* 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured.

A Batavian contingent was used in an amphibious assault on Ynys Mon ( Anglesey ), taking the assembled Druids by surprise, as they were only expecting Roman ships.

In 1683, the Qing staged an amphibious assault on southern Taiwan, bringing down the rebel Grand Duchy of Tungning, which was founded by the Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662 after the fall of the Southern Ming, and had served as a base for continued Ming resistance in Southern China.

His less practical ideas were sidelined by an experienced planning staff led by Lt-Col. James Allason, though some, such as a proposal to launch an amphibious assault near Rangoon, got as far as Churchill before being quashed.

Their combat insertion techniques include, airborne, air assault, amphibious and by land.

In 1758, he took part in the major amphibious assault that captured the Fortress of Louisbourg from the French, after which he participated in the siege of Quebec City and then the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

* 1982 – Falklands War: A British amphibious assault during Operation Sutton leads to the Battle of San Carlos.

* 1847 – Mexican-American War: The first large-scale amphibious assault in U. S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz.

In 1940 the German Navy was ill-prepared for mounting an amphibious assault the size of Operation Sea Lion.

Some of its key military export projects include T-155 Firtina self-propelled artillery for Turkey ; K11 air-burst rifle for United Arab Emirates ; Bangabandhu class guided-missile frigate for Bangladesh ; fleet tankers such as Sirius class for the navies of Australia, New Zealand, and Venezuela ; Makassar class amphibious assault ships for Indonesia ; and KT-1 trainer for Turkey and Indonesia.

In other major oursourcing and joint-production deals, South Korea has jointly produced the S-300 air defense system of Russia via Samsung Group, and will facilitate the sales of Mistral class amphibious assault ships to Russia that will be produced by STX Corporation.

The amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima ( LPH-2 ) was sent to the Canal, carrying twelve RH-53D minesweeping helicopters of HM-12.

Congress has mandated that the U. S. Navy consider nuclear power as an option on all large surface combatants ( cruisers, destroyers ) and amphibious assault ships.

* January 13 – American Civil War: The Second Battle of Fort Fisher begins when United States forces launch a major amphibious assault against the Confederate stronghold of Fort Fisher, North Carolina.

Game Attributes: The Marine is a specialist trained for aquatic and amphibious assault based missions.

* Amphibious warfare-ships having organic capability for amphibious assault and which have characteristics enabling long duration operations on the high seas.

It also provided amphibious assault ships to land supplies, as a sunken ROC naval vessel was blocking the harbor.

Thus it was doubly a strategic target of the Japanese invasion fleet meant to conduct a direct sea-land amphibious assault in May 1942, but the invasion was prevented in the historic Battle of Coral Sea, the first of five carrier versus carrier sea battles in mankinds ' history.

USS Makin Island, a modified Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, is to be the Navy's first amphibious assault ship powered by gas turbines.

With an initial target date of 1 May 1944, the infantry attack was conceived as a joint assault by five divisions transported by landing craft, constituting the largest amphibious operation in military history.

Their landings were to be supported by the tanks of the 743rd Tank Battalion ; two companies swimming ashore in amphibious DD tanks and the remaining company landing directly onto the beach from assault craft.

* LHA ( for " Landing Helicopter Assault "), US Navy hull classification symbol for general purpose amphibious assault ships of the Tarawa class

* 1943 – World War II: Operation Husky – Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.

On September 15, General Douglas MacArthur conducted Operation Chromite, an amphibious landing at the city of Inchon ( Song Do port ).

By April 1944, a total of 34 NCDUs were deployed to England in preparation for Operation OVERLORD, the amphibious landing at Normandy.

On 15 September 1950, UDTs supported Operation Chromite, the amphibious landing at Incheon.

A week after Messines Ridge Haig gave his objectives to his Army commanders: wearing out the enemy, securing the Belgian coast and connecting with the Dutch frontier by the capture of Passchendaele Ridge, followed by an advance on Roulers and Operation Hush, an attack along the coast with an amphibious landing and that if the manpower and artillery were insufficient, only the first part of the plan might be fulfilled.

The information gathered by the Agency was used by the Americans and British in planning the amphibious November 1942 Operation Torch landings in North Africa

This was in contrast to later amphibious assaults, such as Operation Overlord, in which considerable weight was given to pre-invasion reconnaissance.

The German amphibious invasion of Britain in 1940, Operation Sea Lion, was eventually cancelled owing to the German defeat in the Battle of Britain.

On January 22, 1944, from the deck of the cruiser USS Biscayne, Lucas oversaw Operation Shingle, the amphibious landing at Anzio.

Operation Shingle ( January 22, 1944 ) was an Allied amphibious landing in the Italian Campaign against German forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy.

However, his command was then withdrawn from the line to prepare for Operation Dragoon, the amphibious assault on southern France.

On 22 January 1944, the Allies launched Operation Shingle, the amphibious landing by the U. S. and British divisions of U. S. VI Corps in the area of Anzio and Nettuno.

II Corps participated in a further amphibious operation at Salerno during the Allied invasion of Italy ( Operation Avalanche ).

The success of Operation Overlord in June meant even more craft from the Home Fleet could be sent, including precious amphibious assault shipping.

This was to involve an amphibious assault on the western side of Malaya codenamed Operation Zipper.

Following the successful Bouganville operation, he then isolated and neutralized the Japanese naval stronghold at Rabaul by capturing surrounding positions in the Bismarck Archipelago in a series of amphibious landings known as Operation Cartwheel.

Elements of the Bodyguard plan were in operation on June 6, 1944 in support of Operation Neptune ( the amphibious assault of Normandy ).

Despite being a large and complex military operation with a well-executed amphibious and airborne component, Operation Dragoon is not well known ; it came in the later stages of the war and was overshadowed by the earlier and larger Operation Overlord.

The plan for Operation Husky called for the amphibious assault of the island by two armies, one landing on the south eastern and one on the central southern coast.

Operation Shining Express was the July, 2003 deployment of a U. S. Naval task force based around the amphibious ship USS Kearsarge to rescue embassy personnel and American citizens from Liberia's civil war.