Monday, August 4, 2014

Today in military history: August 5, 2014


641 or 642 – Battle of Maserfield (England)
 Replica of the early 7th century Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo 
ship-burial 1 helmet, England.
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Photographer: Arne Koehler
   
910 - Battle of Tettenhall (Viking invasions of England) 
1063 - Battle of Snowdonia (Wales) 
1305 – William Wallace captured (Wars of Scottish Independence)
William Blake, Visionary Heads of William Wallace & Edward I circa 1819
  
1435 - Battle of Ponza (Aragon’s Conquest of Naples) (Naval) 
1549 – Massacre at Clyst Heath (Anglo-Cornish War of 1549) 
1598 - Battle of Traigh Ghruinneart (Scottish clan battles) 
1600 – Battle of Perth (British Isles) 
1619 – Battle of Wisternitz (Thirty Years’ War) 
1644 – Second Battle of Freiburg (Thirty Years’ War) 
1716 - Battle of Petrovaradin (Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718) 
1763 - Battle of Bushy Run begins (Pontiac’s Rebellion) 
1781 – Battle of Dogger Bank (American Revolutionary War/Fourth Anglo-Dutch War) (Naval) 
1796 – Second Battle of Castiglione (French Revolutionary Wars) 
1812 – Battle of Brownstown (War of 1812) 
1861 – Battle of Athens (US Civil War) 
1862 – Battle of Baton Rouge (US Civil War) 
1864 – Battle of Mobile Bay (Naval); Battle of Utoy Creek begins (US Civil War) 
1873 – Battle of Massacre Canyon (Nebraska)
 Group of allied Kiowa and Comanche meeting a battalion of Pawnee warriors, 
by Koba (Kiowa artist) 1875.
  
1903 – Battle of Smilevo (Ilinden-Preobraženie uprising) 
1916 – Battle of Romani ends; Battle of Mouquet Farm begins (WWI) 
1940 – Italy takes Zeila and Hargeisa, British Somaliland (WWII) 
1941 – First Battle of Smolensk ends (WWII) 
1942 – U-boat attack on convoy SC-94 begins (WWII) (Naval) 
1943 – Americans take Munda, Solomons; Soviets take Belgorod (WWII) 
1944 – Attack on Volcano Islands ends (Naval); Allies take Vannes (WWII) 
1947 – Operation Product ends (Indonesian National Revolution)
Indonesia July 21, 1947 - Military convoy with servants on 
the way to Sukabumi during the initial police action
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1963 – Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed (Cold War) 
1964 – Operation Pierce Arrow begins (Air) (Vietnam War) 
1967 – Operation Coronado III begins (Vietnam War) 
2004 – Battle of Najaf begins (Iraq War) 
2006 – 2006 Tyre raid (2006 Lebanon War)

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