49 BC – Battle of the Bagradas River (Caesar’s Civil War)
410 – Sack of Rome
(Fall of the Western Roman Empire)
Alaric in Rome - 1888 illustration by Wilhelm Lindenschmit
1109 – Battle of Glogow (Poland)
1185 – Sack of
Thessalonica ends (Norman invasion of the Balkans 1185-1186)
1217 – Battle of
Sandwich (First Barons’ War) (Naval)
1346 - Battle of
Blanchetaque (Hundred Years’ War)
1516 – Battle of Marj Dabiq (Ottoman-Mamluk War of
1516-1517)
1542 – Battle of Hadden Rig (Anglo-Scottish Wars)
1569 - Battle of
Orthez (French wars of religion)
1632 - Battle of
Altendorf (Thirty Years’ War)
1704 – Battle of Malaga (War of the Spanish Succession)
(Naval)
1760 – Battle of the Thousand Islands ends (French and
Indian War)
1781 – Lochry’s Defeat (also Lochry’s Massacre) (American
Revolutionary War)
1789 – First Battle
of Svenksund (also Rochensalm) (Russo-Swedish War) (Naval)
1796 – Battle of Friedberg; Battle of Amberg (French
Revolutionary War)
1813 – Battle of Fort George (War of 1812)
1814 – Battle of Bladensburg; Burning of Washington (War of
1812)
1862 – CSS Alabama commissioned (US Civil War)
(Naval)
1914 – Battle of Cer ends; Battle of Charmes begins; Siege
of Maubeuge begins (WWI)
1937 - Battle of
Belchite begins (Spanish Civil War)
1942 – Battle of the Eastern Solomons begins (WWII) (Naval)
1944 – Americans take Cannes and Arles, France; Allies take
Grenoble, France; Russians take Kishinev (WWII)
1945 – Battle of Wuhe (Chinese Civil War)
1949 – Campaign to suppress bandits in Fujian begins (Chinese
Civil War)
1965 – Operation Starlite ends (Vietnam War)
Photo about 1965 - A MAG-16 helicopter evacuates STARLITE casualties, while a Marine M-48
tank stands guard. The Marine on the left carries a M-79 grenade
launcher.
Operation Starlight, a U.S. Marine Corps search and
destroy operation south of Chu Lai. Viet Cong casualties stood at 599
killed and six captured. Viet Cong prisoners await being carried by
helicopter to rear area., 08/1965
2010 – Battle of Derapet (War in Afghanistan)
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