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Battle of Isly
The Battle of Isly was the only major battle of the Franco-Moroccan War, fought on 14 August 1844 near Oujda, where Marshal Bugeaud routed a far larger Moroccan army.
Battle of Issus
The Battle of Issus was fought in 333 BCE in southeastern Cilicia, resulting in a Macedonian victory over Darius III, though the Persian army remained scattered.
Battle of Isurava
The Battle of Isurava was fought from 26 to 31 August 1942 on the Kokoda Trail in Papua, where Maroubra Force held back the advancing Japanese for six days.
Battle of Itakhuli
The Battle of Itakhuli (ইটাখুলীৰ যুদ্ধ) was fought in August 1682 at Guwahati, Assam, where the Ahom kingdom defeated the Mughal Empire and recovered Guwahati.
Battle of Italeni
The Battle of Italeni, also given as eThaleni, was an 1838 Zulu ambush that defeated a Voortrekker commando near uMgungundlovu, killing commandant Piet Uys and his son Dirkie.
Battle of Itapirú
The Battle of Itapirú was a series of engagements in April 1866 in which Triple Alliance forces captured the southernmost fortress of Paraguay's river defenses in the Paraguayan War.
Battle of Itororó
The Battle of Itororó was a battle of the Paraguayan War fought on 6 December 1868, in which the Marquês de Caxias's Allied army defeated a Paraguayan force.
Battle of Itsukushima
The Battle of Itsukushima was a 1555 battle on Itsukushima island, now in Hiroshima Prefecture, where Mōri Motonari annihilated Sue Harukata's much larger army in a dawn surprise attack.
Battle of Ituzaingó
The Battle of Ituzaingó was fought on 20 February 1827, when a combined Argentine-Oriental army under Carlos María de Alvear defeated the imperial Brazilian army in the Cisplatine War.
Battle of Iwo Jima (硫黄島の戦い)
The Battle of Iwo Jima (硫黄島の戦い), February 19 to March 26, 1945, was the 36-day US Marine Corps invasion of the 8-square-mile volcanic island in Operation Detachment; US casualties (6,821 killed, 19,217 wounded) exceeded Japanese, the only such Pacific battle.
Battle of Jagaraga
The Battle of Jagaraga, called Perang Jagaraga or the Second Bali War, was the 1848–1849 resistance of Bali's Buleleng kingdom against Dutch expeditions in northern Bali.
Battle of Jajau
The Battle of Jajau (जजौ का युद्ध) was a 1707 Mughal succession battle near Agra in which Bahadur Shah I defeated and killed his brother Azam Shah.
Battle of Jam
The Battle of Jam was a 1528 battle in Khorasan where Shah Tahmasp I's Safavid army defeated an invading Uzbek army led by Ubayd-Allah Khan of Bukhara.
Battle of Jankau
The Battle of Jankau, a 1645 battle of the Thirty Years' War near Prague, saw Lennart Torstensson's Swedish army destroy the Imperial-Bavarian army and capture Melchior von Hatzfeldt.
Battle of Jao Modo
The Battle of Jao Modo, also known as the Battle of Zuunmod, was a 1696 battle in which the Qing Empire routed Galdan Boshugtu Khan's Dzungar forces.
Battle of Jaquijahuana
The Battle of Jaquijahuana was fought on 9 April 1548 near Cusco, where royalists under Pedro de La Gasca defeated Gonzalo Pizarro, ending the encomendero rebellion in Peru.
Battle of Jaran-Manjur
The Battle of Jaran-Manjur, also known as the battle of Jalandhar, was a February 1298 victory of the Delhi Sultanate over Mongol raiders in Punjab.
Battle of Jarte
The Battle of Jarte was a pair of victories in April 1542 by a Portuguese force under Cristóvão da Gama against Ahmad al-Ghazi's Adal army in Ethiopia.
Battle of Jaunpur
The Battle of Jaunpur (جنگ جونپور) was the decisive 1479 defeat of Husain Shah Sharqi, sultan of Jaunpur, by Bahlul Lodi of Delhi, ending Sharqi rule over Jaunpur.
Battle of Java (1942)
The Battle of Java (1942) was the final Japanese campaign of the conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, ending with the KNIL surrender on 8 March 1942.
Battle of Javor
The Battle of Javor, popularly known as the Javor War, was a series of engagements in 1876 on Mount Javor in western Serbia during the First Serbian-Turkish War.
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, twin battles of 14 October 1806 in Thuringia where Napoleon's Grande Armée destroyed the Prussian army; Napoleon won at Jena while Marshal Davout's lone corps routed the Prussian main army at Auerstedt, leading to the fall of Berlin.
Battle of Jenipapo
The Battle of Jenipapo was an engagement fought near Campo Maior, Piauí, on 13 March 1823, where Brazilian independence fighters lost to Portuguese troops but secured Piauí's adhesion to independence.
Battle of Jiangling
Battle of Jiangling (江陵之战) is the name Chinese historiography gives to several distinct battles at Jiangling, seat of Nanjun on the Yangtze, fought in 208–209, 219, and 222–223.
Battle of Jiangyin
The Battle of Jiangyin (江阴之战) was an 81-day siege in 1645 in which Jiangyin, led by Yan Yingyuan, resisted Qing forces after the hair-shaving edict.
Battle of Jiazhai
The Battle of Jiazhai (夹寨之战) was a surprise dawn assault in which Li Cunxu's Jin army stormed Later Liang's fortified siege camps around Luzhou, lifting a year-long blockade.
Battle of Jieqiao
The Battle of Jieqiao (界橋之戰) was a battle in the early 190s in which the warlord Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan south of Jieqiao in Hebei.
Battle of Jieting
The Battle of Jieting (街亭之战) was a spring 228 defeat of a Shu Han army under Ma Su by Wei's Zhang He, forcing Zhuge Liang to abandon his first northern expedition.
Battle of Jiksan
The Battle of Jiksan, also called the Battle of Sosapyeol, was a 1597 land battle of the Japanese invasion of Korea, fought near Cheonan between Ming and Japanese forces.
Battle of Jiluoshan
The Battle of Jiluoshan (稽落山之战) was a victory won in 89 AD by a Han army under Dou Xian and Geng Bing over the Northern Xiongnu.