User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/August 26

August 26

 * 55 BC - Julius Caesar invades Britain.
 * 1071 - Battle of Manzikert: the Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at Manzikert.
 * 1278 - Ladislaus IV of Hungary and Rudolph I of Germany defeat Premysl Ottokar II of Bohemia in the Battle of Marchfield near Dürnkrut in Moravia.
 * 1346 - Hundred Years' War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: the Second Battle of Bull Run begins.
 * 1914 - World War I: Germans defeat Russians in Battle of Tannenberg.
 * 1914 - World War I: the British Expeditionary Force briefly checks the German advance at Le Cateau.