This day in military history..

Sept 13
533 Battle of Ad Decium
1213 Battle of Muret ends
1759 Battle of Quebec
1808 Battle of Jutas
1847 Mexican-American War: Battle of Molino Del Rey, Battle of Chapultepec ends
1882 Battle of Tel el-Kibir
1900 Battle of Pulang Lupa
1914 South Africa invades German South West Africa
 
Sept 15
934 Battle of Orontes
1762 Battle of Signal Hill
1861 Battle of Pritchard's Mill, Va
1862 Confederates capture Harper's Ferry, Va
1894 Battle of Pyong Yang
1916 Battle of the Somme: 1st use of Tanks on this day.
1942 I-19 sinks USS Wasp, inflicts fatal damage to USS O'Brien & damages USS North Carolina.
1944 US invades Peliliu
1950 Inchon landing
 
Sept 17
1176 Battle of Myriokephalon
1462 Battle of Swiecino
1631 Battle of Breitenfeld
1775 Siege of Ft. St. Jean begins
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg ends
1894 Battle of the Yellow Sea
1900 Battle of Mabitac
1939 Soviet Union invades Poland. U-29 sinks HMS Courageous
1943 Soviets retake Bryansk
1944 Operation Market-Garden begins
 
Sept 18
324 Battle of Chrysopolis
1454 Battle of Chojnice
1759 British capture Quebec
1944 Sub HMS Tradewind sinks Junyo Maru, loaded with 1377 Dutch, 64 British/Australian & 8 US POWs, plus 4200 Javanese laborors & crew. 5620 die in the worse sea disaster in history up to that time.
1947 US Air Force est as a seperate Service.
 
Sept 19
1356 Battle of Poitiers
1777 1st Battle of Saratoga
1799 Battle of Bergen
1862 Battle of Iuka
1863 Battle of Chicamauga begins
1864 ?#? Battle of Winchester
1939 Battle of Kepa Oksywska ends
1944 Battle of the Huertgen Forest begins
 
Sept 20
1187 Siege of Jerusalem begins
1792 Battle of Valmy
1854 battle of Alma
1857 Supoy Mutiny ends when the British recaptures Delhi
1861 Siege of Lexington, Mo ends when the Union garrison surrenders
1863 Battle of Chicamauga ends
 
Sept 21
1217 Battle of St. Matthew's Day
1745 Battle of Prestopans
1860 Battle of Palikao
1862 Battle of Blackford's Ford
1896 British capture Dongola
1942 1st flight B-29
1961 1st flight CH-47
1964 1st flight B-70
 
Sept 26
715 Battle of Compiegne
1777 British occupy Phillidelphia
1917 Battle of Polygon Wood
1918 The Meuse-Argonne Offensive begins
1950 UN troops recapture Seoul
 
Sept 27
489 Battle of Verona
1331 Battle of Plowce
1529 Siege of Vienna begins
1605 Battle of Kircholm
1669 Siege of Candia ends. World's longest siege 1648-1669
1864 Battle of Ft. Davidson, Mo. Centralia, Mo Raid
1941 1st Liberty Ship launched
1942 Guadalcanal Campaigne: Battle of Matanikau River ends
1996 Taliban capture Kabul
 
Sept 28
351 Battle of Mursa Major
1106 Battle of Tinchebrai
1238 Aragon captures Valencia
1322 Battle of Muhldorf
1538 naval Battle of Preveza
1781 Siege of Yorktown begins
1918 5th Battle of Ypres begins
1939 Warsaw surrenders
 
Sept 29
480 B.C. naval Battle of Salamis
1364 Battle of Auray
1848 Battle of Pakozd
1864 Siege of Petersburg: Battle of Chaffin's Farm
1918 Battle of St. Quentin Canal. Bulgaria signs armistice with Allies
1932 Battle of Boqueron
1943 Italy signs armistice with Allies
1990 1st flight YF-22
 
Sept 30
1744 Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo
1813 Battle of Barbula
1862 Battle of Newtonia, Mo
1864 Siege of Petersburg:Battle of Peeble's Farm
1954 USS Nautilus, 1st Nuclear powered sub, Commissioned
1975 1st flight AH-64
 
Oct 1
331 B.C. Battle of Gaugamela
1787 Battle of Kinburn
1795 France occupies Belgium
1827 Russia captures Yerevan
1918 Arabs capture Damascus
1942 1st flight XP-59
1943 Allies capture Naples
1947 1st flight F-86
 
Oct 2
1187 Siege of Jerusalem ends with Saladin capturing the city
1263 Battle of Largs
1814 Battle of Rancagua
1835 Battle of Gonzales, Tx
1941 Germans begin Operation Typhoon
1944 Warsaw Uprising ends
 
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