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Today's featured article Patch observing the landing of troops and supplies The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse took place from 15 December 1942 to 23 January 1943 and was primarily an engagement between United States and Imperial Japanese forces in the hills near the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign. The U.S. forces were under the overall command of Major General Alexander Patch (pictured), and the Japanese under the overall command of Lieutenant General Harukichi Hyakutake. U.S. soldiers and Marines, assisted by native Solomon Islanders, attacked Imperial Japanese Army forces defending well-entrenched positions on several hills and ridges. With difficulty the U.S. succeeded in taking Mount Austen, in the process reducing a strongly defended position called the Gifu, as well as the Galloping Horse and the Sea Horse. In the meantime, the Japanese decided to abandon Guadalcanal and withdrew; most of the surviving Japanese troops were successfully evacuated. (This article is part of a featured topic: Guadalcanal Campaign.) Recently featured: John Silva Meehan 2009–10 Notts County F.C. season Prostate cancer On this day... February 7: Independence Day in Grenada (1974) Painting by Louis-Philippe Crépin 1365 – Albert, King of Sweden, granted a town charter to Ulvila, the third-oldest city in Finland. 1813 – Napoleonic Wars: Two evenly matched frigates, the French Aréthuse and the British Amelia, battled to a stalemate (depicted) at the Îles de Los off the Guinean coast. 1865 – The trustees of Seattle enacted an ordinance that expelled Native Americans from the newly incorporated town. 1900 – Second Boer War: British troops made a third unsuccessful attempt to lift the siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Vaal Krantz. 2014 – Researchers announced the discovery of the Happisburgh footprints in Norfolk, England, the oldest known hominid footprints outside Africa, at more than 800,000 years old. Alfonsina Orsini (d. 1520) Margaret Fownes-Luttrell (b. 1726) Louisa Jane Hall (b. 1802) Anne Morrow Lindbergh (d. 2001) More anniversaries: February 6 February 7 February 8

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