THE DAY IN HISTORY · AUGUST 7
August 7 in history
What happened on August 7: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1819 and 1999, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Battle of Boyacá
7 Aug 1819 — Bolívar’s army crossed flooded plains and a freezing 4,000-meter pass before meeting New Granada’s royalist army. In two hours, he destroyed it.
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— Invasion of Dagestan
7 Aug 1999 — Islamist fighters based in Chechnya crossed into Dagestan to support a local rising. Shamil Basayev and Khattab led them. Two days later Yeltsin named Vladimir Putin, the former head of the security service, prime minister; within weeks Russian forces had driven the invaders back.
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