Today in military history: July 13, 2014

Military history timeline 

1260 – Battle of Durbe (Livonian Crusade)

 Livonian Knight - Illustration from 1870

1534 – Battle of Tabriz (Turko-Persian War of 1526-1555) 

1558 – Battle of Gravelines (Italian War of 1551-1559) 

1573 – Siege of Haarlem ends (Eighty Years’ War) 

1643 – Battle of Roundway Down (First English Civil War) 

1711 – Siege of Braila begins (Great Northern War) 

1801 – Second Battle of Algeciras ends (French Revolutionary Wars) (Naval) 

1854 – Bombardment of Greytown (also Bombardment of San Juan del Norte) (Nicaragua) (Naval) 

1861 – Battle of Corrick’s Ford (US Civil War) 

1862 – First Battle of Murfreesboro (US Civil War) 

1863 – Draft riots in New York City and other locations begin (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Camargo Cross Roads (US Civil War)  

1900 – Battle of Tientsin begins (Boxer Rebellion)

 Tsingtau Boxer - historic postcard of Qingdao, China (around 1900)

  

1943 – Battle of Kolombangara ends (WWII) (Naval) 

1944 – Russians take Vilna, Lithuania (WWII) 

1953 - Battle of Kumsong River Salient begins (Korean War) 

2008 – Battle of Wanat (War in Afghanistan) 

2011 – Battle of Brega-Ajdabiya road ends (Libyan civil war)

 July 17, 2011 - Libyan flag above the communications tower in Al Bayda - Libya