Today in Military History:
June 3
Born on this day:
| | 1808 | Jefferson Davis, President of Confederacy (1861-1865) |
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1745 | Battle of Hohenfriedeberg. Frederick the Great surprised Saxons in their camp and routed them. He then turned on the nearby Austrians and beat them too. |
| | 1798 | Battle of Ballymore, Irish rebels attack and slaughter British troops marching to Enniscorthy. |
| | 1864 | Battle of Chickahominy. In his memoirs, U.S. Grant described this as the only attack he wished he had never ordered. |
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