The Battle of Auberoche was fought during the Gascon campaign of 1345 on
21 October between a 1,200-strong force composed of English and local
Gascons under Henry, Earl of Derby, and a French army of 7,000 commanded
by Louis of Poitiers. It was fought at the village of Auberoche near
Périgueux in northern Aquitaine. At the time, Gascony was a territory
of the English Crown. The battle resulted in a heavy French defeat and
they suffered very high casualties, with their leaders killed or
captured. The battle took place during the early stages of the Hundred
Years' War. Along with the Battle of Bergerac earlier in the year, it
marked a change in the military balance of power in the region after the
French position collapsed. It was one of a series of victories which
would lead to Henry of Derby being called "one of the best warriors in
the world" by a contemporary chronicler.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Auberoche>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1877:
The U.S. Electoral Commission awarded twenty disputed electoral
votes to Rutherford B. Hayes, thus assuring his victory in the 1876
presidential election.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes>
1919:
Communist, revolutionary socialist, and syndicalist delegates
met in Moscow to establish the Communist International.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Congress_of_the_Comintern>
1949:
The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth,
Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane
flight in 94 hours and 1 minute.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Lady_II>
1978:
As a cosmonaut on Soyuz 28, Czechoslovak military pilot
Vladimír Remek became the first person from outside the Soviet Union or
the United States to go into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_28>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
conversely:
1. (often conjunctive) With a reversed relationship.
2. (conjunctive, loosely) From another point of view; on the other hand.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/conversely>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the
sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.
--John Irving
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Irving>