Today in military history: July 30, 2014

Military history timeline 

634 – Battle of Ajnadayn (Arab-Byzantine Wars) 

1656 – Battle of Warsaw ends (Second Northern War) 

1813 – Raid on Plattsburg; Ball’s Battle (War of 1812) 

1862 – CSS Alabama departs Liverpool for trial run (US Civil War) (Naval) 

1864 –  Battle of the Crater; Confederates burn down Chambersburg (US Civil War)

 Drawing from between 1880 and 1901 - Drawing of the tunnel leading to the mine sprung in front of Petersburg, Va 30 July 1864

 1864 photo - Chambersburg Pennsylvania was destroyed 

by McCausland's Confederate cavalry in July 1864.

  

1913 - Conclusion of the Second Balkan War

 Photo from between July 20-22 1913 -  

The burned city of Kilkis after the Second Balkan War.

  

1942 – Germans take Bataisk (WWII) 

1943 – British take Catenanouva, Allies take Egadi Islands, Sicily (WWII) 

1944 – Americans take Granville and Tinian (WWII) 

1945 – US and British carrier forces finish attacks on Japan (Naval); Battle of the Visayas ends (WWII) 

1964 – Raid on Hon Me and Hon Ngu (Vietnam War) (Naval)