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Battle of Wahab ' s Plantation The Battle of Wahab ' s Plantation was a surprise attack on a Loyalist camp , which included elements of the British Legion commanded by Banastre Tarleton ( although at the time of the battle Tarleton had yellow fever and was not in command ) , by Patriot militia under the command of William R . Davie on September 21 , 1780 . The owner of the plantation was militia Captain James A . Walkup who served as a guide for Davie prior to the attack . Confusion has arisen over the spelling of the name Wahab as there are many spellings of the surname including , Walkup / Wahab / Wauchope / Waughup . The Loyalists were camped on the west side of the Catawba River while General Charles Cornwallis ' army had camped on the east side . Davie opportunistically decided to attack the Loyalist camp , and succeeded in driving them back in complete surprise and with heavy casualties . He retreated before the British regulars arrived . The latter , in revenge for the attack , burned down Captain Walkup ' s house . Background . Pursuant to the British " southern strategy " for winning the American Revolutionary War , British forces had captured Charleston , South Carolina early in 1780 , and had driven Continental Army forces from South Carolina . Following his successful routing of a second Continental Army at Camden in August 1780 , British General Lord Cornwallis paused with his army in the Waxhaws region of northern South Carolina . Believing British and Loyalist forces to be in control of Georgia and South Carolina , he decided to turn north and address the threat posed by the Continental Army remnants in North Carolina . In mid - September he began moving north toward Charlotte , North Carolina . Cornwallis ' movements were shadowed by companies of North Carolina militia . One force under Thomas Sumter stayed back and harassed British and Loyalist outposts in the South Carolina backcountry , while another , under Major William R . Davie , maintained fairly close contact with portions of his force as it moved northward . When he learned that companies of Loyalist dragoon s and British light infantry were encamped to the rear of Cornwallis ' army , he decided to attempt a surprise attack on one of those camps . Battle . Riding off on the evening of September 20 , he located the Loyalist camp at Wahab ' s Plantation , not far from the light infantry camp . Sending William Davidson and a company of men through a cornfield to take the plantation house , he began moving up the lane toward the camp . The surprise was practically complete , and the Loyalists took flight , leaving 15 dead and 40 wounded . Aftermath . Davie did not linger at the Loyalist camp , as the infantry had taken notice and were beating to arms . He took away 96 horses and 120 muskets , and retreated to the north . Davie again made contact with British forces a few days later when they entered Charlotte , North Carolina .
Ukiangong Point Ukiangong Point is the southwestern - most point on Butaritari atoll located in the Pacific Ocean island nation of Kiribati . It is located on the islet of Tabonohobi . World War II . Ukiangong Point was fired upon by the USS Nautilus shortly after 7 AM on August 17 , 1942 , after the submarine and the USS Argonaut had dropped Lieutenant Colonel Evans F . Carlson ' s Marine Raiders on the ocean side of Butaritari Island as part of the Makin Raid . Later in the war , the capture of Ukiangong point was an early objective in the U . S . Army ' s assault on Butaritari on November 20 , 1943 .
Alexander Zelin Alexander Nikolayevich Zelin ( ; born 6 May 1953 ) served as Commander - in - Chief of the Russian Air Force from 9 May 2007 until 27 April 2012 . Zelin holds the Air Force rank of colonel - general . Since May 2012 Zelin has been an adviser to the Russian Defence Minister . Biography . Alexander Zelin was born on 6 May 1953 , in Perevalsk , Voroshilovgrad region ( now Luhansk Oblast in eastern Ukraine ) . He graduated from Kharkov Higher Aviation School of Pilots in 1976 , Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1988 , and General Staff Academy in 1997 . From August 2002 to May 2007 he served as Chief of aviation – Air Force Deputy Commander - in - Chief for aviation . On May 9 , 2007 , he became the Commander - in - Chief of the Russian Air Force , replacing Army General Vladimir Mikhaylov . On April 27 , 2012 , he was dismissed from his post and military service . No reason was given . He was succeeded by Viktor Bondarev .
