Friday, September 5, 2014

Today in military history: September 6, 2014


394 – Battle of Frigidus ends (Roman Civil Wars) 
1634 – Battle of Nordlingen (Thirty Years’ War) 
1715 – Jacobite Rising of 1715 begins (Great Britain) 
1781 – Battle of Groton Heights (American Revolutionary War) 
1813 – Battle of Dennewitz (War of the Sixth Coalition) 
1814 – Engagements on Lake Huron end (War of 1812) 
1831 – Battle of Warsaw begins (Polish-Russian War 1830-1831) 
1861 – Federals capture Paducah (US Civil War) 
1864 - Second part of the Shimonoseki Campaign ends (Choshu Rebellion)  
1916 – Battle of Guillemont ends (WWI) 
1937 – Battle of El Mazuco begins (Spanish Civil War) 
1939 – Germans take Krakow (WWII) 
1941 – Battle of Changsha begins (Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII) 
1942 – Germans take Novorossiysk (WWII) 
1943 – Allies take Palmi and Delianuova, Italy; Soviets take Makeyevka, Kromatorsk and Slavyansk (WWII)
 A half-track and 6-pdr anti-tank gun coming ashore from landing craft at Reggio, 3 September 1943.

 ADELAIDE RIVER, NT, 1943-09-06. A DISPLAY OF AMMUNITION POSED BY MEMBERS OF THE 5TH AUSTRALIAN ADVANCED AMMUNITION DEPOT.
  
1944 – Allies take Ghent, Courtrai and Armentieres; French take Chalons-sur-Saone; Russians take Ostroleka (WWII) 
1945 – Battle of Lishi begins (Chinese Civil War)

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