This day in military history..

July 22 US Naval History
1802 - Frigate Constellation defeats 9 Corsair gunboats off Tripoli.
1905 - Body of John Paul Jones moved to Annapolis, MD for reburial.
1953 - U.S. ships laid down heavy barrage to support UN troops in Korea
1964 - Four Navy Divers (LCDR Robert Thompson, MC; Gunners Mate First Class Lester Anderson, Chief Quartermaster Robert A. Barth, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Sanders Manning) submerge in Sealab I for 10 days at a depth of 192 feet, 39 miles off Hamilton, Bermuda. They surfaced on 31 July 1964.
1974 - Evacuees from the coup on Cyprus arrive on board Navy vessels in the Mediterranean. Operation ended on 24 July
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July 21
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
1545 French invade the Isle of Wight
1565 Battle of Jemmison
1861 Battle of 1st Manassas, Va
1918 U-156 shells Nauset Beach, Mass. 1st time US has been shelled since the Mexican-American War.
 
July 23
1456 Seige of Belgrade ends with defenders defeating the Ottomans
1793 Prussia capture Mainz from France
1942 Germans take Rostov-on-Don & head into the Caucases.
1983 Sri Lankan Civil War begins
 
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July 24
1132 Battle of Nocera
1148 Siege of Damascus begins
1861 Battle of Tyler Mountain, Va
1863 Union troops battle Sioux Indians in Dakota Territory near where Bismark, N.D. is later founded
1864 Battle of Kernstown, Va
2001 Sri Lankan Civil War: Tamil Tigers raid Bandaranaika Airport destroying 11 aircraft, most of them are Air Force planes.
 
July 24 US Naval History
1813- Sailing Master Elijah Mix attempts to blow up British warship Plantagenet with a torpedo near Cape Henry, Virginia.
1944 - Following 43 days of naval gunfire and air bombardment, Naval Task Force lands Marines on Tinian.
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July 25
1139 Battle of Ourique
1261 Constantinople captured from Latins by Nicaeans
1758 Siege of Louisbourge Fortress: Royal Navy cutting out party captures Ship-of-the-Line Bienfaisant 64 & destroys Prudent 74
1759 British capture Ft. Niagra from the French
1797 Nelson unsucsessfully attempts to take Tenerife, loses 300 men & his right arm
1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane, Ontario
1898 US invades Puerto Rico
1915 Capt. Hawker 1st flier to win V.C., shot down 3 German planes in a day.
1920 France captures Damascus
1944 Operation Spring British/Canadian offensive in Normandy
 
July 26
657 1st Battle of Siffin
811 Battle of Pliska
1469 Battle of Edgecote Moor
1758 Siege of Louisbourge Fortress ends when French garrison surrenders
1822 Battle of Dervenakia, 1st day
1863 Morgan's Raid ends with capture of him & his men @ New Lisbon, Oh
1937 Battle of Brunete, Spain
1944 Soviets recapture Lviv, 1st V-2 hits the U.K.
1953 Cuban Revolution begins
 
July 27
1214 Battle of Bouvines
1302 Battle of Bapheus
1689 Battle of Killiecrankie
1720 naval Battle of Grengam
1778 1st naval Battle of Ushant
1863 Sioux Indians battle Union troops near Stony Lake, Dakota Territory
1880 Battle of Maiwand, Afghanistan
1917 Battle of Passchendaele
1941 Japan occupies French IndoChina
1953 Korean War ends
1955 Allied occupation of Austria ends
 
July 28
1364 Battle of Casina, Italy
1809 Battle of Talavera, Spain
1864 Battle of Ezra Church, Ga. Union troops battle Sioux Indians @ Tahkahokaty Mountain, Dakota Territory
1914 WW1 begins with Austria declaring War on Serbia
1935 1st flight Boeing B-17
1943 RAF creates firestorm, Hamburg, germany
 
July 29
1014 Battle of Kleidion
1030 Battle of Stiklestad
1693 Battle of Lander
1862 "Ship 290" sails from Liverpool. It will be converted @ Sea to become CSS Alabama
1967 USS Forrestal catches fire off Vietnam.
 
July 30
1864 Petersburg Siege: Battle of The Crater. Union troops who had been miners had dug a tunnell & placed a mine under Confederate lines. US Colored Troops had been trained to attack on either side of the crater & then advance down the trench lines, opening up a useable gap that the rest of the troops could attack in depth through. At the last moment Gen. Meade suffers an attack of Political Correctness &, with concurrence of Gen. Grant, orders Gen. Burnside not to use the US Colored Troops to lead the attack. Instead Burnside has to use troops untrained for the mission & they charge into The Crater & are slaughtered. Meade & Grant blame Burnside & relieve him.
Chambersburg, Pa. is burned by C.S. Cavalry
1916 Black Tom Island, N.J. munitions depot explosion
1945 Japanese sub I-58 sinks USS Indianapolis, over 800 sailors die adrift in the ocean after the Cruiser sinks.
 
