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THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 1

July 1 in history

1097 — Dorylaeum

1 Jul 1097 — ambushed on the march, the crusaders survive a Turkish encirclement and shatter the Sultanate of Rûm’s field army. The way across Anatolia lies open, though thirst and hunger will kill more than battle.

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1862 — The Seven Days

25 Jun–1 Jul 1862 — Lee, three weeks in command, attacks every day for a week and drives McClellan’s hundred thousand back from Richmond’s suburbs at a cost of 20,000 of his own men. The Union’s best early chance to end the war recedes for two years.

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1916

The first day of the Somme: 57,000 British casualties before nightfall, the bloodiest day in that army’s history.

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