forces of general (and future emperor) Alexios Komnenos (pictured) and a
force led by the rebellious governor of Dyrrhachium, Nikephoros
Bryennios the Elder. Bryennios had rebelled against Michael VII Doukas
(reigned 1071–78) and had won over the allegiance of the Byzantine
army's regular regiments in the Balkans. Even after Doukas's overthrow
by Nikephoros III Botaneiates (r. 1078–81), Bryennios continued his
revolt, threatening Constantinople. After failed negotiations,
Botaneiates sent the young general Alexios Komnenos to confront him. The
two armies clashed at Kalavrye on the Halmyros river. Komnenos, whose
army was considerably smaller and far less experienced, tried but failed
to ambush Bryennios's army, which in turn fell into disorder after its
own Pecheneg allies attacked its camp. Reinforced by Turkish
mercenaries, Alexios lured the troops of Bryennios into another ambush
through a feigned retreat. The rebel army broke, and Bryennios himself
was captured. This is one of the few battles that was described in
detail by Byzantine sources.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kalavrye>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1674:
The Third Anglo-Dutch War ended with the signing of the Treaty
of Westminster, with England regaining New York, and the Netherlands
taking Suriname.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Dutch_War>
1811:
Peninsular War: An outnumbered French force under Édouard
Mortier routed and nearly destroyed the Spanish at the Battle of the
Gebora near Badajoz, Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Gebora>
1942:
World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed
Executive Order 9066, authorizing the forcible relocation of over
112,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese people residing in the United
States to internment camps (Manzanar War Relocation Center pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans>
1986:
The first module of the Soviet space station Mir was launched,
establishing the first long-term research station in space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir>
2006:
A methane explosion in a coal mine in Nueva Rosita, Mexico,
trapped and killed 65 miners.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasta_de_Conchos_mine_disaster>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tendentious:
1. Having a tendency; written or spoken with a partisan, biased or
prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one.
2. Implicitly or explicitly slanted.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tendentious>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
When I want something to happen — or not happen — I begin to
look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or
avoid.
--Amy Tan
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Amy_Tan>
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