The 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga was a tactically minor confrontation at
Fort Carillon (now known as Fort Ticonderoga) on July 26 and 27, 1759,
during the French and Indian War (the North American theater of the
Seven Years' War). A British military force of more than 11,000 men
under the command of General Sir Jeffrey Amherst moved artillery to
high ground overlooking the fort, which was defended by a garrison of
400 Frenchmen under the command of Brigadier General François-Charles
de Bourlamaque. Rather than defend the fort, Bourlamaque, operating
under instructions from General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and New
France's governor, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, withdrew his forces, and
attempted to blow the fort up. The fort's powder magazine was
destroyed, but its walls were not severely damaged. The British then
occupied the fort, which was afterwards known by the name Fort
Ticonderoga, and embarked on a series of improvements to the area and
the construction of a fleet to conduct military operations on Lake
Champlain.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
811:
Bulgarian forces led by Khan Krum defeated the Byzantines at the Battle
of Pliska, annihilating almost the whole army and killing Byzantine
Emperor Nikephoros I.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pliska>
1822:
José de San Martín met with Simón Bolívar in Guayaquil to plan for the
future of Peru and South America in general.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guayaquil_conference>
1882:
Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal premiered at the Festspielhaus in
Bayreuth, Germany.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsifal>
1908:
Unable to use the services of U.S. Secret Service agents as
investigators because of a federal law, U.S. Attorney General Charles
Joseph Bonaparte established what is now known as the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to organize his own staff of special agents.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation>
1963:
A 6.1 Mw earthquake struck Skopje, SR Macedonia, killing over 1,000
people, injuring over 3,000 more, and leaving between 120,000 to
200,000 people homeless.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Skopje_earthquake>
1999:
Kashmir conflict: Fighting in the Kargil War ended after Indian troops
cleared the Drass subsector of Pakistani forces.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil_War>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
dulcet (adj):
1. Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
2. Generally pleasing; agreeable
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dulcet>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we
apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the
intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be
honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
--Carl Jung
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Jung>