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Battle of Hakusukinoe
The Battle of Hakusukinoe (白村江の戦い), known as the Battle of Baekgang, was a 663 naval battle near the Geum River where a Tang-Silla fleet crushed a Japan-Baekje fleet.
Battle of Halbe
The Battle of Halbe (Kessel von Halbe) was the Soviet encirclement and destruction of the German Ninth Army in the Spree Forest, 24 April–1 May 1945, during the Battle of Berlin.
Battle of Haldighati
Battle of Haldighati, fought June 1576 between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Mughal forces under Man Singh of Amber for Emperor Akbar; a Mughal tactical success that failed to subdue Mewar, and whose verdict remains debated by historians.
Battle of Halfaya Pass
The Battle of Halfaya Pass, known to British troops as Hellfire Pass, covers the 1941–1942 fights where British and Commonwealth forces repeatedly attacked a fortified Axis strongpoint on the Egypt-Libya frontier.
Battle of Halima
The Battle of Halima (يوم حليمة) was a battle of 554 CE in which the Ghassanids defeated and killed al-Mundhir III, king of the Lakhmids.
Battle of Halule
The Battle of Halule was a battle fought in 691 BC at Halulê on the Tigris, between Sennacherib of Assyria and a coalition of Elam and Babylonian rebels.
Battle of Ham Tu and Battle of Chuong Duong
Two connected victories of Vietnam's Tran dynasty over the invading Yuan (Mongol) armies in 1285, fought along the Red River and liberating the capital Thang Long.
Battle of Hamath
The Battle of Hamath was the destruction of the remnant of Pharaoh Necho II's Egyptian army by Babylonian troops under Nebuchadnezzar at Hamath on the Orontes in 605/604 BC.
Battle of Hamburger Hill
The Battle of Hamburger Hill was an eleven-day US and South Vietnamese assault on Hill 937 in South Vietnam's A Shau Valley in May 1969.
Battle of Hampton Roads
Battle of Hampton Roads, also called the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack: two-day Civil War naval battle, March 8–9, 1862, Virginia, where USS Monitor fought CSS Virginia in the first ironclad-versus-ironclad battle, ending in a draw.
Battle of Hanau
The Battle of Hanau, fought on 30 and 31 October 1813 at Hanau east of Frankfurt, saw Napoleon break through Karl Philipp von Wrede's Austro-Bavarian corps after Leipzig.
Battle of Handan
The Battle of Handan (邯郸之战) was a seventeen-month Qin siege of Handan, capital of Zhao, that failed when Wei and Chu forces relieved the city around 258 BC.
Battle of Hanoi (1882)
The Battle of Hanoi (1882) was the seizure of Hanoi's citadel by French forces under Henri Rivière on 25 April 1882, opening the second French expedition to Tonkin.
Battle of Hansan Island
The Battle of Hansan Island (한산도 대첩) was a 1592 naval battle of the Imjin War, where Admiral Yi Sun-sin destroyed most of a Japanese fleet off Korea's southern coast.
Battle of Hanzhong
The Battle of Hanzhong (汉中之战) was a 217 to 219 campaign in which Liu Bei, advised by Fa Zheng, wrested Hanzhong from Cao Cao, killing Xiahou Yuan.
Battle of Harar
The Battle of Harar was the final operation of the southern front of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, in which Italian forces captured Harar in May 1936.
Battle of Harbin
The Battle of Harbin was a January and February 1932 battle of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, after which the city fell to Japan on February 5.
Battle of Hargeisa (1988)
The Battle of Hargeisa (1988) was the Somali National Movement's capture of much of Hargeisa, which the government answered with bombardment that destroyed roughly 90% of the city.
Battle of Harran (609 BC)
The Battle of Harran was a failed 609 BC counter-siege in which the last Assyrian king, Ashur-uballit II, tried to retake Harran from the Babylonians.
Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings, also known as the Battle of Senlac, was fought on 14 October 1066, where William of Normandy defeated and killed King Harold II of England.
Battle of Hattin (معركة حطين)
Battle of Hattin (معركة حطين), 3–4 July 1187 near Lake Tiberias: Saladin destroyed the Kingdom of Jerusalem's field army under Guy of Lusignan using heat, water denial, and archery, then took Jerusalem in October 1187, prompting the Third Crusade.
Battle of Hayes Pond
Battle of Hayes Pond, or Maxton Riot: January 18, 1958 confrontation near Maxton, North Carolina, where about 500 armed Lumbee Indians routed a roughly 50-man Ku Klux Klan rally led by "Catfish" Cole, leaving four injured and no deaths.
Battle of Heartbreak Ridge
The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was a month-long Korean War battle fought from September to mid-October 1951, in which the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division drove North Korean forces from a fortified ridge.
Battle of Hel
The Battle of Hel was the 32-day Polish defense of the fortified Hel Peninsula against German forces from 1 September to 2 October 1939, during the invasion of Poland.
Battle of Helike
The Battle of Helike was a failed Carthaginian siege near modern Elche, Spain, in 229 BC, during which the general Hamilcar Barca drowned in the retreat.
Battle of Helm's Deep
Battle of Helm's Deep (Battle of the Hornburg): fictional battle in Tolkien's The Two Towers, chapter 7 of Book III, dated 3 March 3019, in which Saruman's army besieges Théoden at Rohan's fortress and is defeated; Peter Jackson's film version, about 40 minutes long, adds elves and serves as the film's climax.
Battle of Hengyang
The Battle of Hengyang (衡阳保卫战) was a 47-day 1944 siege in which China's 10th Army under Fang Xianjue defended Hengyang, Hunan, against Japan's Operation Ichi-Go.
Battle of Hengyu
The Battle of Hengyu (横屿之战) was a 1562 Ming assault in which Qi Jiguang's army crossed tidal mud and destroyed the wokou pirate stronghold on Hengyu island.
Battle of Heraclea
The Battle of Heraclea, fought in 280 BC in Lucania, southern Italy, saw King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeat the consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, opening the Pyrrhic War.
Battle of Herat (484)
The Battle of Herat (484) is the name given to the decisive 484 defeat of the Sasanian king Peroz by the Hephthalites, in which Peroz was killed.