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Battle of Cúcuta
The Battle of Cúcuta was an 1813 military engagement in which Simón Bolívar's patriot army defeated Colonel Ramón Correa's royalists, freeing the valley of Cúcuta.
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale
Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987–1988), also called the siege of Cuito Cuanavale: major Angolan Border War battle where FAPLA, Cuba, and Soviet advisers defended against UNITA and the SADF, ending in a contested stalemate, SADF withdrawal, and Namibian independence.
Battle of Culloden
Battle of Culloden, 16 April 1746, Drummossie Moor near Inverness: last pitched battle on the British mainland, where the Duke of Cumberland's 8,000 Government troops defeated Charles Edward Stuart's ~5,000 Jacobites, ~1,600 slain, ending the '45 Rising.
Battle of Cunaxa
The Battle of Cunaxa (نبرد کوناکسا) was fought in 401 BC near Babylon between the Persian king Artaxerxes II and his rebel brother Cyrus the Younger.
Battle of Curalaba
The Battle of Curalaba was a 1598 ambush in southern Chile where Mapuche warriors led by Pelantaru annihilated a Spanish column and killed the governor of Chile.
Battle of Curupayty
The Battle of Curupayty, also fought as Curupaiti, was a Paraguayan victory on 22 September 1866 in the Paraguayan War, where about 5,000 men repulsed 20,000 Allied attackers.
Battle of Curuzú
The Battle of Curuzú (Portuguese: Batalha de Curuzu) was an 1866 battle of the Paraguayan War in which Brazilian forces captured the Paraguayan fort of Curuzú.
Battle of Custoza (1848)
The Battle of Custoza (1848) was an Austrian victory under Field Marshal Radetzky over King Charles Albert's Piedmontese army, fought near Verona from 23 to 25 July 1848.
Battle of Dabhoi
The Battle of Dabhoi (डभोईची लढाई) was a 1731 clash at Dabhoi, Gujarat, between Peshwa Baji Rao I and Senapati Trimbakrao Dabhade, who died in the fighting.
Battle of Daeseong-won
The Battle of Daeseong-won (대성원 전투) was the capture of Baekje's capital Hanseong, in present-day Seoul, by a Goguryeo army under King Jangsu in 475.
Battle of Dak To
The Battle of Dak To was a series of major engagements fought in November 1967 around Dak To, South Vietnam, between US and South Vietnamese forces and the North Vietnamese Army.
Battle of Dakar
The Battle of Dakar, code-named Operation Menace, was a failed Anglo-Free French attempt in September 1940 to take the Vichy French port of Dakar, now in Senegal.
Battle of Damasak
The Battle of Damasak was the recapture of Damasak, in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria, from Boko Haram by Chadian and Nigerien troops in March 2015, during a regional cross-border offensive.
Battle of Damboa
The Battle of Damboa was a July 2014 fight in Borno State, Nigeria, in which Boko Haram captured the town, the first major Nigerian town to fall to the group.
Battle of Dan-no-ura
The Battle of Dan-no-ura (壇ノ浦の戦い) was a naval battle fought off Shimonoseki on April 25, 1185, where Minamoto no Yoshitsune destroyed the Taira fleet, ending the Genpei War.
Battle of Dandanaqan
The Battle of Dandanaqan (نبرد دندانقان) was fought in 1040 near Dandanaqan in Khorasan, where the Seljuks under Tughril and Chaghri Beg decisively defeated Sultan Mas'ud I of Ghazni.
Battle of Danghangpo
The Battle of Danghangpo (당항포해전) was a naval battle of the Imjin War in which Admiral Yi Sun-sin destroyed Japanese squadrons on Korea's southern coast in 1592.
Battle of Dangpo
The Battle of Dangpo was a naval battle of the Imjin War fought in 1592, in which Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Joseon fleet destroyed all 21 Japanese ships anchored at Dangpo.
Battle of Dangyin
The Battle of Dangyin (荡阴之战) was a defeat of Emperor Hui of Jin by Sima Ying's army at Dangyin, in modern Tangyin, Henan, where the emperor was wounded and captured.
Battle of Danki
The Battle of Danki was fought around 1549 between Cayor and the Djolof empire in what is now Senegal, ending Cayor's tributary status and making it an independent kingdom.
Battle of Danubyu
The Battle of Danubyu was a First Anglo-Burmese War engagement fought in March and April 1825 at Danubyu on the Irrawaddy River, where Burmese commander Maha Bandula was killed.
Battle of Daugavpils
The Battle of Daugavpils was a series of engagements for control of Daugavpils, Latvia, ending with its liberation by Polish and Latvian forces on 3 January 1920.
Battle of Davao
The Battle of Davao was the April–May 1945 operation in which US and Philippine Commonwealth forces, with guerrillas, liberated Davao City and the Davao Gulf coast of Mindanao from Japan in World War II.
Battle of Dayr al-Aqul
The Battle of Dayr al-Aqul (معركة دير العقول) was fought in 876 near Baghdad, where the Abbasids under al-Muwaffaq defeated the invading Saffarid ruler Ya'qub ibn al-Layth.
Battle of Debaltseve
Battle of Debaltseve (Дебальцеве), January–February 2015: Russian-backed forces encircled and expelled Ukrainian troops from the key rail hub between Donetsk and Luhansk days after the Minsk II ceasefire, the last large-scale battle of the Donbas war.
Battle of Debre Abbay
The Battle of Debre Abbay, also known as the Battle of Mai Islami (ማይ እስላማይ), was a battle fought in Tigray, Ethiopia in 1831 during the Zemene Mesafint.
Battle of Debrecen
The Battle of Debrecen, known in Soviet usage as the Debrecen Offensive Operation, was a tank battle on the eastern front in eastern Hungary from 6 to 28 October 1944.
Battle of Decimomannu
The Battle of Decimomannu was a Roman victory over a Carthaginian force and a Sardinian revolt near Cagliari in 215 BC, during the Second Punic War.
Battle of Deeg
The Battle of Deeg (दीग की लड़ाई) was fought on 13 November 1804 at Deeg, Rajasthan, during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, ending in a costly British victory over Holkar.
Battle of Dekemhare
The Battle of Dekemhare, fought around Dekemhare south of Asmara in May 1991, was the final battle of the Eritrean War of Independence, won by the EPLF.