LIST OF BATTLES (ALPHABETICAL)

Alphabetical list of historical battles (see also Military history, List of battles):

''NOTE: Where a year has been used to disambiguate battles it is the year when the battle started. In some cases these may still have gone on for several years.''

Contents

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

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T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

A

★ Battle of Aachen - 1944 - World War II

★ Battle of Abensberg - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Abukir - two battles - 1798 and 1801 - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Abukir (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Abrittus - 251 - Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire

★ Battle of Actium - 31 BC - Wars of the Second Triumvirate

★ Battle of Ad Decimum - 533 - Wars of the Byzantine Empire - Campaign against the Vandals

★ Battle of Adrianople (324) - Civil Wars of the Roman Empire

★ Battle of Adrianople (378) - Gothic Invasions of the Roman Empire

★ Battle of Adrianople (972) - Wars of the Byzantine Empire - against the Russians

★ Battle of Adrianople (1205) - Fourth Crusade

★ Battle of Adrianople (1254) - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

★ Battle of Adrianople (1365) - Capture by Ottoman Turks

★ Battle of Adrianople (1913) - First Balkan War

★ Battle of Adowa - 1896 - First Italo–Ethiopian War

★ Battle of Adwalton Moor - 1643 - English Civil War

★ Battle of Aegospotami - 405 BC - Great Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1915) - World War I - Turkish Assimilation of Armenians

★ Battle of Ager Sanguinis - 1119 - Crusades

★ Battle of Agincourt - 1415 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - 1509 - Italian Wars

★ Battle of Ain Jalut - 1260 - Mameluk-Mongol Wars

★ First Battle of the Aisne - 1914 - World War I

★ Second Battle of the Aisne - 1917 - World War I

★ Third Battle of the Aisne - 1918 - World War I

★ Battle of Akraba (632) (a.k.a. Battle of Yemama) - Recovery of Arabia - Campaign of Khalid

★ Battle of Akraba (1972) - Israeli defoliation of Arab wheat crops

★ Battle of Alalia - 535 BC - Greek-Carthaginian Wars

★ Battle of the Alamo - 1836 - Texas Revolution

★ Battle of Aldenhoven (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battles of El Alamein - both 1942 - World War II

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★ First Battle of El Alamein

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★ Second Battle of El Alamein

★ Battle of Alesia - 52 BC - Gallic Wars

★ Battle of Alfarrobeira - 1449 - Portuguese War of rebellion

★ Battle of Algeciras - 1344 - Spanish-Moslem Wars

★ Battle of Alma - 1854 - Crimean War

★ Battle of Almonacid - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Al-Safra - 1812 - Ottoman-Saudi War

★ Battle of Amberg (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Amiens - 1918 - World War I

★ Battle of Amphipolis - 422 BC - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Amstetten - 1805 - War of the Third Coalition

★ Battle of Ankara (a.k.a. Battle of Angora) - 1402 - Timur's Invasion of Turkey

★ Battle of Antietam - 1862 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Antioch (1097) - First Crusade

★ Battle of Antioch (1119) - Crusader-Turkish Wars

★ Battle of Antioch (1268) - Crusader-Turkish Wars

★ Battle of Antwerp (1584) - Netherlands' War of Independence

★ Battle of Antwerp (1914) - World War I

★ Battle of Aong - 1857 - Indian Mutiny

★ Battle of Araure - 1813 - Venezuelan War of Independence

★ Battle of Arbedo - 1422 - Milanese led by Francesco Bussone vs. Swiss

★ Battle of Arcole (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Ardennes - World War I

★ Battle of Arnhem - 1944 - World War II (Operation Market Garden)

★ Battle of Arras (1654) - Thirty Years' War (Spanish-French extension)

★ Battle of Arras (1917) - World War I

★ Battle of Arsuf - 1191 - Third Crusade

★ Battle of Artemisium - 480 BC - Persian Wars

★ Battle of Artois-Loos - 1915 - World War I

★ Battle of Asal Uttar - 1965 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

★ Battle of Ascalon - 1099 - First Crusade

★ Battle of Ashdown - 871 - Viking-Saxon wars

★ Battle of Athens (Alabama) - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Athens (Missouri) - 1861 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Auerstaedt - 1806 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Austerlitz - 1805 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of the Atlantic (1915) - World War I

★ Battle of the Atlantic (1940) - World War II

★ Battle of Auberoche - 1345 - Hundred Years War

★ Battle of Audenaarde - 1708 - War of the Spanish Succession

B

★ Battle of the Bagradas River (239 BC) - Carthage's Mercenary War

★ Battle of the Bagradas River (49 BC) - Caesar's civil war

★ Battle of Bakhmach - 1918 - World War I

★ Battle of Balaclava - 1854 - Crimean War

★ Battle of Bang Rajan - 1767 - Burmese-Siamese Wars

★ Battle of Bannockburn - 1314 - English-Scottish Wars

★ Operation Barbarossa - 1941 - World War II

★ Battle of Barfleur - 1692 - War of the Grand Alliance

★ Battle of Barletta - 1503 - see Challenge of Barletta

★ Battle of Barnet - 1471 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of Basantar - 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

★ Battle of Basra (a.k.a. Battle of the Camel) - 656 - Moslem Civil Wars

★ Battle of Bautzen - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Beecher Island - 1868 - American Indian Wars

