| Battle of Tolentino | ... ar. But the proclamation failed and the Austrians soon crushed Murat at the | (2 May to 3 May 1815), forcing him to flee. The Bourbons returned to the t ... |
| Chaeronea | ... mony, but Theban influence faded quickly in the rest of Greece. Finally, at | in 338 BC, the combined forces of Thebes and Athens, driven into each othe ... |
| Kurukshetra War | ... rregular rhythms to sustain attention. In Ugrasrava's epic Mahabharata, the | is narrated by a character in Vyasa's Jaya, which itself is narrated by a ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... factories. Cycle rickshaws became popular in Warsaw and by the start of the | were a common sight on the city's streets |
| Battle of Lechfeld | After the defeat of the Hungarians by Emperor Otto the Great in the | (955), new marches were established in what is today Austria. The one know ... |
| Thrilla in Manila | ... se career highlights include promoting "The Rumble in the Jungle" and the " | ". He also had a long association with Mike Tyson. King has promoted some ... |
| a major expedition | ... t the British settlements on the border of Acadia in Maine. France launched | to recover Louisbourg in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the d ... |
| 1066 | ... ay also have been known as Lesnes or Lessness. After the Norman Conquest in | , Erith passed into the possession of Bishop Odo and is mentioned in the D ... |
| Battle of Racławice | ... ssible victory against a far larger and better equipped Russian army at the | on April 4 of that year |
| Siege of Louisbourg (1758) | ... re were forcibly deported during the second wave of the expulsion after the | . In the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign (1758) General Jeffery Amherst ordered Co ... |
| Dagor Bragollach | In the | , Dorthonion was a key theatre of war, as Morgoth concentrated on conqueri ... |
| Battle of Beaver Dam Creek | The first was the | , which began on June 26, 1862. Confederate Gen. Gideon E. Martin launched ... |
| 1948 Arab–Israeli War | ... 00 both Jewish and non-Jewish volunteers who went to Israel to fight in the | including Aliyah Bet. The original Mahalniks were mostly World War II vete ... |
| raid | ... his controversial role in planning and approving the famous Allied commando | in August 1942 |
| Battle of Berlin | ... ts (16–19 April) and the Battle of Halbe (21 April-1 May), both part of the | . The Waffen-SS was represented by the III (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps |
| Battle of Gaixia | ... ugh Xiang Yu proved to be a capable commander, Liu Bang defeated him at the | , in modern-day Anhui. Liu Bang assumed the title "emperor" (huangdi) at t ... |
| battlefield at Ashdown | ... ales, but mentions various places that he visited in England, including the | , Countisbury (which he calls Cynuit), and Athelney. It is evident from As ... |
| Battle of Blenheim | ... he great struggle of the Spanish succession. He shared in the defeat at the | , near Höchstädt, on 13 August 1704; his dominions were temporarily partit ... |
| Battle of Tondibi | ... d trade routes with much difficulty from the downfall of the Songhai at the | (13 March, 1591) to around the end of the 17th century |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... nth. This name has in turn been lent to a steel factory made notable by the | , a Moscow sweets factory that is well known in Russia, and a fictional So ... |
| Tet Offensive | ... ow opinion, but rather to adjust opinion to support his policies. Until the | of 1968, he systematically downplayed the war: few speeches, no rallies or ... |
| Operation Epsom | ... of the month with lead elements becoming embroiled in the British offensive | |
| Mukden Incident | ... ded his influence to Northern China around Beijing and Hebei. Following the | of 1931, when the Japanese invaded and took full and direct control over M ... |
| Besieged from May until October 1574 | ... against Spanish rule and played an important role in the Eighty Years' War. | by the Spanish, Leiden was relieved by the cutting of the dikes, thus enab ... |
| limited engagement at Mayi | ... owever, a court conference the following year convinced the majority that a | involving the assassination of the Chanyu would throw the Xiongnu realm in ... |
| Battle of Red Cliffs | After Cao's defeat at the naval | in 208 CE, China was divided into three spheres of influence, with Cao Cao ... |
| Battle of Stiklestad | ... s you find Thorir Hund, who killed Norway's Patron Saint, Saint Olav in the | in 1030. In 1323, the chieftain seat was raided and burned by Karelian war ... |
| Battle of Hastenbeck | During the Seven Years' War the | was fought on July 26, 1757, near the city. The French army defeated the H ... |
| Battle of Benevento | ... Sacred Heart - Basketball League Belgium - Bastogne - Batetela Rebellions - | - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - Battle of Bouvines - Battle of Cadsand - Batt ... |
| Battle of Eutaw Springs | ... The city is the county seat of Greene County and was named in honor of the | , the last engagement of the American Revolutionary War in the Carolinas. ... |
| Battle of Salamis | ... destroy the Allied navy once and for all, suffered a decisive defeat at the | . The following year, 479 BC, the Allies assembled the largest Greek army ... |
| Battle of the Seelow Heights | ... med in 1945 to protect Berlin from the advancing Red Army. It fought in the | (16–19 April) and the Battle of Halbe (21 April-1 May), both part of the B ... |
| Battle of Halbe | ... d Army. It fought in the Battle of the Seelow Heights (16–19 April) and the | (21 April-1 May), both part of the Battle of Berlin. The Waffen-SS was rep ... |
| Battle of Salamis | ... its height was a significant sea power, defeating the Persian fleet at the | — but the water was salty and not very good for drinking |
| Bosworth Field | ... d, (later Richard III) was famously killed in battle against Henry Tudor at | |
| Nördlingen | ... to rescue her brother Condé, his old comrade in the battles of Freiburg and | |
| Battle of Williamsburg | ... he Virginia Peninsula in the face of superior numbers. Stuart fought at the | , but in general the terrain and weather on the Peninsula did not lend the ... |
| Battle of Rio San Gabriel | During the Mexican-American War, the | took place on January 8, 1847 in what are today parts of the cities of Whi ... |
| 1948 Arab–Israeli War | ... tories (formerly part of the British Mandate of Palestine) as result of the | and the 1967 Six-Day war |
| Battle of Ad Decimum | ... from Carthage. Gelimer quickly assembled an army, and met Belisarius at the | ; the Vandals were winning the battle until Gelimer's brother Ammatas and ... |
| Sack of Magdeburg | ... torians directly blame Ferdinand for the large civilian loss of life in the | in 1631: he had instructed Tilly to enforce the edict of Restitution upon ... |
| Battle of Hastings | His father Eustace II appeared at the | in 1066 as an ally of William the Conqueror, and is listed as a possible k ... |
| U.S. invasion of Afghanistan | ... gnificant before and during the Soviet intervention, but by the time of the | , the number of aircraft available was minimal. The United States and its ... |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... ater does the action almost imperceptibly expand to the full realism of the | . By way of increasingly more artificial sets (based on mediaeval painting ... |
| Fleurus | ... ier attached to the army of the Sambre et Meuse. After Jourdan's victory at | (26 June 1794) he became a general of division. At the Battle of Theininge ... |
| Kimberley was besieged | The Second Boer War proved to be a challenging time for the company. | as soon as war broke out, thereby threatening the company's valuable mines ... |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | ... y, the source of the Benedictine Order, here around 529. It was the site of | in 1944. The site has been visited many times by the Popes and other senio ... |
| Battle of Wilmington | ... Fort Fisher (the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy) and the | . The Wilmington Insurrection of 1898 and its establishment of Jim Crow la ... |
| Battle of Waddams Grove | ... son encountered what was probably the same war party near Yellow Creek. The | became a hard fought, hand-to-hand melee. Three militiamen and five or six ... |
| Battle of Plataea | ... largest Greek army yet seen and defeated the Persian invasion force at the | , ending the invasion and the threat to Greece |
| Battle of Adrianople | ... st of the city, Emperor Baldwin was decisively defeated and captured at the | by the Bulgarians; he was executed by the Bulgarian Emperor Kaloyan in 120 ... |
| attack on Fort Recovery | ... rior numbers and had just completed rigorous training. After an exploratory | in June 1794, Little Turtle counseled negotiation rather than battle, rema ... |
| Northern Virginia Campaign | Early in the | , Stuart was promoted to major general on July 25, 1862, and his command w ... |
| raided and destroyed | On November 28, 1745, the French with their Indian allies | the village of Saratoga, New York, killing and capturing more than one hun ... |
| Battle of Ceuta | In 1415, during the | , the city was captured by the Portuguese during the reign of John I of Po ... |
| Battle of White Mountain | ... iralling into a wider European war. In 1620 Frederick V was defeated at the | and by 1622, despite the aid of English volunteers, had lost his hereditar ... |
| 1948 Arab–Israeli War | ... capacity, he succeeded in achieving an initial truce during the subsequent | and laid the groundwork for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for ... |
| Ligny | ... campaign of 1815, the Prussians sustained a serious defeat at the outset at | (June 16), in the course of which the old field marshal was repeatedly rid ... |
| unsuccessful attempt to capture Nassau | ... sing his own money to try to overcome problems. In 1720 the Spanish made an | |
| Battle of Jutland | After the | , the German High Seas Fleet rarely ventured out of its bases at Wilhelmsh ... |
| Prinitza | ... er the Principality of Achaea, but this expedition failed in the battles of | and Makryplagi, and a mixed imperial and Genoese fleet of 48 ships was def ... |
| Second Battle of Bull Run | At the | (Second Manassas), Stuart's cavalry followed the massive assault by Longst ... |
| Battle of Tricamarum | On December 15, 533, Gelimer and Belisarius clashed again at the | , some from Carthage. Again, the Vandals fought well but broke, this time ... |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | ... glas Munro, was posthumously awarded the Navy version for action during the | . A separate Coast Guard medal was established in 1963, but no design yet ... |
| Carolinas Campaign | ... more the scene of a Union offensive in 1865, during Union General Sherman's | . After the battles of Bentonville and Wyse Fork, Sherman's forces met wit ... |
| Battle of Ipsus | ... as defeated by the united forces of Seleucus and Lysimachus at the decisive | in 301 BC. Antigonus himself died in the battle after being struck by a ja ... |
| Siege of St. Augustine | ... ars along with Seminole warriors, invaded Spanish Florida and conducted the | during the War of Jenkin's Ear. During this siege the black community of S ... |
| Gulf of Tonkin Incident | ... hnson expanded the numbers and roles of the American military following the | (less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had ... |
| Battle of Castricum | ... an expeditionary force captured the city but was ultimately defeated in the | . The French victory was commemorated on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris as |
| ended in disaster | ... the power vacuum and became involved in Chad's civil war. Libya's adventure | in 1987; the French-supported president, Hissène Habré, evoked a united re ... |
| Battle of Fort Washington | ... . The Continental Army was forced to abandon Manhattan after the disastrous | on November 16, 1776. The city became the British political and military c ... |
| Battle of Hampton Roads | ... SS Merrimack. Virginia engaged the Union ironclad USS Monitor in the famous | during the Union blockade of Hampton Roads. The Confederates burned the sh ... |
| siege to the city | ... he Romans and the Carthaginians during the First Punic War. The Romans laid | in 262 BC and captured it after defeating a Carthaginian relief force in 2 ... |
| Battle of Mallavelly | ... were senior to Wellesley). Much of this friction was put to rest after the | , some from Seringapatam, in which Harris's army attacked a large part of ... |
| Vienna Offensive | ... ing, the 6th SS Panzer Army withdrew towards Vienna and was involved in the | . The only major force to face the attacking Red Army was the II SS Panzer ... |
| Battle of Dunbar | ... ing the then-Scottish border town. In April, the Scots were defeated at the | in East Lothian and by July Edward had forced John to abdicate. Edward the ... |
| Battle of Montgisard | ... ad of the army of the kingdom, he helped King Baldwin defeat Saladin at the | ; Saladin narrowly escaped. In 1181 the temptation of the caravans which p ... |
| Second Battle of Fort Fisher | ... e closing battles of the American Civil War happened in the county with the | (the last major coastal stronghold of the Confederacy) and the Battle of W ... |
| defeated | In 1791, Little Turtle and Blue Jacket | another American expedition, this time led by General Arthur St. Clair. It ... |
| Battle of Naissus | ... his cavalry participated in general Claudius' victory over the Goths at the | . Later that year Gallienus traveled to Italy and fought Aureolus, his for ... |
| crossed the Rhine | ... lans they managed to defeat the Franks, and on December 31, 406 the Vandals | , probably while it was frozen, to invade Gaul, which they devastated terr ... |
| Duc d'Anville Expedition | ... Acadia, Ramezay was sent from Quebec to the region to join forces with the | . Upon arriving at Chignecto, he sent Boishebert to Ile Saint-Jean on a re ... |
| East African Campaign | ... the Italian army in Ethiopia was defeated by the British forces during the | , Emperor Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa on 5 May 1941—five years ... |
| Battle of Santiago de Cuba | In 1912, the Reina Mercedes, sunk at the | , was raised and used as the "brig" ship for the Academy |
| Northern Virginia Campaign | ... rt of his corps in support of Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia in the | . Telegrams extremely critical of Pope's abilities as a commander from Maj ... |
| Operation Downfall | ... to production and were planned to be used in the Allied invasion of Japan ( | ), however the atomic bombings of Japan negated its use. After World War I ... |
| United States Exploring Expedition | The | under Charles Wilkes visited Funafuti, Nukufetau and Vaitupu in 1841. Duri ... |
| Second Battle of Copenhagen | ... an fleet in the First Battle of Copenhagen (2 April 1801), and again in the | (August–September 1807). This ended Dano-Norwegian neutrality, beginning a ... |
| Landing Operation on Hainan Island | ... s of China controlled by the Republic of China. From March to May 1950, the | captured the island for the Chinese communists. Feng Baiju and his column ... |
| attempted rescue operation | ... rs became less severe and generally more tolerable. Following the late 1970 | at Son Tay prison camp, most of the POWs at the outlying camps were moved ... |
| Makryplagi | ... pality of Achaea, but this expedition failed in the battles of Prinitza and | , and a mixed imperial and Genoese fleet of 48 ships was defeated by a sma ... |
| Battle of Teruel | The International Brigades also saw combat in the | in January 1938. The 35th International Division suffered heavily in this ... |
| Battle of Assaye | ... September, Wellesley led his forces over a ford in the river Kaitna and the | commenced. After crossing the ford the infantry was reorganised into sever ... |
| Siege of Louisbourg (1745) | After the | during King George's War, the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean ... |
| Battle of Bouvines | ... ne - Batetela Rebellions - Battle of Benevento - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - | - Battle of Cadsand - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - ... |
| Battle of the River Garonne | ... the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes in the | near Bordeaux and before the former was killed during the Battle of Tours ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... n 1805 a Franco-Spanish fleet was defeated by the British Royal Navy in the | . The Spanish fleet was forced into the battle by French Admiral Villanuev ... |
| Battle of Loulan | ... trading way. The first Chinese military campaigns in Turkestan dates to the | in the 2nd century BC, and were largely successful. Nomadic empires that h ... |
| Battle of Thermopylae | ... ns, foreshadowing and perhaps setting an example for Spartan conduct at the | a few generations later. Coincidentally archaeology has turned up a major ... |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... on German forces never even approached the area, having been stopped at the | |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... he authority and military power of the Spanish Empire, especially after the | , which seriously hampered the contact of Spain with its American possessi ... |
| series of offensives | The Soviets mounted a | against the Panjshir. Between 1980 and 1985, these offensives were conduct ... |
| Issus | ... eek states in 334 BC. Following Greek victories in the battles of Granicus, | and Gaugamela, the Greeks marched on Susa and Persepolis, the ceremonial c ... |
| Battle of Brunanburh | ... mlaíb led his allies into battle against Athelstan, king of England, in the | and was decisively defeated |
| Battle of Northampton | ... ed by artillery fire but only surrendered when Henry VI was captured at the | . With the help of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (nicknamed "the K ... |
| Katzbach battlefield | On June 3, 1814, he was made Prince of Wahlstatt (in Silesia on the | ). Soon afterward he paid a visit to England, where he was received enthus ... |
| Battle of Grodno | ... s, composed mostly of march battalions and volunteers. In the course of the | (September 20–September 22), the Red Army lost some hundred men (by the Po ... |
| German invasion of Norway | ... nd the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after the | on 9 April 1940 |
| Spanish Armada | ... of the opposing English and Spanish fleets in the 1588 confrontation of the | were galleons, with the modified English "race built" galleons developed b ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... ne operation that eventually leads to the resounding British victory at the | that costs Nelson his life |
| Battle of Crécy | ... galia which became closely associated with the status of knighthood. At the | (1346), Edward III of England sent his son, Edward, the Black Prince, to l ... |
| Second Battle of Tapae | ... rthern bank of the Danube River and defeating the Dacian army at Tapae (see | ) near the Iron Gates of Transylvania. Trajan's troops were mauled in the ... |
| Operation Anaconda | ... n September 11, 2001. Canadian forces joined the multinational coalition in | in January 2002. On April 18, 2002, an American pilot bombed Canadian forc ... |
| Battle of Bound Brook | The | , one of the battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign during the Am ... |
| Battle of the Ebro | In October 1938, at the height of the | , the Non-Intervention Committee ordered the withdrawal of the Internation ... |
| Battle of Cadsand | ... ons - Battle of Benevento - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - Battle of Bouvines - | - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - Battle of Charleroi ... |
| Battle of South Mountain | ... ac (the I Corps and IX Corps) at the start of the Maryland Campaign for the | , but McClellan separated the two corps at the Battle of Antietam, placing ... |
| Battle of Apple River Fort | ... ok refuge in the fort, which was defended by about 20 to 35 militiamen. The | lasted about forty-five minutes. The women and girls inside the fort, unde ... |
| Kokoda Track campaign | ... cific islands. They were turned back at the Battle of the Coral Sea and the | before they were finally defeated in 1945 |
| Battle of Gettysburg | The 111th New York was present at, among others, the | , the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Appomatt ... |
| one engagement | ... 64 took part in invasion of Iraq in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In | on 24 March 2003, 31 Apaches were damaged, and one Apache was shot down an ... |
| Battle of Santiago de Cuba | ... cruiser) as it gallantly tried to break out of an American blockade in the | . Admiral Cervera's squadron was overrun in a heroic attempt to break a po ... |
| victory of Montmartre | ... rmy and the Army of Silesia marched in one body directly towards Paris. The | , the entry of the allies into the French capital, and the overthrow of th ... |
| Battle of Falkirk | ... idge in 1297, and was Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the | . In 1305, Wallace was captured in Robroyston near Glasgow and handed over ... |
| Battle of Manassas/Bull Run | ... ent, led by Col. Egbert J. Jones of Huntsville, distinguished itself at the | , the first major encounter of the American Civil War. The Fourth Alabama ... |
| Battle of Evesham | ... year earlier, where Simon de Montfort had gained control of parliament, the | in August 1265 was the second of two main battles of the Second Barons' Wa ... |
| Battle of the Wilderness | ... 111th New York was present at, among others, the Battle of Gettysburg, the | , the Battle of Cold Harbor and the Appomattox Campaign. During the Battle ... |
| siege by Spanish forces | In 1573 the city successfully withstood a | under the leadership of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba. It w ... |
| Battle of Britain | ... ut with the outbreak of World War II (in particular, an incident during the | when a bomb fell through the roof of the laboratory and destroyed his expe ... |
| attack on Hlobane | ... lusi Zulu stronghold in Hlobane. Lieutenant Colonel Redvers Buller, led the | on 28 March. However, as the Zulu main army of 20,000 men approached to he ... |
| Royalton Raid | ... ss to the last major raid of the Revolutionary War in New England. In the " | " three hundred Indians led by British soldiers invaded from Canada along ... |
| Battle of Bennington | ... ew regimental flags from the American Revolution. Although Stark was at the | and likely flew this flag, the battle has become more commonly associated ... |
| Battle of Roncevaux Pass | ... robably undermining the power of the Duke Lupo, and possibly leading to the | that very year. In 814, Seguin was made Duke of Vasconia, but he was depos ... |
| Battle of Ikh Bayan | ... e Xiongnu in Karasahr and Kucha, the garrison at Hami was withdrawn. At the | in 89 CE, Dou Xian (d. 92 CE) defeated the Northern Xiongnu chanyu who the ... |
| Bléneau | ... l Condé's arrival from Guyenne. His bold leadership made itself felt in the | (April 7, 1652), in which a portion of the royal army was destroyed; but f ... |
| Battle of San Jacinto | ... d modern La Porte gained fame early in Texas history as the location of the | on April 21, 1836, which ended the Texas Revolution, establishing the inde ... |
| Bosworth | ... y balance to the nearby castle of Warwick. With the victory of Henry VII at | , Kenilworth again received royal attention; Henry visited frequently and ... |
| Battle of Cold Harbor | ... , among others, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, the | and the Appomattox Campaign. During the Battle of Gettysburg, the 111th to ... |
| Battle of Fort Blakely | ... ruction following the Union victories at the Battle of Spanish Fort and the | . Ironically, on 25 May 1865, the city suffered loss when some three hundr ... |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | ... the Solomon Islands and other Pacific islands. They were turned back at the | and the Kokoda Track campaign before they were finally defeated in 1945 |
| Battle of Lewes | Following the | a year earlier, where Simon de Montfort had gained control of parliament, ... |
| Battle of Antietam | ... the Battle of South Mountain, but McClellan separated the two corps at the | , placing them on opposite ends of the Union battle line, returning Burnsi ... |
| Battle of Tours | ... the River Garonne near Bordeaux and before the former was killed during the | on 10 October. After Duke Eudes's defeat, Aquitaine pledged allegiance for ... |
| Operation Overlord | | , the Allied "D-Day" landings in Normandy, took place on 6 June 1944. In p ... |
| Battle of Beverhoutsveld | ... all League Belgium - Bastogne - Batetela Rebellions - Battle of Benevento - | - Battle of Bouvines - Battle of Cadsand - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battl ... |
| Battle of Santiago de Cuba | ... the city and garrison of Santiago. With the victory of the U.S. Navy at the | , the fate of the Spanish position at Santiago was sealed. Shortly afterwa ... |
| captured Fortress Louisbourg | ... ies and reinforcements from Massachusetts. In 1745, British colonial forces | after a siege of six weeks. In retaliation, the Wabanaki Confederacy of Ac ... |
| invasion of Southern France | ... andy landings on June 6, 1944 were costly but successful; a month later the | took place, and control of the forces which took part in the southern inva ... |
| Demyansk Pocket | ... t offensive of January 1942 had trapped a number of German divisions in the | between February and April 1942; the 3 SS Totenkopf was one of the divisio ... |
| entered Paris | The Allies | on 30 March 1814. During this time Napoleon fought his Six Days Campaign, ... |
| Fort Sumter | ... e Union) rejected secession as illegal. Following a Confederate attack upon | , a federal fort in the Confederate state of South Carolina, the U.S. used ... |
| Battle of Lake Erie | ... s reached of the monumental victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the | , and so the residents decided to name the village in his honor |
| Battle of Marathon | ... ver, the invasion ended in 490 BC with the decisive Athenian victory at the | . Between the two invasions, Darius died, and responsibility for the war p ... |
| Battle of Manzikert | ... 71), faced Sultan Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks (reigned 1059–1072) in the | . The battle ended in humiliating defeat and capture for Romanus. As a res ... |
| Battle of the Plains of Abraham | ... as not achieved until French forces in North America were vanquished at the | at Quebec City, and France ceded most of her claims outside of the Caribbe ... |
| crowning victory | ... y. Ball was promoted commander on 14 April 1782, two days after his chief’s | , and on 20 March 1783 he became captain. With peace restored, Ball was fu ... |
| The Rumble in the Jungle | ... In 1974, he toured Africa and performed in Zaire as part of the buildup to | fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Admirers of Brown's music, ... |
| Battle of Las Guasimas | ... te disregard of orders, Wheeler brought on a fight which escalated into the | . Shafter apparently did not realize the battle was even underway nor did ... |
| Battle of Grunwald | ... ion, Poland's struggle with the Teutonic Knights continued and included the | (German: Battle of Tannenberg; Lithuanian: Battle of Žalgiris) (1410) and ... |
| Battle of Shiloh | Wallace's most controversial command came at the | , where he continued as the 3rd Division commander under Grant. Wallace's ... |
| Western Desert | ... ded by General Bernard Law Montgomery. The 8th Army had advanced across the | from the east and was ready for the start of the Tunisia Campaign. Eisenho ... |
| Battle of Badr | ... ith Syria was code-named Operation Badr (Arabic for "full moon"), after the | , in which Muslims under Muhammad defeated the Quraish tribe of Mecca |
| Cannae | ... ason, Austerlitz is sometimes compared to other great tactical battles like | or Blenheim. Some historians suggest that Napoleon was so successful at Au ... |
| Battle of Lepanto | ... w Greeks fight against the Ottomans, such as the Greek participation in the | in 1571, the Epirus peasants' revolts of 1600–1601, the Morean War of 1684 ... |
| Battle of Queenston Heights | ... hirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the | ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out |
