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Historical Event(s)
– Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed.
– Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
– Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
– Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is invaded and Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
– War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeats the French at Winterthur, Switzerland, securing control of the northeastern Swiss Plateau because of the town’s location at the junction of seven cross-roads.
– The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon’s Egyptian Campaign.
– French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.
– Sinking of HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and a cargo worth £1,200,000.
– War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch, Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Sztáray de Nagy-Mihaly defeats the French at Wiesloch.
– Four thousand people attend George Washington’s funeral where Henry Lee declares him as “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
Who Were Born On ?
– Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)
– Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870)
– The Blessed Father Basil Anthony Marie Patrice Moreau, Founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross (d. 1873)
– Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (d. 1842)
– Simon Cameron, 26th U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889)
– Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
– Mary Anning, British fossil collector and paleontologist (d. 9 March 1847).
– John Milton Bernhisel, American physician (d. 1881)
– Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1882)
– David Douglas, Scottish botanist (d. 1834)