This day in military history..

August 16
1513 Battle of Guinegate
1777 Battle of Bennington
1780 Battle of Camden, S.C.
1812 Ft. Dteroit surrenders with out a fight
1869 Battle of Acosta Nu
1900 Battle of Elands River ends
1920 Battle of Radzymin ends
1940 Inspection vessel HMS Manx Lad sunk when the ship being inspected hits a mine
1944 Minesweepers HMS BYMS 2022 and USS YMS-24, PT-202 and PT-218 sunk by mines off St. Tropez. R.N. MGB 313 sunk by mine, and R.N. Trawler HMS MFV 624 sunk, off Normandy
 
Aug 17
986 Battle of the Gates of Trajan
1424 Battle of Verneuil
1549 Battle of Sampford Courtenay
1585 Siege of Antwerp ends, began July 1584
1717 Siege of Belgrade ends
1914 Battle of Stalluponen
1941 Soviet Patrol Boat no. 80 sunk by E Boat S-58 off Saaremaa
1943 Schweinfurt-Regensburg air raid. Battle of Sicily ends. USN LCI(L)-1 bombed/sunk in Lac de Bizerte
1944 R.N. LCT 123 sank off Normandy. Battle of La Ciotat: KM Corvette UJ-6082 and Armed Yacht UJ-6073 sunk by Destroyer USS Endicott
1945 Frigate CD-46 sunk by mine off Mokpo, Korea.
 
Aug 18
684 Battle of Marj Rahit
1304 Battle of Mons-en-Pevele
1487 Siege of Malaga ends
1864 2nd Battle of the Weldon Railroad
1870 Battle of Gravelotte
1941 Soviet Destroyer Statnyi sunk by mine off Suurstrat. R.N. sub P 32 sunk by mine north of Tripoli, and P 33 sunk by enemy action in the Med
1942 R.N. MTB 218 sunk by mine in Dover Strait. MTB 43 sunk by KM surface ships off Gravelines, France
1943 U-403 sunk by RAF Wellington off Dakar. USN LST-396 exploded and sank at New Georgia. R.N. LCT 416 explodes at Tripoli sinking R.N. LCT 301
1944 KM Minesweeper M-27 sunk by mine in Geronde Estuary. Torpedo Boats T-22, 30, and 32 sunk by mines in Narva Bay. UJ-1103 sunk in a collision off Lista, Norway. U-107 sunk by RAF Sunderland in Bay of Biscay. U-129 scuttled at Lorient. U-621 sunk by 3 RCN destroyers in Bay of Biscay. Cruiser Natori sunk by USS Hardhead east of Samar. Escort Carrier Taiyo sunk by sub USS Rasher in South China Sea. R.N. MTB 707 sunk in a collision with Free French Frigate L'Escarmauche north of Ireland
1945 Battle of Shumshu begins: Soviet LCI DS-1, 5, 9, 43 and 47 sunk by Japanese shore batteries.
1966 Battle of Long Tan.
 
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19 Aug
1504 Battle of Knockdoe
1759 naval Battle of Lagos ends
1782 Battle of Blue Licks
1812 HMS Guerriere captured/burned by USS Constitution
1940 1st flight B-25
1941 R.N. Whaler HMS Thorbyn bombed/sunk, and LCT 12 sunk, off Tripoli. Norwegian Destroyer Bath sunk by U-204 south west of Ireland
1942 Dieppe Raid: KN Sub Chaser UJ-1404 shelled/sunk. Destroyer HMS Bereley bombed/sunk. R.N. LCT 121, 122, 126, 145, 159 lost/abandoned
1944 U-123 scuttled at Lorient, raised, repaired, put in French Navy service as Blaison. U-466 scuttled at Toulon after previous damage. V-6102 sunk by a sub off Vardo, Norway.
2002 Russian Mi-26 shot down near Grozny
2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends
 
