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July 27 in U.S. military history

1816: After freed slaves serving as Colonial British Marines attack and kill several American sailors stopping to fill their canteens

1944: On Dutch New Guinea’s Noemfoor Island, Sgt. Ray E. Eubanks leads a squad against an enemy position that is

1798: Having been disbanded after the end of the Revolutionary War 15 years ago, President John Adams re-institutes the United

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