| Battle of Brunkeberg | At the | in 1471, he triumphed against Swedish and Danish forces in the support of ... |
| Battle of Demetrias | ... le of Neopatras, but the fleet won a similarly comprehensive victory at the | |
| Spotsylvania Court House | ... er advantages." As the armies maneuvered toward their next confrontation at | , Stuart's cavalry fought delaying actions against the Union cavalry. His ... |
| Dresden | ... he end of the armistice, Napoleon seemed to have regained the initiative at | (August 1813), where he once again defeated a numerically superior Coaliti ... |
| Battle of Cumae | ... years later, in 474, Syracuse's tyrant Hiero defeated the Etruscans at the | . Etruria's influence over the cities of Latium and Campania weakened, and ... |
| Gingindlovu | ... lumn was marching on Eshowe. On 2 April this force was attacked en route at | , the Zulu being repulsed. Their losses were heavy, estimated at 1,200 whi ... |
| First Battle of Bull Run | ... of Northeast Virginia. He commanded the brigade without distinction at the | in July, committing his troops piecemeal, and took over division command t ... |
| Raid on Deerfield | ... adien attacks against New England were the Siege of Pemaquid (1696) and the | (1704) |
| offensive | ... wn with the ten capitalist ministers". The Provisional Government opened an | against them on 1 July but it soon collapsed. The news of the offensive an ... |
| raided the British fishing port of Canso | ... tilities. Concerned about their overland supply lines to Quebec, they first | on May 23, and then organized an attack on Annapolis Royal, then the capit ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... in the occupied Poland and a major political event of World War II was the | of 1944. The uprising, in which most of the Warsaw population participated ... |
| struggle for Irish independence | ... name still used colloquially to refer to the party). Its origins lie in the | and the pro-Treaty side in the Irish Civil War, identifying in particular ... |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... ing Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the | (1415) during the Hundred Years' War |
| Siege of Syracuse | ... was still able to prevail on the battlefield and thus lift some sieges. The | from 214 BC onwards was marked by Archimedes' ingenuity in inventing war m ... |
| Battle of South Mountain | ... te US 40, and west of Burkittsville, lie the sites of three episodes in the | : the battles of Crampton's (September 14, 1862), Fox's, and Turner's gaps ... |
| Cynoscephalae | ... ful of troops, he overthrew the tyrant's far superior force on the ridge of | . However, wishing to slay Alexander with his own hand, he rushed forward ... |
| Siege of Madrid | ... ny were veterans of World War I. Their early engagements in 1936 during the | amply demonstrated their military and propaganda value |
| Battle of the Bulge | ... iper (part of the 1st SS Panzer Division), a German combat unit, during the | |
| Overland Campaign | ... Cold Harbor, the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 | . This was fought over the same ground as the Battle of Gaines' Mill. Both ... |
| Battle of Chantilly | ... s men harassed the retreating Union columns until the campaign ended at the | |
| Battle of Hampton Roads | ... and Civil War significance. The first modern duel of ironclad warships, the | , took place not far off Newport News Point in 1862. *Milton, Keith. "Duel ... |
| Battle of Nördlingen (1634) | ... fall, the imperial forces recaptured Regensburg and were victorious in the | . The Swedish army was substantially weakened, and the fear that the Habsb ... |
| First Battle of Mantinea | ... ance in 385 BC. Epaminondas was certainly not old enough have served at the | |
| Poitiers | ... arfare to achieve decisive victory in similar engagements such as Crécy and | |
| Battle of Thymbra | ... al city of Sardis. Some months later the Persian and Lydian king met at the | . Cyrus won and captured the capital city of Sardis |
| Battle of Chesma | ... ), which saw some of the heaviest defeats in Turkish history, including the | (5–7 July 1770) and the Battle of Kagul (21 July 1770) |
| sacking of Rome | Most likely, the menorah was looted by the Vandals in the | in 455 CE, and taken to their capital, Carthage. The Byzantine army under ... |
| Battle of Anchem | ... Gugsa Welle was met by forces loyal to Negus Tafari and was defeated at the | . Gugsa Welle was killed in action. News of Gugsa Welle's defeat and death ... |
| Battle of South Mountain | ... infantry of Maj. Gen. D.H. Hill to defend the South Mountain passes in the | . His horse artillery bombarded the flank of the Union army as it opened i ... |
| Austerlitz | ... esulted in the shutting off of Mack in Ulm. As a reward for his services at | (2 December 1805) he became the 1st Sovereign Prince of Ponte Corvo (5 Jun ... |
| Battle of Quebec | ... ard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 at the | . The county seat is Fonda |
| Battle of Cunaxa | ... d to have been sung just before the start of various battles (including the | ) in Xenophon's "Anabasis" (or "Persian Expedition") |
| Lützen | ... ventually to 400,000. Napoleon inflicted 40,000 casualties on the Allies at | (2 May 1813) and Bautzen (20–21 May 1813). Both battles involved total for ... |
| Battle of Kagul | ... in Turkish history, including the Battle of Chesma (5–7 July 1770) and the | (21 July 1770) |
| Battle of Borodino | ... Gagarin (London, England, 12 July 1784 – 25 July 1842) who took part in the | (7 September 1812) against Napoleon, and later served as Ambassador in Tur ... |
| besieged | ... n 1684, and twice in 1694 under Anne Jules de Noailles. In May 1809, it was | by 35,000 French Napoleonic troops under Vergier, Augereau and St. Cyr, an ... |
| Battle of Tourcoing | ... ichegru in 1794. Leading a flanking column from the north, he fought at the | on 17-18 May. A French force under Dominique Vandamme slowed his progress ... |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... ritish dead in the breaches. In this context, his famous dispatch after the | calling them the "scum of the earth" can be seen to be fuelled as much by ... |
| Carolinas Campaign | The first three months of 1865 saw the Federal | , devastating a wide swath of the remaining Confederate heartland. The “br ... |
| Battle of Cold Harbor | The other major clash near Mechanicsville was the | , the final battle of Union Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland C ... |
| Dagor Aglareb | As in the Third Battle, | , Morgoth's prime objective was the capture of the central highland of Dor ... |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | Burke County citizens participated in the | that pitted Appalachian frontiersmen against the loyalist forces of the Br ... |
| crossed | When the remnants of the Napoleon's army | the Berezina River in November, only 27,000 fit soldiers remained, with so ... |
| attacked again | The English | in 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, led by Sir Ralph Abercromby ... |
| Falaise pocket | ... nd came in mid August when the German Army was encircled and trapped in the | , including the 1 SS Leibstandarte, 10 SS Frundsberg and 12 SS Hitlerjugen ... |
| 1339 | ... land was occupied by the Capetians on several occasions, the first being in | |
| Siege of Ostend | ... teen Provinces - Siege of Hulst - Siege of Leuven - Siege of Namur (1695) - | - Signal de Botrange - Sillon industriel - Singing Nun, The - Sint-Agatha- ... |
| Leuctra | ... olitics. In the process he broke Spartan military power with his victory at | and liberated the Messenian helots, a group of Peloponnesian Greeks who ha ... |
| Seven Days Battles | The Battle of Gaines' Mill was the third of the | , occurring just east of Mechanicsville |
| attacking German forces | ... ese factors would prove to be important for the Norwegian fight against the | |
| siege and conquest of the city of Ceuta | ... ic development of the country. The only significant military action was the | in 1415. By this step he aimed to control navigation of the African coast. ... |
| Battle of Ipsus | ... 500 war-elephants, a military asset which would play a decisive role at the | in 301 BC. In addition to this treaty, Seleucus dispatched an ambassador, ... |
| First Manassas | ... of Kentucky and Missouri). However, during the First Battle of Bull Run, ( | ) it sometimes proved difficult to distinguish the Stars and Bars from the ... |
| Siege of Namur (1695) | ... Brussels - Senne - Seventeen Provinces - Siege of Hulst - Siege of Leuven - | - Siege of Ostend - Signal de Botrange - Sillon industriel - Singing Nun, ... |
| Battle of Warsaw | ... t the city would be transferred to Lithuania. However, Soviet defeat in the | made these plans obsolete, and Lithuanian authority was never established ... |
| Second Battle of El Alamein | ... aini provided two divisions to join the war in North Africa just before the | : the First Cavalry, led by General Benjamin Segal, and the Second Infantr ... |
| Battle of Saule | ... ndreas von Stierland, who was still angry at Vykintas for the defeat at the | in 1236, by sending him "many gifts" |
| Siege of Leuven | ... - Second walls of Brussels - Senne - Seventeen Provinces - Siege of Hulst - | - Siege of Namur (1695) - Siege of Ostend - Signal de Botrange - Sillon in ... |
| Battle of Salamis | ... to the bottom of the Straits of Salamis with the entire Lycian fleet in the | , but he may be commemorated by the Harpy Tomb. In this view, he was the K ... |
| siege and relief of Arras | ... s drew apart again without fighting. In 1654 the principal incident was the | . On the night of August 24–August 25 the lines of circumvallation drawn r ... |
| Normandy landings | ... States Army, Stevens headed the U.S. Army Signal Corps unit that filmed the | and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. For these contributio ... |
| Channel Dash | A classic fast torpedo boat action was the | in February 1942 when German E-boats and destroyers defended the flotilla ... |
| Fall of France | ... and illustrated the manuscript while exiled in the United States after the | . He had traveled there on a personal mission to convince its government t ... |
| Battle of Pteria | ... Persian king Cyrus The Great marched with his army against the Lydians. The | led to a stalemate, thus forcing the Lydians to retreat to their capital c ... |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's plans for the | gave the main goal (breaking through Allied lines) to the 6th SS Panzer Ar ... |
| Battle of Shrewsbury | ... ough. Prince Hal, later Henry V, was wounded in the face by an arrow at the | (1403). The royal physician John Bradmore had such a tool made, which cons ... |
| Siege of Hulst | ... logy in Wallonia - Second walls of Brussels - Senne - Seventeen Provinces - | - Siege of Leuven - Siege of Namur (1695) - Siege of Ostend - Signal de Bo ... |
| Battle of Gaines' Mill | The | was the third of the Seven Days Battles, occurring just east of Mechanicsv ... |
| fierce battle between the Communists and German forces | ... ideological propaganda. On 17 November 1944, the town was liberated after a | . The eventually withdrew and the communists seized power |
| Operation Tiderace | ... the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed | |
| Hill 262 | ... , while the 2 SS Das Reich and the 9 SS Hohenstaufen were ordered to attack | from the outside in order to keep the gap open. By 22 August the Falaise p ... |
| Bautzen | ... poleon inflicted 40,000 casualties on the Allies at Lützen (2 May 1813) and | (20–21 May 1813). Both battles involved total forces of over 250,000, maki ... |
| Battle of Bound Brook | ... onary War the bridge was used repeatedly by both sides including during the | in 1777. In 1875, the wooden bridge was replaced by a steel pipe truss bri ... |
| Battle of Salamis | The Greek poet Aeschylus who took part in the | , commented on the power of the paean over enemies (in this case the Persi ... |
| Third Anglo-Afghan War | ... nullified existing treaties and a second phase of the Great Game began. The | of 1919 was precipitated by the assassination of the then ruler Habibullah ... |
| Battle of Catraeth | ... tribune." It may have been Æthelfrith who destroyed the British army at the | (Catterick, c. 600); the battle is described in the early poem . The Brito ... |
| Battle of Agincourt | Before the | , victory looks uncertain, and the young king's heroic character is shown ... |
| Battle of Pydna | ... possession, off and on, until it was conquered by the Roman Republic at the | in 168 BC |
| Battle of Dogger Bank | ... erial Shipyard in Kiel. This ship was sunk on 24 January 1915 in WWI at the | |
| Battle of Mycale | ... Allied fleet defeated the demoralized remnants of the Persian fleet in the | — on the same day as Plataea, according to tradition. This action marks th ... |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... oventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet Red Army during the | . The city was also subsequently twinned with Dresden, as a gesture of pea ... |
| Operation Tempest | ... 943, it had reached a strength of about 200,000. In the summer of 1944 when | begun AK reached its highest membership numbers. Estimates of AK membershi ... |
| 1972 Easter Invasion | ... equipped with the XM26 Armament Subsystem were deployed to help counter the | . USAF Lieutenant James P. Fleming piloted a UH-1F on a 26 November 1968 m ... |
| Battle of Dinwiddie Court House | ==Civil War Battles==*Battle of Peebles' Farm*Battle of Lewis's Farm* | *Battle of White Oak Road*Battle of Five Forks*Battle of Sutherland's Stat ... |
| Battle of Lechfeld | ... n 926. Only after the victory of King Otto I over the Magyars in 955 in the | , were the Swiss territories reintegrated into the empire |
| Ring Magazine fights of the year | ... magazine. His wins over Limon in 1982 and Edwards in 1983, were both named | . In 2003, Chacon was included on Ring Magazine's list of "The 100 Greates ... |
| Battle of Bloody Creek (1711) | ... e end of the war. Resistance by the Wabanaki Confederation continued in the | and raids along the Maine frontier. The remainder of Acadia, present-day e ... |
| Battle of Salamanca | ... arly everyone). However, Álava was a witness to an incident just before the | . Wellington was eating a chicken leg while observing the manoeuvres of th ... |
| Muret | ... by King Peter II of Aragon, came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged | , but in September Battle of Muret led to the death of King Peter, and his ... |
| Battle of Mohács | ... es against Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire in the disastrous | . During the retreat, the nineteen-year-old king died in a marsh. As Louis ... |
| Operation Market Garden | In World War II, during | (September 1944), the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Ind ... |
| Battle of Oudenarde | ... rlborough, with his ally Prince Eugene of Savoy, won a great victory at the | . On the way to the thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral, Sarah eng ... |
| Battle of Antietam | ... illery bombarded the flank of the Union army as it opened its attack in the | . By mid-afternoon, Stonewall Jackson ordered Stuart to command a turning ... |
| battle of N'Djamena | In February 2008 in the aftermath of the | , UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes expresse ... |
| Battle of White Oak Road | ... le of Peebles' Farm*Battle of Lewis's Farm*Battle of Dinwiddie Court House* | *Battle of Five Forks*Battle of Sutherland's Statio |
| Battle of Neville's Cross | ... was described by contemporaries as ineffective against plate armour in the | (1346), the siege of Bergerac (1345), and the Battle of Poitiers (1356); s ... |
| Japanese invasion of Manchuria | The | in late 1931 placed U.S. Secretary of State Henry M. Stimson in a difficul ... |
| Peninsula Campaign | Following Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's failure in the | , Burnside was offered command of the Army of the Potomac. Refusing this o ... |
| departure of Soviet troops | After the | in 1989, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan regime, then headed ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | ... wielded a Morgul blade that could turn its victim into a wraith. During the | , the Witch-king bore a "long pale sword", and later used a mace against É ... |
| Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) | ... to Leipzig, where they suffered their first substantial defeat at the First | |
| Battle of France | ... ic. A Typex machine without rotors was captured by German forces during the | and more than one German cryptanalytic section proposed attempting to crac ... |
| Battle of Peebles' Farm | ==Civil War Battles==* | *Battle of Lewis's Farm*Battle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oa ... |
| Second Battle of Ypres | The first effective use were when the German forces at the | simply opened cylinders of chlorine and allowed the wind to carry the gas ... |
| Battle of the Vosges | ... le between the forces of Revolutionary France and the Allied Coalition. See | |
| Battle of Lake Benacus | ... relian marched north to meet the Alamanni, defeating them decisively at the | |
| Operation Lüttich | ... lied advance. 1 SS Leibstandarte and 2 SS Das Reich took part in the failed | in early August. The end came in mid August when the German Army was encir ... |
| Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | ... transferred from the State Department to the Library of Congress. After the | in 1941, the documents were moved for safekeeping to the United States Bul ... |
| massacre | ... he Tel al-Zaatar camp fell to the Christians after a six-month siege, and a | followed in which thousands of Palestinians were killed. Arafat and Abu Ji ... |
| Battle of Port Arthur | These attacks developed into the | the next morning. A series of indecisive naval engagements followed, in wh ... |
| siege of Syracuse | ... army they fielded was no match for the arriving Roman force, leading to the | from 214 BC onwards. During this siege the ingenuity of Archimedes' machin ... |
| Battle of Quebec | ... s General Court granted a large section of the land to veterans of the 1690 | . Conflicting claims led to prolonged litigation. Consequently, settlement ... |
| Battle of Lewis's Farm | ==Civil War Battles==*Battle of Peebles' Farm* | *Battle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oak Road*Battle of Five F ... |
| Great Gallic War | The second case shows actual military value: during the " | " the Gauls under Vercingetorix planned to lure the Roman armies into Gaul ... |
| Battle of Vertières | ... roops led by Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, at the | . In late 1803, France withdrew its remaining 7,000 troops from the island ... |
| Battle of Ligny | ... ch to Waterloo as it was in the best shape, not having been involved in the | . Although they had not taken casualties, IV Corps had been marching for t ... |
| Allied invasion of southern France | ... ence on German troop movements in and around the Rhone Valley preceding the | ("Operation Dragoon"). Although he had been reinstated to his old squadron ... |
| Battle of Königsberg | ... n. Königsberg surrendered on 9 April 1945, following the desperate four-day | . The number of civilians killed is estimated to be at least 300,000 with ... |
| Battle of Churubusco | The | (20 August 1847) took place two days after the defeat at Cerro Gordo. Gen. ... |
| Battle of Polotsk | ... a part of the French Army led by Marshal Nicolas Oudinot was stopped in the | by the right wing of the Russian Army, under command of General Peter Witt ... |
| Battle of the Dunes | ... th the relieving army from Fumes, Turenne advanced boldly to meet them. The | , fought on June 14, 1658, was the first real trial of strength since the ... |
| Seven Days Battles | ... ent was the second in the series of American Civil War battles known as the | . A small portion of the battlefield has been preserved as part of the Ric ... |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | In the December 1862 | , Stuart and his cavalry—most notably his horse artillery under Major John ... |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... oventry who wanted to show their support for the Soviet Red Army during the | . The city is now also twinned with Dresden, Lidice and 23 other cities ar ... |
| Battle of Sanluri | ... t coming in support the Sardinians, and destroyed the Giudicato army at the | . Oristano, the Arborean capital, fell on March 29, 1410. The last Giudice ... |
| Battle of Poitiers (1356) | ... the Battle of Neville's Cross (1346), the siege of Bergerac (1345), and the | ; such armour became available to European knights of fairly modest means ... |
| Battle of Dresden | ... easant house in the suburbs into the town, and during the next few days the | raged. The city was bombarded; many people were killed by bombs directly i ... |
| Battle of Normandy | Some Me 410s were utilized with Junkers Ju 188s during the | for high-altitude night reconnaissance missions |
| Battle of Wisconsin Heights | ... pe confronted the Americans in a rear guard action that became known as the | . Black Hawk was desperately outnumbered, leading about 50 Sauks and 60 to ... |
| Battle of Gratangen | Gratangen was the site of the | , one of the first battles between the German 3rd Mountain Division under ... |
| Battle of Langensalza | ... ssia during the Austro-Prussian war. Despite having defeated Prussia at the | , the city of Hanover became a Prussian provincial capital. After the anne ... |
| Battle of Cape Passaro | ... cily and Sardinia, but the escort fleet was destroyed by the British in the | and the Spanish invasion army was defeated in Italy by the Austrians. This ... |
| Battle of Five Forks | ... e of Lewis's Farm*Battle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oak Road* | *Battle of Sutherland's Statio |
| Battle of Daugavpils | ... pils in 1920 as part of an independent Latvia. The city was the site of the | from 1919 to 1920. Daugavpils was part of the Soviet Union between 1940–41 ... |
| Morgan's Raid | ... rn access to the trans-Mississippi West. July brought short-lived counters, | into Ohio and the New York City draft riots. Robert E. Lee’s strike into P ... |
| Battle of Hattin | In 1187 Saladin invaded the kingdom, defeating the Crusaders at the | . The battle left Saladin with many prisoners. Most prominent among these ... |
| Crécy | ... hivalric warfare to achieve decisive victory in similar engagements such as | and Poitiers |
| Gettysburg | ... . The next day, Paradine receives orders that the army is going to march to | |
| Battle of Sutherland's Station | ... tle of Dinwiddie Court House*Battle of White Oak Road*Battle of Five Forks* | |
| Borodino | ... the higher virtues which would produce, according to Tolstoy, a victory at | during the 1812 invasion |
| Battle of Lützen (1632) | ... he Swedes from Bohemia. In November 1632 the Catholics were defeated in the | , but Gustavus Adolphus died. A period of minor operations followed, perha ... |
| Battle of Lundy's Lane | ... r General Jacob Brown, an officer in the War of 1812 who was wounded at the | |
| Battle of Horseshoe Bend | ... In a brief battle, the Americans killed and scalped all of the Natives. The | (or Battle of Pecatonica) was the first real American victory in the war, ... |
| Battle of Aspern-Essling | ... to Austria. His hurried attempt to cross the Danube resulted in the massive | (22 May 1809) — Napoleon's first significant tactical defeat. But the Aust ... |
| Operation Forager | ... Alabama again got under way as a part of Task Force 58 to participate in " | ", the invasion of the Marianas Islands and the recapture of Guam from Jap ... |
| Dettingen | ... Prussia, but open hostilities between them did not take place until 1743 at | , and war was only formally declared between France and Britain in March 1 ... |
| Battle of Herdonia | ... d and lost all but 1,000 of their 16,000 effectives. Also in 212 BC was the | , another Roman defeat when only 2,000 Romans out of force of 18,000 survi ... |
| Battle of Manzikert | ... of peace, which were rejected by the emperor, and the two forces met in the | . The Cuman mercenaries among the Byzantine forces immediately defected to ... |
| Battle of Magnesia | ... ly come under Seleucid control by 190 BC, when the Seleucids' defeat in the | resulted in Lycia being awarded to Rhodes in the Peace of Apamea in 188 BC ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... residents included Asa Pollard (1735–1775), the first soldier killed at the | , and Thomas Ditson (born 1741), who was tarred and feathered by the Briti ... |
| Battle of Smolensk | ... ough Russia, winning a number of relatively minor engagements and the major | on 16–18 August. However, in the same days, a part of the French Army led ... |
| Battle of Andernach | ... son and successor, Otto I, invaded Lotharingia and defeated Gilbert in the | . The dukes of Lotharingia were thereafter royal appointees |
| Battle of Arbedo | ... ed Italian men-at-arms also used the same method to defeat the Swiss at the | (1422) |
| Overland Campaign | During the 1864 | , Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan's cavalry launched an offensive to defea ... |
| Battle of Crécy | ... ieval battles fought by the English, the most significant of which were the | (1346) and the Battle of Agincourt (1415), during the Hundred Years' War a ... |
| military action | The country participated in | against the Taliban in 2001 with its ships patrolling the Arabian Sea sear ... |
| siege of Sevastopol | ... as the "Foreign Brigade", in the battle of Alma (20 September 1854) and the | , during the winter of 1854–1855 |
| Battle of Plataea | ... the city of Plataea (which had been razed the previous year). There, at the | , the Greek army won a decisive victory, destroying much of the Persian ar ... |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | At the | , Stuart accompanied Stonewall Jackson on his famous flanking march of May ... |
| Battle of Leuctra | ... f Laconia. Agesilaus then struck the Thebans out of the treaty. The ensuing | in 371 BC marked the end of Spartan hegemony. Agesilaus himself did not fi ... |
| Chancellorsville | ... in Virginia than anywhere else, including Bull Run, the Seven Days Battles, | , and the concluding Battle of Appomattox Court House. After the capture o ... |
| Battle of Colenso | ... rigade first looked after the Boers' great Long Tom gun, then fought in the | and later held the rearguard, harassing Lord Roberts' cavalry as the Boer ... |
| Doogman 5 | ... r Force attempted to take out the Syrian anti-aircraft batteries. Codenamed | , the attempt was a costly failure. The Israelis destroyed one Syrian miss ... |
| Carnival of Champions | ... Luján and then, on December 3 of that year, he and Gómez met as part of the | in New Orleans. Showcased on HBO, this duel was subsequently dubbed the di ... |
| Battle of Puebla | ... commemorates an initial victory of Mexican forces over French forces in the | on May 5, 1862 |
| Battle of Marengo | ... lps to Italy once again. On 14 June his army met the Austrian forces at the | (near Alessandria). Austrian troops were initially successful; by mid-morn ... |
| Battle of Tamarón | ... nominally a vassal of Bermudo III, defeated and killed his suzerain at the | on 4 September 1037. Ferdinand took possession of León by right of his wif ... |
| Battle of Five Forks | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | . Several other engagements were fought in Dinwiddie County, including the ... |
| Battle of Stillman's Run | In what became known as the | , the two battalions of militia came into contact with Black Hawk and his ... |
| Battle of Atapuerca | On 15 September 1054, Ferdinand defeated his elder brother García at the | and reduced Navarre to a vassal state under his late brother's young son, ... |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... troop movements and arguably contributing to the Confederate defeat at the | . Stuart received significant criticism from the Southern press as well as ... |
| Battle of the Plains of Abraham | On 13 September 1759, the area was the scene of the | , part of the French and Indian War, which was itself part of the Seven Ye ... |
| Battle of Ipsus | ... ng his and Lysimachus' victory over Antigonus Monophthalmus at the decisive | in 301 BC, Seleucus took control over eastern Anatolia and northern Syria |
| Battle of Valmy | ... The invading forces were repulsed from France following their defeat in the | |
