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Battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy List of battles fought by the Old Swiss Confederacy , 1315 – 1799 . The Battle of Morgarten of 1315 is famous as the first military success of the Confederacy , but it was an ambush on an army on the march rather than an open field battle . The Battle of Laupen of 1339 is an early battle which can be seen as indicating the trend of the domniance of infantry over heavy cavalry during the Late Middle Ages . The classical period of military successes of Swiss halberd and pike warfare Pike square ( in de or ) are the wars of the Eight Cantons ( Ten Cantons after 1481 ) during the 1360s to 1490s . Most notable among these are the Battle of Sempach ( 1386 ) , the Burgundian Wars ( 1470s ) and the Swabian War ( 1499 ) . The string of Swiss victories is broken in the early 16th century , and after a few painful defeats ( notably at Marignano 1515 ) , the Confederacy stopped its aggressive expansion . The early modern period is characterized by internal disputes , both religious and social ( peasant uprisings ) . The final French invasion of Switzerland was only marginally a military operation and mostly a collapse due to centrifugal forces within the Confederacy . Early Modern conflicts ( 1550 – 1712 ) . After their defeats in Italy , the Confederacy pledged neutrality and did not engage in further warfare beyond its borders . For the remaining duration of the Old Swiss Confederacy 1540 – 1798 , armed conflicts were internal , either between factions within the confederacy , or peasant uprisings ) . Also listed are conflicts between associates of the Confederacy ( Three Leagues , Geneva ) with neighouring powers even if the Confederacy itself was not involved . French invasion ( 1798 ) . These are minor skirmishes on 2 – 5 March 1798 , leading to the swift collapse of the Old Confederacy , the clashes of April and May last pockets of resistance against the recently - established Helvetic Republic . The Nidwalden uprising ( " Schreckenstage von Nidwalden " ) in September was more serious , with 435 dead , including 118 women and 25 children . The 1799 conflict in the Valais was not a " Battle of the Old Swiss Confederacy " in the narrow sense , as Valais was not a member Old Confederacy . The Valais formed the separate Rhodanic Republic in 1802 and joined the restored Swiss Confederacy only in 1815 .
USS Concord ( SP - 773 ) USS " Concord " ( SP - 773 ) , later known as USS " Mendota " ( YT - 33 ) and again later as USS " Muscotah " ( YT - 33 ) was a tugboat acquired by the U . S . Navy during World War I . " Concord " was initially assigned to North Atlantic towing duties , and later was assigned as harbor tug at the Washington Navy Yard . She was sold in 1937 . Constructed in Philadelphia . The third ship to be so named by the U . S . Navy , " Concord " ( No . 773 ) was built in 1898 by Charles Hillman , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ; purchased by the Navy 22 September 1917 ; outfitted by Boston Navy Yard ; and commissioned 20 November 1917 , Lieutenant ( junior grade ) E . M . Gracie , USNRF , in command . She was renamed and reclassified " Mendota " ( YT - 33 ) on 20 November 1920 , and her name was again changed on 30 January 1932 to " Muscotah " . World War I service . Concord sailed from Philadelphia 15 December 1917 for Bermuda where she joined " Galatia " and " Gypsum Queen " to tow three French submarine chasers to Ponta Delgada , Azores . She continued to Brest , France , arriving 22 February 1918 for service as harbor tug until 25 October 1919 . She returned to Norfolk , Virginia , 28 November , and the next month reported to Washington Navy Yard where she was placed " in service " and served as a harbor tug . Final decommissioning . She was placed out of service 4 November 1934 and sold 30 April 1937 .
HMS Anglesea ( 1694 ) HMS " Anglesea " was a 50 - gun fourth rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy , launched at Plymouth Dockyard in 1694 . " Anglesea " was reduced to a fifth rate in 1719 , and underwent a rebuild in 1725 .
