1243 – Battle of
Kose Dag (Mongol Conquest of Anatolia)
1402 - Battle of
Casalecchio (Italy)
1570 – Battle of
Arnay-le-Duc (French Wars of Religion)
1673 – Siege of
Maastricht ends (Franco-Dutch War)
A Letter to a Sleeping Soldier - 1655-1660 painting by unknown artist
1777 – Battle of Short Hills (American Revolutionary War)
1794 – Battle of Fleurus (French Revolutionary Wars)
1781 – Battle of Spencer’s Ordinary (American Revolutionary
War)
1813 – Capture of Hampton, Virginia ends (War of 1812)
1814 – Battle of St.
Leonard’s Creek (War of 1812) (Naval)
1861 – Battle at
Patterson’s Creek (US Civil War)
1862 – Battle of
Beaver Dam Creek (US Civil War)
1863 – Battle of Hoover’s Gap ends (US Civil War)
1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn ends (Great Sioux War of
1876-1877)
1918 – Battle of Belleau Wood ends (WWI)
1932 – Siamese Revolution of 1932 begins
1944 – South Africans take Chiusi, Italy; Soviets take
Zhlobin (WWII)
Men of 12 Platoon, 'B' Company, 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers take cover
in St Manvieu during Operation 'Epsom', Normandy, 26 June 1944.
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Led by their piper, men of 7th Seaforth Highlanders, 15th (Scottish)
Division advance during Operation 'Epsom' in Normandy, 26 June 1944.
1948 – Berlin Airlift begins (Cold War) (Air)
1950 – Evacuation of Inchon (Korean War)
1952 – Raids on Yalu River end (Korean War) (Air)
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