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The Military history WikiProject Newsletter: Issue LV (September 2010) 		Front page
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Battle of Gonzales (Karanacs)
dragoons to retrieve the cannon using peaceful means. On October 1, settlers voted to initiate a fight. Mexican soldiers opened fire as Texians approached their camp in the early hours of October 2. After several hours of desultory firing, Mexican soldiers withdrew. Although the skirmish had little military significance, it marked a clear break between the colonists and the Mexican government and is considered to have been the start of the Texas Revolution. News of the skirmish spread throughout the United States, where it was often referred to as the "Lexington of Texas". The cannon's fate is disputed. It may have been buried and rediscovered in 1936, or it may have been seized by Mexican troops after the Battle of the Alamo
.
Battle of Quebec (1775) (Magicpiano)
Canadiens
were active on both sides of the conflict. The American forces received supplies and logistical support from local residents, and the city's defenders included locally raised militia. When the Americans retreated, they were accompanied by a number of their supporters; those who remained behind were subjected to a variety of punishments after the British re-established control over the province.
Japanese battleship Haruna (Climie.ca)
Task Force 38
on 28 July 1945.
Rivadavia class battleship (The ed 17 & Dank
)
Puerto Belgrano and served principally as training ships and diplomatic envoys. They were modernized in the United States in 1924 and 1925 and were inactive for much of the Second World War due to Argentina's neutrality. Struck from the navy lists on 1 February 1957, Rivadavia was scrapped
in Italy beginning in 1959. Moreno was struck on 1 October 1956 and was towed to Japan in 1957 for scrapping.
SMS Goeben (Parsecboy & Sturmvogel 66)
Turkish Navy
until she was decommissioned in 1950.
SMS Westfalen (Parsecboy & Dank)
scuttling of the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Westfalen was ceded to the Allies as a replacement for the ships that had been sunk. She was then sent to ship-breakers
in England, who broke the ship up for scrap by 1924.
Yoenit
)
scuttled in shallow water off the coast of Pensacola, Florida
.

New featured lists

  
List of Commando raids on the Atlantic wall (Jim Sweeney
)
Atlantic wall
.
List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords) (Bamse)
The list presents 110 swords and 12 sword mountings from ancient to feudal Japan, spanning from the late Kofun to the Muromachi period. The objects are housed in Buddhist temples, Shinto shrines, museums or held privately. The Tokyo National Museum houses the largest number of these national treasures, with 20 of the 122. During the Yayoi period from about 300 BC to 300 AD, iron tools and weapons such as knives, axes, swords or spears, were introduced to Japan from Korea and China. Shortly after this event, Chinese, Korean, and eventually Japanese swordsmiths produced ironwork locally.

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New A-Class articles

  
1964 South Vietnamese coup‎ (YellowMonkey)
Before dawn on January 30, 1964, General
Nguyen Van Nhung was arrested and summarily executed. After a tumultuous year in power, Khanh was himself deposed in February 1965
and forced into exile.
Arnold's expedition to Quebec (Magicpiano
)
In September 1775, early in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Benedict Arnold led a force of 1,100 Continental Army troops on an expedition from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the gates of Quebec City. The expedition passed through the wilderness encountering unanticipated problems along the way. By the time Arnold reached the French settlements above the Saint Lawrence River in November, his force was reduced to 600 starving men. Arnold's troops crossed the Saint Lawrence on November 13 and 14 and attempted unsuccessfully to besiege Quebec City. Arnold was rewarded for his effort in leading the expedition with a promotion to brigadier general.
Battle of Marengo (Andynomite)
The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 between
coup d’état the previous November.[1] It was followed by a propaganda campaign, which sought to rewrite the battle three times during Napoleon’s rule.[2]
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress (Kyteto)
First flown on 15 April 1952, the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range,
Convair B-36
. Superior performance at high subsonic speeds and relatively low operating costs kept the B-52 in service despite the advent of later aircraft and the 50th anniversary of continuous service with its original primary operator came in 2005.
Bombing of Singapore (1944–1945) (Nick-D)
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) very long range bomber units conducted eleven air raids on Japanese-occupied Singapore between November 1944 and March 1945 during World War II. Most of these raids targeted the naval base and dockyard facilities on the island, though several minelaying missions were conducted in nearby waters. After the American bombers were redeployed the British Royal Air Force assumed responsibility for minelaying operations near Singapore and continued these until 24 May 1945.
Camp Chapman attack (Cs32en)
The Camp Chapman attack was a
General Intelligence Directorate
were killed, and six others were seriously wounded when the attacker detonated a bomb he was carrying. The bombing was the most lethal attack against the CIA in more than 25 years.
Courageous class aircraft carrier (Sturmvogel 66
)
The Courageous class, sometimes called the Glorious class, was the first multi-ship class of
Second World War
.
HMS Courageous (50) (Sturmvogel 66)
HMS Courageous was the
First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, Lord John Fisher, they were very lightly armoured and armed with only a few heavy guns. Courageous was completed in late 1916 and spent the war patrolling the North Sea. She participated in the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight in November 1917 and was present when the German High Seas Fleet
surrendered a year later.
Japanese battleship Kirishima (Cam)
Kirishima (霧島) was a warship of the
Nagasaki, Kirishima was formally commissioned in 1915 on the same day as her sister ship, Haruna. Kirishima patrolled on occasion off the Chinese coast during World War I, and helped with rescue efforts following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake
.
John Kourkouas (Constantine)
John Kourkouas (
Byzantine–Arab Wars and began Byzantium's 10th-century "Age of Conquest". In 923, Kourkouas was appointed commander-in-chief of the Byzantine armies along the eastern frontier, facing the Abbasid Caliphate
and the semi-autonomous Muslim border emirates. He kept this post for more than twenty years, overseeing decisive Byzantine military successes that altered the strategic balance in the region.
List of Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves recipients: 1943 (MisterBee1966
)
The
Association of Knight's Cross Recipients (AKCR).[3]
Nguyen Chanh Thi (YellowMonkey
)
Lieutenant General Nguyễn Chánh Thi (February 23, 1923 – June 23, 2007) was an officer in the
Nguyen Cao Ky in a power struggle
and exiled to the United States.
Operation Postmaster (Jim Sweeney)
Operation Postmaster was a British World War Two operation conducted on the Spanish island of
Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF) and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in January 1942 to seize Axis ships. While the ships' officers were attending a party arranged by an SOE agent, commandos overpowered the Axis ships' crews and sailed off. The raid boosted SOE's reputation at a critical time and demonstrated its ability to plan and conduct secret operations no matter the political consequences.[4]
SMS Deutschland (1904) (Parsecboy)
SMS Deutschland was the first of five
pre-dreadnought battleships and launched on 20 November 1904. With the outbreak of World War I in mid-1914, Deutschland and her sisters were tasked with defending the mouth of the Elbe and the German Bight from possible British incursions. Deutschland and the other four ships of her class were then attached to the High Seas Fleet as the II Battle Squadron; participating in most of the large-scale fleet actions in the first two years of war, culminating in the Battle of Jutland
on 31 May – 1 June 1916. After the battle, Deutschland was assigned to coastal defense duties and, in 1917, was withdrawn from combat service. She was broken up for scrap by 1922.
SMS Kaiser (1911) (Parsecboy)
SMS Kaiser ("His Majesty's Ship Emperor") was the
ordered the fleet to be scuttled
.
  1. ^ Hollins, Encyclopedia, pp. 605–606
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hollins606 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Fellgiebel 2000, pp. 53–104.
  4. ^ Binney, p.121
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