★ Battle of Beersheba - 1917 - World War I

★ Battle of Belleau Wood - 1918 - World War I

★ Battle of Benevento - 1266 - French Invasion of Italy

★ Battle of Beneventum (275 BC) - Rise of Rome

★ Battle of Beresteczko - 1651 - The Deluge

★ Battle of Bergen (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Bitonto - 1734 - War of Polish Succession

★ Battle of Blanchetaque - 1346 - Hundred Years War

★ Battle of Blenheim - 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession

★ Battle of Blood River - 1838 -

★ Battle of Blore Heath - 1459 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of Böhmisch-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)

★ Battle of Borodino - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Borysthenes - 1512 - Russo-Polish Wars

★ Battle of the Bosnian Highlands - 927 - Croatian-Bulgarian War of 927

★ Battle of Bosworth Field - 1485 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of Boulou (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Bouvines - 1214 - English-French Wars

★ Battle of the Boyne River - 1690 - First Jacobite Insurrection

★ Battle of Breisach - 1638 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Breitenfeld (1642) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Brienne - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Britain - 1940 - World War II

★ Battle of Brandywine (1777) - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Brooklyn (a.k.a. Battle of Long Island) - 1776 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Brunkeberg - 1471 - Danish-Swedish Wars

★ Battle of Bråvalla - ca 750 - Danish-Swedish Wars

★ Battle of Buçaco - 1810 - Peninsular War

★ Battle of Buena Vista - 1847 - Mexican–American War

★ Brusilov offensive - 1916 - World War I

★ Battle of the Bulge - 1944 - World War II

★ First Battle of Bull Run - 1861 - American Civil War

★ Second Battle of Bull Run - 1862 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Bunker Hill - 1775 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Burgos - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Burkersdorf - 1762 - Seven Years' War

C

★ Battle of Caen (1346) - Hundred Years War

★ Battle for Caen - 1944 - Second World War

★ Battle of Cambrai - 1917 - World War I

★ Battle of the Camel (see Battle of Basra)

★ Battle of Camlann - 573, the only mentioning of king Arthur

★ Battle of Camperdown - 1797 - French Revolutionary Wars

★ Battle of Cannae - 216 BC - Second Punic War

★ Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Caporetto (a.k.a. Twelfth Battle of Isonzo) - 1917 - World War I

★ Battle of Capua (212 BC) - Second Punic War

★ Battle of Capua (1734) - War of Polish Succession

★ Battle of Carabobo - 1821 - Venezuelan War of Independence

★ Battle of Carbisdale (1650)

★ Battle of Carchemish - 605 BC - Babylonian-Egyptian War

★ Battle of Carillon (1758) - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Carthage (149 BC) - Third Punic War

★ Battle of Carthage (533) (see Battle of Ad Decimum)

★ Battle of Carthage (698) - Moslem Conquest of North Africa

★ Battle of Castle Turjak - 1943 - World War II

★ Battle of Cassel - 1677 - Franco-Dutch War

★ Battle of Castillon - 1453 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (see Battle of Chalons)

★ Battle of the Caudine Forks - 321 BC - Samnite Wars

★ Second Battle of Cawnpore - 1857 - Indian Rebellion of 1857

★ Battle of Cedynia - 972 - First Polish-German War

★ Battle of Cesky´-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)

★ Battle of Ceuta - 1415 - Portuguese Invasion of Africa

★ Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) - Wars of Alexander the Great

★ Battle of Chaeronea (86 BC) - First Mithridatic War

★ Battle of Chalcis - 429 BC - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Châlons-sur-Marne (366) - Germanic Invasions of the Roman Empire

★ Battle of Châlons (451) - Wars of the Western Roman Empire

★ Battle of Champaubert - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Changsha (3rd century) - Wars of the three kingdoms

★ Battle of Changsha (1930) - Gunboat Diplomacy - basis for movie, ''The Sand Pebbles''

★ Battle of Changsha (1939) - Second Chinese-Japanese War

★ Battle of Changsha (1941) - Second Chinese-Japanese War

★ Battle of Changsha (1942) - Second Chinese-Japanese War as merged into World War II

★ Battle of Changsha (1944) (a.k.a. Changsha-Hengyang) - Second Chinese-Japanese War as merged into World War II

★ Battle of Changping - 206 BC - Consolidation of Qin dynasty

★ Battle of Chateauguay - 1813 - War of 1812

★ Battle of Chernaya River - 1855 - Crimean War

★ Battle of the Chesapeake - 1781 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Chesma - 1770 - Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774)

★ Battle of Chickamauga - 1863 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Chippawa - 1812 - War of 1812

★ Battle of Chojnice (a.k.a. Battle of Conitz) - 1454 - Thirteen Years' War

★ Battle of Chosin Reservoir - 1951 - Korean War

★ Battle of Chrysopolis - 324 - Constantine I becomes the only Roman Emperor

★ Battle of Ciudad-Real - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Civitate - 1053 - Norman vs. Swabian-Italian-Lombard Papal coalition

★ Battle of Cocherel - 1364 - French vs. the forces of Charles II of Navarre

★ Battle of Cold Harbor - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Colenso - 1899 - Second Boer War

