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2003 American forces capture Sadam Hussen outside of Tikrit
1994 4 Moslem fundamentalists capture Air France pilot in Algiers 1991 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles 1991 Tamil Tigers capture Sri Lanka poet Selvi 1991 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race 1989 U.S. bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 Billion street value) 1988 NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics 1984 Iranian commandos end capture of Kuwaiti plane 1981 New York Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's 1979 Vietnamese forces capture Phnom Penh from Khmer Rouge 1976 5 Croatian terrorists capture TWA-plane at La Guardia Airport, New York 1969 U.S. troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam 1966 North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley 1960 Israel announces capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina 1960 Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires 1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana 1951 During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul 1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese 1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner 1944 During WW II, U.S. troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall 1944 Allied troops capture Marseilles, France 1944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia 1941 German capture Kreta 1941 British/Australian troops capture Tobruk from Italians 1940 In WW II, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France 1940 British-French troops capture Narvik Norway 1940 Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP) 1917 British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem 1917 British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks 1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace 1916 Moroccan troops capture Ft. Douaumont 1916 French troops capture/Serbian army flees to Corfu 1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy 1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur 1900 2,000 marines land to capture Beijing, ending Boxer rebellion 1879 Arabs capture Egyptian premier Nabar Pasha 1866 Italian fleet under Admiral Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa 1865 President Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis 1865 Federals capture Ft. Blakely, Alabama 1863 Union forces capture Arkansas Post, or Ft. Hindman, Arkansas 1862 Morgan's raiders capture federal garrison at Lexington, Kentucky 1862 Lee splits his army and sends Jackson to capture Harpers Ferry 1862 General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX 1860 British and French troops capture Beijing 1839 British capture Hong Kong from China 1827 Turks capture Acropolis and takes Athens during Greek War of Independ 1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc) 1814 Americans capture Fort Erie Canada 1814 Forces allied against Napoleon capture Paris 1813 Americans capture Ft. George, Canada 1813 Americans under General Pike capture Toronto; Pike is killed 1813 Americans capture Frenchtown, Canada 1799 Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands 1795 British capture Capetown South Africa 1789 Spanish capture British schooner Northwest America near Vancouver I 1787 Shays' Rebellion suffers a setback when debt-ridden farmers, led by Captain Daniel Shays, fail to capture an arsenal at Springfield, Mass 1776 Hessians capture Ft. Lee, NJ 1776 British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution 1775 American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal 1775 Green Mountain Boys capture Ft. Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution 1759 British capture Fort Niagara from French (7 Years' War) 1758 Britain capture Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh) from French 1756 French capture Fort Oswego, New York 1755 British capture Fort Beausejour, expel Acadians 1745 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French 1695 English and Dutch fleet capture Dunkerk 1679 Dutch troops capture Madurees prince Trunudjojo in Java 1671 Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin 1565 Spaniards capture Fort Caroline Florida and massacre the French 1109 Crusaders capture Syria's harbor city of Tripoli 1099 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Jerusalem 1098 1st Crusaders capture and plunder Mara Syria |
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