User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/May 15
May 15
[edit]- 1525 - The Battle of Frankenhausen ends the German Peasants' War.
- 1701 - The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
- 1756 - The Seven Years' War begins when England declares war on France.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
- 1970 - President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.