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Battle of Alalia
The Battle of Alalia, or Battle of the Sardinian Sea, was a naval battle around 540 BC between Phocaean Greeks and an Etruscan and Carthaginian fleet off Corsica.
Battle of Alam el Halfa
The Battle of Alam el Halfa was fought in Egypt from 30 August to early September 1942, when Montgomery's British Eighth Army stopped Rommel's last offensive in North Africa.
Battle of Alamana
The Battle of Alamana (Μάχη της Αλαμάνας) was fought on 23 April 1821 near Thermopylae, where a larger Ottoman army defeated Greek revolutionaries and captured their commander Athanasios Diakos.
Battle of Alamance
Battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771, final battle of the Regulator Movement in colonial North Carolina: about 2,000 Regulators defeated by Governor William Tryon's roughly 1,000-man militia with eight cannons near Great Alamance Creek.
Battle of Alapan
The Battle of Alapan (Labanan sa Alapan) was a victory of Filipino revolutionary forces over Spanish marines at Alapan, Imus, Cavite, on May 28, 1898, during Aguinaldo's renewed revolution.
Battle of Alarcos
The Battle of Alarcos (معركة الأرك), fought on 19 July 1195 near Ciudad Real, saw the Almohad caliph al-Mansur decisively defeat Alfonso VIII of Castile.
Battle of Albulena
The Battle of Albulena, also called the Battle of Ujëbardha, was a 1457 victory of Skanderbeg's Albanians over a much larger Ottoman army in Albania.
Battle of Alcacer Quibir
The Battle of Alcacer Quibir (معركة الملوك الثلاثة) was a 1578 battle in Morocco where King Sebastian of Portugal and two rival sultans all died.
Battle of Alcácer Quibir (معركة وادي المخازن)
Battle of Alcácer Quibir (معركة وادي المخازن), Battle of the Three Kings or Oued al-Makhâzin: 4 August 1578 defeat of King Sebastian's Portuguese army by Saadi Morocco; three kings died, leading to the Iberian Union.
Battle of Alcatraz
The Battle of Alcatraz, or Alcatraz Blastout, was a failed May 2-4, 1946 escape attempt at Alcatraz federal penitentiary in which six inmates seized the cellhouse; five people died and two convicts were executed.
Battle of Aleppo (2024)
Battle of Aleppo (2024): HTS-led rebels captured Syria's second-largest city, also called Operation Deterrence of Aggression, 27-30 November 2024, ending regime control since 2016 and triggering Assad's fall.
Battle of Aleppo (معركة حلب) (2012–2016)
Battle of Aleppo (معركة حلب), 2012–2016 Syrian civil war battle for Syria's largest city; government west versus rebel east until the December 2016 siege, evacuation, and rebel withdrawal.
Battle of Alesia
The Battle of Alesia, or Siege of Alesia, was fought in September 52 BC at Alesia in central France, where Julius Caesar besieged and defeated the Gallic leader Vercingetorix.
Battle of Alexandria (30 BC)
The Battle of Alexandria, fought on 1 August 30 BC, was the final land engagement between Octavian and Mark Antony; Antony's defeat ended the war and Ptolemaic Egypt.
Battle of Aliwal
The Battle of Aliwal (ਅਲੀਵਾਲ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was a decisive British victory over the Sikhs at Aliwal on the Sutlej River on 28 January 1846, during the First Sikh War.
Battle of Aljubarrota
Battle of Aljubarrota (Batalha de Aljubarrota), 14 August 1385: João I of Portugal and Nuno Álvares Pereira defeated Juan I of Castile's invading army on the São Jorge plateau, ending the 1383–1385 crisis and securing Portuguese independence.
Battle of Amalinde
The Battle of Amalinde, also called the Battle of Debe Nek, was an 1818 Xhosa battle in which Ndlambe decisively defeated his nephew, the chief Ngqika.
Battle of Amba Alagi
The Battle of Amba Alagi, fought on 7 December 1895, saw Ethiopian forces under Ras Makonnen destroy an Italian column under Major Pietro Toselli in Tigray.
Battle of Amba Sel
The Battle of Amba Sel was a battle of the Ethiopian–Adal War in 1529, in which Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi of the Adal Sultanate defeated the forces of Ethiopian emperor Lebna Dengel.
Battle of Ambon
The Battle of Ambon was a 1942 Second World War engagement on Ambon Island, Indonesia, where Japanese forces quickly overwhelmed the Dutch and Australian garrison.
Battle of Ambur
The Battle of Ambur was fought on 3 August 1749 near Ambur in the Carnatic, where allied forces of Muzaffar Jang, Chanda Sahib, and the French defeated and killed Nawab Anwar-ud-Din.
Battle of Amiens (1918)
Battle of Amiens (1918): Allied offensive of 8-11 August in Picardy, France, that opened the Hundred Days; Canadian and Australian Corps spearheaded the British Fourth Army's surprise attack, prompting Ludendorff's 'black day' remark.
Battle of Amoaful
The Battle of Amoaful was a battle fought on 31 January 1874 near Amoaful in present-day Ghana, where Wolseley's British force decisively defeated the main Asante army.
Battle of Amritsar (1767)
The Battle of Amritsar (1767) was the battle in which Jassa Singh Ahluwalia defeated Ahmad Shah Abdali at Amritsar, after which the Sikhs rebuilt the Harmandar Sahib.
Battle of An
The Battle of An (鞌之战) was a 589 BC battle of the Spring and Autumn period in which Jin, allied with Lu and Wei, defeated Qi near present-day Jinan.
Battle of An Lộc
The Battle of An Lộc (Trận An Lộc) was a siege fought from April to June 1972 at An Lộc, South Vietnam, where ARVN forces held off three NVA divisions.
Battle of Anchialus (708)
The Battle of Anchialus (708) was a victory of the Bulgar khan Tervel over the Byzantine emperor Justinian II, fought at Anchialus on the western Black Sea coast in 708.
Battle of Ancona
The Battle of Ancona of 17–18 July 1944 saw General Anders's Polish II Corps capture the Adriatic port city of Ancona from German forces on the Italian front.
Battle of Andros
The Battle of Andros was a naval battle fought off the Cycladic island of Andros around 246 BC, in which Antigonus II Gonatas of Macedon defeated a Ptolemaic fleet during the Third Syrian War.
Battle of Anéfis (2026)
Battle of Anéfis (2026): July 4–9 fight for the northern Malian town of Anéfis, where the JNIM–FLA jihadist-separatist coalition besieged the Malian army and Africa Corps before a relief column from Gao broke the siege.