Today in military history: September 1, 2014

Military history timeline 

1054 - Battle of Atapuerca (Spain) 

1644 – Battle of Tippermuir (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) 

1651 - Battle of Dundee (Third English Civil War) 

1701 - Battle of Chiari (War of the Spanish Succession) 

1774 – Powder Alarm (American Revolutionary War) 

1777 - (possibly September 21) Siege of Fort Henry (American Revolutionary War) 

1814 – British capture Castine (War of 1812) 

1861 – Battle of Boone’s Court House (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Chantilly (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Devil’s Backbone (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Jonesborough ends (US Civil War) 

1870 – Battle of Sedan (Franco-Prussian War)

 September 1, 1870 - Fighting at La Moncelle during the Battle of Sedan

  

1877 – Battle of Lovcha begins (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1880 – Battle of Kandahar ends (Second Anglo-Afghan War) 

1937 – Battle of Taiyuan begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1939 – Invasion of Poland begins (WWII)

Himmler (behind flag) with Hitler (front left, back turned, holding flag) and Konrad Henlein (on the right) (Gauleiter Sudetenland) in Poland in September 1939.

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Author states: pic from Josef Gierse, my dead uncle, I am the heir of the pic

Polish soldiers captured are loaded on truck, September or October 1939.

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Author states: pic from Josef Gierse, my dead uncle, I am the heir of the pic

German troops breaking the border barrier in the Polish town of Sopot (Zopott) on the morning of 1 September 1939. The Soviet invasion would follow on 17 September.

(Oddly there is at least one German 

soldier smirking in each of the above three pictures.)

1940 – Italians take Buna, Kenya (WWII) 

1943 – Attack on Marcus Island ends (Naval); Soviets capture Dorogobuzh (WWII) 

1944 – Canadians take Dieppe; British take Arras; Americans take Verdun and Commercy; Soviets take Calarasi (WWII) 

1945 - Xinghua Campaign ends; Battle of Dazhongji begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1946 – Datong-Puzhou Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1967 – Operation BENTON ends (Vietnam War) 

1969 – Libyan Revolution of 1969

 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt (right) with the Leader of the Libyan Revolution, Muammar al-Gaddafi, 1969

  

2005 – Battle of Tal Afar begins (Iraq War)