Sir John Burgoyne , 7th Baronet Sir John Burgoyne , 7th Baronet ( 1739 – 1785 ) , general , seventh baronet , of Sutton , Bedfordshire , and cousin of Lieutenant - General John Burgoyne , was born in 1739 , and entered the army at an early age . After serving in the 7th Fusiliers and other corps , he obtained the lieutenant - colonelcy of the 58th Foot in Ireland in 1764 . Some years later he was transferred to that of the 14th Light Dragoons , then on the Irish establishment . The ' Calendar of Home Office Papers , ' 1770 - 2 , pars . 224 , 639 , shows these appointments to have been dictated by political as well as professional considerations . In 1781 Burgoyne was commissioned to raise a regiment of light dragoons for service in India , the first European cavalry sent out to that country . This corps , originally known as the 23rd light dragoons , was formed out of drafts from other regiments , and had its rendezvous at Bedford . Standards , now in possession of the 19th hussars , were presented to it by George III , and early in 1782 it embarked , with other reinforcements , on board the East India fleet under convoy of Admiral Sir R . Bickerton , and landed at Madras towards the end of the year . Under its changed name of the 19th light dragoons it subsequently won great renown on Indian battle - fields . Burgoyne was promoted to the rank of major - general on the Madras staff in 1783 . He married Charlotte , daughter of General Johnstone of Overston , Northamptonshire , and by this lady , who afterwards married , secondly , Lieutenant - general Eyre Power Trench , he left several children . He died at Madras in 1785 . Burgoyne ' s eldest son , Sir Montague Roger Burgoyne , 8th Baronet , was also a cavalry officer , and like his father ultimately became a major - general . He entered the army as cornet in the Scots Greys in 1789 , and in 1795 became lieutenant - colonel of the short - lived 32nd Light Dragoons . He was afterwards for some years one of the inspecting field - officers of yeomanry and volunteer corps . He died at his mother ' s residence in Oxford Street , London , on 11 Aug . 1817 . Shortly before his death Burgoyne was the object of a curious and vexatious prosecution , in which the vicar of his parish sued him for penalties under an old law for not having attended divine service during a period exceeding twelve months . The proceedings fell through .
5th Battle Squadron ( United Kingdom ) The British 5th Battle Squadron was a squadron consisting of battleship s . The 5th Battle Squadron was initially part of the Royal Navy ' s Home Fleet . During the First World War , the Home Fleet was renamed the Grand Fleet . August 1914 . In August 1914 , the 5th Battle Squadron was based at Portland , and consisted of a number of pre - dreadnought battleships . These were : Following the loss of HMS " Bulwark " in 1914 , and were transferred from the 6th Battle Squadron . With the commissioning of the five fast battleship s of the " Queen Elizabeth " class , the remaining pre - dreadnoughts were sent to the Mediterranean . herself was delayed in joining the squadron , instead taking part in the Dardanelles Campaign until May 1915 . Battle of Jutland . In 1916 , the 5th Battle Squadron — under the command of Rear Admiral Hugh Evan - Thomas — was temporarily transferred to David Beatty ' s Battlecruiser Fleet . On 31 May , four ships of the Squadron served with distinction in the battle of Jutland . These were : In the clash with the German I Scouting Group under Admiral Franz von Hipper , the 5th Battle Squadron " fired with extraordinary rapidity and accuracy " ( according to Reinhard Scheer ) , damaging the battlecruiser s and and a number of other German warships . Three of the " Queen Elizabeth " s received hits from German warships during the engagement , yet they all returned home , though " Warspite " — whose steering was jammed — was targeted by the German line , taking 15 hits and coming close to foundering . After the battle , HMS " Queen Elizabeth " — which had missed the battle due to being in dock — rejoined the squadron .
