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1753:  Governor Peregrine Hopson requires all British subjects throughout Nova Scotia form militias.

1814:  American raiders attack Philipsburg, on the northern tip of Lake Champlain (on Missisquoi Bay). The raiders loot and burn the area around the settlement, but achieve little of military importance, resulting in a mutual policy of reprisals.

1867  The 53rd Sherbrooke Battalion of Infantry is reorganized as two separate battalions, the '53rd Melbourne Battalion of Infantry" (which will become the 7th/11th Hussars) and the 54th Sherbrooke Battalion of Infantry ( later redesignated the 53rd Sherbrooke Battalion of Infantry).

1872:  The "62nd St. John Battalion of Infantry" is authorized.  Following various redesignations and amalgamations, this unit will be absorbed into the 1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment.

1885:  Canadian troops ordered mobilized because of the Northwest Rebellion.

1900:  Mounted Canadian troops arrive at the tiny village of De Naauwte, in South Africa. The column will be stuck here for 3 days as the region is hit with the worst rains in living memory.

1918:  A further five Victoria Crosses were won as the German Michael offensive continued to push relentlessly into the British positions south of Arras.

Lieutenant Colonel Collings-Wells began a dogged rearguard action that was to continue until 27 March, when he finally fell in action.  He was twice wounded during the period but refused to leave his men.
Lieutenant Colonel Roberts similarly distinguished himself during the retreat over the following twelve days, showing remarkable stamina and determination in numerous actions in difficult circumstances, inflicting serious reverses on the pursuing enemy.
Sergeant Jackson made a lone reconnaissance sortie into No Man's Land, through the German barrage, to gain intelligence on their preparations for the assault.  When later a section of trenches was captured by the Germans, Jackson counter-attacked on his own and drove them out by skillful use of grenades, then worked his way close enough to a machine-gun post to knock it out of action with another grenade.  He subsequently took command of his entire company, all the officers having been killed or wounded, and led them in a successful counter-attack.  In between all these acts of gallantry, he was notably active in rescuing wounded men.
Private Columbine headed a small machine-gun team that alone managed to hold up a German attack for four hours.  Eventually the German troops called up air support and managed to outflank the machine-gun post.  Columbine thereupon told his two surviving colleagues to retreat while they could, and remained at his post, giving them covering fire.  He was finally killed by a grenade.
Second Lieutenant Knox, a Royal Engineer, was given the task of destroying a dozen bridges to hold up the German advance.  Eleven were destroyed satisfactorily, but at the twelfth the time-fuse on the charges failed.  By now the area of the bridge was under very heavy fire, but Knox ran forward and made his way underneath the bridge, where he managed to light a short back-up fuse.  He just managed to get clear before it detonated and successfully brought the bridge down.

1930:  "B" Battery, Royal Canadian Horse Artillery conducts its last parade as a horse drawn unit.

1940:  Assent granted for the creation of the portfolio of Minister of National Defence for Air created by Statute 4 George VI, c. 1.  The portfolio will be abolished and recreated by Statute 4 George VI, c. 21, assented to 12 July 1940.

1942:  Department of Labour brings in National Selective Service Mobilization Regulations.

1944:  The Canadian Army reaches a peak strength of 495,804 soldiers and support personnel.

1945: An attack by Australian infantry on the island of Bougainville was held up by a network of three Japanese bunkers.  Corporal Rattey charged forward alone and with a Bren Gun and grenades succeeded in knocking out each of the bunkers in turn.  Later that day, he succeeded in capturing another machine-gun post.  His heroism was rewarded with the Victoria Cross.

1948:  The Militia component "Canadian Chaplain Service" is redesignated "The Canadian Army Chaplain Corps."  The regular component of the Corps is also authorized on this date.


 
1776:  A small group of 35 Canadian militia set out to surprise an American post at Pointe Levis and are themselves surprised when they are met by 80 Americans. Outnumbered 2-to-1, the Canadians are forced to surrender.

1815:  USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin in the last naval action of the War of 1812.

1865:  British Parliament votes £50,000 for Canadian defense.

1918:  The 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade is rushed to the front to help resist a major German offensive east of Arras.r (to 26 Nov 44).

