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Battle of Jimaguayú
The Battle of Jimaguayú was a battle of Cuba's Ten Years' War fought on 11 May 1873 in Camagüey, where Spanish forces killed Cuban commander Ignacio Agramonte.
Battle of Jimo
The Battle of Jimo (即墨之战), from 284 BC, was a siege of Jimo in Qi, where Tian Dan's fire-oxen night attack defeated Yan and recovered Qi's territory.
Battle of Jindo
The Battle of Jindo in May 1271 was the storming of the Sambyeolcho rebel capital on Jindo island by a joint Goryeo-Mongol army, ending the rebellion's government.
Battle of Jingxing
The Battle of Jingxing (井陉之战) was a battle of the Chu–Han contention in which Han Xin, using the backwater formation, destroyed a Zhao army said to number over 200,000.
Battle of Jinyang
The Battle of Jinyang (晋阳之战) was the decisive 453 BC clash in which Zhao, allied with Han and Wei, destroyed the Zhi clan and partitioned Jin.
Battle of Jixi
The Battle of Jixi (济西之战) was a decisive battle of the Warring States period, fought in 284 BC west of the Ji River, where a coalition led by Yan crushed Qi.
Battle of Jizzakh
The Battle of Jizzakh was the storming of the fortified town of Jizzakh, then held by the Emirate of Bukhara, by Russian troops on 18 October 1866.
Battle of Jolo (1876)
The Battle of Jolo (1876) was the capture and burning of Jolo, capital of the Sulu Sultanate, by a Spanish force under Governor-General José Malcampo in February 1876.
Battle of Jordanów
The battle of Jordanów (Bitwa pod Jordanowem) was a delaying action fought on 1–3 September 1939 in the Skawa valley, where Maczek's brigade blocked a German armored thrust.
Battle of Junín
The Battle of Junín (Batalla de Junín) was a cavalry battle fought on 6 August 1824 in the Peruvian Andes, where Simón Bolívar defeated the royalist army of José de Canterac.
Battle of Junziguan
The Battle of Junziguan (君子馆之战) was a battle fought in 986 at Junziguan, northwest of Hejian, Hebei, where Liao cavalry destroyed Liu Tingrang's Song army.
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak), 31 May to 1 June 1916: the only major naval battle of World War I, fought in the North Sea between the British Grand Fleet and German High Seas Fleet; a German tactical success but British strategic victory preserving the blockade.
Battle of Ka-san
The Battle of Ka-san was a September 1950 fight for Hill 902, a 3,000-foot mountain 10 miles north of Taegu, during North Korean pressure on the Pusan Perimeter defenses.
Battle of Kaba
The Battle of Kaba refers to Samori Ture's campaigns of 1880–1881 that defeated the Kaba dynasty and ended their rule over Kankan, a major Dyula trading center.
Battle of Kadesh
The Battle of Kadesh, also spelled Qadesh, was a large chariot battle around 1274 BCE between Ramesses II of Egypt and the Hittite Empire, usually judged a draw.
Battle of Kadugli
Battle of Kadugli refers to fighting for Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan, Sudan: 2011 SAF–SPLM-N clashes, then the RSF siege of the SAF-held city from February 2025, broken by the Sudanese army on 3 February 2026.
Battle of Kagamlik
The Battle of Kagamlik was a decisive battle of 1299–1300 near the Kagamlyk river in Poltava oblast, where Khan Toqta defeated the powerful Jochid prince Nogai.
Battle of Kagul
The Battle of Kagul (Кагульское сражение) was fought on 21 July 1770 on the Kagul river in Moldova, where Rumyantsev's outnumbered Russians routed the Ottoman army.
Battle of Kairouan (1554)
The Battle of Kairouan (1554) refers to the fighting in which the Ottoman corsair Dragut (Turgut Reis) wrested the Tunisian city of Kairouan from the pro-Spanish Hafsids in 1558.
Battle of Kajmakčalan
The Battle of Kajmakčalan (Битка на Кајмакчалану) was a 1916 World War I battle in which the Serbian Army took Mount Nidže's summit from Bulgarian and German forces.
Battle of Kakarong de Sili
The Battle of Kakarong de Sili (Labanan sa Kakarong) was fought on January 1, 1897, at Pandi, Bulacan, where Spanish forces destroyed the Kakarong Republic.
Battle of Kalenga
The Battle of Kalenga was the storming of the fortified capital of Hehe chief Mkwawa by German colonial forces in October 1894, near present-day Iringa, Tanzania.
Battle of Kaliakra
The Battle of Kaliakra, also called the Attack of the Drazki, was a First Balkan War naval engagement fought off Bulgaria on 21 November 1912.
Battle of Kalimanci
The Battle of Kalimanci was a defensive battle of the Second Balkan War, where the Bulgarian 4th Army stopped the Serbian offensive in July 1913.
Battle of Kalisz
The Battle of Kalisz names several battles fought at Kalisz in western Poland, including major engagements in 1706 and 1813 and the Red Army's capture of the city in 1945.
Battle of Kałuszyn
The Battle of Kałuszyn (Bitwa pod Kałuszynem), fought at night on 11–12 September 1939 during the German invasion of Poland, was a Polish victory that reopened the 1st Legions Infantry Division's route of retreat southward.
Battle of Kambula
The Battle of Kambula, also spelled Khambula, was an Anglo-Zulu War battle fought on 29 March 1879, in which Colonel Evelyn Wood's British force repulsed some 20,000 Zulu warriors.
Battle of Kamdesh
Battle of Kamdesh, October 3, 2009 assault on Combat Outpost Keating, Nuristan, Afghanistan, by about 300 Taliban and HiG fighters; 13-hour fight, 8 Americans killed, two Medals of Honor (Romesha, Carter), outpost abandoned.
Battle of Kampala (1986)
The Battle of Kampala (1986) was the final battle of the Ugandan Bush War, in which Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army captured Kampala from Tito Okello's government forces.
Battle of Kampot
The Battle of Kampot was a 1974 engagement of the Cambodian Civil War, in which Khmer Republic forces defended the coastal city of Kampot against a Khmer Rouge siege.