This day in military history..

July 18
390 B.C. Battle of Allia
1656 Battle of Warsaw
1861 Battle of 1st Manassas, opening actions
1863 Union troops assault Battery Wagner near Charleston, S.C. Attack is defeated with 1,515 casulties out of the 5,000 Union troops, Brig. Gen Strong is mortally wounded, Brig. Gen Seymour is wounded, as is 6 of 10 Regt Commanders & Col. Shaw of the 54th Mass is killed. 170 of 1,000 CS defenders are casulties. This battle is depicted @ the end of the movie "Glory".
1942 1st flight of Me-262 by jet engines only
1996 Battle of Mullaitivu
 
July 19th

1941: In a major change of operational plans, Hitler issues Directive No. 33 ordering the German 4.Armee (von Kluge) and Panzergruppe 2 (Guderian) of Heeresgruppe Mitte (von Bock) to suspend their attacks toward Moscow and join 6.Armee (von Reichenau) and Panzergruppe 1 (von Kleist) of Heeresgruppe S=FCd (von Rundstedt) with the objective of destroying the Soviet Fifth, Sixth and Twelfth Armies W of the Dnepr-Dnestr line. The idea behind this directive is to begin exploiting the great agricultural and mineral riches of the Ukraine for the German war effort just as soon as the Soviet forces in that region are defeated. Both Kluge and Guderian object, but are curtly overruled by Hitler.
1942: In the East, the two-pronged German advance toward the Don bend and to Stalingrad beyond (6. Armee and 4.Panzerarmee) and toward Rostov (1.Panzerarmee) continues in the face of stiffening Soviet resistance.
1943: In Sicily, the US Seventh Army (Patton) makes further progress toward Palermo, while the British Eighth Army (Montgomery) is held up before Catania by stubborn German resistance. The US 15th Air Force (270 aircraft) attacks marshalling yards on the outskirts of Rome. 1944: In the East, the Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front (Konev) encircles 5 German divisions W of Brody. In Italy, the US Fifth Army (Clark) captures Leghorn.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/july.html

711 – Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The final battle of the war.
1544 – Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel.
1940 – World War II: Twelve men were promoted Generalfeldmarschall by Adolf Hitler, see List of German Field Marshals.
1940 – World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
1940 – World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
1942 – World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – GermanGrand AdmiralKarl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United StatesAtlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_19

1944: Normandy France - Canadians and British start Operation Goodwood/Atlantic, to secure Vaucelles and Colombelles, and prepare the break through to Falaise. General Dempsey, commander British 2nd Army, launches his Eighth Corps of three armoured divisions south of Caen; attacked by 1st SS Panzer Division and forced to halt; 7th Armoured Division fails to capture Verrières and Bourguebus Ridges; the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division under Maj. Gen. Charles Foulkes comes into line to join the 3rd and 2nd Armoured Brigades of the 2nd Canadian Corps under Lt. Gen. Guy Simonds, who fight on the Eighth's right with infantry; ordered to cross the Orne River into the southeastern suburbs of Caen, force the enemy out of his entrenched positions there, and then forge southward into open country. Their tanks are neutralized by German anti-tank fire and the infantry are decimated as they advance; they gain Colombelles and the Queen's Own captures Giberville. The rest of the 8th Brigade passes south, and by nightfall the Canadian 3rd Infantry Division has taken Cormelles and the eastern part of Vaucelles; the southern part of Caen is cleared; the Black Watch cross the Orne River, and advance to St-Andre-sur-Orne and the northern edge of Verrières Ridge.
1950: Korea - UN asks RCAF transport squadron to assist in United Nations airlift in Korea.
Source: http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day?mth=Jul&day=19


1916: Battle of Fromelles - 5,533 Australians were killed or wounded in this battle, most on the night of 19-20 July. Fromelles was the first battle for the Australians on the Western Front.
1940: HMAS Sydney sinks the Bartolomeo Colleoni - HMAS Sydney sinks the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni in the battle of Cape Spada off Crete.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/jul.asp
 
July 19
1545 Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks in fighing with the French
1702 Battle of Klissow
1863 Battle of Buffington Island, Oh. J H Morgan's Raid ends with his command killed or captured
1864 3rd Battle of Nanking
1972 Battle of Mirbat
 
July 20
1304 English take Sterling Castle
1402 Battle of Ankara
1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek, Ga
1866 naval Battle of Lissa
1944 Hitler survives the Stauffenburg assasination attempt
1969 Honduras-El Salvador "Football War" ends
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
 
George said:
July 20
1304 English take Sterling Castle
1402 Battle of Ankara
1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek, Ga
1866 naval Battle of Lissa
1944 Hitler survives the Stauffenburg assasination attempt
1969 Honduras-El Salvador "Football War" ends
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
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1861 - First Battle of Bull Run
 
July 22
838 Battle of Anzen
1298 Battle of Falkirk
1456 Ottoman Siege of Belgrade broken
1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair
1499 Battle of Dornach
1797 naval Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
1805 naval Battle of Cape Finisterre
1812 Battle of Salamanca
1864 Battle of Atlanta
1943 Allies capture Palermo
 
July 23
1677 Norway captures Marstrand, Sweden
1793 Prussia retakes Mainz from France
1942 Germans begin Offensives Edelwiess & Braunschweig
1983 Sri Lankan Civil War starts
 
July 24
1132 Battle of Nocera
1148 Siege of Damascus begins
1411 Battle of Kerlaw
1861 Battle of Tyler Mountain, Va
1863 Near where Bismarck is today, a day long battle occured between Sioux & 4 Regts with an artillery battery
1864 2nd Battle of Kernstown, Va
 
