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I levelled the city and its houses from the foundations to the top, I destroyed them, and I consumed them with fire. I tore down and removed the outer and inner walls, the temples and ziggurats built of brick, and dumped the rubble in the Arahtu canal. And after I destroyed Babylon, smashed its gods and massacred its population, I tore up its soil and threw it into the Euphrates so that it was carried by the river down to the sea

- Sennacherib of Assyria, 680 BC

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Today in Military History

June 28

1914:

The Archduke Ferdinand assassinated by "the Black Hand" at Sarajevo

1918:

Action of LA BEQUE

1919:

Treaty of Versailles signed

1948:

The Anglo-US airlift to Berlin begins

2005:

Operation Redwings. 4 US Navy Seals sent into mountains of Afghanistan to hunt Taliban warlord. The seals were discovered and were engaged in a fierce firefight with over 100 Taliban fighters. 50 of the Taliban were reduced and 3 of the Seals were killed. One Seal barely escaped with his life.

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