August 20
636 Battle of Yarmouk ends
917 Battle of Achelous
1467 2nd Battle of Olmedo
1707 1st Siege of Pensacola ends
1710 Battle of Saragossa
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers
1862 Battle of Brandy Station
1914 Germans capture Brussels
1940 U-51 sunk by HMS Cachalot in Bay of Biscay. R.N. Trawler HMS Resparko bombed/sunk at Falmouth
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Lorinda cought fire and sank off Freetown
1942 U-464 damaged by a USN PBY and scuttled off Iceland
1943 U-197 sunk by RAF PBY south of Madagascar. U-670 sunk in a collision with KM Target ship Bolkoburg in the Gulf of Danzig
1944 2nd Jassy-Kishinev Offensive begins. U-9 bombed/sunk at Constanta, raised, repaired, put in Soviet Navy service as "TS-16". U-188 scuttled at Bordeaux. U-984 sunk by 3 RCN Destroyers west of Brest. U-188 sunk by 3 R.N. Destroyers in the English Channel. U-1229 sunk by aircraft from USS Bogue in mid Atlantic.
1968 Warsaw Pact invades Czechoslavakia
 
August 21
1680 Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe
1689 Battle of Dunkeld
1778 Siege of Pondicherry begins
1808 Battle of Vimeiro
1863 Lawrence, Ks Raid
1918 2nd Battle of the Somme begins
1942 Battle of the Tenaru
1944 Corvette HMCS Alberni sunk by U-480 off the Isle of Wight. R.N. Harbor Defence Motor Launch 1179 sank in a storm off Jamaica. Sloop HMS Kite sunk by U-344 in the Barents Sea. Corvette HMS Orchis strikes a mine and is beached off Juno Beach, Normandy, decared a Total Loss. U-230 ran aground near Toulon and is scuttled. KM Minesweeper M-292 bombed/sunk in the Geronde Estuary. Training ship Viper scuttled at Bayonne
 
22 August
851 Battle of Jengland
1138 Battle of the standard
1485 Battle of Bosworth Field
1711 7 R.N. Transports and 1 supply ship run aground and sink in the St. Lawrence River, ending a move on Quebec
1717 Spain invades Sardinia
1777 Siege of Ft. Stanwix ends
1864 Mobile Bay Campaign: Siege of Ft. Morgan ends
1940 Italian sub Iride and Sub Tender Monte Gargano sunk by Swordfish aircraft off Libya
1941 Net Layer HMS Tonbridge bombed/sunk off Yarmouth
1942 Destroyer USs Ingraham sunk in a collision with Oiler USS Chemung off Nova Scotia. Destroyer USS Blue torpedoed by Kawakaze off Savo Island, scuttled the next day. U-458 sunk by Destroyers HMS Easten and Greek Pindos south east of Pantelleria. U-654 sunk by a B-18 north of Panama. Italian Torpedo Boat Generale Antonio Cantore sunk by mine off Libya
1944 Frigate Hibure and Matsue sunk by Sub USS Harder and Frigate Sado sunk by sub USS Hado, all off Bataan. Frigate HMS Bickerton damaged by U-354 and scuttled in the Barents Sea, also Escort Carrier HMS Nabob was damaged and not repaired(untill after the war as a merchant ship). Minesweeper HMS Loyalty sunk by U-480 off the Isle of Wight. R.N. MTB 243 expended as a target in the Med. U-344 sunk by Swordfish from HMS Vindex in the Barents Sea. KM Patrol Ships V-702, 717, 720, 729, and 730 sunk by Cruiser HMS Mauritius off Audierne Bay, France.
1945 Destroyer Asagao mined/beached/abandoned in the Kunman Strait.
 
August 24
49 B.C. Battle of Bagrudas River
410 Sack of Rome begins
1482 English capture Berwick-upon-Tweed
1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq
1812 Siege of Cadiz ends, began Feb 5, 1810
1814 Battle of Bladensburg. Washington Navy Yard and Frigate USS Columbia and Sloop USS Argus burned to prevent capture. British occupy Washington, D.C.
1940 Sloop HMS Penzance sunk by U-37 south west of Iceland. Minesweeper USS Peacock sunk in a collision off Cartegena, Colombia
1941 Soviet Destroyer Engels sunk by mine north east of Cape Juminda, Estonia
1942 R.N. Motor Launch ML 103 sunk by mine in Dover Strait. Battle of the Eastern Solomons begins: Carrier Ryujo sunk
1943 U-134 sunk by RAF Wellington near Vigo, Spain. U-185 sunk by aircraft from USS Core. Soviet Minesweeper Shkyal sunk by U-23 off Cape Kodar in the Black Sea.
1944 KM Torpedo Boat T-24 bombed/sunk off France. U-354 sunk by 4 R.N. ships in the Barents Sea. U-445 sunk by Frigate HMS Louis west of St. Nazaire. Sub USS Harder sunk by Frigate CD-22 off Dascol Bay.
1945 IJN Patrol Boat No. 104 sunk by mine in the Shimenoseki Strait.
 
