This day in military history..

Aug 4
1265 Battle of Evesham
1578 Battle of Al Kasir al Kebir
1704 British/Dutch capture Gibraltar
1796 Battle of Lonato
1824 Battle of Kos
1914 Germany invades Belgium, U.K. declares War on Germany
1916 Liberia declares War on Germany
1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident: Destroyers USS Maddox & C. Turner Joy fire on radar ghosts @ night.
 
Aug 5
642 Battle of Maserfield
910 Battle of Tettenhall
1068 Siege of Bari starts (ends Apr 16, 1071)
1388 Battle of Otterburn
1716 battle of Petrovariden
1763 Battle of Bushy Run
1781 naval Battle of the Dogger Bank
1824 naval Battle of samos
1862 Battle of Baton Rouge
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay: US fleet fights past Ft. Morgan, losing the Monitor USS Tecumseh to a torpedo. The Fleet then engages CSS Tennessee & defeats her.
1870 Battle of Specheren
1914 Light Cruiser HMS Amphion sinks German minelayer Konigin Luise
1916 Battle of Romani
1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident: US Carrier planes bomb N. Vietnam in retaliation
1965 Indo-Pakistani War begins
1995 Croatians capture Knin
 
Aug 6
1284 naval Battle of Meloria
1506 Battle of Kletsk
1862 CSS Arkansas destroyed to prevent capture when her engines fail approaching the US fleet near Baton Rouge, La.
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay: Ft. Powell is evacuated & blown up.
1870 Battle of Worth
1914 Serbia declares War on Germany. Austria declares War on Russia
1915 Gallipolli Campaign: Battle of Sari Bair
1917 Battle of Marajesti
1945 "Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima
 
Aug 7
322 B.C. Battle of Crannon
626 Siege of Constantinople ends when besiegers leave
1427 naval Battle of the Po
1714 naval Battle of Gangut
1782 US Army Badge of Military Merit est., later renamed the Purple Heart
1789 US War Dept. est
1819 Battle of Boyaca
1942 Battle of Guadalcanal begins
1998 Terrorist bomb US Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania
2008 South Ossetia War begins
 
Aug 8
1220 Battle of Lihula
1647 Battle of Dungans Hill
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay: Ft. Gaines surrenders
1918 Battle of Amiens
1945 Soviet Union declares War on Japan & launches an offensive into Manchuria
1946 1st flight B-36
 
Aug 9
48 B.C. Battle of Pharsalus
378 Battle of Adrianople
1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay: Union troops land on the neck of the peninsula that Ft. Morgan is built on & begin to lay siege to the Fort
1877 Battle of Big Hole, Montana Territory
1942 Battle of Savo Island: Allies lose 5 Cruisers
1945 Fat Boy dropped on Nagasaki
 
Aug 10
955 Battle of Lechfeld
991 Battle of Maldon
1316 2nd Battle of Athenry
1861 Battle of Wilson's creek, Mo
1904 Battle of the Yellow sea
1944 Battle of Guam ends
 
Aug 11
1675 Battle of Konzer Brucke
1812 Battle of Mujadahonda
1898 US occupies Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
1918 Battle of Amiens ends
 
Aug 12
1099 Battle of Ascalan
1121 Battle of Didgori
1164 Battle of Harim
1499 1st part of the 1st naval Battle of Lepanto
1687 Battle of Mohacs
1806 Spanish retake Buenos Aires from the British
1898 Spanish-American War ends
1914 U.K. declares War on Austria-Hungary
2000 Soviet sub Kursk sinks
 
Aug 13
1521 Cortez takes what is today Mexico City
1650 Coldstream Guards Est.
1704 Battle of Blenheim
1806 Battle of Misar begins
1920 Battle of Warsaw begins
1937 Battle of Shanghai begins
 
Aug 14
1385 Battle of Aljobarrota
1592 naval Battle of Hansando
1598 Battle of the Yellow Ford
1897 French capture Anasimena, Madigascar
1900 Boxer Rebellion ends when the Allies capture Peking
1916 Romania declares War on Austria-Hungary
1937 Chinese fighters shoot down 6 Japanese bombers, celebrated as Chinese Air Force Day.
1974 Turkey invades Cyprus
 
