MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · October 19

THE DAY IN HISTORY · OCTOBER 19

October 19 in history

439 — Vandals take Carthage

19 Oct 439 — Geiseric seizes Africa’s capital without a siege. The West’s richest tax base and Rome’s grain are gone in a day — the amputation the West does not survive.

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1781

Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown as the band plays “The World Turned Upside Down.” The American war is effectively over.

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1813 — Leipzig: the Battle of the Nations

16–19 Oct 1813 — Half a million men, the largest battle in European history to that date. Napoleon’s Germany dissolves in three days.

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