Today in military history: September 18, 2014

Military history timeline 

1454 – Battle of Chojnice (Thirteen Years’ War) 

1589 - Battle of Arques ends (French War of religion of 1587-1594) 

1643 – Battle of Aldbourne Chase (First English Civil War) 

1747 – Siege of Bergen op Zoom ends (War of the Austrian Succession) 

1778 – Siege of Boonesborough ends (American Revolutionary War) 

1793 – Siege of Toulon begins (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1794 – Battle of Sprimont ends (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1812 – American raids on First Nation villages end (War of 1812) 

1860 – Battle of Castelfidardo (Expedition of the Thousand) 

1863 – Chickamauga Campaign begins (US Civil War) 

1916 – Seventh Battle of the Isonzo ends (WWI) 

1918 – Battle of Epehy (WWI) 

1931 – Manchurian Incident (also Mukden) begins (Japanese invasion of Manchuria) 

1943 – Soviets take Priluki, Lubny, Romodan, Pavlograd, Krasnograd, Pologi and Nogaysk (WWII) 

1945 – Battle of Xiangshuikou (Chinese Civil War) 

1950 - Battle of Pusan Perimeter ends (Korean War) 

2005 – Battle of Tal Afar ends (Iraq War)

Today in military history: September 17, 2014

Military history timeline 

1462 – Battle of Swiecino (Thirteen Years’ War) 

1631 – First Battle of Breitenfeld (Thirty Years’ War) 

1775 – Siege of Fort St. Jean begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1778 – Attack on German Flatts (American Revolutionary War) 

1794 – Battle of Sprimont begins (French Revolutionary Wars) 

1813 – Second Battle of Kulm (also Teplitz) (War of the Sixth Coalition) 

1861 – Battle of Liberty (US Civil War) 

1862 – Battle of Antietam; Battle of Munfordville ends (US Civil War) 

1868 – Battle of Beecher Island begins (Comanche War) 

1877 – Third Battle of Shipka Pass ends (Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) 

1894 – Battle of the Yalu River (First Sino-Japanese War) (Naval) 

1900 – Battle of Mabitac (Philippine-American War) 

1901 – Battle of Elands River (Second Boer War) 

1939 – Battle of Tomaszow Lubelski begins; Soviets enter Poland (WWII) 

1940 – Battle of Benghazi ends (partly Naval) (WWII) 

1941 – Allies occupy Tehran (WWI) 

1943 – Soviets take Bryansk, BezhitsaTrubchevsk and Berdyansk (WWII) 

1944 – Battle of Angaur begins; Battle of Arnhem begins (WWII) 

1945 - Wuli Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1952 – Battle at Outpost Kelly begins (Korean War) 

1961 – Siege of Jadotville ends (Congo Crisis) 

2006 – Operation MEDUSA ends; Second phase of Battle of Panjwaii ends (War in Afghanistan)

Today in military history: September 16, 2014

Military history timeline 

1259 – Battle of Cassano (Conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines) 

1400 - The Welsh Revolt begins (Wales) 

1655 – Battle of Zarnow (Second Northern War) 

1776 – Battle of Harlem Heights (American Revolutionary War) 

1777 – Battle of Clouds (American Revolutionary War) 

1779 – Siege of Savannah begins (American Revolutionary War) 

1812 – American raids on First Nation villages begin (War of 1812) 

1814 – First Battle of Fort Bowyer ends (War of 1812) (partly Naval) 

1939 – Battles of Khalkhin Gol (also Nomonhan) ends (Soviet-Japanese Border Wars) 

1940 – Battle of Benghazi begins (partly Naval);Italians take Sidi Barani (WWII) 

1943 – Soviets take Novgorod, Seversky, Romny, Lozovaya, and Novorossiysk; Australians take Lae, New Guinea (WWII) 

1944 – Ukrainians take Sofia (WWII) 

1946 – Datong-Jining Campaign ends (Chinese Civil War) 

1972 – Second Battle of Quang Tri ends (Vietnam War)