Today in military history: September 23, 2014

Military history timeline 

1409 – Battle of Kherlen (Mongolia) 

1459 – Battle of Blore Heath (Wars of the Roses) 

1608 – Battle of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra begins (Polish-Muscovite War of 1605-1618) 

1642 – Battle of Powick Bridge (First English Civil War) 

1779 – Battle of Flamborough Head (Naval) (American Revolutionary War) 

1803 – Battle of Assaye (Second Anglo-Maratha War) 

1861 – Battle of Hanging Rock (US Civil War) 

1862 – Sioux Uprising ends (US Civil War) 

1885 – Battle of Kufit (Ethiopia) 

1940 – Bombing of Berlin begins (Air) (WWII) 

1942 – British take Tananarive, Madagascar (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Poltava (WWII)