Sunday, June 29, 2014

Today in military history: June 29, 2014


1149 - Battle of Inab (Second Crusade)
 12th century fresco - Soldier or Beater
  
1236 –Siege of Cordoba ends (Reconquista) 
1308 - Battle of the River Dee (First War of Scottish Independence) 
1440 - Battle of Anghiari (Italy)
 Circa 1450 - Italian Antiphonary (with soldiers)

1644 – Battle of Cropredy Bridge (First English Civil War) 
1660 – Battle of Polonka (Polish-Russian War 1658-1667) 
1776 – Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet (American Revolutionary War) (Naval) 
1853 – Battle of Ayshal (Ethiopia) 
1862 – Battle of Savage’s Station (US Civil War) 
1863 – Battle of Goodrich’s Landing begins (US Civil War) 
1864 – Battle of Als begins (Second Schleswig War) 
1944 – Soviets take Bobruysk, Slutsk and Lyuban (WWII) 
1945 – US plans for invasion of Japan presented to President Truman (WWII) 
1949 – US troops withdraw from Korea (Post-WWII)
 Seoul, South Korea, in 1949
  
1950 – Heijo Airfield bombed (Air); First US ground troops enter Korea (Korean War)

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