Today in military history: September 22, 2014

Military history timeline 

1236 – Battle of Saule (Livonian Crusade) 

1415 – Siege of Harfleur ends (Hundred Years’ War) 

1586 – Battle of Zutphen (Eighty Years’ War) 

1846 – Siege of Los Angeles begins (Mexican-American War) 

1861 – Skirmish at Papinsville (US Civil War) 

1863 – Battle of Blountville (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Fisher’s Hill ends (US Civil War) 

1866 – Battle of Curupayty (Paraguayan War) 

1916 – Battle of Flers-Courcelette ends (WWI) 

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

1937 – Battle of El Mazuco ends (Spanish Civil War) 

1943 – Attack on Tirpitz (Naval); Soviets take Anapa and Novomoskovosk (WWII) 

1944 – Allies take Elst and Boulogne; Soviets take Tallinn, Estonia (WWII) 

1945 – Huaiyin-Huai’an Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1946 – Linfen – Fushan Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1950 – Northeastern Guizhou Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1958 – Second Taiwan Strait Crisis ends (Taiwan) 

1969 – Operation PUTNAM TIGER ends (Vietnam War) 

1980 - Iran-Iraq War begins