Monday 9 August 2021

Today in Military History August 9th


 9 August 48 BC Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus

9 August 378 Battle of Adrianople

9 August 1666 Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling

9 August 1848 Austria & Sardinia sign cease fire

9 August 1855 Battle of Acapulco

9 August 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain

9 August 1914 German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham

9 August 1915 British attack at Chanak Bair at Gallipoli during WWI

9 August 1945 US drops second atomic bomb on Nagasaki

9 August 1967 Biafran offensive against Nigerian army

9 August 1967 American helicopters attacked a North Vietnamese military tunnel and exchanged heavy fire


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