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Did you know? King Kamehameha had conquered Oahu by 1795. He soon learned that foreigners valued the oyster pearls of the river flowing into the lagoon called Wai Momi, meaning Waters of Pearl. Kamehameha had native divers of the area gathering them night and day for trade with the west. It is believed around this time the large lagoon became known as Pearl Harbor. By 1818 Kamehameha was given an oyster dredge and the lagoon was soon harvested of nearly all its oysters. In the late 1870’s the lagoon was dredged by the US Navy it to allow larger ships to enter. Soon the harbor would be set up as a coaling station and repair dock.

Today in Military History 9 December 1775 The Battle of Great Bridge was fought in the area of Great Bridge, Virginia. The first victory by Continental Army and militia forces led to the departure of Governor Lord Dunmore and any remaining vestiges of British power from the Colony of Virginia during the early days of the conflict. Following increasing political and military tensions in early 1775, both Dunmore and rebellious Whig leaders recruited troops and engaged in a stru...ggle for available military supplies. The struggle eventually focused on Norfolk, where Dunmore had taken refuge aboard a Royal Navy vessel. Dunmore’s forces had fortified one side of a critical river crossing south of Norfolk at Great Bridge, while Whig forces had occupied the other side. In an attempt to break up the Whig gathering, Dunmore ordered an attack across the bridge, based on bad information on the Whig positions, was decisively repulsed. Shortly thereafter, Norfolk, at the time a Tory center, was abandoned by Dunmore and the Tories, who fled to navy ships in the harbor. See more

Today in Military History 9 November 1914 The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney defeats Germany’s SMS Emden in a single ship action during the Battle of Cocos. Following the outbreak of World War I, the ships of Germany’s East Asia Squadron were dispersed to protect Germany’s colonial assets in the Pacific. One vessel, SMS Emden, was deployed to the Indian Ocean where she intercepted and sunk a number of Allied ships. On the night of 8 November 1914, Emden reached the Coco...s Islands. Her captain, Karl von Müller, sent a raiding party ashore in the early morning hours of 9 November to disable a communications station on Direction Island. The station was able to send out a distress signal before it was shut down. The signal alerted Australian officials, who sent HMAS Sydney to investigate the matter. Around 9:15 a.m., the two ships spotted each other. Nearly 30 minutes later the two ships began to engage one another. After two hours of fighting, Müller ordered Emden beached on North Keeling Island, and her remaining crew surrendered to the Australians. See more

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Did you know? The Soviet SU-76M light self-propelled gun entered mass production in 1943 and continued to serve in the armored forces of several countries until the late 1980s. It probably holds the distinction of being the longest serving WWII armored vehicle.

Today in Military History 4 November 1791 Gen. Arthur St. Clair, governor of Northwest Territory, was badly defeated by a large Indian army near Fort Wayne. Miami Indian Chief Little Turtle led the powerful force of Miami, Wyandot, Iroquois, Shawnee, Delaware, Ojibwa and Potawatomi that inflicted the greatest defeat ever suffered by the US Army at the hands of North American Indians. Some 623 regulars led by Gen. Arthur St. Clair were killed and 258 wounded on the banks of th...e Wabash River near present day Fort Wayne, Indiana. St. Clair's force established a camp on a high hill near the headwaters of the Wabash River. A native force consisting of around 1,000 warriors waited in the woods until dawn and when the men stacked their weapons and paraded to their morning meals, the natives struck surprising the Americans. The militia fled across a stream without their weapons. The regulars immediately broke their musket stacks, formed battle lines and fired a volley into the natives, forcing them back. Little Turtle responded by flanking the regulars and closing in on them. Meanwhile, St. Clair's artillery was stationed on a nearby bluff and was wheeling into position when the gun crews were killed by native marksmen, and the survivors were forced to spike their guns. After three hours of fighting, St. Clair called together the remaining officers and, faced with total annihilation, decided to attempt one last bayonet charge to get through the native line and escape. Supplies and wounded were left in camp. As before, Little Turtle's Army allowed the bayonets to pass through, but this time the men ran for Fort Jefferson. They were pursued by Indians for about three miles before the latter broke off pursuit and returned to loot the camp. The staggering defeat moved Congress to authorize a larger army in 1792.

Did you know? The Japanese Navy included five Type A midget submarines in the Pearl Harbor raid. Transported on board large I type submarines, the midgets were launched near the entrance to Pearl Harbor the night before the attack was to begin. One, spotted trying to enter the harbor before dawn, was attacked and sunk by USS Ward (DD-139). At least one of the midgets was able to enter the harbor and was sunk by USS Monaghan (DD-354). Another, the Ha-19, unsuccessful in its attempts to penetrate Pearl Harbor, drifted around to the east coast of Oahu and was captured there the day after the attack. One of the recovered Ha-19 subs is on exhibit at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas.

Did you know? The US tank corps was created on 26 January 1918 under the command of Brig Gen Samuel D. Rockenbach.

Today in Military History! 2 November 1968 Operation Search Turn began in Mekong Delta. The first of the SEALORDS barrier campaigns was a five-day US and Vietnamese Navy operation to interdict the waterways and canals in Kien Giang Province along the Cambodian border and to secure the canals running between Ha Tien and Rach Gia. In early November, PBRs and riverine assault craft opened two canals between the Gulf of Siam at Rach Gia and the Bassac River at Long Xuyen. South V...ietnamese paramilitary ground troops helped naval patrol units secure the transportation routes in this operational area, soon named Search Turn. Later in the month, Swift boats, PBRs, riverine assault craft, and Vietnamese naval vessels penetrated the Giang Thanh-Vinh Te canal system and established patrols along the waterway from Ha Tien on the gulf to Chau Doc on the upper Bassac. See more

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Did you know? On 2 June 1784 the Continental Army consisted of 80 artillerymen guarding the stores at West Point and Fort Pitt.

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Did you know? In 1876, the Russians ordered 52 man-powered submersibles called podascophe. There was a plan to use them in a suicide attack on the Japanese naval force blocking Port Arthur in September 1904.

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