Today in Military History:
December 29
Events of Military significance on this day:
| | 1778 | British occupy Savannah during the American Revolution. |
| | 1812 | U.S.S. Constitution under Captain William Bainbridge defeated H.M.S. Java off Bahia, Brazil. |
| | 1843 | Battle of Maharajpore. British blunder into Mahratta lines, charge and route the enemy. |
| | 1862 | Battle of Chickasaw Heights. Confederates hold off larger Union force near Vicksburg. |
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