User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/September 21
21 September
[edit]- 1745 - Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
- 1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
- 1896 - British force under Herbert Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
- 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.
- 1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd United States Secretary of Defense.