25 OCTOBER 1944 DIVINE WIND Sometime after 1000 this morning five Japanese planes of LT Yukio Seki’s Shikishima special group took off from Malabacat, Luzon, and headed at wavetop level to the American ships off Samar. There, by 1050, RADM Clifton Read More
18 OCTOBER 1776 250th ANNIVERSARY ENGAGEMENT AT SPLIT ROCK ROAD After his 11th-hour escape from Long Island, GEN George Washington moved into the Harlem Heights of Manhattan Island, which was then a backcountry plateau protected on the north and south Read More
11-12 OCTOBER 1776 250th ANNIVERSARY VALCOUR ISLAND (cont.) Arnold boldly hoisted sail on his flagship row galley CONGRESS and in company with three other row galleys and the 12-gun schooner ROYAL SAVAGE, charged at the enemy. His goading had the Read More
11-12 OCTOBER 1776 250th ANNIVERSARY VALCOUR ISLAND Upstate New York’s Lake George drains northward into Lake Champlain, and from there via the Richelieu River north again to the St. Lawrence. In the opposite direction, the headwaters of the south-flowing Hudson Read More
7-12 OCTOBER 1780 THE TEMPEST AND JOHN PAUL JONES On this date in 1780, John Paul Jones took the Continental Navy corvette ARIEL, 26, out of Groix Roads, France, and headed south. Though he would have preferred more exciting orders, he Read More
4 OCTOBER 1797 XYZ AFFAIR AND THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE England and France, the naval superpowers of the 18th century, were at each other’s throats again in the 1790s. Spain and the Netherlands were soon drawn in, creating a true “world Read More