★ Battle of Copenhagen - 1659 - Northern Wars

★ Battle of Copenhagen (1801) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Copenhagen (1807) - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of the Coral Sea - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Coronea - 447 BC - pre-Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Coronel - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Muslim Conquest of Spain

★ Battle of Cracow - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Craonne - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Cravant - 1423 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of the Crater - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Crécy - 1346 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of Crete - 1941 - World War II

★ Battle of Crysler's Farm - 1813 - War of 1812

★ Battle of Culloden (a.k.a. Culloden Moor) - 1746 - Jacobite Rebellions

★ Battle of Cunaxa - 401 BC - Persian-Greek Wars

★ Battle of Cut Knife - 1885 - North-West Rebellion

★ Battle of Chapultepec - 1847 - Mexican-American War

D

★ Battle of Dairen - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War

★ Battle of Delium - 424 BC - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Denain - 1712 - War of the Spanish Succession

★ Battle of Deorham (a.k.a. Dyrham) - 577 - Teutonic conquest of England

★ Battle of Dessau Bridge - (1626) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Detroit - 1812 - War of 1812

★ Battle of Dien Bien Phu - 1954 - French Indochina

★ Battle of Diersheim (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Diriyah - 1818 - Ottoman-Saudi War

★ Battle of Dogger Bank (1781) - War of American Independence

★ Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) - World War I

★ Battle of Domstadtl (Domašov) - 1758 - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Dorylaeum - 1097 - First Crusade

★ Battle of Dražgoše - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Drepana - 249 BC - First Punic War

★ Battle of Dresden - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Dufile - 1888 - Emin Pasha - Moyo District - Uganda

★ Battle of Dumlupınar - 1922 - Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)

★ Battle of the Dunes (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths

★ Battle of the Dunes (1658) - Spanish French Wars

★ Battle of Dunkirk (a.k.a. Dunkerque) - 1940 - World War II

★ Battle of Dunbar (1296) - Wars of Scottish Independence

★ Battle of Dunbar (1650) - English Civil Wars

★ Battle of Dunnichen

★ Battle of Dupplin Moor - 1332 - Second War of Scottish Independence

E

★ Battle of Eckmülh - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Edgehill - 1642 - English Civil War

★ Battle of Elchingen - 1805 - War of the Third Coalition

★ Battle of Elena - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

★ Battle of Elvina - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Embabo - 1882

★ Battle of Engen (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Espinosa - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Essling-Aspern - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of the Eurymedon - c. 466 BC - Persian Wars

★ Battle of Evesham - 1265 - Second Barons' War of England

★ Battle of Eylau - 1807 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

F

★ Battle of Falkirk (1298) - Wars of Scottish Independence

★ Battle of Falkirk (1746) - Jacobite Rebellions

★ Battle of the Falkland Islands - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Fehrbellin - 1675 - Northern Wars

★ Battle of Feishui - 383 - Wars of the Eastern Jin Dynasty

★ Battle of Five Forks - 1865 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Flandres - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Fleurus (1622) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Fleurus (1690) - War of the Grand Alliance

★ Battle of Fleurus (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Focşani - 1789 - Russo–Turkish War (1787–1792)

★ Battle of Fontenay (841) (Latin Fontanetum, near Auxerre, and now Fontenoy-en-Puisaye) - Division of Charlemagne's Empire

★ Battle of Fontenay (1944) (Fontenay-le-Pesnel near Caen) - World War II

★ Battle of Fontenoy (1745) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession

★ Battle of Formigny - 1450 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of Fornovo - 1495 - Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII

★ Battle of Fort Charlotte - 1780 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Frankfort on the Oder - 1631 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Freiburg - 1644 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Freiberg - 1762 - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Friedland - 1807 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of the Frontiers - 1914

★ Battle of Fuentes de Onoro - 1811 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Fulford - 1066 - Viking Conquest of England

★ Battle of Fürth - 1632 - Thirty Years' War

G

★ Battle of Gallipoli - 1915 - World War I

★ Battle of Garibpur - 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

★ Battle of Gaugamela - 331 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great

★ First Battle of Gaza - 1917 - World War I

★ Second Battle of Gaza - 1917 - World War I

★ Battle of Geisberg (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Germantown(1777) - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Gettysburg - 1863 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Gilboa - 1000 BC - Israeli Philistine Wars

★ Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive - 1915 - World War I

★ Battle of Grathe Heath - 1157 - Dispute over Danish Throne

★ Battle of Grandson - 1476

★ Battle of the Granicus - 334 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great

★ Battle of Grengam - 1720 - Great Northern War

★ Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion

★ Battle of Grunwald - 1410

★ Battle of Guadalcanal - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Guadalete - 711 - Moslem Conquest of Spain

★ Battle of Guan Du - 200 - Conquest of Northern China

★ Battle of the Guise - (See Battle of St. Quentin (1914))

★ Battle of Gully Ravine - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli

★ Battle of Gumbinnen - 1914

★ Battle of Gvozd Mountain (Peter`s Mountain) - 1097 - Croatian-Hungarian War of 1097

H

★ Battle of Halys (547 BC) - Persian Wars

★ Battle of Halys (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths

★ Battle of Halys (1101) - First Crusade

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★ Because the Halys is a river the above battles sometimes use the terms "on the" or "at the"

