Today in military history: July 23, 2014

Military history timeline 

1148 – Siege of Damascus begins (Second Crusade) 

1448 - Battle of Scutari (Albanian-Venetian War of 1447-1448) 

1759 – Battle of Kay (Seven Years’ War) 

1793 – Siege of Mainz ends (French Revolutionary War) 

1812 - Battle of Saltanovka (also Mogilev) (French Campaign in Russia) 

1814 – Raid up the St. Mary’s River begins (War of 1812) 

1836 – Seminole raid on Cape Florida Lighthouse 

1863 – Battle of Manassas Gap (US Civil War) 

1864 – Federal operations against Indians in New Mexico Territory begins (US Civil War) 

1898 – Battle of Manimani (Spanish-American War) 

1970 – Battle of Fire Support Base Ripcord ends (Vietnam War) 

1916 – Battle of Pozieres begins (WWI) 

1920 – Battle of Maysalun (Franco-Syrian War) 

1943 – Americans take Trapani and Marsala, Sicily (WWII)

 Captured German Kettenkrad tracked motorcycle, 23 July 1943, Sicily

 5.5-inch gun of 212nd Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, in action in Sicily, 23 July 1943.

Churchill tank of the North Irish Horse during the advance towards Florence, 23 July 1944

1944 – Soviets take Pskov (WWII) 

2006 – Battle of Bint Jbeil begins (2006 Lebanon War)