1781: At Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina, Nathanael Greene's American Revolutionary army attempted to stop the British advance under Lord Cornwallis. After two hours of fierce fighting in dense undergrowth, the Revolutionary troops, despite a numerical superiority of 2:1, were forced to retire by Cornwallis' far better trained British and German troops. However, it proved to be a pyrrhic victory for Cornwallis, and the casualties he suffered, somewhat over a quarter of his force, were sorely missed later in the year at Yorktown.

1944: Bomber Command dispatched 863 Lancaster, Halifax and Mosquito aircraft to Stuttgart, whilst a further 140 bombed railway yards at Amiens, and 22 aircraft raided an aircraft engine factory near Metz. The Stuttgart force flew close to the Swiss border, and two damaged Lancasters were forced to divert to Swiss airfields, where they were duly interned. The Metz raid was aborted due to weather, the Amiens raid was a success, but the Stuttgart mission was regarded as a disappointment, with most bombs falling in open countryside due to unusually poor marking by the Pathfinders.