Sunday, June 29, 2014

Today in military history: June 30, 2014


Military history timeline 
1409 - Battle of  Sanluri (Italy)
1422 - Battle of Arbedo (Switzerland)
1520 - La Noche Triste begins (Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire)
 1909 illustration by Margaret Duncan Coxhead -
Noche Triste. Aztecs rise against the conquistadors

1596 – Capture of Cadiz begins (Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604)
1643 – Battle of Adwalton Moor (First English Civil War)
1651 - Battle of Berestechko ends (Khmelnytsky Uprising)
1675 – Siege of Swansea begins (King Philip’s War) 
1692 – Siege of Namur ends (Nine Year’s War)
1758 – Battle of Domstadtl (Seven Years’ War)
1778 – Battle of Alligator Bridge (American Revolutionary War)
1798 – Battle of Ballyellis (United Irishmen Rebellion) 
1815 – Capture of the East India Company ship Nautilus (Post War of 1812) 
1847 – Third Battle of Tuxpan (Mexican-American War)
1857 – Battle of Chinhat (Indian Rebellion of 1857)
1861 – CSS Sumter escapes Federal blockade (US Civil War) (Naval)
1862 – Battle of White Oak Swamp; Battle of Glendale; Battle of Tampa begins (US Civil War)
1863 – Battle of Hanover; Battle of Goodrich’s Landing ends (US Civil War)
1898 – Battle of Tayacoba (Spanish-American War)
1913 – Battle of Bregalnica begins (Second Balkan War)
1940 – German occupy Channel Islands, UK (WWII)
1941 – Germans take Bobryusk and Lvov; Battle of Brody ends  (WWII)
 June 24, 1941 - Destroyed tanks of the soviet 19th tank division 
near Vojnitsa-Lutsk highway.

 June 1941 - Probably a Brennender T-34 burning in a field near Dubno, one of 
79 tanks from the 86th Tank Regiment, 3rd Armored Division 
19th Mechanized Corps from the fight of 14-29 June 1941
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Attribution: Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F016221-0015 / CC-BY-SA
 
1953 – 16 MiGs shot down, setting a one day record (Korean War) (Air)
1998 – Battle of Belacevac Mine ends (Kosovo War)

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