Charles Clerke Captain Charles Clerke RN ( 22 August 1741 – 22 August 1779 ) was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration with Captain James Cook . When Cook was killed during his 3rd expedition to the Pacific , Clerke took command but died later in the voyage from tuberculosis . Biography . Clerke started studying at the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth when he was 13 . During the Seven Years ' War he served aboard HMS " Dorsetshire " and HMS " Bellona " . He was in the mizzen - top of HMS Bellona when the mast was shot away in 1761 and he became the only survivor of those who consequently fell overboard . In June 1764 he joined Captain John Byron , aboard HMS " Dolphin " , on Byron ' s expedition to explore the Pacific . The Dolphin returned in May 1766 . Its circumnavigation of 22 months was the shortest up to that point . Upon his return Clerke published an account of encountering Patagonian giants , a hoax which the Dictionary of Canadian Biography attributed to his high spirits . Clerke ' s last three voyages were all under the command of Captain James Cook . He started the first voyage aboard HM Bark " Endeavour " ( 1768 – 1771 ) as a master ' s mate . Cook promoted him to acting lieutenant in 1771 , and he was officially confirmed in that rank on 31 July 1771 . He was HMS " Resolution " ' s second lieutenant on Cook ' s second voyage ( 1772 – 1775 ) . While ashore between Cook ' s 2nd and 3rd voyages Clerke agreed to serve time in the King ' s Bench debtor ' s prison for a debt one of his brothers , Sir John Clerke had incurred . While in debtor ' s prison he was infected with the tuberculosis that eventually killed him . For Cook ' s third expedition , Clerke was placed in command of HMS " Discovery " , receiving this command on 26 August 1775 . When Cook was killed in a skirmish with Hawaiians on 14 February 1779 , Clerke took command of the expedition and of HMS " Resolution " . He continued the expedition ' s exploration of the Northern Pacific coast , searching for a navigable Northwest Passage . The expedition then proceeded to the Pacific coast of Siberia . Lieutenant James King , one of his subordinates , wrote that Clerke ' s illness had reduced him to skeletal thinness . Clerke died from tuberculosis on his 38th birthday ( 22 August 1779 ) en route to Kamchatka from the Bering Strait . He was buried in Kamchatka on 29 August 1779 . Clerke ' s second in command , Lieutenant John Gore took command of the expedition as captain of " Resolution , " appointing King as captain of " Discovery . " The expedition then sailed via China and the Sunda Strait to Cape Town , returning to England in August 1780 . In 1913 , the British Admiralty erected a small obelisk in Clerke ' s honour at Petropavlovsk - Kamchatskiy , Russia , with an inscription in English .
Hasan Agha Hasan Agha or Hadım Hassan Ağa , also Hassan the eunuch ( " Agha " means " Officer " ) , was a Italian renegade from Sardinia and effective ruler of the Regency of Algiers from 1533 to 1545 . He was the deputy ( " khalifa " ) of Hayreddin Barbarossa , who left him in command when he had to leave for Constantinople in 1533 . In 1534 also , Hasan Agha continued to be left in command of Algiers when Barbarossa waged his campaigns in Tunisia . Hasan Agha ruled Algiers until 1545 , as Barbarossa continued to be based in Istanbul as Commander - in - Chief of the Ottoman fleet . Hasan Agha was the commander of Algiers during the Algiers expedition ( 1541 ) , in which Barbarossa was absent , and which ended with catastrophic results for Charles V . In 1542 , he massacred the tribe of the Zaouaoua , who had supplied Charles V with 2 , 000 troops . Upon the retirement of Barbarossa in 1544 , the son of Barbarossa Hasan Pasha was appointed Governor of Algiers to replace his father , and thus also replace Hasan Agha in the position of effective ruler .
William Moore ( Medal of Honor ) William Moore ( May 18 , 1837 – February 16 , 1918 ) , American United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient . Biography . Born in Boston , Massachusetts , he received the Medal of Honor , for heroism , on December 27 , 1862 , while on the Yazoo River Expedition , Mississippi , during the American Civil War . He is buried in Austin , Texas . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and Organization : Citation : Serving as boatswain ' s mate on board the U . S . S . Benton during the attack on Haines Bluff , Yazoo River , 27 December 1862 . Wounded during the hour and a half engagement in which the enemy had the dead range of the vessel and was punishing her with heavy fire , Moore served courageously in carrying lines to the shore until the Benton was ordered to withdraw .
