Today in Military History:
April 26
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1289 | Mamelukes storm Tripoli, killing all Christian males and selling their women and children into slavery. |
| | 1503 | Battle of Cerignola, possibly the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms. |
| | 1607 | 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va. |
| | 1777 | British march into Danbury and destroy a large quantity of American supplies. |
| | 1937 | German planes bomb Guernica, Spain. |
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