Today in military history: September 1, 2014

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1054 - Battle of Atapuerca (Spain) 

1644 – Battle of Tippermuir (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) 

1651 - Battle of Dundee (Third English Civil War) 

1701 - Battle of Chiari (War of the Spanish Succession) 

1774 – Powder Alarm (American Revolutionary War) 

1777 - (possibly September 21) Siege of Fort Henry (American Revolutionary War) 

1814 – British capture Castine (War of 1812) 

1861 – Battle of Boone’s Court House (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Chantilly (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Devil’s Backbone (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Jonesborough ends (US Civil War) 

1870 – Battle of Sedan (Franco-Prussian War)

 September 1, 1870 - Fighting at La Moncelle during the Battle of Sedan

  

1877 – Battle of Lovcha begins (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1880 – Battle of Kandahar ends (Second Anglo-Afghan War) 

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

1939 – Invasion of Poland begins (WWII)

Himmler (behind flag) with Hitler (front left, back turned, holding flag) and Konrad Henlein (on the right) (Gauleiter Sudetenland) in Poland in September 1939.

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Author states: pic from Josef Gierse, my dead uncle, I am the heir of the pic

Polish soldiers captured are loaded on truck, September or October 1939.

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German troops breaking the border barrier in the Polish town of Sopot (Zopott) on the morning of 1 September 1939. The Soviet invasion would follow on 17 September.

(Oddly there is at least one German 

soldier smirking in each of the above three pictures.)

1940 – Italians take Buna, Kenya (WWII) 

1943 – Attack on Marcus Island ends (Naval); Soviets capture Dorogobuzh (WWII) 

1944 – Canadians take Dieppe; British take Arras; Americans take Verdun and Commercy; Soviets take Calarasi (WWII) 

1945 - Xinghua Campaign ends; Battle of Dazhongji begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1946 – Datong-Puzhou Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1967 – Operation BENTON ends (Vietnam War) 

1969 – Libyan Revolution of 1969

 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt (right) with the Leader of the Libyan Revolution, Muammar al-Gaddafi, 1969

  

2005 – Battle of Tal Afar begins (Iraq War)

Today in military history: Unknown day in August

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479 BC – Battle of Plataea (Greco-Persian Wars)

 The Battlefield of Plataea - Image extracted from page 141 of A tour in Greece, 1880. With illustrations by Lord Windsor, by FARRER, Richard Ridley.

  

70 - Siege of Jerusalem ends (First Jewish-Roman War)

 The destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem - 1867 oil on canvas by Francesco Hayez

991 – Battle of Maldon (Viking invasions of England) 

1101 – Battle of Mersivan (Crusade of 1101) 

1246 – Battle of Nidda (Germany) 

1542 – Battle of the Hill of the Jews (Abyssinian-Adal War) 

1570 – Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji begins (Japan) 

late 15th to early 16th century - Arrow maker "Ya-shi". From "Shokunin Zukusi-zu Byoubu" (Kita shrine collection).

1576 – First Battle of Kizugawaguchi (Japan) 

1580 – Siege of Ishiyama Hongan-ji ends (Japan) 

1594 – Battle of the Ford of the Biscuit (Nine Years’ War) 

1647 – Battle of Dungan’s Hill (Irish Confederate Wars) 

1686 - Second Siege of Buda ends (Great Turkish War) 

1748 – Siege of Pondicherry ends (First Carnatic War) 

1810 – First Battle of Batin (Russo-Turkish War of 1806-1812) 

1876 – Battle of Sumatovac (Serbian-Ottoman War of 1876-1877)

1918 – Siberian Intervention begins (Russian Civil War)

 

Today in military history: August 31, 2014

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1778 – Stockbridge Massacre (American Revolutionary War) 

1864 – Battle of Jonesborough begins (US Civil War) 

1918 – Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin begins (WWI) 

1920 – Battle of Komarow (Polish-Bolshevik War) 

1939 – Gleiwitz incident (WWII) 

1943 – Attack on Marcus Island begins (Naval); Soviets take Glukhov and Rylsk (WWII) 

1944 – Attack of the Volcano Islands begins (Naval); Ukrainians take Bucharest (WWII)

 11th Armoured Division Sherman tanks advance across open fields near Les Thillers-en-Vexin, 31 August 1944.

 A union flag hangs in the main street of Les Andelys as British forces arrive, 31 August 1944. The woman in the foreground is a 'Madame Scarlett', wife of an expatriate Englishman and owner of the Hotel des Fleurs.

Bucharesters greet the Red Army (Second Ukranian Front) 

entering the city (31 August, 1944).

