Afghanistan Archives – UNTO THE BREACH

February 13 in U.S. military history

1861: When Chiracahua Apaches capture a 60-man force of 7th Infantry soldiers in Arizona Territory, Col. Bernard J.D. Irwin, an

1941: As Japanese warplanes continue to hammer Allied bases across Asia and the Pacific, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously declares

1822: During an anti-piracy cruise in the Caribbean, the brig USS Alligator – the third of four so-named U.S. warships

1811: At the confluence of the Wabash and Tippecanoe Rivers, William Henry Harrison’s 1,000-man force of militia and regular infantry

1861: Following their victory in the Battle of Rich Mountain in western Virginia two days ago, Union forces led by