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January 18 in U.S. military history

1911: During the San Francisco Air Meet, exhibition pilot Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss Pusher Model “D” aircraft on

1781: Continental Army forces — including infantry, cavalry, dragoons (horse-mounted infantry), and militia – under the command of Brig. Gen.

1917: British intelligence intercepts a coded telegram from the German government requesting an alliance with Mexico if the U.S. enters

From W. Thomas Smith, Jr.’s This Week in American Military History Series: Jan. 17, 1991: Two-hundred-ten years to the day