  

1946 – Battle of Rugao-Huangqiao ends; Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1950 – Second Battle of Naktong Bulge begins (Korean War) 1951 – Battle of the Punchbowl begins (Korean War)

Today in military history: August 30, 2014

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1258 - Battle of Corticella d'Ogli (Italy) 

1757 – Battle of Gross-Jagersdorf (Seven Years’ War) 

1813 – Battle of Kulm ends (War of the Sixth Coalition); Fort Mims massacre (Creek War) 

1814 – Lake Champlain campaign begins (War of 1812) 

1823 – Battle of Trocadero (French invasion of Spain) 

1842 - Battle of Ghoaine (First British-Afghan War) 

1856 - Battle of Osawatomie (Bleeding Kansas) 

1862 –Second Battle of Bull Run ends; Battle of Richmond ends (US Civil War) 

1880 – Battle at Fort Apache (Arizona) 

1914 – Battle of Tannenberg ends; Battle of Guise ends (WWI)

 The Mirror - August 30, 1914 - Adolphe Pégoud et Monternier goes to Paris to look for a new plane, German bullets having gotten to the other.

  

1941 – Germans take Mga (WWII) 

1942 – Battle of Alam el Halfa begins (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Yelna and Taganrog (WWII) 

1944 – British take Beauvais, France; Russians take Ploesti (WWII) 

 USS Hope (AH-7), Underway on 30 August 1944, photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-31.

 Sherman tanks supporting infantry of 2/5th Leicestershire Regiment, 46th Division, near Coldazzo on the Gothic Line, 30 August 1944.

New military history research - Bosnian War and sex, the Malvinas War and the Spanish Civil War

Bosnia and the use of sex in war by Elissa Helms

The Malvinas War’s effect on Mexican and South American exiles by Pablo Yankelevich

Jewish-Argentine support of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War by Raanan Rein

Today in military history: August 29, 2014

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489 – Battle of Isonzo (Roman-Germanic wars) 

1179 – Battle at Jacob’s Ford ends (Crusades) 

1315 – Battle of Montecatini (Italy) 

1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (also Les Espagnols sur Mer) (Hundred Years’ War) (Naval) 

1526 – Battle of Mohacs (Ottoman-Hungarian Wars)

The Battle of Mohács - 1866 oil on canvas by Bertalan Szekely

  

1622 – Battle of Fleurus (Thirty Years’ War) 

1693 - Battle of Landen (Nine Years’ War) 

1708 – Raid on Haverhill (Queen Anne’s War) 

1778 – Battle of Rhode Island (American Revolutionary War) 

1779 – Battle of Newton (American Revolutionary War) 

1813 – Battle of Kulm begins (War of the Sixth Coalition) 

1814 – Raid on Alexandria begins (War of 1812) 

1842 – First Opium War ends (China) 

1848 – Battle of Boomplaats (South Africa); Young Irelander Rebellion (also Battle of Ballingarry) (Ireland) 

1862 – Battle of Aspromonte (Wars of Italian Independence); Battle of Richmond begins; Main portion of Second Bull Run fought; Battle of Manchester (US Civil War)

 Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862

  

1863 – H.L. Hunley sunk (US Civil War) (Naval) 

1864 – Battle of Smithfield (US Civil War) 

1865 – Battle of the Tongue River (Powder River Expedition) 

1914 – Battle of Guise begins (WWI)

 August 29, 1914 - German officer corps (162nd) at Eurin

1915 – Battle of Hill 60 ends (WWI) 

1941 – Finns take Viipuri; Iranian resistance to Britian and the Soviet Union ends (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Lyubotin (WWII) 

1944 – Operation Goodwood ends (Naval) (Air); Americans take Soissons, Reims and Chalons-sur-Marne, France; Russians take Constanta and Buzau (WWII)

1966 – Operation Allegheny ends (Vietnam War)

New military history research - Israeli wars and politics and England's Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Mapam and its role in the War of Independence by Aviva Halamish.

A review of how Palestinian and Jewish communist groups acted during the 1948 war by Ilana Kaufman.

A look at religion during England’s 17^th century Wars of the Three Kingdoms by Jacqueline Rose.

Today in military history: August 28, 2014

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1189 – Siege of Acre begins (Third Crusade) 

1397 - Battle of Governolo (Italy) 

1542 – Battle of Wolfa (Abyssinian-Adal War) 

1640 – Battle of Newburn (Second Bishops’ War)

1648 - Siege of Colchester ends (Second English Civil War) 

1651 – Battle of Upton (Third English Civil War) 

1739 - Battle of Stavuchany (Russo-Turkish War of 1735-1739) 

1758 – Battle of Fort Frontenac ends (Seven Year’s War) 

1848 – Battle of Moray ends (Italian War of Independence) 1861 – Battle of Fort Hatteras ends (US Civil War) (partly Naval) 

1862 – Battle of Thoroughfare Gap; Tennessee and Kentucky Campaign begins (US Civil War) 

1914 – First Battle of Heligoland Bight (WWI) (Naval)

 The German light cruiser SMS Mainz sinking 

at the battle of Heligoland blight on August 28 1914.

