Today in military history: Unknown day in September

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490 BC – (possibly August) Battle of Marathon (Greco-Persian Wars) (partly Naval) 

806 – Battle of Heraclea (Byzantine-Muslim Wars) 

830 – Capture of Palermo begins (Muslim conquest of Sicily) 

831 – Capture of Palermo ends (Muslim conquest of Sicily) 

891 - Battle of Leuven (Belgium) 

1101 – Second Battle of Heraclea (Crusades) 

1147 – Battle of Constantinople (Second Crusade) 

1259 – Battle of Pelagonia (Byzantine-Latin Wars) 

1304 - Action at Earnside (Wars of Scottish Independence) 

1377 – French Naval Raids on England end (England) (Naval) 

1632 – Siege of Nuremberg ends (Thirty Years’ War) 

1718 – Battle of the Salween River (Tibet) 

1915 – Russian Retreat ends (WWI) 

1919 – Polar Bear Expedition begins (Russian Civil War) 

1949 – Fujian Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1950 – Northern Guangdong Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1951 –Western Guangxi Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War)

Today in military history: September 30, 2014

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1294 – Welsh Revolt against Edward I begins (Wales/England) 

1342 – Battle of Morlaix (Breton War of Succession) 

1509 – Siege of Padua ends (War of the League of Cambrai) 

1639 – Action of 30 September 1639 (Dutch-Portuguese War) (Naval) 

1655 – Battle of Nowy Dwor begins (Second Northern War) 

1707 - Siege of Gaeta ends (War of the Spanish Succession) 

1744 – Battle of Madonna dell’Olmo (War of the Austrian Succession) 

1745 – Battle of Soor (War of the Austrian Succession) 

1846 – Siege of Los Angeles ends (Mexican-American War) 

1862 – Battle of Newtonia (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Fort Harrison (also Chaffin’s Farm) ends (US Civil War) 

1870 – Battle of Le Bourget begins; Battle of Chevilly (Franco-Persian War) 

1877 – Battle of Bear Paw begins (Nez Perce War)  

1943 – Soviets take Krichev; Americans take Avellino, Italy (WWII) 

1944 – Canadians take Calais (WWII) 

1949 - Berlin airlift ends (Cold War)

Today in military history: September 29, 2014

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1364 – Battle of Auray (Hundred Years’ War) 

1848 – Battle of Pakozd (Hungarian Revolution of 1848) 

1864 – Battle of Peebles’ Farm begins; Battle of Fort Harrison begins (also Chaffin’s Farm) (US Civil War)  

1904 – Battke if Shinanah (Saudi-Rashidi War) 

1914 – Battle of the Vistula River begins (WWI) 

1917 – Battle of Ramadi ends (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of St Quentin Canal begins (WWI) 

1943 – Soviets take Kremenchug and Rudnya (WWII) 

1945 – Weixian-Guangling-Nuanquan Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1975 – Battle of Tator Tot cassle ends (Vietnam War) 

1998 – Battle of Kilinochchi ends (Sri Lankan civil war) 

2004 – Operation "Days of Penitence" begins (Second Intifada)

Today in military history: September 28, 2014

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1106 – Battle of Tinchebray (Invasion of Normandy) 

1322 - Battle of Muhldorf  (Germany) 

1538 – Battle of Preveza (Ottoman-Venetian War of 1537-1540) (Naval) 

1708 – Battle of Wijnendale (War of the Spanish Succession) 

1781 – Siege of Yorktown begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1813 – The Burlington Races naval battle (War of 1812) (Naval) 

1870 - Siege of Strasbourg ends (Franco-Prussian War) 

1874 – Battle of Palo Duro Canyon (Red River War) 

1901 – Balangiga Massacre (Philippine-American War) 

1914 – First Battle of the Aisne ends (WWI) 

1915 – Siege of Kut ends; Battle of Es Sinn (WWI) 

1916 – Battle of Thiepval Ridge ends; Battle of Morval ends (WWI) 

1917 – Battle of Ramadi begins (WWI) 

1919 – Battle of Daugavpils begins (Polish-Soviet War) 

1939 – Siege of Warsaw ends (WWII) 

1943 – US takes Teora, Italy (WWII)

Today in military history: September 27, 2014

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1331 – Battle of Plowce (Polish-Teutonic War of 1326-1332) 

1371 – Battle of Maritsa (Sebian-Ottoman Wars) 

1529 – Siege of Vienna begins (Ottoman-Hapsburg Wars) 

1605 – Battle of Kircholm (Polish-Swedish War of 1600-1611) 

1778 – Baylor Massacre (American Revolutionary War) 

1810 – Battle of Bussaco (Peninsular War)

 Engraving representing the Battle of Buçaco - September 27, 1810 - published in London on June 1, 1815, by J. Jenkins, 48 Strand.

