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July 10 in U.S. military history

1942: A PBY Catalina crew spots an intact Japanese A6M Zero fighter that crash-landed on the Alaskan island of Akutan.

1776: Lt. Col. John Nixon, commanding the 3rd Battalion of the Philadelphia Associators militia, reads the Declaration of Independence publicly

1814: On the banks of the Niagara River in Upper Canada (modern-day Ontario), The United States Army proves that they

1775: Gen. George Washington, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, takes formal command of his troops in Cambridge,

1815: While operating in the Sunda Straight, the American sloop-of-war USS Peacock spots the British cruiser HMS Nautilus, and orders