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Battle of Bataan
Battle of Bataan (7 January–9 April 1942): US-Filipino defense of the Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, under War Plan Orange-3 against Japan's 14th Army; ended in the largest US Army surrender, about 76,000 troops, followed by the Bataan Death March.
Battle of Batih
The Battle of Batih, also called the battle of Batoh, was a 1652 victory of Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-Tatar army, which destroyed a Polish Crown army near the Southern Bug.
Battle of Batina
The Battle of Batina was an Allied victory fought from 11 to 29 November 1944 at Batina in Baranja, on the Danube, opening the way to Budapest.
Battle of Batu Sawar
The Battle of Batu Sawar refers to Portuguese attacks on Batu Sawar, the upstream capital of the Johor Sultanate on the Johor River, most directly around 1607.
Battle of Bautzen (1945)
The Battle of Bautzen in April 1945 was one of the last battles of the Eastern Front, where German forces counterattacked the Polish 2nd Army near Bautzen.
Battle of Bayan
The Battle of Bayan, remembered by the Maranao as Padang Karbala, was a 1902 battle at Bayang on Lake Lanao, Mindanao, the first deadly clash between the US Army and the Maranao Moros.
Battle of Bear Paw
The Battle of Bear Paw was the final battle of the Nez Perce Flight of 1877, fought along Snake Creek in the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana.
Battle of Beaver Dams
The Battle of Beaver Dams was a War of 1812 engagement fought on 24 June 1813 near Thorold, Ontario, where Indigenous warriors forced an American column to surrender.
Battle of Beda Fomm
The Battle of Beda Fomm was the final engagement of the British Operation Compass offensive, fought 5–7 February 1941 in Libya and ending with over 25,000 Italian prisoners.
Battle of Beecher Island
The Battle of Beecher Island was an 1868 fight in eastern Colorado where about fifty scouts under George Forsyth held off Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Lakota warriors.
Battle of Beersheba (1917)
Battle of Beersheba (1917): capture of the Ottoman-held town by the Egyptian Expeditionary Force on 31 October 1917 during the Third Battle of Gaza, decided by the 4th and 12th Australian Light Horse Regiments' mounted bayonet charge over 6 km of open ground, securing wells that opened Palestine to Allied advance.
Battle of Beiping–Tianjin
The Battle of Beiping–Tianjin (Japanese: 北平・天津作戦), also called the North China Incident, was the July–August 1937 campaign in which Japan expelled China's 29th Army from Beiping and Tianjin.
Battle of Beler
The Battle of Beler (Batalla de Beler), fought on 27 October 1845 near Dajabón, saw Dominican forces under General Francisco Antonio Salcedo defeat a Haitian invasion.
Battle of Belleau Wood
Battle of Belleau Wood, June 1–26, 1918 (Bois de Belleau): WWI battle near Chateau-Thierry, France, where the U.S. 2nd Division's 4th Marine Brigade stopped the German Aisne offensive; 1,087 Marine casualties on June 6, wood renamed Bois de la Brigade de Marine.
Battle of Bembezi
The Battle of Bembesi, called Egodade by the amaNdebele, was the decisive battle of the First Matabele War, fought on 1 November 1893 near Bulawayo.
Battle of Beneventum (212 BC)
The Battle of Beneventum in 212 BC was a Second Punic War engagement in which the consul Quintus Fulvius Flaccus stormed Hanno's camp at Beneventum.
Battle of Beneventum (214 BC)
The Battle of Beneventum (214 BC), or First Battle of Beneventum, was a Second Punic War battle where Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus destroyed Hanno's Carthaginian force.
Battle of Benghazi (2011)
The Battle of Benghazi was the February 2011 struggle for control of Libya's second-largest city, in which protesters and mutinying soldiers drove out Muammar Gaddafi's loyalist forces.
Battle of Bennington
Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777, Walloomsac, New York: Revolutionary War battle where John Stark's and Seth Warner's militia destroyed Friedrich Baum's German detachment sent by Burgoyne to raid Bennington supplies, costing Burgoyne about 900 men before his Saratoga surrender.
Battle of Berea
The Battle of Berea (Ntoa ea Berea) was fought on 20 December 1852 near Thaba Bosiu, where Basotho fighters under King Moshoeshoe I repelled a British force.
Battle of Berestechko
The Battle of Berestechko (Битва під Берестечком) was a major battle of the Cossack-Polish War fought near Berestechko, Volhynia, in June 1651, ending in a Polish victory.
Battle of Bereza Kartuska
The Battle of Bereza Kartuska names two Polish-Soviet War engagements at Bereza Kartuska, now Biaroza in Belarus: a first clash of 14 February 1919 and a defensive battle in July 1920.
Battle of Bergendal
The Battle of Bergendal, also called the Battle of Dalmanutha or Belfast, was the last pitched battle of the Anglo-Boer War, fought near Belfast, Transvaal, in August 1900.
Battle of Berlin
Battle of Berlin: the final major offensive in Europe in World War II, April 16 to May 2, 1945. Soviet forces under Zhukov and Konev encircled and stormed Nazi Germany's capital, Hitler died April 30, Weidling capitulated May 2, and Keitel signed Germany's surrender at Karlshorst on May 8/9.
Battle of Bessang Pass
The Battle of Bessang Pass (Labanan sa Pasong Bessang) was a 1945 battle in Ilocos Sur, Philippines, where Filipino guerrilla forces under Colonel Russell Volckmann defeated Japanese defenders.
Battle of Beth-Shemesh
The Battle of Beth-Shemesh was a battle around 800–785 BC in which Jehoash of Israel defeated and captured Amaziah of Judah at Beth-shemesh, a Judahite town.
Battle of Bezzecca
The Battle of Bezzecca was fought on 21 July 1866 near Bezzecca in Trentino, where Giuseppe Garibaldi's Italian volunteers defeated Austrian troops in the Third Italian War of Independence.
Battle of Bhangani
The Battle of Bhangani (भंगानी की लड़ाई) was the first recorded battle of Guru Gobind Singh, a complete victory over hill chiefs led by Fateh Shah of Garhwal near Paonta Sahib.
Battle of Bhatvadi
The Battle of Bhatvadi (भातवडीची लढाई) was fought in 1624 near Ahmadnagar, where Malik Ambar's smaller Ahmadnagar army decisively defeated a combined Mughal and Bijapur force.
Battle of Bhopal
The Battle of Bhopal (भोपाल की लड़ाई) was a 1737 battle in which the Marathas under Baji Rao I defeated a Mughal army led by Nizam-ul-Mulk.