48 BC Battle of
Pharsalus (Caesar’s Civil War)
Illumination on vellum from 2nd half of 15th century by Jean Fouquet -
The Flight of Pompey after the Battle of Pharsalus
378 - Battle of
Adrianople (Gothic War of 376-382)
1160 - Battle of Carcano
(Second Italian War of Frederick Barbarossa)
1187 – Saladin captures Beirut (Third Crusade)
1644 –Third Battle of Freiburg (Thirty Years’ War)
1757 – Siege of Fort William Henry ends (French and Indian
War)
1760 – Siege of Fort Loudoun ends (French and Indian War)
1780 – Action of 9 August 1780 (American Revolutionary War)
(Naval)
1806 – Massacre of Lauria ends (Italy)
1812 – Battle of Maguaga (War of 1812)
1814 – Bombardment of Stonington begins (War of 1812)
(Naval)
1822 - Battle of Dervenakia ends (Greek War of Independence)
1849 – Battle of Temesvar (Hungarian Revolt of 1848)
1862 – Battle of Cedar Mountain (also Slaughter’s Mountain,
Cedar Run) (US Civil War)
1864 – Bombardment of Atlanta begins (US Civil War)
1877 – Battle of the Big Hole begins (Nez Pearce War)
1898 – Battle of Coamo (Spanish-American War)
1913 – Battle of Dul Madoba (Somalia)
1921 – Battle of Annual ends (Rif War)
The Franco commander harangues the new soldiers in Melilla in 1921
1942 – Battle of Sealark Channel (Naval); Battle of Savo
Island ends (Naval); Germans capture Maykop and Krasnodar (WWII)
1945 – Plutonium fusion bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Air);
Soviet invasion of Manchuria begins; 1945 – Battle of Mayoyao Bridge ends
(WWII); Yetaishan Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War)
1949 – Lanzhou Campaign begins; Campaign to suppress bandits
in Eastern China begins (Chinese Civil War)
1950 – Battle of Nanpeng Island (Chinese Civil War)
1952 – First Battle of Bunker Hill begins (Korean War)
1966 – Battle of Duc Co (Vietnam War)
1967 – Operation Cochise begins (Vietnam War)
Photo from August 1967 - The view from Nui Ba Den
with Vietnamese water storage pit shown
2008 – Battle of Kodori Valley begins (Georgian-Abkhazian
conflict)
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