Thursday, June 26, 2014

Today in military history: June 27, 2014


1684 - Battle of Vac (Great Turkish War) 
1693 – Battle of Lagos (Nine Years’ War) (Naval)
 French man-of-war escorted by a Dutch ship in quiet water - By Jacob Gerritz. Loef between 1621 and 1670 
1743 – Battle of Dettingen (War of the Austrian Succession) 
1806 – British occupy Buenos Aires (Anglo-Spanish War of 1796-1808) 
1862 – Battle of Garnett’s and Golding’s Farm begins; Battle of Gaines Mill (US Civil War) 
1864 – Battle of Kennesaw Mountain (US Civil War)

 
Battle of Kenesaw Mountian (sic) - June 27, 1864 - circa 1891.
by Kurz and Allison
 Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., 1864 - by Mathew Brady

1866 – Battle of Langensalza (Austro-Prussian War) 
1874 – Second Battle of Adobe Walls (Red River War)
1915 – Battle of Nasiriyeh begins (WWI) 
1932 – Siamese Revolution of 1932 ends 
1944 – Allies take Cherbourg; British take Rauray; Soviets take Orsha (WWII) 
1950 – US 7th Fleet deploys to protect Taiwan (Korean War) 
1993 – Cruise missile bombing of Baghdad (Iraq)
 November 17, 1993 - A UH-60A Black Hawk (Blackhawk) helicopter flies over a small village in the Kurdish occupied security zone in northern Iraq.

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