Saturday, June 21, 2014

Today in military history: June 22, 2014


217 BC - Battle of Raphia (Fourth Syrian War) 
168 BC - Battle of Pydna (Third Macedonian War)
 Chalcidian type helmets worn by Thracians,mid 4th century BC and older forms
  
1402 - Battle of Nesbit Moor (Anglo-Scottish Wars) Battle of Bryn Glas (also Pilleth) (Glyndwr Rising)  
1476 - Battle of Morat (Burgundian Wars) 
1497 – Battle of Blackheath (Wars of the Roses) 
1481 – Battle of Yenisehir (Ottoman Wars in the Near East) 
1487 –Siege of Sarzana ends (Italy) 
1593 - Battle of  Sisek (Ottoman Wars in Europe) 
1622 –Battle of Macau begins (Dutch-Portuguese War) (Naval)
 Card-Playing Soldiers - Painting about 1625 to 1630 by Willem Cornelisz Duyster

1636 - Battle of Tornavento (Franco-Spanish War of 1635-1659) 
1679 – Battle of Bothwell Bridge (Scottish Covenanter Wars) 
1807 – Battle of Athos ends (Russo-Turkish War 1806-1812) (Naval) 
1813 – Battle of Craney Island (War of 1812) 
1864 – Battle of Kolb’s Farm (US Civil War) 
1940 – Battle of France ends (WWII) 
1941 – Operation Barbarossa begins; Battle of Bialystok-Minsk begins (WWII) 
1944 – US takes Mount Tipo Pale, Marianas; Operation Bagration begins (WWII) 
1945 –Battle of Okinawa ends (WWII) 
1946 – Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket begins (Chinese Civil War) 
1971 – Attack on Fire Base Fuller (Vietnam War) 
1989 – Cease fire in Angola Civil War
 1 April 1983 - Soviet and East Bloc military advisors in Angola.

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