Today In History................

In 44 B.C. ............

Gaius Julius Caesar gets the point (in more ways than one) when he is stabbed to death on the floor of the Roman Senate. Just goes to show that NO dictator is safe.

In 459............

Attila the Hun dies (See above comment)

In 1781..........

At Guilford Court House in North Carolina (Just down the road from me) Lord Charles Cornwallis with a army of 1900 defeats an American Army of 4400 commanded by Nathanial Greene. The British Army is so badly chewed up however that it has to retreat to regroup and recover. This led a member of the British Parliament to state " Another such victory would ruin the British Army"

In 1916..........

Woodrow Wilson ordered the U.S. Army to cross the Mexican Border to chase Pancho Villa and his band who had crossed over into the U.S. and robbed, looted and killed American citizens. The so called "punitive expedition" lasted two years and didn't accomplish much, other than to blood some members of the U.S. Army in preparation for the coming war in Europe. George S. Patton put his first notch on his six gun in a stand up fight with some of Villa's men on this trip. Should have sent the Texas Rangers.