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Aug. 1
30 B.C. Octavian enters Alexandria
902 Arabs capture Taormina, Sicily & destroy it.
1664 Battle of St. Gottard Austrians defeat Ottomans
1798 naval Battle of the Nile
1894 1st Sino-Japanese War starts
1902 US buys rights to the Panama Canal from France
1914 Germany declares War on Russia
1941 1st Jeep produced
1944 Warsaw Uprising begins
 
Aug. 2
338 B.C. Battle of Chaeronea Macedonians defeat Athens & Thebes
216 B.C. Battle of Cannae Hannibal wins a legendary/classic battle against the Romans
1377 Battle on the Pyana River Russians defeated by Mongols
1798 naval Battle of the Nile concludes in the early hours after Midnight
1861 Union abandons Ft Stanton, New Mexico Terr. to the advancing Confederates
1862 Battle of Orange Courthouse, Va
1865 CSS Shenandoah, raiding the Union whaling fleet in the north Pacific, learnes the Civil War is over. She stows her armament in the hold & sets sail for England to surrender.
1916 Austrian sabatours sink the Italian Battleship Leonardo Da Vinci @ Toranto
1943 PT109 rammed & sunk by IJN Destroyer Amagiri
1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident pt 1: USS Maddox exchanges fire with North Vietnamese PT boats.
 
Aug 3
8 Romans defeat Dalmatians on the river Bathinus
881 Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimea French defeat Vikings
1645 Battle of 2nd Nordlingen
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay:Union troops land on Dauphin Island on the west side of the mouth of Mobile Bay
1914 Germany declares War on France
1916 Battle of Romani
1940 Italians invade British Somililand
 
Aug 4
1265 Battle of Evesham
1578 Battle of Al Kasr al Kebir
1704 English/Dutch force captures Gilraltar
1790 Revenue Cutter Service formed, forerunner of the US Coast Guard
1824 Battle of Kos
1914 Germany invades Belgium, U.K. then declares War on Germany
1916 Liberia declares War on Germany
1964 Gulf of Tonkin Incident: Pt 2 USS Maddox & USS C. Turner Joy report being attacked & fire on what was probably radar ghosts.
 
Aug 5
642 Battle of Maserfield
910 Battle of Tettenhall Last major Danish Raid on England defeated.
1388 Battle of Otterburn
1716 Battle of Petrovaradin Austrians defeat Ottomans
1763 Battle of Bushy Run, Pa British defeat alliance of Delaware, Shawnee, Mingo & Huron Indians led by Pontiac
1781 naval Battle of the Dogger Bank
1862 Battle of Baton Rouge, La
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay: US Navy squadron runs past Ft. Morgan, losing USS Tecumseh to a torpedo, Adm. Farragut says Damn the torpedos & pushed on defeating CSS Tennessee in battle
1870 Battle of Spicheren
1914 German minelayer Konigin Luise sunk by Light Cruiser HMS Amphion after mining entrance to the Thames
1964 Operation Pierce Arrow: US airstrikes on N. Veitnam in retaliation for Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Aug 6
1284 Battle of Meloria
1862 CS ironclad CSS Arkansas suffers catastropthic failure of both engines as she approaces the US river fleet north of Baton Rouge. Ship's crew is landed & ship set on fire. Ship blows up after drifting through the US squadron
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay: Confederates evacuate & blow up Ft. Powell. Raider CSS Tallahassee slips out of Wilminton, N.C.
1870 Battle of Worth
1914 Serbia declares War on Germany & Austria declares War on Russia
1945 Hiroshima destroyed by Atomic bomb
 
Aug 7
322 B.C. Battle of Crannon Athens vs Macedonians
1427 naval battle on Po River, Venetains defeat Milanese
1714 naval Battle of Gangut/Rilax Russians defeat Swedes
1720 naval Battle of Grengram
1789 US War Dept. Est.
1819 Battle of Boyaca Bolivar defeats Spanish
1862 Union troops retake Ft. Fillmore, New Mexico Territory
1964 Battle of Mobile Bay: Commanding Officer of Ft. Gaines runs up white flag, but is ordered by Superior Officer @ Ft. Morgan to continue hostilities.
1942 US troops invade Guadalcanal & Tulagi.
 
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August 7 US Naval History
1782 - Badge of Military Merit (Purple Heart) established
1942 - Navy Amphibious Task Force lands Marines on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands in first U.S. land offensive of World War II
1964 - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by Congress
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