Today in military history: August 3, 2014

Military history timeline 

9 – Breci surrender to the Romans (Great Illyrian Revolt)

 Example of possibly 1st century Roman soldiers -
One version of the story of Tarpeia: Tarpeia is murdered by Sabine soldiers after having refused to betray Rome. Pentelic marble, fragment from the frieze of the Basilica Aemilia, 1st century BC–1st century AD.

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Photo Author: Marie-Lan Nguyen (2009) 

1347 – Siege of Calais ends (Hundred Years’ War) 

1460 – Capture of Roxburgh (Anglo-Scottish Border Wars) 

1530 – Battle of Gavinana (War of the League of Cognac) 

1601 - Battle of Guruslau (Long War) 

1644 – First Battle of Freiburg (Thirty Years’ War) 

1645 – Battle of Nordingen (also Allersheim) (Thirty Years’ War); Battle of Tabocas (Dutch-Portuguese War) 

1692 – Battle of Steenkerque (Nine Years’ War) 

1704 - Capture of Gibraltar ends (War of the Spanish Succession) (partly Naval) 

1757 – Siege of Fort William Henry begins (French and Indian War) 

1758 –Battle of Negapatam (Seven Years’ War) (Naval) 

1796 - Battle of Lonato begins (French Revolutionary War)

 19th century painting - General Bonaparte at the Battle of Lonato

 19th century drawing by Eugene Courboin -
Bonaparte compels Austrians to surrender at Lonato

1798 – Battle of the Nile (also Aboukir Bay) ends (French Revolutionary Wars) (Naval) 

1804 – Battle of Tripoli Harbor (Barbary Wars) 

1862 – Battle of Chariton Bridge (US Civil War) 

1915 – Second Battle of the Isonzo ends (WWI) 

1916 – Battle of Romani begins (WWI) 

1940 – Italy invades British Somaliland (WWII) 

1944 – Allies take Mortain; Chinese take Myitkyina, Burma (WWII) 

1950 – Air raid at Inchon (Air); South Korea retakes Yongdok (Korean War) 

1966 – Operation Hastings ends; Operation Prairie begins (Vietnam War)

 U.S. Army Bell UH-1D helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment from the Filhol Rubber Plantation area to a new staging area, during Operation "Wahiawa", a search and destroy mission conducted by the 25th Infantry Division, northeast of Cu Chi, South Vietnam, May 16, 1966.