Today in Military History:
July 11
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1302 | Battle of Courtrai, or Battle of the Spurs. After routing the French, Flemish soldiers display between 4,000 and 7,000 spurs in the Courtrai Cathedral. |
| | 1804 | Burr and Hamilton duel. |
| | 1882 | British warships pummel arab forts that threatened the Suez Canal at Alexandria. |
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