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Battle of Grumentum
The Battle of Grumentum was a 207 BC engagement in Lucania, southern Italy, between Hannibal and the Roman consul Gaius Claudius Nero, ending in a small Roman victory.
Battle of Grunwald
Battle of Grunwald (Žalgirio mūšis, First Battle of Tannenberg), 15 July 1410: Polish-Lithuanian forces under Jagiełło and Vytautas defeated Ulrich von Jungingen's Teutonic Order near Lake Łubień, ending Order dominance.
Battle of Guabu
The Battle of Guabu (瓜步之役) was a 450 campaign in which Northern Wei's Emperor Taiwu crossed the Huai and reached the Yangtze opposite the Liu Song capital Jiankang, then withdrew.
Battle of Guadalajara
Battle of Guadalajara (8–23 March 1937): Spanish Civil War battle where the Italian CTV's offensive to encircle Madrid from the northeast was defeated by Republican forces with International Brigades and Soviet tanks; Franco then shifted to the northern front.
Battle of Guadalcanal order of battle
Battle of Guadalcanal order of battle: formations and commanders of Operation Watchtower (7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943), covering the 1st Marine Division landing force, Japanese 8th Fleet and Seventeenth Army, and the November 1942 naval battle forces.
Battle of Guadalete
Battle of Guadalete, July 711, also linked to Wadi Lakka and the La Janda lagoon: Umayyad commander Tariq ibn Ziyad with about 7,000 mostly Berber troops defeated and probably killed Visigothic king Roderic, triggering the Muslim conquest of Iberia and the fall of Toledo.
Battle of Guadeloupe (1794)
The Battle of Guadeloupe (1794) was the French reconquest of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from British forces in 1794, led by Convention commissioner Victor Hugues.
Battle of Guam (1944)
Battle of Guam (1944), Second Battle of Guam, Liberation of Guam: American recapture of Japanese-held Guam, 21 July–10 August 1944, under Operation Forager by III Amphibious Corps; 1,769 American dead, 23,303 Japanese dead, island declared secure 10 August.
Battle of Guandu
The Battle of Guandu (官渡之战) was a 200 battle in which Cao Cao defeated the stronger army of Yuan Shao, laying the foundation for his unification of northern China.
Battle of Guantánamo Bay
The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was a Spanish-American War land and naval engagement of June 1898 in which US Navy forces and Marines seized the bay in southeastern Cuba.
Battle of Guararapes
The Battle of Guararapes (Batalha dos Guararapes) was a pair of engagements in 1648 and 1649 near Recife, Pernambuco, where outnumbered Luso-Brazilian forces defeated the Dutch West India Company army.
Battle of Guaxenduba
The Battle of Guaxenduba was a 1614 military engagement near present-day Icatu, Maranhão, Brazil, where Portuguese forces and indigenous allies defeated the French and their Tupinambá allies.
Battle of Guilford Court House
Battle of Guilford Court House (Guilford Courthouse), March 15, 1781 Revolutionary War battle near Greensboro, North Carolina; Cornwallis's pyrrhic British victory over Greene led to Yorktown.
Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
The Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou (桂柳會戰) was the third phase of Japan's 1944 Operation Ichi-Go, in which Japanese forces captured Guilin and Liuzhou, Guangxi, in November 1944.
Battle of Guiling
The Battle of Guiling (桂陵之战) was a 353 BC battle of the Warring States period in which Qi ambushed and defeated a Wei army returning from invading Zhao.
Battle of Gundet
The Battle of Gundet was an 1875 battle near the Mereb River in which Emperor Yohannes IV and Ras Alula destroyed an Egyptian expeditionary force under Colonel Arendrup, the first major engagement of the Ethiopian–Egyptian War.
Battle of Gur Amba
The Battle of Gur Amba was fought in 1852, when Kassa Hailu defeated and killed Ras Goshu Zewde of Gojjam, beginning his rise to become Emperor Tewodros II.
Battle of Gura
The Battle of Gura was a decisive Ethiopian victory over an invading Egyptian army on the Gura plain in March 1876, ending Egypt's ambitions to annex Ethiopia.
Battle of Guruslău
The Battle of Guruslău was fought on 3 August 1601 near Guruslău in Transylvania, where Michael the Brave and Giorgio Basta defeated the larger army of Sigismund Báthory.
Battle of Gvozd Mountain
Battle of Gvozd Mountain was a battle fought in late May 1097, in which King Coloman of Hungary defeated the Croatian army of Petar Svačić, who was killed.
Battle of Gwalior (1858)
The Battle of Gwalior was the British recapture of Gwalior in June 1858 under Sir Hugh Rose, during which the Rani of Jhansi was killed.
Battle of Gwansanseong
The Battle of Gwansanseong (관산성 전투) was a 554 battle at a Silla fortress in present-day Okcheon where Silla crushed Baekje and killed King Seong.
Battle of Gwiju
The Battle of Gwiju (귀주 대첩) was a 1019 battle in which Gang Gam-chan's Goryeo army destroyed the invading Khitan army, ending the Goryeo-Khitan War.
Battle of Gwoza
The Battle of Gwoza was Boko Haram's August 2014 capture of Gwoza in Borno State, Nigeria, which the group declared part of an Islamic caliphate until Nigerian forces retook it in March 2015.
Battle of Hadhramaut
The Battle of Hadhramaut was the Sasanian Persian conquest of Yemen around 570 AD, ending roughly fifty years of Aksumite rule; Persian occupation lasted about sixty years, until 632.
Battle of Hadong
The Battle of Hadong (하동 전투) was a 1950 Korean War engagement in which North Korean forces destroyed the US 3rd Battalion, 29th Infantry at Hadong, South Korea.
Battle of Haengju
The Battle of Haengju (행주 대첩) was a 1593 Imjin War victory in which Gwon Yul's smaller Korean army repelled a Japanese assault at Haengju Fortress near Seoul.
Battle of Hafir
The Battle of Hafir was a September 1896 engagement of the Dongola Expedition, in which Anglo-Egyptian gunboats and artillery under Herbert Kitchener forced Mahdist defenses on the Nile.
Battle of Hakodate
The Battle of Hakodate (箱館戦争), also called the Hakodate War, was the final campaign of the Boshin War, fought around Hakodate on Hokkaidō between 1868 and 1869.
Battle of Hakone-Takenoshita
The Battle of Hakone-Takenoshita (箱根・竹ノ下の戦い), also called the battle of Takenoshita, was a 1335 battle in Suruga Province where Ashikaga Takauji defeated the army of Nitta Yoshisada.