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Battle of Korsuń
The Battle of Korsuń (Корсунська битва) was fought on 15–16 May 1648 near Korsun in Ukraine, where Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-Tatar army destroyed a 20-thousand-strong Polish army, capturing both hetmans.
Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy (Корсунь-Шевченковская операция)
The Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy was a Red Army encirclement operation in right-bank Ukraine from January 24 to February 17, 1944, which cut off and largely destroyed a German grouping.
Battle of Korytsa
The Battle of Korytsa was the capture of Korytsa (Korçë, in southeastern Albania) by the Greek Army from Ottoman forces in December 1912, during the First Balkan War.
Battle of Köse Dağ
The Battle of Köse Dağ (Kösedağ Savaşı) was a 1243 battle in which the Mongols under Baycu Noyan crushed the Seljuks of Rūm, making the sultanate a Mongol tributary.
Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma
The Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma, also called the Battle of Kashio, was an 1868 battle of the Boshin War in which government forces defeated the former Shinsengumi under Kondō Isami.
Battle of Kosovo
Battle of Kosovo (Косовска битка; Kosova Savaşı), fought 15 June 1389 on Kosovo Polje near Pristina: Serbian prince Lazar's coalition against Sultan Murad I; both rulers died, outcome inconclusive, later the core of the Serbian Kosovo myth.
Battle of Kosovo (1448)
Second Battle of Kosovo (17–20 October 1448): Sultan Murad II's Ottoman army defeated John Hunyadi's Hungarian-led crusade on Kosovo Polje, ending the last offensive to save Constantinople before its 1453 fall.
Battle of Kostiantynivka
Battle of Kostiantynivka: ongoing 2025-2026 Russo-Ukrainian battle for the Donetsk fortress-belt city (Костянтинівка). Russian infiltration and slow gains from mid-2025; Ukraine still held positions as of October 2026, rejecting Russian capture claims.
Battle of Kota Bharu
The Battle of Kota Bharu was the Japanese amphibious assault on British and Indian defenses in northern Malaya on 8 December 1941, the opening engagement of the Pacific War.
Battle of Kousseri
The Battle of Kousseri was an 1900 battle in northern Cameroon in which French colonial forces crushed the army of the Sudanese warlord Rabah az-Zubayr.
Battle of Kozludzha
The Battle of Kozludzha was an 1774 battle of the Russo-Turkish War in which Russian forces under Alexander Suvorov defeated a larger Ottoman army near Kozludzha, Bulgaria.
Battle of Kramatorsk
Battle of Kramatorsk (April 12 – July 5, 2014): Donbas war fight in which Igor Girkin's pro-Russian separatists seized the Ukrainian city and its airfield, and Ukrainian forces retook it during the Anti-Terrorist Operation.
Battle of Krasnoi
The Battle of Krasnoi, also Krasny (Красный), refers to two engagements near Krasny, southwest of Smolensk, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812: an August rearguard action and November fighting, generally counted as a Russian victory.
Battle of Krbava Field
The Battle of Krbava Field (Krbavska bitka) was a 1493 battle in Lika, in present-day Croatia, where an Ottoman army decisively defeated a Croatian noble army.
Battle of Kresna Gorge
The Battle of Kresna Gorge was a series of battles fought in July 1913 on the Struma River in southwestern Bulgaria, on the southern front of the Second Balkan War.
Battle of Kressenbrunn
The Battle of Kressenbrunn (Bitva u Kressenbrunnu) was fought on 12 July 1260 between King Ottokar II of Bohemia and King Béla IV of Hungary, near the river March in Lower Austria.
Battle of Krojanty
The Battle of Krojanty, also called the Charge at Krojanty, was a Polish cavalry charge on the first day of the German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939, near Krojanty in Pomerania.
Battle of Krtsanisi
The Battle of Krtsanisi (نبرد کرتسانسی) was fought on 10–11 September 1795 near Tbilisi, where about 35,000 Persian troops under Agha Mohammad Khan defeated King Erekle II's 5,000 Georgians.
Battle of Kruty
The Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Бій під Крутами) was a 1918 defensive engagement near Kyiv, where roughly 500 young Ukrainian volunteers held up a much larger Bolshevik force.
Battle of Kufra
The Battle of Kufra was a 1941 World War II engagement in which Free French forces under Colonel Leclerc captured the Italian-held oasis of Kufra in southeastern Libya.
Battle of Kulbiyow
The Battle of Kulbiyow was a January 2017 al-Shabaab attack on a Kenyan Army base at Kulbiyow near the Kenya-Somalia border, which was breached and looted.
Battle of Kulevicha
The Battle of Kulevicha (Кулевчинское сражение) was fought on 30 May 1829 near Kulevcha in eastern Bulgaria, where about 18,000 Russians under General Ivan Dibich defeated a 40,000-man Ottoman army.
Battle of Kulikovo (Куликовская битва)
Battle of Kulikovo (Куликовская битва), 8 September 1380, near the Don: Dmitry of Moscow's alliance defeated Mamai, a rebel Golden Horde general. Sources are scarce; troop numbers and the battle's legacy as Russia's first national feat remain heavily mythologized.
Battle of Kulm
The Battle of Kulm (Czech: bitva u Chlumec) was a battle of the War of the Sixth Coalition fought near Ústí nad Labem in 1813.
Battle of Kumanovo
The Battle of Kumanovo (Кумановска битка) was a two-day First Balkan War battle fought on 23 and 24 October 1912 near Kumanovo, ending in a Serbian victory that opened the way to Skopje.
Battle of Kummuh
The Battle of Kummuh, also known as the Battle of Qummuh, was a 743 BC battle in which Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria crushed a coalition led by Sarduri II of Urartu.
Battle of Kumsong
The Battle of Kumsong (금성 전투; 金城战役, Jincheng Campaign) was the final major offensive of the Korean War, where Chinese forces broke through South Korean lines days before the 1953 armistice.
Battle of Kunersdorf
Battle of Kunersdorf (12 August 1759, Kunowice, Poland): Russian-Austrian army under Saltykov and Laudon crushed Frederick the Great's 50,900 Prussians; his worst defeat, with 19,100 Prussian casualties and 172 guns lost.
Battle of Kunlun Pass
The Battle of Kunlun Pass (昆仑关战役) was a December 1939 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in which China's Fifth Army recaptured Kunlun Pass in Guangxi.
Battle of Kunu-ri
The Battle of Kunu-ri (군우리 전투) was a Korean War battle fought in late November 1950 in northwestern North Korea, where Chinese forces mauled the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division.