Battle of Capua ( 211 BC ) The Second Battle of Capua was fought in 211 BC , when the Romans besieged Capua . It is described by Polybius at 9 . 4 - 7 , and by Livy at 26 . 4 - 6 . Capua had defected to Hannibal after the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC . Hannibal had made Capua his winter quarter in 215 BC and had conducted his campaigns against Nola and Casilinum from there . The Romans had attempted to march on Capua several times since its defection but were thwarted by the return of Hannibal ' s army rushing to its defence ; the latest attempt had cost them some 18 , 000 men at the Battle of Herdonia in 212 BC . By 211 BC , Hannibal was busy in the south of Italia and the Romans were ready to try again , banking on taking it before Hannibal ' s army could return to Capua . Hannibal feared that if he approached Capua , the Romans would simply withdraw , as they had done on other occasions , only to return to lay siege again once he had left . He thus tried to break the siege by marching on Rome itself , hoping that that threat would force the Roman army to break off the siege and march back to Rome to defend it . Once the Roman army was in the open , he would then turn to engage it in a pitched battle and defeat them once again , freeing Capua from the threat . However , Hannibal found the defences of Rome too formidable for an assault and as he had only planned this movement as a feint , he lacked both the supplies and equipment for a siege . The Roman besiegers of Capua , knowing this , ignored his march on Rome and refused to break off their siege . His feint having failed , Hannibal was forced to retreat south and Capua unrelieved fell to the Romans shortly afterwards .
Battle of Albert ( 1918 ) Battle of Albert ( 1918 ) ( August 21 – 22 , 1918 ) was the third battle by that name fought during World War I , following the First Battle of Albert , and the Second Battle of Albert , with each of the series of three being fought roughly two years apart . This smaller third battle was significant in that it was the opening push that would lead to the Second Battle of the Somme , and heavily involved the Australian Corps . This attack opened the advance , with the main attack being launched by the British Third Army along with support from the British Fourth Army . The attacks developed into an advance , which pushed the German 2nd Army back along a front line . On August 22 , the Australian Corps took Albert , with the British and Americans advancing on Arras . On August 29 , Bapaume fell into New Zealand hands , which resulted in an advance by the Australian Corps , who crossed the Somme River on August 31 and broke the German lines during the Battle of Mont St . Quentin . Ultimately , the overall battle resulted in the German Army being pushed back to the Hindenburg Line , from which they had launched their spring offensive . References . Volume VI – The Australian Imperial Force in France during the Allied Offensive , 1918 ( 1st edition , 1942 ) Pg 726
Basil Vatatzes Basil Vatatzes ( , died 1194 ) was a Byzantine nobleman and general . He was married to a niece of Emperor Isaac II Angelos ( reigned 1185 – 1195 ) , and was appointed by him as Domestic of the East and " doux " of the Thracesians . In this capacity , he suppressed the revolt of Theodore Mankaphas in Philadelphia in 1189 . By 1193 he was Domestic of the West at Adrianople , and was killed fighting against the Bulgarians in the Battle of Arcadiopolis in 1194 . He was probably the father of John III Doukas Vatatzes , the later Emperor of Nicaea , and of the " sebastokrator " Isaac Doukas Vatatzes .
Battle of Mortemer The Battle of Mortemer was a defeat for Henry I of France when he led an army against his vassal , William the Bastard , Duke of Normandy in 1054 . William was eventually to become known as William the Conqueror after his successful invasion and conquest of England . Background . William the Bastard became Duke of Normandy as a boy . Later he would become king of England but his reign as Duke of Normandy did not start well , he had to experience twenty years of internal strife . The chronicler William of Jumièges reported that the duke ' s guardian , his teacher and his steward were all killed by rebels . Members of William ' s extended family attempted to unseat him . In 1046 there was a rebellion led by Guy of Burgundy , William ' s cousin . William defeated the rebels at the Battle of Val - ès - Dunes in 1047 , with the support of Henry I of France . The battle . The French king had supported William at the Battle of Val - ès - Dunes , but in 1052 he decided to oppose William and led an alliance of French magnates against him . A large force under Odo , brother to the king , came from north - eastern France along with troops under Rainald , Count of Cleremont and Guy , Count of Ponthieu . This second force entered Eastern Normandy and began widespread devastation . While Duke William faced off against the French King to the west of the Seine River , an allied force of Norman barons led by Robert , Count of Eu , Hugh of Gournay , Walter Giffard , Roger of Mortemer , and the young William de Warenne came out of their own lands to stop the incursion by Count Odo and Count Rainald . The French force was widely scattered in its depredations of rape and pillage in the Norman lands and was an easy target for the Norman forces of Robert , Count of Eu . The fierce engagement lasted many hours , but the French left with heavy losses . Guy , Count of Ponthieu was captured during the course of the battle . When news of the battle reached the other side of the River , where the French King was preparing to battle Duke William , the French king withdrew in dismay . After the defeats of 1052 - 1054 the rebellious Norman lords were exiled , the Norman lands of the Counts of Pointhieu were confiscated , and Guy , Count of Ponthieu swore homage to William after two years imprisonment .
