1980 Event Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena 1963 Event 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest 1949 Event Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin 1947 Event Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers Jenan 1945 Event U.S. troops conquers Mulheim, Oberhausen, Bochum, Unna, Essen 1945 Event U.S. 1st army conquers Hofgeismar 1945 Event British 36th division conquers Mogok (ruby mine) 1944 Event U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg 1944 Event U.S. 20th Army corp conquers Chartres 1944 Event U.S. 7th army corp conquers Cherbourg 1944 Event British 12th battalion conquers Breville 1943 Event Red army conquers Kharkov 1942 Event Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya 1939 Event Franco conquers Barcelona 1937 Event Japans army conquers Shanghai 1936 Event Chaing Kai-shek's troops conquers Kanton 1925 Event Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah 1864 Event General Sherman conquers Savannah 1862 Event Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans 1862 Event Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern 1861 Event Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City 1855 Event U.S. adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery 1818 Event General Andrew Jackson conquers St. Marks Florida from Seminole indians 1777 Event English general William Howe conquers Philadelphia 1572 Event Garrison under Adrian of Swieten conquers Gouda 1572 Event Bloys van Treslong conquers Brielle 1471 Event King Edward IV of England conquers London from Henry VI 1360 Event France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel 1303 Event Flemings conquers Middelburg 1072 Event Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo