Today in Military History:
April 23
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1680 | Buccaneers under John Coxan defeat three Spanish ships, two by boarding, and capture six merchantmen at Panama. |
| | 1809 | Battle of Ratisbon. Napoleon was wounded in this Austrian rearguard action. |
| | 1826 | Fortress of Mesólongian fell to Turks. Great Britain, France and Russia now intervened on the side of Greece. |
| | 1918 | British raid the port of Zeebrugge preventing its use for German submarines for several weeks. |
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