Aug 25
1580 Battle of Alcantara
1630 Battle of Randeniwela
1758 Battle of Zorndorf
1920 Battle of Warsaw ends
1941 R.N. Whaler HMS Kos XVI rammed/sunk by Destroyer HMS Wolsey off Hull. U-452 sunk by R.N. Trawler HMS Vascana and a British PBY south east of Iceland. Soviet Minesweeper T-898 sunk by U-752 in the Barents Sea. Iran invaded by UK and Soviet Union: Iranian Gunboat Babr sunk by HMAS Yarra at Khorramshar. Iraninan Gunboat Palang sunk by HMS Shoreham at Abadan
1942 Battle of Milne Bay begins. KM Minelayer Ulm sunk by R.N. Destroyers south east of Bear Island. Battle of the Eastern Solomons ends: Armed Merchant Cruiser Kenryu Maru bombed/sunk by US Navy aircraft and Destroyer Mutsuki bombed/sunk by B-17s while assisting Kenryu Maru.
1943 U-523 sunk by Destroyer HMS Wanderer and Corvette HMS Wallflower west of Vigo, Spain. RO-35 sunk by Destroyer USS Patterson in the Coral Sea
1944 Destroyer Yunagi sunk by sub USS Picuda north east of Luzon. KM Destroyer Z-24 bombed/sunk off Le Verdan, France. Minesweepers M-262, 363, and M-463, U-178 scuttled at Bordeaux. M-347 sunk by aircraft off Engelsmanplaat, Netherlands. Sperrbrecher 14 sunk as blockship in the Geronde. U-667 sunk by mine near La Rochelle. R.N. LCT 1074 sunk by U-764 in the English Channel
1991 Battle of Vukovar begins
 
26 August
1071 Battle of Manzikert
1278 Battle of Marchfeld
1346 Battle of Crecy
1303 Delhi captures Chittorgarh
1813 Battle of Katzbach
1814 Battle of Las Tres Acequias
1862 2nd Battle of Manassas begins
1914 Battle of Le Cateau. Allies invade German Togoland
1941 Soviet submarine Depot ship Marija Uljanova damaged by U-571 in the Barents Sea and beached, later refloated and used as an oil storage hulk
1942 KM Sub Chaser UJ-1216 sunk at Vik, Norway
1943 Soviet sub ShCh-203 sunk by Italian sub SB-4 west of the Crimea.
1944 R.N. Harbor Defence Motor Launch HMS HDML 1381 captured by KM surface units. Soviet Minesweeper T-45 sunk by U-745 in Narva Bay, and Survey ship Nord sunk by U-957 in the Kara Sea. KM Sperrbrecher 135 bombed/sunk at Brest
1945 R.N. MTB 261 sank at Alexandria, Egypt
1946 Tug HMS Buccaneer shelled and sunk while towing a target for gunnery practice(Guess they needed more!)
1999 2nd Chechen War begins
 
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27 August
410 Sack of Rome ends
1776 Battle of Long Island
1798 Battle of Castlebar
1810 naval Battle of Grand Port ends
1813 Battle of Dresden ends
1896 Anglo-Zanzibar War begins and ends, World's shortest War at 45 minutes
1918 Battle of Ambos Nogales, only WWI battle fought on US soil
1922 Ottomans capture Afyonkarisar
1939 1st flight He-178, 1st jet to fly
1940 Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Dunvegan Castle damaged by U-45, sinks next day. Armed Yacht HMS White Fox II burns
1941 U-570 captured south of Iceland, put in R.N. service as HMS Graph.
1943 Japanese evacuate New Georgia. US LCT-319 wrecked off Kiska. Sloop HMS Egret sunk by glide bomb in Bay of Biscay. U-847 sunk by aircraft from USS Card.
1944 Minesweepers HMS Britomart and Hussar bombed/sunk, and HMS Salamander bombed/damaged beyond repair by RAF Typhoons in the English Channel. Vichy French Battleship Clemenceau bombed/sunk at Brest. US LST-327 damaged beyond repair by U-92 in the English Channel.
 
