User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 19
August 19[edit]
- 1388 - Battle of Otterburn, border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England.
- 1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
- 1782 - Battle of Blue Licks: the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1812 - War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia.
- 1942 - World War II: Operation Jubilee - The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an allied forces amphibious assault on Dieppe, France.