On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 23 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 23:
1258 - Naval Battle of Acre: Venetians defeat the Genoese.
1287 - Battle of the Counts: Ruggiero di Lauria’s Aragonese-Sicilian fleet defeats the Angevins off Naples, taking many noble prisoners.
1314 - Start of the Battle of Bannockburn south of Stirling, Edward II of England & Robert I of Scotland met in battle. Scotland won and Edward fled the field and Scotland.
1700 - Russia gives up its Black Sea fleet as part of a truce with the Ottoman Empire.
1757 - Battle of Plassey - 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
1758 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1760 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Landeshut - Austria beats Prussia.
1863 - Confederate forces overwhelm a Union garrison at the Battle of Brasher City in Louisiana.
1865 - At Fort Towson in Oklahoma Territory Confederate General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant rebel army.
1884 - A Chinese Army defeats the French at Bacle, Indochina.
1885 - Former general and president Ulysses S. Grant dies at the age of 63.
1915 - First Battle of the Isonzo begins (to July 7).
1919 - Defeat of German forces at Cesis in northern Latvia during Estonian Liberation War, now celebrated annually as Estonian Victory Day.
1940 - German leader Adolf Hitler surveys newly defeated Paris in now occupied France.
1941 - Lithuanian Activist Front initiates Lithuanian 1941 independence from the Soviet Union; it lasted only briefly as the Nazis occupied Lithuania a few weeks later.
1942 - Rommel breaks the Gazala Line and drives on Egypt.
1942 - Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands in Wales.
1943 - The British destroyers Eclipse and Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the Mediterranean after she torpedoes the cruiser Newfoundland.
1943 - Japanese sub Ro-103 sinks two transports off Guadalcanal.
1944 - In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania.
1944 - Russians begin the destruction of German Army Group Center.
1952 - The U.S. Air Force bombs power plants on Yalu River, Korea.
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