On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 21 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 21:
0217 - (BC) Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroy a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminicy in a battle at Lake Trasimenus in central Italy.
0524 - Godomar, King of the Burgundians defeats the Franks at the Battle of Vezerone.
1314 - The Scots, under Robert the Bruce, defeat Edward II's army at Bannockburn.
1621 - an execution of 27 Czech lords on the Old Town Square in Prague as a consequence of the Battle of White Mountain.
1665 - First soldiers of Le Régiment de Carignan-Salières arrive at Quebec to invade Iroquois territories.
1667 - The Peace of Breda ends the Second Anglo-Dutch War as the Dutch cede New Amsterdam to the English.
1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798: The British Army defeats Irish rebels at Battle of Vinegar Hill
1813 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Vitoria: Wellington and his Portuguese and Spanish allies finally broke the French army, leading to eventual victory in the Peninsular War.
1813 - Laura Secord sets out to warn British forces of an impending U.S. attack on Queenston, Ontario during the War of 1812.
1824 - Greek War of Independence: Egyptian forces capture Psara in the Aegean Sea.
1826 - Maniots defeat Egyptians under Ibrahim Pasha in the Battle of Vergas.
1854 - First Victoria Cross won during bombardment of Bomarsund in the Aland Islands.
1862 - Union and Confederate forces skirmish at the Chickahominy Creek.
1863 - In the second day of fighting, Confederate troops fails to dislodge a Union force at the Battle of LaFourche Crossing.
1864 - New Zealand Land Wars: The Tauranga Campaign ends.
1900 - General Arthur MacArthur offers amnesty to Filipinos rebelling against American rule.
1919 - Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War.
1940 - World War II: France surrenders to Germany.
1942 - World War II: Tobruk falls to Italian and German forces.
1942 - World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by the Japanese against the U.S. mainland.
1945 - World War II: Battle of Okinawa ends.
1963 - France announces it will withdraw from the NATO fleet in the North Atlantic.
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