July 25
1139 Battle of Ourique
1261 Niceans recapture Constantinople
1758 Remaning French ships @ the Louisbourg Fortress are destroyed or captured by the British
1759 English capture Ft. Niagra
1797 British attack on Tenerife fails
1799 Battle of Aboukir, Egypt
1814 Battle of Landy's Lane
1898 US invades Puerto Rico
1920 French capture Damascus
1993 Israel invades Lebanon
 
July 26
657 Battle of Siffin
811 Battle of Pliska
920 Battle of Pamplona
1469 Battle of Edgecote Moor
1758 Siege of the Louisbourg Fortress ends, French surrender
1822 Battle of Dervenakia begins
1863 Gen. J H Morgan & the remnants of his Command that escaped capture @ Buffington Island are captured @ Salineville, Oh
1937 Battle of Brunete ends
1944 Soviets liberate Lviv. 1st V-2 strike on England.
1953 Cuban Revolution begins
 
July 27
1054 Siwand of Northumbria defeats MacBeth north of the Firth of Forth
1214 Battle of Bovines
1302 Battle of Bapheus
1689 Battle of Killiecrankie ends
1720 naval Battle of Grengam
1778 1st naval Battle of Ushant
1863 Sioux & Union troops battle near Stony Lake, Dakota Territory
1865 Battle of Platte Bridge Station. The Post sends 20 of its 97 men out to escort in a 5 wagon train escorted by 25 troops that is in bound. When the 20 man escort is only a 1/2 mile from the post, 3,000 Sioux, Cheyanne & Arapahoe attack. 5 of the 20 sent out from the Post are killed & the rest wounded fighting their way back to the Post, the 5 wagon drivers & the 25 man escort, further away, are wiped out.
1880 Battle of Maiwand
1941 Japan occupies French Indo-China
1953 Korean War ends
 
July 28
1364 Battle of Cascina
1809 Battle of Talavera
1864 Battle of Ezra Church, Ga. In the Dakota Territory a small Union Brigade has to form in squares to keep from being overwhelmed by Sioux.
1914 Austria-Hungary declares War on Serbia, starting WWI
1935 1st flight B-17
1943 British create a firestorm in Hamburg
1945 B-25 crashes into the Empire State Building
 
July 29
904 Moslem sack Thessalonica begins
1014 Battle of Kleidon
1030 Battle of Stiklestad
1588 naval Battle of Gravelines, English defeat the Spanish Armada
1693 Battle of Landen
1862 Steamer #290 sails from Liverpool, @ sea she'll be converted to be CSS Alabama
1967 USS Forrestal catches fire off N. Vietnam
 
July 30
1656 Battle of Warsaw
1864 CS cavalry burn Chambersburg, Pa. The Battle of the Crater. Gen. Meade cancells the use of US Colored Troops who had been trained to spearhead the attack around the crater at the last minute. White troops untrained in how to make the attack charge into the crater & are slaughtered.
1916 Black Tom Island munitions explosion. German sabatuers detonate 2 million lbs of muntions, including 100,000 lbs of TNT, on the island in New York Harbor. The explosion was felt in Baltimore, Md.
1945 I-85 sinks USS Indianapolis. 883 crew dies from the sinking & drifting @ sea when no one noticed that the Crusier was missing at sea.
 
July 31
30 B.C. Battle of Alexandria
1423 Battle of Cravant
1655 Russians capture Vilnius
1862 Confederates slip 43 guns into position & open fire upon well lit US warships & a Union Army Camp on the James River. Despite complete surprise little damage or casualties are inflicted.
 
August 1
902 Arabs capture Taormina, Sicily
1664 Battle of Saint Gotthard
1759 Battle of Minden
1798 naval Battle of the Nile
1801 USS Enterprise captures Tripolitan warship
1894 1st Sino-Japanese War begins
1927 Battle of Nanchang, the Chinese Civil War begins
1944 Warsaw Uprising begins
 
George said:
August 1
902 Arabs capture Taormina, Sicily
1664 Battle of Saint Gotthard
1759 Battle of Minden
1798 naval Battle of the Nile
1801 USS Enterprise captures Tripolitan warship
1894 1st Sino-Japanese War begins
1927 Battle of Nanchang, the Chinese Civil War begins
1944 Warsaw Uprising begins
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Sad sad situation. Thousands of Poles died b/c they had no support from Russia, who, as far as I understand, did not allow the British to support them.
 
1776 said:
Sad sad situation. Thousands of Poles died b/c they had no support from Russia, who, as far as I understand, did not allow the British to support them.
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Stalin knew the leaders were not only anti-German but anti-Russian/Communist, so let the Germans solve the "problem".

Aug. 2
338 B.C. Battle of Cheronea Alexander defeats the Greek City-States
216 B.C. Battle of Cannae Classic battle
1377 Battle of Pyana River
1865 CSS Shenendoah, who has been systematicly destroying the US whaling fleet in the north Pacific since June, learns that the Civil War is over from a British ship. She stows her guns & sets sail for England to surrender, becoming the only CSN ship to circumnavigate the world.
1897 Siege of Malakand ends
1916 Austrian sabotuers sink the Italian Battleship Leonardo Da Vinci
1943 Japanese Destroyer Amagiri rams & sinks PT-109, Captained by John F Kennedy
1965 Tonkin Gulf Incident Destroyer USS Maddox engages 3 N. Vietnamese PT boats
1990 Iraq invades Kuwait, starting the Gulf War.
 
Aug 3
8 Battle of Bathinius
881 Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu
1601 Battle of Guroslav
1645 Battle of Nordlingen
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay: Union troops land on Dauphin Island to prepare the siege of Ft. Gaines, on the west side of the entrance to Mobile Bay.
1914 Germany declares War on France
1940 Italy invades British Somaliland
 
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