This day in military history..

July 4
1187 Battle of Hattin
1253 Battle of West-Capelle
1456 Siege of Belgrade begins
1610 Battle of Klushino
1754 Geo. Washington surrenders/evacuates Ft. Necessity, French occupy & then destroy the Fort.
1802 US Military Academy opens
1863 2nd Siege of Vicksburg ends. Battle of Helena, Ark.
1940 Anti-Aircraft ship HMS Foylebank sunk by Ju-87s @ Portland. French Sloop Rigault de Genouilly sunk by sub HMS Pandora off Algeria
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Akranes bombed/sunk off Brtidlington. French Aux Cruiser St. Didier sunk by RAF off Turkish coast while disguised as Turkish merchant ship.
1942 IJN Destroyer Nenohi sunk by sub USS Triton s.e. of Attu
1944 IJN sub I-10 sunk by USS Davis W Taylor & Riddle. US sub S-28 failed to surface after training off Pearl Harbor
1945 Brazilian Crusier Bahia sunk during gunnery exercise when one of her own 20mm mounts fires into depth carges on her stern.
 
July 5
1316 Battle of Manolada
1770 naval Battle of Chesma
1809 Battle of Wagram begins
1814 USS Peacock captures 4 British ships. Battle of Chippawa
1833 3rd Battle of Cape St. Vincent
1861 Battle of Carthage, Mo
1940 Italian troopship Liguria & Destroyer Zeffiro torpedoed by Swordfish from HMS Eagle off Tobruk, Zoffiro sunk & Liguria beached. Sub HMS Shark bombed by Do-17s off Egerssund, Norway & is surrendered, taken under tow by KM Minesweepers but sinks next day. Destroyer HMS Whirlwind sunk by U-34
1941 Troopship Anseln sunk by U-96. R.N. Trawler Snaefell bombed/sunk in North Sea. Italian sub Jantina sunk by HMS Torbay off Milos & sub Michele Bianchi sunk by sub HMS Tigris in the Bay of Biscay. Soviet Patrol Boat M)-209 sunk by mine off Gogland
1942 IJN Destroyer Arare sunk by USS Growler east of Kiska, Ak & Destroyer Nenohi sunk by USS Triton off Agattu
1943 Destroyer USS Strong sunk by Destroyer Niizuki off Guadalcanal
1944 U-233 brought to surface by depth charges from USS Baker & rammed/sunk by USS Thomas. IJN Destroyer Usugumo sunk by USS Skate in Sea of Okhotsk
 
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July 6
371 B.C. Battle of Leuctra
1495 Battle of Fornovo
1630 Sweden invades Pomerania
1777 Siege of Ft. Ticonderoga ends
1779 naval Battle of Granada
1801 1st naval Battle of Algeciras
1809 Battle of Wagram ends
1898 USS Dixie captures 3 Spanish ships
1917 Arabs capture Aqaba
1940 Swordfish from HMS Eagle raid Mers el Kebir torpedoing & blowing up depth charges on Patrol Boat Terre Neuve, tied up along side Battleship Dunkerque, sinking her & Dunkerque, damaged previously plus a torpedo hit on this date, plus Minesweeper Estrele V sunk by torpedo.
1941 Battle of Smolensk begins. Italian Gunboat De Lutti sunk by HMS Triumph off Benghazi. Soviet sub Shch-206 sunk off Shabler Cape, & Minesweeper T-216 sunk off Saaremaa, Estonia
1942 IJN Destroyer Tender Shinsho Maru sunk by USS Thresher
1943 Battle of Kula Gulf: IJN Destroyer Nagutsuki damaged/beached & Destroyer Niizuki sunk, USS Helena sunk
1944 IJN Destroyer Hokaze sunk by sub USS Paddle. Frigate HMS Trollope torpedoed by E Boat, not repaired.
1947 AK-47 goes into production
 