★ Battle of Hampton Roads (see Battle of the Ironclads)

★ Battle of Harlaw - 1411 - Aberdeenshire Scotland

★ Hartmannswillerkopf - 1914 - Alsace

★ Battle of Hastings - 1066 - Norman conquest of England

★ Battle of Hattin - 1187 - Crusades

★ Battle of Heligoland (1864) - Second Schleswig War

★ Battle of Heligoland (1914) (a.k.a. Heligoland Bight) - World War I

★ Battle of Hellespont - 324

★ Battle of Helsingborg - 1362 - Danish-German War

★ Battle of Hemmingstedt - 1500 - Danish invasion in Dithmarschen, Germany

★ Battle of Heraclea - 280 BC - Pyrrhic War

★ Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli) - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli

★ Battle of Hill 60 (Western Front) - 1915 - World War I - Western Front

★ Battle of Hilli 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

★ Battle of Höchst - 1622 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Hochstadt - 1703 - War of the Spanish Succession

★ Battle of Hochstadt (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Hohenfriedberg - 1745 - Second Silesian War and War of the Austrian Succession

★ Battle of Hohenlinden (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Hondshoote (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Hue - 1968 - Vietnam War

★ Battle of Hundred Regiments (a.k.a. Hundred Regiments Offensive) - 1940 - Second Chinese-Japanese War

★ Battle of the Hydaspes River - 326 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great

I

★ Battle of Iena - 1806 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Ilipa - 206 BC - Second Punic War

★ Battle of Inkerman - 1854 - Crimean War

★ Battle of Inverlochy - 1431

★ Battle of Inverlochy - 1645 - English Civil War

★ Battle of Issus - 333 BC - Macedonian conquests

★ Battle of Ituzaingo - 1827 - Uruguayan War of Independence

★ Battle of Iwo Jima - 1945 - World War II

★ Battle of the Ironclads (a.k.a. ''Monitor'' vs. ''Merrimack'', Battle of Hampton Roads) - 1862 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Isandhlwana - Anglo-Zulu War

★ Battle of Isonzo (489) - Ostrogoth invasion of Italy

★ Battles of Isonzo - World War I - a series of eleven related battles, ending with the Battle of Caporetto

J

★ Battle of Jankau - 1645 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Java Sea - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Jeddah - 1813 - Ottoman-Saudi War

★ Battle of Jemappes - 1792 - War of the First Coalition

★ Battle of Jena - 1806 - War of the Fourth Coalition

★ Battle of Jutland - 1916 - World War I

K

★ Battle of Kabul (709) - Moslem Conquest of the East

★ Battle of Kabul (1842) - First Afghan-British War

★ Battle of Kadesh - 1472 BC - Egyptian-Canaanite War

★ Battle of Kalcicrum (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Kapyong 1951 - Korean War

★ Battle of Karkar - 854 BC or 853 BC - Assyrian Wars of Conquest

★ Battle of Kepaniwai - 1790 - Unification of Hawaiian Islands

★ Battle of Kircholm - 1605 - War between Sweden and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for the Inflants

★ Battle of Kleidion - 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgar Wars

★ Battle of Kłuszyn - 1610, Poles defeat Russians during Times of Troubles in Russia.

★ Battle of Kolin - 1757 - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Kolubara - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Königgrätz - 1866 - Austro-Prussian War

★ Battle of Kosovo - 1389 - Ottoman wars in Europe

★ Battle of Kosovo (1448) - Ottoman wars in Europe

★ Battle of Kosovo (1915) - World War I

★ Battle of Krbava field - 1493 - Ottoman-Croatian Wars

★ Battles of Krithia - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli

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★ First Battle of Krithia

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★ Second Battle of Krithia

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★ Third Battle of Krithia

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★ Battle of Krithia Vineyard

★ Battle of Kunyang - 24 - Rise of the Eastern Han

★ Battle of Kursk - 1943 - World War II

★ Battle of Kyushu - 1281 - Mongol Invasions of Japan

L

★ Battle of La Bicoca - 1522 - French Wars in Italy

★ Battle of Lade - 494 BC - Ionian Revolt

★ Battle of La Hogue - 1692 - War of the Grand Alliance

★ Battle of Lake Erie - 1813 - War of 1812

★ Battle of La Loiera - 1353 - Venetians and Aragonese vs. Genoese

★ Battle of Laon - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Largs - 1263 - Norse invasion of Scotland

★ Battle of Lauffeld (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession

★ Battle of Le Cateau - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Lechfeld - 955 - German states stop the Magyars

★ Battle of Legnano - 1176 - Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines

★ Battle of Leipzig - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Lens - 1648 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Lepanto (1499) - Turkish-Venetian Wars

★ Battle of Lepanto (1500) - second battle there during the Turkish-Venetian Wars

★ Battle of Lepanto (1571) - Defeat of the Turkish fleet

★ Battle of Lesnaya 1708 - Great Northern War

★ Battle of Leuthen - 1757 - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Leuven - 891

★ Battle of Lewes - 1264 - Second Barons' War of England

★ Battle of Leyte (land battle) - 1944 - World War II

★ Battle of Leyte Gulf (sea battle) - 1944 - World War II

★ Battle of Liaoyang - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War

★ Battle of Ligny - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition

★ Battle of Lincoln (1141), on 2 February 1141 - Stephen of England vs Matilda, England.

