Today in military history: July 8, 2014

Military history timeline 

54 BC – Battle of Bigbury (Roman Invasion of Britain)

Warrior with cuirass and helmet leaning on his spear in front of a funerary stele.  The snake symbolizes the soul of the dead.  Roman artwork from the 1st century BC imitating the Greek classical style of the 5th century BC.

  

1265 – Battle of Newport (Second Barons’ War) 

1283 - Battle of Malta (War of the Sicilian Vespers) (Naval) 

1709 - Battle of Poltava (Great Northern War)

 Battle of Poltava 1709 - Painted 1717-1718

1716 – Battle of Dynekilen (Great Northern War) (Naval) 

1758 – Battle of Carillon ends (French and Indian War) 

1777 – Battle of Fort Anne (American Revolutionary War) 

1813 – Action at Butler’s Farm (War of 1812) 

1844 – Riot at St. Philip de Neri ends (Nativist Riots of 1844)            

1862 – Louisiana Expedition ends (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Boonsboro (US Civil War) 

1913 – Battle of Bregalnica (Second Balkan War) 

1940 – Battle at Dakar Harbor ends (WWII) (Naval) 

1941 – Germans take Pskov (WWII) 

1944 – Russians take Baranovichi (WWII) 

1959 – Attack on Bien Hoa (pre-Vietnam War)

 Vietnamese and Laotian people moving supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail. 

Captured Vietcong's photo circa 1959.