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Battle of Las Piedras (1811)
The Battle of Las Piedras, fought on 18 May 1811 near Montevideo, gave José Gervasio Artigas's patriots their first victory in the Río de la Plata.
Battle of Las Queseras del Medio
The Battle of Las Queseras del Medio was a cavalry action of the Venezuelan War of Independence, fought on 2 April 1819 near the Arauca River in Apure, Venezuela.
Battle of Las Salinas
The Battle of Las Salinas (Batalla de Las Salinas) was a battle of the Spanish civil wars in Peru, fought in April 1538 near Cusco.
Battle of Laswari
The Battle of Laswari (लसवारी की लड़ाई) was a decisive British victory in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, fought near Alwar on 1 November 1803 against Daulat Rao Scindia's Maratha army.
Battle of Lechfeld
The Battle of Lechfeld, called the Battle of Augsburg (Augsburgi csata) in Hungary, was a 955 victory in which Otto I destroyed a Hungarian army near Augsburg.
Battle of Legnano
The Battle of Legnano occurred on May 29, 1176, in northern Italy. The Lombard League defeated the German forces of Frederick I Barbarossa, forcing him into diplomacy.
Battle of Legnica
Battle of Legnica (bitwa pod Legnica), 9 April 1241: Mongol victory over Henry II the Pious of Silesia at Legnickie Pole, using feigned retreat and smoke; sources debated; museum opened 1961.
Battle of Leipzig
Battle of Leipzig (Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig), also Battle of the Nations: 16-19 October 1813 defeat of Napoleon by Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Sweden; largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, with over half a million soldiers and over 100,000 casualties.
Battle of Lemnos (1913)
The Battle of Lemnos (Ναυμαχία της Λήμνου) was a 1913 naval battle of the First Balkan War in which the Greek fleet defeated the Ottoman navy near Lemnos.
Battle of Lenino
The Battle of Lenino (Bitwa pod Lenino) was a two-day 1943 battle in Byelorussia where the Polish 1st Kościuszko Infantry Division fought with the Red Army.
Battle of León
The Battle of León was a series of engagements fought in spring 1915 at León, Guanajuato, where Álvaro Obregón defeated Francisco Villa's División del Norte.
Battle of Lepanto (Ναυμαχία του Ναυπάκτου)
Fought in 1571 in the Gulf of Patras, the Battle of Lepanto (Ναυμαχία του Ναυπάκτου) was a massive naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire.
Battle of Leptis (Mercenary War)
The Battle of Leptis in 238 BC was the final battle of the Mercenary War, in which Carthage destroyed the rebel army and captured Mathos.
Battle of Lesnaya
The Battle of Lesnaya (Битва при Лесной) was a Great Northern War battle fought near Lesnaya, Belarus, in 1708, where Peter I defeated a Swedish supply corps under Lewenhaupt.
Battle of Leuctra
Battle of Leuctra (Leuktra), 371 BC in Boeotia: Theban-Boeotian army under Epaminondas defeated King Cleombrotus's Spartans using a 50-deep left wing and oblique attack, ending Spartan dominance and opening the Theban hegemony (371-362).
Battle of Leuthen
Battle of Leuthen (5 December 1757), Seven Years' War battle in Silesia: Frederick the Great's ~33,000 Prussians routed 65,000 Austrians under Charles of Lorraine and Daun with the oblique order, inflicting about 22,000 losses and reconquering Silesia.
Battle of Levounion
The Battle of Levounion was fought on 29 April 1091 in Thrace, where Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos and some forty thousand Cuman allies annihilated the Pechenegs.
Battle of Leyte
Battle of Leyte: the 1944 American amphibious invasion of Leyte, Philippines (17 October 1944 to 1 July 1945), and the associated Battle of Leyte Gulf, which destroyed most of Japan's remaining fleet and opened MacArthur's liberation of the Philippines.
Battle of Leyte Gulf (レイテ沖海戦)
Battle of Leyte Gulf (レイテ沖海戦), 23–26 October 1944, largest naval battle in history by tonnage and area: 282 ships, 200,000 men, four engagements, decisive US victory destroying the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Battle of Liaoluo Bay
The Battle of Liaoluo Bay (料羅灣海戰), also called the Battle of Kinmen, was a 1633 Ming victory over a Dutch East India Company fleet near Kinmen.
Battle of Liaoyang
The Battle of Liaoyang (遼陽会戦, Ryōyō kaisen) was the first full-scale pitched battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought near Liaoyang in southern Manchuria in 1904.
Battle of Liège
Battle of Liège (4–16 August 1914), opening battle of the German invasion of Belgium: twelve Brialmont forts and General Leman's 3rd Division resisted von Emmich's Army of the Meuse, delaying the Schlieffen Plan advance into France.
Battle of Liegnitz
The Battle of Liegnitz was a Seven Years' War battle fought on 15 August 1760 near Liegnitz, in which Frederick II of Prussia defeated an Austrian corps under Laudon.
Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras
Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras is a large 1913–14 oil painting by the Italian-born American modernist Joseph Stella, held at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Battle of Lilybaeum
The Battle of Lilybaeum was a naval battle off western Sicily in 218 BC, the first of the Second Punic War, won by a Roman squadron under Marcus Aemilius.
Battle of Lima Site 85
The Battle of Lima Site 85, or Battle of Phou Pha Thi, was the March 1968 North Vietnamese assault that overran a covert US radar site in Laos.
Battle of Limanowa
The Battle of Limanowa (Polish: Bitwa pod Limanową), also called the Limanowa–Łapanów operation, was a December 1914 counteroffensive that stopped the Russian advance on Kraków.
Battle of Lipany
Battle of Lipany (30 May 1434), also Lipany 1434, final battle of the Hussite Wars near Kouřim, Bohemia: Utraquist and Catholic nobles defeated the radical Taborites and Orphans under Prokop the Great by a feigned retreat, ending Hussite field-army power.
Battle of Lipitsa
The Battle of Lipitsa (Липицкая битва) was fought on 21–22 April 1216 near Yuryev-Polsky, where a Novgorodian-Smolensk-Rostov coalition under Mstislav Udatny and Konstantin Vsevolodovich defeated Yuri and Yaroslav Vsevolodovichi.
Battle of Lissa (1866)
The Battle of Lissa, or Battle of Vis, was an 1866 naval battle in which Austria under Tegetthoff defeated a larger Italian fleet in the Adriatic.