User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/May 5

May 5

 * 1862 - Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
 * 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
 * 1916 - American marines invade the Dominican Republic.
 * 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 * 1945 - World War II: German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation.