On 1 June 1918 the U.S. 2nd Division, with its brigade of Marines, took up a line northwest of Château-Thierry, across the main road to Paris, in the path of a German offensive. On 6 June it attacked Belleau Wood, cleared after three weeks of fighting. In 1794 Lord Howe beat the French fleet on the Glorious First of June.
Battle of Belleau Wood, 1918
1 to 26 June 1918 · 108 years ago
In June 1918 the U.S. 2nd Division, with its brigade of Marines, helped stop a German offensive northwest of Château-Thierry. From 6 June it fought for three weeks, at heavy cost, to clear Belleau Wood.
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1 June 1794 · 232 years ago
Far out in the Atlantic, Admiral Howe's British fleet fought the French fleet of Villaret de Joyeuse, which was shielding a vital grain convoy from America. Howe won at sea, but the convoy reached France safely and brought food to a hungry country.
Read the full story of The Glorious First of June, 1794: Howe's victory and the grain convoy ›Also on this day
1813: off Boston, the British frigate Shannon under Captain Philip Broke fought the American frigate Chesapeake under Captain James Lawrence. The Shannon opened fire at 5:50 p.m., her men boarded, and the Chesapeake surrendered; Pullen writes that eleven minutes had passed since the first shot, Roosevelt fifteen. Lawrence was mortally wounded. Roosevelt writes that he was carried below exclaiming "Don't give up the ship".1
