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- Napoleon, about Robert Fultons plans to make a Steamboat.

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Today in Military History

July 5

1900:

VC won by Sgt Arthur Herbert Lindsay Richardson, Strathcona's Horse, Wolve Spruit, Standerton

1943:

Germans launch Operation Zitadelle to eliminate the Kursk salient

1945:

Philippines declared liberated

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