| capture of Richmond | ... ellorsville, and the concluding Battle of Appomattox Court House. After the | in 1865, the capital was briefly moved to Danville. Virginia was formally ... |
| unsuccessfully besieged Fort William at St. John's | ... rench and Mi'kmaq expedition that destroyed several English settlements and | . The French and their Indian allies continued to harry the English throug ... |
| Russo-Turkish War | ... pelled torpedo for example, and its first successful use in 1877 during the | . The Russo-Japanese war was the first conflict to see the first massive d ... |
| Spanish Armada | ... rs Cervantes led a nomadic existence, working as a purchasing agent for the | and as a tax collector. He suffered a bankruptcy and was imprisoned at lea ... |
| Battle of Nedao | ... equence they were divided, defeated and scattered the following year in the | by the Ostrogoths and the Gepids under Ardaric who had been Attila's most ... |
| Sack of Magdeburg | ... he became even more forceful leading to infamies by his armies such as the | |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... lish, the most significant of which were the Battle of Crécy (1346) and the | (1415), during the Hundred Years' War and followed earlier successes, nota ... |
| Battle of Solferino | ... in 1859 Jean-Henri Dunant organized local villagers to help victims of the | , including the provision of first aid. Four years later, four nations met ... |
| Battle of Dinwiddie Court House | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | , Battle of Sutherland's Station, and Battle of White Oak Road.The Dinwidd ... |
| Battle of Halidon Hill | ... uring the Hundred Years' War and followed earlier successes, notably at the | (1333) during the Scottish wars. The longbow corps saw particularly heavy ... |
| another fought | ... zzo was also the seat of a battle in 1718 between Spain and Austria, and of | by Giuseppe Garibaldi against the Kingdom of Two Sicilies during his Exped ... |
| Battle of the Boyne | Following the | , Finglas was used as a camp for four days by William of Orange en route t ... |
| Battle of Memphis | ... positioned south along the Mississippi River to Memphis, where at the naval | its River Defense Fleet was sunk and Confederates then withdrew from north ... |
| Hohenlinden | ... t Marengo, which forced them to withdraw from Italy, and then in Germany at | . These defeats forced Thugut's resignation, and Austria, now led by Ludwi ... |
| Battle of the Vale of Siddim | ... am, and others, and defeated Sodom and the other Cities of the Plain in the | |
| Battle of Panium | ... from the Ptolemies for the final time, defeating Ptolemy V Epiphanes at the | in 198 BCE. Seleucid rule over the Jewish parts of the region then resulte ... |
| El Alamein | ... rks when he used a captured Daimler Scout to escape following his defeat at | |
| Battle of Muret | ... lict at the Aragonese monarch, who was defeated and killed in the course of | in 1213 |
| 1813 War of Liberation | Following the start of the | , Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at Lützen a ... |
| Harald Fairhair's campaign in Götaland | ... re battles between the Geats and the Norwegian king Harald Fairhair, during | , a war the Geats had to fight without the assistance of the Swedish king ... |
| Battle of Bosworth Field | ... is written as a secret history which contends that King Richard III won the | , only to be mistaken for someone else and murdered, and is succeeded by R ... |
| Battle of Sutherland's Station | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | , and Battle of White Oak Road.The Dinwiddie County Historical Society cur ... |
| Battle of the Bulge | ... records while on leave, prior to his departure for Europe. He fought in the | , where a severe case of frostbite nearly resulted in the amputation of hi ... |
| Battle of Evesham | ... ver control of the Tower once again. Henry won a significant victory at the | in 1265, allowing him to regain control of the country and the Tower of Lo ... |
| Allied invasion of occupied France | ... sion from the moonscapes of Corsica to the continent in preparation for the | , some three weeks before the liberation of Paris |
| captured St. John's | ... December 1708 a combined force of French, Canadian, and Mi'kmaq volunteers | and destroyed the fortifications. Lacking the resources to hold the prize, ... |
| Battle of Yellow Tavern | ... lry launched an offensive to defeat Stuart, who was mortally wounded at the | |
| Battle of Leuctra | ... ng Epaminondas wherever possible and does not even note his presence at the | . Xenophon, Hellenica, * Cawkwell, Introduction, 35–36; Hanson, Hoplites, ... |
| Battle of Mycale | ... ian army and ending the invasion of Greece; whilst at the near-simultaneous | the Allied fleet destroyed much of the remaining Persian fleet |
| Lützen | ... Liberation, Blücher was again placed in high command, and he was present at | and Bautzen. During the armistice, he worked on the organization of the Pr ... |
| Battle of Edington | ... all of Wessex if he had not suffered a defeat at the hands of Alfred at the | in 878. At the Battle of Edington, Guthrum’s entire army was routed by Alf ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | ... iantly demonstrated in the rout of the Austro-Russian forces in 1805 in the | . The French Army reorganized the role of artillery, forming independent, ... |
| entire Imperial army panicked | ... mass flight of the 130,000-strong Imperial army on 14 August 1431 when the | after sighting the 50,000-strong Hussite army approaching and singing |
| siege of Jerusalem | ... s installed as king of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, after a | to succeed his nephew, Jeconiah, who was overthrown as king after a reign ... |
| Battle of Patay | ... e Scottish wars. The longbow corps saw particularly heavy casualties at the | and this loss contributed to England's eventual defeat in that war |
| Battle of Tzirallum | ... ummoned an army of 70,000 men, but still sustained a crushing defeat at the | , in the neighbourhood of Heraclea Perinthus, on the April 30, and fled, f ... |
| Wilderness Campaign | ... ives continued with Sherman’s March to the Sea to take Savannah and Grant's | to encircle Richmond and besiege Lee's army at Petersbur |
| Trafalgar | ... f the fastest vessels in the Royal Navy, brought the news of the victory at | and the death of Admiral Nelson back to England |
| the Japanese attacked | On 7 December 1941, using aircraft carriers, | the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack destroyed or cr ... |
| Battle of Ilipa | At the | large numbers of Celtiberian mercenaries in Carthaginian service confronte ... |
| Fall of Saigon | ... n Refugees and Escapees continued to focus on Vietnam, especially after the | in 1975 |
| Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno | ... more recent, high profile fights staged in the city. These include the WBC | heavyweight championship fight at the Arms Park in 1993, and many of Joe C ... |
| Marzabotto massacre | ... was involved in the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre in August 1944, and the | between September and October 1944 |
| Battle of Zorndorf | ... eltsy Uprising (1698) against Peter the Great, distinguished himself in the | (25 August 1758), receiving three wounds. He represented an opposite to Pe ... |
| Battle of Wisconsin Heights | ... y Dodge caught up with the British Band on July 21 and defeated them at the | . Black Hawk's band, weakened by hunger, death, and desertion, retreated t ... |
| Battle of Ticinus | ... cipated such an early arrival on the other side of the Alps. In the ensuing | the cavalry forces of Hannibal's army defeated the cavalry and light infan ... |
| Operation Hannibal | ... coast, many soldiers and civilians were evacuated by ship in the course of | . Between January 23, 1945 and May 5, 1945, up to 250,000 Germans primaril ... |
| Keelung Campaign | ... Jilong) in Formosa (Taiwan), where it took part in the later battles of the | . The battalion played an important role in Colonel Jacques Duchesne's off ... |
| U.S. invasion in 1898 | ... had traditionally been an intrinsic part of Puerto Rican culture until the | , with the Roman Catholic Church the de facto state church in the Island. ... |
| Battle of Vouillé | ... lls of Clovis putting a flower in his helmet just before his victory at the | , leading him to choose the fleur-de-lis as a royal symbol |
| Battle of Britain | ... oyal Air Force to calibrate the coastal radar stations during and after the | |
| Battle of Chancellorsville | ... he Potomac, bringing fame to himself and embarrassment to the North. At the | , he distinguished himself as a temporary commander of the wounded Stonewa ... |
| Indian Creek massacre | ... not directly related to Black Hawk's objectives. One such incident was the | . In the spring of 1832, Potawatomis living along Indian Creek were upset ... |
| Battle of Mohács | In 1526, following the | , in which Ferdinand's brother-in-law Louis II, King of Hungary and Bohemi ... |
| Battle of Britain | ... an bombing British coastal airfields in the early Adlerangriff phase of the | , and a week before Germany actually began bombing London on 24 August |
| Battle of Sempach | The | in 1386, in which Leopold III, Duke of Austria was defeated by the Old Swi ... |
| Council House Fight | ... ries of conflicts between the Texas Rangers and the Comanches, known as the | and the Battle of Plum Creek, finally pushed the Comanches westward, mostl ... |
| British successfully raided Vigo | ... as held responsible. France launched an invasion of eastern Spain while the | . On 5 December 1719, with Philip V fast becoming the common enemy of all ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | The most widely known AK operation was the failed | . The AK also defended Polish civilians against atrocities committed by no ... |
| Battle of Palmito Ranch | ... a month after the surrender had been signed at Appomattox Court House, the | was fought and won by the Confederates. Ulysses S. Grant sent Union Genera ... |
| Battle of Flodden Field | ... III to Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk to commemorate his victory at the | . It is a modification of the Royal coat of arms of Scotland. Instead of i ... |
| Battle of Ulundi | ... intending to defeat the main Zulu army. On 4 July the armies clashed at the | , and Cetshwayo's forces were decisively defeated |
| Normandy landings | ... ufour) in sabotaging communication lines during German attempts to stem the | |
| Gettysburg | ... . The Army of the Potomac, which camped at Prospect Hall for weeks prior to | , went on to fight several major battles. The National Museum of Civil War ... |
| Washington, D.C. and the Chesapeake | ... e War of 1812 between Britain and the United States, the British attacks on | (which prompted the writing of The Star-Spangled Banner) were planned and ... |
| Syrian Wars | ... Alexander's empire, the Seleucid Empire and Ptolemaic Egypt, during the six | of the 3rd–1st centuries BCE: "After two centuries of peace under the Pers ... |
| surrender at Saratoga | ... General John Burgoyne was waiting were held up, and Burgoyne was forced to | ten days later with his reinforcements still far to the south |
| Battle of Vertières | ... nst the French, culminating in the last major battle of the revolution, the | . On 18 November 1803, black and mulatto forces under Dessalines and Pétio ... |
| Degsastan | ... erior force, according to Bede, he won a crushing victory at a place called | ; most of Áedán's army was killed, and Áedán himself fled. Bede says that ... |
| Battle of the Standard | ... est Anglo-Saxon warfare and the first great English archery victory was the | in 1138 |
| Battle of Brandy Station | ... ampaign, Stuart endured the two low points in his career, starting with the | , the largest predominantly cavalry engagement of the war. By June 5, two ... |
| Battle of White Oak Road | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | .The Dinwiddie County Historical Society currently occupies the historic D ... |
| Battle of Soissons | ... e "Kingdom of Soissons", until it fell to the Frankish king Clovis I in the | |
| Battle of Lobregal | ... wealthy enough to support him. In March 1160 the Castro and Lara met at the | and the Castro were victorious, but the guardianship of Alfonso and the re ... |
| Battle of Plum Creek | ... e Texas Rangers and the Comanches, known as the Council House Fight and the | , finally pushed the Comanches westward, mostly ending conflicts in Centra ... |
| besieged Cadiz | ... area around Lisbon (behind their impregnable lines of Torres Vedras) and to | . Napoleon married Marie-Louise, an Austrian Archduchess, with the aim of ... |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... south; efforts would be made to capture the oilfields in the Caucasus. The | , a major turning point of the war, began on 23 August 1942 with a major b ... |
| Battle of Sainte-Foy | ... d walking trails have been built on the site, and monuments commemorate the | and James Wolfe, the latter being an astronomic meridian marker raised in ... |
| Battle of Tolbiac | ... of the Louvre and was intended to glorify French military history from the | (traditionally dated 495) to the Battle of Wagram (5–6 July 1809). While a ... |
| Battle of Panipat | ... rsia during the 18th to the 19th century. One of the famous battles was the | during 1761, in which the Afghans invaded and decisively defeated the Hind ... |
| Trafalgar | ... e only time that the two men met; Nelson was killed at his great victory at | just seven weeks later |
| Irish War of Independence | ... oody Sunday was one of the most significant events to take place during the | , which followed the formation of a unilaterally declared Irish Republic a ... |
| Spanish Armada | ... yed by the captain's refusal to return during the winter. The coming of the | led to every able English ship being commandeered to fight, which left Whi ... |
| Operation Scorched Earth | ... t insurgent intrusions of the kingdom's border, started using the Apache in | ; this involved launched air strikes against Houthi rebels operating insid ... |
| Anglo-Saxon warfare | ... does not appear to have been especially significant in pre-Norman Conquest | and the first great English archery victory was the Battle of the Standard ... |
| Prague uprising | ... 00-30,000 dead, including 4-5,000 in internment camps and ca. 15,000 in the | . Yugoslavia-5,777 deliberate killings and 48,027 deaths in internment cam ... |
| Hunnic Empire | ... the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the | , which stretched from the Ural River to the Rhine River and from the Danu ... |
| Battle of Wagram | ... ilitary history from the Battle of Tolbiac (traditionally dated 495) to the | (5–6 July 1809). While a number of the paintings displayed in the galerie ... |
| Battle of Midway | ... her with a depleted aircraft complement – were unable to participate in the | , which took place the following month, ensuring a rough parity in aircraf ... |
| Ginchy | ... mies lay south-east of Delville Wood, beyond the villages of Guillemont and | . Here the British line had not progressed significantly since the first d ... |
| Fall of Constantinople | ... r of the Palaiologan dynasty that would rule the Byzantine Empire until the | in 1453. He recovered Constantinople from the Latin Empire in 1261 and tra ... |
| Battle of Dupplin Moor | ... e early reign of King Edward III, with significant English victories at the | and the Battle of Halidon Hill |
| Battle of Toba-Fushimi | ... arbarians". The turning points of the Bakumatsu were the Boshin War and the | , when pro-shogunate forces were defeated |
| Battle of Salamis | ... 06 BC against Ptolemy he defeated Menelaus, Ptolemy's brother, in the naval | , completely destroying the naval power of Egypt. Demetrius conquered Cypr ... |
| Battle of Roncevaux Pass | ... muladi family of Muslim leaders, annihilated the rearguard of Franks in the | through an ambush of a coaliated vascon and Muslim force |
| Battle of Gaza | ... er to defend Syria against Ptolemy the son of Lagus; he was defeated at the | , but soon partially repaired his loss by a victory in the neighbourhood o ... |
| Operation Tempest | ... st of those soldiers were captured by Soviets during or in the aftermath of | , when many AK units tried to cooperate with the Soviets in a nationwide u ... |
| Battle of Brandy Station | ... ttysburg, was marred when he was surprised by a Union cavalry attack at the | and by his separation from Lee's army for an extended period, leaving Lee ... |
| Battle of Halidon Hill | ... I, with significant English victories at the Battle of Dupplin Moor and the | |
| Battle of Moscow | ... s. Das Reich had lost 60% of its strength and was still to take part in the | , and was decimated in the following Soviet offensive. The Der Führer Regi ... |
| Battle of Jemappes | ... f the French Revolution. In the Netherlands, he commanded the center at the | on 6 November. He opened the campaign of 1793 with the victory of Aldenhov ... |
| Westport | ... terial, it had little long-term benefit as Price was ultimately defeated at | a week later, bringing his campaign in Missouri to an end |
| Operation Torch | ... the fall of the Vichy regime in Algeria (November 11, 1942) as a result of | , the Free French commander in chief in North Africa slowly rescinded repr ... |
| Battle of Kringen | The | (Slaget ved Kringen) took place in August 1612, just downstream of Dovre, ... |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | During the | (January - May 1944) the Abbey made up one section of the 100 mile Gustav ... |
| First Anglo-Afghan War | ... Sikh Empire especially when it was under Maharaja Ranjit Singh. During the | , British India invaded Afghanistan in 1838 and fought until the British w ... |
| Battle of Vimeiro | Wellesley defeated the French at the Battle of Roliça and the | in 1808 but was superseded in command immediately after the latter battle. ... |
| Bussaco | ... a better laxative than a source of calories. After the subsequent defeat at | , Massená's army marched on to Coimbra where much of the city's old univer ... |
| Battle of Toulouse | ... es français sont perdus!" ("The French are lost!"). Another time, after the | , when an aide brought him the news of Napoleon's abdication, he broke int ... |
| Battle of Legnica | ... n Długosz mentions usage of poisonous gas by the Mongol army in 1241 in the | . However, his report is not firsthand, as he was born in the 15th century ... |
| evacuation at Dunkirk | ... l fashion-house in Paris. However, after the fall of France and the chaotic | in 1940, he escaped back to England, where he initially worked as an inter ... |
| La Noche Triste | ... and to the mainland. In a bloody nocturnal action of 1 July 1520, known as | , Alvarado led the rear-guard and was badly wounded. According to some sou ... |
| Bull Run | ... the war, more battles were fought in Virginia than anywhere else, including | , the Seven Days Battles, Chancellorsville, and the concluding Battle of A ... |
| Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa | ... d until 1212, when Muhammad III, "al-Nasir" (1199–1214) was defeated at the | in the Sierra Morena by an alliance of the Christian princes of Castile, A ... |
| Operation Tempest | ... ull-scale battles against the Germans, particularly in 1943 and 1944 during | . They tied down significant German forces, diverting much-needed supplies ... |
| Siege of Paris | ... foreign legion had been deployed in France itself. It attempted to lift the | by breaking through the German lines. It succeeded in retaking Orléans, bu ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... hero of the Revolution who sent Paul Revere on his ride and who died at the | |
| Battle of Alalia | Around 540 BC, the | led to a new distribution of power in the western Mediterranean Sea. Thoug ... |
| Guadalcanal Campaign | ... n's resulting strategic vulnerability in the South Pacific and launched the | that, along with the New Guinea Campaign, eventually broke Japanese defens ... |
| Battle of Coronel | ... imilian von Spee with the loss of her entire complement of 900 hands in the | , on 1 November 1914, off the Chilean coast |
| Battle of Roliça | Wellesley defeated the French at the | and the Battle of Vimeiro in 1808 but was superseded in command immediatel ... |
| Battle of Britain | ... which ends with London being bombed, opened in the U.S. at the dawn of the | , just three days after the Luftwaffe began bombing British coastal airfie ... |
| Wagram | ... eon to prepare and seize Vienna in early July. He defeated the Austrians at | , on 5–6 July. (It was during the middle of that battle that Marshal Berna ... |
| Mukden Incident | ... ts colonial empire. In 1931, 21 years later, Japan invaded Manchuria in the | . This culminated in the invasion of East, Southeast and South Asia in Wor ... |
| Austerlitz | ... er by Napoleon at Ulm, before the main Austro-Russian force was defeated at | on December 2. By the Treaty of Pressburg, Austria was forced to give up l ... |
| Battle of Edessa | ... them the general Sebastian, were killed in the worst Roman defeat since the | , the high point of the Crisis of the Third Century. The battle was a deva ... |
| Operation Pedestal | ... ter which was sunk by two Italian torpedo boat (M.S. 16 and M.S. 21) during | on 13 August 1942 |
| Battle of Britain | Especially during the | in 1940, Gandhi resisted calls for massive civil disobedience movements th ... |
| Battle of Little Mountain | ... named after Captain James Estill, a Kentucky militia officer killed in the | during the American Revolutionary War. It is a prohibition or dry county |
| Operation Arctic Fox | SS Division Nord in northern Finland took part in | with the Finnish Army and at the battle at Salla, where against strong Sov ... |
| Battle of Marsa Talamat | ... 7, the Israeli Navy defeated the Egyptian Navy in what became known as the | . Two Israeli Dabur class patrol boats were patrolling in the Gulf of Suez ... |
| Battle of Monterey | ... rsonal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Not to be confused with Monterey of the | , also in the Mexican-American war |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... hich, together with a Prussian army under Blücher, defeated Napoleon at the | . Wellesley's battle record is exemplary, ultimately participating in some ... |
| Montmirail | ... llowed by victories of Napoleon over Blücher at Champaubert, Vauchamps, and | . But the courage of the Prussian leader was undiminished, and his victory ... |
| Appomattox Campaign | ... Gettysburg, the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Cold Harbor and the | . During the Battle of Gettysburg, the 111th took the second highest casua ... |
| Battle of the Morannon | ... n's use of the palantír in the films. Here, Aragorn is luring Sauron to the | , and Sauron responds by showing him a vision of a dying Arwen |
| Battle of Tyndaris | ... ginians, who carried off all the chief citizens as hostages. In 257 BC, the | took place off Tyndaris, between that city and the Liparaean islands, in w ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | During the | Drouot was ordered to relieve a corps of the army as the Marshall who woul ... |
| Battle of the Corunna Road | ... close the encirclement of Madrid at Guadarrama — an engagement known as the | . The Republicans sent in a Soviet armoured unit, under General Dmitry Pav ... |
| Spring Offensive | ... ies over the British in the German offensives in March and April 1918. (See | .) A Star of the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross was manufactured for World ... |
| Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg) | ... e united armies of Poland and Lithuania, defeated the Teutonic Order at the | in 1410. Its defeat was formalised in the Second Treaty of Thorn in 1466 e ... |
| defeated the Han forces at Baideng | ... In retaliation, the Xiongnu invaded what is now Shanxi province, where they | in 200 BCE. After negotiations, the heqin agreement in 198 BCE nominally h ... |
| First battle of the Bergisel | ... dsturm" commanded by captain Martin Teimer in the battle later known as the | . One day later a military unit of 8000 men consisting of Bavarian and Fre ... |
| Crampton's, Fox's and Turner's Gaps | ... his light infantry division through Frederick on his way to the battles of | and Antietam in September 1862. An incident with Pennsylvania Dutch reside ... |
| Operation Overlord | ... came standard. In order to have as many Typhoons of 2nd TAF fitted before " | " conversion kits were produced and Gloster, Hawker and Cunliffe-Owen modi ... |
| Fromelles | ... ered over 23,000 casualties, of which 6,741 were killed. If the losses from | on 19 July are included, Australia had sustained more casualties in six we ... |
| Siege of Eshowe | ... ans into effect, the Zulu army managed to cut off his supply lines, and the | had begun |
| Battle of Bicocca | ... cline of the combat column of pikemen was starkly displayed at the terrible | in 1522, for instance, where arquebusiers contributed to the heavy defeat ... |
| 1948 Arab–Israeli War | ... ing Fortress bombers from Florida to the nascent state of Israel during the | . All three received Presidential pardons in subsequent decades |
| Battle of Trenton | ... ral Nathanael Greene, commander of George Washington's left wing during the | , made his headquarters during the winter of 1776 |
| Battle of Stiklestad | ... candinavian countries. The end of the Viking-era in Norway is marked by the | in 1030. Although Olafr Haraldsson's (later known as Olav the Holy) army l ... |
| Battle of Yarmouk | ... Ubaida ibn al-Jarrah captured Baalbek after defeating the Byzantine army at | . It was still an opulent city and yielded rich plunder. It became a bone ... |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | ... for Kentucky's own Captain Spier Spencer, a hero who fought and died in the | |
| Battle of Spanish Fort | ... to the Union army to avoid destruction following the Union victories at the | and the Battle of Fort Blakely. Ironically, on 25 May 1865, the city suffe ... |
| Bay of Pigs Invasion | ... 2's at a cost of $35 million.The Eisenhower administration also planned the | to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba, which John F. Kennedy was left to carry ... |
| Battle of Ane | ... cht at the hands of Drenthe's peasants, in what has come to be known as the | . A battle, incidentally, in which the Bishop was killed. His successor or ... |
| on Saipan | Marines landed | on the 15th, and that event goaded the Japanese Mobile Fleet to make a des ... |
| Battle of Ligny | ... right wing of the army, he attacked and defeated Blücher's Prussians at the | . The Prussian centre gave way under more heavy French assaults, but the f ... |
| Battle of Adwa | ... ibuted to the victorious war against Italy a quarter century earlier at the | . Another member of his entourage, Mulugeta Yeggazu, actually fought at Ad ... |
| Deir Yassin massacre | ... re the bombing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on 22 July 1946 and the | , carried out together with Lehi on 9 April 1948 |
| Battle of Intombe | ... cort of stores marching to Luneberg, was defeated by about 500 Zulus at the | , the British force suffered 80 killed and all the stores were lost. The f ... |
| Battle of Pydna | ... fairs and engaged in a series of wars with Macedon. Macedon's defeat at the | in 168 signaled the end of Antigonid power in Greece. In 146 B.C. Macedoni ... |
| Battle of New Orleans | ... concerned" – one week before the fall of Saigon. Ford drew parallels to the | , saying that such positive activity could do for America’s morale what th ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... as presented to Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher for defeating Napoleon in the | , 1815. That medal is called the Blücherstern (Blücher's Star). The second ... |
| Battle of Talavera | The next day, 27 July, at the | the French advanced in three columns and were repulsed several times throu ... |
| Irish War of Independence | ... oody Sunday was a day of violence in Dublin on 21 November 1920, during the | . In total, 31 people were killed – fourteen British, fourteen Irish civil ... |
| Battle of Saltville | ... he past, the town served as a stopover for Union troops on their way to the | . The town is also noteworthy for its flood control project, where the mou ... |
| Battle of Jarrab | Shakespear died at the | . He was followed by St John Philby in 1917 seconded by the British India ... |
| Massacre of Glencoe | ... ng near the Glen Coe valley is quite historic as it is near the site of the | in the 1690s, in which MacDonalds and Hendersons were killed by the Campbe ... |
