Today in Military History:
April 22
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1809 | Battle of Eckmühl. Napoleon drove Austrians from the high ground effectively splitting the Austrian army in two. |
| | 1913 | Montenegrian troops capture Shköder, but Austrians intervene and force them to yield the city to the Albanians. |
| | 1915 | First use of gas (chlorine) at Ypres, Flanders, by German army. |
| | 1949 | Communists capture Nanking from Nationalists marking the end of Nationalist resistance. |
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