Thursday, May 22, 2014

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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Author: ibrahem Qasim

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