| Hubbardton | ... pture of Fort Ticonderoga, the 1775 invasion of Canada, and 1777 battles at | and Bennington |
| Battle of Fei River | ... ly a leader of the Army of the Northern Garrison (北府军) that notably won the | in 383 AD. In 404 AD, he helped suppress Huan Xuan's rebellion, leading to ... |
| Fall of Saigon | rect 301 4 592 200 | rect 2 2 297 200 Watergate scandal rect 390 202 611 424 1973 oil crisis re ... |
| Battle of Aljubarrota | ... loyal Constable and talented supporter, repelled the attack on the decisive | (14 August 1385), where the Castilian army was virtually annihilated. John ... |
| Battle of Marignano | ... earlier wars suffered a first setback in 1515 with the Swiss defeat in the | |
| Second Manassas | ... attacked overland from the north only to be repulsed at Second Bull Run, ( | ). Lee’s strike north was turned back at Antietam MD, then Burnside’s offe ... |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | ... ed States. The confederacy, numbering around 1,000 men, was defeated at the | . This battle forced the confederacy to sign the Treaty of Greenville |
| Battle of Blenheim | ... er Blenheim Palace), a gift from Queen Anne after the duke's victory at the | . Nevertheless, Anne sent her news of political developments in letters an ... |
| Second Battle of Porto | ... r narrowly escaping shipwreck. Reinforced, he took to the offensive. In the | he crossed the Douro river in a daylight coup de main, and routed Marshal ... |
| Battle of Rocroi | ... rance's greatest victory in the war against the Habsburg Empire came at the | (1643), five days after Louis's death—apparently from complications of int ... |
| Japanese invasion of Manchuria | After the | in 1931, Japanese militarists moved forward to separate the region from Ch ... |
| Hunnic invasions | ... minology therefore dropped out of use after the Goths were displaced by the | . In support of this, Wolfram cites Zosimus as referring to a group of "Sc ... |
| Battle of Gaugamela | ... us fled out of fear at the Battle of Issus and again two years later at the | despite commanding a larger force in a defensive position each time. At th ... |
| overthrow the Republic of Hawaii | ... f wrongdoing. In 1895, Wilcox participated in another attempt, this time to | and to restore Liliuokalani to power. Royalist supporters landed a cargo o ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | Aragorn also reveals himself to Sauron after the | in the extended version of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. ... |
| Battle of Perryville | During the American Civil War, the | took place here on October 8, 1862, fought between the Confederate Army of ... |
| Battle of Kadesh | ... lassical antiquity portray the power and feats of its military leaders. The | in 1274 BC was one of the defining points of Pharaoh Ramesses II's reign a ... |
| struggle for Okinawa | ... n northern Formosa and the southern Ryukyu Islands in support of the Allied | . On 21 April, Bang rescued a Navy pilot who had ditched his plane after i ... |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | ... years old, in mid-1967, when Forrestal was assigned to a bombing campaign, | , during the Vietnam War. McCain and his fellow pilots became frustrated b ... |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... arshal after leading the allied forces to victory against the French at the | in 1813. Following Napoleon's exile in 1814, he served as the ambassador t ... |
| Babylonian War | ... e of his own, and he soon established control of the eastern satrapies. The | began between Antigonus and Seleucus, where Seleucus defeated both Demetri ... |
| American-led 2001 overthrow | In reaction to the attacks, Kennedy was a supporter of the | of the Taliban government in Afghanistan. However, Kennedy strongly oppose ... |
| Japanese occupation of Hainan | ... munists and the Li natives fought a vigorous guerrilla campaign against the | (1939–45), but in retaliation over one third of the male population were k ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | At the other end of Europe, the Waffen-SS was dealing with the | . Between August and October 1944, the Dirlewanger Brigade (recruited from ... |
| Battle of Neerwinden | ... ved instrumental in causing the complete defeat of Charles Dumouriez at the | . In October, however, his victorious career suffered a reverse at the Bat ... |
| combat of Brienne | The | and the Battle of La Rothière were the chief incidents of the first stage ... |
| Battle of Glasgow | The | was fought on October 15, 1864, in and near Glasgow as part of Price's Mis ... |
| Peninsula Campaign | ... putation as an audacious cavalry commander and on two occasions (during the | and the Maryland Campaign) circumnavigated the Union Army of the Potomac, ... |
| Chancellorsville | ... he would be replacing General Joseph Hooker after the latter's disaster at | in May. The Army of the Potomac, which camped at Prospect Hall for weeks p ... |
| liberated | A second battle of Arnhem took place in April 1945 when the city was | by I Canadian Corps of the First Canadian Army |
| Mukden Incident | ... vince and the customs revenues from the port city of Tianjin. Following the | and the Japanese invasion of Zhang's own domain of Manchuria in 1931, Zhan ... |
| Bornhöved | ... all hazards to cripple Denmark and to secure Norway, defeating the Danes at | in December. His efforts culminated in the favourable Treaty of Kiel, wher ... |
| Battle of Latakia | The | , a revolutionary naval battle between the Israeli and Syrian navies, took ... |
| Battle of Kambula | ... apparently without Cetshwayo's permission. The British held them off in the | and after five hours of heavy attacks the Zulus withdrew. British losses a ... |
| Operation Rolling Thunder | ... for assignment with the USS Oriskany, another aircraft carrier employed in | . Once there, he would be awarded the Navy Commendation Medal and the for ... |
| Battle of Flers-Courcelette | ... t great Allied effort to achieve a breakthrough came on 15 September in the | with the initial advance made by 11 British divisions (nine from Fourth Ar ... |
| Vauchamps | ... were quickly followed by victories of Napoleon over Blücher at Champaubert, | , and Montmirail. But the courage of the Prussian leader was undiminished, ... |
| Battle of the Catalaunian Plains | ... 51 and marching as far as Aurelianum (Orléans) before being defeated at the | |
| Battle of Toba-Fushimi | ... Troop; in the Boshin War that ended the Tokugawa shogunate, fighting at the | and other locations; he was also aboard one of the ships that pursued Enom ... |
| Champaubert | ... 14, and they were quickly followed by victories of Napoleon over Blücher at | , Vauchamps, and Montmirail. But the courage of the Prussian leader was un ... |
| Battle of Gaugamela | ... under Achaemenid rule, Bactrian troops nevertheless fought in the decisive | in 330 BC against the advancing armies of Alexander the Great. The Achaeme ... |
| Battle of the Bulge | ... vantage of the cold and the fog, the German artillery started the so-called | by attacking the sparsely deployed American troops around Bastogne. A few ... |
| Battle of Stillman's Run | ... awk responded by attacking the militia force, soundly thrashing them at the | . He led his band to a secure location in what is now southern Wisconsin. ... |
| Gaugamela | ... in 334 BC. Following Greek victories in the battles of Granicus, Issus and | , the Greeks marched on Susa and Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of Per ... |
| War of the Ring | ... nigh-indestructible metal, to replace the gates that had been broken in the | . The Dwarves also improved the layout of the city's streets. The elves pl ... |
| Battle of Pavia | ... arl of Suffolk and was the leading Yorkist pretender until his death at the | on 24 February 1525 |
| Mukden Incident | ... henzing Iron Ore Company Unlimited was started in Anshan in 1918. After the | in 1931, Japan occupied the northeast of China. The mills were turned into ... |
| Battle of Clontarf | One of the last major battles involving Vikings was the | on the 23 April 1014, in which Vikings fought both for the Irish over-king ... |
| relieved Mainz | ... he fortunes of war changed. Clerfayt beat Jourdan at Höchst and brilliantly | . But the Austrian Foreign Minister Johann Thugut did not approve Clerfayt ... |
| Battle of N'Djamena (2006) | ... ins plagued by political violence and recurrent attempted coups d'état (see | and Battle of N'Djamena (2008)) |
| Battle of Mohács | With the death of King Louis II of Bohemia at the | , Silesia was inherited by Ferdinand I, placing Opole under the sovereignt ... |
| Operation Eagle Claw | One of the first major operations in which the ships were involved was | launched by USS Nimitz in 1980 after she had deployed to the Indian Ocean ... |
| Battle of Gibraltar | ... sions in the Low Countries difficult. Most notable of these attacks was the | in 1607, in which a Dutch squadron destroyed a fleet of galleons at anchor ... |
| Battle of Borodino | ... mander-in-Chief by Tsar Alexander I. Finally, the two armies engaged in the | on 7 September, in the vicinity of Moscow. The battle was the largest and ... |
| Third Taiwan Strait Crisis | ... ear, together with Lee's June 1995 visit to Cornell University, sparked the | . The previous eight presidents and vice presidents of the ROC had been el ... |
| Battle of Cambrai | The | (20 November 1917 – 3 December 1917), a campaign of World War I took place ... |
| Afghanistan War | ... of the Polish Armed Forces have since participated in the Iraq War and the | |
| Friedland | ... ussians to withdraw further north. Napoleon then routed the Russian army at | (14 June 1807). Following this defeat, Alexander had to make peace with Na ... |
| battle at Chester | ... nd 616, Æthelfrith attacked the Kingdom of Powys and defeated its army in a | , in which the Powysian king Selyf Sarffgadau was killed, along with anoth ... |
| Battle of Columbus, Georgia | In April 1865, Pemberton was wounded in the | , and like many wounded veterans, he became addicted to morphine. Searchin ... |
| Spanish attack | ... ded in suppressing piracy. In 1720, Rogers led local militia to drive off a | |
| Po Valley Raid | ... y the Battle of Crotona (modern Crotone, 204), until he was defeated in the | in 203 |
| Gaugamela | ... menid Empire, after his victories at the battles of the Granicus, Issus and | , and advance as far as modern-day Pakistan and Tajikistan, provided an im ... |
| Dennewitz | ... ot in August and against Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and | ; but after the Battle of Leipzig he went his own way, determined at all h ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | During the | , the Witch-king himself was slain by Éowyn and Merry: Merry's surreptitio ... |
| Battle of Albuera | ... rd, fought Soult's 'Army of the South' to a mutual bloody standstill at the | . In May, Wellington was promoted to full General on 31 July for his servi ... |
| Continuation War | ... ralyzed – and he was not active in the dealings with Germany leading to the | . On August 27 he suffered a serious stroke. Prime Minister Risto Ryti too ... |
| holding their defensive | ... ain supply route into Petersburg where Lee's Army of Northern Virginia were | line to protect Richmond. The Danville supply train ran until General Ston ... |
| Battle of Assaye | ... ed major-general won a decisive victory over the Maratha Confederacy at the | in 1803 |
| Battle of N'Djamena (2008) | ... ce and recurrent attempted coups d'état (see Battle of N'Djamena (2006) and | ) |
| Battle of Adrianople | ... ered, but fired by their zeal, Constantine's army emerged victorious in the | . Licinius fled across the Bosphorus and appointed Martius Martinianus, th ... |
| Battle of Wakefield | ... die of natural causes. Both Edward's father and brother were killed at the | , while his grandfather and another brother were executed for treason. Edw ... |
| Battle of Solferino | ... ell against the Austrians at the battle of Magenta (4 June 1859) and at the | (24 June). The losses were significant and the Second Foreign Regiment los ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | ... ecember 1972. Whitlam noted that the polling day was the anniversary of the | —at which another "ramshackle, reactionary coalition" had been given a "cr ... |
| Battle of Crotona | In 205 Mago landed in Italy. His arrival was followed by the | (modern Crotone, 204), until he was defeated in the Po Valley Raid in 203 |
| Marengo | ... lessness, and the Austrians were defeated by Bonaparte, now First Consul at | , which forced them to withdraw from Italy, and then in Germany at Hohenli ... |
| battle off Hogland | ... irectly. But Russia's Baltic Fleet checked the Royal Swedish navy in a tied | (July 1788), and the Swedish army failed to advance. Denmark declared war ... |
| Port Hudson | ... the Mississippi River following the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and | in July, ending Southern access to the trans-Mississippi West. July brough ... |
| Indian Ocean raid | ... They achieved their first major success against the Royal Navy during their | in April 1942. Val dive bombers scored over 80% hits with their bombs duri ... |
| Raid on the Medway | ... also displays the stern of the HMS Royal Charles which was captured in the | , and the Hartog plate |
| Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire | ... ittle reliable information about the area in the 16th century following the | . Some state that the first Spanish settlement was founded by Álvar Núñez ... |
| Battle of Hanover | ... ick's cavalry as it passed through Hanover and scattered it on June 30; the | ended after Kilpatrick's men regrouped and drove the Confederates out of t ... |
| Dengbu | ... and. This allowed the Hainan takeover to be successful where the Jinmen and | assaults had failed in the previous fall. The takeover was made possible b ... |
| surrendered without a fight | ... at Yorktown, a Spanish fleet appeared off the coast of Nassau, and the city | |
| Battle of Balanjar | ... slim army under Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah was defeated outside the town (see | ) |
| Katzbach | ... sed other generals to follow his lead. He defeated Marshal MacDonald at the | , and by his victory over Marshal Marmont at Möckern led the way to the de ... |
| Battle of Pork Chop Hill | ... 7th Infantry Division, and fought in a number of engagements including the | . In a 1954 speech, the emperor spoke of Ethiopian participation in the as ... |
| Allied invasion of Europe | ... ictor fire-control system based on an analog computer, just in time for the | |
| Wars of Beleriand | ... agollach (Sindarin for Battle of Sudden Flame) was the fourth battle of the | . It was the great turning point in the War of the Jewels |
| The Rumble in the Jungle | ... is an American boxing promoter, whose career highlights include promoting " | " and the "Thrilla in Manila". He also had a long association with Mike Ty ... |
| Battle of Lewis's Farm | ... s Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician. | was fought along Quaker Road [Rt. 660]. It took place on 29 March 1865. Th ... |
| Battle of Hastings | ... oyal School of Needlework in 1965 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the | the following year |
| Battle of Tsushima | ... ral Tōgō Heihachirō on the battleship , assisting in Japan's victory at the | . During this time, he suffered from a very weak stomach, and was vomiting ... |
| Battle of Fuentes de Onoro | ... Portugal to relieve Almeida; Wellington narrowly checked the French at the | . Simultaneously, his subordinate, Viscount Beresford, fought Soult's 'Arm ... |
| attack on Fort Dearborn | ... concerned that Chicago would be on heightened alert, they still launched an | on August 15, 1812. Kinzie was able to escape unharmed and returned to Det ... |
| Battle of Wagram | After Archduke Charles' Austrian army was defeated by Napoleon at the | , the Armistice of Znaim was signed. Point IV of the agreement stated that ... |
| Battle of Mobile Bay | ... uilt in Mobile. One of the most famous naval engagements of the war was the | , resulting in the Union taking possession of Mobile Bay on 5 August 1864. ... |
| Battle of Thompson's Station | ... or in the 19th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was captured at the | and spent 3 months in a Confederate prison. In April 1864 after his releas ... |
| War of the Ring | ... as Ithil, however, was destroyed by Elessar, King of Gondor, soon after the | |
| Fall of Quebec | ... region resettled slowly in the 1750s until peace was assured with the 1759 | |
| Battle of Mortimer's Cross | ... ry 1461, as a man of advanced years, Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the | against Edward, Earl of March. They were defeated. Owen was subsequently e ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... Battle of the Golden Spurs - Battle of Turnhout (1789) - Battle of Warns - | - Baudouin I of Belgium - Beaulieu International Group - Beaumont - Beer i ... |
| Battle of Ridgefield | ... pport the Danbury troops and ensuing engagement of the British known as the | on April 27, 1777. Wooster was wounded at Ridgefield and died five days la ... |
| Bautzen | ... tion, hoping to secure Norway. After the defeats at Lützen (2 May 1813) and | (21 May 1813), it was the Swedish Crown Prince who put fresh fighting spir ... |
| Battle of Alarcos | ... uadiana, then the principal Castilian town in the region. At the subsequent | , he was roundly defeated by the caliph Abu Yaqub Yusuf al-Mansur. The reo ... |
| German invasion of that country | ... 1942 film in which an Englishman on vacation in France is caught up in the | , and finds himself taking an ever-growing group of children to safety. It ... |
| Granicus | ... oppling of the Achaemenid Empire, after his victories at the battles of the | , Issus and Gaugamela, and advance as far as modern-day Pakistan and Tajik ... |
| Battle of Bosworth Field | John Howard died at the | on 22 August 1485 along with his friend and patron King Richard. Howard wa ... |
| Battle of Wyoming | The Wyoming Monument marks the gravesite of victims of the July 1778 | . The battle was named for the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania, of which th ... |
| Battle of Isandlwana | ... se at hand were decisions that the British were soon to regret. The ensuing | was the greatest victory that the Zulu kingdom would enjoy during the war. ... |
| Battle of Lepanto | At the | (1571), the Holy League, formed by Spain, Venice, the Papal States and oth ... |
| Battle of Chester | ... rom the Britons by the Kingdom of Northumbria after the brutal and decisive | in the early 7th century. Deverdoeu was still one of two Welsh language na ... |
| Kurukshetra War | ... he Panchatantra often had stories within them. In the epic Mahabharata, the | is narrated by a character in Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa's Jaya, which itsel ... |
| Battle of Largs | ... ope, where he witnessed an eclipse of the sun prior to sailing south to the | . En route back to Norway Haakon anchored some of his fleet in Scapa Flow ... |
| Gate Fulford | ... ardrada's aid, Tostig sailed up the Humber and defeated Morcar and Edwin at | |
| Battle of Castillon | ... state under Edward, the Black Prince (1362–1372), but in the end, after the | (1453) it was annexed by France which extended its territory. The Château ... |
| Operation Market Garden | ... o repair depots in Germany. On Sunday 17 September 1944 the Allies launched | , and the British 1st Airborne Division was dropped in Oosterbeek, to the ... |
| Mafeking | ... d been a young hussar in the Boer War and had been present at the relief of | . He never held long conversations with anyone, except perhaps with me, po ... |
| Battle of Maloyaroslavets | At the | the French tried to reach Kaluga, where they could find food and forage su ... |
| Cheriton Down | ... t live to study, who did only study to live." After the defeat of Hopton at | , Fuller retreated to Basing House. He took an active part in its defence, ... |
| Battle of Cambrai | ... k place there. It was noted for the first successful use of tanks. A second | took place between 8 October 1918 – 10 October 1918 as part of the Hundred ... |
| 1948 Arab–Israeli War | In 1918, Ashkelon became part of the British Mandate for Palestine. In the | , Majdal was the forward position of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force base ... |
| Battle of Ligny | ... ening, but too late to send help to the Prussians, who were defeated at the | on the same day. The Prussian defeat made Wellington's position at Quatre ... |
| Battle of Tours | ... ously halted at the Siege of Constantinople by the Byzantine Empire and the | by the Franks. The tide of Arab conquest came to an end in the middle of t ... |
| Battle of Nashville | ... nel of the 17th Regiment of U.S. Colored Troops and led the regiment at the | |
| Japanese air attack | ... e German attack, which became nicknamed "The Little Pearl Harbor" after the | on the , was highly destructive and lethal in itself, apart from the effec ... |
| Lützen | ... ssia, in the Sixth Coalition, hoping to secure Norway. After the defeats at | (2 May 1813) and Bautzen (21 May 1813), it was the Swedish Crown Prince wh ... |
| Battle of Midway | ... er combat in both the Battle of the Coral Sea, and to a greater extent, the | .As a result the construction of the US fleet of s had been given the high ... |
| Hundred Days Offensive | ... Cambrai took place between 8 October 1918 – 10 October 1918 as part of the | |
| Battle of Mons Lactarius | ... ers Teia, Aligern, Scipuar, and Gibal were all killed or surrendered in the | in October 552 or 553. Widin, the last attested member of the Gothic army ... |
| invading the Lae-Salamaua | ... attack by Allied land- and carrier-based aircraft on Japanese naval forces | area in New Guinea in March, Inoue requested the Combined Fleet to send ca ... |
| Allied invasion at Anzio | ... g behind Nazi lines in occupied Scandinavia, and later participating in the | . Malcolm was seriously wounded during the war and eventually became reclu ... |
| Battle of Britain | Through the summer and autumn of 1940 in the | , Dowding's Fighter Command resisted the attacks of the Luftwaffe. Beyond ... |
| action | ... in of HMS Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following | at Malta in the Mediterranean in January. During this period of relative i ... |
| Battle of Saltville I | ... d that an ancestor who served in the American Civil War lost his leg at the | , Virginia, and not at Andersonville prison, as she previously believed |
| Battle of Salamanca | ... ng and capturing the fortified towns of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, and in the | (which was a damaging defeat to the French). As the French regrouped, the ... |
| Battle of Cape St Vincent | ... changed sides in 1796, but defeat by the British a few months later in the | was followed by the blockade of the main Spanish fleet in Cadiz. The run d ... |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... The inconclusive battle delayed the Confederate cavalry on their way to the | . Three days before the battle, another detachment of Virginia cavalry had ... |
| Battle of Cove Mountain | ... rginian signer of the Declaration of Independence. During the Civil War the | was fought in the county |
| Battle of Dry Wood Creek | ... over the fort occurred in August 1861 just across the Missouri line in the | . The battle was a pro-South victory for Sterling Price and his Missouri S ... |
| bungled attempt to capture | ... ick with Ethan Allen and were captured along with Allen in August 1775 in a | the city of Montreal. Some members of this unit were Congressman Matthew L ... |
| Battle of Turnhout (1789) | ... ) - Battle of Sprimont - Battle of the Downs - Battle of the Golden Spurs - | - Battle of Warns - Battle of Waterloo - Baudouin I of Belgium - Beaulieu ... |
| Battle of Hattin | ... took Ashkelon as part of his conquest of the Crusader States following the | . In 1191, during the Third Crusade, Saladin demolished the city because o ... |
| Battle of La Marfée | ... 1. With help from the Holy Roman Empire, it managed to defeat France at the | , though immediately afterwards it was besieged and its prince, Frédéric M ... |
| Battle of Saule | ... n 1201. Their efforts in Lithuania were temporarily halted by defeat at the | in 1236, but armed Christian orders continued to pose a threat. The countr ... |
| East African Campaign | On 18 January 1941, during the | , Haile Selassie crossed the border between Sudan and Ethiopia near the vi ... |
| Battle of France | ... öring's Luftwaffe played key roles in the Battle of the Netherlands and the | in spring 1940 |
| Battle of Taginae | ... he Goths reconquered most of the lost territory until Totila's death at the | . The war lasted for almost 20 years and caused enormous damage and depopu ... |
| Battle of the Clouds | ... White Horse Inn on Swedesford Road. Because of bad weather, however, the " | " was never fought |
| Battle of Largs | ... in 1171; and 1263 in Scotland by the defeat of King Hákon Hákonarson at the | by troops loyal to Alexander III. Godwinson was subsequently defeated with ... |
| expedition to Portugal | ... land of Belle Île in 1761, then served in 1762 with the British Army in the | . Contrary to prevailing medical opinion at the time, Hunter was against t ... |
| Battle of Capua (211 BC) | In the | Hannibal again tried to relieve his main harbour as in the previous year, ... |
| Operation Varsity | ... ions each to suppress German anti-aircraft guns and Wehrmacht resistance to | , the Allied crossing of the Rhine river that involved two full divisions ... |
| Red Cloud's War | ... r even initiating peace treaties as seen in the Arauco War, Chichimeca War, | , the Second Seminole War, and Pontiac's Rebellion. Hernán Cortés eventual ... |
| Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes | ... cording to the Schlieffen Plan. In the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914 and the | in 1915, however, the Russians were decisively defeated and forced to retr ... |
| Battle of Quipaipan | ... in 1527. It was captured by the generals of Atahualpa in April 1532 in the | . Nineteen months later, Spanish explorers invaded the city (see battle of ... |
| Battle of Palo Alto | ... ge of the fort. They rushed to help, but were intercepted, resulting in the | about north of present-day Brownsville. The next morning the Mexican force ... |
| Battle of Guilford Court House | ... nstock Parish. In 1812, Captain Lemuel B. Mason, who had fought in the 1781 | in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War and subsequently retired to ... |
| Battle of the Bulge | ... to the Allied civilian populations of the German counterattack known as the | had ended speculation that the war was almost over, and may have contribut ... |
| Sharpsburg | ... it. Following the Confederate incursion halted at the Battle of Antietam, ( | ), in October 1862 generals proposed concentrating forces from state comma ... |
| Battle of Largs | The Clan Ross by tradition fought at the | in 1263 in support of Alexander III of Scotland against King Haakon IV of ... |
| Battle of Herdonia (210 BC) | The | was another battle to lift the Roman siege of an allied city. Hannibal cau ... |
| Battle of Gaza | ... d besieged Tyre for more than a year. His son Demetrius was defeated at the | by Ptolemy in 312 BC, and after the battle, Seleucus made his way back to ... |
| conquest of Mexico | ... z de Cuéllar died in Santiago de Cuba in 1524, a very bitter man. After the | , Cuba experienced an exodus of settlers. A decade later, Cuba was subject ... |
| Isly | ... ar he continued his operations with unvarying success. His great victory of | on 14 August 1844 won him the title of |
| Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) | ... echo met King Josiah of the Kingdom of Judah at Megiddo and killed him (see | ). The Book of Chronicles gives a lengthier account and 2 Chronicles 35:20 ... |
| Gettysburg | ... later transferred to another unit, missing the regiment's famous defense at | . His son Wesley, who had enlisted with his father, was killed in the batt ... |
| Battle of Inchon | Incheon was the site of the | during the Korean War |
| Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem | ... silver and strip the gold from the doorposts of Solomon's Temple. However, | in 701 BC, though the city was never taken |
| Battle of Veii | ... the city, which may corroborate Livy's account of the Roman victory in the | |
