Today in Military History:
August 7
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1594 | Battle of the Ford of the Biscuits, named after the number of biscuits left behind by English retreating from Irish under Hugh Maguire. |
| | 1897 | Under British command, Sudanese forces capture The mahdist garrison at Abu Hamed. |
| | 1942 | U.S. Marines land on Guadalcanal. |
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