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28 August
489 Battle of Isonzo
663 Battle of Baekgang
1189 Siege of Acre begins, ends July 12, 1191
1521 Ottomans capture Belgrade
1542 Battle of Wofla
1640 Battle of Newburn
1648 Siege of Colchester ends
1861 Battle of Hatteras Inlet begins
1914 Battle of the Heligoland Bight
1941 Soviet Navy evacuates Tallinn losing Destroyers Artyom, Kalinin, Skory, Valodarsky, and Yakov Sverdlov, Subs ShCh-301 and S-5, on mines north of Cape Juminda, Repair Ship Serp-I-Molot bombed/beached at Suursaari
1942 U-94 bombed by USN PBY and rammed/sunk by Corvette HMCS Oakville off Haiti. Destroyer Asigiri bombed/sunk by USMC SBDs near Santa Isabel Island
1943 KM Escort SG-10 sunk by sub HMS Sickle. SG-14 bombed/sunk, both in the Med. U-639 sunk by Soviet sub S-101 in the Kara Sea.
1916 Germany declares War on Romania, Italy declares War on Germany
1944 Allies capture Toulon and Marseilles: KM Escorts SG-12, 16, and 23 scuttled at Marseilles
 
29 August
1350 naval Battle of Winchelsea
1526 battle of Mohacs
1778 Battle of Quaker Hill
1807 Battle of Kuge
1861 Battle of Hatteras Inlet ends
1941 Soviet Patrol boat MO-109 sunk by mine off Yuminda
1944 IJN Minesweeper W-28 sunk by sub USS Jack in the Celebes Sea.
 
30 August
1363 Battle of Lake Poyang
1791 HMS Pandora wrecked in Torres Strait
1799 Dutch Squadron mutinys/surrenders to the R.N. at Texel
1813 1st Battle of Kulm. Ft Mims Massacre
1862 2nd Battle of Manassas ends. Battle of Richmond, Ky
1896 Battle of San Juan del Monte
1914 Battle of Tannenburg ends
1922 Battle of Dumlupinar ends
1941 Soviet Patrol Boat MO-202 sunk by German Field Artillery off Ivanovo
1942 Battle of Alam Halfa begins. Seaplane Tender USS Casco damaged by RO-61 and beached in Nazan Bay. Refloated, repaired, returned to service. High Speed Transport USS Colhoun bombed/sunk off Guadalcanal
1943 U-634 sunk by Sloop HMS Stork and Corvette HMS Stonecrop east of The Azores.
2003 Decommissioned Russian sub K-159 sinks under tow in the Barents Sea.
 
August 31
1795 British capture Trincomalee
1813 Battle of San Marcial
1864 Battle of Jonesboro begins
1920 Battle of Komarow
1940 Destroyer HMS Esk sunk by mine off Texel. Armed Yacht Emelle lost, N.F.I.. French Naval Trawler Vivagel sunk by mine in Bay of Biscay
1941 Battle of Loznica
1942 RO-61 sunk by 2 USN PBYs and Destroyer USS Reid off Atka
1943 USN LCT-154 lost in Gulf of Tunis
1944 Minelayer Shirataka sunk by USS Sealion in the Bashi Channel. U-1000 damaged by a mine off Pillau, decommissioned and scrapped
 