| Battle of Hunterstown | ... le lines, and Hampton fought with Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer at the | before joining Stuart at Gettysburg |
| Battle of Resaca | The Civil War | was fought in and around Resaca in May 1864. Each year a re-enactment of t ... |
| Battle of Towton | After defeat at the | , Henry VI of England crossed the Solway in August 1461 to land at Kirkcud ... |
| Second Battle of Bull Run | ... Cavalry in the American Civil War. The colonel was mortally wounded at the | in 1862 |
| Spotsylvania Court House | ... luding the battles of Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and | |
| Battle of Ksar El Kebir | ... e absorption of Portugal into the Spanish crown of Philip II after the 1578 | , when Spain started to take direct actions in Morocco, as in the occupati ... |
| Battle of Artemisium | ... hermopylae, the rearguard of the Greek force was annihilated, whilst in the | the Greeks had heavy losses and retreated after the loss at Thermopylae. T ... |
| Operation Ostra Brama | ... Uprising on October 2, 1944. Other major city uprisings of AK included the | in Wilno and the Lwów Uprising. In addition, AK prepared an uprising in Kr ... |
| Crecy | ... Hundred Years' War, particularly at the start of the war in the battles of | (1346) and Poitiers (1356), and most famously at the Battle of Agincourt ( ... |
| first Ali-Frazier fight | ... ow KCAL-TV (1978). He called the closed-circuit television broadcast of the | in 1971. Hearn also did the play-by-play for basketball during the 1992 Su ... |
| Battle of New Orleans | ... or future president Andrew Jackson, the commander of American forces at the | (1815) and presidential hopeful in 1824. Jacksonville was a major stopping ... |
| Versinikia | ... al success in spring 813, Michael's army prepared for a major engagement at | near Adrianople in June. The Byzantine army was turned to flight and the E ... |
| Battle of El Alamein | ... the birth of their only child, Tania, Etienne died from chest wounds at the | in October 1942. He had never seen his daughter. It was Etienne's death th ... |
| Battle of Capua (212 BC) | The | was a stalemate since neither side could defeat the other. The Romans deci ... |
| Battle of Stiklestad | ... Steinmeyer organ was commissioned in 1930 for the 900th anniversary of the | . The organ was funded mostly by donations, particularly by Elias Anton Ca ... |
| Battle of Resaca de la Palma | ... es had retreated, and Taylor's troops caught up with them, resulting in the | , which was fought within the present city limits. When Taylor finally arr ... |
| Fredericksburg | ... g the Civil War, including the battles of Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, | , and Spotsylvania Court House |
| capture of Minorca | ... nd loyalists in North America. Joint operations with France resulted in the | but failed in the siege of Gibraltar |
| Second Battle of Ypres | ... yment of chemical warfare agents was during World War I, originating in the | , April 22, 1915, when the Germans attacked French, Canadian and Algerian ... |
| Battle of St Fagans | ... glish Civil War, St Fagans just to the west of the town, played host to the | . The battle, between a Royalist rebellion and a New Model Army detachment ... |
| Battle of Tours | ... and warlord Charles Martel, which defeated the Umayyad Arab invasion at the | in 732, were still largely infantry armies, the elites riding to battle bu ... |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | ... hips to aircraft carriers after the successes of carrier combat in both the | , and to a greater extent, the Battle of Midway.As a result the constructi ... |
| the Wilderness | ... his county during the Civil War, including the battles of Chancellorsville, | , Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Court House |
| Battle of Siffin | ... relative of Uthman and Governor of Damascus. Mu'awiyah attacked Ali at the | . The battle lasted several months resulting in a stalemate. In order to a ... |
| Paraitacene | ... eastern provinces. Antigonus fought against Eumenes in two great battles at | in 317 BC and Gabiene in 316 BC. Both were inconclusive, however. Yet in t ... |
| Battle of Thermopylae | ... ged the Persian fleet in the nearby straits of Artemisium. In the resulting | , the rearguard of the Greek force was annihilated, whilst in the Battle o ... |
| Battle of Beneventum (212 BC) | In the | Hanno the Elder was again defeated, this time by Quintus Fulvius Flaccus w ... |
| siege to Jerusalem | ... Shishaq of Egypt, brought a huge army and took many cities. When they laid | , Rehoboam gave them all of the treasures out of the temple as a tribute a ... |
| Chancellorsville | ... s were fought in this county during the Civil War, including the battles of | , the Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and Spotsylvania Court House |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | :For information about the World War II battle, see the | |
| Battle of Zhizhi | ... yu (r. 56–36 BCE), was killed by Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou (甘延壽/甘延寿) at the | , in modern Taraz, Kazakhstan |
| Battle of Dunbar (1296) | ... rs of Scottish Independence the Clan Ross fought against the English at the | where their chief, the Earl of Ross was captured. This meant that for a sh ... |
| Battle of the Nations at Leipzig | ... ralfeldmarschall (field marshal) who led his army against Napoleon I at the | in 1813 and at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... the dark, his exhausted men reached Dover on the morning of July 1, as the | was commencing without them |
| Mukden Incident | ... Qing Empire in China. In 1931, the region was seized by Japan following the | and in 1932, a sympathetic government was established, with Puyi, the last ... |
| Battle of Fleurus | ... the French used a hot-air balloon to survey Coalition positions before the | , on 26 June 1794. Advances in ordnance and rocketry also occurred in the ... |
| Königgrätz | The defeat at | in the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 resulted in Austria's exclusion from Ge ... |
| Operation Paperclip | ... that had originally been brought to America by Colonel Holger Toftoy under | . As the Korean War started, the OGMC was given the mission to develop wha ... |
| The Raid at St. Nazaire | ... ntbatten was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of | in mid 1942: an operation resulting in disuse of one of the most heavily d ... |
| Hubbardton | ... troops to fight John Burgoyne's British invasion from Quebec in battles at | and Bennington in 1777, Vermont eventually adopted a more neutral stance a ... |
| Battle of Stamford Bridge | ... r Harðráði), who was defeated by Saxon King Harold Godwinson in 1066 at the | ; in Ireland, the capture of Dublin by Strongbow and his Hiberno-Norman fo ... |
| First Anglo-Afghan War | ... n 1841—a town that had been occupied by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839 in the | . A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, w ... |
| Battle of Yalu River | ... railway, which was incomplete near Irkutsk at the time. On 1 May 1904, the | became the first major land battle of the war; Japanese troops stormed a R ... |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | ... gns in North Carolina and East Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous | and Battle of the Crater, earning his reputation as one of the most incomp ... |
| Operation Bringing Home the Goods | ... was not adhering to the agreement reached with Israel. Israel then launched | , in which it raided the Jericho prison and seized the five |
| Bull Run | ... colonel and eventually "Brigadier General of Volunteers". After fighting at | and in eight other battles, Miller became ill and later transferred to ano ... |
| Fall of Saigon | ... er the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the | , leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil crisis puts ... |
| Battle of the Netherlands | ... ured Fort Eben-Emael in Belgium. Göring's Luftwaffe played key roles in the | and the Battle of France in spring 1940 |
| Siege of Osaka | ... ndred thousand rōnin joined forces with Toyotomi Hideyori and fought at the | . In the ensuing years of peace, there was less need to maintain expensive ... |
| Battle of Sagrajas | ... m Alfonso. El Cid probably commanded a large Moorish force during the great | , which took place in 1086, near the Taifa of Badajoz. The Almoravid and A ... |
| Battle of the Silarus | ... us Fulvius Flaccus who also captured his camp. The following battle was the | , in the same year, where the Romans under Marcus Centenius were ambushed ... |
| Battle of Glen Shiel | ... gwall. In 1719 some men from the Clan Ross fought for the government at the | where the Jacobites were defeated |
| Battle of Shrewsbury | ... rl later rebelled against King Henry IV and after defeating the earl in the | , the king chased him north to Alnwick. The castle surrendered under the t ... |
| Second Siege of Saragossa | ... pain, and was stationed in Madrid during the revolt of the Dos Mayo. At the | , he won further promotion to the rank of captain, and in 1809 - 1810 foun ... |
| Siege of Fort Wayne | ... Turtle retired to a spot near present-day Columbia City, Indiana. After the | in the War of 1812, General William Henry Harrison ordered the destruction ... |
| Battle of Berlin | ... in Berlin were some of the last buildings to fall to the Soviets during the | in 1945. The British built structures in the Thames Estuary and other tida ... |
| Battle of the Downs | ... beke - Battle of Saint-Omer - Battle of Sluis (1603) - Battle of Sprimont - | - Battle of the Golden Spurs - Battle of Turnhout (1789) - Battle of Warns ... |
| Operation Torch | ... responsibility for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in | in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45, f ... |
| Battle of Jutland | ... ean liners and ; the Royal Navy battlecruiser, , which was destroyed at the | in 1916; Queen Mary College, University of London; Queen Mary Hospital, Ho ... |
| victory at Issus | ... ended campaign against the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Following Alexander's | , the Persian mercenary commander Memnon of Rhodes ordered a counter-attac ... |
| Battle of Bir Hakeim | ... rian and North African campaigns. The 13th Demi-Brigade was deployed in the | . Reflecting the divided loyalties of the time, part of the Foreign Legion ... |
| Battle of Barnet | ... ook Henry VI prisoner. Edward and his brothers then defeated Warwick at the | , and with Warwick dead he eliminated the remaining Lancastrian resistance ... |
| Battle of Lundy's Lane | ... Thames. Many engagements proved to be bloody but indecisive, including the | near Niagara Falls, Ontario, the burning of both York (Toronto) and Washin ... |
| Upperville | ... . Stuart and Union cavalry clashed in the battles of Aldie, Middleburg, and | . Confederate partisan John S. Mosby based his operations in Loudoun and a ... |
| Gulf of Sidra incident | ... ip's F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan aircraft in what became known as the | . In 1987, Vinson participated in the first U.S. carrier deployment in the ... |
| Battle of the Crater | ... t Tennessee but was defeated in the disastrous Battle of Fredericksburg and | , earning his reputation as one of the most incompetent generals of the wa ... |
| War of Wrath | ... 's son Ingwion led an armed host of his people from Valinor to fight in the | (this was probably also the only time Vanyar and Men ever encountered each ... |
| Operation Badr | At 2:00 pm on October 6, | began with a large airstrike. More than 200 Egyptian aircraft conducted si ... |
| 1948 Arab–Israeli War | ... began attacking the Jewish community, thus beginning the first stage of the | . The first attacks on Jews were in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem, in ... |
| Fall of Constantinople | ... most of the Greek speakers, "Hellene" still meant pagan. On the eve of the | the Last Emperor urged his soldiers to remember that they were the descend ... |
| Battle of Fontenoy | ... th of Balnagowan was killed in 1745 leading some members of the clan at the | fighting against the French on 30 April 1745. Balnagowan passed to George, ... |
| Battle of France | ... at lasted from 12 to 15 May 1940. This battle allowed them to win the whole | as they not only bypassed the French fortification system, the Maginot Lin ... |
| Battle of Walkerton | On March 2, 1864, the | , an engagement of the American Civil War took place here, resulting in a ... |
| Battle of Bazentin Ridge | ... ves of the villages of Thiepval; Gueudecourt, Lesbœufs and Morval. Like the | on 14 July, the limited objectives, concentrated artillery and weak German ... |
| attack on Norway | ... decisions and the Great Depression of the late 1920s and 1930s. During the | 9 April 1940 it came to a battle between a German naval force and the Norw ... |
| Bombardment of Brussels | ... 1439. All four were finished before 1450. They were destroyed in the French | in 1695, but are known from many surviving descriptions, from a free parti ... |
| Battle of North Anna | ... ksburg. This cumbersome arrangement was rectified on May 24 just before the | , when Burnside agreed to waive his precedence of rank and was placed unde ... |
| Battle of Rimini | ... ught safety on the passing of Allied forces over the Gothic Line during the | , an enormous effort of relief by the inhabitants of a country that at tha ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... forces. The largest and best known of the Operation Tempest battles was the | – the attempt to liberate Warsaw, the capital of Poland. It started on Au ... |
| Battle of Resaca de la Palma | ... ity was named by returning Mexican-American War inductees who fought at the | (translated Dry River Bed of the Palms) near Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico ... |
| Battle of Oenophyta | ... onths later, the Athenians under Myronides invaded Boeotia, and winning the | gained control of the whole country except Thebes |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... the Globe Theatre and then gradually shifts to a realistic evocation of the | . Olivier's film was made during the Second World War and was intended as ... |
| Battle of the Granicus | ... ollowed almost immediately by the victory of Alexander over the Persians at | . Darius never showed up for the battle, because there was no reason for h ... |
| Battle of the Atlantic | ... TASOM, a submarine base at Bordeaux. Italian submarines participated in the | from this base which was also a major base for German U-boats as headquart ... |
| Battle of Muret | ... 3, the defeat and death of Peter II of Aragon ("Peter the Catholic") in the | put an end to the project of consolidating Catalan power over Provence. Hi ... |
| Afghanistan War | ... eekers, and opposed the bipartisan offers of support to the US alliance and | by the Howard Government and Beazley Opposition in the aftermath of the 11 ... |
| Middleburg | ... or General J.E.B. Stuart and Union cavalry clashed in the battles of Aldie, | , and Upperville. Confederate partisan John S. Mosby based his operations ... |
| Battle of Tarentum (212 BC) | ... en the biggest Greek city in Italy, Tarentum, switched sides in 212 BC. The | was a carefully planned coup by Hannibal and members of the city's democra ... |
| Falaise pocket | A German counter-attack, starting on 7 August, at Mortain, in the | , threatened Patton's break-out from the beachhead. This was repulsed by 2 ... |
| siege | ... to take Port Royal. Led by John March, 1,600 men failed to take the fort by | ; a followup expedition in August was also repulsed. In response, the Fren ... |
| Battle of Callinicum | ... s with Belisarius on the eastern front until the latter was defeated at the | in AD 531 and recalled to Constantinople. Procopius witnessed the Nika rio ... |
| Battle of Baltim | The second naval battle which ended in a decisive Israeli victory was the | , which took place on October 8–9 off the coast of Baltim and Damietta. Si ... |
| capturing Havana | ... d of the Seven Years' War (1756–63), the navy failed to prevent the British | , during which the Spanish squadron present was also captured. In the Amer ... |
| Operation Opera | ... nnon fire. On 7 June 1981, eight Israeli F-16s, escorted by F-15s, executed | , their first employment in a significant air-to-ground operation. This ra ... |
| Battle of Adwa | ... ed as a general in the First Italo–Ethiopian War, playing a key role at the | ; he too was paternally Oromo but maternally Amhara. Haile Selassie was th ... |
| Arnhem was not liberated | ... ichsführer-SS. The Allied airborne operation was a failure, and the city of | until 14 April 1945 |
| Amba Alagi | The next clash came at | on 7 December 1895, when Ethiopian soldiers overran the Italian positions ... |
| Battle of Towton | ... eld against King Edward until its surrender in mid-September 1461 after the | . Re-captured by Sir William Tailboys during the winter he surrendered to ... |
| Battle of Settepozzi | ... d Genoese fleet of 48 ships was defeated by a smaller Venetian force at the | |
| Battle of the Ebro | ... om the rest of republican Spain. The defeat of the Republican armies in the | led in 1938 and 1939 to the occupation of Catalonia by Franco's forces, wh ... |
| Battle of Tewkesbury | ... with Warwick dead he eliminated the remaining Lancastrian resistance at the | in 1471. The Lancastrian heir, Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, was ... |
| Second Battles of the Somme | The Somme experienced war twice more in the First and | of 1918 |
| War of the Ring | ... es of Mordor gathered their strength to topple Minas Tirith in the upcoming | |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... ber; the British squadron subsequently caught and defeated his fleet in the | on 21 October (the British commander, Lord Nelson, died in the battle). Na ... |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... re emphasis on the horrors of war. It features a mud-spattered and gruesome | |
| Battle of Jena-Auerstedt | ... avalry general in the disastrous campaign of the latter year. At the double | , Blücher fought at Auerstedt, repeatedly charging at the head of the Prus ... |
| Battle of Luchana | ... , but all proved unsuccessful. One of the main battles of this time was the | , when general Baldomero Espartero defetead the Carlists, freeing the city ... |
| Battle of Queenston Heights | Brock died a Canadian hero as he repelled the American landing at the | and Tecumseh was later killed at the Battle of the Thames. Many engagement ... |
| Battle of Pelagonia | ... hardouin, Prince of Achaea, and Michael II Komnenos Doukas of Epirus at the | . In 1263, the emperor sent men (which included Seljuk mercenaries) to con ... |
| Aldie | ... ate Major General J.E.B. Stuart and Union cavalry clashed in the battles of | , Middleburg, and Upperville. Confederate partisan John S. Mosby based his ... |
| Dieppe Raid | ... in the Battle of the Atlantic. He personally pushed through the disastrous | of 19 August 1942 (which certain elements of the Allied military, notably ... |
| Battle of Issus | ... eld against Alexander’s army until a year and a half after Granicus, at the | in 333 BC. His forces outnumbered Alexander's soldiers by at least a 2 to ... |
| staged an attack from the Trentino | On May 15, 1916, the Austrian army | , unaided by the German army, whose command had advised against such a mov ... |
| Battle of Hanover | During the American Civil War, the | was fought on June 30, 1863. Union cavalry under Judson Kilpatrick encount ... |
| Siege of Cuzco | The city was retaken from the Spanish during the | of 1536 by Manco Inca Yupanqui, a leader of the Sapa Inca. Although the si ... |
| Cemetery Ridge | ... s at the same time Pickett's Charge was sent against the Union positions on | , but his attack on East Cavalry Field was repulsed by Union cavalry under ... |
| Battle of Fort Sumter | ... irginia voted to secede from the United States on April 17, 1861, after the | and Abraham Lincoln's call for volunteers. On April 24, Virginia joined th ... |
| Operation Torch | ... pointment for security reasons. The campaign in North Africa was designated | ; French cooperation was deemed necessary to the campaign, and Eisenhower ... |
| Battle of France | ... acrifice aircraft and pilots in the attempt to aid Allied troops during the | . He, along with his immediate superior Sir Cyril Newall, then Chief of th ... |
| Battle of the Golden Spurs | ... -Omer - Battle of Sluis (1603) - Battle of Sprimont - Battle of the Downs - | - Battle of Turnhout (1789) - Battle of Warns - Battle of Waterloo - Baudo ... |
| Battle of Muret | ... on, came to the aid of Toulouse. The force besieged Muret, but in September | led to the death of King Peter, and his army fled (this battle also marks ... |
| Battle of Isandlwana | ... ies of many cairns marking British soldiers' mass graves at the site of the | , South Africa. Another is the Matthew Flinders Cairn on the side of Arthu ... |
| Battle of the Plains of Abraham | ... bec, that was originally grazing land, but became famous as the site of the | , which took place on 13 September 1759. Though written into the history b ... |
| Battle of Shelon | ... nd after his generals had twice defeated the forces of the republic, at the | River and on the Northern Dvina, both in the summer of 1471, the Novgorodi ... |
| Battle of the Bridge of Cornellana | First, he had to deal with the usurper Nepocian, defeating him at the | , by the river Narcea. Ramiro then removed the system of election which al ... |
| Battle of Poitiers | Although everything appears well, Adhemar has returned from fighting in the | and discovers William's humble origins from a young girl outside Thatcher' ... |
| United States Exploring Expedition | The | led by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes was tasked with a vast survey of the Paci ... |
| Guilford Court House Military Battlefield | ... rch cemetery in October 1790. However, his remains were later reinterred at | . His original gravestone remains in the town cemetery |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... e given to the historic route used to carry dispatches with the news of the | overland from Falmouth, Cornwall to the Admiralty in London in 1805 and th ... |
| Battle of Hastings | ... rom Norsemen, invaded England and defeated the weakened English army at the | |
| Siege of Paris | ... War. Hugo returned again to Guernsey (1872–73), after suffering through the | , before finally returning to France for the remainder of his life |
| Battle of Britain | ... ntinue, first until July and finally until October 1940. Thus he fought the | under the shadow of retirement |
| Battle of the Somme | ... ies of battles through the Great War. Particularly significant was the 1916 | . As a result of this and other battles fought in the area the department ... |
| Battle of Cartagena (209 BC) | ... ded in capturing the centre of Punic power in Iberia, Cartagena, in 209 BC. | In the Battle of Baecula (208 BC) he defeated Hasdrubal, but was not able ... |
| Battle of the Crater | ... ise breakthrough. The fort was destroyed on July 30 in what is known as the | . Because of interference from Meade, Burnside was ordered, only hours bef ... |
| Battle of the Margus River | Carinus was successful in several engagements, and at the | (Morava), according to one account, the valour of his troops had gained th ... |
| Battle of Mohács | ... om of Hungary adopted Protestantism during the 16th century. After the 1526 | the Hungarian people were disillusioned by the ability of the government t ... |
| Battle of Cornus | ... unknown number of elephants) and the remaining insurgent Sardinians at the | . In the aftermath the defeated expedition of 60 quinqueremes and several ... |
| Swedish-Geatish wars | ... orporation by the Swedes, but the only surviving traditions which deal with | are of semi-legendary nature and found in Beowulf. The actual story in Beo ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | As a result of Napoleon's victory over Austria in the | in 1805, the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved. On July 12, 1806, 16 states ... |
| Battle of Ilipa | In the | (206 BC), Scipio defeated a combined army under the command of Mago Barca, ... |
| Sharpsburg | ... st mediation of the war. But the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam, ( | ) combined with internal British abolitionist opposition, and Britain did ... |
| Battle of the Bulge | ... id radio accounts of the German counter-attack in the Ardennes known as the | , and he accompanied Allied forces across the Rhine River and into Berlin |
| Battle of Sabilla | ... 1927. After two years of fighting, they were suppressed by Ibn Saud in the | in March 1929 |
| Battle of Inchon | On September 15, 1950, during the Korean War, Incheon was the site of the | , when United States troops landed to relieve pressure on the Pusan Perime ... |
| Battle of Taginae | Totila was slain in the | in July 552 and his followers Teia, Aligern, Scipuar, and Gibal were all k ... |
| Pig War | After the peaceful settlement obtained following the | , the San Juan Islands became a separate county in 1873. Friday Harbor was ... |
| Battle of Baecula | In the | (208 BC) he defeated Hasdrubal, but was not able to prevent him from conti ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... orrential rain soaked in, hampering movement. The next day, on 18 June, the | was fought. This was the first time Wellington had encountered Napoleon, a ... |
| Race to the Sea | At the beginning of the First World War, during the September 1914 | , the Somme became the site of the Battle of Albert. The battle was a five ... |
| Battle of the Thames | ... ing at the Battle of Queenston Heights and Tecumseh was later killed at the | . Many engagements proved to be bloody but indecisive, including the Battl ... |
| Battle of Cajamarca | In 1532 at the | a group of Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their indigenous A ... |
| Køge | ... he Second Battle of Copenhagen which took place in August. He fought at the | , during which the men under his command took 1,500 prisoners, with Welles ... |
| Operation Wooden Leg | ... tempt when Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed his headquarters there as part of | , leaving 73 people dead. Arafat had gone out jogging that morning |
| Battle of Quatre Bras | ... Prussians at Ligny, and fought an indecisive battle with Wellington at the | . These events compelled the Anglo-Allied army to retreat to a ridge on th ... |
| Battle of Halidon Hill | ... at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. Aodh, the 5th earl, was killed at the | in 1333, and his successor William died without male issue. The earldom of ... |
| Pickett's Charge | ... to the enemy's rear and disrupt its line of communications at the same time | was sent against the Union positions on Cemetery Ridge, but his attack on ... |
| Fenian raids | ... tinued , however, due to a series of small-scale armed incursions named the | by Irish-American Civil War veterans across the border from 1866 to 1871 i ... |
| Battle of the Somme | ... cious battles on the Western front, including Belloy-en-Santerre during the | , where Seeger, after being mortally wounded by machine-gun fire, cheered ... |
| Capture of Fort Ticonderoga | ... panies served in the American Revolutionary War, including notably the 1775 | , the 1775 invasion of Canada, and 1777 battles at Hubbardton and Benningt ... |
| Battle of Karnal | ... ls in the First Battle of Delhi. In 1739, a weakened Mughal Empire lost the | , following which the victorious forces of Nader Shah, the Turkic ruler of ... |
| Christmas Offensive | ... aile Selassie's northern armies were able to launch what was known as the " | ". During this offensive, the Italians were forced back in places and put ... |
| Battle of Kunyang | ... ously as Emperor Guangwu (r. 25–57 CE), after distinguishing himself at the | in 23 CE, was urged to succeed Gengshi as emperor. Under Guangwu's rule th ... |
| Laporte made Sanchez work hard and won a handful of rounds | ... met legendary Mexican world Featherweight champion Salvador Sánchez there. | . He lost to Sanchez by a 15 round unanimous decision |
| Battle of Panium | ... Syrian War, the Seleucids ousted Ptolemy V from control of Coele-Syria. The | (198 BC) definitively transferred these holdings from the Ptolemies to the ... |
