Today in Military History:
March 28
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1809 | Battle of Medellin. Spanish cavalry gave way allowing French to mercilessly sabre Spanish infantry. The Spanish lost 18,000, the French, 1,000. |
| | 1842 | Battle of Khojah Pass. English relief force heading for Kandahar ambushed by Afghans and forced to retire. |
| | 1879 | Battle of Inholobane Mountains. Ill-advised British attack was beaten off with large losses by Zulus. |
| | 1941 | Battle of Cape Matapan. British defeat Italians sinking three 8-inch cruisers, two smaller cruisers, to destroyers and damaging a battleship. British losses: two aircraft. |
| | 1942 | British commandos raid the occupied port of Saint Nazaire. |
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