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1637 -
Pequot War: A combined
Puritan and
Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a
Pequot village in
Connecticut, massacring approximately 500 Native Americans.
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1736 -
Battle of Ackia:
British and
Chickasaw soldiers repel a
French and
Choctaw attack on the Chickasaw village of Ackia, near present-day
Tupelo,
Mississippi. The French, under
Louisiana governor Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, had sought to link Louisiana with
Acadia and the other northern colonies of
New France.
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1865 -
American Civil War:
Confederate General
Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at
Galveston, Texas.
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1940 -
World War II:
Battle of Dunkirk - In
France,
Allied forces begin a massive evacuation from
Dunkirk.