MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · August 30
THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 30
August 30 in history
1862 — Second Bull Run
29–30 Aug 1862 — Jackson’s 54-mile flank march and Longstreet’s hammer blow rout Pope on the old Manassas ground. In under three months Lee has moved the war from Richmond’s gates to Washington’s.
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1914 — Louvain
25-30 Aug 1914 — German troops, panicked by rumors of francs-tireurs, burn the medieval university city and its library of 300,000 books, and shoot 248 civilians. Some 6,500 Belgian and French civilians are killed in the invasion. Remember them.
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