Today in military history: June 2, 2014

455 – Vandals sack of Rome (Italy)

 The Sack of Rome by the Vandals by Heinrich Leutemann circa 1860-1880

1098 – Siege of Antioch ends (First Crusade) 

1183 – Battle of Kurikara (Genpei War) 

1424 – Battle of L’Aquila (Italy)  

1442 – Siege of Naples ends (Italy) 

1525 – Battle of Konigshafen (German Peasants’ War) 

1645 – Second Siege of Oxford ends (First English Civil War) 

1763 – Battle of Fort Michilimackinac (Pontiac’s Rebellion)

Pontiac's War Council Meeting

1781 – Invasion of Tobago ends (American Revolutionary War) (Naval) 

1865 – Britain withdraws belligerent rights from Confederacy (US Civil War) 

1866 – Battle of Ridgeway; Battle of Fort Erie (Fenian Raids) 

1920 – Battle of Boryspil (Polish-Soviet War) 

1928 – Beijing taken (Chinese Civil War) 

1944 –US takes Valmontone, Italy (WWII)

 British troops inspect a line-up of captured German and 

Italian armored fighting vehicles, Italy, 2 June 1944

  

1949 – Shanghai Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1967 – Battle at Vinh Huy (Vietnam War)