User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 5

August 5

 * 642 - Battle of Maserfeld - Penda of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald of Bernicia
 * 1763 - Pontiac's War - Battle of Bushy Run - British forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat American Indians in western Pennsylvania.
 * 1812 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes Thomas Van Horne's 200 Americans  at Brownstone Creek, causing them to flee and retreat.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge - Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops drive Union forces back into the city.
 * 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Mobile Bay begins - At Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.