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Battle of Badr (غزوة بدر)
Battle of Badr (غزوة بدر), first major Muslim victory, fought 17 Ramadan 2 AH (March 624 CE) at the wells of Badr; about 313 Muslims under Muhammad defeated a Quraysh force of over 1,000 led by Abu Jahl after an intercepted caravan under Abu Sufyan.
Battle of Baecula
The Battle of Baecula was a battle of the Second Punic War in 208 BC, where Scipio defeated but failed to destroy Hasdrubal Barca's army in Hispania.
Battle of Baekgang
The Battle of Baekgang (白江口之戰) was a 663 naval battle at the Baek River mouth, where a Tang and Silla fleet destroyed a Baekje and Wa fleet.
Battle of Bagdoura
The Battle of Bagdoura (Arabic: معركة بقدورة) was a 741 battle in which Berber rebels destroyed a 30,000-man Umayyad army sent to crush the Great Berber Revolt.
Battle of Baghdad (2003)
Battle of Baghdad (Fall of Baghdad), April 2003: U.S. 3rd Infantry Division and 1st Marine Division captured Iraq's capital via armored Thunder Runs, taking the city on 9 April 2003 during the Iraq invasion.
Battle of Baghuz Fawqani
Battle of Baghuz Fawqani (الباغوز), February 9 to March 23, 2019: the Islamic State's final stand in Syria, taken by the SDF with coalition air support, ending ISIS territorial rule and producing a contested March 18 civilian casualty strike.
Battle of Bagrevand
The Battle of Bagrevand, also known as the battle of Artzni, was a crushing Abbasid victory over rebelling Armenian princes on 25 April 775, north of Lake Van.
Battle of Bahraich
The Battle of Bahraich (बहराइच का युद्ध) is a traditional account of a battle in the 1030s in which King Suheldev defeated the Ghaznavid commander Salar Masud.
Battle of Baia
The Battle of Baia was a night battle fought on 14/15 December 1467 at Baia in Moldavia, where Stephen the Great defeated the invading army of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.
Battle of Baideng
The Battle of Baideng (白登之围), or Siege of Pingcheng, was a 200 BCE battle in which Han founder Liu Bang was surrounded for seven days by Xiongnu cavalry.
Battle of Baidoa
The Battle of Baidoa, fought from 20 December 2006 around Baidoa, Somalia, pitted Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian forces against the advancing Islamic Courts Union.
Battle of Bakhmut (Битва за Бахмут)
Battle of Bakhmut (Битва за Бахмут): longest, bloodiest battle of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fought 2022 to May 2023 in Donetsk region; Wagner Group led the assault; Russia captured the ruined city of about 70,000 at heavy cost.
Battle of Baku
Battle of Baku (Bakı döyüşü, Bakü Muharebesi), August-September 1918: Nuri Pasha's Ottoman-Azerbaijani Caucasus Islamic Army captured Baku's oil city from Dunsterforce and local defenders on 15 September 1918, before the Mudros Armistice reversed the outcome.
Battle of Balaclava
Battle of Balaclava (Balaklava), 25 October 1854, Crimean War battle: Liprandi's ~25,000 Russians attacked the British supply port, featuring the Thin Red Line, Scarlett's Heavy Brigade charge, and the Light Brigade blunder; stalemate.
Battle of Balanguingui
The Battle of Balanguingui was an amphibious assault by Spanish forces in February 1848, capturing four fortresses on a Moro pirate stronghold in the Sulu Archipelago.
Battle of Balikpapan (1945)
The Battle of Balikpapan, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, was an amphibious assault by the Australian 7th Division on the Japanese-held oil port of Balikpapan in Dutch Borneo on 1 July 1945.
Battle of Balkh (900)
The Battle of Balkh (900) was fought near Balkh in Khurasan between the Saffarid amir Amr ibn al-Layth and the Samanid ruler Isma'il ibn Ahmad, who captured Amr.
Battle of Baltimore
Battle of Baltimore: September 12-14, 1814, War of 1812 engagement where US militia at North Point and Fort McHenry's 25-hour-bombarded garrison repelled the British Chesapeake Campaign, inspiring Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner.
Battle of Bamber Bridge
Battle of Bamber Bridge: June 24-25, 1943 racial mutiny in Lancashire, England, where Black troops of the 1511st Quartermaster Truck Regiment fought white U.S. MPs; Private William Crossland killed, 32 convicted, locals sided with the soldiers.
Battle of Bang Bo
The Battle of Bang Bo, known in China as the Battle of Zhennan Pass (镇南关之役), was a March 1885 victory of a Chinese army over French forces on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
Battle of Bangkusay
The Battle of Bangkusay (Labanan sa Ilog Bangkusay) was a naval battle of June 3, 1571, in which Spanish forces under Legazpi defeated about 2,000 Kapampangan warriors in Manila Bay.
Battle of Bangui (2013)
The Battle of Bangui was fought from 22 to 24 March 2013, when about 200 South African soldiers engaged advancing Séléka rebels in Bangui, the Central African Republic's capital.
Battle of Bani Walid
The Battle of Bani Walid (معركة بني وليد) was a 2011 fight for control of the Libyan town of Bani Walid between National Transitional Council forces and Gaddafi loyalists.
Battle of Banja Luka
The Battle of Banja Luka, fought on 4 August 1737, saw Bosnian governor Hekimoğlu Ali Pasha defeat an Austrian army besieging Banja Luka in Ottoman Bosnia.
Battle of Bannockburn
Battle of Bannockburn, 23–24 June 1314 near Stirling: Robert the Bruce's Scottish spearmen in schiltrons defeated Edward II's larger English army, securing Bruce's control of Scotland; full recognition came with the 1328 Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
Battle of Bantama
The Battle of Bantama was fighting in the Third Anglo-Asante War of 1873–1874 at Bantama, a district of Kumasi, Ghana, that housed the Asante royal mausoleum.
Battle of Bapheus
The Battle of Bapheus (Bafeus Muharebesi) was fought on 27 July 1302 near Nicomedia in Bithynia, where Osman I's Ottomans defeated a Byzantine relief army under George Mouzalon.
Battle of Bárbula
The Battle of Bárbula was an engagement fought near Naguanagua, in present-day Carabobo state, Venezuela, on 30 September 1813, in which Bolívar's patriots defeated the royalist vanguard.
Battle of Bardia
The Battle of Bardia was a January 1941 assault in which the Australian 6th Division captured the fortified Italian harbor town of Bardia in Libya, taking about 40,000 prisoners.
Battle of Basian
The Battle of Basian (Georgian: ბასიანის ბრძოლა), fought around 1202 in the Basian valley near Erzurum, saw Queen Tamar's Georgia, led by David Soslan, decisively defeat the Sultanate of Rum.