Today in military history: April 25, 2014

1185 – Battle of Dan-no-ura (Genpei War) (Naval) 

 1845-1846 print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi -
General Taira no Tomomori ties himself to an anchor so that he may die by 

his own hand and not from enemy action during the battle at Dan-no-ura.

1464 – Battle of Hedgeley Moor (Wars of the Roses) 

1607 – Battle of Gibraltar (Eighty Years’ War) (Naval) 

1622 – Battle of Wiesloch (Thirty Years’ War) 

1626 – Battle at Dessau Bridge (Thirty Years’ War) 

1643 – Battle of Sourton Down (First English Civil War) 

1707 – Battle of Almansa (War of the Spanish Succession)

 1709 painting by Buonaventura Ligli (Ventura Lirios) y Filippo Pallotta - Battle of Almansa

  

1781 – Battle of Blanford; Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill (American Revolutionary War) 

1846 – Thornton Affair (Mexican-American War) 

1862 – Capture of New Orleans, LA; Surrender of Fort Macon, NC (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Marks’ Mill, and Moro Bottom, AK (US Civil War) 

1875 –Pecos River skirmish (poss. Red River Indian War) 

1915 – Landing at Cape Helles; Landing at Anzac Cove begins (WWI)  

1936 – Battle of the Ogaden ends (Second Italo-Abyssinian War) 

1945 – Red Army surrounds Berlin, Pillau, Mantua, Verona, Parma, Perwegen taken; (WWII) 

1947 – Battle of Niangziguan ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1951 - Battle of Imjin River ends; Battle of Kapyong ends (Korean War)

Men of the 3rd Ranger Company, 3rd Infantry Division, adjust their gear 

before undertaking a dawn patrol across the Imjin River, Korea. 17 April 1951

  

1959 – Rebels attack Panama (Panama) 

2007 – Battle of Thoppigala begins (Sri Lankan Civil War)