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Battle of Borodino (Бородинское сражение)
Battle of Borodino (Бородинское сражение), or Battle of the Moskva, 7 September 1812: Napoleon's costly tactical victory over Kutuzov's Russian army west of Moscow, the bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars, with over 70,000 casualties.
Battle of Bortenevo
The Battle of Bortenevo (Бортеневская битва) was a 1317 victory of Mikhail of Tver over Moscow and the Golden Horde, the first Russian victory over the Horde.
Battle of Bosso
The Battle of Bosso was a series of June 2016 clashes between Boko Haram's West Africa Province faction and Nigerien and Nigerian forces near Lake Chad.
Battle of Bosworth Field
Battle of Bosworth Field, 22 August 1485, Leicestershire: decisive Wars of the Roses battle where Richard III, the last English king killed in battle, fell to Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII and founded the Tudor dynasty; battlefield relocated about two miles southwest of Ambion Hill in 2010.
Battle of Bou Gafer
The Battle of Bou Gafer, also called the Battle of Saghro, was fought in 1933 in southeastern Morocco between the Ait Atta tribes and the French colonial army.
Battle of Bouaké
The Battle of Bouaké was a failed assault launched on 7 October 2002 by forces loyal to President Laurent Gbagbo against rebel-held Bouaké, central Côte d'Ivoire.
Battle of Boyacá
Battle of Boyacá (Batalla de Boyacá), 7 August 1819, at the bridge outside Tunja; Bolívar's Liberating Army defeated Barreiro's Spanish Third Division, taking about 1,600 prisoners and ending royalist rule in central New Granada.
Battle of Bramall Lane
Battle of Bramall Lane: First Division match, Sheffield United v West Bromwich Albion, 16 March 2002, abandoned with eight minutes left after United dropped to six players; only such abandonment in English professional football.
Battle of Brandywine
Battle of Brandywine (September 11, 1777): Revolutionary War battle near Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, where Howe's 15,500 British and Hessian troops defeated Washington's 14,600 Continentals via a flanking march, leading to the British occupation of Philadelphia.
Battle of Brávellir
Battle of Brávellir (Bråvallaslaget): legendary late-8th-century Scandinavian battle between Danish king Harald Hildetand and King Ring in Östergötland, known only from Saxo's Gesta Danorum and sagas.
Battle of Breadfield
The Battle of Breadfield was a 1479 battle in Transylvania where the Hungarian army under István Báthory and Pál Kinizsi destroyed an Ottoman raiding force.
Battle of Breda (1944)
The Battle of Breda (Bitwa o Bredę) was the capture of the Dutch city of Breda by General Maczek's Polish 1st Armoured Division in October 1944.
Battle of Brega
The Battle of Brega was a series of 2011 engagements in the Libyan Civil War between Gaddafi's forces and rebels for the oil port town of Brega.
Battle of Bregalnica
The Battle of Bregalnica, fought along the Bregalnica river in Macedonia from 30 June to 9 July 1913, was the decisive battle of the Second Balkan War, ending in a Serbian victory.
Battle of Breitenfeld (1631)
Battle of Breitenfeld (First Battle), 17 September 1631 near Leipzig: Gustavus Adolphus's Swedish-Saxon army defeated Count Tilly's imperial forces, establishing Swedish linear tactics as the model for European warfare.
Battle of Brenta
The Battle of Brenta, fought on 24 September 899 beside the River Brenta in northern Italy, saw a Hungarian raiding army destroy the field army of Berengar I.
Battle of Breslau (1757)
The Battle of Breslau (Schlacht bei Breslau) was a Seven Years' War battle on 22 November 1757 in which Austria defeated Prussia and occupied Breslau in Silesia.
Battle of Brisbane
The Battle of Brisbane was a two-night riot between Australian and US servicemen in Brisbane on 26-27 November 1942, sparked by US military police; one Australian, Gunner Edward Webster, was killed and dozens injured amid pay and privilege tensions.
Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain (10 July–31 October 1940): RAF Fighter Command versus the Luftwaffe over southern England; Chain Home radar and the Dowding System; Luftwaffe failed to win air superiority, Sea Lion cancelled; 2,945 'The Few', 544 killed.
Battle of Britain (film)
Battle of Britain is a 1969 British war film directed by Guy Hamilton, produced by Harry Saltzman, starring Laurence Olivier as Dowding, recreating the 1940 RAF-Luftwaffe battle with over 100 vintage aircraft.
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, originally the Historic Aircraft Flight of 1957, is a Royal Air Force unit at RAF Coningsby flying eleven Second World War-era aircraft.
Battle of Bronkhorstspruit
The Battle of Bronkhorstspruit was fought on 20 December 1880 in the Transvaal, where Boers destroyed a British column in the first major clash of the First Boer War.
Battle of Brunanburh
Battle of Brunanburh (937): victory of King Æthelstan's English over a coalition of Constantine of Alba, Olaf Guthfrithson of Dublin, and Owain of Strathclyde, commemorated in the Old English Chronicle poem; its battlefield location remains disputed, with Wirral, Yorkshire, and County Durham candidates.
Battle of Brunei (1846)
The Battle of Brunei was an armed British intervention at Brunei Town on the northwest coast of Borneo in 1846, ending with the Sultan ceding Labuan to Britain and confirming James Brooke's sovereignty over Sarawak.
Battle of Bu'ath
The Battle of Bu'ath (يوم بُعاث) was the last battle between the Aws and Khazraj tribes of Medina, fought about 617 AD and won by the Aws after heavy losses.
Battle of Bucha
The Battle of Bucha was the Russian occupation of the town of Bucha northwest of Kyiv from February to April 2022, after which hundreds of killed civilians were found.
Battle of Bucharest
Battle of Bucharest (late November to December 6, 1916, also the Argeș-Neajlov battle): Central Powers forces under Falkenhayn and Mackensen defeated the Romanian-Russian defense and occupied Romania's capital, beginning a two-year occupation.
Battle of Bud Bagsak
The Battle of Bud Bagsak was a 1913 battle on Sulu island where US troops under General John J. Pershing defeated Tausug fighters led by Datu Amil.
Battle of Bud Dajo
The Battle of Bud Dajo, also called the Moro Crater Massacre, was a 1906 US Army assault on Moros fortified on a volcano in Jolo, Sulu, killing 600 to 1,000.
Battle of Buena Vista
The Battle of Buena Vista, known in Mexico as the Battle of La Angostura, was an 1847 Mexican–American War battle where Zachary Taylor repulsed Santa Anna near Saltillo.