Today in military history: June 28, 2014

Military history timeline 

870 – Occupation of al-Ubulla (Zanj Rebellion) 

1098 –Siege of Antioch ends (First Crusade)

1850 by J.J. Dassy - Robert of Normandie at the Siege of Antioch 1097–1098

  

1119 - Battle of Ager Sanguinis (also Field of Blood, Sarmada, Balat) (Syria) 

1495 - Battle of Seminara (First Italian War) 

1575 – Battle of Nagashino (Japan) 

1651 - Battle of Berestechko begins (Khmelnytsky Uprising) 

1675 – Battle of Fehrbellin (Franco-Dutch War) 

1745 – Siege of Louisbourg ends (War of the Austrian Succession) 

1776 – Battle of Sullivan’s Island (American Revolutionary War)

 1776 by Henry Gray - The Unsuccessful Attack on the Fort on Sullivan's Island

1778 – Battle of Monmouth (American Revolutionary War) 

1814 – USS Wasp versus HMS Reindeer (Naval); Battle of Odelltown (War of 1812) 

1861 – Hollins’ Raid (US Civil War) (partly Naval) little book 

1862 – Battle of Garnett’s and Golding’s Farm ends (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle at Donaldsonville (US Civil War) 

1914 – Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated  (Pre-WWI)

1915 – Battle of Gully Ravine begins (WWI) 

1929 – Attack on Curacao (Dutch Antilles) 

1942 – Germans take Mersa Matruh (WWII)

 A Grant tank on patrol near Mersa Matruh, 26 June 1942.

  

1945 – Luzon Campaign ends (WWII) 

1965 – First major US offensive in Vietnam begins (Vietnam War) 

1972 – Second Battle of Quang Tri begins (Vietnam War) 

2006 – Operation Summer Rains begins (Gaza-Israel conflict)