| Bristoe Campaign | ... Cavalry Corps for Stuart with two divisions of three brigades each. In the | , Stuart was assigned to lead a broad turning movement in an attempt to ge ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | ... the orcs blasted breaches in the wall and laid siege to the city before the | . However this proved to the detriment of the orcs when the forces of Roha ... |
| Battle of Harlaw | ... laimants—the Lord of the Isles and the Duke of Albany. This resulted in the | 1411, where the Clan Ross fought as Highlanders in support of the Lord of ... |
| attacked and besieged | ... officers, was escorting a convoy to the besieged city of Puebla when it was | by two thousand revolutionaries, organised in three battalions of infantry ... |
| Aspern-Essling | ... st than Napoleon, who suffered his first battlefield defeat in this war, at | , had expected. The terms of the Treaty of Schönbrunn were quite harsh. Au ... |
| El Alamein | ... an to fail in late 1942. Complete collapse came with the decisive defeat at | |
| Battle of Camden | ... tablished there the main British supply post for the Southern campaign. The | , the worst American defeat of the Revolution, was fought on August 16, 17 ... |
| Battle of Jutland | ... er The Hon. Edward Bingham whilst on board HMS Nestor while fighting in the | in July 1916 for which he received the Victoria Cross |
| Operation Linebacker II | At the end of 1972, the failed of | brought US to a negotiated end to Hanoi government. By 1974, the United St ... |
| Battle of Brown's Mill | ... nta Campaign, Confederate cavalry badly defeated Union forces at the nearby | |
| Largs | ... of the Hebrides. After peace talks failed, his forces met with the Scots at | , in Ayrshire. The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the No ... |
| Battle of Segale | ... army under Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis loyal to Zewditu and Tafari. During the | , Negus Mikael was defeated and captured. Any chance that Iyasu would rega ... |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... French. His equestrian portrait features prominently in the Monument to the | , in present-day Vitoria-Gasteiz |
| Battle of Chustenahlah | ... ip to Russia), Skiatook Museum, The Healing Rock, Civil War Battle Marker ( | ), Captain's Cemetery, Hillside Cemetery, View from Javine Hill, Horse and ... |
| Battle of Ebro River | ... antime provided loud moral support and a safe harbour for the ensuing naval | . The 40 Carthaginian and Iberian vessels were severely defeated by the 55 ... |
| expedition | ... ristagoras. Attempting to save himself after a disastrous Persian-sponsored | in 499 BC, Aristagoras chose to declare Miletus a democracy. This triggere ... |
| Lechfeld | The ravages of the Hungarians ceased after their defeat on the | (955), and the area of the duchy temporarily grew with the addition of cer ... |
| Thrilla in Manila | ... network to continuously deliver signals via satellite when it showed the " | " boxing-match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier |
| Battle of Watling Street | Part of the route was the site of the Roman victory at the | in 61 AD between the Roman governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus and the Brito ... |
| Veronese Easters | ... continuing to advance, he arrived in the Veneto in 1797. Here occurred the | , an act of rebellion against French oppression, that tied down Napoleon f ... |
| Battle of Saint-Omer | ... ort - Battle of Oudenarde - Battle of Passchendaele - Battle of Roosebeke - | - Battle of Sluis (1603) - Battle of Sprimont - Battle of the Downs - Batt ... |
| Battle of Towton | ... n Norfolk. After demonstrating his military prowess on the field during the | , he won the admiration of Edward IV of England who made him Constable of ... |
| ROKS Cheonan sinking | Some trade was cut off after the | , for which South Korea blamed North Korea |
| Battle of Cambrai | ... tinguished Service Order (DSO) (on 18 February 1918, for his actions at the | ), and the Croix de Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He first entered th ... |
| Battle of Bouvines | ... released Ferdinand, Count of Flanders, who had been in captivity since the | . She also ceded land and castles to Philip Hurepel, son of Philip II and ... |
| Ipsus | ... imachus united to destroy him and his father. The hostile armies met at the | in Phrygia (301 BC). Antigonus was killed, and Demetrius, after sustaining ... |
| Kunersdorf | ... rsburg, interfered with the progress of the war, and the crushing defeat of | (12 August 1759) at last brought Frederick to the verge of ruin. From that ... |
| Ardennes Offensive | The | or "Battle of the Bulge" between 16 December 1944 and 25 January 1945 was ... |
| Battle of Le Transloy | Opening on 1 October, the | became bogged down as the weather broke, and heavy rain turned the churned ... |
| Lwów Uprising | ... prisings and helping to liberate various cities (ex. Operation Ostra Brama, | ), only to find that immediately afterwards AK troops were arrested, impri ... |
| Battle of Naseby | ... tle of Edgehill and continued indecisively through 1643 and 1644, until the | tipped the military balance decisively in favour of Parliament. There foll ... |
| Second Battle of Panipat | ... ughals reestablished their rule after Akbar's army defeated Hemu during the | . Shah Jahan built the seventh city of Delhi that bears his name (Shahjaha ... |
| Siege of Paris | After the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, with the | dragging on, the palace was the main headquarters of the Prussian army fro ... |
| Battle of North Cape | ... nd Jamaica participated in the sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst at the | ; Sheffield, with Belfast and Norfolk, opened the attack at 09.00; as at t ... |
| Operation Overlord | ... he Allied assault on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 under the code name | , the liberation of Western Europe and the invasion of Germany |
| Waterloo | After the allied victory at | the department was occupied by Prussian troops between June 1815 and Novem ... |
| Battle of Stirling Bridge | ... etter success when they operated in an aggressive fashion. The Scots at the | (1297), for example, utilized the momentum of their charge to overrun an E ... |
| Battle of Newburn | ... rts, and met virtually no resistance until reaching Newcastle where, at the | , Newcastle upon Tyne – and hence England's coal supply – fell into the ha ... |
| at Vedrosha | ... 1499 to take up arms against his father-in-law. The Lithuanians were routed | (14 July 1500), and in 1503 Alexander was glad to purchase peace by ceding ... |
| Battle of France | ... France the SS Totenkopf was involved in the only Allied tank attack in the | , when on 21 May units of the 1st Army Tank Brigade, supported by the 50th ... |
| Battle of France | ... luded the Eifel, part of Hesse, the Palatinate, and the Saarland. After the | , this Wehrkreis was extended to include Lorraine, including Nancy, and th ... |
| Siege of Oxford | ... t. There followed a great number of defeats for the Royalists, and then the | , from which Charles escaped in April 1646. He put himself into the hands ... |
| Battle of Clontarf | The | was fought on the banks of the River Tolka in 1014 (a field called the blo ... |
| Battle of Mycale | ... was decisively beaten at the Battle of Plataea and the Persian navy at the | . Afterwards the Persian made no more attempts to conquer the Greek mainla ... |
| captured Port Royal | ... er 1710, 3,600 British and colonial forces led by Francis Nicholson finally | after a siege of one week. This ended official French control of the penin ... |
| Tantura | ... ral Abdel-Razak al-Yehiyeh or Abdul-Razzaq Al-Yahya (born March 15, 1929 in | , near Haifa, then in the British Mandate of Palestine), also known as Abu ... |
| Battle of Wakefield | ... conflict known as the Wars of the Roses. When his father was killed at the | , Edward inherited his claim |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... , they proceeded to annihilate the Soviet 3rd Tank Corps. The advent of the | brought the Soviet offensive to a halt, and relative peace fell on the fro ... |
| sacked Iconium | ... r much raiding Frederick lost patience and on May 18, 1190, the German army | , the capital of the Sultanate of Rüm. Nevertheless Frederick's horse slip ... |
| Battle of the Ebro | ... s fought between the International Brigades and the Fascists as part of the | . The operation was initially a success for the republicans with the const ... |
| invasion of Romania | ... gnificant strategic pressure from Russia and whilst conducting a concurrent | . In 1917 the Germans were still able to defend effectively against Britis ... |
| Battle of Littleferry | ... he McFarquhar's Jacobite force were ambushed by pro-government Scots at the | near Golspie. At most one-tenth survived; John Ross escaped to Sutherland ... |
| War of the Ring | ... ven after he was overthrown, the Darkness lingered (even at the time of the | , remnants of the Great Darkness could still be found in the deep valleys ... |
| Battle of Bosworth Field | ... supporter of King Richard III of England with whom he died in combat at the | |
| Operation Tempest | ... ons against the AK partisans, including during or directly after the Polish | , which was designed by the Poles to be a joint Polish-Soviet action again ... |
| attack El Caney | ... he attack on Santiago. Shafter would send his first division of infantry to | while his second infantry division and cavalry would attack the heights so ... |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... is part cost him any advantage that this victory might have secured. At the | in Saxony (16–19 October 1813), also called the "Battle of the Nations", 1 ... |
| Crusader conquest of Jerusalem | After the | the six elders of the Karaite Jewish community in Ashkelon contributed to ... |
| Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube | ... etreat into France. Napoleon then fought a series of battles, including the | , in France itself, but the overwhelming numbers of the Allies steadily fo ... |
| Overland Campaign | ... t it up to a strength of over 21,000 effectives. The IX Corps fought in the | of May 1864 as an independent command, reporting initially to Grant; his c ... |
| San Marcial | Soult's relief attempt was blocked by the Spanish Army of Galicia at | , allowing the Allies to consolidate their position and tighten the ring a ... |
| Battle of Vertières | ... s became the leader of the revolution. He defeated Napoleon's forces at the | in 1803. Declaring Haiti an independent nation in 1804, Dessalines was cho ... |
| Leipzig | ... gust 1813. The Austrian intervention was decisive. Napoleon was defeated at | in October, and forced to withdraw into France itself. As 1814 began, the ... |
| Battle of the Golden Spurs | ... used their geldon long spear to absorb the attack of French knights at the | in 1302, before other troops in the Flemish formation counterattacked the ... |
| Sack of Rome | ... independence of many of the city-states. Most damaging was the May 6, 1527 | by Spanish and German troops that all but ended the role of the Papacy as ... |
| Battle of the Arius | ... ls like Parthia and Greco-Bactria to at least nominal obedience. He won the | and besieged the Bactrian capital, and even emulated Alexander with an exp ... |
| Battle of Tours | ... metimes attributed to an author called Isidore Pacensis in reference to the | fought against Muslim forces |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... ainst Napoleon I at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and at the | in 1815 with the Duke of Wellington |
| Battle of Baecula | ... an force under Hasdrubal had left Iberia a year ago after the defeat at the | and had been reinforced by Gallic and Ligurian mercenaries and allies. It ... |
| Battle of Poltava | ... anisław depended so entirely on the success of Charles' arms that after the | (1709) Stanisław's authority vanished as a dream at the first touch of rea ... |
| Flodden Field | ... the absence of the English King Henry VIII. His forces met with disaster at | ; the King, many senior noblemen, and hundreds of soldiers were killed. As ... |
| First Anglo-Afghan War | It was with these thoughts in mind that in 1838 the British launched the | and attempted to impose a puppet regime on Afghanistan under Shuja Shah. T ... |
| Battle of Mobei | ... colonies to strengthen their hold. The assault culminated in 119 BCE at the | , where the Han commanders Huo Qubing (d. 117 BCE) and Wei Qing (d. 106 BC ... |
| Hedgeley Moor | After Montagu's triumphs at | and Hexham in 1464 Warwick arrived before Alnwick on 23 June and received ... |
| five-month siege | ... s it was their most important frontier fortress. Three years later, after a | , the city was captured by a Crusader army led by King Baldwin III of Jeru ... |
| Battle of Sluis (1603) | ... de - Battle of Passchendaele - Battle of Roosebeke - Battle of Saint-Omer - | - Battle of Sprimont - Battle of the Downs - Battle of the Golden Spurs - ... |
| attacked Kerak | ... Saladin vowed to behead Raynald himself, and at the end of the year Saladin | , during the marriage of Raynald's stepson Humphrey IV of Toron to Isabell ... |
| Battle of the Metaurus | ... ed with a selected corps north and reinforced the Romans there to fight the | against Hasdrubal. The Carthaginian force under Hasdrubal had left Iberia ... |
| Battle of Verneuil | The Rosses took part in the | 1424, against the English in France. On the death of the Earl of Buchan an ... |
| Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno | ... al Stadium with a World Boxing Council (WBC) Heavyweight title bout between | . It was the first time that two British-born boxers had fought for the wo ... |
| Operation Ostra Brama | ... couting or organizing uprisings and helping to liberate various cities (ex. | , Lwów Uprising), only to find that immediately afterwards AK troops were ... |
| Irish War of Independence | ... r Michael Noyk. Noyk defended many IRA members in courts martial during the | and served as an official in the First Dáil Department of Finance and as a ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | ... Mordor to face the newcomers instead of assaulting the city. The resulting | took place on March 15, 3019 in the fields surrounding the city. Despite h ... |
| Battle of Blood River | ... trekker leader Andries Pretorius, who commanded the Boers to victory at the | |
| 1948 Arab–Israeli War | The state of war between both countries which dated back from the | ended in 1979 with the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty a year after the Camp ... |
| battle | ... antine met a large force of heavily armed Maxentian cavalry. In the ensuing | Constantine's army encircled Maxentius' cavalry, flanked them with his own ... |
| Battle of Qarqar | ... cy of Assyria, which was beginning to expand westward from Mesopotamia: the | (853 BC), which pitted Shalmaneser III of Assyria against a coalition of l ... |
| New Mexico Campaign | ... both Confederate Congresses as Arizona’s delegate. In 1862 the Confederate | to take the northern half of the U.S. territory failed and the Confederate ... |
| Battle of Neuwied (1797) | #redirect | |
| Bryn Glas | ... s on 22 June 1402 when Owain Glyndŵr fought a battle against the English at | . He strategically placed his longbowmen on top of a high hill, so that th ... |
| Battle of Nahrawan | ... s ("Seceders"), to abandon the fight. After defeating the Kharijites at the | , Ali would later be assassinated by the Kharijite Ibn Muljam. Ali's son H ... |
| Spotsylvania Court House | Burnside fought at the battles of Wilderness and | , where he did not perform in a distinguished manner, attacking piecemeal ... |
| United States Exploring Expedition | ... n the Oregon Country to the north. In 1841, an overland party of the famous | passed through the area |
| Battle of Tarentum (209 BC) | ... oman army under Fabius to approach Tarentum and take it by treachery in the | . Hannibal at that time had been able to disengage from Marcellus and was ... |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | ... for Toussaint Dubois, a Frenchman who fought in the Revolutionary War, the | and the War of 1812. DuBois was a merchant who lived mainly in Vincennes. ... |
| Battle of Plataea | ... lowing year, the remainder of the Persian army was decisively beaten at the | and the Persian navy at the Battle of Mycale. Afterwards the Persian made ... |
| Hohenlinden | ... the Austrians at Marengo in 1800, but the decisive win came on the Rhine at | later that year. The defeated Austrians left the conflict after the Treaty ... |
| Lwów Uprising | ... or city uprisings of AK included the Operation Ostra Brama in Wilno and the | . In addition, AK prepared an uprising in Kraków, but it was canceled due ... |
| First Anglo-Afghan War | ... e then Emir of Afghanistan for allegedly siding with the British Raj in the | (1839 to 1842). Persian was officially abolished from the region with the ... |
| Ball's Bluff | ... the Union Army's 7th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment at the battles of | and Fair Oaks. He was wounded at the Battle of Fair Oaks and later receive ... |
| Warsaw Uprising | ... nside the ghetto together with Jewish fighters from ŻZW and ŻOB. During the | a year later, Batalion Zośka, one of the most notable units of the Uprisin ... |
| Italy invaded Albania | ... Albania to avoid becoming second-rate member of the Axis. On April 7, 1939, | |
| Normandy landings | The D-Day | on June 6, 1944 were costly but successful; a month later the invasion of ... |
| Wilderness | Burnside fought at the battles of | and Spotsylvania Court House, where he did not perform in a distinguished ... |
| Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot | ... e's principal lieutenant, he led many successful engagements, including the | |
| Battle of Ashdown | ... planned an invasion of Wessex. On 8 January 871, Bagsecg was killed at the | along with his Earls. As a result, many of the Vikings returned to norther ... |
| Battle of Lyngør | ... ian waters. The Gunboat War effectively ended with a British victory at the | in 1812, involving the destruction of the last large Dano-Norwegian ship—t ... |
| Battle of Chustenahlah | The | was fought just west of Skiatook, on December 26, 1861, during the . A ban ... |
| Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa | ... ohads encouraged the establishment of Christians even in Fez, and after the | they occasionally entered into alliances with the kings of Castile. They w ... |
| battle | ... battle between SNA militia and US soldiers on October 3-4, 1993. During the | , SNA soldiers successfully shot down two US Army MH-60 Black Hawk helicop ... |
| Cold Harbor | ... the frontal assaults that characterized these battles. After North Anna and | , he took his place in the siege lines at Petersburg |
| Battle of Stirling Bridge | ... 11 September 1297, an army jointly led by Wallace and Andrew Moray won the | . Although vastly outnumbered, the Scottish army routed the English army. ... |
| Battle of Tarbat | At the | , 1486, Angus Roy Mackay was overthrown and slain at Tarbet Church by the ... |
| Dogger Bank incident | ... ion), vessels of the Russian fleet nearly sparked a war with Britain in the | by firing on British fishing boats that they mistook for enemy torpedo boa ... |
| invasion of Normandy | ... e resupplied with new equipment and freshly trained troops. After the D-Day | , the division was ordered to make its way across the country to stop the ... |
| Battle of Sempach | ... ressive pike formations to be composed of dismounted men-at-arms, as at the | (1389), where the dismounted Austrian vanguard, using their lances as pike ... |
| Battle of Leuctra | ... id to have been instrumental in procuring their punishment. He survived the | (371 BCE), as he is reported to have compared the victory of the Thebans t ... |
| Seven Days Battles | ... battles were fought in Virginia than anywhere else, including Bull Run, the | , Chancellorsville, and the concluding Battle of Appomattox Court House. A ... |
| Battle of Greece | ... untry would eventually fall to urgently dispatched German forces during the | . The German occupiers nevertheless met serious challenges from the Greek ... |
| took Rhegium | After a protracted siege, he | in 386 and sold the inhabitants as slaves. He joined the Illyrians in an a ... |
| Battle of Campbell's Station | ... led at Marye's Heights. Burnside skillfully outmaneuvered Longstreet at the | and was able to reach his entrenchments and safety in Knoxville, where he ... |
| Battle of Lechfeld | ... ctory of the Holy Roman Empire and Bohemia over invading Magyars in the 955 | , Boleslaus I of Bohemia was granted the March of Moravia by German empero ... |
| Allied invasion of Italy | After the | in September 1943, Hitler ordered the II SS Panzer Corps to move to Italy, ... |
| Battle of Marathon | ... mainland Greece in 492 BC, but was forced to withdraw after a defeat at the | in 490 BC. A second invasion followed in 480 BC. Despite a heroic resistan ... |
| Battle of Grumentum | The | was an inconclusive fight in 207 BC between Gaius Claudius Nero and Hannib ... |
| Meuse-Argonne Offensive | ... until October 3, 1918; served with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, in the | , until November 7, 1918; and again commanded the 54th Field Artillery Bri ... |
| Magnesia | ... of the Mediterranean, the Roman Republic. At the battles of Thermopylae and | , Antiochus's forces were resoundingly defeated and he was compelled to ma ... |
| Battle of Fair Oaks | ... a's highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the | . Shafter also played a prominent part as a major general in the Spanish-A ... |
| Bull Run | ... Civil War and was defeated by the Confederates in the first major battle of | (or Manassas). After he retired, he moved to California and died in 1885 o ... |
| Battle of the Wilderness | ... lysses S. Grant's offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, began at the | , where Stuart aggressively pushed Thomas L. Rosser's Laurel Brigade into ... |
| Battle of Salamanca | ... etrained Portuguese army. Campaigning in Spain, he routed the French at the | , taking advantage of a minor French mispositioning. The victory liberated ... |
| Battle of Britain | ... e, Dowding is today generally given the credit for Britain's victory in the | |
| Battle of Towton | ... ondon in 1461. Edward strengthened his claim with a decisive victory at the | in the same year, in the course of which the Lancastrian army was virtuall ... |
| invasion of France | ... e invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful | and Germany in 1944–45, from the Western Front. In 1951, he became the fir ... |
| Operation Yoav | ... orced to leave by the time it was captured by Israeli forces as a sequel to | on November 4, 1948. General Yigal Allon ordered the expulsion of the rema ... |
| Battle of Passchendaele | ... o - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Battle of Oudenarde - | - Battle of Roosebeke - Battle of Saint-Omer - Battle of Sluis (1603) - Ba ... |
| Battle of Kolwezi | ... anyola Division units collapsed almost immediately. French units fought the | to recapture the town from the FLNC. The U.S. provided logistical assistan ... |
| Battle of Bosworth Field | ... rian branch led by Henry Tudor, in 1485, when Richard III was killed in the | |
| Battle of Vitoria | ... lington caught up with and smashed the army of King Joseph Bonaparte in the | , for which he was promoted to field marshal on 21 June. He personally led ... |
| Battle of Laupen | ... an English army while the Englishmen were crossing a narrow bridge. At the | (1339), Bernese pikemen overwhelmed the infantry forces of the opposing Ha ... |
| Kelly's Ford | On March 17, 1863, Stuart's cavalry clashed with a Union raiding party at | . The minor victory was marred by the death of Major Pelham, which caused ... |
| Battle of Eccles Hill | ... radically until 1871. The raids ended after unsuccessful attacks during the | in Quebec and in the northwest frontier, near the Manitoba border. The Fen ... |
| the expedition | ... ity to provide necessary provisions. Sailing for Quebec at the end of July, | entered the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and a number of its ships foundered on ... |
| Battle of Vouillé | ... fusion followed the death of Alaric II, the son-in-law of Theodoric, at the | . The Ostrogothic king stepped in as the guardian of his grandson Amalaric ... |
| a battle in 1718 | Milazzo was also the seat of | between Spain and Austria, and of another fought by Giuseppe Garibaldi aga ... |
| Spanish Armada | Its etymology is most likely derived from the Salvador, a ship from the | that sank by the rocks near Arromanches-les-bains in 1588. However, others ... |
| Battle of Numistro | In 210 BC the | between Marcellus and Hannibal was inconclusive, but the Romans stayed on ... |
| Ulm Maneuver | ... performed a wheeling movement that put the French at the Austrian rear. The | was well-executed and on 20 October Mack and 23,000 Austrian troops surren ... |
| Battle of Fort Sanders | ... noxville, where he was briefly besieged until the Confederate defeat at the | outside the city. Tying down Longstreet's corps at Knoxville contributed t ... |
| Battle of Appomattox Court House | ... ding Bull Run, the Seven Days Battles, Chancellorsville, and the concluding | . After the capture of Richmond in 1865, the capital was briefly moved to ... |
| Namsos Campaign | ... onvoy in through the fog to evacuate the Allied forces participating in the | . It was also in 1940 that he invented the Mountbatten Pink naval camoufla ... |
| Battle of Shaho | ... evere Manchurian winter, there had been no major land engagements since the | the previous year. The two sides camped opposite each other along 60 to of ... |
| Battle of Guilford Court House | ... His great grandfather, Major Alexander Stuart, commanded a regiment at the | during the American Revolutionary War. His father, Archibald Stuart, was a ... |
| Battle of Prokhorovka | The next test for the Waffen-SS was the | , which was part of the Battle of Kursk. The SS Panzer Corps had been rena ... |
| Italians invaded Ethiopia | Starting in early October 1935, the | . But, by November, the pace of invasion had slowed appreciably and Haile ... |
| siege lines at Petersburg | ... d these battles. After North Anna and Cold Harbor, he took his place in the | |
| Battle of Sekigahara | ... the country, daimyo found it unnecessary to recruit new soldiers. Next, the | (AD 1600) resulted in the confiscation or reduction of the fiefs of large ... |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... med to avenge the honour of the saints when he met the French forces at the | on St Crispin's Day 1415 |
| Battle of Suez | ... d, with an unknown number of Egyptian casualties, for no tactical gain (see | ) |
| Battle of Salamis | ... rchipelago, but he was at length totally defeated by Demetrius at the naval | |
| Battle of Poitiers | ... ll armoured) was used effectively by the English longbowmen to help win the | |
| Battle of Bosworth Field | ... ady Margaret Beaufort. However, on the accession of Henry VII following the | , Lincoln took the oath of allegiance instead of claiming the throne for h ... |
| Battle of Manzikert | ... manos IV was defeated and captured by Alp Arslan of the Seljuk Turks at the | in August 1071, Michael VII remained in the background, while the initiati ... |
| Battle of Roosebeke | ... le - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Battle of Oudenarde - Battle of Passchendaele - | - Battle of Saint-Omer - Battle of Sluis (1603) - Battle of Sprimont - Bat ... |
| Overland Campaign | The | , Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's offensive against Lee in the spring of 1864, ... |
| Battle of Pichincha | ... nce after Antonio José de Sucre defeated the Spanish Royalist forces at the | , near Quito. Following the battle, Ecuador joined Simón Bolívar's Republi ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... the USA. They are named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed in the | in th |
| Battle of Tours | ... Liège. Pippin was the father of Charles of Héristal, victor of the decisive | that stopped the Arab-Muslim advance into northwestern Europe, earning him ... |
| Battle of Edgehill | ... Array. The First Civil War started on 26 October 1642 with the inconclusive | and continued indecisively through 1643 and 1644, until the Battle of Nase ... |
| Fort Branch | ... t significant historical event of early Hamilton was the battle and fall of | , when Union vessels and troops came upriver from Plymouth (see Plymouth, ... |
