Friday, May 16, 2014

Today in military history: May 16, 2104

1364 – Battle of Cocherel (Hundred Years’ War)
15th century illustration - Charles V the Wise at the Battle of Cocherel
  
1643 – Battle of Stratton (First English Civil War) 
1771 – Battle of Alamance (War of the Regulation) 
1811 - Battle of Albuera (Peninsular War) 
1814 – Raid on Port Dover begins (War of 1812) 
1834 – Battle of Asseiceira (Portuguese Civil War) 
1843 – Battle of Smala (French conquest of Algeria) 
1862 – Action at Princeton, VA begins (US Civil War)
 Circa 1860 - Confederate general Humphrey Marshall
1863 – Battle of Champion Hill (US Civil War) 
1864 – Battle of Drewery’s Bluff, VA (also Fort Darling); Battle of Proctor’s Creek ends (US Civil War) 
1917 – Battle of Arras ends (WWI) 
1943 – Dambusters Raid (WWII) (Air) 
1944 – Allies take Monte Petrella (WWII) 
1947 – Menglianggu Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 
1967 – Operation Union ends (Vietnam War) 
2009 – Second Battle of Swat (War in North-West Pakistan)
 Pakistani forces captured Baine Baba Ziarat, the highest point in Swat valley, May 12, 2009.
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