Today in military history: September 15, 2014

Military history timeline 

994 – Battle of the Orontes (Arab-Byzantine Wars) 

1448 – Battle of Caravaggio (Wars in Lombardy) 

1463 – Battle of Zatoka Swieza (also Vistula Lagoon) (Thirteen Years War) (Naval) 

1509 – Siege of Padua begins (War of the League of Cambrai) 

1589 - Battle of Arques begins (French War of religion of 1587-1594) 

1776 – Landing at Kip’s Bay (American Revolutionary War) (partly Naval) 

1779 – Capture of Cayo Cocina (American Revolutionary War) 

1812 – Siege of Fort Harrison ends (War of 1812) 

1814 – Battle of Baltimore ends (partly Naval); Battle of Fort Bowyer (War of 1812) 

1818 – Destruction of Diriyah ends (Ottoman-Saudi War) 

1847 – Battle for Mexico City ends (Mexican-American War) 

1861 – Cheat Mountain Campaign ends; Battle of Pritchard’s Mills (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Harper’s Ferry ends (US Civil War) 

1916 – Battle of Flers-Courcelette begins (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of Saint-Mihiel ends (WWI) 

1920 – Battle of the Niemen begins (Polish-Soviet War) 

1940 – Luftwaffe’s last major push against British Royal Air Force (Air) (WWII) 

1941 – Germans take Schlusselburg (WWII) 

1943 – Allies take Procida, Italy; Soviets take Nezhin (WWII) 1944 – Operation Tanne Ost (partly Naval); Battle of Peleliu begins; Americans take Maastricht, Eisden, Nancy and Epinal (WWII)  

1950 – Pre-invasion Bombardment of Inchon ends (Naval); Operation CHROMITE begins (Korean War) 

1952 - Second Battle of Bunker Hill ends (Korean War) 

1967 – Operation SWIFT ends (Vietnam War) 

2010 – Operation DRAGON STRIKE begins (War in Afghanistan) 

2011 – Battle of Sirte begins (Libyan civil war)