* July 22 – Battle of Minisink: The Goshen Militia is destroyed by Joseph Brant's forces.

The name is derived from Benjamin Tusten, a military leader killed at the Battle of Minisink.

After stopping at Onaquaga, Brant attacked and defeated American militia at the Battle of Minisink on July 22, 1779.

A militia from Goshen set out to stop Brant, engaging in the disastrous Battle of Minisink, in which 45 local militiamen were killed.

He was one of the commanders of the Battle of Minisink.

* John Hathorn's report on the Battle of Minisink

Joseph Brant, after the Battle of Minisink, used the form Oghwage.

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During the American Revolution in 1779 Minisink Ford was the site of the Battle of Minisink in which 40 – 50 settlers were killed in an engagement with a band of Indians and Loyalists under English Colonel Joseph Brant.

* Benjamin Tusten, a military leader killed at the Battle of Minisink.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Kettle Creek is fought in Georgia.

A British relief force was defeated in the naval Battle of Grenada on 6 July 1779.

* 1779 – Battle of Grenada: French victory over British naval forces during the American Revolutionary War.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: light infantry of the Continental Army seize a fortified British Army position in a midnight bayonet attack at the Battle of Stony Point.

* 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier Creek near Savannah, Georgia.

* 1779 – American Revolution: John Paul Jones on board the wins the Battle of Flamborough Head.

He unsuccessfully attacked a French fleet under the Comte d ' Estaing at the Battle of Grenada in July 1779.

In 1719, he bought Battle Abbey from Sir Henry Whistler, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Whistler Webster, 2nd baronet ( died 1779, leaving a widow, but no children ; whereupon he was succeeded in the baronetcy by his brother ).

* General George Rogers Clark ( 1752 – 1818 ), Revolutionary war hero, conqueror of the old Northwest Territory ( modern day midwest of the US ), hero of the Battle of Fort Sackville ( Vincennes IN ) Feb. 1779, Father and founder of the Midwest.

During the Battle of Kettle Creek in 1779, the American Patriot forces were victorious over British Loyalists.

Colonel Clarke played a leading role the 1779 victory at the Battle of Kettle Creek in Wilkes County.

After their defeat at the Battle of Baton Rouge in 1779, the English yielded control of Natchez to the Spaniards, and this led to several years of fighting as the English settlers resisted Spanish rule over them.

The Battle of Kettle Creek one of the most important battles of the American Revolutionary War to be fought in Georgia was fought on February 14, 1779, in Wilkes County about eight miles ( 13 km ) from present day Washington.

The Patriots won the Battle of Vincennes on February 23 – 24, 1779.

At the side of the St. Martin de Tours Church is a monument dedicated to the Militiamen of St Martinville ( 36 of the militiamen were French Creoles, three were Acadians, and three colonial Americans, one's citizenship was not known ) who took part with General Bernardo de Galvez in the " Capture of Baton Rouge in 1779 ” Battle of Baton Rouge.

The overwhelmingly successful campaign was concluded with the decisive victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794, Maj. Gen. Anthony Wayne applied the techniques of wilderness operations perfected by Sullivan's 1779 expedition against the Iroquois.

He served as a captain of artillery in the South Carolina militia, and fought at the Battle of Beaufort in 1779.

* 1779 – Battle of Stony Point ( July 16 )

* 1779 – Battle of Paulus Hook ( August 19 )

He fought at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778, and in 1779, he accompanied Major General John Sullivan on the Sullivan Expedition against the Iroquois in upstate New York.

On February 14, 1779, he was part of the militia victory at the Battle of Kettle Creek in Georgia.

Important operations in this department included the Siege of Boston in 1775 – 1776 and the Battle of Rhode Island in 1779.

Brant and the Iroquois were defeated on August 29, 1779 at the Battle of Newtown, the only major conflict of the expedition.

Since the following two hundred years saw the rise of the Classical Greek civilization, which has been enduringly influential in western society, the Battle of Marathon is often seen as a pivotal moment in European history.

Valdivia died at the Battle of Tucapel, defeated by Lautaro, a young Mapuche toqui ( war chief ), but the European conquest was well underway.

The use of crossbows in European warfare is again evident from the Battle of Hastings until about the year 1500.

The European Battle Axe culture used stone axes modeled on copper axes, even with imitation " mold marks " carved in the stone.

The casualty rate suffered by Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa was greater than any other major European battle of the 19th century, beyond even the Napoleonic Era's infamous Waterloo and Eylau.

Several sources mention Chinese firearms and gunpowder weapons being deployed by the Mongols against European forces at the Battle of Mohi in 1241.

The European wars culminated in defeat at the Battle of Bouvines ( 1214 ), which forced the king to accept an unfavourable peace with France after having failed to get help from King Mohammed el-Nasir of Morocco.

The death of Charles the Bold, the last Valois Duke of Burgundy, at the Battle of Nancy in 1477 was a pivotal, if under-recognised, moment in European history.

This culture was a part of the European Battle Axe cultures, which have often been associated with the movement of the Indo-European speakers.

* 1212 – Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa: after Pope Innocent III calls European knights to a crusade, forces of Kings Alfonso VIII of Castile, Sancho VII of Navarre, Peter II of Aragon and Afonso II of Portugal defeat those of the Berber Muslim leader Almohad, thus marking a significant turning point in the Reconquista and in the medieval history of Spain.

Archery was described by contemporaries as ineffective against plate armour in the Battle of Neville's Cross ( 1346 ), the siege of Bergerac ( 1345 ), and the Battle of Poitiers ( 1356 ); such armour became available to European knights of fairly modest means by the late 14th century, though never to all soldiers in any army.

Under Charles Martel's leadership, the Franks defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732, limiting the expansion of Islam onto the European continent.

After his victory in the Battle of Mohács in 1526, he established Turkish rule in the territory of present-day Hungary ( except the western part ) and other Central European territories, ( See also: Ottoman – Hungarian Wars ).

* 314 – Roman Emperor Licinius is defeated by his colleague Constantine I at the Battle of Cibalae, and loses his European territories.

In the west, apart from the Battle of the Atlantic the sieges were not on the same scale as those on the European Eastern front ; however, there were several notable or critical sieges: the island of Malta, for which the population won the George Cross, Tobruk.

The great European stop motion pioneer was Wladyslaw Starewicz ( 1892 – 1965 ), who animated The Beautiful Lukanida ( 1910 ), The Battle of the Stag Beetles ( 1910 ), The Ant and the Grasshopper ( 1911 ).

* 1683 – Austro-Ottoman War: Battle of Vienna – several European armies join forces to defeat the Ottoman Empire.

* Battle of Stalingrad, a 1942 – 1943 World War II battle, considered as the turning-point of the European theatre of the war

* 1453: The Battle of Castillon is the last engagement of the Hundred Years ' War and the first battle in European history where cannons were a major factor in deciding the battle.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

* May 11 – At the Battle of Djerba, the Ottoman fleet, commanded by under Piyale Pasha, overwhelms a large joint European ( mainly Spanish ) fleet, sinking about half its ships.

After the decisive Battle of Pavia, the Duchy of Milan became a possession of the Habsburgs of Spain: the new rulers did little to improve the economy of Lombardy, instead imposing a growing series of taxes needed to support their unending series of European wars.

* Michael Alfred Peszke, Battle for Warsaw, 1939 – 1944, East European Monographs, 1995, ISBN 978-0-88033-324-5.