Today in military history: August 27, 2014

Military history timeline 

479 BC – Battle of Mycale (Greco-Persian Wars) (partly Naval) 

1388 – Battle of Bileca (Ottoman wars in Europe) 

1549 – Third Battle of Norwich (also Dussindale) ends (Kett’s Rebellion) 

1597 – Battle of Chilchonryang (Imjin War) (Naval) 

1626 - Battle of Lutter (Thirty Years’ War)
1776 – Battle of Long Island (American Revolutionary War)

 Washington's Retreat at Long Island. August 1776. Copy of engraving by J. C. Armytage after Wageman, published circa 1860., 1931 - 1932

  

1781 - Battle of Pollicore (India) 

1798 – Battle of Castlebar (United Irishmen Rebellion)

 Plaque for the Battle of Castlebar - 

2009 photo by Ap jen

1799 – Battle of Callantsoog (Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland) 

1813 - Battle of Dresden ends (War of the Sixth Coalition)

 Cossack stragglers at Dresden 1813

1816 – Bombardment of Algiers (Algeria) (Naval) 

1832 – Black Hawk and Wobokieshiek surrender (post-Black Hawk War) 

1861 – Battle of Fort Hatteras begins (US Civil War) (partly Naval) 

1862 – Jackson’s raid on Manassas Station ends (US Civil War) 

1863 – Federals at Fort Wagner encounter large numbers of black powder charges buried in the mud and detonated by foot pressure (US Civil War) 

1896 – Anglo-Zanzibar War begins and ends (Zanzibar Sultanate) (partly Naval) 

1918 – Battle of Ambos Nogales (Mexican Revolution) 

1941 – British take Shahabad, Iran (WWII) 

1942 – Germans take Prochladrii (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Kotleva and Sevsk (WWII) 

1944 – Americans take Chateau Thierry, France; Soviets take Focsani and Galati, Rumania (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Yinji ends (Chinese Civil War); Allied armada of 23 aircraft carriers and 340+ other military ships anchored in Sagami Bay, Japan (WWII) 

1949 – Lanzhou Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

2004 – Battle of Najaf ends (Iraq War)