★ Battle of Lincoln (1217), on 20 May 1217 - First Barons' War of England.

★ Battle of Lipany (a.k.a. Cesky´-Brod or Böhmisch-Brod) - 1434 - Hussite Wars

★ Battle of Lissa - 1866 - Seven Weeks' War

★ Battle of the Little Bighorn - 1876 - Second Sioux War

★ Battle of Łódź - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Lone Pine - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli

★ Battle of Long Island (a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn) - 1776 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of the Long Orchard - 432 - Byzantine War against the Goths

★ Battle of Longewala - 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

★ Battle of Loos (see Battle of Artois-Loos)

★ Battle of Lostwithiel (two connected battles) - 1642 and 1644 - English Civil War

★ Battle of Lowestoft - 1665 - Second Anglo-Dutch War

★ Battle of Lowicz - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Lugou Bridge (a.k.a. Incident at Marco Polo Bridge) - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War

★ Battle of Lumphanan - 1057 - Scottish dispute over the throne; Macbeth died here.

★ Battle of Lundy's Lane - 1814 - War of 1812

★ Battle of Lutter am Barenberge - 1626 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Lützen (1632) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Lützen (1813) - Napoleonic Empire Wars

M

★ Battle of Magdeburg - 1631 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Magdhaba - 1916 - World War I

★ Battle of Magenta - 1859 - Italian Independence War

★ Battle of Magh Tuiredh (two battles) - Irish mythology - see also Tuatha Dé Danann, Lugh

★ Battle of Maiwand - 1880 - Second Anglo-Afghan War

★ Battle of Majuba Hill - 1881 - First Boer War

★ Battle of Malakoff - 1855 - Crimean War

★ Battle of Maldon - 991 - Rise of England

★ Battle of Malplaquet - 1709 - War of the Spanish Succession

★ Battle of Manila (1762) - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Manila (1898) - Spanish-American War

★ Battle of Manila (1899) - Philippine-American War

★ Battle of Manila (1945) - World War II

★ Battle of Manila Bay (1898) - Spanish-American War

★ Battle of Manners Street - 1943 World War II

★ Battle of Mantinea (418 BC) - 418 BC - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Mantinea (362 BC) - 362 BC - Greek City-States War

★ Battle of Manzikert - 1071 - Byzantine-Turkish Wars

★ Battle of Marakesh - 1908

★ Battle of Marathon - 490 BC - Persian-Greek Wars

★ Battle of Marengo - 1800 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Marignani - 1515 - French Wars in Italy

★ Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem) - 1944 - World War II

★ First Battle of the Marne - 1914 - World War I

★ Second Battle of the Marne - 1918 - World War I

★ Battle of Marston Moor - 1644 - English Civil War

★ First Battle of Masurian Lakes - September 1914 - World War I

★ Second Battle of Masurian Lakes - February 1915 - World War I

★ Battle of Matchin - 1791 - Russo–Turkish War (1787–1792)

★ Battle of Mecca - 1813 - Ottoman-Saudi War

★ Battle of Medelin - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Medina (1812) - 1812 - Ottoman-Saudi War

★ Battle of Mello - 1358 - Peasant Jacquerie

★ Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) - Egyptian-Canaanite War

★ Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) - 609 BC

★ Battle of Megiddo (1918) - 1918 - World War I

★ Battle of Mergentheim - 1645 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Meloria (1241) - Frederick II and Pisa vs. Genoa

★ Battle of Meloria (1284) - Pisa vs. Genoa

★ Battle of Miani - 1843 - Anglo-Baluchi War

★ Battle of Midway - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Milan (1522) - French Wars in Italy

★ Battle of Milan (1535) - French Wars in Italy

★ Battle of Milan (1741) - War of the Austrian Succession

★ Battle of Milvian Bridge - 312 - Civil Wars of the Roman Empire

★ Battle of Minden - 1759 - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Mirbat - 1972 - [Oman Coup]

★ Battle of Mitla Pass - 1956 - Suez Crisis

★ Battle of Mobile (1781) - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Mobile Bay - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Modder River - 1899 - Second Boer War

★ Battle of Möerskirch (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Mohács - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary

★ Battle of Mollwitz - 1741 - War of the Austrian Succession

★ Battle of Monocacy Junction - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of the Monongahela - 1755 - French and Indian War

★ Battle of Mons - 1914 - World War I

★ Battle of Mons Badonicus - abount 500 - Teutonic Conquest of Britain

★ Battle of Mons Graupius - 84 - Roman Invasion of Britain

★ Battle of Monte Cassino - 1944 - Italian Campaign (World War II)

★ Battle of Montereau - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Montmirail - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Mormans - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Moscow - 1941 - World War II

★ Battle of Mouquet Farm - 1916

★ Battle of Mühlberg - 1547 - German Reformation Wars

★ Battle of Mycale - 479 BC - Persian Wars

★ Battle of Myriokephalon - 1176 - Byzantine-Turkish Wars

N

★ Battle of Naissus - 269 - Gothic Invasion of the Roman Empire

★ Night Attack - 1462 - Vlad III Dracula versus Mehmed II

★ Battle of Nanjing - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War

★ Battle of Nanos - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Naseby - 1645 - English Civil War

