Today in Military History June 28

June 28 1098  Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.

June 28 1651  The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.

June 28 1709  Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.

June 28 1745  A New England colonial army captures the French fortifications at Louisbourg (New Style).

June 28 1776  American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Sullivan's Island ends with the American victory, leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.

June 28 1776  American Revolutionary War: Thomas Hickey, Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, is hanged for mutiny and sedition.

June 28 1778  American Revolutionary War: The American Continentals engage the British in the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse resulting in standstill and British withdrawal under cover of darkness.

June 28 1797  French troops disembark in Corfu, beginning the French rule in the Ionian Islands.

June 28 1807  Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.

June 28 1865  The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

June 28 1880  Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.

June 28 1917  World War I: Greece joins the Allied powers.

June 28 1919  The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.

June 28 1922  The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.

June 28 1942  World War II: Nazi Germany starts its strategic summer offensive against the Soviet Union, codenamed Case Blue.

June 28 1950  Korean War: Suspected communist sympathizers (between as many as 100,000 to 200,000) are executed in the Bodo League massacre.

June 28 1950  Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.

June 28 1950  Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.

June 28 1987  For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.