Today in military history: May 23, 2014

1480 – Siege of Rhodes begins (Ottoman wars in Europe)

 

1513 by Guillaume Caoursin - Siege of Rhodes (1480)

1511 – Surrender of Bologna (War of the League of Cambrai) 

1568 – Battle of Heiligerlee (Eighty Year’s War) 

1706 – Battle of Ramillies (War of the Spanish Succession) 

1771 – Battle of Lanckorona (War of the Bar Confederation) 

1807 - Battle of the Dardanelles ends (Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812) (Naval)

 Circa 1807 by Thomas Whitcombe - The squadron under the command of Sir J T Duckworth forcing the narrow channel of the Dardanelles, February 19th 1807

  

1809 – Battle of Alcaniz (Peninsular War) 

1841 – Second Battle of Canton (First Opium War) 

1862 –Battle of Front Royal, VA (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of North Anna, VA begins (US Civil War) 

1948 – Siege of Changchun begins (Chinese Civil War) 

2011 – Battle of Sana’a begins (2011 Yemeni Uprising)

 Sana'a - Sixtieth Street - 22 May 2011, National Day of Yemen
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