Today in military history: June 19, 2014

1097 – Siege of Nicaea ends (First Crusade)

19th century illustration by Gustav Dore - After the battle of Nicea, 

 depicting the heads of Muslim warriors lying on the streets of Nicea

 

1306 - Battle of Methven (First War of Scottish Independence) 

1667 – Raid on the Medway begins (Second Anglo-Dutch War) (Naval) 

1781 –Siege of Ninety-Six ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1799 – Battle of Trebbia ends (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1800 – Battle of Hochstadt (War of the Second Coalition) 

1807 – Battle of Athos begins (Russo-Turkish War 1806-1812) (Naval) 

1813 – Battle of Sodus Point (War of 1812) 

1815 - Battle of Wavre ends (War of the Seventh Coalition) 

1821 - Battle of Dragashani (Greek War of Independence) 

1861 – Battle at Cole Camp (US Civil War) 

1863 - Battle of Middleburg ends (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Cherbourg (US Civil War) (Naval) 

1913 – Battle of Kilkis-Lahanas begins (Second Balkan War)

1913 photo - Photograph of the Second Balkan War, in Cosînzeana, the Romanian-language Transylvanian review: officers of the Romanian Army Corps of Engineers, led by Col. Demetriade (X), who completed the pontoon bridge over the Danube, between Corabia (Romania) and Pleven Province (Bulgaria).

  

1919 – Battle of Wenden begins (Estonian War of Independence, Latvian War of Independence) 

1940 – Germans take Nantes, Saumur and Brest (WWII) 

1945 – US takes Ilagan, Philippines (WWII) 

1948 – Battle of Shangcai ends (Chinese Civil War) 

2007 – Battle of Chora ends (War in Afghanistan)

 Dutch army Panzerhaubitze 2000 firing on Taliban in Chora. June 16, 2007. 

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Author: David Axe

 

2008 – Battle of Arghandab ends (War in Afghanistan)