Today in military history: August 5, 2014

Military history timeline 

641 or 642 – Battle of Maserfield (England)

 Replica of the early 7th century Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo 
ship-burial 1 helmet, England.

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Photographer: Arne Koehler

   

910 - Battle of Tettenhall (Viking invasions of England) 

1063 - Battle of Snowdonia (Wales) 

1305 – William Wallace captured (Wars of Scottish Independence)

William Blake, Visionary Heads of William Wallace & Edward I circa 1819

  

1435 - Battle of Ponza (Aragon’s Conquest of Naples) (Naval) 

1549 – Massacre at Clyst Heath (Anglo-Cornish War of 1549) 

1598 - Battle of Traigh Ghruinneart (Scottish clan battles) 

1600 – Battle of Perth (British Isles) 

1619 – Battle of Wisternitz (Thirty Years’ War) 

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

1716 - Battle of Petrovaradin (Austro-Turkish War of 1716-1718) 

1763 - Battle of Bushy Run begins (Pontiac’s Rebellion) 

1781 – Battle of Dogger Bank (American Revolutionary War/Fourth Anglo-Dutch War) (Naval) 

1796 – Second Battle of Castiglione (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1812 – Battle of Brownstown (War of 1812) 

1861 – Battle of Athens (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Baton Rouge (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Mobile Bay (Naval); Battle of Utoy Creek begins (US Civil War) 

1873 – Battle of Massacre Canyon (Nebraska)

 Group of allied Kiowa and Comanche meeting a battalion of Pawnee warriors, 

by Koba (Kiowa artist) 1875.

  

1903 – Battle of Smilevo (Ilinden-Preobraženie uprising) 

1916 – Battle of Romani ends; Battle of Mouquet Farm begins (WWI) 

1940 – Italy takes Zeila and Hargeisa, British Somaliland (WWII) 

1941 – First Battle of Smolensk ends (WWII) 

1942 – U-boat attack on convoy SC-94 begins (WWII) (Naval) 

1943 – Americans take Munda, Solomons; Soviets take Belgorod (WWII) 

1944 – Attack on Volcano Islands ends (Naval); Allies take Vannes (WWII) 

1947 – Operation Product ends (Indonesian National Revolution)

Indonesia July 21, 1947 - Military convoy with servants on 

the way to Sukabumi during the initial police action
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1963 – Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed (Cold War) 

1964 – Operation Pierce Arrow begins (Air) (Vietnam War) 

1967 – Operation Coronado III begins (Vietnam War) 

2004 – Battle of Najaf begins (Iraq War) 

2006 – 2006 Tyre raid (2006 Lebanon War)