USS S - 29 ( SS - 134 ) USS " S - 29 " ( SS - 134 ) , was a first - group ( " S - 1 " or " Holland " ) " S " - class submarine of the United States Navy . Her keel was laid down on 17 April 1919 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation in Quincy , Massachusetts . She was launched on 9 November 1922 sponsored by Mrs . Ronan C . Grady , and commissioned on 22 May 1924 with Lieutenant James P . Conover , Jr . , in command . After duties in the northeast United States , operating from New London , Connecticut , in 1924 , " S - 29 " visited Hawaii from 27 April to 30 May 1925 . Operating mainly from Mare Island , San Diego , California , and San Pedro , California , into 1931 , " S - 29 " visited Hawaii in the summers of 1927 , 1928 , and 1930 . She also served in the Panama Canal area from February into March 1926 , and during February 1929 . Sailing from Mare Island on 14 February 1931 , she arrived at Pearl Harbor on 23 February . From then into 1939 , " S - 29 " operated at Pearl Harbor . Departing from there on 16 June 1939 , " S - 29 " returned to New London on 23 August . Following duty in the U . S . northeast area and also at Key West , Florida , from December 1940 into May 1941 , " S - 29 " served in the Panama Canal area from late December into March 1942 . Returning to New London , Connecticut , on 1 April , " S - 29 " decommissioned there on 5 June 1942 , and was transferred on that date to the United Kingdom . In the Royal Navy she became . While in British service she suffered a battery explosion at Weymouth . Returned to the U . S . Navy on 26 January 1946 , " S - 29 " was struck from the Naval Vessel Register that year and sold on 24 January 1947 to H . G . Pound , Great Britain , for scrapping . By 1982 the hulk of the submarine ( minus the conning tower ) was still visible at the Pounds scrapyard near Portsmouth . The boat was scrapped in Spain between 1986 and 1987 .
USS Fort Morgan ( 1863 ) USS " Fort Morgan " ( 1863 ) was a steamer acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War . She was used by the Navy as a storeship and in other minor roles . " Fort Morgan " , a screw steamer , was built in 1863 by S . H . Pook , Fair Haven , Connecticut , as " Admiral " ; purchased 8 January 1864 ; and commissioned as " Admiral " 5 February 1864 , Acting Volunteer Lieutenant W . B . Eaton in command . She was renamed " Fort Morgan " 1 September " 1864 " . Assigned as storeship to the Gulf Blockade . As storeship for the ships of the Gulf Blockading Squadron s , the steamer sailed from New York City and other east coast ports with provisions , munitions , passengers , and general stores for ships on station between Key West , Florida , and Galveston , Texas . Catching blockade runners on her own . Several times while making passage from one port to another on this duty she gave chase to blockade runners , capturing steamer " Ysabel " out of Havana , Cuba , 28 May 1864 , and two small schooners in November . Post - war decommissioning and sale . She was decommissioned at New York City 22 August 1865 , and sold 5 September 1865 .
Flettner Fl 184 The Flettner 184 was a German night reconnaissance and anti - submarine autogyro developed during the 1930s . Design . The Fl 184 was a two - seat autogyro with an enclosed cabin . The Fl 184 rotors had a length of 12 m and a cyclic pitch control system . The aircraft ' s power was supplied by a 140 hp Siemens - Halske Sh 14 radial engine that drove a two - bladed wooden propeller . History . The sole Fl 184 , given the registration " D - EDVE " , was scheduled to be tested for night reconnaissance in late 1936 . However , before these tests could take place , it caught fire whilst in flight and crashed . After the crash the entire program was cancelled and no more aircraft were manufactured .
193rd Ohio Infantry The 193rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry ( or 193rd OVI ) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 193rd Ohio Infantry was organized at Camp Chase in Columbus , Ohio and mustered in for one year service under the command of Colonel Eugene Powell . The regiment was ordered to Harpers Ferry , West Virginia and assigned to 2nd Brigade , 1st Provisional Division , Army of the Shenandoah , March 20 . Marched to Charleston March 21 , and duty there until April 4 . Transferred to 2nd Brigade , 2nd Provisional Division , March 27 . Moved to Winchester April 4 , and duty there until August 1865 . The 193rd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service August 4 , 1865 at Winchester , Virginia . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 29 enlisted men during service , all due to disease .
Nick Erickson Nicholas “ Nick ” Erickson ( July 18 , 1870 – June 21 , 1931 ) was a Coxswain serving in the United States Navy during the Spanish – American War who received the Medal of Honor for bravery . Biography . Erickson was born July 18 , 1870 in Finland , and after entering the navy he was sent to fight in the Spanish – American War aboard the U . S . S . Marblehead as a Coxswain . He died June 21 , 1931 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery Bronx , New York . Medal of Honor citation . Rank and organization : Coxswain , U . S . Navy . Born : 18 July 1870 , Finland . Accredited to : New York . G . O . No . : 521 , 7 July 1899 . Citation : On board the U . S . S . Marblehead during the operation of cutting the cable leading from Cienfuegos , Cuba , 11 May 1898 . Facing the heavy fire of the enemy , Erickson set an example of extraordinary bravery and coolness throughout this action .
