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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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