Today in military history: August 29, 2014

Military history timeline 

489 – Battle of Isonzo (Roman-Germanic wars) 

1179 – Battle at Jacob’s Ford ends (Crusades) 

1315 – Battle of Montecatini (Italy) 

1350 – Battle of Winchelsea (also Les Espagnols sur Mer) (Hundred Years’ War) (Naval) 

1526 – Battle of Mohacs (Ottoman-Hungarian Wars)

The Battle of Mohács - 1866 oil on canvas by Bertalan Szekely

  

1622 – Battle of Fleurus (Thirty Years’ War) 

1693 - Battle of Landen (Nine Years’ War) 

1708 – Raid on Haverhill (Queen Anne’s War) 

1778 – Battle of Rhode Island (American Revolutionary War) 

1779 – Battle of Newton (American Revolutionary War) 

1813 – Battle of Kulm begins (War of the Sixth Coalition) 

1814 – Raid on Alexandria begins (War of 1812) 

1842 – First Opium War ends (China) 

1848 – Battle of Boomplaats (South Africa); Young Irelander Rebellion (also Battle of Ballingarry) (Ireland) 

1862 – Battle of Aspromonte (Wars of Italian Independence); Battle of Richmond begins; Main portion of Second Bull Run fought; Battle of Manchester (US Civil War)

 Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862

  

1863 – H.L. Hunley sunk (US Civil War) (Naval) 

1864 – Battle of Smithfield (US Civil War) 

1865 – Battle of the Tongue River (Powder River Expedition) 

1914 – Battle of Guise begins (WWI)

 August 29, 1914 - German officer corps (162nd) at Eurin

1915 – Battle of Hill 60 ends (WWI) 

1941 – Finns take Viipuri; Iranian resistance to Britian and the Soviet Union ends (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Lyubotin (WWII) 

1944 – Operation Goodwood ends (Naval) (Air); Americans take Soissons, Reims and Chalons-sur-Marne, France; Russians take Constanta and Buzau (WWII)

1966 – Operation Allegheny ends (Vietnam War)