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Show THIS DATE IN HISTORV- JULY ' J75-OoL George Washington, after fighting ten boun at Fort Necessity, near sit of Plltaburg, capitulated. 177& Washington took command com-mand of the army at Cambridge. Cam-bridge. 1180 Rocky Mount stormed and carried by Gen. Sumter, of South Carolina. wzujnotox. 1708 The dauphin of France, son of Louis XVI, taken from his mother to prison; died there 1783. 1614-Fort Erie surprised by the Americans and garrison captured, IBIS After battle of Waterloo, Napoleon, intending intend-ing to escape to America, went to Rochef ort, on (rest coast of France; there surrendered to Opt. Haltland, of English frigate Bellerophon, and was conveyed to Torbay, where lie arrived ar-rived July 86. 1815 Paris Invested by Wellington, who commanded com-manded the army of occupation in France until November, 1818. 1B15 Louis XVIII entered Farts and resumed the throne of France. 1802 The kingdom ot Italy recognized by Russia. 1883 End of battle of Gettysburg; Confederates defeated; Union loss in tbe three days' light, S.1,180; Confederate, 81,681. 1866 Defeat of the Austrlans at Sadowa. 1871 Rome proclaimed the capital of Italy. 1873-Kourth Atlantic cable laid by the Great Eastern. , . ) |