480 BC – (possibly 8-10 September) Battle of Thermopylae
(Greco-Persian Wars)
Sculpture of Leonidas at Thermopylae
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2007 photo by vaggelis vlahos
636 – Battle of Yarmouk ends (Arab-Byzantine Wars)
917 – Battle of Achelous (Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars)
1119 - Battle of
Bremule (Normandy)
1297 – Battle of Furnes (Franco-Flemish War)
1648 – Battle of Lens (Thirty Years’ War)
1710 – Battle of Saragossa (War of the Spanish Succession)
1792 – Battle of Verdun begins (French Revolutionary Wars)
1794 – Battle of Fallen Timbers (Northwest Indian War)
1847 – Battle of Contreras ends; Battle of Churubusco
(Mexican-American War)
1862 – Battle of Fort Ridgely begins (US Civil War)
1862 illustration depicting Fort Ridgely in 1862 by Paul Waller
1863 – Carson’s Canon de Chelly Expedition begins (US Civil
War)
1864 – Battle of Lovejoy’s Station (US Civil War)
1914 – Battle of Gumbinnen (WWI)
1940 – Hundred Regiments Offensive begins (Second
Sino-Japanese War)
1943 – Soviets take Libedin (WWII)
1944 – Battle of Biak ends; Germans arrest Petain (WWII)
1945 – Soviet invasion of Manchuria ends (WWII)
1968 – Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia begins (Cold
War)
1988 - Iran-Iraq War ends
June 17, 1988 photo - A group of Iranian POWs captured by Iraqi troops in
the northern sector in an Iraqi offensive (between 9th and
14th of June 1988) during which the Iranians were diven out of five
strategic mounts.
1998 – US bombing raid on terrorist camps (Sudan and
Afghanistan) (Air)
2011 – Second Battle of Zawiya ends; Battle of Tripoli
begins (Libyan civil war)
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