★ Battle of Nashville - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Naupactus - 429 BC - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Navarino - 1827 - Greek War of Independence

★ Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa - 1212 - Spanish-Moslem Wars

★ Battle of Neaje - 1016- Saint Olav Haraldsson

★ Battle of Nechtansmere - 685 - see Battle of Dunnichen

★ Battle of Neerwinden (1693) - War of the Grand Alliance

★ Battles of Nejd - 1817 / 1818 - Ottoman-Saudi War

★ Battle of the Nek - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli

★ Battle of Neresheim (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Neuwied (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of New Orleans - 1815 - War of 1812

★ Battle of New Ross (1798) - Irish Rebellion of 1798

★ Battle of Nicopolis - 1396 - Ottoman wars in Europe

★ Battle of the Nile - 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) - Fall of Assyria

★ Battle of Nineveh (627) - Byzantine-Persian Wars

★ Battle of Niquitao - 1813 - Venezuelan War of Independence

★ Battle of Nördlingen (1634) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Nördlingen (1645) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Normandy - 1944 - World War II

★ Battle of Novara (1513) - War of the League of Cambrai

★ Battle of Novara (1849) - Italian Independence wars

★ Battle of Novi (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution

O

★ Battle of Ocana - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Oenophyta - 457 BC - First Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Okinawa - 1945 - World War II

★ Battle of Olpae - 426 BC - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Orchomenus - 84 BC - First Mithridatic War

★ Battle of Orléans - 1429 - Hundred Years' War - Joan of Arc participated

★ Battle of Osankarica - 1943 - World War II

★ Battle of Otterburn - 1388 - Scottish/English border dispute

★ Battle of Oudenarde - 1708 - War of the Spanish Succession

P

★ Battle of Pakozd - 1848 - Hungarian Revolution of 1848

★ Battle of Pampeluna (778) - Charlemagne's War against the Moors

★ Battle of Pampeluna (1521) - French-Spanish Wars

★ Battle of Pampeluna (1813) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Panipat (1526) - Mogul-Afghan Wars

★ Battle of Panipat (1556) - Mogul-Afghan Wars

★ Battle of Panipat (1761) - Afghan-Maratha Wars

★ Battle of Passchendaele - 1917 - World War I

★ Battle of Patay - 1429 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of Pavia (271) - Alamanni Invasion of the Roman Empire

★ Battle of Pavia (476) - Fall of the Western Roman Empire

★ Battle of Pavia (569) - Lombard Invasion of Italy

★ Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne

★ Battle of Pavia (1431) - Wars in Lombardy

★ Battle of Pavia (1525) - French Wars in Italy

★ Battle of Peleliu - 1944 - World War II

★ Battle of Pearl Harbor - 1941 - World War II

★ Battle of Pharsalus - 48 BC - Wars of the First Triumvirate

★ Battle of Philippi (42 BC) (in Macedonia) - Wars of the Second Triumvirate

★ Battle of Philippi (1861) (in West Virginia) - American Civil War

★ Battle of Philippine Sea - 1944 - World War II

★ Battle of the Plains of Abraham - 1759 - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Pilsen - 1618 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Plataea - 479 BC - Persian Wars

★ Battle of Platzberg (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Poitiers - 1356 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of Poljana - 1945 - World War II

★ Battle of Pollentia - 402 - Goth Invasion of the Western Roman Empire

★ Battle of Poltava - 1709 - Great Northern War

★ Battle of Port Arthur - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War

★ Battle of Portland - 1653 - First Anglo–Dutch War

★ Battle of Portland Harbour - 1863 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Pozzolo (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Prague (1420) - Hussite Wars

★ Battle of Prague (1648) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Prague (1744) - War of the Austrian Succession

★ Battle of Prague (1757) - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Preston (1648) - Second English Civil War

★ Battle of Preston (1715) - First Jacobite rising

★ Battle of Prestonpans - 1745 - Jacobite rising

★ Battle of Princeton - 1777 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Puebla (1847) - Mexican-American War

★ Battle of Puebla (1862) - French-Mexican War

★ Battle of Pydna - 168 BC - Third Macedonian War

★ Battle of Pylos - 425 BC - Peloponnesian War

Q

★ Battle of Quatre Bras - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition

★ Battle of Quebec (1691) - British attack during King William's War

★ Battle of Quebec (1711) - British attack during Queen Anne's War

★ Battle of Quebec (1759) - Seven Years' War, includes the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

★ Battle of Quebec (1760) - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Quebec (1775) - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Queenston Heights - 1812 - War of 1812

R

★ Battle of Rafa - 1917 - World War I

★ Battle of Rain - 1632 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Rakovor - 1268 -

★ Battle of Ramillies - 1706 - War of the Spanish Succession

★ Battle of Ramoth-Gilead - 953 BC - Israeli-Syrian War

★ Battle of Rastadt (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Raszyn - 1809- Napoleonic Wars

★ Battle of Raucoux (1746) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession

★ Battle of Ravenna (419) - Roman Empire vs. Ostrogoths

★ Battle of Ravenna (432) - Bonifacius vs. Flavius Aëtius

★ Battle of Ravenna (1512) - War of the League of Cambrai

★ Battle of Reading - 871 - Ethelred of Wessex and Alfred the Great defeated by a Danish army

