Today in military history: September 19, 2014

Military history timeline 

1356 – Battle of Poitiers (Hundred Years’ War) 

1400 – Battle of Ruthin Castle (Welsh Revolt) 

1676 – Jamestown burned (Bacon’s Rebellion) 

1743 – Battle of Guastalla (also Luzzara) (War of the Polish Succession) 

1777 – Battle of Freeman’s Farm; First Battle of Saratoga (American Revolutionary War) 

1795 – Slave rebellion in Curacao ends 

1799 – Battle of Bergen (French Revolutionary War) 

1862 – Battle of Iuka; Battle of Shepherdstown begins (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Chickamauga begins (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Opequon (also Third Battle of Winchester) (US Civil War) 

1868 – Battle of Beecher Island ends (Comanche War) 

1870 – Siege of Rome begins (Franco-Prussian War) 

1918 – Battle of Megiddo begins (WWI) 

1927 – Battle of Telpaneca (Occupation of Nicaragua) 

1939 – Battle of Bzura ends; Soviets take Vilnius (WWII) 

1941 – Germans take Kiev (WWII) 

1943 – British take Aluetta, Italy; Soviets take Yartsevo and Dukovschina; Battle of Turjak Castle (WWII) 

1944 – Allies take Brest; Soviets take Valga, Estonia; Battle of Hurtgen Forest begins (WWII) 

1950 – Battle of Inchon ends (Korean War) (partly Naval) 

1967 – Operation BOLLING begins (Vietnam War)