On This Day ... in 1759 & Others
James Wolfe (1727-1759) was appointed Major-General and Commander-in-Chief of land forces in expedition against Quebec.
1915: Royal Navy ships landed a battalion of the King's African Rifles to seize Mafia Island off German East Africa.
1922: HMS Victory was taken out of service afloat, entering Number 2 Dock in Portsmouth, the world's oldest dry-dock, where she resides to this day.
1942: Hitler ordered the battle cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst to sail from Brest to Norway, to threaten Allied convoy routes.
1943: The Japanese withdrawal from the Kokoda Trail enabled the Allies to plan the encirclement of important Japanese positions in the Buna, Sanananda and Gona beachhead. Sanananda was last of the three to fall to the Allies after weeks of heavy fighting.
1944: Leighton McCarthy presented his letters of credentials to President Roosevelt as the first Canadian Ambassador to the United States
1945: 3 Commando Brigade of the Royal Marines conducted an amphibious assault at Myebon in Burma, seizing the position from the Japanese and threatening their line of retreat.
1957: HMCS Magnificent, Canada's only aircraft carrier, arrives in Egypt carrying 405 soldiers, vehicles and supplies for the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF)
1991: The US Congress approved joint resolutions authorising the use of force against Iraq
Comments
By the way, I wish to thank you on behalf of all Yanks for preventing the American invasion of Canada.
We're eternally grateful we haven't had to deal with the Quebecois. We have enough other troubles to manage.
Posted by: POWinCA | January 14, 2009 11:49 PM
Likewise I am grateful that the British returned Detroit to the United States after General Brock captured it. Of course if Detroit had remained in Canadian hands it would not belong in the Third World now.
As a retired Colonel, surely you are aware of the battles of Queenston Heights, Crysler's Farm and Lundy's Lane? Since they all are on Canadian soil surely the US Army was invading, or trying to anyways.
Posted by: Al_in_Cornwall(Canada) | January 11, 2010 11:59 PM
Al
Apparently the US Army had taken a wrong turn and was trying to get back on the proper side of the border. Unfortunately the perfidious Anglos and their Canadian subs were trying to prevent this.
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs | January 12, 2010 3:26 AM
When I am in Niagra on the lake I always like to look at our ex-colonials who gather at the old fort on the south side abd take pictures of the free world.
Posted by: Chris Edwards | January 12, 2010 11:53 AM