Today in Military History:
April 5
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1632 | Battle of The Leck. During artillery duel, Count Tilly was slain. Gustavus Adolphus proceded to occupy Augsburg, Munich and all south Bavaria. |
| | 1799 | Battle of Magnano. Austrians defeat French handily. |
| | 1818 | Battle of Maipo River. Chilean forces defeat Spanish in pitched battle securing Chilean independence. |
| | 1942 | H.M.S. Dorsetshire and Cornwall sunk by Japanese south of Ceylon. |
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