James L . Pohl Colonel James L . Pohl is an American lawyer and an officer in the United States Army . He is notable for having been appointed the President of a Guantanamo military commission . He is Presiding over the Commission of Ahmed Darbi and Abd el - Rahim al - Nashiri . He is notable for serving as the judge of several of the GIs in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse cases , and barring the demolition of Abu Ghraib because he had ruled it a crime scene . On 6 January 2009 Pohl was appointed to replace Ralph Kohlmann as the Chief Presiding Officer for the Military Commissions . Pohl received his J . D . from Pepperdine University in 1978 . Suspension of Guantanamo Hearings . On January 29 , 2009 , Pohl denied the request of the Obama Administration to delay proceeding for 120 days in the case of Abd al - Rahim al - Nashiri . Pohl argued that tribunal rules give the judges sole authority to delay cases and that postponing proceedings against Abd al - Rahim al - Nashiri was not reasonable and " does not serve the interest of justice " . According to Carol Rosenberg , writing in the " Miami Herald " , Pohl ' s ruling stated : According to Guantanamo spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gordon : " " The Department of Defense is currently reviewing Judge Pohl ' s ruling . We will be in compliance with the president ' s orders regarding Guantánamo . " According to " Fox News " , Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said that Pohl will be directed to comply with Obama ' s executive order . The arraignment could have been canceled , even if Pohl had continued to assert his duty lay in ignoring Obama ' s order , if either Susan J . Crawford the Convening Authority for the Office of Military Commissions , or Al Nashiri ' s prosecution , withdrew the charges . Assigned to investigate the Fort Hood shootings . Pohl was assigned to serve as the investigating officer for the article 32 hearing for Major Nidal Malik Hasan , the suspect in the Fort Hood shooting s . Assigned to investigate Brigadier General Sinclair . Pohl was assigned to Preside over the court martial of Brigadier General Jeffrey A . Sinclair , a former deputy commander of the 82nd Airborne Division , charged with sodomy .
Tiwintza detachment The Tiwintza detachment ( also known as the Tiwinza detachment or Falso Tiwinza ) was an Ecuador ian military outpost involved in the Cenepa War in peruvian territory , between Ecuador and Peru in 1995 . The post had been a focal point of the war over disputed border claims ; the settlement of the war resulted in the post and remaining Peruvian , but with its “ non - sovereign ownership ” transferred to Ecuador , not allowing it to fly the Ecuadorian flag .
Roscoe Robinson , Jr . Roscoe Robinson , Jr . ( October 11 , 1928 – July 22 , 1993 ) , was the first African American to become a four - star general in the United States Army . He was born on October 11 , 1928 , in St . Louis , Missouri . He attended St . Louis University for only a year and then transferred to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1947 . Robinson graduated with a degree in military engineering in 1951 . After graduating he served in the Korean War in 1952 as a platoon leader and rifle company commander . For his actions he received the Bronze Star . Sent back to the United States a year later he became an instructor in the Airborne Department of the United States Army Infantry School . Robinson then went on to graduate from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth , Kansas in 1963 . The following year he received his masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh in international affairs . In 1967 he served as battalion commander in Vietnam . For his achievements there he received the Legion of Merit , the Distinguished Flying Cross , 11 Air Medal s , and two Silver Star s . After Vietnam he served at the National War College for three years as the executive officer to the Chief of Staff . He was promoted to Brigadier General and in 1975 became Commanding General of the United States Army Garrison , Okinawa . In 1976 he was promoted to major general and assigned to command the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg , North Carolina . General Robinson was the first African - American to command 82nd Airborne Division . His final assignment was as U . S . Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee from 1982 - 1985 . After he had completed 34 years of service to the U . S . military he retired in 1985 . He was then awarded with the Defense Distinguished Service Medal and two Distinguished Service Medals . After his retirement , he was asked to look over a panel of people who were examining the Korean War performance of some highly criticized army units . He also served on the board of Northwest Airlines . After with a battle with leukemia , Roscoe Robinson , Jr . died on July 22 , 1993 at the age of 64 , and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery . In April 2000 there was a ceremony and a dedication at West Point for a new auditorium , named " General Roscoe Robinson , Jr . Auditorium " in his honor . The Roscoe Robinson Health Clinic at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg is also named in his honor .