User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/September 5

September 5

 * 1862 - American Civil War: In the Confederacy's first invasion of the North, General Robert E. Lee leads 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River at White's Ford near Leesburg, Virginia, into Maryland.
 * 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, a treaty mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt, is signed by victor Japan and defeated party Russia.
 * 1914 - World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
 * 1937 - Spanish Civil War: The fall of Llanes.
 * 1939 - World War II: The United States declares its neutrality in the war.
 * 1943 - World War II: The 503d Parachute Infantry Regiment under U.S. General Douglas MacArthur lands and occupies Nazdab in Papua New Guinea.