1040 - Battle of
Torfness; Battle of Elgin (Scotland)
1119 - Battle of Hab
(Crusades)
1224 – Siege of
Bedford Castle ends (England)
1281 – Destruction
of the Mongol Fleet by a typhoon (also Divine Wind, kamikaze) (Second Mongol
Invasion of Japan) (Naval)
Armor of the Kono Michiari
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1352 - Battle of
Mauron (Hundred Years’ War)
1385 – Battle of Aljubarrota (Portuguese Crisis of
1383-1385)
1431 – Battle of Tauss (Hussite Wars)
1598 – Battle of the Yellow Ford (Nine Years’ War)
1678 – Battle of Saint-Denis (also Mons) begins
(Franco-Dutch War)
1756 – Battle of Fort Oswego ends (French and Indian War)
1777 – Battle of Machias ends (American Revolutionary War)
(partly Naval)
1808 – First Siege of Zaragoza ends (Peninsular War)
1842 – Second Seminole War ends
Osceola of Florida, Drawn on Stone by Geo. Catlin, from his Original Portrait
1844 – Battle of Isly (First Franco-Moroccan War)
1864 – Battle of Dalton begins (US Civil War)
1900 – Battle of Peking begins (Boxer Rebellion)
1904 – Battle of the Korean Strait (also the Japanese Sea)
(Russo-Japanese War) (Naval)
1912 - US occupies
Nicaragua (Mena’s rebellion)
1914 – Battle of Lorraine begins (WWI)
1920 – Battle of Nasielsk begins (Polish-Bolshevik War)
1936 – Battle of Badajoz (Spanish Civil War)
1943 – Allies take Randazzo, Sicily (WWII)
HM King George VI on a tour of inspection of HMS MALAYA during a visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow, 13 August 1943.
HM King George VI making a tour of inspection on board HMS MALAYA during
a
visit to the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow. He is just about to pass a 20
mm Oerlikon
anti aircraft gun manned by Royal Marines. In the background
can be seen
one of MALAYA's twin 4 inch anti-aircraft guns, a crane and
the former
aircraft hangar now used for stowage and flexible use.
1945 – Japanese officers attempt to steal Emperor’s
surrender recording (WWII)
1946 – Datong-Puzhou Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War)
1969 – Battle of the Bogside ends (Troubles in Ireland)
1973 – Second Operation Arc Light and Operation Freedom Deal
end (Vietnam War) (Air)
2006 – Battle of Ayta ash-Sha’b ends; Operation Change of
Direction ends (2006 Lebanon War)
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