Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Today in military history: September 10, 2014


480 BC - (possibly occurred August 7) Battle of Artemisium ends (Greco-Persian Wars) (Naval) 
1315 – Battle of Connor (Bruce campaign in Ireland) 
1435 – Battle of Piper Dene (Scotland) 
1547 – Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (Anglo-Scottish Wars) 
1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima (Japan) 
1759 – Battle of Pondicherry (Seven Years’ War) (Naval) 
1779 – Battle of Lake Pontchartrain (American Revolutionary War) (Naval) 
1799 – Battle of Krabbendam (Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland) 
1813 – Battle of Lake Erie (War of 1812) (Naval)
 Battle of Lake Erie. September 1813. Oliver Hazard Perry, standing. Copy of engraving by Phillibrown after W. H. Powell, published 1858., 1927 - 1981
  
1861 – Battle of Carnifex Ferry (US Civil War) 
1863 – Battle of Bayou Fourche; Battle of Davis’s Cross Roads begins; Federals take Little Rock (US Civil War) 
1864 – Federals take Fort Hell (US Civil War)  
1943 – Soviets take Mariupal; Barvenkovo, Volnovakha and Chaplino (WWII) 
1945 – Pingdu Campaign ends; Shangdang Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 
1950 – Battle of Inchon begins (Korean War) (partly Naval)
2010 – Battle of the Palm Grove begins (Iraq War)

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