August 22nd, 2008

Today in History

1944:
1944 - World War II: Thirty-two Spaniards & four French Maquis tackle a German column (1,300 men in 60 lorries, with 6 tanks & 2 self-propelled guns), at La Madeiline, France. Three Maquis are wounded, with 110 Germans killed and 200 wounded.

1922:
Michael Collins, Commander-in-Chief of the Irish Free State Army is shot dead during an Anti-Treaty ambush at Beal na mBlath, County Cork, during the Irish Civil War.

1901:
Cadillac Motor Company founded

1770:
James Cook's expedition lands on the east coast of Australia

1717:
Spanish troops land on Sardinia