Today in military history: September 5, 2014

Military history timeline 

394 – Battle of Frigidus begins (Roman Civil Wars) 

1778 – Grey’s raid begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1781 - Battle of the Chesapeake (American Revolutionary War) (Naval) 

1806 – Second Battloe of Itri (War of the Third Coalition) 

1807 – Battle of Copenhagen ends (Napoleonic Wars) (partly Naval)

 Scottish highland soldiers in Søndermarken in Copenhagen in 1807 during the bombardement of Copenhagen

 

Bombardment of Copenhagen the night of September 4-5, 1807 

by Christian August Lorentzen

1812 – Siege of Fort Wayne begins; Battle of Credit Island ends; Siege of Fort Madison begins (War of 1812) 

1849 – French invasion of Honolulu ends (Kingdom of Hawaii) 

1863 – Battle of White Stone Hill ends (US Civil War) 

1864 - Second part of the Shimonoseki Campaign begins (Choshu Rebellion)  

1877 – Crazy Horse killed  (Nebraska) 

1904 – Battle of Liaoyang ends (Russo-Japanese War) 

1905 – Russo-Japanese War ends (East Asia) 

1914 – First Battle of the Marne begins (WWI) 

1936 – Battle of Irun ends (Spanish Civil War) 

1942 – Battle of Alam el Halfa ends (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Artemovsk, Khutov and Mikhailovsky (WWII)  

1944 – US takes Namus and Charleroi and Lucca, Italy (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Longbi ends; Zhucheng Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1949 – Ningxia Campaign begins; Danbieshan Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1951 – Battle of Bloody Ridge ends (Korean War) 

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

1970 – Operation TEXAS STAR ends (Vietnam War) 

1971 – Operation JEFFERSON GLEN begins (Vietnam War)