  

1846 – Battle of Chino ends (Mexican-American War) 

1852 – Battle of Gur Amba (Ethiopia) 

1864 – Battle of Pilot Knob (also Fort Davidson); Battle of Centralia (US Civil War) 

1870 – Battle of Le Bourget begins (Franco-Persian War) 

1918 – Battle of Canal du Nord begins (WWI) 

1923 – Corfu incident ends (Greece) 

1939 – Germans take Warsaw (WWII) 

1941 – Germans take Perekop; Allies take Wolchefit (WWII) 

1943 – Germans take Corfu; Soviets take Temryuk; Canadians take Melfi, Italy (WWII) 

1950 – Seoul recaptured by UN forces (Korean War)

Mid to late September 1950 - A Soviet-made North Korean T-34 tank knocked out during the United Nations advance from Incheon to Seoul after the amphibious landings at Incheon during the Korean War.

A Korean family mourns their murdered father, victim of the wholesale murder at Chonju by North Koreans. September 27, 1950

  

1967 – Operation SHENANDOAH II begins (Vietnam War) 

1968 – Operation in the DMZ ends (Vietnam War) 

1981 – Siege of Abaden ends (Iran-Iraq War) 

1996 – Civil war in Afghanistan begins  

1998 – Battle of Kilinochchi begins (Sri Lankan civil war)

Today in military history: September 26, 2014

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1777 – Siege of Fort Mifflin begins (American Revolutionary War) (partly Naval) 

1780 – Battle of Charlotte (American Revolutionary War) 

1799 – Second Battle of Zurich ends (War of the Second Coalition) 

1846 – Battle of Chino begins (Mexican-American War) 

1861 – Skirmish at Lucas Bend (US Civil War) 

1915 – Siege of Kut begins (WWI) 

1916 – Battle of Thiepval Ridge begins; Battle of Mouquet Farm ends (WWI) 

1918 – Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins (WWI) 

1939 – Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski ends (WWII) 

1941 – First Battle of Kiev ends (WWII) 

1943 – Battle of Leros begins (WWII) (partly Air) 

1944 – Battle of Arnhem ends; Allies take Turnhout and Oss (WWII)

Today in military history: September 25, 2014

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1066 – Battle of Stamford Bridge (Viking invasions of England) 

1396 – Battle of Nicopolis (Ottoman wars in Europe) 

1598 – Battle of Stangebro (War against Sigismund) 

1609 – Siege of Smolensk begins (Polish-Muscovite War 1605-1618) 

1775 – Battle of Longue-Pointe (American Revolutionary War) 

1799 – Second Battle of Zurich begins (War of the Second Coalition) 

1812 – Battle of Tucuman ends (Argentine War of Independence) 

1861 – Battle of Chapmansville; Battle of Lewinsville (US Civil War) 

1915 – Battle of Loos begins (WWI) 

1916 – Battle of Morval begins (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of Megiddo ends (WWI) 

1920 – Battle of the Niemen ends (Polish-Soviet War) 

1937 – Battle of Pingxingguan ends (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1943 – Soviets take Smolensk and Roslavl (WWII) 

1944 – British take Helmond and Deurne; Russians take Haapsalu; Yugoslav partisans take Banja Luka (WWII) 

1949 – Ningxia Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1969 – Operation IDAHO CANYON ends (Vietnam War)

Today in military history: September 24, 2014

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1454 – Battle of Leskovac (Ottoman wars in Europe) 

1645 – Battle of Rowton Heath (First English Civil War) 

1762 – Battle of Manila begins (Anglo-Spanish War of 1761-1763) 

1812 – Battle of Tucuman begins (Argentine War of Independence) 

1846 – Battle of Monterrey ends (Mexican-American War) 

1864 – Confederates capture Athens, Alabama (US Civil War) 

1877 - Satsuma Rebellion ends (Japan); Battle of Shiroyama (Satsuma Rebellion) 

