Today in military history: September 17, 2014

Military history timeline 

1462 – Battle of Swiecino (Thirteen Years’ War) 

1631 – First Battle of Breitenfeld (Thirty Years’ War) 

1775 – Siege of Fort St. Jean begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1778 – Attack on German Flatts (American Revolutionary War) 

1794 – Battle of Sprimont begins (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1813 – Second Battle of Kulm (also Teplitz) (War of the Sixth Coalition) 

1861 – Battle of Liberty (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Antietam; Battle of Munfordville ends (US Civil War) 

1868 – Battle of Beecher Island begins (Comanche War) 

1877 – Third Battle of Shipka Pass ends (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1894 – Battle of the Yalu River (First Sino-Japanese War) (Naval) 

1900 – Battle of Mabitac (Philippine-American War) 

1901 – Battle of Elands River (Second Boer War) 

1939 – Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski begins; Soviets enter Poland (WWII) 

1940 – Battle of Benghazi ends (partly Naval) (WWII) 

1941 – Allies occupy Tehran (WWI) 

1943 – Soviets take Bryansk, BezhitsaTrubchevsk and Berdyansk (WWII) 

1944 – Battle of Angaur begins; Battle of Arnhem begins (WWII) 

1945 - Wuli Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1952 – Battle at Outpost Kelly begins (Korean War) 

1961 – Siege of Jadotville ends (Congo Crisis) 

2006 – Operation MEDUSA ends; Second phase of Battle of Panjwaii ends (War in Afghanistan)