John Henry Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1799 Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs 1799 Battle at Castricum: French and Bataafs army beats English/Russian army 1799 English and Russian invasion army conquerors Receiver 1799 English invasion army lands in North-Holland 1798 Richard Delafield, Major General Union Army 1798 Battle at Castelbar, Ireland: French army hunts The English 1798 Samuel Cooper, Sect of War/General Confederate Army 1797 Wililam "Extra Billy" Smith, Confederacy Confederate Army 1796 Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General Union Army 1795 James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army 1795 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht, Netherlands 1794 James Wolfe Ripley, Major General Union Army 1794 Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prussian/U.S. inspector-general of Washingtons army, dies at 64 1794 Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant 1794 Battle of Colors: France under Jourdan beats Austrian army 1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 1793 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria army beats France 1792 Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians 1792 Prussia army moves into French territory 1792 Russian army enters Poland 1790 Austrian army occupies Brussels 1789 U.S. War Department established a regular army 1788 Russian army of Grigorij Potemkin occupies Ocharov 1788 Masses stone French government army at Grenoble 1788 Joseph Gilbert Totten, Major General Union Army 1787 Amsterdam surrenders to Prussian invasion army 1787 Prussian army moves into Netherlands 1786 Winfield Scott, army general, Union, presidential candidate 1783 Washington resigns as U.S. Army's commander-in-chief 1783 Washington orders Continental Army disbanded 1783 General Washington bids farewell to his army 1783 Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address" 1781 English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia 1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ 1779 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time) 1778 George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army 1778 Baron von Steuben joins Continental Army at Valley Forge 1777 ,George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pennsylvania 1777 British General Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4 1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army 1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from New Jersey 1776 U.S. Army evacuates Long Island/falls back to Manhattan, New York City 1775 Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army 1775 Continental Congress approves resolution barring blacks from army 1775 Officers decide to bar slaves and free blacks from Continental Army 1775 Horatio Gates, issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army 1775 Washington takes command of Continental Army at Cambridge, Mass 1775 George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army 1775 U.S. Army founded 1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan 1774 Jews of Algiers escape attack of Spanish Army 1773 Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader 1772 S ndor Kisfaludy, Hungary, poet/Austrian army, 1793-1801 1761 Russian army occupies Kolberg 1761 Battle at Panipat India: Afghan army beats Mahratten 1760 Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin 1760 Russian/Austrian army occupies Berlin 1760 Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin 1760 Russian and Austrian army occupies Berlin 1760 French army gives Montreal to General Jeffrey Amherst 1759 Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf - Russian-Austrian army overpowers Prussians 1759 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader 1758 British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal 1758 Battle at Hochkirk, Saksen: Austrian army beats Prussia 1758 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine 1757 Battle at Leuthen: Prussian army beats Austrians 1757 Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia 1757 Battle at Hastenbeck: French army beats duke of Cumberland 1757 Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia 1757 Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army 1756 Saxon army surrenders to Prussia 1756 India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army 1755 Battle at Lake George: English army beats France 1752 French army surrenders to the English in Trichinopoly India 1747 Battle at Lafeld: France beat English/Dutch army 1746 French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras 1746 Battle at Piacenza: Austria and Sardinia beat Spanish and French army 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army leaves Glasgow 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk 1745 Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester and occupy Carlisle 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army enters England 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army returns to Edinburgh 1745 Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow 1744 French army takes Austrian Netherlands 1743 Prussian army occupies Saksen, beginning 2nd Silezian War 1741 French and Beiers army occupies Prague 1739 Grigory Potemkin, army officer, statesman, Catherine II's lover, OS 1737 Battle at Banja Luka: Turkish army beats Austrians 1735 John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army 1734 Ralph Abercromby, English army commander, Dutch Guyana 1734 Russian army occupies Danzig 1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples 1730 Friedrich WLGA von Steuben, Prus/U.S. inspector-general of Washington's army 1727 James Wolfe, commanded British Army, captured Quebec 1721 William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader 1715 Battle at Sheriffmuir: English army beats Scottish earl of Mar 1712 Battle at Denain: France under Villars beat Dutch army 1711 Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander 1708 Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy 1708 Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy 1708 Battle at Trencsen: Austria beats Hungarian rebellion army 1706 Battle at Fraustadt: Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen 1704 French and Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German and Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany 1703 English army under arch duke Charles of Austria lands in Portugal 1703 Turkish army removes sultan Mustafa II 1703 Battle at Rultusk: Swedish army beats Russians 1700 Swedish, English and Dutch army lands on Seeland, Denmark 1697 English parliament accept army reduction 1695 Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names 1694 English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest 1694 Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies 1693 Battle at Neerwinden: French beats English/Dutch army 1693 Battle at Boussu-lez-Walcourt: French-English vs Dutch army 1692 Battle at Steenkerke: French beat English/Dutch army 1691 English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland 1691 Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France 1690 Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye 1690 Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army 1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland 1690 King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland 1688 Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England 1687 Acropolis in Athens attacked by Venetian army trying to eject Turks Parthenon destroyed in war between Turks and Venetians 1677 Brandenburgs army occupies Stettin 1676 