1918: Three Victoria Crosses were won on the Western Front.  Lieutenant Colonel Bushell led a battalion of the Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment in a counter-attack near the St Quentin Canal.  He suffered a severe head wound, but continued to lead his men from the front, walking through heavy machine-gun fire to encourage his troops and establish their positions, before eventually collapsing and being taken to the rear for treatment.  Captain Gribble of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and his men mounted a last-ditch defence against a German assault.  Surrounded, they were eventually overrun.  Gribble fell badly wounded and, taken prisoner, died of his injuries shortly afterwards.  Elsewhere, the Germans secured a river crossing, but Second Lieutenant Herring of the Royal Army Service Corps organised a counter-attack with a few men, and managed to capture no less than six machine-guns and their crews.  He and his men then held the position throughout the night against further heavy German attacks.

1940:  Hon. Charles Gavan Power appointed Minister of National defence for Air.

1942:  Air Vice-Marshal E.W. Stedman is appointed the first Director General of Air Research for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

1945:  THE RHINE, effective date for battle honour begin (to 1 Apr 45).

1945:  U-1003 scuttled in the Northern Channel 8 - 10 miles north of Inistrahull beacon (Malin Hd.) after colliding with Canadian frigate HMCS New Glasgow on 20 March.

1948:  Aircraft carrier HMCS Warrior decommissioned and returned to the RN.

1978:  Canadian peacekeepers arrive in southern Lebanon to establish a communications network for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

2000:  A Canadian naval convoy on the way to the Caribbean rescues 13 survivors from the wreck of bulk carrier LEADER L.


 
1745:  William Pepperell leads expedition against Louisbourg, Nova Scotia; force composed largely of untrained Harvard students.

1871:  The '12e Régiment blindé du Canada' is first organized as the 'Three Rivers Provisional Battalion of Infantry'.

1871:  The St Hyacinthe Provisional battalion of Infantry is authorized.  Following various redesignations, the unit will become 6e Battalion, Royal 22e Regiment, Honeur et Devoir (Honour and Duty) and Je Me Souviens (I remember).

1915:  Formal constitution of 2nd Canadian Division, Major-General Steele in command while in England.

1918:  FIRST BATTLE OF BAPAUME, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 25 Mar 18).

1918:  ACTIONS AT THE SOMME CROSSINGS, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 25 Mar 18).

1918:  As British troops fell back in the face of a German attack, men of the South Lancashire Regiment had to negotiate both a swathe of barbed wire and a difficult river crossing.  To win them time, Corporal Davies stayed behind with a Lewis Gun.  His heavy fire held up the Germans long enough for most of the company to escape.  Davies received the Victoria Cross.

1941:  The Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817, which restricted the number of naval vessels allowed on the Great Lakes, is modified to allow both American and Canadian naval vessels to operate on the Great Lakes in greater numbers.

1944:  Nine Canadian prisoners participate in the “Great Escape” from Stalag Luft. 3 prisoner-of war camp in eastern Germany.

1944:  Maj Gen Orde Wingate, of the Chindits, killed in a plane crash in Burma. 

1945:  Corporal F.G. Topham, Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, is awarded the Victoria Cross for his actions in support of 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion east of the Rhine River, Germany.

1945:  The first Canadian troops cross the Rhine River, encountering only light opposition in their attempt, symbolically hitting at the "heart" of Nazi Germany.

1956:  Three CF-100 Canucks flown to the UK - the first Canadian designed jets to fly the Atlantic.

1958:  Elvis Presley inducted into the army in Memphis.

1982:  US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.

1986:  US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra.

1988:  Canadian military engineers arrive in Afghanistan to help clear landmines following that country's recent war with the Soviet Union. Canada is the only country sending female instructors to teach Afghani women about the mines as local custom will not allow men outside of the immediate family to address Afghan women.

1999:  Four CF-18s from Aviano Air Base in Italy attack targets in Kosovo: the first mission of Canadian pilots during this conflict.

2003: British forces completed operations to secure Umm Qasr, Iraq's deep water port, while Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy minehunters and divers worked in very difficult weather to clear a safe channel into the port to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid.



BORN TODAY:  Paul Sauvé 1907-1960
military leader, Quebec Premier, was born on this day at St-Benoît Quebec in 1907; died at St-Eustache Jan. 2, 1960. One of the founders of the Union Nationale Party, he served in the Quebec Assembly from 1936-56 under Maurice Duplessis. Sauvé was second in command of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal during the Normandy landings. Chosen successor to Duplessis in Sept., 1959, he promised a program of reform with the one word - 'désormais' - 'from now on,' but he died four months after taking office as Premier.


