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On 20 September 1854, on the heights south of the River Alma, British, French and Ottoman armies drove back Russian forces commanded by Prince Alexand...
On 19 September 1941 German troops entered Kiev, today Kyiv, after the encirclement of Soviet forces in the region. The capture followed a vast operat...
On 19–20 September 1863, in the woods by Chickamauga Creek in north-western Georgia, the Army of the Cumberland met Braxton Bragg’s Confederate forces...
On 19 September 1944, Finland signed in Moscow an armistice with the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom. The document ended fighting in the Continuat...
On 19 September 1870, Prussian armies and troops from allied German states closed the roads and railways into Paris. The siege lasted until the capitu...
On 19 September 1356, south of Poitiers, the Anglo-Gascon army led by Edward of Woodstock defeated the forces of King John II of France. The date rema...
On 18 September 1850 the Fugitive Slave Act was enacted as part of the Compromise of 1850. At 176 years’ distance it remains one of the harshest feder...
17 September 2026 marks 164 years since the explosions at the Allegheny Arsenal in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh. The Battle of Antietam was fought the sa...
17 September 2026 marks 217 years since the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, known in Finnish as the Treaty of Hamina. The 1809 printed text held by the Nation...
17 September 2026 marks 54 years since the American television premiere of M*A*S*H on CBS. The first episode was broadcast on 17 September 1972. The p...
17 September 2026 marks 132 years since the naval Battle of the Yalu, the largest maritime engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. In the Yellow Se...
17 September 2026 marks 164 years since the Battle of Antietam, fought near Sharpsburg, Maryland, and remembered as the bloodiest single day in Americ...
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