MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · July 3
THE DAY IN HISTORY · JULY 3
July 3 in history
1863 — Gettysburg
1–3 Jul 1863 — Three days and 51,000 casualties: the fishhook line holds Little Round Top by minutes, and on the third day Pickett’s 12,000 walk a mile of open ground into massed guns. Lee never invades the North again.
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1940 — Mers-el-Kébir
3 Jul 1940 — Britain shells the French fleet at anchor in Algeria rather than risk it joining Hitler: 1,297 French sailors die in minutes. The ruthlessness convinces Washington that Britain means to fight on.
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