Sunday, August 3, 2014

Today in military history: August 4, 2014


1265 – Battle of Evesham (Second Barons’ War) 
1578 – Battle of Alcacer Quibir (also Three Kings) (Moroccan-Portuguese conflicts)
 The Battle of Alcácer Quibir, 1578 - Drawing published 1751

1590 – Third siege of Odawara ends (Japan) 
1595 - Battle of Cornwall ends (Anglo-Spanish War of 1585) (partly Naval) 
1780 – Bird’s Invasion of Kentucky ends (American Revolutionary War) 
1796 - Battle of Lonato ends (French Revolutionary War) 
1813 - Raids on Lake Champlain end (War of 1812) 
1814 – Siege of Fort Erie begins; Battle of Mackinac Island ends (War of 1812) 
1846 – Capture of Santa Barbara (Mexican-American War) (partly Naval) 
1855 – Battle of Ty-ho Bay (Hong Kong) (Naval) 
1862 – Battle of White Oak Swamp Bridge (US Civil War) 
1870 – Battle of Wissembourg (Franco-Prussian War) 
1873 – Battle of Honsinger Bluff (Native American Wars) 
 "Clear", a Lakota Sioux - Photo taken 1900

1900 - Battle of Elands River begins (Second Boer War)
1914 – Battle of Liege begins (WWI) 
1944 – Attack on Volcano Islands begins (Naval); Allies take Rennes; British take Evrecy and Villers Bocage and Tamu, Burma (WWII) 
1950 - Battle of Pusan Perimeter begins (Korean War) 
1952 – First Battle for Old Baldy ends (Korean War) 
1995 – Operation Storm begins (Bosnian War)
 Wreckage of the Renault VAB APC in which US diplomats Frasure, Drew and Kroezel perished on Mt Igman, August 19, 1995.
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Author: Frfincon

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