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On this day in 1242, the armies of Novgorod defeat the Teutonic Knights on a frozen lake in what is now Estonia. The Battle of the Ice, as it becomes known, will be later immortalized in the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein epic 'Alexander Nevsky.'

On this day in 1763, the Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Years War. A defeated France cedes the vast territory of Canada to Britain in exchange for the Caribbean colonies of St Lucia, Guadeloupe & Martinique. Voltaire writes that all King Louis XV has lost is "a few acres of snow"

A Very Civil War – Inside Switzerland's Astonishingly Polite Armed Conflict of 1847
https://t.co/nqsDsWxwbO

RIGHT NOW in 1863, President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation takes effect. "All persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a state in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free."

On this day in 1943, troops from Canada's 1st Infantry Division liberate the Italian city of Ortona. The victory marks the end of the Allies' "Bloody December."

On this day in 1810, Sweden declares war on Great Britain. Reluctantly forced into it by Napoleon, Stockholm takes absolutely no military action against the United Kingdom.

(Accordingly, here's a pic from the era of Swedes not fighting.)

On this day in 1861, the United States risks war with Great Britain as a boarding party from an American warship removes Confederate diplomats from the Royal Mail Ship Trent. London responds by sending troops to Canada. For more, click:https://t.co/onhPjXbS2e

On this day in 1911, an Italian pilot named Giulio Gavotti drops four grenades from an Etrich Taube monoplane onto Ottoman Turk positions in Libya. It's history's first air strike. No casualties are inflicted.

On this day in 1904, warships from Russia's Baltic Fleet en route to the Far East mistake British fishing trawlers in the North Sea for Japanese torpedo boats and open fire. Britain comes close to declaring war over what becomes known as the Dogger Bank Incident.

On this day in 1864, Confederate raiders riding out of Canada rob a bank in St. Albans, Vermont. It's the northernmost land action of the U.S. Civil War.

(Sorry, Schrute Farms)