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THE DAY IN HISTORY · APRIL 25

April 25 in history

1862 — New Orleans

24–25 Apr 1862 — Farragut runs his fleet past the river forts in the dark and takes the Confederacy’s largest city and richest port without a siege. The mouth of the Mississippi is corked from the sea.

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1915 — Gallipoli

25 Apr 1915-9 Jan 1916 — Allied troops — Anzacs among them — cling to beachheads under the ridgelines for eight months, and never take them. ~56,000 Allied and ~56,000 Ottoman dead; two nations, Australia and Turkey, date themselves from these cliffs.

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1945

Elbe Day: American and Soviet soldiers shake hands at Torgau. Germany is cut in two — look closely, and so is Europe.

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