Bob Vickman Robert ( Bob ) Vickman ( born November 21 , 1921 in Hollywood , California , Missing in action since July 9 , 1948 ) was an American pilot . The son of Elsie and Mordechai Vickman , Bob attended art schools . In 1943 he joined the United States Army Air Forces and served on a photography unit in the Asian - Pacific front and had about two hundred hours of combat . After the war , Bob went back to school but on the verge of graduating volunteered to the fledgling Israeli Air Force . In the 1948 Arab - Israeli War , on July 9 , 1948 , Bob went to a mission over the Israeli Negev Desert in an Avia S - 199 . He never returned from the mission , and his body was never recovered . Vickman was the co - creator of the symbol of the famous 101 Squadron , Israel ' s first fighter squadron , which flew its first mission on May 29 , 1948 . The symbol was the Angel of Death , based on the Biblical ten plagues wherein the Angel of Death was the only plague that was able to completely defeat the Egyptians . An Egyptian account helps clear up Vickman ' s fate . As Vickman egressed from an attack on a ship in Cairo harbour thought to be unloading troops and supplies , he spotted an REAF Lysander . Vickman couldn ' t have known that the Deputy Director General of the REAF , Air Commodore Abd al Moneim Mikaati , was flying that Lysander from Cairo to Al Arish . Mikaati recalled : . . . My gunner - I don ' t remember his name - was a keen - sighted man and he spotted an Israeli Messerschmitt as it maneuvered into a position to attack . Of course , my Lysander was a very old kind of airplane but I ' d flown these for a long time . Still , we were at a big disadvantage and you ' d expect that such a contest could only end one way . The pilot of the Israeli aircraft came up behind us . I told my gunner to fire just before the Messerschmitt came into range and I went down to about 100 feet . Then the gunner fired and I throttled right back . You know the Lysander can drop like a stone to land in a field - like they did when the RAF took spies in and out of France . The Israeli must have been concentrating on keeping me in his sights because he dropped his nose to follow . He overshot and went right in , almost level with me . I honestly felt sick in my stomach and - I don ' t know why - I saluted him . Mikaati does not say his gunner hit the plane .
École militaire interarmes The " Combined Arms School " or " Joint military school " , known as École Militaire Interarmes or EMIA , is a military school of the French Army intented to form reserve officer s and non - commissioned officer s who had raised through the ranks as commissioned officer s . It was founded in 1942 and based in Coëtquidan ( Morbihan ) along with Saint - Cyr military school . History . The EMIA is the heiress of the various branch schools of the 19th century that were forming officers from corps of troops . The most important of these branch schools , the infantry school of Saint - Maixent was merged with Saint - Cyr in 1942 in the school student aspiring Cherchell - Mediouna , created after the German occupation of southern zone . In 1944 the Military Academy Cherchell took the name of " Joint Military Academy . " She moved to Coëtquidan buildings of the old school of Saint - Cyr , Saint - Cyr - School were destroyed in the bombing . The new school , which in 1947 took the name of " Joint Special Military School " , formed at the same time , according to the idea of amalgamation of its founder , General de Lattre de Tassigny , officers from external competition and Officers from the internal recruitment . This system works until 1961 , when they separated the training of officers " direct " transferred to the new school of Saint - Cyr , and that officers " semi - direct " entrusted to EMIA . Recruitment . In the past , candidates were selected at the " Ecole Militaire of Strasbourg " . The EMS consisted of two branches : the battalion of unique contest Services ( CUS ) and the pre - competition pack EMIA ( PPEMIA ) . EMS students also had the opportunity to attend a competition for engineers auxiliary armament . Traditions . EMIA students are nicknamed " dolos " after the brand of corned beef of old combat rations . During the ceremonies , they wear the dress parade , called " TP " and the curved sword cavalry . In the tradition of activities they carry the blue cap , inherited from the Cadet " School Cherchell . The songs are EMIA tradition Prayer and Sarie Marès . A popular phrase : " One day Dolo , Dolo forever ! '
SMS Gazelle ( 1859 ) SMS " Gazelle " was an screw - driven frigate of the Prussian Navy built in the 1850s . The ship was laid down in 1855 at the Royal Dockyard in Danzig , launched on 19 December 1859 , completed on 22 May 1861 , and commissioned into the Navy almost a year later on 15 May 1862 . She served on overseas duties for the majority of her career , which lasted until 8 January 1884 , when she was stricken from the naval register . She was used as a barracks ship in Wilhelmshaven thereafter , until she was sold for scrap in 1906 for 36 , 000 gold marks and broken up .
Peter Rainier , junior Admiral Peter Rainier , Jr . ( 1741 – 7 April 1808 ) was a British naval officer . Mount Rainier in Washington , USA , was named after him . Rainier was born in England , the grandson of Daniel Regnier , a Huguenot refugee , and the son of Peter Rainier of Sandwich . Naval career . Rainier enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1756 at the age of 15 . He served on , " Yarmouth " , " Norfolk " , and " Burford " . On 26 May 1768 , working as the master of one of his family ' s merchant ships , Rainier was promoted to lieutenant . During the American Revolutionary War , Rainier was severely wounded on 8 July 1778 , while capturing a large American privateer . He was promoted in rank and went on to become Captain of the 32 - gun frigate . He commanded her on the Jamaica Station from 1786 to 1790 . In 1790 , he became the commander of HMS " Monarch " . On 8 May 1792 , George Vancouver named Mount Rainier in modern - day Washington after Captain Rainier : In early 1793 , Rainier commissioned the 74 - gun " Suffolk " . From 1794 to 1805 , Rainier commanded Royal Navy operations on the East Indies Station . During his tenure , large swaths of territory came under British control . In 1795 , Rainier was promoted to Rear - Admiral . Four years later , he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral . He served in the East Indies as Commodore and commander - in - chief of a fleet until 1805 , when he returned to England and retired from active duty . In 1800 , he commanded an expedition to Java . On 23 August 1800 " Sybille " , , , and entered Batavia Roads and captured five Dutch armed vessels in all and destroyed 22 other vessels . The British took one vessel into service and Captain Henry Lidgbird Ball of " Daedalus " named her , and ordered her manned , armed and equipped . ( " Admiral Rainier " was sold in September 1803 . ) Post - military career . After Rainier ' s retirement , the ministry continued to consult him and in 1805 was promoted to Admiral of the Blue in the celebratory promotions following the British victory at the Battle of Trafalgar . In 1807 , he became a Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Sandwich . He died the following year at his home on Great George Street , Westminster . Rainier left an estate valued at £250 , 000 . After having made provision for his near relations , he left ten percent of his estate to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to be used to reduce the national debt , in acknowledgement of : . . . the national establishment of the Royal Navy , in which I have acquired the principal part of the fortune I now have , which has exceeded my merit and pretensions .