DIED ON THIS DATE:

1945 Thomas Rennie, British Maj Gen, 51st Highland Div, KIA
1953 Mary of Teck, Queen of Great Britain, at 85
1976 Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, at 88
 
1776:  American invaders win skirmish at St. Pierre.

1904:  722 (Saint John) Communication Squadron.

1916:  The Military Medal (MM) is instituted.

1918:  Four Victoria Crosses were won on the Western Front, as British troops fought to contain the German Michael offensive during the battles known as the Kaiserschlacht:

Captain Toye distinguished himself in a series of fierce attacks and counter-attacks.  He recaptured three positions during the course of the day, and at one point had to fight his way back through the German lines at the head of a small party.  He then returned with more substantial forces and stabilised the line, despite being wounded twice. 
Lance-Corporal Cross volunteered to go forward on a lone reconnaissance to discover the whereabouts of two British machine-guns which were known to have been captured.  Armed only with a revolver, Cross located the guns, then proceeded to capture the Germans now manning them.  He forced his prisoners to carry the heavy machine-guns back to the British lines, then found crews to man them, and directed their fire to break up the next German attack.
Private Young, a stretcher bearer, braved continual enemy fire to venture into No Man's Land in broad daylight nine times to rescue nine wounded men.  Several had suffered serious wounds that needed attention before they could risk being moved, and Young ignored the barrage to dress their injuries before carrying them back.  All nine survived thanks to his efforts.
Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson, commanding the battered remnants of the 12th Battalion of the Highland Light Infantry, led his men - well below half-strength - in a successful counter-attack on a wood which the Germans had just taken and which threatened the flank of the British positions.  The attack was made despite fire from a dozen machine-guns, all of which were captured along with a substantial number of prisoners.  Anderson led a second counter-attack that day which also proved successful, but cost him his life.

1919:  No. 1 Wing Canadian Air Force (CAF) is formed to administer No. 1 Squadron (Fighter) and No. 2 Squadron (Day Bombing).

1941:  HMCS Otter burns and sinks in the approaches to Halifax.

1944:  Seventy-six Allied airmen escape from Stalag Luft III in Sagan, East Prussia. Today's adventure, however, ends in tragedy for 50 POWs when they are captured by the SS and executed by the Gestapo.

1945: Lieutenant Chowne, an Australian platoon commander in New Guinea, charged two Japanese machine-gun nests and destroyed them, then continued on to the main Japanese position.  He was twice hit and mortally wounded, but continued running and firing, killing several opponents before collapsing.  He was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross.

1953:  3rd Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, replaces 1st Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment, in the Canadian forces fighting in Korea.

1958:  The CF-105 Arrow interceptor aircraft makes its first test flight.
 
1885:  Gabriel Dumont ambushes force of 98 NWMP officers and volunteers, led by Superintendent Crozier, at Duck Lake; forces police to retreat to Prince Albert with 12 dead; start of the Northwest Rebellion (Second Riel Rebellion).

1895:  The Honourable Arthur Rupert Dickey is appointed the Minister of Militia and Defence.

1918:  BATTLE OF ROSIERES, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 27 Mar 18).

1945:  Canadians part of five Allied armies now on the attack east of the Rhine.

1945:  Commonwealth Air Training Program ends after graduating 131,500.

1964:  Paul Theodore Hellyer Defence Minister announces plans to integrate army, navy, and air force into one service.

1979:  Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) authorized, a non-UN force to supervise the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Sinai.

1993:  United Nations Operations in Somalia II (UNOSOM) is authorized.

2002:  Hon. John McCallum appointed Minister of National Defence (to 11 Dec 03).
 
1690:  A French-Indian force of 50 raiders attack the English settlement of Salmon Falls, Maine. At the end of the day the village is in flames, 30 settlers are dead, and 54 women and children are taken prisoner.

1756:  The French and the Canadians take Fort Bull, New York, with the help of Amerindians.

1814:  BATTLE OF HORSESHOE BEND

1916:  ACTIONS AT ST. ELOI CRATERS, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 15 Apr 16).

1916: At St Eloi on the Western Front, a mine packed with 30,000 tons of explosives was detonated under the German lines, tearing vast craters which subsequently became the scene for much heavy fighting.

