This day in military history..

September 14 US Naval History
1899 - Gunboat Concord and monitor Monterey capture two insurgent schooners at Aparri, Philippine Islands
1939 - Atlantic Squadron Neutrality Patrol ships deploy
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Sept 15
994 Battle of Orontes
1762 Battle of Signal Hill, St. Johns. Newfoundland
1862 Sharpsburg Campaign: 12,000 Union troops surrender @ Harper's Ferry, Va. Largest surrender untill Bataan.
1894 1st Sino-Japanese War Battle of Pyongyang
1916 Battle of the Somme: 1st use of Tanks
1942 USS Wasp torpedoed & sunk by Japanese sub I-19
1950 US troops land @ Inchon, S.K.
 
September 16
1854 - CDR David G. Farragut takes possession of Mare Island, the first U.S. Navy Yard on the Pacific.
1917 - Navy Department authorizes establishment of 16 Naval air stations abroad
1922 - Commander Halsey Powell in USS Edsall became the senior officer directing the evacuation of 250,000 Greek refugees from Turkey after war between Greece and Turkey.
1940 - President Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act, the first peacetime draft.
1958 - USS Grayback fires first operational launch of Regulus II surface to surface guided missile off CA coast; Missile carries first U.S. mail sent by guided missile.*
1966 - USS Oriskany helicopters rescue 44-men crew of British merchant ship August Moon near Hong Kong


*Anybody know where it was delievered?
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Sept 16
1776 Battle of Harlem Heights, N.Y.
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg begins
1864 Petersburg Campaign: Wade Hampton's Cavalry returns from the Cattle Raid with 2400 captured head of cattle.
 
Sept 17
480 B.C. (Apx, actual date uncertain) Battle of Thermopyle. Naval Battle of Artisium
1176 Battle of Myriokephalon
1462 Battle of Zarnowiec
1631 Battle of Brietenfeld
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg, Md. Siege of Munsfordsville, KY ends with surrender of Union garrison.
1894 1st Sino-Japanese War: Naval Battle of the Yalu
1939 USSR invades Poland. U-29 sinks Carrier HMS Courageous
1944 Operation Market-Garden begins
 
September 17 US Naval Histry
1861 - Union landing party from USS Massachusetts takes possession of Ship Island south of New Orleans, LA. This was the headquarters for ADM David Farragut's Gulf Coast Blockading Squadron.
1944 - Navy Task Force lands Army troops on Angaur, Palau Islands supported by Navy carrier aircraft and shore bombardment
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Sept 18
324 Battle of Chrysopolis
1454 Battle of Chojnice
1759 British capture Quebec
1861 Siege of Lexington, Mo: Confederates begin final push to capture town.
1947 US Air Force becomes an independent branch of the military.
 
Sept 19
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1777 1st Battle of Saratoga, NY
1861 Siege of Lexington: A Union steamer sent with ammo & other supplys to the Lexington garrison is intercepted & captured.
1862 Battle of Iuka, Miss.
1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Ga. 1st day
1864 Battle of Opequon Creek, Va
1870 Siege of Paris begins
1944 Finland & the USSR sign armistice ending the Continuation War
 
Sept 20
451 Battle of Chalons
1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem
1854 Battle of Alma, in The Crimea
1857 Supoy Mutiny ends with recapture of Delhi
1861 Siege of Lexington, Mo ends with surrender of Union garrison
1863 Battle of Chickamauga, 2nd day. Confederates win smashing victory
 
September 20 US Naval History
1911 - Navigational instruments first requested for naval aircraft.
1951 - In Operation Summit, the first combat helicopter landing in history, U.S. Marines were landed in Korea.
1981 - USS Mount Hood and Navy helicopters rescue 18 crew members of Philippine Navy frigate, Datu Kalantiaw
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September 21 US Naval History
1858 - Sloop Niagara departs Charleston, SC, for Liberia with African slaves rescued from slave ship.
1923 - Asiatic Fleet completes mission of aiding earthquake victims in Japan.
1939 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to repeal the arms embargo provision of the Neutrality Act.
1944 - Aircraft from 12 carriers commence 2-day attack against Japanese ships and airfields on Luzon, Philippine Islands.
1984 - Mid East Force begins escort of U.S. flagged vessels in Persian Gulf.
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Sept 21
1217 Battle of St. Matthew's Day
1745 Battle of Prestonpans
1860 2nd Opium War: Battle of Baliqiao
1862 Battle of Blackford's Ford, Va
1942 1st flight B-29
1961 1st flight CH-47
1964 1st flight XB-70
 
September 22 US Naval History
1776 - John Paul Jones in Providence sails into Canso Bay, Nova Scotia, and attacks British fishing fleet.
1943 - U.S. destroyers and landing craft land Australian troops at Finschhafen, New Guinea.
1989 - After Hurricane Hugo, Sailors and Marines provide assistance to Charleston, SC, through 10 October.
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Sept 22
1236 Battle of Saule
1586 Battle of Zutphen
1789 Battle of Rymnik
1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Va
1866 Battle of Curopaity
1937 Battle of Mazuco, Spain
1980 Iraq invades Iran
1995 E-3B crashes @ Elmendorf AFB Alaska, killing 24 crewmembers
 
September 23 US Naval History
1779 - Captain John Paul Jones in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard captures HMS Serapis.
1931 - LT Alfred Pride pilots Navy's first rotary wing aircraft, XOP-1 autogiro, in landings and takeoffs on board USS Langley while underway.
1944 - Naval Task Group lands Army troops on Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands
1944 - USS West Virginia (BB-48) reaches Pearl Harbor and rejoins the Pacific Fleet, marking the end of the salvage and reconstruction of 18 ships damaged at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
1947 - James Forrestal, former SECNAV, takes office as first Secretary of Defense
1990 - Two Hospital ships (USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort) steam together for first time in Arabian Gulf
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Sept 23
1409 Battle of Kherlin Mongols defeat Chinese
1459 Battle of Blore Heath
1803 Battle of Assaye
1857 Russian Ship of the Line Lefort lost in a storm in Gulf of Finland with all 826 Aboard
1943 Mussolini announces the Salo Republic in northern Italy
 
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