User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/September 21

21 September

 * 1745 - Battle of Prestonpans: A Hanoverian army under the command of Sir John Cope is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart.
 * 1860 - In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
 * 1896 - British force under Herbert Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
 * 1942 - The B-29 Superfortress makes its debut.
 * 1950 - George Marshall sworn in as the 3rd United States Secretary of Defense.