| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 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 Demetrias | ... le of Neopatras, but the fleet won a similarly comprehensive victory at the | |
| 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 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 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 ... |
| 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 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 ... |
| ROKS Cheonan sinking | Some trade was cut off after the | , for which South Korea blamed North Korea |
| Battle of Actium | ... ce of Africa Nova until Augustus restored Juba II (son of Juba I) after the | |
| 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 |
| 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 Inchon | Incheon was the site of the | during the Korean War |
| 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 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 ... |
| 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 Penang | During the First World War, in the | , the German cruiser SMS Emden surreptitiously sailed to Penang and sank t ... |
| 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 Nassau | In 1776 the | resulted in a brief occupation by the Americans during the American War of ... |
| 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) |
| 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 ... |
| Battle of Lake Erie | The Town is named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Battle of Jutland | After the | , the German High Seas Fleet rarely ventured out of its bases at Wilhelmsh ... |
| 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 ... |
| Battle of the River Plate | The film portrays the | , a naval battle of 1939, between a Royal Navy force of three cruisers and ... |
| 1339 | ... land was occupied by the Capetians on several occasions, the first being in | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 ... |
| Battle of Latakia | The | , a revolutionary naval battle between the Israeli and Syrian navies, took ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Battle of Santiago de Cuba | In 1912, the Reina Mercedes, sunk at the | , was raised and used as the "brig" ship for the Academy |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| 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 Dogger Bank | ... erial Shipyard in Kiel. This ship was sunk on 24 January 1915 in WWI at the | |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 Trafalgar | ... he authority and military power of the Spanish Empire, especially after the | , which seriously hampered the contact of Spain with its American possessi ... |
| 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 ... |
| German invasion of Norway | ... nd the Norwegian 6th Division under General Carl Gustav Fleischer after the | on 9 April 1940 |
| 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 Trafalgar | ... ne operation that eventually leads to the resounding British victory at the | that costs Nelson his life |
| 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 Greece | ... untry would eventually fall to urgently dispatched German forces during the | . The German occupiers nevertheless met serious challenges from the Greek ... |
| Allied invasion of Italy | After the | in September 1943, Hitler ordered the II SS Panzer Corps to move to Italy, ... |
| 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 ... |
| Battle of Cape Matapan | ... the Battle of Crete, was mentioned in despatches for his service during the | where he controlled the battleship's searchlights |
| Battle of Settepozzi | ... d Genoese fleet of 48 ships was defeated by a smaller Venetian force at the | |
| 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 ... |
| Battle of Port Arthur | These attacks developed into the | the next morning. A series of indecisive naval engagements followed, in wh ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 |
| Trafalgar | ... e only time that the two men met; Nelson was killed at his great victory at | just seven weeks later |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 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 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 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 Salamis | ... rchipelago, but he was at length totally defeated by Demetrius at the naval | |
| 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 |
| 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 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 ... |
| Battle of Lepanto | At the | (1571), the Holy League, formed by Spain, Venice, the Papal States and oth ... |
| 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 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 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 |
| 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 ... |
| Battle of Alalia | Around 540 BC, the | led to a new distribution of power in the western Mediterranean Sea. Thoug ... |
| 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 ... |
| 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 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 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 ... |
| 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 ... |
| Operation Pedestal | ... ter which was sunk by two Italian torpedo boat (M.S. 16 and M.S. 21) during | on 13 August 1942 |