User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/February 26

February 26

 * 1266 - Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
 * 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
 * 1952 - United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces that his nation has an atomic bomb.
 * 1991 - Gulf War: On Baghdad Radio Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announces the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait.