Today in military history: May 9, 2014

Military history timeline

 

1645 – Battle of Auldearn (Wars of the Three Kingdoms)

 From 1893-1895 - Scottish soldiers in service of Gustavus Adolphus, 1631

1813 – Siege of Fort Meigs ends (War of 1812) 

1846 – Siege of Fort Texas ends; Battle of Resaca de la Palma (Mexican-American War) 

1862 – Action at Elkton Station, AL (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain; Battle of Swift Creek (US Civil War) Battle of Heligoland (Second War of Schleswig) (Naval) 

1885 – Battle of Batoche begins (North-West Rebellion)

 Louis Riel, a prisoner, in the camp of Major-General F.D. Middleton at Batoche, May 16, 1885

  

1939 – Battle of Nanchang ends (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1944 – Soviets take Sevastopol (WWII) 

1967 – Battle of Hills 881 and 861 ends (Vietnam War) 

1972 – Operation Linebacker begins (Vietnam War) (Air)

 The crew of a U.S. Air Force General Dynamics F-111A from the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing stands in front of their fully-loaded aircraft at Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base before a mission in 1972

   

2011 – Battle of Kandahar ends (War in Afghanistan)

New military history research: Assymetric warfare, stone age weapons and the US Civil War

From Armed Forces & Society, an article by Hans Martin Sieg on the decentralization of military power across the world.  Sieg examines asymmetric conflicts from Omdurman to the Iraq Insurgency.

 27 July 2011 - Two insurgents in Iraq with SA-7b and SA-14 MANPADS.

From Journal of Archaeological Science, a study from Talia Lazuen about the study of lithic weapon use.  Lazuen examines the criteria used to identify lithic weapons.

Three articles from Civil War History:

Keith Dickson writes about Douglas Southall Freeman.  Freeman was a well-regarded and widely admired Civil War historian.  Dickson examines Freeman’s strong attachment to the South, Confederate veterans and the leaders of the Confederate Army and how this affected his historical writings. 

Megan L. Bever examines romantic novels written after the Civil War.  Bever notes that many southern women wrote romance novels about relationships between northerners and southerners, stressing intersectional reconciliation while at the same time promoting protection of southern society.

William B. Kuntz writes about the Catholic Press during the Mexican and Civil Wars.  Kuntz notes that both wars were preceded by anti-Catholic politics and that the wars affected these politics.  For example, following Bull Run, a catholic newspaper publisher extolled the patriotism and bravery of Irish Catholics during the battle.

 Photo by Matthew Brady - Father Thomas Mooney conducting mass for the 69th New York State Militia (69th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, later the 69th U.S. Regiment) encamped at Fort Corcoran, Washington, D.C., June 1, 1861.

Today in military history: May 8, 2014

Military history timeline

 

1648 – Battle of St. Fagans (Second English Civil War)

  'Cromwell's soldiers breaking into the house of a Royalist', by J.Williamson, 1914

  

1781 – Battle of Pensacola ends; Battle of Fort Motte begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1846 – Battle of Palo Alto (Mexican-American War) 

1862 – Battle of McDowell, VA (Also Bull Pasture Mountain) (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Spotsylvania Court House begins (US Civil War)

 A Confederate redoubt guarding Taylor's Bridge; 

captured by Union troops of Hancock's Corps May 23 1864.

  

1915 – Second Battle of Krithia ends; Battle of Frezenberg (WWI) 

1942 – Battle of the Coral Sea ends (Naval); Battle of the Philippines ends (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of the Atlantic ends (Naval); VE Day, Official German surrender; some German units continue fighting (WWII) 

2005 – Operation Matador begins (Iraq War)

 8 May 2005 - Al Ubaydi, Iraq - The bridge that spans the Euphrates River is under construction by the engineers in the United States Army during operation Matador.

  

2009 – Battle of Am Dam ends (Civil War in Chad)