1192 – Battles of Jaffa end (Third Crusade)
1588 - Battle of Gravelines (Anglo-Spanish War of 1585-1604)
(Naval)
1796 Oil on canvas painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg -
Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 8 August 1588
1775 – Battle of
Gloucester (American Revolutionary War) (possibly occurred August 9) (partly
Naval)
1780 – Battle of
Piqua (American Revolutionary War)
1782 – Hudson Bay expedition ends (American Revolutionary
War) (Naval)
1812 - Battle of
Inkovo (Napoleon’s Invasion of Russia)
1823 – Battle of
Karpenisi (Greek War of Independence)
1831 - Battle of
Hasselt (Ten Days’ Campaign)
1864 – Confederates surrender Fort Gaines (US Civil War)
1918 – Battle of Amiens (also Third Battle of Picardy)
begins (WWI)
1919 - Third
Anglo-Afghan War ends
Photo from 1900-1919 - King Habibullah Khan standing with Afghan military men. Though Habibullah Khan was assassinated in February 1919 before this war started, the photo is an example of Afghan fighters of that period and war.
1937 - Battle of Beiping-Tianjin ends (Second Sino-Japanese
War)
1941 – Battle of Uman ends (WWII)
1942 – Americans take Tualgi, Gavutu and renamed Henderson
Field, Solomons; Battle of Savo Island begins (Naval); Germans take Surovniko (WWII)
1943 – Americans take Sant Agata and Cesaro, Sicily; British
take Bronte and Acireale, Sicily (WWII)
1944 – Americans take Mount Santa Rosa, Marianas (WWII);
Battle of Hengyang ends (Second Sino-Japanese War)
1945 – Soviet Union declares war on Japan; US is first
country to ratify the UN charter (WWII)
1990 - Iraq
announces annexation of Kuwait (Persian Gulf War)
US President George H.W. Bush meets with National Security Advisors
regarding Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in Aspen Lodge at Camp David, August 4, 1990
2007 – Battle of
Firebase Anaconda (War in Afghanistan)
2008 – Battle of
Tskhinvali begins (Russo-Georgian War)
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