Today In Military History July 01

July 01 AD 69  Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.

July 01 552  Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy. During the fighting king Totila is mortally wounded.

July 01 1097  Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders led by prince Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army led by sultan Kilij Arslan I.

July 01 1431  The Battle of La Higueruela takes place in Granada, leading to a modest advance of the Kingdom of Castile during the Reconquista.

July 01 1690  Glorious Revolution: Battle of the Boyne in Ireland (as reckoned under the Julian calendar).

July 01 1782  Raid on Lunenburg: American privateers attack the British settlement of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

July 01 1862  American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign
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July 01 1863  American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.

July 01 1898  Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba.

July 01 1911  Germany despatches the gunship SMS Panther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.

July 01 1915  Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe
army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.

July 01 1916  World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme
19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.

July 01 1942  World War II: First Battle of El Alamein.

July 01 1947  The Philippine Air Force is established.