Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Today in military history: July 2, 2014


1214- Battle of Roche-au-Moine (Anglo-French War of 1202-1214) 
1298 - Battle of  Gollheim (Germany) 
1431 - Battle of Bulgneville (France)
 15th century manuscript - Battle of Bulgneville

1461 - Battle of Nidastore (Italy) 
1600 – Battle of Nieuwpoort (Eighty Years’ War) 
1644 – Battle of Marston Moor (First English Civil War) 
1645 – Battle of Alford (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) 
1704 – Battle of Schellenberg (War of the Spanish Succession) 
1747 – Battle of Lauffeld (War of the Austrian Succession) 
1777 – Siege of Fort Ticonderoga begins (American Revolutionary War) 
1779 – Capture of Grenada begins (American Revolutionary War) (partly Naval) 
1812 – Cuyahoga Packet captured (Naval); Raid of St. Leonard’s, Maryland (War of 1812) 
1861 – Battle of Hoke’s Run (US Civil War) 
1917 – Battle of Zborov ends (Kerensky Offensive)
1944 – British take Foiano, Italy (WWII)
 July 1944 - Churchill tanks of 'B' Squadron, 51st Royal Tank Regiment, 
moving across the Italian countryside.

 July 1944 - A Churchill Tank, possibly of the 51st Royal Tank Regiment, 
is given a final check in a harbor area of Italy

 And in France - Sherman tanks and other vehicles under repair 
at a REME depot in Normandy, 3 July 1944.
  
1967 – Operation Buffalo begins (Vietnam War)

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