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Aug 15
778 battle of Roncevaux Pass, Roland is killed
927 Saracens destroy Taranto
982 Battle of Capolonna
1057 Battle of Lumphanon Macbeth is killed or executed
1281 Kamakaze destroys Chinese invasion fleet off Japan
1309 Knights of St. John capture Rhodes
1430 Milan takes Lucca
1461 Trebizand Empire surrenders to the Muslims
1599 Battle of Curlew Pass
1695 Bombardment of Brussels ends
1760 Battle of Liegnitz
1914 Russians invade E. Prussia
1940 Italian sub sinks Greek light Cruiser ELLI while the 2 Counties are @ peace.
1944 Allies invade southern France
1945 Japan surrenders
 
Aug 16
1513 Battle of Guinegate
1777 Battle of Bennington
1780 Battle of Camden
1812 Ft. Detroit surrenders to the British with out a fight
1864 Battle of Fussell's Mill, Va
1869 Battle of Acosta Nu
1870 Battle of Mars-La-Tour
1914 Battle of Cer begins
 
Aug 17
986 Battle of Trajan's Gate
1862 Sioux Indian uprising in Minn. begins
1914 Battle of Stalluponen
1943 Schweinfurt-Regensburg Air Mission. Allies capture Messina
1953 Battle of Teagu: Hill 303 Massacre, 41 US POWs shot by N. Koreans
 
Aug 18
1864 2nd Battle of the Weldon RR, Va
1870 Battle of Gravelotte
1965 Vietnam: Operation Starlight begins
1966 Battle of Long Tan
 
aug 19
1504 Battle of Knockdoe
1666 Holmes's Bonfire, naval raid on Tershelling, Holland
1759 naval Battle of Lagos
1782 Battle of Blue Licks, Va
1812 USS Constitution defeats HMS Guerrier
1864 2nd Battle of the Weldon RR continues
1940 1st flight B-25
1942 Dieppe Raid
1981 Gulf of Sidra Incident
 
Aug 20
636 Battle of Yarmouk
917 Battle of Acheloos
1710 Battle of Saragossa
1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers
1862 Battle of Brandy Station, Va Minnesota Sioux Uprising: Sioux attack Ft. Ridgely, but are driven off
1914 Germans occupy Brussels
1944 Battle of Romania begins
1950 Battle of Taegu ends
1988 Iran-Iraq War ends
 
Aug 21
1680 Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish
1689 Battle of Dunkeld
1808 Battle of Vimeiro
1852 Tlingit Indians destroy Ft. Selkirk, Yukon Territory
1863 Lawrence, Ks Raid
1918 2nd Battle of the Somme
1942 Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of the Tenaru River
1944 Canadian & Polish troops capture Falaise, France
1968 Soviet troops crush the "Prague Spring"
 
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August 23

1943: After a year-long siege of the city, Hitler orders the final attack on Leningrad (Operation Nordlicht). At Stalingrad, bombers and dive-bombers of Luftflotte 4 (von Richthofen) launch massive attacks (over 2,000 missions) that devastate the city. A battle group of 16.Pz.Div., 3. and 60.Inf.Div.(mot) rapidly advances from the Don, reaching the west bank of the Volga at Rynok north of Stalingrad.
1943: Heavy RAF raid on Berlin. The Red Army recaptures Charkov.
1944: King Michael I of Rumania dismisses Marshall Antonescu, the head of state and Hitler's close ally, and brings his country over to the Soviet side.
Source: http://www.feldgrau.com/august.html

1918Lieutenant L.D. McCarthy, VCLieutenant L.D. McCarthy, 16th Battalion, originally from York, Western Australia, wins the Victoria Cross at Madame Wood, France.
Source: http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/thismonth/aug/

1864 - RADM David Farragut's squadron captures Fort Morgan at Mobile Bay winning control of Mobile Bay
1958 - Massive concentration of Pacific Fleet in Quemoy-Matsu area prevents invasion of islands by China.
1958 - In Taiwan Straits Crisis, Units of 7th Fleet move into Taiwan area to support Taiwan against Chinese Communists.
1963 - The first satellite communications ship, USNS Kingsport (T-AG-164) in Lagos, Nigeria, connected President John F. Kennedy with Nigerian Prime Minister Balewa who was aboard for the first satellite (Syncom II) relayed telephone conversation between heads of state.
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/datesaug.htm
 
Aug 24
49 B.C, 2nd Battle of the Bagradus River
410 Visigoths sack Rome
1812 Siege of Cadiz ends
1814 British capture Washington, D.C. & burn the White House
1914 Germans capture Nemur
1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons begins
 
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