Today in military history: September 13, 2014

Military history timeline 

533 – Battle of Ad Decimum (Vandalic War) 

1515 – Battle of Marignano begins (War of the League of Cambrai) 

1644 – Battle of Aberdeen (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) 

1645 – Battle of Philiphaugh (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) 

1759 – Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Seven Years’ War) 

1779 – Boyd and Parker ambush (American Revolutionary War) 

1781 – Battle of Lindley’s Mill; Long Run Massacre (American Revolutionary War) 

1782 – Siege of Fort Henry ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1808 – Battle of Jutas (Finnish War) 

1814 – Siege of Fort McHenry begins (War of 1812) (partly Naval) 

1847 – Battle of Chapultepec ends; Siege of Puebla begins (Mexican-American War) 

1861 – Battle of Booneville (US Civil War) 

1877 – Third Battle of Shipka Pass begins (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1882 – Battle of Tel el-Kebir (Anglo-Egyptian War) 

1900 – Battle of Pulang Lupa (Philippine-American War) 

1914 – First Battle of the Aisne begins; Battle of the Frontiers ends (WWI)  

1921 – Battle of Sakarya ends (Greco-Turkish War)

 Greek lithograph depicting the Battle of Sangarios River (Sakarya) during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1920

  

1922 – Great Fire of Smyrna begins (Greco-Turkish War) 

1937 – Battle of Xinkou begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1939 – Battle of Changsha begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1944 – Americans take Neufchateau; Belorussians take Lomza (WWII)

A Sherman tank passes an abandoned German 88mm anti-tank gun during the advance in Belgium, 13 September 1944

 SC 194 203-S Tanks, a few miles fro the German border demonstrate a flame thrower mounted in a tank, which can be used against German fortifications 9/13/44

  

1945 - Battle of Dazhongji ends; Wuli Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War)

 Japanese officers hand their swords to an Australian Army officer following the surrender of the Japanese 18th Army on 13 September 1945. 

  

1950 – Pre-invasion Bombardment of Inchon begins (Korean War) (Naval) 

1951 – Battle of Heartbreak Ridge begins (Korean War) 

1961 – Siege of Jadotville begins (Congo Crisis) 

1968 – Operation in the DMZ begins (Vietnam War) 

1973 – Israel-Syria air battle (Pre-Yom Kippur War) (Air) 

1993 – Action of 13 September 1993 (Somalia) 

2010 – Battle of the Palm Grove ends (Iraq War)