A British relief force was defeated in the naval Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779.

* 1779 – Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.

He unsuccessfully attacked a French fleet under the Comte d ' Estaing at the Battle of Grenada in July 1779.

He contributed to the capture of Grenada and took part in the three actions fought by Guichen against Admiral Rodney in the Battle of Martinique ( 1780 ).

Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte was a Louis XV and Louis XIV era Admiral of the French Royal Navy, noted for his involvement in French naval support for the Americans during the American Revolutionary War, notably in the Battle of Grenada and the Siege of Savannah.

He was educated at Eton ( 1774 – 1776 ) before entering the Royal Navy, where he served between 1777 and 1783 ; most notably aboard HMS Lion ( launched 1777 ) at the Battle of Grenada ( 1779 )

He fought the minor Battle of Grenada against d ' Estaing in 1779, and retired the following year.

During the American Revolutionary War, Picquet de la Motte distinguished himself as a member of Admiral d ' Estaing's squadron in Martinique and during the Battle of Grenada and the Siege of Savannah.

The Battle of Grenada took place on 6 July 1779. d ' Estaing saw the British fleet of 21 ships of the line approaching and weighed anchor.

The Battle of Grenada took place on 6 July 1779 during the American War of Independence in the West Indies between the British Royal Navy and the French Navy, just off the coast of Grenada.

Johnston launched a massive surprise attack with his concentrated forces against Grant at the Battle of Shiloh on April 6, 1862.

The Battle of the Red Wall was marked with the total defeat of the French forces, with 5, 700 out of 6, 000 men killed.

The French armies defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Jemappes on 6 November, and had soon taken over most of the Austrian Netherlands.

Francis II () ( 12 February 1768 – 2 March 1835 ) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Holy Roman Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz.

Union ( American Civil War ) | Union soldiers dead at Battle of Gettysburg | Gettysburg, photographed by Timothy H. O ' Sullivan, July 5 – 6, 1863Letter of David Wills ( Gettysburg ) | David Wills inviting Abraham Lincoln to make a few remarks, noting that Edward Everett would deliver the oration

With his brother-in-law Gustavus dead in 1632, George William maintained the Swedish alliance until after the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Nordlingen on 6 September 1634.

* Battle of Chancellorsville, April 30 – May 6, 1863, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near the village of Chancellorsville, Confederate victory.

Akbar's forces defeated and killed Hemu in the Second Battle of Panipat on 6 November 1556.

* 1811 – Mexican War of Independence: In the Battle of Calderón Bridge, a heavily outnumbered Spanish force of 6, 000 troops defeats nearly 100, 000 Mexican revolutionaries.

* 1014 – Byzantine – Bulgarian Wars: Battle of Kleidion – Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15, 000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.

* 1685 – Monmouth Rebellion: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth is executed at Tower Hill, England after his defeat at the Battle of Sedgemoor on 6 July 1685.

San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park, located near Escondido, California, is a California State Park which honors the memory of the participants from both the United States and Mexico, including Kit Carson, who contested the Battle of San Pasqual on December 5 – 6, 1846 during the Mexican-American War.

On 6 April 1250 Louis lost his army at the Battle of Fariskur and was captured by the Egyptians.

* 1934 – The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the " Battle of Toledo ", a five-day melée between 1, 300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6, 000 picketers.

* 1812 – Battle of Badajoz ( March 16 – April 6 ) – British and Portuguese forces besieged and defeated French garrison during Peninsular War.

The decline began on 6 August 1284, when the numerically superior fleet of Pisa, under the command of Albertino Morosini, was defeated by the brilliant tactics of the Genoese fleet, under the command of Benedetto Zaccaria and Oberto Doria, in the dramatic naval Battle of Meloria.

* Cavanaugh, Michael A., and William Marvel, The Petersburg Campaign: The Battle of the Crater: " The Horrid Pit ", June 25 – August 6, 1864 ( 1989 )

* Rhea, Gordon C. The Battle of the Wilderness May 5 – 6, 1864, Louisiana State University Press, 1994, ISBN 0-8071-1873-7.

