Today in Military History:
October 11

Events of Military significance on this day:
 1746Battle of Rocourt. French victorious over Charles of Lorraine winning the province of Brabant.
 1776Battle of Valcour Island. Naval victory for British over Americans on Lake Champlain.
 1797Battle of Camperdown. Dutch fleet loses eight vessels to attacking English.
 1805Battle of Haslach. 6,000 French led by DuPont hold off attack by 25,000 Asutrians and take 4,100 prisoners.
 1942Battle of Cape Esperance. First successful American naval attack on Japanese.


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