Thursday, July 3, 2014

Today in military history: July 4, 2014


362 BC - Battle of Mantinea (Theban hegemony)
Greek marble relief c. 330 BC depicting a soldier in combat, 
holding his weapon above his head as he prepares to strike a fallen enemy.
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1187 - Battle of Hattin (Crusades) 
1299 - Battle of Cape Orlando (War of the Sicilian Vespers) (Naval) 
1301 - Battle of Breukelen (Netherlands) 
1456 – Siege of Belgrade begins (Ottoman wars in Europe) 
1482 - Battle of Loja (Reconquista) 
1547 - Battle of Oglio (Italy) 
1610 – Battle of Klushino (Polish-Russian War of 1605-1618) 
1642 – Battle of Codigoro (War of Castro) 
1643 – Battle of Burton Bridge (First English Civil War) 
1779 – Capture of Grenada ends (American Revolutionary War) (partly Naval) 
1790 - Battle of Vyborg Bay (Russo-Swedish War of 1788-1790) (Naval) 
1806 - Battle of Maida (War of the Third Coalition) 
1857 – Dead Rabbits Riot begins (New York City, US) 
1863 – Formal surrender of Vicksburg; Battle of Helena (US Civil War) 
1866 - Battle of Vezza d'Oglio (Third Italian War of Independence)
 An Italian officer from the Third Italian War of Independence, around 1866
  
1879 - Battle of Ulundi (Anglo-Zulu War) 
1902 – Philippine-American War officially ends 
1918 – Battle of Hamel (WWI) 
1942 – Siege of Sevastopol ends (WWII) 
1944 – Russians take Polotsk; Battle of Vuosalmi begins (WWII) 
 Adolf Ehrnrooth a few days before Russian offensive in 4. July 1944

1976 – Operation Entebbe (Israeli-Palestinian Conflict)

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