Today in Military History 1st August

August 1st 1571    The Ottoman conquest of Cyprus is concluded, by the surrender of Famagusta.

August 1st  1759     Seven Years' War: The Battle of Minden, an allied Anglo-German army victory over the French.

August 1st 1798     Battle of the Nile (Battle of Aboukir Bay)  Naval battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the French Republic.

August 1st 1801   First  Barbary War:   The USS Enterprise captures the Tripolitan polacca

August 1st 1894  The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China 

August 1st  1914 The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. 

August 1st  1927 The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party.

August 1st 1943    World War II: Operation Tidal Wave also known as "Black Sunday", 

August 1st 1944  World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German.

August 1st 1988 A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England