User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/February 16

February 16

 * 1804 - First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
 * 1940 - Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, is boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.
 * 1943 - World War II: Russia reconquers Kharkiv.
 * 1945 - World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.