| Battle of Marathon | ... tored Athenian Treasury, built to commemorate the Athenians' victory at the | |
| Battle of Kursk | ... test for the Waffen-SS was the Battle of Prokhorovka, which was part of the | . The SS Panzer Corps had been renamed the II SS Panzer Corps and was part ... |
| Battle of Edgecote Moor | The main part of the king's army (without Edward) was defeated at the | in 1469, and Edward was subsequently captured at Olney. Warwick then attem ... |
| Battle of Canusium | ... nconclusive, but the Romans stayed on his heels until the also inconclusive | in 209 BC. In the meantime, this battle enabled another Roman army under F ... |
| Tet Offensive | ... US military operations in the Vietnam War at its peak (1964–68), during the | . He adopted a strategy of attrition against the National Liberation Front ... |
| evacuation | ... the British Expeditionary Force into the Dunkirk pocket resulted in a hasty | of that part of the B.E.F following the abandonment of their equipment. Th ... |
| first battle | ... 42. The chief backer of the drainage locally, Lord Lindsey, was shot in the | and the fens returned to their accustomed dampness until after 1750 |
| Battle of Mogadishu | ... licopter pilot Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant and his crew during the | in 1993. Both men lost their lives in doing so |
| Battle of Myriokephalon | The | , also known as the Myriocephalum, has been compared to the Battle of Manz ... |
| Battle of Albert | ... during the September 1914 Race to the Sea, the Somme became the site of the | . The battle was a five day engagement between the 25th and 29 September, ... |
| encounter | ... siege, and sent only a small force to oppose him. In the desperately fought | that followed, Ruricius was killed and his army destroyed. Verona surrende ... |
| Crête-à-Pierrot | ... , with Dessalines defeating them at the battle for which he is most famous, | |
| Siege of Fort Texas | ... ed instability in the region. Before completion, the Mexican Army began the | , during the first active campaign in the Mexican-American War, between 3– ... |
| Irish War of Independence | ... ught during the First World War (Spain remained neutral in 1914-18) and the | (Some fought in the IRA while others fought in the British army) |
| First Manassas | ... at the battles of Big Bethel, (Bethel Church) VA in June, First Bull Run, ( | ) in July and in August, Wilson’s Creek, in southwest Missouri. At all thr ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | ... but then the Rohirrim arrived and the Witch-king went to fight them in the | where he was slain |
| Battle of Wuhan | ... mperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions during the | from August to October 1938 |
| Battle of Flodden Field | ... d Ross of Halkhead, died when leading his forces against the English at the | on September the 9th, 1513. Fought in the county of Northumberland, in nor ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... vember 10. On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the | , just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suff ... |
| Battle of Ceuta | ... al, where he participated in the conquest of the Moorish city of Ceuta (see | ). In 1416 he joined King Sigismund in France and they travelled together ... |
| Battle of Vouillé | #redirect | |
| Battle of Antietam | ... e they engaged Confederate troops commanded by General Robert E. Lee at the | |
| battle | ... d the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet at Navarino. Following a week long standoff, a | began which resulted in the destruction of the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet. Wit ... |
| Battle of Spring Hill | ... ring Hill. Spring Hill was the site of a Civil War battle, now known as the | , on November 29, 1864 |
| Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa | ... he four Christian princes of Castile, Aragón, Navarre, and Portugal, at the | in the Sierra Morena. The battle broke the Almohad advance, but the Christ ... |
| Operation Konrad | ... rmy (Army Group Balck), which was mustering for a relief effort, code named | |
| Battle of Nieuwpoort | ... 1) - Battle of Leuven (1831) - Battle of lillo - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - | - Battle of Oudenarde - Battle of Passchendaele - Battle of Roosebeke - Ba ... |
| New Bern | ... emainder of the war. For his successes at the battles of Roanoke Island and | , the first significant Union victories in the Eastern Theater, he was pro ... |
| Second Battle of El Alamein | ... iment and went with the 8th Army to Northern Africa. There he served at the | . During September 1943 he commanded the 12th Anti-Aircraft Brigade during ... |
| Battle of Legnano | ... y from the Holy Roman Empire, defeating Emperor Frederick Barbarossa at the | in 1176. In the south, the Normans occupied the Lombard and Byzantine poss ... |
| British expedition of 1867 – 1868 | ... ing coast passed, nominally, to Egypt in 1866. Zula was the place where the | against Tewodros disembarked, Annesley Bay affording safe and ample anchor ... |
| Battle of the Nile | ... rtefacts dominated the antiquities displays. After the defeat of the in the | , in 1801, the British Museum acquired more Egyptian sculpture and in 1802 ... |
| Battle of Gettysburg | ... th Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army. On a single day at the | , during the assault known as Pickett's Charge, 13 of the 14 commanding of ... |
| Battle of the Wabash | ... t. Clair, governor of the Northwest Territory. The engagement, known as the | or as St. Clair's Defeat, was the crowning achievement of Blue Jacket's mi ... |
| Operation Anthropoid | ... Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in | , and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U.S. to carry out a ... |
| Battle of Yellow Tavern | The | occurred May 11, at an abandoned inn located six miles (10 km) north of Ri ... |
| New Fourth Army Incident | ... agreement and suspended anti-Communist operations until the outbreak of the | with Mao exploiting the interlude, enlarging his base and strengthening hi ... |
| Battle of Bunker Hill | ... and was originally named Warren, in honor of Joseph Warren who fell at the | . The town was surveyed and platted in July 1879, and construction of a de ... |
| Easter Offensive | In 1972, General Vo Nguyen Giap launched the " | ", an all-out attack against South Vietnam from the DMZ. The assault combi ... |
| 1948 war | ... aeli officials met for direct public discussions since the aftermath of the | |
| Battle of Normandy | ... . Diekmann, 29 years-old, was killed in action shortly afterward during the | , and a large number of the third company, which had committed the massacr ... |
| Roanoke Island | ... shipping for the remainder of the war. For his successes at the battles of | and New Bern, the first significant Union victories in the Eastern Theater ... |
| Pickett's Charge | ... y. On a single day at the Battle of Gettysburg, during the assault known as | , 13 of the 14 commanding officers died. Only 81 soldiers out of a unit of ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | The area took its name from the | . In the 1990s, after Waterloo station was chosen as the British terminus ... |
| Battle of the Ancre | ... ber when the 45 survivors— thirty of them wounded—surrendered. So ended the | , and with it the Battle of the Somme |
| Burning of Washington | ... roader Napoleonic War. Notably, a series of British raids, later called the | , would result in the burning of the White House, the Capitol, the Navy Ya ... |
| Battle of Algiers | ... t in the Generals' putsch. Notable operations included the Suez Crisis, the | and various offensives launched by General Maurice Challe including Operat ... |
| Battle of Nedao | ... Ostrogoths led by Theodemir broke the Hunnic power of Attila's sons in the | in 454 |
| Siege of Budapest | ... ntain Corps of the SS (Croatian), defending Budapest, were encircled in the | . The IV SS Panzer Corps (3 SS Totenkopf and 5 SS Wiking) was ordered sout ... |
| Battle of Nassau | In 1776 the | resulted in a brief occupation by the Americans during the American War of ... |
| Battle of Mesilla | ... 1, and appointed Lewis Owings as the new territorial governor. They won the | and established a territorial government with Mesilla serving as its capit ... |
| Battle of Cowpens | ... iginal owners, Kate Moore, was a scout for General Daniel Morgan during the | |
| Battle of the Nile | ... from Sir Hans Sloane. After the defeat of the forces under Napoleon at the | in 1801, the Egyptian antiquities collected were confiscated by the Britis ... |
| Battle of Oudenarde | ... 1831) - Battle of lillo - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - Battle of Nieuwpoort - | - Battle of Passchendaele - Battle of Roosebeke - Battle of Saint-Omer - B ... |
| Battle of the Utus | ... The Roman army under the Gothic magister militum Arnegisclus met him in the | and was defeated, though not without inflicting heavy losses. The Huns wer ... |
| War of the Ring | By the time of the | Bree was the westernmost settlement of men in Middle-earth, and there was ... |
| Illinois campaign | ... hwest Territory. Moore, who had been a member of a George Rogers Clark 1778 | , (he shared this distinction with several other of the early settlers) es ... |
| siege in 1808 | ... sular War the Aragonese capital was a site of two fierce sieges. During the | the Spanish under General Palafox defeated a superior French force. In 180 ... |
| Operation Overlord | ... h Quartermaster Service Company billeted in Chelston and Cockington. During | more than 23,000 men of the American 4th Infantry Division departed Torqua ... |
| Operation Eagle Claw | ... e participated in many conflicts and operations across the world, including | in Iran, the Gulf War, and more recently in Iraq and Afghanistan |
| attack on Verdun | ... an line which could then be exploited with a decisive blow. With the German | on the River Meuse in February 1916, the Allies were forced to adapt their ... |
| Battle of Kursk | ... mans recaptured Belgorod, creating the salient that in July 1943 led to the | . The German offensive cost the Red Army an estimated 70,000 casualties bu ... |
| Patay | ... k until their defensive barricade was complete, as happened, for example at | in 1429 |
| Battle of Wavre | ... d under the command of Lieutenant-General Baron Johann von Thielmann at the | . Moreover, Soult's letter ordering Grouchy to move quickly to join Napole ... |
| Battle of New Orleans | ... 4, though sporadic fighting continued for several months (most notably, the | ). Apart from the seizing of then-Spanish Mobile by the United States, the ... |
| Battle of Ravenna | In 1512 at the | , where his father and elder brother were killed, he displayed valour, and ... |
| Gallipoli Campaign | ... onvalescing. At around this time his younger brother Hamo was killed in the | . (Rupert Brooke, whom Siegfried had briefly met, died on the way there.) ... |
| Battle of Buena Vista | ... anta Anna sent from Mexico City, the "liberating army of the North". At the | (known as the battle of Angostura in Mexico) in Coahuila on 23 February, t ... |
| war in Afghanistan | ... cluding the Korean War, the Gulf War, the Kosovo War, and most recently the | . The main exceptions to this were the Canadian government's opposition to ... |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | ... engage, and later defeat, the British Army Loyalist forces and later at the | in North Carolina |
| Battle of Eutaw Springs | Site of the | in 1781 during the American Revolutionary War |
| siege | ... afox defeated a superior French force. In 1809 during a particularly bloody | the Spaniards were overwhelmed by superior enemy forces. In the course of ... |
| Battle of Austerlitz | ... re is a name counterpart in Paris: the Gare d'Austerlitz is named after the | , one of Napolean's greatest victories. However, this station is less impo ... |
| battle | ... ant arrived on Solferino on the evening of June 24, 1859, on the same day a | between the two sides had occurred nearby. Thirty-eight thousand wounded, ... |
| Second Battle of Ypres | ... ences. This "bite and hold" method was based upon his experience, as in the | where the Germans used worth of solid defence in the face of fire to achie ... |
| War of the Ring | ... of his new armies, Sauron convinced the Wizard that he was going to win the | , regardless of whether he actually found the One Ring |
| 2001 war in Afghanistan | ... rt neoconservative policies with regard to the War on Terror, including the | and the 2003 invasion of Iraq |
| Battle of Verdun | ... he remains of more than 130,000 French and German soldiers that fell at the | during World War I |
| Battle of Cannae (1018) | ... s, against the Byzantine governorate, though it was firmly repressed at the | , offered their Norman adventurer allies a first foothold in the region. I ... |
| Battle of Chickamauga | ... onfederates. After Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans was defeated at the | , Burnside was pursued by Lt. Gen. James Longstreet, against whose troops ... |
| Battle of Britain | ... the Royal Air Force. He was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the | , and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain's defen ... |
| Final Battle | ... lë has set aside for them, and their role will be to rebuild Arda after the | that is yet to come |
| Battle of the Bulge | The Germans launched a predictable and aggressive counter offensive in the | in late 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the ill-prepared allie ... |
| Ligny | The French invaded Belgium, defeated the Prussians at | , and fought an indecisive battle with Wellington at the Battle of Quatre ... |
| Peninsula Campaign | In 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac began its | against Richmond, Virginia, and Stuart's cavalry brigade assisted Gen. Jos ... |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... 1813 became general of brigade, aide-de-camp to the emperor, and, after the | , general of division |
| Raid on Drvar | The | , codenamed Operation Rösselsprung, was an attack by the Waffen-SS and Luf ... |
| Battle of Tannenberg | ... directed towards the Western Front according to the Schlieffen Plan. In the | in 1914 and the Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes in 1915, however, the ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... fatally wounded Lord Nelson" proved himself to be a model of heroism in the | . In the course of his duties, the seventeen-year-old midshipman's foot wa ... |
| Operation Linebacker | President Richard Nixon dispatched more bombers in | to provide air support for the ARVN when it seemed that South Vietnam was ... |
| Deir Yassin massacre | The | was carried out in a village west of Jerusalem that had signed a non-belli ... |
| Battle of Tippecanoe | ... of the Louisiana Purchase. Pike commanded the 4th Infantry Regiment at the | in 1811. He was killed as a brigadier general during the War of 1812 after ... |
| Battle of La Rothière | The combat of Brienne and the | were the chief incidents of the first stage of the celebrated campaign of ... |
| Battle of Falkirk | ... tion of chancing all on the outcome of a day, as had William Wallace at the | . Almost to the last minute, he was prepared to withdraw. The Chronicle of ... |
| Battle of Grunwald | ... odno from 1376 to 1392, and he stayed there during his preparations for the | (1410). Since 1413, Grodno had been the administrative center of a powiat ... |
| Bidassoa | ... into a fighting retreat into France, punctuated by battles at the Pyrenees, | and Nivelle. Wellington invaded southern France, winning at the Nive and O ... |
| Battle of Lewes | ... operations. Initially the conflict went badly for King Henry, and after the | in 1264 he was forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, under which his son, Prin ... |
| Earnside | By 1304 he was back in Scotland, and involved in skirmishes at Happrew and | |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... ill applies to wild swans in the UK today. The arms were first borne at the | by the Duke of Buckingham |
| Battle of Friedland | After the | he received the Legion of Honour, and returned to Paris in 1807. He served ... |
| Slovak National Uprising | ... man Slovak state headed by Jozef Tiso. In August 1944, Dubček fought in the | and was wounded. His brother, Július, was killed |
| Grandson | ... n Wars, in which the Swiss participated in 1476 and 1477. In the battles of | , Morat and Nancy, the Swiss not only successfully resisted the attacks of ... |
| Battle of Leuven (1831) | ... landers - Battle of Flushing - Battle of Hasselt - Battle of Leuven (891) - | - Battle of lillo - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Batt ... |
| Ionian Revolt | The Greek city-states of Athens and Eretria had supported the unsuccessful | against the Persian Empire of Darius I in 499-494 BCE, led by the satrap o ... |
| War of the First Coalition | ... tain, the Dutch Republic, and Spain into the war, which became known as the | . Once again, there were initial successes against the disorganized armies ... |
| War of the Ring | ... as Echor, to prevent an invasion. This wall was in ruins shortly before the | , but was rebuilt in time on the orders of the Steward, Denethor II. The e ... |
| Battle for Narva Bridgehead | ... attle of Narva started in February, and can be divided into two phases: the | from February to July and the Battle of Tannenberg Line from July to Septe ... |
| First Anglo-Afghan War | ... many famous people, and survived some of the worst military disasters (the | , Charge of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Cawnpore, Battle of the Little ... |
| Quatre Bras | ... , but the flanks held their ground. Ney, meanwhile, found the crossroads of | lightly held by the Prince of Orange, who successfully repelled Ney's init ... |
| Battle of Plataea | ... was to continue fighting the Persian Empire after the Greek victory in the | at the end of the Second Persian invasion of Greece. The League's modern n ... |
| Battle of Nedao | ... l at least the 16th century. After the collapse of the Hun empire after the | (453), the Ostrogoths under Theodoric the Great first moved to Moesia (c. ... |
| Sempach | ... the fact in the early 14th century. At the battles of Morgarten in 1315 and | 1386, the Swiss defeated the Habsburgs, gaining increased autonomy within ... |
| Battle of White Mountain | ... ughter of King James I of England. However, after Frederick's defeat in the | in 1620, 27 Bohemian estates leaders together with Jan Jesenius, rector of ... |
| First Battle of Bull Run | ... fter early service in the Shenandoah Valley, Stuart led his regiment in the | , and participated in the pursuit of the retreating Federals. He then comm ... |
| Battle of Verneuil | ... became less successful after this, with longbowmen taking casualties at the | (1424), and being completely routed at the Battle of Patay (1429) when cha ... |
| Battle of Marengo | ... ered the army as a volunteer in 1800, and received his commission after the | . He became aide-de-camp to Murat, and was wounded at the Battle of Landba ... |
| Thrilla in Manila | ... Frazier in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, which King deemed the " | ". Aside from promoting the premier heavyweight fights of the 1970s, King ... |
| Battle of Neopatras | ... harass the Latin states in Greece. The army was crushingly defeated at the | , but the fleet won a similarly comprehensive victory at the Battle of Dem ... |
| Fort Sumter | ... efore Lincoln took office on March 4, 1861. After the Confederate attack on | April 12, 1861 and Lincoln's subsequent call for troops on April 15, four ... |
| Third Battle of Kharkov | ... harkov from the north, the SS Panzer Corps directly attacked Kharkov in the | on 11 March. This led to four days of house-to-house fighting before Khark ... |
| Megalopolis | ... us attempted to employ the same strategy, but the Spartans were defeated at | |
| Battle of Cape Matapan | ... the Battle of Crete, was mentioned in despatches for his service during the | where he controlled the battleship's searchlights |
| Fall of Constantinople | ... nearly unbroken in the Greek world for almost two thousand years, until the | in 1453 |
| Battle of Alarcos | ... s," was earned by the defeat he inflicted on Alfonso VIII of Castile in the | (1195) |
| Battle of Leuven (891) | ... f Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - Battle of Flushing - Battle of Hasselt - | - Battle of Leuven (1831) - Battle of lillo - Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle - B ... |
| Bristoe Station | ... ed Warren's infantry and escaped disaster. After the Confederate repulse at | and an aborted advance on Centreville, Stuart's cavalry shielded the withd ... |
| U.S.-led war in Afghanistan | After the September 11, 2001 attacks, McCain supported Bush and the | . He and then-Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman wrote the legislation that ... |
| Battle of Raphia | ... essful in the Fourth Syrian War against Egypt, which led to a defeat at the | (217 BC), Antiochus would prove himself to be the greatest of the Seleucid ... |
| Operation Foxley | ... , and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations (such as | , though this plan was never put into practice) |
| Battle of Delhi | ... the forces of British East India Company defeated the Maratha forces in the | , ending the Maratha rule over the city |
| Battle of Worcester | David Ross, 12th of Balnagowan later led some of the clan at the | on 3 September 1651 where he was captured and imprisoned at the Tower of L ... |
| Italian Campaign | ... ish intelligence and ensure an easy passage for U.S. forces involved in the | . Albert Anastasia, who controlled the docks, promised that no dockworker ... |
| Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle | ... selt - Battle of Leuven (891) - Battle of Leuven (1831) - Battle of lillo - | - Battle of Nieuwpoort - Battle of Oudenarde - Battle of Passchendaele - B ... |
| Siege of Jerusalem (1099) | ... coast and between the Crusader States and Egypt. In 1099, shortly after the | , an Egyptian Fatimid army that had been sent to relieve Jerusalem was def ... |
| besieged Jerusalem | ... Hophra of Egypt. In 589 BCE, Nebuchadnezzar II returned to Judah and again | . During this period, many Jews fled to surrounding Moab, Ammon, Edom and ... |
| Battle of Solferino | ... ist. During a business trip in 1859, he was witness to the aftermath of the | in modern day Italy. He recorded his memories and experiences in the book ... |
| Battle of Camlann | ... entually destroyed by King Mark of Cornwall after the loss of Arthur at the | . However maddening to later scholars searching for Camelot's location, it ... |
| Battle of Monocacy | Wallace's most notable service came in July 1864 at the | in Maryland, part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864. Although the some 5,800 ... |
| Battle of Hobkirk Hill | ... defeat of the Revolution, was fought on August 16, 1780 in Camden, and the | was fought between around 1,400 American troops led by General Nathanael G ... |
| Battle of Cerro Gordo | ... ave threatened wavering Mexican troops with death by "friendly fire" at the | if they retreated. When the San Patricios were too-heavily engaged to carr ... |
| Battle of Wagram | ... ent. In the war against Austria, Bernadotte led the Saxon contingent at the | (6 July 1809), on which occasion, on his own initiative, he issued an Orde ... |
| Battle of Hatfield Chase | ... tics of what is now northern England". After Edwin was killed in 633 at the | , Eanfrith temporarily regained power in Bernicia, and subsequently Oswald ... |
| Siege of Cawnpore | ... ary disasters (the First Anglo-Afghan War, Charge of the Light Brigade, the | , Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Isandlwana), always coming out w ... |
| Battle of South Mountain | ... followed Jackson's men through the city a few days later on the way to the | , where Reno was killed. In July 1864, Confederate troops led by Lieutenan ... |
| War of the Ring | ... Nazgûl in , the Ithil-Stone came into Sauron's hands, and leading up to the | was kept by him in Barad-dûr. It was presumably lost at the fall of Sauron ... |
| Battle of the Nile | ... l towed Vanguard to Sardinia. Under Nelson’s command, Ball took part in the | , and his ship, the Alexander, was the second British ship to fire on the ... |
| The Rumble in the Jungle | ... ight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire, popularly known as " | ". The fight between Ali and Foreman was a much-anticipated event. King's ... |
| Knoxville Campaign | In the | , Burnside advanced to Knoxville, Tennessee, first bypassing the Confedera ... |
| Battle of Jena-Auerstedt | ... nt political roles in German history. After the 1806 Prussian defeat at the | , Napoleon took the Quadriga to Paris |
| Battle of Buxar | ... trative rights over the regions of Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa, following the | in 1765. After the defeat of Tipu Sultan, most of South India came either ... |
| Battle of Hatfield Chase | Following the disastrous | on 12 October 633, in which Edwin was defeated and killed by Cadwallon ap ... |
| Battle of Contreras | ... x-pound cannons. These cannons would later be used by Mexican forces at the | |
| War of Independence | ... elected in 1921. One of its most important acts was to bring an end to the | by ratifying the controversial Anglo-Irish Treaty |
| Battle of Tanagra | ... hens, where the Long Walls were not yet completed, winning a victory at the | . All this accomplished, however, was to allow them to return home via the ... |
| Happrew | By 1304 he was back in Scotland, and involved in skirmishes at | and Earnside |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... rant for his execution when he is saved by news of Napoleon's defeat at the | |
| Valley Campaigns of 1864 | ... ervice came in July 1864 at the Battle of Monocacy in Maryland, part of the | . Although the some 5,800-man force under his command (mostly hundred-days ... |
| Anzio landings | ... g in the north, the 16 SS Reichsführer-SS sent a Kampfgruppe to contain the | in January 1944.In March, the bulk of the 1st Italienische Freiwilligen St ... |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... n the battles of Crecy (1346) and Poitiers (1356), and most famously at the | (1415). They became less successful after this, with longbowmen taking cas ... |
| the Nive | ... enees, Bidassoa and Nivelle. Wellington invaded southern France, winning at | and Orthez |
| Roosebeke | ... ally when the pikemen did not have adequate armor. Many defeats, such as at | and Halidon Hill, were suffered by the militia pike armies when faced by c ... |
| Battle of France | ... om its own arsenal. The weapons arrived only slowly, and by the time of the | only the Leibstandarte battalion was up to strength |
| Battle of Tannenberg Line | ... o two phases: the Battle for Narva Bridgehead from February to July and the | from July to September. A number of volunteer Waffen-SS units from Norway, ... |
| Battle of Hastings | ... illiam of Normandy, who, it is claimed, had such a cross on his flag in the | , given to him by Pope Alexander II. A red ensign with the cross in the fl ... |
| Spanish Armada | ... atea. Because of financial problems, Cervantes worked as a purveyor for the | , and later as a tax collector. In 1597, discrepancies in his accounts of ... |
| Second Bull Run | Burnside again declined command following Pope's debacle at | |
| Battle of Sekigahara | ... reestablished by Oda Nobunaga during the Azuchi-Momoyama period. After the | in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu who completed this proc ... |
| Battle of Carbisdale | ... James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose in 1650. During the Civil War at the | the Clan Ross and Clan Munro fought on the side of the Scottish Government ... |
| Battle of Musgrove Mill | ... riot forces engaged and defeated a larger force of British Loyalists at the | near present day Clinton, South Carolina. Fort Watauga later served as the ... |
| shift of power in the region | ... Ladd Majors, also known as Don Juan José Mechacas. July 7, 1846 marked the | from Mexico to the United States |
| Battle of Monterrey | ... Saint Patrick's Battalion first fought as a recognised Mexican unit in the | on 21 September 1846, as an artillery battery. Popularly they were called ... |
| laid siege | In 1747, during the War of the Austrian Succession, the French army | to it again. At that time, Bergen op Zoom had fortifications built in the ... |
