Nov 1814 - McAuthur's Raid during War of 1812 . Following victory at Thames the north west front was completely in American hands. However in the East the opposite was the case. General Duncan McAuthur led an expedition of mostly Kentucky Militia over 200 miles into British held territory. Engaged in 5 or 6 small engagements, capturing hundreds of British regulars & Canadian Militia, destroyed munitions stores, bridges, and gristmills. This raid forced the British currently engaged with Americans at Fort Erie to withdraw and counter the threat to the interior of Canada. [Courtesy Luther Davenport]
01 – Northernmost U.S. action of Korean War (1950)
03 – Battle of Dak To began (1967)
04 - Gen. St. Clairs's expedition against the Indians on the Maumee ends most disastrously. Upon the banks of a small branch of the Wabash, just south of the headwaters of the St. Mary of the Maumee, the army of 1400 men and 86 officers (regulars and Kentucky Militia) is surprised and overpowered by Indians, under Brant and Little Turtle, and defeated with terrible slaughter-losing 890 men and 16 officers in killed and wounded. Gen. Richard Butler is among the killed (Butler was the brother of Kentucky's first Adjutant General P.P. Butler) (1791).
06 - Maj. John Adair and about 100 Kentucky Militia attacked near Fort St. Clair (now Eaton, Ohio) by a large body of Indians under Little Turtle: after a gallant fight in which they several times drive back the Indians, they are forced to retreat with loss of 6 men killed, 5 wounded, their camp equipage and 140 pack mules (1792).
07 - Battle of Tippecanoe, in which Col. Joe Hamilton Daveiss and other distinguished Kentuckians fell (1811).
08 – Operation Torch began (Invasion of North Africa)(1942)
08 - First All-Jet Combat in history (1950)
10 - Miami Indian town burned by a large force of Kentuckians under command of George Rogers Clark (1782).
10 – U.S. Marine Corps established (1775)
11 – Signing of World War I Armistice (1918) Veterans Day
17 - Excitement against Spain, and sympathy for Cuba, so great, because of recent horrible butchery of the captives on the ship Virginius, that Governor Leslie receives the offer of one regiment and several companies of volunteers, in case the U.S. declares war against Spain (1873).
23 - The Kentucky Army National Guard received its first helicopter, a "G" model Bell OH-13 Sioux, Light Observation Helicopter, on 23 November 1954 at Bowman field in Louisville.
25 – The 38th Tank Company from Harrodsburg, which was redesignated as Company D, 192nd Light Tank Battalion, was the first Kentucky unit ordered to active duty reporting to their armory on 25 November 1940.
27 – Battle of the Chosin Reservoir began (1950)