Today in military history: May 4, 2014

1471 – Battle of Tewkesbury (Wars of the Roses)

 1887 painting by Richard Burchett -
Sanctuary — Edward IV and Lancastrian Fugitives at Tewkesbury Abbey

1823 – Battle of 4 May (Brazilian War of Independence) (Naval) 

1862 – Battle of Yorktown ends (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Chancellorsville ends; Battle of Salem Church ends (US Civil War) 

1865 – Confederates of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana surrender (US Civil War) 

1869 – Naval Battle of Hakodate begins (Boshin War) (Naval)

 Troops of the former Bakufu, being transported to Ezo. 1868 photograph.

  

1942 – Battle of the Coral Sea begins; (WWII) (Naval) Battles of Wanting and Bhamo (WWII) 

1945 – Allies take Salzburg (WWII)

 May 1945 - M24 Chaffee moves on the outskirts of Salzburg

  

1978 – Battle of Cassinga (Angolan Civil War)

Today in military history: May 3, 2014

1800 – Battle of Stockach, Battle of Engen (War of the Second Coalition) 
1811 – Battle of Fuentes de Onoro begins (Peninsular War)

 19th century - General Andre Massena

1812 – Raid on Havre de Grace (War of 1812) 
1815 – Battle of Tolentino ends (Neapolitan War) 
1846 – Siege of Fort Texas begins (Mexican-American War) 
1863 – Battle of Salem Church begins; Battle of Second Fredericksburg (US Civil War)

 "Havoc," effects of a 32-pound shell from gun of Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. 

Confederate caisson and eight horses destroyed. Fredericksburg, May 3, 1863. 

1941 – Battle at Amba Alagi begins (WWII) 
1943 – Allies take Mateur (WWII) 
1945 – Allies take Hamburg, Innsbruck, Rangoon, Prome and Davao City (WWII)

 5 May 1945 - A Cromwell tank and Challenger tank of 8th Hussars, 7th Armoured Division, 

surrounded by German civilians outside Dammtor railway station in Hamburg

1995 – Operation Flash ends (Croatian War of Independence) 
2002 – Operation Defensive Shield ends (Second Intafada)

Today in military history: May 2, 2014

1654 – Action of 2 May 1654 (Dutch-Portuguese War) (Naval) 
1808 – Battle of Pulkkila (Finnish War)

 1866 - Soldiers from The Songs of Ensign Stål, which extolled the Swedish/Finnish-Russian war of 1808-09. Tableau arranged by Konstnärsgillet (artist's guild) in Finland at its annual festival in 1866. 

1813 – Battle of Lutzen (War of the Sixth Coalition) 
1815 – Battle of Tolentino begins (Neapolitan War) 
1863 - Battle of Chalk Bluff ends (US Civil War) 
1866 – Battle of Callao (Chincha Islands War)

 19th century - Image depicting a group of soldiers preparing a cannon for the Battle of Callao

1885 – Battle of Cut Knife (North-West Rebellion) 
1941 – Battle at Habbaniyah begins (WWII) 
1945 – Capture of Berlin; Allies take Pegu, Lubeck, Wismar and Oldenburg; German surrender in Italy (WWII)

The Russian Marshal Rokossovsky with Montgomery and their respective Chiefs of Staff at the British 6th Airborne Division Headquarters at Wismar, where the first link up between British and Russian forces took place on 28 April 1945.

 Sherman tanks of the Royal Scots Greys, 4th Armoured Brigade 

surrounded by abandoned German transport in Wismar, 4 May 1945.