This day in military history..

Dec 30
1460 Battle of Wakefield
1862 Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs ends after the last Union attack fails
1863 Union captures Ft. Esperanza @ the mouth of Matagorda Bay, Texas
 
Dec 31
406 Germanic tribes invade Gaul
535 Byzentines take Syracuse, securing control of Sicily
1229 Aragon takes Majorca from the Moors
1775 Battle of Quebec. American attack fails & Gen. Richard Montomery is killed in the attempt.
1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tn begins. USS Monitor sinks in a storm off Cape Hatteras, N.C.
 
Jan 1
1781 1500 men of the 6th Pennsylavia Regt stage a Mutiny
1862 Bombardment begins between the Union held Ft Pickens vs CS held Ft Barrancas & the Pensacola Navy Yard
1916 Germans abandon thier Kamerun colony & invade neighboring African colonys.
1959 Castro overthrows Batista
1962 US Navy SEALS established
 
Jan 2
366 Alummani invade Gaul
1492 Moors surrender Grenada,thier last stronghold in Spain.
1777 Battle of Assunpink Creek, near Trenton, NJ
1862 The Bombardment between US & CS batteries near Pensacola dies out before Sun up.
1863 Battle of Murfreesboro 3rd & last day
1905 Russians surrender Port Arthur to Japan
1942 Japanese capture Manila
 
Jan 4
46 B.C. Battle of Ruspina
871 Battle of Reading
1951 N. Korean & Chinese troops capture Seoul, S.K.
1989 2nd Gulf of Sidra Incident: 2 F-14s shot down 2 Libyan Mig-23s
 
Jan 5
1477 Battle of Nancy
1675 Battle of Colmar
1781 British troops led by Benidict Arnold burn Richmond, Va.
1782 French besiege british on St. Kitts
1913 naval Battle of Lemnos
1991 South Ossetia War starts
 
Jan 6
1781 Battle of Jersey
1900 2nd Boer War: Siege of Ladysmith: Boer attack on British defenders is repulsed.
1910 Great White Fleet passes through the Suez Canal.
1921 Iraqi Army formed
1967 Vietnam: Operation Deckhouse V begins
 
Jan 7
1558 France takes Calais, England's last Continintal possesion
1863 Confederates attack Springfield, Mo
1942 Siege of Bataan begins
1979 Vietnamese capture Phnom Pehn from the Khmer Rouge
 
Jan 8
871 Battle of Ashdown
1815 Battle of New Orleans
1863 Battle of Springfield, Mo. 2nd & last day, Confederate attackers give up attack
1877 Battle of Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory. Crazy Horses's last fight
 
Jan 9
1760 Battle of Barari Ghat
1861 South Carolina troops fire on Union civilian steamer "Queen of the West" as it attempts to bring supplys to Ft. Sumter.
1863 Battle of Arkansas Post begins
1916 Gallipoli campaign ends
1917 Battle of Rafa
1918 Battle of Bear Valley, Ca. Last battle of the Indian Wars
1921 1st Battle of Inonu
1941 1st flight of AVRO Lancaster. Greek "Triton" sinks Italian sub "Meghelli" @ Otranto
1945 US troops land on Luzon
 
Jan 10
49 B.C. Julius Ceasar crosses the Rubicon & starts the Roman Civil War
1475 Battle of Vaslui Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottomans
1806 British capture Cape Town
1862 Battle of Middle Creek, Ky
1864 USS Iron Age runs aground @ Folly Inlet, S.C. & is destroyed by CS shore batteries
1916 Russian Erzerum Offensive against the Ottomans begins
1923 Lithuania annexes Memel
1941 Greeks capture Kleisoura. Japan invades the Dutch East Indies
 
Jan 11
1863 Battle of Arkansas Post ends with Union troops capturing Ft. Hindman. CSS Alabama sinks USS Hatteras off Galveston, Tx
1942 Japanese capture Kuala Lumur.
 
Nov 13
1797 naval battle off Brittany between 2 R.N. Frigates & a French Ship-of-the-Line results in the French ship being driven ashore with the loss of 900.
1815 British capture Ft. Peter @ St. Mary, Ga. Only battle in Ga during War of 1812
1863 Ft. Hindman destroyed & abandoned by Union troops
1865 Union troops land near Ft. Fisher, N.C. & Federal fleet begins bombardment of the Fort.
1951 Battle of Vihn Yen, Vietnam
 
Jan 14
1761 3rd Battle of Punipat
1863 Fighting along Bayou Tech, La results in little gain for the Union, except CSS Cotton is burned to prevent capture
1865 Federal fleet bombards Ft. Fisher all day
1943 Japanese begin evacuating Guadalcanal
1950 1st flight Mig-17
 
Jan 15
588 B.C. Nebuchadnezzer II begins siege of Jerusalem. Ends July 23, 286 B.C.
1815 USS President captured by 4 R.N. Frigates
1865 Ft. Fisher falls to Union troops aided by US Marines & sailors
1943 Soviet counterattack begins @ Voronezh
1949 Red Chinese capture Tianjin from Nationalists
1970 Biafra surrenders to Nigerian forces
 
Jan 16
550 Ostrogoths take Rome
1761 British capture Pondicherry, India from the French
1780 naval Battle of Cape St. Vincent(not the more famous one during the Napolionic Wars)
1809 Battle of La Coruna
1863 CSS Florida sorties from Mobile, Ala.
1865 2 drunk US Navy sailors detonate a magazine with a torch @ Ft Fisher, inflicting heavy casulties on the 169th New York, whose men were sleeping above the magazine.
1878 Battle of Philippopolis
 
Jan 17
1287 Aragon invades Minorca
1595 France Declares War on Spain
1608 Battle of Ebenat, Ethiopia
1781 Battle of Cowpens, S.C.
1811 Battle of Calderon Bridge, Mexico
1873 1st Battle of the stronghold, Ca Modocs defeat US troops
1885 Battle of Abu Klez, Sudan
1899 US claims Wake Island
1941 Franco-Siamese War: naval Battle of Koh Chang French squadron wipes out Siamese squardron
1945 Soviets capture Warsaw
1991 Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins. Coaltion air strikes on Iraqi forces, Iraq fires Scud missles.
 
Jan 18
1520 Battle of Lake Asunden
1911 Lt. Ely lands on the deck of USS Pennsylvania, 1st landing on a ship
1913 naval Battle of Lemnos
1941 British launch counterattack in Italian East Africa
1944 Siege of Leningrad ends
1955 Battle of Yijiangshan Island
 
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