On 19 April 1775 British regulars marching to seize colonial stores at Concord exchanged fire with militia at Lexington and Concord, and the American Revolutionary War began. On 19 April 1809 Prince Józef Poniatowski's Polish army fought a larger Austrian army at Raszyn, south of Warsaw. Each battle has its own full story below.
Lexington and Concord, 1775
British regulars sent from Boston to seize colonial military stores at Concord met militia on Lexington Green at dawn, and shots were fired, by whom nobody knows. After a second clash at Concord's North Bridge the column fought its way back to Boston under fire, and the American Revolutionary War had begun.1
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An Austrian army under Archduke Ferdinand invaded the Duchy of Warsaw, and Prince Józef Poniatowski's outnumbered Polish army, with a Saxon contingent, held it at Raszyn until dark. The Poles then gave up Warsaw without a siege but struck south into Galicia, and the peace of that October gave the Duchy part of Galicia with Kraków.2
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