Today in military history: September 18, 2014

Military history timeline 

1454 – Battle of Chojnice (Thirteen Years’ War) 

1589 - Battle of Arques ends (French War of religion of 1587-1594) 

1643 – Battle of Aldbourne Chase (First English Civil War) 

1747 – Siege of Bergen op Zoom ends (War of the Austrian Succession) 

1778 – Siege of Boonesborough ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1793 – Siege of Toulon begins (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1794 – Battle of Sprimont ends (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1812 – American raids on First Nation villages end (War of 1812) 

1860 – Battle of Castelfidardo (Expedition of the Thousand) 

1863 – Chickamauga Campaign begins (US Civil War) 

1916 – Seventh Battle of the Isonzo ends (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of Epehy (WWI) 

1931 – Manchurian Incident (also Mukden) begins (Japanese invasion of Manchuria) 

1943 – Soviets take Priluki, Lubny, Romodan, Pavlograd, Krasnograd, Pologi and Nogaysk (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Xiangshuikou (Chinese Civil War) 

1950 - Battle of Pusan Perimeter ends (Korean War) 

2005 – Battle of Tal Afar ends (Iraq War)