Paulus Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander, dies at 63 1675 Karl Rabenhaupt, GermanNetherlands baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 1675 Battle at Fehrbellin: Brandenburgs army beats Sweden 1675 Battle at Turkheim (Colmar): French army beats Brandenburg 1672 French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith 1670 Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers 1665 Battle at Viciosa: English and Portuguese army beat Spain 1665 Battle at Monte Carlo: English and Portuguese army beat Spain 1664 Count Miklos of Zrinyi sets out to battle Turkish invasion army 1663 Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to Turkish invasion army 1660 General Moncks army reaches London 1660 General Moncks army battles with the Tweed on way to London 1657 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert 1652 Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels 1650 Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army 1648 English army captures King Charles I 1648 English army claims king Charles I responsible for bloodshed 1647 British army seizes King Charles I as a prisoner 1645 Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell and Thomas Fairfax beats royalists 1643 Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under General Mercy beats France 1643 Battle at Rocroi/Allersheim: French army destroys Spanish army 1641 Battle at La Marfee Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army 1632 Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies 1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses 1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses 1632 Swedish and Saxon army beat Earl Tilly 1631 Saxon army occupies Prague 1631 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg 1621 French government army occupies Fort St. Jean d'Angely at La Rochelle 1621 Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece 1612 Paul Wirtz, Wurtz, German/Netherlands army commander 1608 Matthias von Habsburgs army reaches Lieben, at Prague 1605 Spanish army under General Spinola occupies Wachtendonk 1605 Spanish army under of general Spinola conquerors Lingen 1604 Spanish army under Spinola recaptures Oostende 1604 Count Maurits' army lands at Cadzand 1603 Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish 1602 Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader 1602 Battle at Kinsale, Ireland: English army beats Spanish 1600 Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army 1600 Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders, Netherlands 1591 Castiliaans army occupies Zaragoza 1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai 1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 1588 Medemblik surrenders to Spanish army 1587 Earl Leicesters army leaves Netherlands 1586 Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army 1586 Battle at Zutphen: English vs Dutch army 1586 Battle at Boxum: Spanish troops under Tassis beat state army 1585 Spanish army under Tassis beats Amerongen Staatse troops 1584 Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium 1580 Duke van Alva's army occupies Portugal 1577 Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur 1576 Spanish army under Mondragon conquerors Zierik sea 1573 Haarlem surrenders after 7 months to Spanish army 1573 Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies 1572 Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem Netherlands 1572 Spanish army beats Geuzen fleet under Admiral Lumey 1572 Spanish army under Alva's son Don Frederik plunders Mechelen 1572 Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen 1572 Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries 1572 Willem van Oranges army occupies Gelderland 1570 Battle at Arnay-le-Duc Bourgundy: Huguenots-French government army 1568 Willem of Oranges army occupies Brabant 1567 Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots 1567 Duke of Alva's army enters Brussels Belgium 1567 Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army 1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel 1565 Battle at Talikota India: Moslems destroy Vijayanagar's army 1563 French army recaptures Le Havre 1555 Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76 1554 Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary 1549 Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army 1549 English boer army occupies Norwich 1547 Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29 1543 Emperor Charles V's army occupies Duren 1543 Battle at Wayna Daga: Ethiopian/Portugese troops beat Moslem army 1528 Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded 1528 Burgundy army occupies Utrecht 1525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war 1525 Swiss and German mercenaries desert Francois I's army 1517 Osmaanse army occupies Cairo 1514 Battle at Ozra: Polish/Latvia army beats Russians 1512 Battle at Ravenna: France under Gaston de Foix beat Spanish Army 1509 Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker) 1509 French army under Louis XII enters Alps 1503 Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France 1503 Battle at Garigliano, Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France 1503 Battle at Cerignalo: Spanish army under G Cordoba beats France 1499 John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies 1497 "Edward IV's son" Perkin Warbecks army lands in Cork 1489 Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors 1487 Lord Lovell and John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire 1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army lands in Milford Harbor, South-Wales 1485 Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England 1483 Utrecht surrenders to Habsburgs army 1481 Battle at Westbroek: Dutch army beats Utrecht 1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultan Murad II 1429 Army entered Reims 1429 Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans 1424 Jan Zizka, Czechoslovakian (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46 1415 King Henry V of England army lands on mouth of Seine River 1402 Battle of Angora, Ankara-Tatars defeat Turkish Army 1388 Battle of Nafels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army 1382 Battle of Westrozebeke (French army beats Flemings-1,000s die) 1382 Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army 1380 Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais 1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 1355 English invasion army under king Edward lands at Calais 1260 Battle of Ain Djaloet, Palestine defeats Mongols army 1187 Saladins army marches into Jerusalem 1128 Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa 917 Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines 871 Battle at Marton: Ethelred van Wessex beats Danish invasion army 871 Battle at Basing: Danish invasion army beats Ethelred of Wessex 871 Battle at Ashdown: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army 871 Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army 870 Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army 641 Arabic/Islamic army contrasts with the Hippo over Alexandria 624 Moslem army occupies Kurashitische Caravan 493 Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies 406 Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians 402 Battle at Pollentia: Roman army under Stilicho beats Visigoten 378 Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army 197 Lucius Septimius Severus' army beats Clodius Albinus at Lyon 70 Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem 69 Roman Lower Rhine army proclaims its commander, Vitellius, emperor |
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