The Reverend Edward Mellish, a Chaplain serving with the Royal Fusiliers, worked ceaselessly for three days 27-29 March to rescue wounded men in Belgium.  On 27 March, he braved artillery barrages and machine-gun fire to bring in ten casualties from No Man's Land.  The following day, he rescued a further dozen, then on 29 March he led forward a team of volunteers to save all the remaining wounded they could find.  He was awarded the Victoria Cross.

1917: The Canadian Cavalry Brigade made a mounted attack at Guyencourt in France, as the German troops in the area withdrew to stronger defences, part of the Hindenburg Line.  The Fort Garry Horse captured Saulcourt, while Lord Strathcona's Horse took Guyencourt itself.  Lieutenant Harvey was awarded the Victoria Cross for his heroism; his men coming under heavy fire from a machine-gun nest protected by barbed wire, he jumped from his horse, threw himself across the wire and charged down the machine-gun team, killing its crew.

1918:  Second Lieutenant A.A. McLeod, a Canadian pilot with No.2 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, engages in the action for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross

1942:  Parliament passes War Appropriation (United Kingdom) Finance Act; $700 million British debt written off. The cost to each Canadian is $87.

1942:  Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire.

1964:   First Canadians start duties with UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus.

1969:  Lance-Corporal Dwight Anderson, a native of Lynn Lake, Manitoba, returns from a routine patrol with his U.S. Marine platoon. Anderson is one of thousands of Canadians serving with United States forces in the Vietnam War. Anderson enlisted in the Marines to "fight communism"; other Canadians have enlisted to avoid the law, others to escape the boredom of home.

1998:  UN Security Council establishes a UN peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic; the " Mission des Nations Unies en Republique Centrafricaine" (MINURCA).

 
An administrative note for this thread, I will be observing a field exercise on Wednesday and Thursday this week so I will not be posting to the thread until Friday night for Saturday 1 April.  If anyone else wants to have a go at it, feel free.
 
1814:  HMSs Phoebe and Cherub capture USS Essex off Valparaiso, Chile. 

1860:  Seaman Odgers was awarded the Victoria Cross for his leading role in an assault on Maori positions at Waireka, New Zealand.

1879: Whilst mounting an operation to relieve 1,700 troops besieged by Zulus at Eshowe, Lord Chelmsford ordered a diversionary attack on Hlobane by a small mounted force led by Lieutenant Colonel Redvers Buller.  The attack was beaten off with heavy losses as Zulu reinforcements rushed to the scene, but helped the relief force reach Eshowe on 4 April.  Buller and Major Leet were both awarded the Victoria Cross for their personal heroism in rescuing wounded men during the course of the day.  Two other Victoria Crosses were also won by Lieutenant Lysons and Private Fowler of the Cameronians during fierce fighting in mountain caves held by the Zulus.

1885:  Acheson Gosford Irvine withdraws NWMP force from Fort Carlton to Prince Albert, he had arrived with reinforcements to fight the North West Rebellion.

1885:  General Frederick Dobson Middleton leaves for the west in command of 5,000 troops to fight the North West Rebellion.

1918:  FIRST BATTLE OF ARRAS, 1918.

1918:  Anti-conscription riots break out in Quebec City.

1918: Heavy fighting continued on the Western Front as the German Michael offensive slowly lost momentum.  Three Victoria Crosses were won that day, by Lieutenant Colonel Watson and 2nd Lieutenant Cassidy, both killed during desperate rearguard actions, and Sergeant McDougall, 47th Australian Battalion, who single-handedly countercharged a wave of enemy infantry and put them to flight.

1939:  Spanish Civil War ends: Madrid falls to Francisco Franco's Nationalists.

1942:  Perhaps the most audacious of all Commando raids, Operation Chariot, was mounted in the early hours of the morning against the Normandie dry-dock at St Nazaire, the largest in Europe and the only facility on the Atlantic seaboard capable of supporting the battleship Tirpitz.  The elderly destroyer HMS Campbeltown, formerly the USS Buchanan given to the Royal Navy 9 September 1940, led the attack, her bows packed with 4.5 tons of explosive to make her into a massive bomb.  Campbeltown's superstructure had also been modified, to give her the approximate appearance of a German Mowe class escort vessel, in the hope that uncertainty as to her identity would help her get past the formidable shore batteries guarding the Loire estuary.  Accompanied by a flotilla of 16 small and vulnerable Motor Launches, a Motor Gun Boat and a Motor Torpedo Boat, Campbeltown made her way up the Loire under heavy fire and rammed the dock gates at high speed at 0134.  An assault force of Army Commandos stormed ashore, with the task of destroying dockside facilities.  The Germans reacted swiftly and extremely fierce fighting ensued for several hours.  Only four of the 16 Motor Launches survived to get back out to sea.  The delayed action fuses in Campbeltown's bows detonated ten hours after she hit the docks.  360 German troops were killed in the blast - they had not realised the true purpose of the attack - and the dock was put out of action for the remainder of the war.  Of the 611 Royal Navy and Army personnel involved, 222 were brought out on the Motor Launches, five escaped on foot south through Occupied France and into Spain, 215 were captured, and 169 were killed.  Five Victoria Crosses were awarded:

