Today in military history: July 28, 2014

Military history timeline 

657 - Battle of Siffin ends (First Fitna) 

1148 – Siege of Damascus ends (Second Crusade)

 Late 15th century manuscript - Siege of Damascus during the Second Crusade, 1148; 

with the armies of King Baldwin III of Jerusalem, King Louis VII of France, 

and right, Emperor Conrad III of Germany,

  

1330 - Battle of Velbazhd (Bulgarian-Serbian Wars) 

1364 – Battle of Cascina (Italy) 

1424 - Battle of Zagonara (Wars in Lombardy) 

1480 – Siege of Otranto begins (Ottoman-Hungarian Wars) 

1488 - Battle of Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier (Mad War) 

1643 – Battle of Gainsborough (First English Civil War) 

1656 – Battle of Warsaw begins (Second Northern War) 

1689 – Siege of Derry ends (Williamite War in Ireland) (partly Naval)

 Example of 17th century Royal Navy ships - Anonymous, 17th century: Royal Navy (showing St. George and Red Ensign flags).

  

1809 – Battle of Talavera de la Reina ends (Peninsular War) 

1812 – Battle of Klyastitsy begins (French Invasion of Russia) 

1813 – Battle of Sorauren begins (Peninsular War) 

1862 – Battle of Moore’s Mills (US Civil War)  

1863 – Battle of Stony Lake (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Ezra Church; Battle of Tahkahokuty Mountain (US Civil War) 

1915 – US occupation of Haiti begins (Banana Wars) 

1920 – Pancho Villa surrenders (Mexican Revolution) 

1932 – US Army evicts Bonus Marchers from Washington DC 1943 –Americans take Nicosia, Canadians take Agira, Sicily (WWII) 

1944 – Russians take Brest-Litovskand Przemysl (WWII) 

2004 – Battle of Suwariyah (Iraq War)

 

 Arabian Gulf (July 28, 2004) - Sailors assigned to the mine countermeasure ship USS Dextrous (MCM 13) raise the AN/SLQ-48 Mine Neutralization Vehicle from the Persian Gulf. The AN/SLQ-48 system uses a remote-controlled submersible vehicle to identify and neutralize underwater mines. Dextrous was forward deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.