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Battle for Hill 3234
Battle for Hill 3234: 7–8 January 1988 defense by 39 Soviet paratroopers of the 9th Company, 345th Guards Airborne Regiment, against 200–400 mujahideen during Operation Magistral; 6 killed, 28 wounded, hill held.
Battle for Hue (wargame)
Battle for Hue is a 1973 board wargame by Simulations Design Corporation recreating the fight for the Vietnamese city of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive.
Battle for Mexico City
The Battle for Mexico City was the final campaign of the Mexican-American War, fought September 8 to 15, 1847, in which General Winfield Scott stormed and occupied the Mexican capital.
Battle for Moscow and liberation of the Kremlin (1612)
The battle for Moscow and liberation of the Kremlin (Освобождение Москвы) of 1612 saw the Second Militia under Pozharsky and Minin rout Chodkiewicz's relief army, and the Polish garrison capitulated in late October.
Battle for Moscow and the capitulation of the Polish garrison (1612)
The Battle for Moscow, or Освобождение Москвы, was the 1612 campaign in which militias led by Pozharsky and Minin defeated Chodkiewicz and forced the Polish Kremlin garrison to surrender.
Battle for Sevastopol (Битва за Севастополь)
Battle for Sevastopol (Битва за Севастополь), released in Ukraine as Nezlamna, is a 2015 Russian-Ukrainian war drama by Sergei Mokritsky about sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, starring Yulia Peresild, budgeted at $5 million and released 2 April 2015.
Battle for the Planet of the Apes
Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 American science fiction film, the fifth and final entry in the original Planet of the Apes series, starring Roddy McDowall as Caesar.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Battle Hymn of the Republic: Julia Ward Howe's 1861 lyrics to the John Brown's Body tune, published in the Atlantic Monthly in February 1862; a Union Civil War anthem later adapted to many causes.
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is Amy Chua's 2011 Yale professor memoir on strict "tiger parenting" of daughters Sophia and Lulu; a 30-language bestseller that sparked abuse and effectiveness debates.
Battle in Berlin
Battle in Berlin (Schlacht um Berlin), April 16–May 2, 1945: the Red Army under Zhukov and Konev encircled and stormed the German capital, ending with Hitler's suicide, the Reichstag flag, and Germany's surrender.
Battle in the Bay of Matanzas
The Battle in the Bay of Matanzas (Batalla de la Bahía de Matanzas) was the Dutch capture of Spain's New Spain treasure fleet under Piet Heyn in Cuba in 1628.
Battle of 203 Hill
The Battle of 203 Hill (二〇三高地攻防戦) was fought in late 1904 at a 203-meter hill outside Port Arthur, captured by Japan's Third Army during the siege in the Russo-Japanese War.
Battle of 73 Easting
Battle of 73 Easting, February 26, 1991 Desert Storm tank battle: US 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment defeated Iraq's Republican Guard Tawakalna Division on a desert grid line, later reconstructed in SIMNET simulations.
Battle of Aachen
Battle of Aachen, World War II urban battle (13 September–21 October 1944) in which U.S. First Army took the first German city to fall to the Allies, after Hitler ordered it defended to the last man.
Battle of Abacaenum (393 BC)
The Battle of Abacaenum was a battle fought in 393 BC near Abacaenum, a Sicel city in north-eastern Sicily, where Dionysius I of Syracuse defeated Carthaginian forces under Mago.
Battle of Abaran
The Battle of Abaran, or Battle of Bash Abaran, was a May 1918 Armenian victory over Ottoman forces near Aparan, halting their advance on Yerevan.
Battle of Abensberg
The Battle of Abensberg was fought on 20 April 1809 near Abensberg in Bavaria, where Napoleon's Franco-German army defeated the Austrian left wing in the War of the Fifth Coalition.
Battle of Abeokuta
The Battle of Abeokuta was the unsuccessful 1851 assault by King Ghezo's Dahomey army of 12,000, including the Amazons, against the walled Egba city in southwestern Nigeria.
Battle of Abidjan (2002)
The Battle of Abidjan was the failed coup attempt of 19 September 2002 in Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, which escalated into civil war between north and south.
Battle of Abomey
The Battle of Abomey was the capture of Abomey, capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in present-day Benin, by a French column under Colonel Alfred-Amédée Dodds on 17 November 1892.
Battle of Abrolhos
The Battle of Abrolhos was a 1631 naval battle off Brazil between a Luso-Spanish fleet under António de Oquendo and a Dutch squadron, ending in a draw.
Battle of Abtao
Naval Battle of Abtao (7 February 1866): Spanish frigates Villa de Madrid and Blanca fought the allied Peruvian-Chilean squadron (Apurímac, Unión, América, Covadonga) under Manuel Villar in Chile's gulf of Ancud; a tactical allied victory.
Battle of Abu Hamed
The Battle of Abu Hamed, fought on 7 August 1897, saw a flying column of about 3,000 Anglo-Egyptian troops under Sir Archibald Hunter storm and capture the Mahdist-held town on the Nile in Sudan.
Battle of Abu Klea
The Battle of Abu Klea, or Battle of Abu Tulayh, was fought on 17 January 1885 in Sudan between a Mahdist army and a British desert column.
Battle of Accra
The Battle of Accra was the campaign in which the Akwamu state defeated the Ga kingdom of Accra, beginning in 1677 and completing its conquest by 1680 or 1681.
Battle of Aceh River
The Battle of Aceh River was a 1629 battle at Malacca in which Aceh's large armada attacked the Portuguese position but was defeated after reinforcements arrived from Goa.
Battle of Achelous (917)
The Battle of Achelous (Битка при Ахелой), also called the Battle of Anchialus, was fought on 20 August 917 near the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, where Tsar Simeon I crushed a Byzantine army.
Battle of Acosta Ñu
The Battle of Acosta Ñu, or Batalla de Acosta Ñu, was an 1869 battle of the War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay, where child soldiers were massacred.
Battle of Actium (Ναυμαχία του Ακτίου)
Battle of Actium (Ναυμαχία του Ακτίου), naval battle of 2 September 31 BCE off the Ambracian Gulf where Octavian and Agrippa defeated Antony and Cleopatra, ending the Roman civil war and leading to the Principate of Augustus.
Battle of Aculco
The Battle of Aculco was the first defeat of Miguel Hidalgo's insurgents in the Mexican War of Independence, by Félix María Calleja on 7 November 1810.