Today in military history: April 23, 2014

1014 – Battle of Clontarf (Ireland)

 

Brian Boru addressing his Army before the Battle of Clotarf 1014 AD

  

1229 – Castile conquers Caceres (Spain) 

1449 – Battle of Borgomanero (Venetian-Milanese War) 

1521 – Battle of Villalar (Revolt of the Comuneros) 

1778 – American raid at Whitehaven, England (American Revolutionary War) 

1781 – Siege of Fort Watson ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1809 – Battle of Ratisbon (also Regensburg) (War of the Fifth Coalition) 

 19th century painting by Albrecht Adam - Napoleon in 1809, battle of Regensburg

1861 – Fort Smith taken (US Civil War)   

1864 – Battle of Cane River, LA (US Civil War) 

1917 – British occupy Samarra (WWI) 

1918 – Turks occupy Bayazid; Battle of Zeebrugge ends (WWI) 

1945 – Frankfurt (on Oder) And Cottbus taken (WWII) 

1949 – Nanjing conquered (Chinese Civil War) 

1950 – Chaing Kai-shek and troops evacuate mainland China (Chinese Civil War) 

1951 – Battle of Yultong ends (Korean War) 

1994– Assault on Gorazde ends (Bosnian War)

 June 4, 1996  - German Engineers belonging and supporting the Implementation Force (IFOR) in Bosnia as part of Operation JOINT ENDEAVOR. -
The Donji Bratinia Bridge, just north of the city of Gorazde, is re-opened after having been 

shut down after its' destruction by North Atlantic Treaty Organization air strikes.

New military history research: The second Lebanese Civil War and the Mexican Revolution

In Middle Eastern Studies, an article by Ohannes Geukjian on the affect the Lebanese Armenian diaspora had on the second Lebanese Civil War that ran from 1975 to 1990.  Geukjian studies the affect and determined that the diaspora in this case and in other cases had and can have positive influence on the outcome of conflict resolution.

 Between January 1983 and June 1984 -
231st AA SAM Regiment troopers in trench

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In the Journal of Latin American Studies: Travesia, Rielle Navitski examines a 1919 film ‘El automovil gris” about  Mexican gang operating during the Mexican Revolution.  Navitski shows how the film exposes cultural attitudes about industrialization, urbanization and the civil war. 

 About 1911 - Mexican rebels with a homemade cannon during the Mexican Revolution

Today in military history: April 22, 2014

1363 – Battle of Canturino (Italy) 

1573 – Battle of Borsele (Eighty Years’ War) 

1676 – Battle of Etna (Dutch War) (Naval) 

1794 – Wilno Uprising (Kościuszko Uprising) 

1809 – Battle of Eckmuhl (Eggmuhl) (War of the Fifth Coalition)

 Battle of Eckmuhl in the evening - by Bagetti Giuseppe Pietro

  

1847 – Capture of Perote (Mexican-American War) 

1863 – Raid into Mississippi begins (US Civil War) 

1913 – Siege of Scutari ends (First Balkan War) 

1915 – Second Battle of Ypres begins (WWI)

 Ypres, 1915

 

1918 – Naval raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend (WWI) 

1944 – US completes takeover of Ungelap Island group (WWII) 

1951 – CCF Spring Offensive begins; Battle of Imjin River begins; Battle of Kapyong begins; Battle of Yultong begins (Korean War)

 

December 4, 1951  - Kapyong Area; Korea. Gen J. van Fleet, 

8th US Army inspects members of the 3rd Royal Australian regiment

  

1985 – Battle of Maravar Pass ends (Soviet war in Afghanistan)