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Battle of Cañada Strongest
The Battle of Cañada Strongest, also called Cañada Esperanza, was a Chaco War battle fought in May 1934 in the Gran Chaco, ending in a Bolivian victory over Paraguay.
Battle of Cancha Rayada (1818)
The Battle of Cancha Rayada, or Surprise of Cancha Rayada, was a royalist night victory over José de San Martín's patriot army near Talca, Chile, on 19 March 1818.
Battle of Cangamba
The Battle of Cangamba, also written Kangamba, was an 11-day siege in eastern Angola in August 1983, in which UNITA attacked a FAPLA garrison with Cuban advisors.
Battle of Cannae
Battle of Cannae, 2 August 216 BC, Apulia: Hannibal's Carthaginian army destroyed a larger Roman consular army under Varro and Paullus by double envelopment; Livy reports 45,500 infantry dead, yet Rome refused to negotiate and won the war.
Battle of Canusium
The Battle of Canusium was an indecisive 209 BC engagement between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces under Marcellus in Apulia, during the Second Punic War.
Battle of Cape Ecnomus
The Battle of Cape Ecnomus, or Battle of Ecnomus, was a naval battle of 256 BC in which Rome defeated a Carthaginian fleet off southern Sicily.
Battle of Cape Esperance
The Battle of Cape Esperance (サボ島沖海戦) was a night naval battle off Guadalcanal on 11–12 October 1942, where Norman Scott's Americans surprised and defeated a Japanese cruiser force.
Battle of Cape Gloucester
The Battle of Cape Gloucester, or Operation Backhander, was a December 1943 amphibious landing by the U.S. 1st Marine Division on New Britain that captured two Japanese airfields.
Battle of Cape Hermaeum
The Battle of Cape Hermaeum, also called the Battle of Cape Bon, was a naval battle of the First Punic War fought in 255 BC off North Africa.
Battle of Cape Matapan (Ναυμαχία του Ταινάρου)
Battle of Cape Matapan (Ναυμαχία του Ταινάρου), 27–29 March 1941: WWII naval battle off Greece where Cunningham's radar-equipped British fleet, aided by Ultra intelligence, sank the Italian cruisers Zara, Fiume, and Pola and two destroyers, killing over 2,300 sailors for the loss of one aircraft.
Battle of Cape Rachado
The Battle of Cape Rachado was a 1606 naval battle off Malaysia between 11 Dutch East India Company ships and a Portuguese fleet under the Viceroy of Goa.
Battle of Cape Spartivento
Battle of Cape Spartivento (Battle of Cape Teulada in Italy), an inconclusive 27 November 1940 naval action off Sardinia between Somerville's Force H and Admiral Campioni's Italian fleet during Operation Collar.
Battle of Cape St. George
The Battle of Cape St. George was a naval battle fought on 25 November 1943 in St. George's Channel, where Captain Arleigh Burke's destroyers sank three Japanese destroyers without loss.
Battle of Caporetto
Battle of Caporetto, the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo: the Austro-German breakthrough on the Italian front, 24 October to 12 November 1917, using gas and infiltration tactics to drive Italy back to the Piave.
Battle of Carabobo
The Battle of Carabobo, fought on 24 June 1821 near Valencia, Venezuela, saw Simón Bolívar's republican army decisively defeat the Spanish royalists, securing Caracas's liberation.
Battle of Carchemish
The Battle of Carchemish, also called the Battle of Karkemish, was fought in 605 BC at Carchemish on the Euphrates, where Babylon under crown prince Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed an Egyptian army under Pharaoh Necho II.
Battle of Carentan
Battle of Carentan, 9-13 June 1944: US 101st Airborne under Maxwell Taylor captured Carentan from German 6th Parachute Regiment, linking Omaha and Utah beachheads; 17th SS counterattack defeated 14 June.
Battle of Carillon
The Battle of Carillon, also called the 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga, was a French victory in the French and Indian War at Fort Carillon in New York.
Battle of Carrhae
Battle of Carrhae (May 53 BCE): Parthian horse archers and cataphracts under Surena destroyed Marcus Licinius Crassus's seven legions near Ḥarrān, killing Crassus, capturing the standards, and fixing the Euphrates as the Roman-Parthian boundary.
Battle of Carrizal
The Battle of Carrizal was a 1916 engagement at El Carrizal, Chihuahua, where Mexican troops repulsed a US 10th Cavalry detachment during the Punitive Expedition.
Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741)
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (Sitio de Cartagena de Indias) was a failed British amphibious assault on the Spanish Caribbean port of Cartagena in 1741.
Battle of Carthage (698)
The Battle of Carthage (698), also called the Fall of Carthage, was the capture and destruction of Carthage in 698 by the Umayyad army under Hassan ibn al-Nu'man, ending Byzantine rule in Ifriqiya.
Battle of Casa Forte
The Battle of Casa Forte (Batalha de Casa Forte) was fought on 17 August 1645 near Recife, Pernambuco, where Luso-Brazilian insurgents captured an entire Dutch West India Company column.
Battle of Casas Grandes
The Battle of Casas Grandes was an 1911 Mexican Revolution engagement in which Francisco I. Madero personally led about 800 rebels against the town's federal garrison and was defeated.
Battle of Caseros
The Battle of Caseros (Batalla de Caseros) was fought on 3 February 1852 near Buenos Aires, where Justo José de Urquiza defeated Juan Manuel de Rosas.
Battle of Casma
The Battle of Casma (Combate naval de Casma) was an 1839 naval battle in which a Chilean squadron under Captain Roberto Simpson defeated Confederate corsairs in Peru.
Battle of Castillon
Battle of Castillon (17 July 1453), also called the battle of Castillon-sur-Dordogne, was the final battle of the Hundred Years' War: Jean Bureau's roughly 300-gun fortified artillery camp destroyed John Talbot's Anglo-Gascon army, killed Talbot, and left England only Calais.
Battle of Castle Itter
Battle of Castle Itter (Schloss Itter), May 5, 1945: American soldiers, Wehrmacht troops under Major Josef Gangl, Austrian resistance fighters, and French VIP prisoners defended a Tyrolean castle against Waffen-SS attackers; one of the clearest US-German joint fights of WWII.
Battle of Çatalca
A First Balkan War battle fought 17-20 November 1912 at the Çatalca defensive line about 20 miles from Constantinople, where Ottoman forces repelled the Bulgarian 1st and 3rd Armies.
Battle of Catania (397 BC)
The Battle of Catania, also called the Battle of Catana, was a naval battle fought off Catania, Sicily, in 397 BC, in which a Carthaginian fleet under Mago destroyed the Syracusan fleet of Leptines.