Today in Military History:
December 16
Born on this day:
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1773 | Boston Tea Party. |
| | 1863 | Battle of Nashville. Dismounted Union cavalry reached Confederate rear causing the entire Confederate position to collapse. |
| | 1907 | Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise |
| | 1944 | Germans attack in the Ardennes forest beginning the Battle of the Bulge. |
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