User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 23

August 23

• 1328 - Battle of Cassel: French troops stop an uprising of Flemish farmers.
• 1793 - French Revolution: a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
• 1813 - At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.
• 1864 - The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
• 1866 - Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
• 1914 - Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
• 1939 - World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, Baltic states, Finland and Poland are divided between the two nations.
• 1940 - World War II: The Germans start bombing London.
• 1942 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Stalingrad.