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Battle of Dodowa
The Battle of Dodowa, also known as the Katamanso War, was an 1826 defeat of the Asante army by a coalition of southern Gold Coast forces near Accra.
Battle of Dogali
The Battle of Dogali, also called the Dogali Massacre, was fought on 26 January 1887 in present-day Eritrea, where Ethiopian forces under Ras Alula destroyed an Italian relief column.
Battle of Domažlice
The Battle of Domažlice (Czech: bitva u Domažlic) was a 1431 battle in which a Hussite army under Prokop the Great routed a crusading force in western Bohemia.
Battle of Domokos
The Battle of Domokos, Dömeke in Ottoman usage, was the last major battle of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, an Ottoman victory under Edhem Pasha.
Battle of Domstadtl
The Battle of Domstadtl (Czech: Domašov), fought on 30 June 1758 at Domašov nad Bystřicí in Moravia, was an Austrian victory under Ernst Gideon von Laudon that destroyed a Prussian supply convoy.
Battle of Donbas (2022)
Battle of Donbas (2022): Russia's April–July 2022 eastern Ukraine offensive after the failed Kyiv assault, also called the battle for Donbas. Artillery-driven advances took Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, giving Russia all of Luhansk oblast and over half of Donetsk.
Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu
The Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu (Trận Đông Bộ Đầu) was a 1258 Trần dynasty victory over Mongol invaders at a Red River wharf in Hanoi.
Battle of Đống Đa
The Battle of Đống Đa, fought on 30 January 1789, was the decisive victory in which Emperor Quang Trung's Tây Sơn army destroyed the Qing invasion of Vietnam.
Battle of Đồng Xoài
The Battle of Đồng Xoài was a June 1965 Vietnam War battle where Viet Cong forces overran the CIDG camp at Đồng Xoài, north of Saigon.
Battle of Dongola
The Battle of Dongola was a 651 CE siege of Old Dongola, capital of the Christian kingdom of Makuria, by a Rashidun Arab army that withdrew after a truce.
Battle of Dongxing
The Battle of Dongxing (东兴之战), also called the Battle of Dongguan, was a 252 battle in which Eastern Wu repelled a Cao Wei attack at Dongxing.
Battle of Dorylaeum (1097)
The Battle of Dorylaeum (Dorylaion Muharebesi), fought on 1 July 1097 near present-day Eskishehir in Anatolia, was a First Crusade victory over Seljuk forces under Kilij Arslan I that opened the way toward Antioch.
Battle of Dos Ríos
The Battle of Dos Ríos was a minor 1895 skirmish near the Contramaestre and Cauto rivers in eastern Cuba where Spanish troops killed independence leader José Martí.
Battle of Drăgășani
The Battle of Drăgășani was an 1821 defeat of Alexandros Ypsilantis's Greek revolutionaries by Ottoman cavalry at Drăgășani, Wallachia, that destroyed the Sacred Band and ended the Greek revolt in the Danubian principalities.
Battle of Drepana
The Battle of Drepana, also called the Battle of Drepanum, was a 249 BC naval battle in which Carthage under Adherbal destroyed most of a larger Roman fleet during the First Punic War.
Battle of Dresden
The Battle of Dresden was a two-day battle on 26 and 27 August 1813 in which Napoleon defeated the larger allied Army of Bohemia under Prince Schwarzenberg, his last great victory in Germany.
Battle of Driniumor River
The Battle of Driniumor River, also known as the Battle of Aitape, was a July and August 1944 battle of World War II near Aitape, New Guinea.
Battle of Driskos
The Battle of Driskos (Greek: η μάχη του Δρίσκου) was a three-day battle of the First Balkan War fought near Ioannina in November 1912, ending in an Ottoman victory.
Battle of Drøbak Sound
The Battle of Drøbak Sound, fought on 9 April 1940 in the Oslofjord, saw Oscarsborg Fortress sink the German cruiser Blücher, flagship of the force sent to seize Oslo.
Battle of Dubica
The Battle of Dubica (Bitka kod Dubice) was a 1513 victory of Petar Berislavić's Croatian army over an Ottoman raiding force near the Una and Sava rivers.
Battle of Dubienka
The Battle of Dubienka was fought on 18 July 1792 on the Bug River in Poland between Tadeusz Kościuszko's Polish division and a much larger Russian force.
Battle of Dul Madoba
The Battle of Dul Madoba was an August 1913 Dervish victory over the British Camel Constabulary near Burao, in which commander Richard Corfield was killed.
Battle of Dunkirk
Battle of Dunkirk (Dunkerque): 26 May–4 June 1940 defensive battle and Operation Dynamo sea evacuation of 338,226 Allied troops under Vice Admiral Ramsay from Dover Castle, after the German breakthrough at Sedan during the Battle of France.
Battle of Dur-Papsukkal
The Battle of Dur-Papsukkal was a battle fought in 814 BC near Der in Babylonia, where Shamshi-Adad V of Assyria defeated the Babylonian king Marduk-balassu-iqbi.
Battle of Durbe
The Battle of Durbe, fought on 13 July 1260 near Durbe in present-day Latvia, was a Samogitian victory over the Teutonic Order's army, the largest Lithuanian victory of the 13th and 14th centuries.
Battle of Dutch Harbor
The Battle of Dutch Harbor, part of Operation AL, was a Japanese carrier air attack on American bases in Alaska on June 3 and 4, 1942.
Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
Battle of Dyrrhachium (Dyrrachion), 18 October 1081: Robert Guiscard's Normans defeated Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos outside Dyrrachium; the Anglo-Saxon Varangian Guard was annihilated and the city fell in November 1081.
Battle of Ebelsberg
The Battle of Ebelsberg, also called Ebersberg, was a costly French victory on 3 May 1809 at Ebelsberg near Linz during the War of the Fifth Coalition.
Battle of Eckmühl
The Battle of Eckmühl, also spelled Eggmühl, was fought on 21–22 April 1809 in Bavaria during the War of the Fifth Coalition, where Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles's Austrian army.
Battle of Edessa
Battle of Edessa, 260 CE, fought near Carrhae and Edessa between Shapur I of the Sasanian Empire and Roman emperor Valerian; Shapur destroyed the Roman field army and captured Valerian, the first Roman emperor taken prisoner by a foreign enemy.