The Gauls destroyed much of Rome's historical records when they sacked the city after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC ( Varronian, according to Polybius the battle occurred in 387 / 6 ) and what was left was eventually lost to time or theft.

The Battle of An Loc pitted some 6, 350 ARVN men against a force three times that size.

On 5 / 6 September 1566, Suleiman, who had set out from Constantinople to command an expedition to Hungary, died before an Ottoman victory at the Battle of Szigetvár in Hungary.

Eventually, her forces were defeated at the Battle of Uppsala ( långfredagsslaget vid Uppsala ) on Good Friday, April 6.

After the death in 392 of Valentinian II, whom Theodosius had supported against a variety of usurpations, Theodosius ruled as sole Emperor, appointing his younger son Honorius Augustus as his co-ruler for the West ( Milan, on 23 January 393 ) and by defeating the usurper Eugenius on 6 September 394, at the Battle of the Frigidus ( Vipava river, modern Slovenia ) he restored peace.

The Confederates had the same thing in mind, and moved first at dawn on April 6, 1862, with a full-force attack on the Union Army at the Battle of Shiloh ; the objective was to annihilate the western Union offensive in one massive assault.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

At the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, 1863, Doubleday's division was the second infantry division on the field to reinforce the cavalry division of Brig.

His campaigns were successful and, on 25 July 1139, he obtained an overwhelming victory in the Battle of Ourique, and straight after was unanimously proclaimed King of the Portuguese by his soldiers, establishing his equality in rank to the other realms of the Peninsula.

* Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1 – 3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

War was, however, forced on him and less than a year after his accession the complete defeat of the Turks at Battle of Kozluja led to the humiliating Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca on July 21, 1774.

In the fateful Battle of Ankara, on 20 July 1402, Bayezid was captured by Timur and the Ottoman army was overpowered.

However in July 1797 he had lost an arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and had been forced to return to Britain to recuperate.

The Battle of Gettysburg (, with an sound ), was fought July 1 – 3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The Battle of Abritus, also known as the Battle of Forum Terebronii, occurred in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior ( modern Razgrad, Bulgaria ) probably in July, 251, between the Roman Empire and a federation of Scythian tribesmen under the Goth king Cniva.

* First Battle of El Alamein – 1 – 27 July 1942

The Battle of Bouvines, which took place on 27 July 1214, was a medieval battle ending the twelve year old Angevin-Flanders War that was fundamental in the early development of France in the Middle Ages by confirming the French crown's sovereignty over the Angevin lands of Brittany and Normandy.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

The army, led by Alonso de Alvarado, was defeated during the Battle of Abancay on July 12, 1537.

When Otho was defeated by Vitellius at the First Battle of Bedriacum however, the armies in Judaea and Egypt took matters into their own hands and declared Vespasian emperor on 1 July 69.

Ayub Khan, who had been serving as governor of Herat, rose in revolt, defeated a British detachment at the Battle of Maiwand in July 1880 and besieged Kandahar.

After a series of brilliant manoeuvres the Imperial commander defeated Catinat at the Battle of Carpi on 9 July.

The Crown Prince, however, succeeded in effecting the retreat in good order, and in the decisive Battle of Königgratz ( 3 July 1866 ) he held the extreme left of the Austrian position.

The First Battle of El Alamein ( 1 – 27 July 1942 ) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces ( Germany and Italy ) of the Panzer Army Africa ( Panzerarmee Afrika ) commanded by Field Marshal ( Generalfeldmarschall ) Erwin Rommel, and Allied ( specifically, British Imperial ) forces ( Britain, British India, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand ) of the British Eighth Army commanded by General Claude Auchinleck.

The Western Desert Battle Area, July 1942

Since July 2007, following the 2006 Palestinian legislative election and the following Battle of Gaza, Hamas has functioned as the de-facto ruler in the Gaza Strip, forming an alternative Hamas Government in Gaza.

Following the July 1 – 3, 1863, Battle of Gettysburg, reburial of Union soldiers from the Gettysburg Battlefield graves began on October 17.