311th Airlift Squadron The 311th Airlift Squadron ( 311 AS ) is part of the 375th Airlift Wing at Peterson Air Force Base , Colorado . It operates C - 21 aircraft providing executive airlfit for Combatant Commanders . History . The 311th Troop Carrier Squadron trained in the United States from 1943 – 1944 and later flew cargo and personnel missions . It transferred to Hawaii in February 1945 and flew cargo in the Hawaiian Islands . When Lieutenant General Millard F . Harmon crashed in the Pacific , the squadron participated in an intensive air search for survivors . In August 1945 it moved to Okinawa and continued its airlift mission until May 1946 . The 311th trained in C - 46 aircraft from June 1949 - April 1951 . In Vietnam , the 311th flew cargo and passengers in support of I and II Corps . In addition , the unit flew flare , communications cover , air evacuation , and search and rescue missions for downed aircraft . The flight replaced the 11th Airlift Flight and was equipped with C - 21A aircraft in 1997 . It has since supported the Commander , US Strategic Command , providing passenger airlift for high - level Defense Department officials and members of Congress throughout the US .
No . 250 Squadron RAF No 250 Squadron was formed on 10 May 1918 at Padstow from Nos . 494 , 500 , 501 , 502 and 503 Flights for coastal reconnaissance duties over the Bristol Channel and its approaches . Equipped with a mixture of D . H . 6s and D . H . 9s , it flew anti - submarine patrols until the Armistice and disbanded on 31 May 1919 . On 1 April 1941 , No . 250 reformed at Aquir from K Flight and by the end of the month had received enough Tomahawks to become operational on defensive duties in Palestine . In May , a detachment began offensive sweeps over Syria and in June began operations in the Western Desert , being withdrawn in February 1942 to defensive duties . After converting to Kittyhawks , it returned to the desert in April as a fighter bomber unit and provided support for the 8th Army , advancing bomber unit and provided support for the 8th Army , advancing with it through Libya into Tunisia to end the North African campaign . In July 1943 , the squadron flew to Malta to support the landings in Sicily moving there a few days afterwards . By mid - September it had occupied airfields in Italy where it spent the rest of the war flying fighter bomber missions . In August 1945 , No . 260 Squadron disbanded and transferred its Mustangs to No . 250 which then flew them until disbanded on 30 December 1946 .
Beaumont – Adams revolver The Beaumont – Adams revolver was a muzzle - loading percussion revolver . Originally adopted by the British Army in . 442 calibre ( 54 - bore , 11 . 2mm ) in 1856 , many were later converted to use centrefire cartridges . It was replaced in British service in 1880 by the . 476 calibre ( actually 11 . 6mm ) Enfield Mk I revolver . History . On 20 February 1856 , Lieutenant Frederick E . B . Beaumont of the Royal Engineers was granted a British patent for improvements to the Adams revolver which allowed them to be cocked and fired either cocking the hammer as in Colt single - action revolvers , or by just pulling the trigger . It was the first true double - action system . Beaumont was granted a US Patent ( no . 15 , 032 ) on 3 June of the same year . At that time there was intense competition between Adams and Colt , which was rapidly expanding its sales and had opened a London factory competing with the British firearms trade , manufacturing firearms with interchangeable parts . The older 1851 and 1854 Adams revolvers were self - cocking , also known as double - action . The Adams revolver was favoured by British officers in the Crimean War and colonial conflicts due to the stopping power of its larger 54 bore ( . 442 cal ) bullet ( compared with their main competitor , the smaller . 36 cal Colt Navy revolvers ) , and the speed of the Adams trigger - cocking action for close - quarters fighting ( over the more cumbersome Colt action ) . In partnership with George and John Deane , the company of Deane , Adams & Deane produced the new revolver in a variety of calibres and sizes , from pocket pistols to large military versions . The United Kingdom officially adopted the 54 - bore ( . 442 calibre ) Beaumont - Adams in 1856 , Holland and Russia following soon after . To meet the growing demand for its weapons , Deane , Adams & Deane contracted companies in Birmingham and Liége to manufacture their weapons under licence . The new revolver gave Robert Adams a strong competitive advantage and Samuel Colt shut his London factory due to a drop in sales . In the US , the Massachusetts Arms Company was licensed to manufacture about 19 , 000 specimens of the gun in . 36 calibre , of which about 1 , 750 were purchased by the Union Army at the beginning of the American Civil War . They also made a pocket version in . 32 calibre .