User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/July 26

July 26

 * 657 - Battle of Siffin.
 * 811 - Battle of Pliska; Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I is slain, his heir Staurakios is seriously wounded.
 * 1469 - Battle of Edgecote Moor.
 * 1861 - American Civil War: George McClellan assumes command of the Army of the Potomac following a disastrous Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run.
 * 1863 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends - At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
 * 1941 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indochina, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.