User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/October 17

October 17

 * 1244 - Battle of La Forbie: Crusaders are defeated by Khwarezmians and Egyptians.
 * 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland is captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years.
 * 1448 - Second Battle of Kosovo, where the mainly Hungarian army led by John Hunyadi fought an Ottoman army led by Murad II.
 * 1777 - American troops defeat the British in the Battle of Saratoga.
 * 1912 - Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
 * 1917 - First British bombing of Germany in World War I