1333 – Battle of Halidon Hill (Second War of Scottish
Independence)
Edward III invades Scotland, from an edition of Froissart's Chronicles
1657 – Fourth Battle of the Dardanelles begins (Cretan War
of 1645-1669) (Naval)
1701 – Crossing of the Duna (Great Northern War)
1702 – Battle of Klissow (Great Northern War)
1742 - Battle of Bloody Marsh ends (War of Jenkins' Ear)
1747 – Battle of Assietta (War of the Austrian Succession)
1779 – Battle of Minisink begins (American Revolutionary
War)
1808 – Battle of Bailen ends (Peninsular War)
1812 – First Battle of Sacket’s Harbor (War of 1812) (Naval)
1814 – Raid on Champlain Village ends; Americans burn St
Davids (War of 1812)
1863 – Attack on Morgan’s brigade; Battle of Buffington Island; Skirmish at Rios de las Animas (US
Civil War)
Photo from 1863 - Group of "Morgan's Men" while prisoners of war in Western Penitentiary,
Pennsylvania: (l to r) Captain William E. Curry, 8th Kentucky Cavalry;
Lieutenant Andrew J. Church, 8th Kentucky Cavalry; Lieutenant Leeland
Hathaway, 14th Kentucky Cavalry; Lieutenant Henry D. Brown, 10th
Kentucky Cavalry; Lieutenant William Hays, 20th Kentucky Cavalry. All
were captured with John Hunt Morgan in Ohio.
1870 - Franco-Prussian
War begins
1877 – First Battle of Shipka Pass ends (Russo-Turkish War
of 1877-1878)
1913 – Battle of Kalimanci ends (Second Balkan War)
1916 – Battle of Fromelles begins (WWI)
1940 – Battle of
Cape Spada (WWII) (Naval)
1944 – Canadians take Vaucelles, Louvigny and
Fleury-sur-Orne; US takes Leghorn, Italy; Russians enter Latvia (WWII)
1950 – Battle of Taejon begins (Korean War)
1972 – Battle of Mirbat (Dhofar Rebellion)
2003 - Battle of Spin Boldak (War in Afghanistan)
July 23, 2003 - An 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper fires his M-4 equipped with a
C-MAG 100-round magazine July 23, 2003 at the Kandahar Air Field weapons
range.
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