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Battle of Cirta
The Battle of Cirta was fought in 203 BC near Cirta, Algeria, where the Roman officer Gaius Laelius and Masinissa defeated and captured the Numidian king Syphax.
Battle of Cirta (106 BC)
The Battle of Cirta (106 BC) was a Roman victory near Cirta, Numidia, where Gaius Marius and Sulla defeated King Jugurtha and King Bocchus of Mauretania.
Battle of Cissa
The Battle of Cissa was a land battle of the Second Punic War fought in 218 BC near Tarraco, where Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio defeated a Carthaginian force under Hanno.
Battle of Ciudad Juárez (1911)
The Battle of Ciudad Juárez was a three-day fight in May 1911 in which Madero's revolutionary forces captured the border city from President Díaz's federal troops.
Battle of Clontarf
Battle of Clontarf (23 April 1014, near Dublin): forces of Irish high-king Brian Boru defeated Leinster, Norse Dublin, and overseas Viking allies; Brian was killed. Distinguishable from myth by revisionist scholarship viewing it as an internal Irish conflict over the high-kingship.
Battle of Cnidus
The Battle of Cnidus was a naval battle fought in August 394 BC off Cnidus in Caria, where a Persian fleet under Conon destroyed a Spartan fleet.
Battle of Coatit
The Battle of Coatit, fought on 13 and 14 January 1895, saw about 3,500 Italians under General Oreste Baratieri defeat a much larger Tigrayan army led by ras Mangascià.
Battle of Colaba
The Battle of Colaba was a failed 1721 attack on Kanhoji Angre's island fortress of Kolaba by British and Portuguese forces, who withdrew after Maratha relief arrived.
Battle of Colachel
The Battle of Colachel (कुलाचल युद्ध) was a 1741 victory of the Indian kingdom of Travancore over the Dutch East India Company at Colachel, during the Travancore–Dutch War.
Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Cold Harbor, May 31 to June 12, 1864, Hanover County, Virginia: Lee's Army of Northern Virginia repulsed Grant's Army of the Potomac in the final battle of the Overland Campaign, notably the failed June 3 assault, before Grant crossed the James toward Petersburg.
Battle of Colenso
The Battle of Colenso was a Boer victory over the British at Colenso, Natal, on 15 December 1899, the final defeat of Black Week in the Second Boer War.
Battle of Columbus
The Battle of Columbus, also called the Columbus Raid, was Pancho Villa's 1916 cross-border attack on Columbus, New Mexico, which killed 18 Americans and provoked Pershing's Punitive Expedition.
Battle of Concón
The Battle of Concón was a land battle of the Chilean Civil War of 1891, in which congressional forces routed President Balmaceda's army on 21 August 1891.
Battle of Contreras
The Battle of Contreras, called the Battle of Padierna in Mexico, was an American victory over General Gabriel Valencia near Mexico City on August 19 and 20, 1847.
Battle of Coolela
The Battle of Coolela was fought on 7 November 1895 in southern Mozambique, where Portuguese forces under Colonel Eduardo Galhardo defeated Emperor Ngungunyane's Gaza army.
Battle of Copenhagen (1801)
Battle of Copenhagen (Slaget på Reden), 2 April 1801: Nelson's British fleet destroyed the anchored Danish-Norwegian fleet and floating batteries, forcing Denmark out of the League of Armed Neutrality; origin of 'turn a blind eye'.
Battle of Copenhagen (1807)
Second Battle of Copenhagen, or Københavns bombardement / flåteranet: British preemptive attack, August–September 1807, besieging and bombarding neutral Copenhagen to seize the Danish fleet, surrendered 7 September 1807.
Battle of Corrientes
The Battle of Corrientes was Paraguay's April 1865 capture of Corrientes, Argentina, at the start of the War of the Triple Alliance, which brought Argentina into the war.
Battle of Corunna
Battle of Corunna (16 January 1809), Peninsular War rearguard action at A Coruña, Spain, where Sir John Moore's British army repulsed Marshal Soult's French attacks to cover its sea evacuation; Moore was killed, and the battle is counted a tactical British victory within a strategic withdrawal.
Battle of Cos
The Battle of Cos was a naval battle of the Second Syrian War, probably around 258 BC, in which Antigonus II of Macedon defeated Ptolemy II's fleet despite being outnumbered.
Battle of Cotagaita
The Battle of Cotagaita, fought on 27 October 1810 in present-day Bolivia, was the first armed encounter of the Argentine War of Independence, a patriot repulse.
Battle of Covadonga
Battle of Covadonga, traditionally 718 or 722: legendary victory of Pelayo over a Muslim punitive expedition in Asturias, founding myth of the Reconquista; earliest accounts date to c. 900 and its historicity is disputed.
Battle of Cowpens
Battle of Cowpens: Revolutionary War battle of January 17, 1781, in South Carolina where Daniel Morgan routed Banastre Tarleton's British force via a three-line, double-envelopment defense, a turning point of the war in the South.
Battle of Crécy
Battle of Crécy (26 August 1346): first great battle of the Hundred Years' War, near Crécy-en-Ponthieu, Picardy. Edward III's smaller English army, using longbowmen and dismounted men-at-arms, destroyed Philip VI's larger French force, killing much of the French nobility including King John of Bohemia.
Battle of Crete (Μάχη της Κρήτης)
Battle of Crete (Μάχη της Κρήτης), also Operation Merkur/Mercury: first primarily airborne invasion, 20 May to 1 June 1941, when German paratroopers seized Crete from Commonwealth and Greek defenders despite ULTRA warnings.
Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot
The Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot was a siege fought from 4 to 24 March 1802 at a hilltop fort in the Artibonite valley of Saint-Domingue during the Haitian Revolution.
Battle of Cronium
The Battle of Cronium was a battle of the Sicilian Wars, fought around 376 BC, in which Himilco's Carthaginian army defeated Dionysius I of Syracuse, killing his brother Leptines.
Battle of Crotona
The Battle of Crotona was a 204 BC encounter in Bruttium, southern Italy, between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces under the consul Publius Sempronius Tuditanus.
Battle of Crysler's Farm
The Battle of Crysler's Farm was a War of 1812 battle fought in Upper Canada on 11 November 1813, where a smaller British force defeated the Americans.
Battle of Cuaspud
The Battle of Cuaspud was an 1863 victory of Colombia under Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera over Ecuador's army led by Juan José Flores, near the Colombian-Ecuadorian border.