On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 18 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 18:
1429 - French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc crush the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years' War.
1450 - Battle of Sevenoaks: Jack Cade’s Kentish rebels defeat Sir Humphrey Stafford.
1629 - Sea battle at Dungeness: Piet Heyn vs Dunkerk Cape.
1643 - English Civil War: Skirmish at Chalgrove Field: Prince Rupert parliamentary armies.
1667 - The Dutch fleet sails up the Thames River and threatens London.
1757 - Battle at Kolin Bohemia: Austrian army beats Prussia.
1778 - American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1799 - Battle of the Trebbia, Day 2: Austro-Russians v. French.
1812 - War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
1815 - Battle of Wavre: Prussians keep the French right from reinforcing Napoleon.
1815 - Napoleonic Wars: At the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon is defeated by an international army under the Duke of Wellington.
1823 - The British Army adopts trousers for infantry, in lieu of breeches & gaiters.
1861 - American Civil War: Combat at Camp Cole, Mo.
1863 - American Civil War: After repeated acts of insubordination, General Ulysses S. Grant relieves General John McClernand during the siege of Vicksburg.
1864 - American Civil War: At Petersburg, Union General Ulysses S. Grant realizes the town can no longer be taken by assault and settles into a siege.
1915 - World War I: French troops halt fighting in Artois region.
1918 - World War I: Allied forces on the Western Front begin their largest counter-attack yet against the German army.
1940 - World War II: "Finest Hour" speech by Winston Churchill.
1942 - World War II: The U.S. Navy commissioned its first black officer, Harvard University medical student, Bernard Whitfield Robinson.
1944 - World War II: The U.S. First Army breaks through the German lines on the Cotentin Peninsula and cuts off the German-held port of Cherbourg.
1945 - World War II: Organized Japanese resistance ends on the island of Mindanao.
1944 - World War II: Japanese take Changsha, on the third attempt.
1951 - General Vo Nguyen Giap ends his Red River Campaign against the French in Indochina.
1965 - Vietnam War: The United States uses B-52 bombers to attack National Liberation Front guerrilla fighters in South Vietnam.
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