Today in military history: April 17, 2014

1418 – Battle of Friulia (Venice-Friuli) 
1555 – Siena surrenders to Spanish (Italian War of 1551-1559)

 

 1563-1565 - Triumph for the war against Siena by Giorgio Vasari

1625 – Gavi taken (Thirty Year’s War)

1747 – French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands (War of the Austrian Succession)

1780 – Second Battle of Martinique (American Revolutionary War)

1794 – Battle of Warsaw (Kościuszko Uprising)

1796 – Battle of Ceva ends (French Revolutionary Wars)

1864 – Battle of Plymouth, NC (US Civil War)

1895 – Sino-Japanese War ends

Episode of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Image from the book "Japan And Japanese" (1902)

1915 – British take Hill 60 (St Eloi), Anglo-Indians occupy Nakaila (WWI)

1916 – Russians occupy Surmeneh; British take Beit Aiessa (WWI)

1917 – Battle of Moronvillers begins; Second advance on Gaza begins (WWI)

1918 – Turks at Batum (WWI)

1941 – Yugoslavia surrenders to Germanny (WWII)

1945 – Soviets take Zisterdorf and Polten (WWII)

1946 – Campaign to defend Siping begins (Chinese Civil War)

1961 – Bay of Pigs invasion (Cold War)

 

Captured US-backed Cuban fighters

  

1975 – Khmer Rouge capture Phnom Penh (Cambodian Civil War)