Today in military history: July 20, 2014

Military history timeline 

1304 - Siege of Stirling Castle ends (First War of Scottish Independence) 

1402 - Battle of Ankara (Campaigns of Stefan Lazarevic) 

1651 – Battle of Inverkeithing (Scottish Civil War) 

1780 – Battle of Bull’s Ferry begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1814 – Raid on Port Talbot; Fort St. Joseph burned; Siege of Prairie du Chien ends (War of 1812) 

1864 – Battle of Peachtree Creek; Battle of Stephenson’s Depot; Battle of Winchester (US Civil War) 

1866 – Battle of Lissa (Third Italian War of Independence) (Naval)

 Painting by Alexander Kircher - Battle of Lissa

1869 painting by Konstantinos Volanakis - Naval Battle at Lissa   

 

Painting from between 1866 and 1905 by Ludwig Rubelli von Sturmfest - Lissa 1866

1866 Photo - Italian fleet in Ancona after battle of Lissa (1866)

1877 – Siege of Plevna begins (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1881 – Surrender of Hunkpapa Teton Sioux leader Sitting Bull 

1916 – Battle of Fromelles ends (WWI) 

1943 – Canadians take Enna, Sicily (WWII) 

1944 – Failed Bomb assassination attempt on Hitler (WWII) 

1949 – 1948 Arab –Israeli War ends 

1950 – Battle of Taejon ends (Korean War) 

1953 – Battle of the Kumsong River valley ends (Korean War) 

1964 – Battle of Cai Be (Vietnam War) 

1969 – First human walks on the moon (Cold War) 

1972 - Battle of An Loc ends (Vietnam War) 

1974 – Turkish Invasion of Cyprus begins (Cold War)