Commander Ryder, who led the flotilla in MGB314.
Lieutenant Commander Beattie, commanding Campbeltown.
Sergeant Ryder, Royal Engineers, who died of his wounds sustained aboard ML306.
Able Seaman Savage, killed in action aboard MGB314.
Lieutenant Colonel Newman, who led the Commando force.

1945:  EMMERICH-HOCH ELTEN, effective dates for battle honour begin (to 1 Apr 45).

1945:  Last V-1 buzz bomb attack on London.

1957:  First flight of Canadair CP-107 Argus.

1961:  The first CF-104 Starfighter interceptor aircraft are delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force from their manufacturer in Montreal.

2003: In Iraq, D Squadron of the Household Cavalry Regiment was conducting reconnaissance operations far in advance of the main body of 16 Air Assault Brigade.  A pair of Scimitar armoured reconnaissance vehicles came under mistaken attack by Coalition aircraft.  The 18-year old driver of one of the Scimitars, Trooper Finney of the Blues & Royals, escaped from his burning vehicle, and successfully rescued the wounded gunner, trapped in the turret.  Having carried him to safety, Finney returned to the vehicle to use the radio to alert headquarters.  He then began carrying his wounded comrade towards a Royal Engineer Spartan vehicle which was coming to their assistance.  Unfortunately, the Coalition aircraft then mounted a second attack which wounded both Finney and the already injured gunner, and set fire to the second Scimitar.  Nevertheless, Finney got the casualty to the safety of the Spartan, and then attempted, in vain, to rescue a crewman trapped in the second Scimitar.  He eventually collapsed, overcome by smoke and his injuries.  He was awarded the George Cross for his heroism.



I will be back to continue my postings to this thread on Friday night for Saturday 1 April.
 
1713:  Treaty of Utrecht returns Nova Scotia to Britain; France keeps Ile Royale (Cape Breton) and Ile St-Jean (PEI).

1882:  The Prince Edward Island Provisional Brigade of Garrison Artillery is authorized.  The unit will eventually become the 28th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment in 1946 and then be absorbed by the Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC) in an amalgamation in 1955.

1900:  At Korn Spruit, a Royal Artillery column ran into a Boer ambush.  The leading battery was destroyed, but a second - Q Battery - went into action to provide covering fire.  The guns were eventually dragged back to safety by hand, after a desperate action.  Major Phipps-Hornby, Sergeant Parker, Driver Glasock and Gunner Lodge of the Royal Artillery, and Lieutenant Maxwell of Roberts' Light Horse were all awarded the Victoria Cross.

1902:  Thirteen Canadians are killed and forty more are wounded at the Battle of Harts River, making this engagement one of the bloodiest for Canadians during the South African War.  Numbers 3 and 4 Troops of E Squadron, 2nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, in action.

1914:  Canada now has 3,000 officers and men in the Permanent Force; 5,615 officers and 68,991 men in the militia.

1929:  Effective this date, the Corps of Guides is disbanded as a cost cutting measure.

1943:  Finance Minister J. L. Ilsley announces that wartime meat rationing by coupon will begin in early May.

1943:  US accidentally bombs residential area of Rotterdam, 326 die.

1944:  Canadian aircrew take part in a disastrous raid over Nuremburg. Of the 786 heavy bombers sent against the target, 95 are lost (almost 700 men) and 26 are more heavily damaged.

1945:  HMCS Conestoga, the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service training establishment, is paid off.

1945:  British Commonwealth Air Training Plan officially comes to an end.

1949:  Newfoundland joins Confederation as Canada's 10th province;  The Royal Newfoundland Regiment becomes part of the Canadian Army.

