Today in military history: July 25, 2014

Military history timeline 

1139 - Battle of Ourique (Reconquista)

 Alfonso VI conquers Toledo, May 25, 1085

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1261 – Recapture of Constantinople ends (Byzantine Empire) 

1456 – Battle of Molinella (Italy)                

1742 – Invasion of Georgia ends (War of Jenkins’ Ear) 

1759 – Battle of Fort Niagara ends (French and Indian War) 

1799 – Battle of Abukir (French campaign in Egypt) 

1812 – Battle of Ostrovno (French Invasion of Russia) 

1813 - Battle of Maya; Battle of the Pyrenees begins (Peninsular War) 

1814 – Battle of Lundy’s Lane (War of 1812) 

1861 – Engagement at Mesilla (US Civil War) 

1862 – Action at Courtland Bridge (US Civil War) 

1864 – Federal expedition against Sioux in Dakota Territory begins (US Civil War)

 Railroad Mortar at Petersburg, Virginia., July 25, 1864. "The Dictator."

  

1868 - Siege of Humaita ends (Paraguayan War) (partly Naval) 

1898 – Battle of Manila begins; Invasion of Puerto Rico begins (Spanish-American War) 

1937 - Battle of Brunete ends (Spanish Civil War); Battle of Beiping-Tianjin begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1938 – Battle of the Ebro begins (Spanish Civil War) 

1942 – Germans take Rostov (WWII) 

1943 – Mussolini is arrested and Italy forms a new government (WWII) 

1944 – Operation Cobra begins (WWII)

 Troops of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles near Ifs, France, 25 July 1944.

U.S. government press photo of Irving Berlin aboard the USS Arkansas, July 25, 1944.

  

1945 – USS Indianapolis delivers Uraniaum-235 for an atomic bomb to Tinian (WWII) (Naval) 

2004 – Battle of Buhriz (Iraq War)