User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/November 1

November 1

 * 241 - Battle of Samhain fought in Ireland.
 * 1592 - At the Battle of Busan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army.
 * 1861 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln appoints George McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.
 * 1914 - World War I: the first Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific.
 * 1943 - World War II: United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
 * 1943 - World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul, just to the north.
 * 1944 - World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.