★ Battle of Reading - 1688 - Glorious Revolution

★ Battle of Red Cliffs - 208 - Rise of the Three Kingdoms

★ Battle of Rheinfelden - 1638 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Rivas 1856 - Central American coalition defeats filibuster William Walker

★ The Battle of the River Plate - 1939 - World War II

★ Battle of Rivoli - 1796 - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Rocroi - 1643 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Romani - 1916 - World War I

★ Battle for Rome - 1944 - Italian Campaign (World War II)

★ Battle of Rosbach - 1757 - Seven Years' War

★ Battle of Ruvo - 1503 - French-Spanish Wars in Italy

S

★ Battle of St-Laurent-de-la-Muga (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Saint-Omer - 1340 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of St Pol de Leon - 1346 - Breton War of Succession

★ Battle of St. Quentin (1914) - World War I

★ Battle of Sablat - 1619 - Thirty Years' War

★ First Battle of Saigon - 1968 - Vietnam War

★ Battle of Sainte-Foy - 1760

★ Battle of Salamanca - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Salamis - 480 BC - Persian Wars

★ Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus) - 450 BC - pre-Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of San Jacinto - 1836 - Texan War of Independence

★ Battle of Santa Rosa - 1856 - Costa Rican troops rout Walker's soldiers

★ Battle of Santiago de Cuba - 1898 - Spanish-American War

★ Battle of Saratoga - 1777 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Sarhū - 1619

★ Battle of Sari Bair - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli

★ Battle of Sarmada - 1119 - Crusader-Turkish Wars

★ Battle of Scheveningen - 1653 - First Anglo–Dutch War

★ Battle of Schwechat - 1848 - Hungarian Revolution of 1848

★ Battle of Schwetz - see Battle of Świecino

★ Battle of Scimitar Hill - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli

★ Battle of Sedan - 1870 - Franco-Prussian War

★ Battle of Sedgemoor - 1685 - Monmouth's Revolt

★ Battle of Sekigahara - 1600 - Unification of Japan

★ Battle of Sempach - 1386 - Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy

★ Battle of Seneffe - 1674 - Franco-Dutch War

★ Battle of Shijō Nawate - 1348 - Nanboku-chō period

★ Battle of Shiloh - 1862 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Sherrifmuir - 1715 - Scottish Revolution

★ Battle of Shrewsbury - 1403 - Percy Revolt against Henry IV

★ Battle of Sitka - 1804 - Russian colonization of the Americas

★ Battle of Sluis (1603) - Eighty Years' War

★ Battle of Sluys - 1340 - Hundred Years' War

★ Battle of Solférino - 1859 - Italian Independence War

★ Battle of the Somme (1916) - World War I

★ Battle of the Somme (1918) - World War I

★ Battle of Sphacteria - 425 BC - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Spion Kop - 1900 - Second Boer War

★ Battle of Spotsylvania Court House - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Stadtlohn - 1623 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Stalingrad - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Stamford Bridge - 1066 - Viking invasion of England

★ First Battle of St Albans - 1455 - Wars of the Roses

★ Second Battle of St Albans - 1461 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of St-Dizier - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Saint Gotthard - 1664 - Ottoman wars in Europe

★ Battle of Steenkerque - 1692 - War of the Grand Alliance

★ Battle of Stiklestad - 1030 - Christianization of Norway

★ Battle of Stirling Bridge - 1297 - English-Scottish Wars

★ Battle of Stirling (1648) - English-Scottish Civil War

★ Battle of Stoke Field - 1487 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of Stockash (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Stralsund (1628) - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Stralsund (1715) - Great Northern War

★ First Battle of the Stronghold - 1873 - Modoc War

★ Battle of Stångebro - 1598

★ Battle of Suiyang - 757

★ Battle of Surat - 1664 - Imperial Maratha Conquests

★ Battle of Svistov - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

★ Battle of Świecino (a.k.a. Schwetz, Żarnowiec) - 1462 - Thirteen Years' War

★ Battle of Syllaeum - 677 - Byzantine-Arab Wars

★ Battle of Syracuse (415 BC) - Great Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Syracuse (387 BC) - Carthaginian Invasion of Sicily

★ Battle of Syracuse (214 BC) - Second Punic War

★ Battle of Syracuse (1734) - War of the Polish Succession

★ Battle of Syria - 431 - Byzantine War against the Goths

T

★ Battle of Taglicozzo - 1268 - French Invasion of Italy

★ Battle of Tai er zhuang - 1938 - Second Chinese-Japanese War

★ Battle of Talavera - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) - Peloponnesian War

★ Battle of Tannenberg (1410) - Rise of Poland

★ Battle of Tannenberg (1914) - World War I

★ Battle of Tarawa (a.k.a. Tarawa-Makin) - 1943 - World War II

★ Battle of Tarifa - 1811 - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Tassafaronga - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Tashkessen - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)

★ Battle of Te Tumo - 1835 - Maori Wars

★ Battle of Tchernaïa - 1855 - Crimean War

★ Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - 9 - Germanic Wars of the Roman Empire

★ Battle of Tewkesbury - 1491 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of Texel - 1673 - Franco-Dutch and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars

★ Battle of the Thames - 1813 - War of 1812

★ Battle of Thapsus - 46 BC - Caesar's civil war

★ Battle of Thermopylae - 480 BC - Persian Wars

★ Battle of Ticonderoga - 1758, 1759, 1775, 1777 - French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Tippecanoe - 1811 - War against Tecumseh

★ Battle of Tippermuir - 1644 Wars of the Three Kingdoms

★ Siege of Tobruk - 1941 - World War II

★ Battle of Tolentino - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition

★ Battle of Tololing - 1999 - Kargil War

★ Battle of Toulouse - 721 - Moslem Invasion of Europe

★ Battle of Toulouse - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Tourcoing (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Tours - 732 - Moslem Invasion of France

★ Battle of Towton - 1461 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of Trafalgar - 1805 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Trebia (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Trenton - 1776 - American Revolutionary War

★ Second Battle of Trenton - 1777 - American Revolutionary War

★ Battle of Trepani - 1735 - War of the Polish Succession

★ Battle of Trieste - 1945 - World War II

★ Battle of Trippstadt (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Troy - 1194 BC - Trojan War

★ Battle of Tsushima - 1905 - Russo-Japanese War

★ Battle of Tudela - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Turckeim - 1675 - Franco-Dutch War

★ Battle of Tumu Fortress - 1449 - Ming Wars against the Mongols

★
★ NOTE: This was previously listed as Tumu Castle, but the distinction may simply be a by-product of translation from Chinese.

★ Battle of Tunisia - 1942 - World War II

★ Battle of Tuttlingen - 1643 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Tenochtitlan - 1521 - Spanish conquest of Mexico

★ First Battle of Torreon - 1913 - Mexican Revolution

★ Second Battle of Torreon - 1914 - Mexican Revolution

★ Third Battle of Torreon - 1914 - Mexican Revolution

U

★ Battle of Ucles (1108) - Spanish-Moslem Wars

★ Battle of Ucles (1809) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Ulm - 1805 - War of the Third Coalition

★ Battle of Ulundi - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War

V

★ Battle of Vauchamps - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Vaila - see Battle of Agnadello

★ Battle of Valenciennes - 1656 - Thirty Years' War (Spanish-French Extension)

★ Battle of Valmy - 1792 - French Revolutionary Wars

★ Battle of Vaslui - 1475 - (Moldavian-Ottoman Wars)

★ Battle of Vera Cruz - 1847 - Mexican-American War

★ Battle of Veracruz - 1914 - see United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914

★ Battle of Verdun - 1916 - World War I

★ Battle of Vimeiro - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Vimy Ridge - 1917 - World War I

★ Battle of Vitoria - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Vukovar - 1991 - Croatian War of Independence

W

★ Battle of Wagram - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

★ Battle of Wakefield - 1460 - Wars of the Roses

★ Battle of Warsaw (1656), during the Northern Wars

★ Battle of Warsaw (1831), during the Polish revolt against Russia

★ Battle of Vistula River-Warsaw, during World War I

★ Battle of Warsaw (1920), during the Polish-Soviet War

★ Battle of Warsaw (1939), at the outset of World War II

★ Battle of Warsaw (1944), near the end of World War II

★ Battle of Washita River - 1868 - the Indian Wars

★ Battle of Waterloo - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition

★ Battle of Wattignies (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Wavre - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition

★ Battle of Wayna Daga - 1543 - Moslem Wars in Ethiopia

★ Battle of Werben - 1631 - Thirty Years' War

★ Defence of Westerplatte - 1939 - World War II

★ Battle of White Mountain - 1620 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Wiesloch - 1622 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of the Wilderness - 1864 - American Civil War

★ Battle of Wimpfen - 1622 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Wittstock - 1636 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Woerth (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Wogastisburg - 631

★ Battle of Wolgast - 1628 - Thirty Years' War

★ Battle of Worringen - 1288 - Cologne's revolt against church rule

★ Battle of Wounded Knee - 1890 - Sioux Wars

X

★ Battle of Xiangyang (209) (year uncertain) - Rise of the Three Kingdoms

★ Battle of Xiangyang (360) (year uncertain) - Expansion of the Early Qin

★ Battle of Xiangyang (1273) - Yuan conquest of Southern Sung

★ Battle of Xiangyang (1944) - World War II

Y

★ Battle of Yalu River (1894) - First Sino-Japanese War

★ Battle of Yalu River (1904) - Russo-Japanese War

★ Battle of Yarmuk - 636 - Byzantine-Arab Wars

★ Battle of York - 1813 - War of 1812

★ Battle of Yorktown (1781) - American Revolutionary War

★ First Battle of Ypres - 1914 - World War I

★ Second Battle of Ypres - 1915 - World War I

★ Third Battle of Ypres - 1917 - World War I

Z

★ Battle of Žalgiris - see Battle of Grunwald (1410)

★ Battle of Zama - 202 BC - Second Punic War

★ Battle of Żarnowiec - see Battle of Świecino

★ Battle of Zborov - 1917 - World War I

★ First Battle of Zurich 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Second Battle of Zurich 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution

★ Battle of Zusmarshausen - 1648 - Thirty Years' War