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

In 1588..........

The Spanish Armada began to set sail from Lisbon in route to England. It took three days for the entire fleet to leave the harbor. They should have stayed put for all the good they did when they reached the coast of England.

In 1754..........

Lt.Col. George Washington of the Virginia Militia ambushed a French reconnaissance party at Jumoville Glen in Western Pa. Later, Washington was forced to surrender to a larger party of Frenchmen and their native allies. He was somewhat tricked into signing a surrender document which said that Washington had "assassinated" a ambassador from the French. This gave the French the justification to declare war on the English.

In 1905..........

In the Russo-Japanese War, The Japanese Imperial Fleet destroys the Russian Baltic Fleet at the battle of Tsushima. Japan became a world power at that point, while Russian power and influence began to wane. It could be said that this battle was the first steps that led to the downfall of the Romanov dynasty as well as the beginnings of the Russian Revolution.