Sept 1
1644 Battle of Tippermoir
1814 HMS Avon sunk by USS Wasp
1862 Battle of Ox Hill
1864 Battle of Jonesboro ends. Siege of Atlanta ends, CS Evacuates Atlanta
1870 Battle of Sedan
1880 Battle of Kandahar
1939 Germany invades Poland, WWII Officially starts. Polish Gunnery Training ship Mazur bombed/sunk at Oksywie
1940 R.N. Patrol Launch HMS Mesme sunk with all hands in a collision with HMS Sunfish. R.N. Trawler HMS Royalo sunk by mine off Penzance. Italian MTB MAS 537 rammed/sunk by Destroyer HMS Ilex in the Med. Destroyer HMS Ivanhoe damaged by a mine off Texel, scuttled.
1942 U-756 sunk by Corvette HMCS Morden in Mid-Atlantic
1943 I-182(or possibly I-20) sunk by Destroyer USS Wadsworth
1944 Corvette HMS Hurst Castle sunk by U-482 off Tory Island, Ireland. R.N. Motor Minesweeper MMS 117 sunk by mine off Civita Vecchia, Italy. US Minesweeper YMS-21 sunk by mine off Toulon. U-247 sunk by Frigates HMCS St. John and Swansea in the English Channel. UIT-19 bombed/sunk at Pola.
 
2 Sept
31 B.C. naval Battle of Actium
1649 Papal Forces destroy Castro
1807 Bombardment of Copenhagen begins
1937 1st flight F4F Wildcat
1939 Polish Auxiliarys Gydni and Gdansk bombed/sunk in Gulf of Gdansk
1940 KM Troopship Pionier sunk by HMS Sturgeon east of Denmark. Sub Chaser UJ-121 sunk by mine off Ostend
1942 IJN Patrol Boat PB-35 sunk by a B-17 near Santa Isabel. U-222 sunk in a collision with U-626 off Pillau.
1943 Frigate Matsure sunk by USS Snapper off Guam
1944 Soviet Minesweeper BTSC-410 Vzryu sunk by U-19 in the Black Sea. U-394 sunk by a Swordfish and 4 R.N. ships south east of Jan Mayen
1949 1st flight De Havilland Venom
1958 Soviets shoot down a USAF C-130 that strayed into Soviet airspace
 
Sept 3
36 B.C. naval Battle of Naulochus
863 Battle of Ain Jalut
1650 Battle of Dunbar
1651 Battle of Worchester
1777 Battle of Cooch's Bridge
1798 Battle of St. George's Caye begins
1863 Battle of Whitestone Hill, Dakota Territory
1864 Battle of Berryville
1925 Zeppilin USS Shenandoah crashes in a storm
1939 U.K., New Zealand, Australia, France & India declare War on Germany. Polish Milelayer Gryf, Minesweeper Mewa, Destroyer Wicher and Gunboat General Haller bombed/sunk at Hel.
1940 U-57 sunk in a collision with Norwegian SS Rona north west of Hamburg.
1942 U-162 sunk by Destroyers HMS Vimy, Pathfinder and Quentin north east of Trinidad. Troopship USS Wakefield burns at sea, beached at Halifax on Sept 8, refloated, repaired, returned to service 1944.
1943 I-20 sunk by Destroyer USS Ellet near Espirito Santo. KM Patrol Boat UJ-1202 sunk by a sub off Norway.
1954 1st Taiwan Strait Crisis begins
 
4 Sept
1260 Battle of Montaperti
1800 French surrender Malta to the British
1886 Geronimo surrenders
1940 Rescue Tug HMS Saucy sunk with all hands by a mine in the Firth of Forth
1942 Ammo ship Kashima sunk by USS Growler off Formosa
1943 US troops land at, and capture, Lae, New Guinea, Japanese aircraft sink USN LCI(L)-339 off Lae
1944 KM subs UIT-15, 16, and 20 bombed/sunk at Genoa
 
5 Sept.
1697 naval Battle of Hudson's Bay
1781 naval Battle of the Chesapeake
1812 Siege of Ft. Wayne begins
1914 1st Battle of the Marne begins
1940 KM Flackships sunk by mines: V-201 off Westerschelde, Netherlands, V-402 off Dunkirk, V-403 off Vlissingen
1942 Destroyer-Transports USS Little and Gregory sunk by 3 IJN Destroyers off Guadalcanal
1943 R.N. Motor Launch ML 108 sunk by mine in the English Channel. USN Trawler YP-279 sinks in a storm off Townsville, Australia. IJN Salvage Ship Yusho Maru sunk by mine in Makassar Strait.
1944 KM Minesweeper M-274 scuttled in Belgium. U-362 sunk by Soviet Minesweeper T-116 in the Kara Sea
 
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