User:Hawkeye7/War/Selected anniversaries/September 17

September 17

 * 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
 * 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during the Thirteen Years' War.
 * 1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
 * 1862 - American Civil War: George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day of the war, and in American history. Over 23,000 Casualties in under twelve hours of combat marks this as a day  as a prime example supreme savagry and brutality in warfare.
 * 1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
 * 1900 - Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
 * 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
 * 1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.