| Trafalgar | ... with Horatio Nelson in many sea victories, and as Nelson's successor after | , completing the destruction of the Napoleonic fleet. Other notable people ... |
| Battle of the Somme | ... ed around the town of Thiepval and remained there until July 1916, when the | would be fought on and around the same ground |
| Ipsus | ... onsiderable force of 500 war elephants, which would play a decisive role at | (301 BC) |
| Liberation of Paris | ... t that had governed France before the War. The sport was unbanned after the | in August 1944 and the collapse of the Vichy regime, although it was still ... |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... ans suffered a devastating defeat when the 6th Army was defeated during the | . Hitler ordered the SS Panzer Corps back to the Eastern Front for the cou ... |
| Mountain Meadows massacre | A controversial issue is the extent of Young's involvement in the | , which took place in Washington County in 1857. Leonard J. Arrington repo ... |
| Battle of Ulm | ... he invading Austrian army of General Mack and forced it to surrender in the | . In 1810, Ulm was incorporated into the Kingdom of Württemberg and lost i ... |
| Siege of Neuss | Still, in some ways his policies were astonishingly successful. In the | (1474–75), he forced Charles the Bold of Burgundy to give up his daughter ... |
| Battle of Blenheim | ... ater, the Second Battle of Höchstädt was fought, known in English mainly as | |
| siege to Jerusalem | ... les, after invading "the land of Hatti (Syria/Palestine)" in 599 BC, he lay | . Jehoiakim died in 598 BC during the siege, and was succeeded by his son ... |
| Battle of Guandu | ... emperor. Yuan's power was greatly diminished after Cao defeated him at the | in 200 CE. After Yuan died, Cao killed Yuan Shao's son Yuan Tan (173–205 C ... |
| Battle of Boxtel | ... tember Wellesley's unit came under fire just east of Breda, just before the | . For the latter part of the campaign, during the winter, his unit defende ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | Napoleon delayed the start of fighting at the | on the morning of 18 June for several hours while he waited for the ground ... |
| Siege of Fort Texas | ... while, Riley and "a company of 48 Irishmen" manned Mexican artillery at the | , which took place concurrently to the two other battles |
| Battle of Fort Beauséjour | ... t the mouth of the St. John River (Fort Menagoueche). Immediately after the | (1755), Robert Monckton sent a detachment to take Fort Menagoueche. French ... |
| Battle of the Upper Baetis | ... Ilorca, which occurred within a few days of each other, usually combined as | (211 BC). Both battles ended in clear defeats for the Romans because Hasdr ... |
| Colmar Pocket | ... st Army. By 15 January at least 17 German divisions (including units in the | ) were engaged, including the XIII SS Army Corps (17 SS Götz von Berlichin ... |
| Norway was under attack | ... t aggressive, to represent the fighting spirit of Norwegians. In 1940, when | from the German forces, King Haakon VII received the power from the parlia ... |
| Battle of Gaugamela | ... II of Macedon) invaded the land after defeating Darius III of Persia in the | and Afghanistan became part of the new Greco-Bactrian kingdom. Some easter ... |
| Paris itself was under siege | ... leon III in July 1870, turned out disastrously for France, and by September | . The gap between rich and poor in the capital had widened during the prec ... |
| Battle of Mohács | After the death of King Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia in the | in 1526, Archduke Ferdinand of Austria became King of Bohemia and the coun ... |
| defeat at Waterloo | ... between 1792 and 1814. The Napoleonic Wars ended following Napoleon's final | on 18 June 1815 and the Second Treaty of Paris |
| Battle of Chrysopolis | ... sar, but Constantine next won the Battle of the Hellespont, and finally the | on 18 September 324 |
| Battle of Lübeck | ... ving secured 34 cannon in co-operation with Gerhard von Scharnhorst. At the | his force was defeated by two French corps on 6 November. The next day, tr ... |
| Battle of Mill Springs | ... a within East Tennessee. After leading successful cavalry operations at the | on January 19, 1862, Carter accepted a commission as Brigadier General of ... |
| city's fall | ... n 5th century Constantinople and operated in various incarnations until the | to the Ottomans in 1453. The University of Constantinople was Christian Eu ... |
| Summer and Winter Sieges of Osaka | ... included lands he gained in that battle and lands gained as a result of the | . By the end of the seventeenth century, the shogun's landholdings had rea ... |
| Battle of Nancy | ... for the Duchy of Lorraine, but finally was defeated and killed at the 1477 | . In 1552 a number of insurgent Protestant Imperial princes around Elector ... |
| Battle of Isandlwana | ... of the Light Brigade, the Siege of Cawnpore, Battle of the Little Bighorn, | ), always coming out with more heroic laurels. The date of his last advent ... |
| Battle of Fredericksburg | ... nd, Virginia. This plan led to a humiliating and costly Union defeat at the | on December 13. His advance upon Fredericksburg was rapid, but planning in ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | ... lennor Fields were the location of the largest battle of the Third Age, the | , when Sauron's Orcs and evil Men overran the Rammas Echor by blasting thr ... |
| Battle of Arras (1917) | ... ng the Third Battle of Ypres but was not as severe as the two months of the | (4,076 per day) or the final Hundred Days offensive in 1918 (3,685 per day ... |
| Normandy landings | ... poral cipher operator in the Royal Corps of Signals. He participated in the | , although was not involved in the first days of the landings |
| Battle of Fano | ... ttacked the Alamanni camping near the Metaurus River, defeating them in the | , and forcing them to re-cross the Po river; Aurelian finally routed them ... |
| Battle of Actium | ... ce of Africa Nova until Augustus restored Juba II (son of Juba I) after the | |
| First Battle of Tembien | ... ced back in places and put on the defensive. However, by early in 1936, the | stopped the progress of the Ethiopian offensive and the Italians were read ... |
| Tet Offensive | ... States forces "won every battle." The turning point of the war was the 1968 | , in which communist forces, having staged a diversion at the Battle of Kh ... |
| Irish War of Independence | ... House of Commons but instead set up an Irish parliament, Dáil Éireann; the | followed almost immediately. The dominant leaders in the new unilaterally ... |
| Battle of Beneventum (214 BC) | ... raise troops in Samnium, but the Romans intercepted these new levies in the | and eliminated them before they came under the feared leadership of Hannib ... |
| Fall of Constantinople | Following the | on May 29, 1453, many Greeks sought better employment and education opport ... |
| Battle of Liaoyang | ... , attempts to relieve the besieged city by land also failed, and, after the | in late August, the northern Russian force that might have been able to re ... |
| Battle of Flushing | ... 071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - Battle of Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - | - Battle of Hasselt - Battle of Leuven (891) - Battle of Leuven (1831) - B ... |
| Battle of Svensksund | ... 88 (the Theater War). After the decisive defeat of the Russian fleet at the | in 1790, the parties signed the Treaty of Värälä (14 August 1790), returni ... |
| Battle of Trafalgar | ... tacular victory was soured by the defeat of the Franco-Spanish fleet at the | the following day, French success on land continued as Vienna fell in Nove ... |
| Battle of Penang | During the First World War, in the | , the German cruiser SMS Emden surreptitiously sailed to Penang and sank t ... |
| Battle of Wavre | ... ted the Prussian rearguard under the command of Lt-Gen von Thielmann in the | (18–19 June) it was 12 hours too late. In the end, 17,000 Prussians had ke ... |
| Battle of Dien Bien Phu | ... not limited to the Battle of Na San (1952), Operation Atlas (1953) and the | (1954) |
| Battle of Stalingrad | ... h many of them dying en route. The Volga Germans were deported prior to the | , as they were regarded, in the "war hysteria of the moment", as a potenti ... |
| Battle of Hasselt | ... el (1328) - Battle of Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - Battle of Flushing - | - Battle of Leuven (891) - Battle of Leuven (1831) - Battle of lillo - Bat ... |
| Battle of Lake Erie | The Town is named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the | |
| Battle of Lipany | ... r order, the Utraquists were able to eventually defeat the Taborites in the | in 1434. Sigismund said after the battle that "only the Bohemians could de ... |
| Battle of Skuodas | ... were restricted. Several pitched battles ensued. In 1259 the Order lost the | , and in 1260 it lost the Battle of Durbe. The first defeat encouraged a r ... |
| Operation Solstice | | , or the "Stargard Tank Battle", in February 1945 was one of the last armo ... |
| Irish War of Independence | ... errillas of 1919–21 killed many RIC Police Intelligence officers during the | . Michael Collins set up a special unit – the Squad – for this purpose, wh ... |
| Battle of Alnwick | ... ion, King of Scotland and William was captured outside the walls during the | . Eustace de Vesci, lord of Alnwick, was accused of plotting with Robert F ... |
| Battle of Britain | ... he artificially recreated London "pea soup" fog or by a re-enactment of the | . Visitors also like watching the King, nicknamed "Kingy-Thingy" by his wi ... |
| Battle of Adasa | ... eucid army under General Nicanor was defeated by Judah (ib. 7:26–50) at the | , with Nicanor himself killed in action. Next, Bacchides was sent with Alc ... |
| Battle of Patay | ... alties at the Battle of Verneuil (1424), and being completely routed at the | (1429) when charged before they had set up their defensive position. The t ... |
| Battle of Kings Mountain | ... rican Revolutionary War for both the Battle of Musgrove Mill (1780) and the | (1780), and a local community within the secessionist North Carolina "Stat ... |
| Battle of Evesham | ... sh conditions. Released in early 1265, Edward then defeated Montfort at the | ; the surviving rebels under the leadership of Henry de Hastings, Montfort ... |
| Battle of Waterloo | ... oleonic wars against the French. They later played an important role in the | in 1815. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 elevated the electorate to the Kin ... |
| Juno Beach | ... lvados, commemorates the D-Day landing of the Canadian liberation forces at | during World War II in 1944. The cult of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux brings l ... |
| United States Exploring Expedition | ... the depository for various Washington and U.S. government collections. The | by the U.S. Navy circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842. The voya ... |
| Battle of Heavenfield | ... 's brother Oswald then raised an army and finally defeated Cadwallon at the | in 634. After this victory, Oswald appears to have been recognised by both ... |
| Battle of Hastings | ... New Buckenham whose grandfather had fought for William the Conqueror at the | . The d'Albini (or d'Aubigny) family originated from St. Martin d'Aubigny ... |
| Ypres | ... ring the early stages of the war including the use of poison gas attacks at | . Losses became grave, and the government eventually brought in conscripti ... |
| Battle of the River Plate | The film portrays the | , a naval battle of 1939, between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and ... |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... he other states of Europe re-allied themselves and defeated Napoleon at the | , after which his Italian allied states, with Murat first among them, aban ... |
| Battle of Amba Aradam | ... ollowing the defeat and destruction of the northern Ethiopian armies at the | , the Second Battle of Tembien, and the Battle of Shire, Haile Selassie to ... |
| Battle of Yiwulu | ... i Corridor in Gansu. Dou Gu (d. 88 CE) defeated the Northern Xiongnu at the | in 73 CE, evicting them from Turpan and chasing them as far as Lake Barkol ... |
| War of the Ring | During the | , the Pelennor Fields were the location of the largest battle of the Third ... |
| Defense of the Reich | ... being Hitler's favourite bomber destroyer, the Me 410 units were taken from | duties and production was phased out in favour of single-engine fighters w ... |
| Battle of Spion Kop | ... the King's Own Royal Regiment, and served in major campaigns including the | . He moved to Jersey to serve as a Sergeant, having signed up in 1906 for ... |
| Battle of the Pelennor Fields | The flying steeds figure prominently in the | , where the Witch-king of Angmar, the Lord of the Nazgûl, rides one agains ... |
| Siege of St. Augustine | ... vernor Moore organized and led a force against Spanish Florida. In the 1702 | , 500 English soldiers and militia along with 300 Indians captured and bur ... |
| Operation Tempest | ... y Germany; Operation Jula – another rail sabotage in 1944; and most notably | in 1944, a series of nationwide uprisings whose chief goal was to seize co ... |
| Russia and the Ottomans in 1877 | ... olt in 1866–1869 had raised nationalist fervour. When war broke out between | , Greek popular sentiment rallied to Russia's side, but Greece was too poo ... |
| Battle of the Milvian Bridge | Constantine defeated Maxentius at the | on October 28, 312. Maxentius died, and Italy came under Constantine's rul ... |
| Battle of El Alamein | ... g World War II and was wounded on three occasions, once severely during the | . He died in 1996 |
| Battle of Civitate | ... e." Leo IX led the army himself but his forces suffered total defeat at the | on June 15, 1053. Nonetheless, on going out from the city to meet the vict ... |
| Battle of Khe Sanh | ... Tet Offensive, in which communist forces, having staged a diversion at the | , attacked cities and towns throughout South Vietnam. US and South Vietnam ... |
| Quatre Bras | ... 's forces going to aid Blücher's Prussians by fighting a blocking action at | . Ney failed to clear the cross-roads and Wellington reinforced the positi ... |
| Second Battle of Tembien | ... truction of the northern Ethiopian armies at the Battle of Amba Aradam, the | , and the Battle of Shire, Haile Selassie took the field with the last Eth ... |
| Battle of Ascalon | ... had been sent to relieve Jerusalem was defeated by a Crusader force at the | . The city itself was not captured by the Crusaders because of internal di ... |
| Battle of Durbe | ... sued. In 1259 the Order lost the Battle of Skuodas, and in 1260 it lost the | . The first defeat encouraged a rebellion by the Semigalians, and the defe ... |
| Battle of Na San | ... he VNA fought in a wide range of campaigns including but not limited to the | (1952), Operation Atlas (1953) and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954) |
| Mithridatic Wars | ... nd 105 BC. A major reorganization was initiated, but was interrupted by the | and the wars of Sulla who took many rich offerings from the Oracle |
| Battle of France | ... ight bank opposite Strasbourg, fled and were evacuated in the course of the | , on 23 November 1944. French forces occupied the town in March 1945 and p ... |
| Great Heathen Army | ... they reverted to Thanet for their winter encampment. The following year the | led by the Brothers Ivar the Boneless, Halfdan and Ubbe Ragnarsson, and al ... |
| Battle of Musgrove Mill | ... jor historic muster site during the American Revolutionary War for both the | (1780) and the Battle of Kings Mountain (1780), and a local community with ... |
| Battle of Verdun | ... ensives could begin, the Germans attacked first, engaging the Allies at the | . As this battle dragged on, the purpose of the Somme campaign (which was ... |
| Battle of Điện Biên Phủ | Following their defeat at the | , the French began negotiations to leave Vietnam. As a result of peace acc ... |
| Battle of Culloden | ... t is also mentioned that a member of the Flashman family was present at the | , 1746. Fraser has confirmed that Flashman died in 1915 but the circumstan ... |
| Battle of Walcourt | ... death in 1695), superseding Marshal Humières who had suffered defeat at the | the previous year. Luxembourg's army consisted of 34 battalions and 94 squ ... |
| Battle of Sentinum | ... aken over by the Etruscans. The Romans took control of central Italy by the | in 295 BC. They built the flourishing municipium Asisium on a series of te ... |
| Battle of the Atlantic | ... , the ramifications of which greatly contributed to allied supremacy in the | . He personally pushed through the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 19 August 194 ... |
| Battle of Tolbiac | After the Franks under Clovis I defeated the Alamanni in the | in 496, the Franks eventually displaced the Alamanni in the Wiesbaden area ... |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | ... n August 20, 1794, Blue Jacket's confederate army clashed with Wayne at the | , just south of present-day Toledo, Ohio. Blue Jacket's army was defeated, ... |
| Battle of Hastings | Victorious at the | on 14 October 1066, the invading Duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror, ... |
| Battle of Elasa | ... of twenty thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry, and met Judah at the | (Laisa), where this time it was the Hasmonean commander who was killed. (1 ... |
| Battle of Vittorio Veneto | ... sewhere. This changed in October, 1918, with Austro-Hungarian defeat in the | , the Imperial army collapsed and started to withdraw and, on 29 October, ... |
| Battle of Batoche | ... branch Settlement. The provisional government collapsed that year after the | |
| Battle of the Wilderness | ... brigadier general; he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the | |
| Nírnaeth Arnoediad | Allied forces under Maedhros regained Dorthonion shortly before the | , before Morgoth took it back permanently in the aftermath of that battle |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... ed Years' War against France. As a result of Henry's victories, such as the | , many high-status prisoners were held in the Tower of London until they w ... |
| First Battle of Sedan | ... emperor Napoleon III was taken prisoner with 100,000 of his soldiers at the | |
| Battle of Shire | ... armies at the Battle of Amba Aradam, the Second Battle of Tembien, and the | , Haile Selassie took the field with the last Ethiopian army on the northe ... |
| Battle of the Somme | ... France and in 1915 was promoted to commander of No. 16 Squadron. After the | , Dowding clashed with General Hugh Trenchard, the commander of the RFC, o ... |
| Battle of Germantown | ... ntinental Army were encamped here after their October 4, 1777 defeat at the | , and immediately prior to their march to Valley Forge. From December 5–8, ... |
| Battle of Blood River | ... hen he attacked a group of 470 Voortrekker settlers led by Pretorius at the | . Dingane's half brother Mpande kaSenzangakhona then defected with some 17 ... |
| Battle of Bushy Run | Harrison City is near the site of the | . Penn-Trafford High School is in Harrison City, and the CDP is served by ... |
| Operation Anaconda | ... y platform capable of providing accurate close air support (CAS) duties for | ; although they regularly took fire during the intense early fighting, the ... |
| Irish War of Independence | The Easter Rising of 1916, the | , and the subsequent Irish Civil War resulted in a significant amount of p ... |
| Battle of Asiago | After the | in 1916, which ended in a stalemate and brought only minor territorial gai ... |
| Battle of Rhone Crossing | ... he coast. In Gaul negotiations helped him to move unmolested except for the | where a force of the Allobroges unsuccessfully tried to oppose his 38,000 ... |
| Operation Castor | ... t is now known that U.S. Air Force pilots flew to support the French during | in November 1953 |
| Alarcos | ... lmohad Caliphate. After having suffered a great defeat with his own army at | against the Almohads, he led the coalition of Christian princes and foreig ... |
| Battle of Mardia | ... le of Cibalae, with Constantine being victorious. They clashed again at the | in 317, and agreed to a settlement in which Constantine's sons Crispus and ... |
| Battle of Nanshan | ... he Russians back towards Port Arthur. The subsequent battles, including the | on 25 May 1904, were marked by heavy Japanese losses largely from attackin ... |
| Wyse Fork | ... General Sherman's Carolinas Campaign. After the battles of Bentonville and | , Sherman's forces met with the armies of Schofield, their troops taking o ... |
| invaded | During World War II the German troops first | neutral Belgium and crossed the Meuse River by winning the Second Battle o ... |
| Battle of Zutphen | Later that year, he joined Sir John Norris in the | . During the siege, he was shot in the thigh and died twenty-six days late ... |
| Battle of Cassel (1071) | ... vento - Battle of Beverhoutsveld - Battle of Bouvines - Battle of Cadsand - | - Battle of Cassel (1328) - Battle of Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - Bat ... |
| War of Wrath | ... other lands west of the Ered Luin, Taur-nu-Fuin was mostly destroyed in the | at the end of the First Age. Its highest parts survived as the island Tol ... |
| Battle of Lima Site 85 | ... ir Force Chief Master Sergeant Richard Etchberger who was killed during the | in the Vietnam War. A 50th belated award, to Army Sergeant Leslie H. Sabo, ... |
| Battle of Lewes | ... tle of Lewes. (Tufton Beamish maintains that he escaped to France after the | and died there in 1269) |
| Battle of Hannut | ... e town, in 1578, the Battle of Gembloux was fought in 1578; in May 1940 the | took place nearby, a tank battle during the larger Battle of France |
| Battle of Boroughbridge | ... tion to Edward II. War broke out in 1322, and Lancaster was captured at the | and executed. His estates, including Kenilworth, were confiscated by the c ... |
| Battle of Maychew | ... March 1936, he launched a counterattack against the Italians himself at the | in southern Tigray. The emperor's army was defeated and retreated in disar ... |
| Battle of Cibalae | in either 314 or 316 the two Augusti fought against one another at the | , with Constantine being victorious. They clashed again at the Battle of M ... |
| East African Campaign | ... of the FP were also used to form Belgian colonial units that fought in the | during World War II |
| Battle of the Hellespont | ... us, the commander of his bodyguard, as Caesar, but Constantine next won the | , and finally the Battle of Chrysopolis on 18 September 324 |
| Battle of France | ... 940 the Battle of Hannut took place nearby, a tank battle during the larger | |
| an attack | ... a Spanish fleet arrived from Havana. In 1706 Carolina successfully repulsed | on Charles Town by a combined Spanish and French amphibious force sent fro ... |
| Juno Beach | ... hree beach heads upon which Commonwealth soldiers were landing (Gold Beach, | , and Sword Beach) |
| Battle of Plassey | ... with the opportunity to seize a firm foothold in Indian politics. After the | in 1757, during which the East India Company's Bengal army under Robert Cl ... |
| Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814) | ... y, Alabama which was named after Lemuel P. Montgomery who was killed in the | . Montgomery became the first county seat of Montgomery County shortly aft ... |
| Battle of Britain | ... Noué (Christmas festival), La Faîs'sie d'Cidre (cidermaking festival), the | air display, Jersey Live Music Festival, Branchage Film Festival, food fes ... |
| Operation Tempest | ... Ukrainians in Volhynia. By winter 1943 and spring 1944 AK was preparing for | ; one of the goals of the operation was to reinforce Polish position in Vo ... |
| Battle of Lewes | # Guy of Lusignan (c. 1225 – 1264), killed at the | . (Tufton Beamish maintains that he escaped to France after the Battle of ... |
| Battle of Campbell's Station | ... arragut Town Hall. It is still in use as a private residence. The Civil War | was fought there on November 16, 1863 |
| battle | ... 2,000 men (of whom half didn't arrive) landed to take over the island. The | by 9,000 men to defend the Island, although touch-and-go, and decisive, on ... |
| Second Battle of Sedan | ... ps first invaded neutral Belgium and crossed the Meuse River by winning the | that lasted from 12 to 15 May 1940. This battle allowed them to win the wh ... |
| Battles of Villmergen | ... rope. The confessional tensions remained, however, and erupted again in the | in 1656 and 1712 |
| Fenian efforts to use the U.S. as a base to attack Canada. | ... angry at British support for the Confederacy. One result was toleration of | More serious was the demand for a huge payment to cover the damages caused ... |
| War of the Ring | ... f the Rohirrim though their King Théoden was slain in the battle. After the | , the Rammas Echor was rebuilt by the Dwarves of Aglarond, led by Gimli th ... |
| Battle of Charleroi | ... s - Battle of Cadsand - Battle of Cassel (1071) - Battle of Cassel (1328) - | - Battle of Flanders - Battle of Flushing - Battle of Hasselt - Battle of ... |
| Appenzell Wars | ... ) is located, built in 1343. In 1407 both castles were destroyed during the | and rebuilt shortly afterwards. Burg Neu-Ems is still intact today and in ... |
| Battle of Stirling Bridge | Along with Andrew Moray, Wallace defeated an English army at the | in 1297, and was Guardian of Scotland, serving until his defeat at the Bat ... |
| Conquest of Acadia | ... va Scotia and Acadia were Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Acadian. Before the British | in 1710, these militias fought the New Englanders in King William's War an ... |
| Operation Ajax | ... mmunism in poorer countries; the CIA in part deposed the leaders of Iran in | , of Guatemala through Operation Pbsuccess, and possibly the newly indepen ... |
| Battle of Cowpens | ... e. During January 1781, the Overmountain Men also fought the British at the | in South Carolina |
| Battle of Balaclava | ... d the blunders that led to the loss of life for 360 British soldiers at the | . Imprisonment—both literal and figurative—is a major theme of the novel, ... |
| Sword Beach | ... upon which Commonwealth soldiers were landing (Gold Beach, Juno Beach, and | ) |
| Battle of Monte Cassino | ... the scripts, is the question of violence. Milligan had been blown up at the | during the war, and weekly he would blow up either Bluebottle, Eccles, or ... |
| Battle of Leipzig | ... Ney in September at the Battles of Grossbeeren and Dennewitz; but after the | he went his own way, determined at all hazards to cripple Denmark and to s ... |
| Midway | ... s of and to Yamamoto for his planned showdown with the American carriers at | (Shōhō was to have been employed at Midway in a tactical role supporting t ... |
| Battle of Nola (215 BC) | ... h was defended by Marcus Claudius Marcellus in the battle of Nola (216 BC), | and battle of Nola (214 BC), but failed each time. At least in 215 Hanniba ... |
| Battle of White Marsh | ... ediately prior to their march to Valley Forge. From December 5–8, 1777, the | was fought here between British and American forces. Throughout the encamp ... |
| siege of Constantinople | ... Serbia. Both of them were checked by the Ottoman Empire. During the Ottoman | in 1453, a significant band of Venetian and Genoese knights died in the de ... |
| Battle of France | ... was portrayed as being amongst the squadron's bravest defenders during the | . In support of their German occupiers and masters, Vichy authorities atta ... |
| Battle of Agincourt | ... ote and presented an acclaimed television documentary on the subject of the | . He has also written two books on the subject of the longbow, Longbow: A ... |
| land offensive | ... the sea, forcing Japan to try to take Port Moresby by land. Japan began its | towards Port Moresby along the Kokoda Track on 21 July from Buna and Gona. ... |
| Battle of Jutland | ... -ton armoured cruiser, which went down in a heavy storm four days after the | with only 12 surviving from its 655 crew, lies in 70 metres of water 1.5 m ... |
| Siege of Hulst | In 1645, the | (to control the left bank of the Schelde river) occurred. It was led by Pr ... |
| Battle of Cassel (1328) | ... tsveld - Battle of Bouvines - Battle of Cadsand - Battle of Cassel (1071) - | - Battle of Charleroi - Battle of Flanders - Battle of Flushing - Battle o ... |