Today in military history: May 14, 2014

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1097 – Siege of Nicaea begins (First Crusade)

 13th century illustration - Crusaders bombard Nicaea with heads in 1097

1264 – Battle of Lewes (Second Barons’ War) 
1509 – Battle of Agnadello (War of the League of Cambrai) 
1814 – Raid on Port Dover begins; Skirmish at Otter Creek, VT (War of 1812) 

1832 – Battle of Stillman’s Run (Black Hawk War)
1863 – Battle of Jackson (US Civil War) 
1864 – Battle of Resaca, GA begins (US Civil War) 
1917 – Battle of the Strait of Otranto begins (WWI) (Naval)

Example of Austro-Hungarian U-boat crew - 16 March 1916 – Astro-Hungarian SMU-6 group photo of the crew after the sinking of the destroyer Renaudin

  
1940 – Battle of Gembloux begins; Battle of Rotterdam ends; Battle of the Afsluitdijk ends (WWII) 
1943 – Japan takes Maungdaw (WWII) 
1944 – Allies take Ausonia (WWII) 
1945 – Battle of Poljana begins (WWII) 
1951 – Gen Ridgway formally requests abolition of racial segregation in Far East Command (Korean War)

1951 - United Nations' delegates stand by a U.S. Air Force H-5 helicopter with General Matthew B. Ridgway, U.S. Army, Commander in Chief United Nations Command, prior to take off for the initial Armistice talks meeting, 10 July 1951. They are (from left to right): Rear Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, USN, Major General Laurence C. Cragie, U.S. Air Force, Major General Paik Sun Yup, Republic of Korea Army, Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Chief Delegate, General Ridgway, and Major Henry I. Hodes, U.S. Army.

2004 – Battle of Danny Boy (Iraq Occupation)

Today in military history: May 13, 2014

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1568 – Battle of Langside (Marian civil war)

 1846 painting by Cornelius Krieghoff - Mary, Queen of Scots, and Entourage

1805 – Battle of Derne ends (First Barbary War) 
1861 – US troops occupy Baltimore (US Civil War)
1864 - Battle of Rocky Face Ridge ends (US Civil War) 
1940 – Germans take Liege; Battle of the Grebbeberg ends (WWII) 
1943 – Axis forces in Tunisia surrender (WWII)

May 1943 - Three Curtiss Kittyhawk Mark IIIs of No 112 Squadron, Royal Air Force preparing to depart from Medenine on a sortie. The pilots of FR472 `GA-L' and FR440 `GA-V', are waiting for the section leader in the farthest aircraft to move out. All three Kittyhawks display the squadron's distinctive 'shark mouth' insignia.

 German POWs aboard HMS JERVIS off Tunisia, May 1943.

A flotilla of Germans fleeing from the 1st and 8th Armies, found nearly twenty miles out to sea off Cape Bon, Tunisia, were rounded up by the Royal Navy. After weeks of iron rations these German prisoners were glad of good food given to them in the destroyer HMS JERVIS. All the prisoners are German and all except two are anti-aircraft gunners who were bombed out of their gun sites.

1944 – Allies take Santa Maria Infante, Castelforte, and Monte Maio; Crimean campaign ends (WWII) 
1945 – Allies take Del Monte airfield (WWII) 
1947 – Menglianggu Campaign begins; Summer Offensive of 1947 in Northeast China begins (Chinese Civil War) 
1953 – Raid on Toksan Dam (Korean War) (Air) 
1972 – Thanh Hoa Bridge Campaign completed (Vietnam War) (Air)

 Circa 1972 - Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CVA-60) launching off Vietnam. A Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II from Attack Squadron VA-37 Bulls has just been launched from one of the waist catapults, while two McDonnell F-4J Phantom II from Fighter Squadron VF-103 Sluggers (top) and VF-31 Tomcatters are sitting on the forward catapults. All Squadrons were assigned to Carrier Air Wing 3 (CVW-3) aboard the Saratoga for a deployment to Vietnam from 11 April 1972 to 13 February 1973.

Today in military history: May 12, 2014

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1780 – Siege of Charleston ends (American Revolutionary War)

 1860 - A depiction of the Siege of Charleston (1780) by Alonzo Chappel.

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

1809 – Battle of Porto (Peninsular War) 

1863 – Battle of Raymond (US Civil War) 

1864 – Battle of Proctor’s Creek begins (US Civil War)

 1864 - Drewry's Bluff, Virginia. Interior of Confederate Fort Darling on the James

  

1865 – Battle of Palmito Ranch, TX (US Civil War) 

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

1898 – Bombardment of San Juan (Spanish-American War) (Naval) 

1940 – Battle of Sedan begins; Battle of the Afsluitdijk begins (WWII) 

1941 – Operation Tiger ends (WWII) (Naval) 

1942 – Second Battle of Kharkov begins (WWII)

May 1942 - Kharkov, Russian M3 tank with guns

  

1943 – Battle of West Hubei begins (Second Sino-Japanese War) 

1944 – Allies take Monte Faito (WWII) 

1948 – Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1949 – Shanghai Campaign begins (Chinese Civil War) 

1968 – Battle of Kham Duc ends; Battle of Coral-Balmoral begins (Vietnam War)

1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr ends (Iran-Iraq War)   2004 – Operation Rainbow begins (Second Intifada) 

2008 – Attack on Omdurman and Khartoum ends (Darfur War)