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

Originally Posted by George

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

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.

Originally Posted by 1776

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.

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