Today in military history: September 14, 2014

Military history timeline 

1115 – Battle of Sarmin (Crusades) 

1180 – Battle of Ishibashiyama (Genpei War) 

1307 – Battle of Paisley Forest (Anglo-Scottish War) 

1402 – Battle of Humbleton Hill (Anglo-Scottish Wars) 

1515 – Battle of Marignano ends (War of the League of Cambrai) 

1758 – Battle of Fort Duquesne (French and Indian War) 

1779 – Action of 14 September 1779 (American Revolutionary War) (Naval) 

1780 - Battle of Black Mingo (American Revolutionary War) 

1808 – Battle of Oravais (Finnish War) 

1812 – Napoleon enters Moscow (Napoleon’s invasion of Russia) 

1814 – Siege of Fort McHenry ends; First Battle of Fort Bowyer begins (War of 1812) (partly Naval)

 

Flag that floated over Fort McHenry in 1814 - photo from 1873

 

1829 – Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829 ends 

1856 – Battle of San Jacinto (Central America National War) 

1862 – Battle of South Mountain; Battle of Crampton’s Gap; Battle of Munfordville begins (US Civil War) 

1914 – First Battle of Masurian Lakes ends (WWI) 

1916 – Seventh Battle of the Isonzo begins (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of Baku ends (Armenian-Azerbaijani War) 

1944 – Allies take Zollara, Italy; Belorussians take Praga; Operation Dragoon ends (WWII) 

1947 – Autumn Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1966 – Operation ATTLEBORO begins (Vietnam War) 

1991 – Battle of the Barracks begins (Croatian War of Independence)