Today in military history: August 22, 2014

Military history timeline 

1138 – Battle of the Standard (also Northallerton) (Civil War of the Anarchy) 

1415 – Battle of Ceuta (Moroccan-Portuguese conflicts) 

1485 – Battle of Bosworth Field (Wars of the Roses) 

1531 – Battle of Obertyn (Ukraine) 

1632 – Siege of Maastricht ends (Eighty Years’ War)

 Prince Frederick Henry and his staff oversees the departure of the 

Spanish army out of Maastricht on 22nd of August 1632 - 

Painting from between 1633 and 1680 in the manner of Peter Wouwerman

1642 - First English Civil War begins (England) 

1777 – Siege of Fort Stanwix ends; Battle of Staten Island; Battle of Setauket (American Revolutionary War) 

1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins (Haitian Revolution)

  Toussaint Louverture and General Thomas Maitland, Saint-Domingue, 1790s.

  

1831 – Nat Turner’s slave rebellion ends (Virginia) 

1862 – Battle of Fort Ridgely ends; First Battle of Rappahannock Station begins (US Civil War) 

1910 - Japan officially annexes Korea 

1942 – Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy (WWII) 

1944 – Operation Goodwood begins (Naval) (Air); Soviets take Jassy (WWII)  

1945 – Soviets take Port Arthur and Dairen; Japanese army in Manchuria surrenders (WWII) 

1946 – Longhai Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1966 – Operation Colorado ends (Vietnam War)

 

Photo August 15, 1966 - Vietnam....A Marine rifleman with Company H, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, Leaps across a break in a rice paddy dike during a search and destroy mission on Operation Colorado.

  

2011 – Fourth Battle of Brega ends (Libyan civil war)