May 1 in U.S. military history
[Featured image: President George W. Bush after a successful trap aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in a S-3B
Read More[Featured image: President George W. Bush after a successful trap aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in a S-3B
Read More1800: The frigate USS Constellation (the first of four so-named American warships) under the command of Capt. Thomas Truxtun defeats
Read More1787: Former Continental Army captain Daniel Shays leads a group of 2,000 American rebels on a raid against the Springfield
Read More1847: Col. Sterling Price (future major general in the Confederate Army) learns a force of nearly 2,000 Mexicans and Pueblo Indians
Read More1870: Following the murder of a Montana rancher and his son, Col. Eugene Baker forms a band of infantry and
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