Today in Military History:
November 1
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1618 | Battle of Pilsen. German mercenary Count von Mansfield captured Pargue after 16 hours of hard fighting. |
| | 1868 | Battle of Tayezian. The Shogun's troops made their last stand at the Tayezian temple in Tokyo. |
| | 1883 | Battle of El Obeid. 10,000 British and allied troops trapped by the Mahdi, leader of the Dervishes. In four days of fighting, entire British force killed. The defeat prompted England to withdraw from the Sudan. |
| | 1914 | Battle of Coronel, Chilie. German cruisers Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, Nurnberg, Dresden and Leipzig destroyed H.M.S. Good Hope and H.M.S. Monmouth. The smaller H.M.S. Glasgow was fast enough to escape. |
| | 1943 | U.S. 3rd Marine Division lands on Bougainville. |
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