2014 Event 'The Battle of the Five Armies', the last film in 'The Hobbit' series, grosses over $90 million in its first five days of release, exceeding box office expectations of $75 million 1969 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 1948 Event Last British armies leave Israel 1945 Event Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed 1945 Event Cologne taken by allied armies 1944 Event 5th Army enters and liberates Rome from Mussolini's Fascist armies 1943 Event General Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe 1943 Event Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad 1942 Event Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad 1942 Event Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies 1942 Event KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies 1940 Event Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg 1940 Event Soviet armies conquer Tuppura Island Finland 1931 Birthday Charles Huxtable, General commander, English ground armies 1918 Event Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad) 1918 Event German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) 1915 Event 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army 1914 Event General von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front 1895 Event Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies 1878 Birthday Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general, White Armies, WW II 1870 Event Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies 1868 Event Battle at Ueno: last Tokugawa armies defeated 1865 Event General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies 1864 Event General Shermans armies reach Savannah and 12 day siege begins 1864 Event Grant is named commander of the Union armies 1862 Event Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman 1862 Event Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee 1862 Event Confederate armies officially divide into corps 1862 Event General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC 1861 Event General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies 1861 Event Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies 1861 Event St. Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies 1854 Event Allied armies, including those of Britain and France, land in Crimea 1813 Event Danzig surrenders to allied armies 1813 Event Zamose, Modlin, Torgau surrenders to allied armies 1813 Event Lubeck surrenders to allied armies 1813 Event Stettin surrenders to allied armies 1813 Event Dresden surrenders to allied armies 1799 Event King of Naples flees before advancing French armies 1746 Event Battle at Rocourt: French drive out English/Austria/Netherlands armies 1689 Event Battle at Charleroi: Spanish and English armies chase French 1688 Event Austrian armies occupy Belgrade 1686 Event Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks 1644 Event 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies 1644 Event Battle at Nantwich Cheshire: Parliamentary armies win 1643 Event 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies 1643 Event Battle at Roundway Down: Royalists beat parliamentary armies 1643 Event Battle at Atherton Moor: Royalists beat parliamentary armies 1643 Event Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies 1643 Event Battle at Grantham: English parliamentary armies beat royalists 1635 Event Armies of Savoye/Mantua/Parma occupy Milan 1632 Event Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein 1632 Event Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies 1601 Event Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London 1544 Event King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France 1544 Event Imperial/English armies occupy Saint-Dizier France 1527 Event Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies 1396 Event Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies 1241 Event Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans 1014 Event Battle of Strumitsa-valley: Byzantine destroys Bulgarian armies
