August 13 in U.S. military history
1812: (Featured image) Near Bermuda, the frigate USS Essex fires a devastating broadside at the British sloop HMS Alert. In
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Manhattan Project
July 20 in U.S. military history
1944: As Adolf Hitler meets with officials at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters in East Prussia, a suitcase bomb planted by
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July 16 in U.S. military history
1861: Brig. Gen. Irvin McDowell’s 35,000-man army departs Washington, D.C., marching to meet Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard’s Confederate force assembled along
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