Today in military history: April 22, 2014

1363 – Battle of Canturino (Italy) 

1573 – Battle of Borsele (Eighty Years’ War) 

1676 – Battle of Etna (Dutch War) (Naval) 

1794 – Wilno Uprising (Kościuszko Uprising) 

1809 – Battle of Eckmuhl (Eggmuhl) (War of the Fifth Coalition)

 Battle of Eckmuhl in the evening - by Bagetti Giuseppe Pietro

  

1847 – Capture of Perote (Mexican-American War) 

1863 – Raid into Mississippi begins (US Civil War) 

1913 – Siege of Scutari ends (First Balkan War) 

1915 – Second Battle of Ypres begins (WWI)

 Ypres, 1915

 

1918 – Naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend (WWI) 

1944 – US completes takeover of Ungelap Island group (WWII) 

1951 – CCF Spring Offensive begins; Battle of Imjin River begins; Battle of Kapyong begins; Battle of Yultong begins (Korean War)

 

December 4, 1951  - Kapyong Area; Korea. Gen J. van Fleet, 

8th US Army inspects members of the 3rd Royal Australian regiment

  

1985 – Battle of Maravar Pass ends (Soviet war in Afghanistan)