History Hop Tags - Captures

70-05-31

Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem

476-08-28

German ruler Flavius Odoacer captures Pavia

630-01-01

The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly.

1187-10-02

Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders

1256-12-15

Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.

1303-08-26

Ala ud din Khilji captures Chittorgarh.

1303-09-08

Anagni: French King Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII

1398-12-17

Timur (Tamerlane) captures and sacks Delhi, defeating Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies which include elephants

1489-12-04

Battle of Baza - Spanish army captures Baza from Moors

1500-04-10

France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan

1500-11-25

Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Columbus

1532-11-16

Francisco Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca

1552-04-19

Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel

1576-11-04

Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).

1595-10-09

The Spanish army captures Cambrai.

1628-09-08

Bay of Matanzas Cuba: Piet Heyn captures Spanish silver fleet

1641-07-27

Prince Frederik Henry captures castle of Gennep

1648-11-30

English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

1671-01-18

Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panama

1708-09-28

Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy

1708-10-09

Battle at Lesnaya: Russian army captures Swedish convoy

1708-12-31

Great Alliance captures Bridge

1755-04-02

Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

1758-11-25

Britain captures Fort Duquesne (later Fort Pitt/Pittsburgh) from French

1775-06-12

1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (US) captures Margaretta (Br)

1776-04-07

Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.

1777-07-06

British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans

1779-02-24

George Rogers Clark captures Vincennes (Ind) from British

1779-06-15

General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, Bronx

1790-07-09

Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - in the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.

1793-05-19

Netherlands captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)

1798-07-23

Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt

1799-02-09

USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I

1799-03-06

Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa, Palestine

1799-03-26

Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine

1807-02-03

A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.

1812-10-25

US frigate United States captures British vessel Macedonian

1812-12-29

The USS Constitution under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captures the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three hour battle.

1813-08-14

British warship Pelican attacks & captures US war brigantine Argus

1818-05-24

General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida

1829-06-05

HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.

1846-05-24

General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War

1846-08-18

Gen Stephen W Kearney's US forces captures Santa Fe NM

1847-09-13

American-Mexican war: US Gen Winfield Scott captures Mexico City

1861-08-29

American Civil War: US Navy squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina.

1862-02-06

General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Henry in Tennessee

1862-07-09

Gen John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Ky

1863-06-05

CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic

1864-04-12

Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tn

1864-08-15

Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners

1864-09-02

Union General William T. Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during US Civil War

1866-07-17

Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa

1872-09-29

Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree

1894-02-24

Nicaragua captures Tegucigalpa, Honduras (National Day, sort of)

1898-08-13

US forces under George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-Amer war

1900-05-31

Piet de Law captures Lt Col BE Spragges, 13th Battalion Irish Imperial Yeomanry

1900-07-11

Boer general De la Rey captures Scots Greys & Lincolns

1900-10-10

In Manchuria, Russia captures the major city of Mukden, part of their own plan to take over the whole province

1901-05-23

US captures leader of Filippino rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo

1904-05-26

In two days of bitter fighting, the Japanese Army soundly defeats the Russians at Kinchan and captures the forts at Nanshan

1905-03-10

Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)

1913-03-26

Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War

1913-09-01

Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"

1915-03-10

British Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle

1917-07-06

T E Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks

1918-08-08

6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more

1918-10-08

American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans

1919-04-20

Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army

1919-06-09

Red Army captures Ufa

1919-11-14

Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia

1924-09-06

Charles Paddock captures 100 & 200 yd AAU national senior outdoor track & field championships

1924-10-10

Ibn Saud of Nedzhed captures Mecca

1935-09-11

US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year

1939-09-20

British navy captures German U-27 boat

1941-01-10

World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

1941-06-30

World War II: Operation Barbarossa - Germany captures Lviv, Ukraine.

1942-03-08

Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma

1942-06-27

FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island

1942-08-12

German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe

1943-01-13

US infantry captures Galloping Horse Ridge, Guadalcanal

1944-02-04

US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein

1944-05-18

Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino Italy

1945-02-13

USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die

1945-02-21

British Army captures Goch

1945-03-01

US infantry regiment captures Mönchengladbach

1945-03-05

US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne

1945-03-27

US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden

1945-04-11

US captures Tsugen Shima

1948-05-14

Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem

1948-05-18

Arab Legion captures fort on Mt Scopus

1948-05-28

Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement

1948-07-17

Israeli army captures Nazareth

1956-10-30

Israel captures Egyptian military post at El-Thamad

1956-11-02

Israel captures Gaza & Sheham

1956-11-04

Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt

1960-03-26

USC captures NCAA swimming title

1967-06-07

Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho & Bethlehem

1975-04-17

Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia (Kampuchea Natl Day)

1980-11-10

Iraq captures southern port of Khorramshahr

1991-06-03

Thomas Hearns captures WBA light-heavyweight title

1991-08-24

Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0

1997-02-13

Discovery captures Hubble Space Telescope

2014-03-19

Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol

2016-04-14

US Navy video captures "aggressive" Russian flyby

2016-08-01

Jimmy Walker captures PGA Championship for first major title

1929-08-17

Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident)