1994 Event Lieutenant-General Raoul Cedras resigns as dictator of Haiti 1992 Death Garrison H Davidson, U.S. Lieutenant-general commandant (West Point), dies 1985 Death Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life), dies at 89 1970 Event Argentine military junta under Lieutenant-general Lanusse drives out President Ongania 1963 Death Bikram Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General (Kashmir), dies 1963 Death Daulet Singh, Indies Lieutenant-General, dies 1962 Birthday S C Grant, British Lieutenant-General 1945 Death Mitsuri Ushijima, Japanese Lieutenant-General/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri 1945 Death Simon B Buckner, U.S. Lieutenant-General/commandant of 10th Army, dies in action 1944 Event Lieutenant-general Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might be going a bridge too far" 1944 Event Lieutenant-general Stilwells troops occupy Myitkyina Burma 1944 Death Lesley J McNair, U.S. Lieutenant-General, killed by U.S. bomb at St-Lo 1943 Event Lieutenant-general Bradley arrives in Prestwick/London 1943 Event Lieutenant-general Bradley flies from Algiers to to Marrakech/Prestwick 1943 Event Lieutenant-general Bradley flies to Carthago/Algiers Sicily 1943 Death Gustav Schmidt, German Lieutenant-General, dies in battle 1943 Death HA Seyffardt, Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister", dies at 71 1942 Event Lieutenant-General Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java 1942 Event Lieutenant-general Montgomery arrives in Cairo 1942 Event Lieutenant-general Montgomery makes landing on Gibraltar 1941 Event Lieutenant-general Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli 1939 Birthday Peter Duffell, Brits Lieutenant-General/minister of Defense 1936 Birthday Anthony Mullens, British Lieutenant-General, Deputy chief of defense 1926 Birthday David Young, Lieutenant-General/CEO, Cairn Tech 1921 Birthday James Wilson, British Lieutenant-General 1904 Event German Lieutenant-general Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa 1899 Event Battle at Ladysmith Natal: Boers beat Lieutenant-General Whites army 1899 Birthday Fritz Bayerlein, German Lieutenant-General, WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo 1879 Event British Zulu War begins: Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand 1851 Birthday Johannes B van Heutsz, Lieutenant-General and / Dutch East Indies 1817 Death Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish Lieutenant-General/freedom fighter, dies 1794 Event Lieutenant-General Tadeusz Kosciuszko returns to Poland 1740 Death Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, Lieutenant-general (12 children), dies 1729 Death Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French Lieutenant-General, dies at 77 1708 Death Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/Lieutenant-General/baron Enfield, dies 1599 Event Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland
