August 29 - Marine Forces Reserve Birthday

August 16
1780 - American troops are badly defeated by the British at the Battle of Camden, SC
1812 - American General William Hull surrenders Detroit without resistance to a smaller British force under General Issac Brock
1861 - Union & Confederate forces clash near Fredericktown & Kirkville, MO
1863 - Union General William S. Rosecrans moves his army south from Tullahoma, TN to attack Confederate forces in Chattanooga
1914 - Liege, Belgium, falls to the German army
1942 - The 2 person crew of the L-8, a U.S. Navy blimp, disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean; the blimp drifts without her crew & crash-lands in Daly City, CA
1945 - LGEN Jonathan Wainwright, who was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Corregidor on May 6, 1942, is released from a POW camp in Manchuria by U.S. troops
1990 - Iraq orders 2,500 Americans & 4,000 British nationals in Kuwait to Iraq, in the aftermath of Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait

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