On This Day In Military History
WORLD NEWS posted on 17 JUN 2007 by Andrew Glenn
Discover key military events that took place on this day in history
On this day in military history, June 17:
0827 - Arab conquest of Sicily begins: Asad ibn al-Furat lands with c. 15,000 troops.
1053 - Battle of Civitate: Normans defeat a Papal-Lombard army.
1245 - Battle of San Lucia: Guelf-Ghibbeline clash in the Romagna.
1291 - Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, and destroyed.
1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, and the latter is forced to retreat from Wallachia.
1497 - Battle of Deptford Bridge - Forces under King Henry VII soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
1565 - Matsunaga Hisahide assassinates the 13th Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru.
1580 - Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels.
1583 - Brabant: Duke of Parma beats French mercenaries.
1665 - Battle at Viciosa: English and Portuguese army beat Spain.
1734 - French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine.
1744 - Battle of Velletri I: Neapolitans under Charles III raid Austrian lines.
1745 - American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bunker Hill - The battle actually takes place on Breed's Hill by mistake. British forces take Breed's Hill outside of Boston with heavy casualties.
1799 - Battle of the Trebbia, Day 1: Austro-Russians fight French forces.
1815 - Stephen Decatur captures Algerian frigate, Mashouda.
1848 - Austrian General Alfred Windischgratz crushed a Czech uprising in Prague.
1854 - The Red Turban revolt broke out in Guangdong, China.
1855 - Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed.
1861 - American Civil War: Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Confederate forces.
1863 - American Civil War: Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle at Middleburg, Virginia.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
1864 - American Civil War: Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia.
1864 - American Civil War: General John B Hood replaces General Johnston.
1864 - American Civil War: 640m long pontoon bridge over James River Virginia finished.
1864 - American Civil War: Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia.
1870 - USS Mohican destroys the Mexican pirate ship, Forward.
1876 - Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud - 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
1877 - Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - The Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
1898 - The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
1913 - U.S. Marines set sail from San Diego to protect American interests in Mexico.
1917 - World War I: Portuguese army sees first action in Flanders.
1938 - Japan declares war on China.
1940 - World War II: Operation Ariel begins - Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940 - World War II: General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London.
1940 - World War II: Sinking of the RMS Lancastria by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France.
1940 - The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
1942 - World War II: American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast).
1944 - World War II: French troops landed on the island of Elba in the Mediterranean.
1944 - World War II: U.S. Navy air raids on Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands.
1953 - Soviet tanks fought thousands of Berlin workers that were rioting against the East German government.
1965 - Vietnam War: Twenty-seven B-52’s hit Viet Cong outposts but lost two planes in South Vietnam.
1969 - Vietnam War: North Vietnamese reoccupy Ap Bia Mountain.
1970 - North Vietnamese troops cut the last operating rail line in Cambodia.
1998 - USS Missouri ties up for the last time, Pearl Harbor.
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