1907 – Battle of Tarafiyah (Saudi-Rashidi War) 

1914 – Siege of Przemysl begins (WWI) 

1937 – Battle of Pingxingguan begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

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

1943 – Soviets take Borispol (WWII) 

1946 – Linfen – Fushan Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1949 – Ningxia Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1952 – Battle at Outpost Kelly ends (Korean War) 

1968 – Operation CAMPAIGN GROVE ends (Vietnam War)

New military history research – Pre-WWII South Pacific, Portuguese Reconquista and Finland between the world wars

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A Franco-Japanese business woman in pre-war New Caledonia involved with the Japanese industrial-military complex by Chad B. Denton

  

Religion and war in the Portuguese Reconquista by Jonathon Wilson

  

Finnish cultural memory between WWI and WWII by Tuomas Tepora

Today in military history: September 23, 2014

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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)

Today in military history: September 22, 2014

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1236 – Battle of Saule (Livonian Crusade) 

1415 – Siege of Harfleur ends (Hundred Years’ War) 

1586 – Battle of Zutphen (Eighty Years’ War) 

1846 – Siege of Los Angeles begins (Mexican-American War) 

1861 – Skirmish at Papinsville (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Blountville (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Fisher’s Hill ends (US Civil War) 

1866 – Battle of Curupayty (Paraguayan War) 

1916 – Battle of Flers-Courcelette ends (WWI) 

1922 – Great Fire of Smyrna begins (Greco-Turkish War) 

1937 – Battle of El Mazuco ends (Spanish Civil War) 

1943 – Attack on Tirpitz (Naval); Soviets take Anapa and Novomoskovosk (WWII) 

1944 – Allies take Elst and Boulogne; Soviets take Tallinn, Estonia (WWII) 

1945 – Huaiyin-Huai’an Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1946 – Linfen – Fushan Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1950 – Northeastern Guizhou Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1958 – Second Taiwan Strait Crisis ends (Taiwan) 

1969 – Operation PUTNAM TIGER ends (Vietnam War) 

1980 - Iran-Iraq War begins

New military history research – Ancient Greeks and chariots, the Sack of Rome

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Ancient Greece and chariots in the use of exertion of power by Joseph Maran and Aleydis Van de Moortel

Book review of The Sack of Rome in 410 AD, Reviewed by Robert Chenault

Today in military history: September 21, 2014

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1451 – Welsh Revolt ends (Wales/England) 

1745 – Battle of Prestonpans (Jacobite rising of 1745) 

1779 – Battle of Baton Rouge ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1780 – Battle of Wahab’s Plantation (American Revolutionary War) 

1812 – Raid on Gananoque (War of 1812) 

1814 – Siege of Fort Erie ends (War of 1812) 

1846 – Battle of Monterrey begins (Mexican-American War) 

1862 – Skirmish at Blackford’s Ford (US Civil War)  

1864 – Battle of Fisher’s Hill begins (US Civil War) 

1943 – Soviets take Demidov, Chernigov and Sinelnikovo (WWII) 

1944 – Allies take Rimini, Italy (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Rugao (Chinese Civil War) 

1951 – Operation SUMMIT (partly Air); Operation CLEAVER; Battle of the Punchbowl ends (Korean War) 

1969 – Operation STRANGLE I ends (Vietnam War)

Today in military history: September 20, 2014

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1066 – Battle of Fulford (Viking invasions of England) 

1187 – Siege of Jerusalem begins (Crusades) 

1565 – Capture of Fort Caroline (French colony in Florida) 

1600 - Battle of Moyry Pass begins (Nine Years' War) 

1643 – First Battle of Newbury (First English Civil War) 

1777 – Battle of Paoli (American Revolutionary War) 

1792 – Battle of Valmy (French Revolutionary War) 

1861 – Siege of Lexington ends (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Shepherdstown ends (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Chickamauga ends (US Civil War) 

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

1916 - Brusilov Offensive ends (WWI) 

1942 – Germans take Terek (WWII) 

1943 – Australians take Kaiapit, New Guinea; Soviets take Velizh and Kholm (WWII) 

1944 – Allies take Nijmegen; Americans take Chatel and Luneville (WWII) 

1951 - Operation STRANGLE ends (Korean War) (Air) 

1952 – Battle of Nanpeng Archipelago begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1968 – Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia ends (Cold War)

Today in military history: September 19, 2014

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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)