This day in military history..

Oct 3
52 B.C. Battle of Alesia
42 B.C. 1st Battle of Philippi
1574 Siege of Leiden lifted
1861 Battle of Greenbriar, Va
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss begins
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1942 1st flight V-2 rocket
1950 Battle of Maryang San
1993 Battle of Mogadishu
 
Oct 6
105 B.C. Battle of Arausio
69 B.C. Battle of Tigranocerta
68 B.C. Battle of Artaxata
1762 Battle of Manila ends
1777 Battles of Ft. Clinton & Ft. Montgomery
1973 Yom Kippur War starts
1977 1st flight Mig-29
 
Oct 7
1513 Battle of La Motta
1571 naval Battle of Lepanto
1777 2nd Battle of saratoga
1780 Battle of Kings Mountain
1864 USS Wachusett illegally captures CSS Florida in Bahia Harbor, Brazil in violation of Brazil's neutrality
1942 Guadalcanal Campaign: 3rd Battle of Matanikau
 
Oct 8
314 Battle of Cibalae
1573 Siege of Alkmaar lifted
1806 British bombard Bolougne with rockets
1821 Peruvian Navy est.
1862 Battle of Perryville, Ky
1879 naval Battle of Angamos
1932 Indian Air Force est.
1941 Germans capture Mariapol
1944 Battle of Crucifix Hill
1968 Vietnam: Operation Sea Lords begins
 
Oct 9
1264 Castile liberates Jerez
1595 Spanish capture Camgrai
1708 Battle of Lesnaya
1760 Russians occupy Berlin
1779 Wreck of HMS Lutine
1812 US captures HMS Detroit & Caledonia on Lake Erie
1854 Siege of Sebastopol begins
1861 Battle of Santa Rosa Island, Fla.
1864 Battle of Tom's Brook, Va
1914 Siege of Antwerp ends
1942 Guadancanal: 3rd Battle of Matanikau ends
 
Oct 12
539 B.C. Persians capture Babylon
1861 naval engagement @ Head-of-Passes, La.
1917 1st Battle of Passchendaele
1942 naval Battle of Cape Esparance ends
1944 Athens liberated
2000 USS Cole damaged by Terrorist boat bomb.
 
13th October 1955 I was marching into the Barracks for my first day in the Army, well being a conscript I should say being dragged in under protest
 
Oct 14
1066 Battle of Hastings
1322 Battle of Byland
1758 Battle of Hochkirk
1805 Battle of Elchingen
1806 Battle of Jena-Auerstadt
1863 Battle of Bristoe Station
1938 1st flight P-40
1939 U-47 sinks HMS Royal Oak @ Scapa Flow
1952 Operation Showdown begins
1960 U-2 photos start the Cuban Missle Crisis
 
Oct 15
1529 Siege of Vienna ends
1863 Submarine Hunley sinks killing H L Hunley & the crew during a test
1864 Confederates capture Sedalia & Glasgow, Mo
1904 Russian Baltic Fleet sails for Vladivostok.
 
Oct 17
1346 Battle of Neville's Cross
1448 2nd Battle of Kosovo
1777 Gen. Burgoyne surrenders his Army @ Saratoga
1800 British capture Curacao
1943 Burma Railroad finished. "Bridge on the River Kwai"
 
Oct 19
202 B.C. Battle of Zuma
439 Vandals capture Carthage
1781 Siege of Yorktown ends, Gen. Cornwallis surrenders his Army
1805 Battle of Ulm
1812 Napoleon retreats from Moscow
1813 Battle of Leipzig ends
1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Va. St. Albans Raid: Confederates from Canada rob banks in St. Albans, Vt. Northern most land action of the Civil War.
1914 1st Battle of Ypres
1950 Red China enters the Korean War
 
Oct 21
1097 Siege of Antioch begins
1600 Battle of Sekigahara
1797 Frigate USS Constitution launched
1805 Battle of Trafalgar
1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff
1895 Japan invades Formosa
1912 Bulgarians liberate Kardzhali
1944 Battle of Aachen ends
1950 Battle of Yongju begins
 
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