User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 30

August 30

 * 1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
 * 1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Richmond, Kentucky: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
 * 1914 - Battle of Tannenberg.
 * 1941 - Siege of Leningrad begins.
 * 1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.