Today in Military History:
August 2
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 216 B.C. | Battle of Cannae, Hannibal crushes Roman force of 80,000. |
| | 1770 | Battle of Pruth. Russians defeated the main Turkish army with a loss of 20,000 killed and wounded. |
| | 1918 | American-British-French expeditionary force sent to intervene in Russia captured Archangel. |
| | 1990 | Iraq invaded Kuwait |
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