July 7
1543 France invades Luxembourg
1575 Riad of the Rederwire
1770 Battle of Larga
1798 US-French Quasi War begins, USS Delaware captures French Privateer Croyable
1846 US troops occupy Monterey & Yerba Buena, Ca.
1915 1st Battle of Isonzo ends
1937 Battle of Lugou Bridge begins
1941 US troops replace British troops occupying Iceland. Beirut is occupied by British & Free French troops. R.N. Trawler Lord St. Vincent sunk by mine in Thames Estuary. Soviet Minesweeper Petrozavodsk sunk by mine off Kronstadt
1942 R.N. Fleet Oiler Aldersdale is sunk by U-457 after being bombed & abandoned on the 5th.
1943 IJN Destroyer Nagatsuki, damaged & beached the night before during the Battle of Kula Gulf, is destroyed by US aircraft.
1944 IJN Destroyer Tamanami is sunk by USS Mingo s.w. of Manila
1945 R.N. Trawler HMS Nantaise sunk in collision with SS Helen Crest near the Goodwin Lightship off Kent
 
June 8
1283 naval Battle of Malta
1716 naval Battle of Dynekelin
1758 Battle of Ft. Carillon
1760 naval Battle of Restigouche ends
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Cayton Wyke sunk by E Boat S-36. Destroyer HMS Escort torpedoed by Italian sub Guglielmo Marconi east of Gibraltar, sinks on the 11th. French Sloop Siuppe bombed/beached @ Falmouth
1945 US Minesweeper YMS-84 sunk by mine off Balikipapan
 
July 9
491 Battle of Ravenna
1386 Battle of Sempach
1701 Battle of Capri
1745 Battle of Melle
1755 Battle of the Monongahela
1790 2nd naval Battle of Svensksund begins
1846 US sailors & Marines occupy San Francisco
1863 Siege of Port Hudson ends
1864 Battle of Monocacy
1940 Sub HMS Salmon sunk by mine off Egersund, Norway
1941 KM Minelayers Preuben, Tannenberg & Hansestadt Danzig are sunk by mines east of Oland, Sweden. Sub Chaser UJ-1110 sunk by mine in the Norwegian Sea. Soviet Minesweeper Nalim sunk off Guba Zapadnaya
1942 R.N. Trawler HMS Manor sunk by E Boat S-67 off Devon
1943 Allies invade Sicily
1944 British & Canadians capture Caen. Battle of Tali-Lhantala ends. Minesweeper USS Swerve sunk by mine off Anzio
 
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July 10
48 B.C. Battle of Dyrrachium
1460 Battle of Northampton
1645 Battle of Langport
1882 Battle of La Concepcion ends
1911 Royal Australian Navy Est.
1940 Armed Mercant Cruiser HMS Corfu damaged in collision with HMS Hermes, repaired & returns to service in 1941. Italian Destroyer Leone Pancaldo sunk by Swordfish from HMS Eagle off Augusta, Sicily, raised, repaired & returned to service
1943 Destroyer USS Maddox & LST-313 bombed/sunk off Gela, Sicily & Minesweeper USS Sentinal bombed/sunk off Licata, Sicily.
1945 Carrier attacks begin on Japan. R.N. Trawler HMS Kurd sunk by mine off The Lizard with all hands. US Subchaser SC-521 founders in the Santa Cruz Islands.
 
July 11
1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs
1798 USMC reestablished(Continental Marines disbanded @ end of Am. Revolution)
1861 Battle of Rich Mountain, Va & Battle of Laurel Mountain, Va
1864 Battle of Ft. Stevens, Washington, D.C.
1882 R.N. bombards Alexandria
1921 Red Army captures Mongolia from the White Army
1940 Anti-submarine Yacht HMS Warrior bombed/sunk off Portland
1941 Destroyer HMS Defender damaged by Ju-88s off Sidi Barrani & scuttled
1943 US LST-158 bombed/sunk off Licata, Sicily
 
July 12
1191 Siege of Acre ends
1690 Battle of the Boyne
1691 Battle of Aughrim
1801 2nd naval Battle of Algecirus
1812 US invades Canada @ Windsor
1913 Siege of Vidin begins
1918 IJN Battleship Kawachi blows up @ Shunan, Honshu
1941 Soviet Patrol Ships Passat & RT 67 sunk by KM Destroyers off Cape Teribirski
1943 U-607 sunk by an R.A.F. Sunderland
 
