On this day in military history, June 13: 1275 - Battle of San Procolo: The Montefeltri defeat the Bolognese. 1373 - Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed in London. 1665 - Sea battle at Lowestoft: English fleet beats Dutch. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Marquis de Lafayette lands near Charleston, South Carolina, in order to help the Continental Congress to train its army. 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate forces on their way to Gettysburg clash with Union troops at the Second Battle of Winchester, Virginia. 1863 - American Civil War:Skirmish at Berryville, Virginia. 1864 - American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac moves towards Petersburg, Virginia, precipitating a nine-month siege. 1917 - World War I: First major German bombing raid on London left 162 dead and 432 injured. 1934 - Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey". 1943 - World War II: German spies land on Long Island, New York, and are soon captured. 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan. 1944 - World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. 1952 - Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. 1978 - Israeli Defense Forces withdraw from Lebanon. 1981 - At the Trooping the Color ceremony in London, a teenager, Marcus Sergeant, fires six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II.

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