On this day in military history, June 10: 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem. 1201 - Battle of Capua: Walter of Brienne defeats Dietpoldo di Acerra. 1328 - Battle of Fucecchio: The Luccans defeat the Florentines. 1619 - Thirty Years' War: Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt. 1719 - Battle of Glen Shiel between the British government and an alliance of Jacobites and Spaniards, resulting in a victory for the British forces. 1775 - American Revolutionary War: John Adams proposes a Continental Army. 1801 - Tripoli declares war on the U.S. for refusing to pay tribute. 1805 - First Barbary War: Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States. 1807 - Battle of Heilsberg: French defeat the Russians. 1826 - Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey. 1848 - Battle at Vicenza: Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte. 1854 - The first class of United States Naval Academy students graduate. 1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Kellar's Bridge Kentucky, Licking River. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia. 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads – Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi. 1871 - Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea. 1898 - Spanish-American War: US Marines land on the island of Cuba. 1915 - World War I: British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon. 1916 - World War I: Mecca, under control of the Turks, falls to the Arabs during the Arab Revolt. 1917 - World War I: Italians renew battle on mountain-tops in Trentino. 1918 - World War I: Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent Istvan sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat. 1940 - World War II: Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom; Canada declares war on Italy. 1940 - World War II: German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel. 1940 - World War II: Norway Surrenders to German forces. 1942 - World War II: German troops burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich. 1943 - World War II: The Allies begin bombing Germany around the clock. 1943 - World War II: Japanese CV Hiyo hit by two to four torpedoes from the submarine USS Trigger. Towed to Yokosuka for repairs by escorting destroyer Isuku. 1944 - World War II: 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre in France. 1944 - World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 children, women and men were massacred by German troops. 1945 - World War II: Australian Imperial Forces landed in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. 1965 - Vietnam War: Battle begins at Dong Xoai. 1967 - Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. 1982 - Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut. 1984 - U.S. missile shot down an incoming missile in space for first time. 1985 - The Israeli army pulls out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation. 1999 - Kosovo War: NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo.

Go back...