Today in military history: August 17, 2014

Military history timeline 

1424 – Battle of Verneuil (Hundred Years’ War) 

1480 - Siege of Rhodes ends (Ottoman wars in Europe) (partly Naval)

 15th century illustration - Siege of Rhodes

1648 – Battle of Preston begins (Second English Civil War) 

1649 - Battle of Zboriv ends (Khmelnytsky Uprising) 

1717 – Siege of Belgrade ends (Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718)

 1720 painting by Jan van Huchtenburg -  

Prince Eugene of Savoy captures Belgrade on 16 August 1717

1782 – Battle of Bryan Station ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1795 – Slave rebellion in Curacao begins 

1808 – Battle of Rolica (Peninsular War) 

1812 – First Battle of Polotsk begins (Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia) 

1844 - Bombardment of Mogador ends (First Franco-Moroccan War) 

1862 – Sioux Uprising begins (US Civil War) 

1863 – First great bombardment of Fort Sumter begins (US Civil War) 

1865 – Battle of Jatai (Paraguayan War) 

1891 - Battle of Lugalo (Tanzania) 

1914 – Battle of Stalluponen (WWI)

Stalluponen and soldiers - 1914 or 1915 photo

1915 - German troops overrun Kaunus, Lithuania (WWI)

 1915 photo - The second fort of Kaunas after German bombardment in WWI.

  

1916 – Sixth Battle of the Isonzo ends (WWI) 

1920 – Battle of Zadworze (Polish-Soviet War) 

1941 – Germans take Dnepropetrovsk and Novgorod (WWII) 

1942 – Germans take Pyatigorsk and Yessentuki (WWII) 

1943 – Major air raids on German manufacturing plants result in large aircraft losses (Air); Battle off Horaniu begins (Naval); Major German evacuation of Sicily ends; Allies take Messina, Sicily (WWII) 

1944 – Canadians take Falaise, France; Americans take Dreux, Chateaudun, and Orleans, France; Allies take St Malo, St Raphael, St Tropez, Frejus, Le Luq and St Maxime, France (WWII) 

 Canadian soldiers at Falaise town entrance, Northern France. - 17 August 1944

  

1945 – Pingyu Campaign begins; Linyi Campaign begins; Battle of Tianmen (Chinese Civil War); Republic of Indonesia declares independence from the Dutch (WWII) 

1950 – Battle for No Name Bridge begins (Korean War) 

1967 – Operation Coronado III ends (Vietnam War)