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    Operation Tombstone Pile Driver (15 July 2004)

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    On July 15, 2004 soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division?s 5th Brigade Combat Team and the Iraqi National Guard?s 304th Battalion executed an extensive cordon and search operation in southern Baghdad. Code-named Operation Tombstone Pile Driver, its objective was to find insurgents and seize any weapons.

    The operation netted six individuals who were detained for questioning.
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    1862: The Confederates abandon the city of Corinth.

    1864: Confederates attack at Bethesda Church, Virginia.

    1900: U.S. troops arrive in Peking to help put down the Boxer Rebellion.

    1902: The Boer War ends with the Treaty of Vereeniging.

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    1916: British and German fleets fight in the Battle of Jutland.

    1941: The last of the Allies evacuate after 11 days of battling a successful German parachute invasion of the island of Crete.

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