July 13
1260 Battle of Durbe
1558 Battle of Gravelines
1573 Siege of Haarlem ends
1643 Battle of Roundway Downs
1794 Battle of the Vosges
1854 Battle of Guaymas, Mx
1863 USS Wyoming engages Japanese shore batteries
1942 Free French Sub Chaser Rennes bombed/sunk
1943 naval Battle of Kolombangara: Desytoyer USS Gwin & IJN Light Cruiser Jintsu sunk. U-487 sunk in the Atlantic by aircraft from USS Core
 
July 14
1813 Lt. John Gamble becomes the 1st US Marine to command a ship in battle. He commanded Prize Vessel Greenwich & assisted in capture of British Whaler Seringapatam
1864 Battle of Tupelo
1882 US Marines & sailors from 4 US ships land to restore order in Alexandria, Egypt
1900 Allies capture Tientsin
1916 Battle of Delville Wood begins
1941 Troopship Georgic bombed/beached in Gulf of Suez, refloated in Nov. Repaired & returned to service in 1945
1943 U-160 sunk by aircraft from USS Santee south of the Azores
1944 IJN sub I-6 sunk by USS Gilmer & William C Miller
1945 US ships bombard Kanashi, Japan. 1st bombardment of Home Islands in WWII
1950 Battle of Taejon begins
 
July 15
1099 Siege of Jerusalem ends
1240 Battle of the Neva
1410 Battle of Grunwald
1862 Ironclad CSS Arkansas battles past USS Queen of the West, Carondelet & Tyler on the Yazoo River & then steams through Farragut's Squadron, cought with steam down, on the Mississippi to Vicksburg.
1918 2nd Battle of the Marne begins
1941 Ocean Boarding Vessel HMS Lady Somers sunk by Italian sub Morosini in the Atlantic. Landing Ship HMS Prince Phillipe sunk in collision with SS Empire Wave off west coast of Scotland. Italian Patrol Vessel Nettano sunk sunk by HMS Unbeaten & Vincenzio Padre by HMS Taku
1942 Italian sub Pietro Calvi rammed by HMS Lulworth, scuttled by crew in the Med off Morocco. Soviet sub Shch-317 sunk by Finnish Minelayer Ruotsinsalmi & Patrol Vessel VMV 19.
1943 U-509 sunk by aircrafr fron USS Santee
1944 Soviet Torpedo Boat TKA-239 sunk attacking German convoy off Vardo, Finland
1945 I-351 sunk by USS Blackfin in South China Sea.
1966 Vietnam: Operation Hastings begins
 
July 16
1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
1779 Battle of Stony Point
1940 Destroyer HMS Imogen rammed/sunk by HMS Glasgow. Sub HMS Phoenix sunk by Italian Torpedo Boat Albatros
1941 R.N. Motor Gun Boats MGB 90 & 92 burn @ Portland
1943 U-67 sunk by aircraft from USS Core. Algiers Port Disaster: Norweigan cargo ship Bjorkhaug is destroyed when her cargo of landmines detonate, British cargo ship Fort Confidence is beached & burns out. Apx 1,000 killed in the disaster
1945 Destroyer-Minelayer USS Gamble, damaged in an air attack on 2/18/44 off Iwo Jima, is scuttled off Guam (or Saipan). I-13 sunk by USS Lawrence C Taylor.
 
July 17
1203 Crusaders capture Constantinople
1453 Battle of Castillion
1898 Santiago de Cuba surrenders
1927 USMC performs 1st combat dive bombing @ Ocotal, Nicaragua
1936 Spanish Civil War starts
1940 R.N. Tug Steady sunk by mine of Newhaven
1941 R.N. Trawler HMS Fertile Vale sunk in a collision in Firth of Tay
1944 Port Chicago, Ca Disaster. 1st use of Napalm by P-38s near Saint-Lo
1989 1st flight B-2
 
July 18
390 B.C. Battle of Allia
1391 Battle of the Kondurcha River
1656 Battle of Warsaw begins
1779 Commodore Whipple's US Squadron captures 11 British Prizes, richest US capture of the War
1813 USS President captures 4 British Prizes
1861 Battle of Blackburn's Ford
1863 Battle of Battery Wagner
1920 Ex-Ger. Cruiser Frankfort sunk by aircraft as a target
1940 KM Sub Chaser UJ-126 sunk by R.N. sub H31 off Terschelling, Neth.
1943 U Boat shoots down US Navy Airship K-74, only US airship shot down in WWII. US LST 342 sunk by Ro-106 west of Guadalcanal
1944 US Motor Gunboat PGM 7 sunk in collision in the Bismarck Sea
1945 IJN Cruiser Kasuga sunk by aircraft @ Yokosuka
1996 Battle of Mullaitivu
 
