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Military Word Of The Day
LHS
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load handling system


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Today in Military History

September 7



1191:

Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf - Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.


1812:

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Borodino - Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.


1864:

American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.


1901:

The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Peking Protocol.


1939:

Introduction of Atlantic convoys


1940:

Beginning of the London blitz


1940:

World War II: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing.


1942:

While escorting convoy QS-22 up the St. Lawerence river to the open sea, the armed yacht HMCS RACOON is struck by a torpedo from U-165. There are no survivors.




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