Today in military history: September 16, 2014

Military history timeline 

1259 – Battle of Cassano (Conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines) 

1400 - The Welsh Revolt begins (Wales) 

1655 – Battle of Zarnow (Second Northern War) 

1776 – Battle of Harlem Heights (American Revolutionary War) 

1777 – Battle of Clouds (American Revolutionary War) 

1779 – Siege of Savannah begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1812 – American raids on First Nation villages begin (War of 1812) 

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

1939 – Battles of Khalkhin Gol (also Nomonhan) ends (Soviet-Japanese Border Wars) 

1940 – Battle of Benghazi begins (partly Naval);Italians take Sidi Barani (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Novgorod, Seversky, Romny, Lozovaya, and Novorossiysk; Australians take Lae, New Guinea (WWII) 

1944 – Ukrainians take Sofia (WWII) 

1946 – Datong-Jining Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1972 – Second Battle of Quang Tri ends (Vietnam War)