July 19
1333 Battle of Halidon Hill
1544 1st Siege of Boulogne begins
1545 English warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth
1813 USS Constitution escapes after a 3 day chase by R.N. ships
1863 Battle of Buffington Island, Oh
1864 3rd Battle of Nanking ends
1886 USS Atlanta, 1st US Cruiser with steel hull & breachloading guns, is commissioned
1916 Battle of Fromelles begins
1918 USS San Diego sunk by mine laid by U-156 off Fire Island, NY
1940 Battle of Cape Spada: Italian Cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sunk. R.N. Fleet Oiler War Sepoy bombed @ Dover, breaks in two. Used later as a blockship. R.N. Trawler HMS Crestflower bombed/sunk south of the Isle of Wight.
1941 KM Escort Ship NK-08 sunk by RAF off Sirevagnor, Nor. Sub HMS Umpire sunk in collision with R.N. Trawler HMS Peter Hendricks off The Wash.
1944 IJN Cruiser Oi sunk by USS Flasher in South China Sea & Ro-48 sunk by USS Reynolds & Wyman
1945 Destroyer USS Thatcher heavily damaged by Kamakaze off Okinawa & not repaired
1972 Battle of Mirbat
 
July 20
1304 2nd Siege of Sterling Castle ends
1402 Battle of Ankara
1864 Battle of Peachtree Creek. Yet another Battle of Winchester
1866 naval Battle of Lissa
1940 Destroyer HMS Brazen bombed of Dover, sinks on the 21st. Italian Destroyers Nembo & Ostro sunk by Swordfish from HMS Eagle off Tobruk
1941 Sub HMS Union sunk by Italian Torpedo Boat Circe s.w. of Pantellaria. Soviet Patrol Vessel Shtil sunk at Guba Ura & Destroyer Stremitenlnyi sunk at Yekatarinskaya Gava, both by Ju-87s
1944 Polish Crusier Dragon, torpedoed on July 5th by a German Neger semisubmersible torpedo craft, is scuttled as a blockship for Mulberry B.
1961 Siege of Bizerte ends
1969 Honduras-El Salvador "Soccer War" ends
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
 
July 21
1242 Battle of Taillebourg
1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
1545 French invasion of the Isle of Wight defeated
1568 Battle of Jemmingen
1823 Lt. David Farragut leads a landing party that destroys a Pirate base in Cuba
1861 1st Battle of Manassas
1862 Battle of Gordonsville
1941 Soviet sub M-94 sunk by U-110
1944 Battle of Guam begins
1977 Libya-Egyptian War starts
 
July 22
838 Battle of Anzen
1298 Battle of Falkirk
1456 Siege of Belgrade ends
1484 Battle of Lochmaben Fair
1499 Battle of Dornach
1797 Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife begins
1802 USS Constitution defeats 9 Tripolitan Gunboats
1805 Battle of Cape Fenisterre
1812 Battle of Salamanca
1864 Battle of Atlanta
1940 R.N. Trawler HMS Campina sunk with all hands by mine in Irish Sea off Holyhead, sub HMS Narwhal sunk by Do-17 in Norwegian Sea.
1941 Soviet Survey ship Meridian sunk by German Destroyers in Arctic Ocean off Murmansk, Destroyer Serdityi damaged by Ju-88 in the Suur Strait.
1943 Allies capture Palermo
 
July 23
1677 Sweden captures Marstrand
1793 Siege of Mainz ends
1821 Greeks capture Manemvasia Castle
1941 Destroyer HMS Fearless bombed/scuttled n.e. of Bone, Algeria. KM Sub Chaser UJ-113 sunk by mine off Liepaja, Estonia, & Flackships V-1310 & V-1508 sunk by R.N. MTB off Bouglogne.
1943 U-527 sunk by aircraft from USS Bogue. U-613 sunk by Destroyer USS George E Badger
1983 Sri Lankan Civil War begins
 
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