12 July Today in Military History 1191 Richard Lionheart & the Crusaders take Acre after a long siege 1260 Battle of Kroissenburnn: The Bohemians defeat the Hungarians 1434 Massacre of Camerino: Slaughter of the Varano at mass 1470 Turks capture Negroponte [Euboea] from the Venetians amid great slaughter 1543 Englands King Henry VIII weds Catherine Parr, his sixth and last wife 1691 Battle of Aughrim: After initial success, the Irish Jacobites are defeated by the Williamites 1702 Battle of Klissow: The Swedes defeat the Saxons 1784 Spanish-Neapolitan-Portuguese-Maltese fleet bombards Algiers (to 21st) to surpress piracy 1794 British raid on Calvi, Corsica: Lord Nelson loses his right eye 1801 Second Naval Battle of Algeciras: British defeat a Franco-Spanish squadron 1806 Napoleon establishes the Confederation of the Rhine 1812 Gen Hulls US forces invade Canada 1856 US filibuster William Walker becomes President of Nicaragua (July 12, 1856- May 1, 1857), promptly legalizes slavery 1861 Combat at Barboursville/Red House, WVa 1864 Battle of Ft. Stevens: Lincoln observes Jubal Earlys Rebel skirmishers 1906 Alfred Dreyfus is finally cleared of all charges by the French Army 1916 USS North Carolina (ACR-12) becomes the first American ship regularly operating aircraft 1918 Japanese battleship Kawachi is destroyed by an internal explosion in Tokuyama Bay 1941 First Luftwaffe air raid on Moscow 1942 U-Boat lands four German saboteurs on Long Island, who are soon captured 1943 Kolombangara: Tokyo Express tangles with Allied ships, who lose, badly 1943 Battle of Kursk: Russians halt German offensive at Prochorovka 1944 Allied attempt to take Myitkina, Burma, foiled by friendly air attacks 1944 Theresienstadt Concentration Camp disbanded, with 4,000 people gassed 1948 First jets to fly the Atlantic: 6 RAF de Havilland Vampires 1978 Puerto Rican nationalist Willie Morales is severely injured by a blast in his bomb factory in New York, but escapes anyway 1982 FEMA promises that survivors of a nuclear war will get their mail
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