1304 – Battle of Mons-en-Pevele (Franco-Flemish War)
Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle 1304
1415 – Siege of Harfleur begins (Hundred Years’ War)
1462 - Battle of
Troia (Aragon’s Conquest of Naples)
1487 – Siege of Malaga ends
(Reconquista)
1690 - Battle of
Staffarda (Nine Year’s War)
1759 – Battle of Lagos begins (Seven Years’ War) (Naval)
1780 – Battle of Fishing Creek; Battle of Musgrove Mill
(American Revolutionary War)
1805 – Battle of Ivankovac (First Serbian uprising)
1812 –Battle of Smolensk ends; First Battle of Polotsk ends;
Battle of Valutino (Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia)
Smolensk. August 18, 1812. by Christian Wilhelm von Faber du Faur (1780-1857).
Marshal Laurent Gouvion-Saint-Cyr at the Battle of Polotsk, August 18, 1812.
Painting by Horace Vernet
1864 – Battle of Globe Tavern begins (US Civil War)
1870 – Battle of Gravelotte (Franco-Prussian War)
1917 – Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo begins (WWI)
1941 – Germans take Kingisepp (WWII)
1943 - Battle off Horaniu ends (WWII) (Naval)
1944 – Ukrainians take Sandomierz, Poland (WWII)
Cromwell tank crews of 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry, 11th Armoured
Division, with local inhabitants during the drive to Lesdeux, 18 August
1944
1945 – Soviets take Harbin, Manchuria (WWII)
Captain Mariya Dolina was a Soviet pilot, squadron commander of the
125th “Marina N. Raskova” Borisov Guards dive bomber Regiment. She was
active primarily on the 1st Baltic Front during World War II. On August
18, 1945 M. Dolina was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet
Union. (The plane behind her is a Petlyakov Pe-2)
1947 – Meridian Ridge Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War)
1951 – Battle of Bloody Ridge begins (Korean War)
1965 – Operation Starlite begins (Vietnam War)
1966 – Battle of Long Tan (Vietnam War)
1968 – Tay Ninh and Binh Long Offensives (Vietnam War)
1974 – Turkish Invasion of Cyprus ends (Cold War)
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