Today in military history: September 4, 2014

Military history timeline

882 – Sack of the Monastery of Monte Cassino (Italy) 

1260 - Battle of Montaperti (Conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines) 

1285 - Battle of Les Formigues (Aragonese Crusade) (Naval) 

1346 – Siege of Calais begins (Hundred Years’ War) 

1796 - Battle of Rovereto (French revolutionary Wars) 

1800 – Siege of Malta ends (French Revolutionary Wars) (partly Naval) 

1812 – Siege of Fort Harrison begins (War of 1812) 

1814 – Battle of Credit Island begins (War of 1812) 

1861 – Confederates take Columbus (US Civil War) 

1864 – Confederate cavalry leader Morgan killed (US Civil War)

 "How Are You? John Morgan: A Sequal to Here's Your Mule." (Sheet music). Nashville, Tenn.: C.D. Benson - 1864

  

1886 - Geronimo surrenders (Apache Wars) 

1944 – Allies take Lille, Louvain, Malines and Etaples; Soviets take Brasnov and Senaia; Russians and Finns agree to a cease-fire (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Longbi begins (Chinese Civil War)         

1966 – Operation SEWARD begins (Vietnam War) 

1967 – Operation SWIFT begins (Vietnam War)

Today in military history: September 3, 2014

Military history timeline 

36 BC – Battle of Naulochus (Sicilian Revolt) (Naval) 

1260 – Battle of Ain Jalut (Mongol raids into Palestine) 

1529 – Suleiman takes Buda (Ottoman-Hapsburg Wars) 

1650 - Battle of Dunbar (Wars of the Three Kingdoms) 

1651 – Battle of Worcester (Scottish Civil War/Third English Civil War)

 Boscobel House. This was the hiding place of Charles II when he was fleeing his Cromwellian pursuers in 1651 having lost at the final battle of the Civil War, at Worcester (September 3rd 1651). The lefthand range of the building seen here dates from that time, having been built around 1632, but the righthand side is considerably more recent.

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1777 – Battle of Cooch’s Bridge (American Revolutionary War) 

1779 – Armada of 1779 ends campaigning (American Revolutionary War) (Naval) 

1782 – Battle of Trincomalee ends (American Revolutionary War) (Naval) 

1783 – Treay of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War 

1796 – Battle of Wurzberg (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1812 – Battle of Pigeon Roost (War of 1812) 

1814 – Battle of Hampden (War of 1812) (Naval) 

1855 – Battle of Ash Hollow (also Blue Water Creek) (First Sioux War) 

1861 – Confederate General Polk enters Kentucky (US Civil War) 

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

1877 – Battle of Lovcha ends (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1916 – Battle of Guillemont begins (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of Mont Saint-Quentin ends (WWI) 

1920 – Vlora War ends (Albania) 

1939 - Battle of the Atlantic begins (Naval) 

1943 – British take Reggio, Catona, San Giovanni, Melito and Bagnara, Italy; Soviets take Putivl and Ilovask (WWII) 

1944 – British take Brussels; Allies take Tournai and Abbeville; Americans take Mons; French take Lyons (WWII) 

1954 – First Taiwan Strait Crisis begins (Taiwan) 

1968 – Operation CAMPAIGN GROVE begins (Vietnam War)

New military history research – British airpower during WWII, Pacific War naval strategies, and naval power as applied to counter-insurgency and guerrilla movements

Study of the inter-service fight from 1940-1943 between the British Admiralty and Air Ministry over use of airpower and how Churchill did not effectively manage the dispute by Tim Benbow

                       

Comparing British, US and Japanese naval war strategies in the Pacific just before WWII by Evan Mawdsley

The lack of focus on naval power during the Chinese Civil War and the subsequent lack of focus on the effects of naval power on counter-insurgency in later conflicts by Francis Grice