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Battle of Kitombo
The Battle of Kitombo was fought on 18 October 1670, when the army of Soyo annihilated a Portuguese expeditionary force that had invaded the province earlier that year.
Battle of Kizakibaru
The Battle of Kizakibaru (木崎原の戦い) was a 1572 battle in Hyūga Province, now Ebino City, Japan, where Shimazu Yoshihiro's small force repelled an invading Itō army, killing commander Itō Sukeyasu.
Battle of Kizugawaguchi
The Battle of Kizugawaguchi (木津川口の戦い) was fought in 1576 and 1578 at the mouth of the Kizu River in Osaka Bay between Oda Nobunaga and the Mōri clan.
Battle of Kleidion
Battle of Kleidion, 29 July 1014, Klyuch pass in the Belasitsa mountains: Basil II's Byzantines destroyed Tsar Samuel's Bulgarian army via Nikephoros Xiphias's flank march; the famous 15,000-blinded-prisoners story rests solely on the later chronicler Skylitzes.
Battle of Kletsk
The Battle of Kletsk (Бітва пад Клецкам; Klecko mūšis) was a 1506 victory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania over Crimean Tatars near Kletsk, in present-day Belarus.
Battle of Klokotnitsa
The Battle of Klokotnitsa (Битката при Клокотница) was a decisive victory of Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria over Theodore Komnenos of Epirus on 9 March 1230, making Bulgaria the dominant Balkan power.
Battle of Klushino
The Battle of Klushino (Kłuszyn), fought on 4 July 1610 during the Polish-Muscovite War, saw Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski's heavily outnumbered Polish-Lithuanian cavalry rout a Russian-Swedish army, opening the road to Moscow.
Battle of Ko Chang
The Battle of Ko Chang was a 1941 naval engagement in which a French squadron surprised and defeated a Thai squadron during the Franco-Thai War.
Battle of Kock (1939)
The Battle of Kock (Bitwa pod Kockiem) was the last battle of the German invasion of Poland, fought near Kock in eastern Poland on 2–5 October 1939.
Battle of Koh Tang
The Battle of Koh Tang was a 1975 US Marine assault on a Khmer Rouge-held island in the Gulf of Thailand, part of the Mayaguez incident.
Battle of Kohima
Battle of Kohima, April–June 1944, Naga Hills, India: British-Indian garrison of about 1,500 held off 15,000 Japanese of the 31st Division; relieved 18 April, Imphal road reopened 22 June; turning point of the Burma campaign.
Battle of Kokenhausen
Battle of Kokenhausen (Koknese), 23 June 1601, first major battle of the Polish-Swedish war 1600-1611; Krzysztof 'Piorun' Radziwiłł defeated Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm's larger relief force and the Swedish garrison capitulated.
Battle of Kolberg (1945)
The Battle of Kolberg (bitwa o Kołobrzeg; Festung Kolberg) was a March 1945 urban battle in which the Polish 1st Army took the fortified Baltic port.
Battle of Kolín
The Battle of Kolín (bitva u Kolína), fought on June 18, 1757 near Kolín, Bohemia, saw Austria under Field Marshal Daun defeat Frederick II of Prussia.
Battle of Kolombangara
The Battle of Kolombangara was a night naval battle on 13 July 1943 in the Solomon Islands, in which Japan sank the destroyer Gwin but lost the cruiser Jintsū.
Battle of Kolubara
The Battle of Kolubara (Serbian: Колубарска битка) was a World War I battle in which the Serbian Army counterattacked on December 3, 1914 and drove Austria-Hungary out of Serbia.
Battle of Kolwezi
The Battle of Kolwezi was the May 1978 capture of the mining town of Kolwezi in Zaire's Shaba Province by FNLC rebels, retaken by French paratroopers a week later.
Battle of Komaki and Nagakute
The Battle of Komaki and Nagakute (小牧・長久手の戦い) was a 1584 campaign in Owari Province between Hashiba Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who won tactically at Nagakute.
Battle of Komarów
The Battle of Komarów (Bitwa pod Komarowem) was a Polish victory over Budyonny's cavalry near Zamość on 31 August 1920, the largest cavalry battle of the twentieth century.
Battle of Konduga
The Battle of Konduga was a September 2014 engagement in which Nigerian Army troops repelled a Boko Haram attack on Konduga in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria.
Battle of Königgrätz
Battle of Königgrätz, also Battle of Sadowa, 3 July 1866, decisive Prussian victory over Austria and Saxony in the Austro-Prussian War near Hradec Králové; over 400,000 combatants, Moltke's converging three-army envelopment, and the Peace of Prague.
Battle of Konna
The Battle of Konna was a January 2013 battle in which a coalition of Islamist armed groups seized Konna in central Mali, triggering the launch of the French Operation Serval.
Battle of Kōnodai (1538)
The Battle of Kōnodai (1538) (国府台合戦), the first Battle of Kōnodai, was fought in Shimōsa Province, where Hōjō Ujitsuna defeated Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the Oyumi kubō, who was killed.
Battle of Konotop
The Battle of Konotop (Конотопська битва) was a 1659 defeat of Muscovite forces by a Cossack-Crimean Tatar coalition led by Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky near Konotop, Ukraine.
Battle of Kontum
The Battle of Kontum was a 1972 defense of Kontum, South Vietnam, where the ARVN 23rd Division and American air support repelled three North Vietnamese divisions.
Battle of Koplik
The Battle of Koplik (Albanian: Lufta e Koplikut) was a 1920–1921 conflict in which Albanian government forces and volunteers stopped the Yugoslav army in northern Albania's Shkodra region.
Battle of Koppam
The Battle of Koppam (கொப்பம்) was a battle of the Chola–Chalukya wars fought in 1054, where Rajadhiraja I was killed and his brother Rajendra II won the day.
Battle of Koprukoy
The Battle of Koprukoy was fought near Köprüköy on the Caucasus front of World War I: an Ottoman victory in November 1914, then a Russian breakthrough in January 1916.
Battle of Koregaon
Battle of Koregaon (Bhima Koregaon), 1 January 1818: East India Company battalion under Captain Staunton versus Peshwa Baji Rao II's army in the Third Anglo-Maratha War; commemorated by the Jaystambh obelisk as a Dalit Mahar victory symbol.
Battle of Kororāreka
The Battle of Kororāreka was the attack on 11 March 1845 by Ngāpuhi fighters led by Hōne Heke and Te Ruki Kawiti on Kororāreka (present-day Russell), New Zealand, which ended with the town burned.