1951:  The army is called in to help civil authorities battle a flood crisis in Medicine Hat, Alberta.

1957:  The 3rd and 4th Battalions, The Canadian Guards, are disbanded.

1965:  28 (Ottawa) Service Battalion.

1971:  Lt. William Calley sentenced to life for My Lai Massacre

1991:  The Gulf War between Iraq and the United Nations coalition ends.

1995:  500 Canadian Forces personnel deploy to Haiti along with 100 RCMP officers in support of the "United Nations Mission in Haiti" (UNMIH).

1995:  No. 419 Squadron ceases CF-5 Freedom Fighter operations, the squadron will be disbanded 25 June 1995.


 
I haven't been keping up this thread due to time constraints but I thought that one entry should be not forgotten today:

1941: During the continuing heavy fighting following the German invasion of Crete on 20 May, Second Lieutenant Upham of the New Zealand Canterbury Regiment repeatedly distinguished himself, despite being badly wounded and suffering from severe dysentery.  In particular, he rescued a wounded man on 22 May, and killed 22 Germans in a close-range firefight on 30 May.  He was awarded the Victoria Cross, and the following year in the Western Desert, on 14 July, became the only man to win the Victoria Cross twice in the Second World War, and only the third man ever to receive the VC and Bar.  HMS Gloucester, a cruiser, was sunk off Crete by dive-bombers with the loss of 736 crew.  The wreck has been designated Protected Place.

 
I felt that since one of our own on the army.ca site participated in the assault,I would write this for him.
may 23 1944
Having successfully broken the Gustav line. Allied troops now  must breach the Hitler line, The final obstacle lying between the Allies and the Rome.May 23 1944 is the day it will be assaulted. Canadian troops have been given the toughest part to crack; a barricade of steel, concrete and barbed wire 20 feet thick. The roar of 800 Allied guns lasted more than an hour. The Adolf Hitler line was a German fallback position a few kilometres north of the Gustav line. Its strong points were at Aquino and Piedimonte. If attackers got through the minefields and barbed wire, they faced fortified pillbox machine gun emplacements and crossfire from tanks, artillery and mortars. Soldiers from the Canadian First Infantry Division successfully attacked the line on this date, supported by a tremendous artillery barrage. Tanks from the Canadian Fifth Armoured Division then poured through to attack the waiting German Panther tanks.At a cost of 879 casualties.The line fell.
 
On This Day In Canadian Military History

Daily Military History and War Facts
http://www.warmuseum.ca Copyright 2004 Canadian War Museum http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/tih/tih_e.html

Canadian War Museum - Today in History

24 November 1918

Canadian troops are at Namur, Belgium almost half way to their posting on the Rhine river.
The soldiers are given warm welcomes as they march through each village, although in some
areas the general mistrust of any soldiers keeps people indoors.

24 November 1978

The Canadian Armed Forces begin Operation Magnet, a two week plan designed to process
and transport Vietnamese refugees to Canada.
 
Battle of Chateauguay  Just a reminder to those near by (Montreal etc.); this Saturday 26 August 2013, is the hundredth anniversary of the battle.  Here is Parks Canada web site description: http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/qc/chateauguay/index.aspx .  The anniversary will be a good excuse to visit the site.
 
sandyson said:
Battle of Chateauguay  Just a reminder to those near by (Montreal etc.); this Saturday 26 August 2013, is the hundredth anniversary of the battle.  Here is Parks Canada web site description: http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/qc/chateauguay/index.aspx .  The anniversary will be a good excuse to visit the site.

I'm going to guess you meant 26 October...
 
sandyson said:
Battle of Chateauguay  Just a reminder to those near by (Montreal etc.); this Saturday 26 August 2013, is the hundredth anniversary of the battle.  Here is Parks Canada web site description: http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/qc/chateauguay/index.aspx .  The anniversary will be a good excuse to visit the site.

...And, I think you meant 200th...but we got it...
 
Noticed a discrepancy on "Today in Military History".

February 25

1867:
A.G.L. 'Andy' McNaughton 1867-1966

I have read elsewhere that he was born 25 February 1887
http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Andrew_G.L._McNaughton



 
It should be 1887 as he was 30 when he served as Counter Battery Staff Officer in the Canadian Corps at Vimy Ridge and on.
 
A couple of days often used as examples of military prowess, good and bad.

22 January 1879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3x6RPJOkTs

22-23 January 1879
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csr0dxalpI
 
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