  

1920 – Battle of Augustow (Polish-Lithuanian War) 

1944 – Allies take Toulon and Marseilles, France; Ukrainians take Braila (WWI)

 A General Motors Staghound T-17E1 armoured car of the 12th Manitoba Dragoons crossing a Bailey bridge, Elbeuf, France, 28 August 1944. Soldiers are offloading railway ties to reinforce or smooth out the road surface.

 6th Airborne soldiers aboard a captured German half-track mounting a 20mm gun, which they used to shoot down a German aircraft, 28 August 1944.

 Infantry of the Hampshire Regiment crossing the Seine at Vernon, 28 August 1944. 

  

1945 – Battle of Wudahao ends; Southern Jiangsu Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

2011 – Battle of Tripoli ends (Libyan civil war)

Today in military history: August 27, 2014

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479 BC – Battle of Mycale (Greco-Persian Wars) (partly Naval) 

1388 – Battle of Bileca (Ottoman wars in Europe) 

1549 – Third Battle of Norwich (also Dussindale) ends (Kett’s Rebellion) 

1597 – Battle of Chilchonryang (Imjin War) (Naval) 

1626 - Battle of Lutter (Thirty Years’ War)
1776 – Battle of Long Island (American Revolutionary War)

 Washington's Retreat at Long Island. August 1776. Copy of engraving by J. C. Armytage after Wageman, published circa 1860., 1931 - 1932

  

1781 - Battle of Pollicore (India) 

1798 – Battle of Castlebar (United Irishmen Rebellion)

 Plaque for the Battle of Castlebar - 

2009 photo by Ap jen

1799 – Battle of Callantsoog (Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland) 

1813 - Battle of Dresden ends (War of the Sixth Coalition)

 Cossack stragglers at Dresden 1813

1816 – Bombardment of Algiers (Algeria) (Naval) 

1832 – Black Hawk and Wobokieshiek surrender (post-Black Hawk War) 

1861 – Battle of Fort Hatteras begins (US Civil War) (partly Naval) 

1862 – Jackson’s raid on Manassas Station ends (US Civil War) 

1863 – Federals at Fort Wagner encounter large numbers of black powder charges buried in the mud and detonated by foot pressure (US Civil War) 

1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War begins and ends (Zanzibar Sultanate) (partly Naval) 

1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales (Mexican Revolution) 

1941 – British take Shahabad, Iran (WWII) 

1942 – Germans take Prochladrii (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Kotleva and Sevsk (WWII) 

1944 – Americans take Chateau Thierry, France; Soviets take Focsani and Galati, Rumania (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Yinji ends (Chinese Civil War); Allied armada of 23 aircraft carriers and 340+ other military ships anchored in Sagami Bay, Japan (WWII) 

1949 – Lanzhou Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

2004 – Battle of Najaf ends (Iraq War)

New military history research - Post Great Sioux War and the military occupation of Hawai'i

The Northern Cheyenne exodus that began in 1877 following the Great Sioux War by Leo Killsback

Comparing US military occupation of Hawai’i, settler colonialism, and corporate tourism by Marie Alohalani Brown

Today in military history: August 26, 2014

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1071 – Battle of Manzikert (Byzantine-Seljuk wars) 

1221 - Battle of Bahr as-Saghir (Fifth Crusade)

The stained-glass window of William I (1167 - 1222), Count of Holland in the Lakenhal in Leiden created 1587-1588 by Willem Thibaut 

  

1278 – Battle of the Marchfield (Holy Roman Empire) 

1346 – Battle of Crecy (Hundred Years’ War) 

1444- Battle of Saint Jakob der Birs (Old Zurich War) 

1565 – Chaseabout raid (French wars of religion) 

1612 – Battle of Kringen (Kalmar War) 

1652 – Battle of Plymouth (First Anglo-Dutch War) (Naval) 

1782 – Battle of the Combahee River (American Revolutionary War) 

1813 – Battle of Katzbach; Battle of Dresden begins (War of the Sixth Coalition) 

1861 – Battle of Kessler’s Cross Lanes (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Second Bull Run begins (US Civil War)

 1862 - Two photographers having lunch in the Bull Run area before the second battle

1877 – Second Battle of Shipka Pass ends (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1884 – Battle of Fuzhou (also Pagoda Anchorage) ends (Sino-French War) (Naval) 

1914 – Battle of Charmes ends; Battle of Tannenberg begins; Battle of Le Cateau (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of Baku begins (Armenian-Azerbaijani War)

1918 - One of the first British Army guns to arrive in Baku is manhandled down a gangplank into the port.

 

1945 – Battle of Yinji begins; Huaiyin-Huai’an Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1966 - Battle at Omugulugwombashe (Namibian War of Independence)