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Battle of Mansurah
The Battle of Mansurah (معركة المنصورة) was a 1250 Ayyubid victory over Louis IX's Seventh Crusade at Mansurah in the Nile Delta, ending with the king's capture and the rise of the Mamluks.
Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
Battle of Mantinea (362 BC): pitched battle near Mantinea, Arcadia, where Epaminondas' Thebans with Argives, Messenians, and southern Arcadians defeated Sparta, Athens, Mantinea, and Elis; Epaminondas died, ending Theban hegemony.
Battle of Manupur
Battle of Manupur (11 March 1748), also called the battle near Sirhind, Punjab: Mughal victory under Wazir Qamar ud-Din, Prince Ahmad Shah, and Muin-ul-Mulk over Ahmad Shah Durrani's 12,000 troops, ending his first Indian invasion.
Battle of Manzikert
Battle of Manzikert (Malazgirt), 26 August 1071: Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan defeated and captured Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes in eastern Anatolia; the ensuing civil war, not battlefield losses, opened Asia Minor to Turkification.
Battle of Maqongqo
The Battle of Maqongqo, also called Maqongqo Hills, was fought on 29 January 1840 between Zulu king Dingane and his half-brother Mpande, whose victory made him king.
Battle of Marabda
The Battle of Marabda was a 1625 defeat of King Teimuraz I's Georgian army by Safavid Persia near Tbilisi, yet it ended Abbas I's bid to subjugate Georgia.
Battle of Mărășești
The Battle of Mărășești (Bătălia de la Mărășești) was a 1917 World War I battle where the Romanian 1st Army stopped the German offensive in Romania.
Battle of Mărăști
The Battle of Mărăști was a July 1917 World War I offensive in which the Romanian Second Army under General Alexandru Averescu drove a 30 km gap into the Austro-Hungarian front.
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Marathon (490 BC): Athenian and Plataean hoplites under Miltiades defeated Datis and Artaphernes' Persian expedition at Marathon, Attica, using weakened-center tactics; casualties 192 Athenians, 6,400 Persians per Herodotus.
Battle of Marengo
Battle of Marengo (14 June 1800): French victory under Napoleon Bonaparte over Melas's Austrians near Alessandria, Piedmont; won late in the day by Desaix's return and Kellermann's cavalry charge, securing the Consulate.
Battle of Marib
Battle of Marib: Houthi offensive beginning February 2021 against the Yemeni government's last northern stronghold, an oil-rich governorate; Houthis repelled late 2021, fighting resumed after the 2022 truce collapsed in 2026.
Battle of Marignano
Battle of Marignano (Battle of Giants), 13-14 September 1515: Francis I's French army with massed artillery defeated Swiss pikemen near Melegnano, restoring French rule over the Duchy of Milan and leading to the 1516 Perpetual Peace.
Battle of Marihueñu
The Battle of Marihueñu was an Arauco War battle of February 1554 in which the Mapuche leader Lautaro defeated a Spanish army under Francisco de Villagra near Concepción, Chile.
Battle of Mariupol (May–June 2014)
Battle of Mariupol (May–June 2014): clashes between Ukrainian forces and DPR separatists in Mariupol, Ukraine; April base assault, deadly 9 May police headquarters fighting, DPR control, and Ukrainian recapture on 13 June 2014.
Battle of Marj Ardabil
The Battle of Marj Ardabil, also called the Battle of Ardabil, was a 730 victory in which a Khazar army annihilated the Umayyad force of al-Jarrah outside Ardabil.
Battle of Marj Dabiq
The Battle of Marj Dabiq (مرج دابق), fought on 24 August 1516 near Aleppo, saw Selim I's Ottomans decisively defeat the Mamluk army of Qansuh al-Ghawri, who died in the battle.
Battle of Marj Rahit
The Battle of Marj Rahit (مرج راهط) was a battle fought near Damascus in 684 between Marwan ibn al-Hakam and al-Dahhak ibn Qays, won decisively by Marwan.
Battle of Marracuene
The Battle of Marracuene, also called Gwaza Muthini, was fought in Mozambique on 2 February 1895, when a Portuguese column defeated an alliance of local chiefs.
Battle of Marrakesh
The Battle of Marrakesh was fought outside Marrakesh, Morocco, on 19 August 1908, when supporters of Abd al-Hafid destroyed the field army of his brother, Sultan Abd al-Aziz.
Battle of Marston Moor
Battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644, largest battle of the First English Civil War, fought west of York; 28,000 Scots and Parliamentarians under Leven, Manchester, and Fairfax defeated Prince Rupert's 18,000 Royalists, ending Royalist power in northern England.
Battle of Martín García
The Battle of Martín García, fought from 10 to 15 March 1814, saw Guillermo Brown's Buenos Aires squadron capture the island from the Spanish, opening the campaign that forced Montevideo's surrender.
Battle of Marv
The Battle of Marv, or Battle of Maḥmudi, was a 1510 battle near Marv in Khorasan where Shah Esmāʿīl I of Iran defeated the Uzbeks.
Battle of Maryang San
The Battle of Maryang San was an October 1951 Korean War action in which the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment captured fortified Hill 317 from Chinese troops.
Battle of Mataquito
The Battle of Mataquito was a 1557 Spanish victory in Chile, where a surprise dawn attack killed the Mapuche toqui Lautaro and ended the threat to Santiago.
Battle of Matasiete
The Battle of Matasiete was a battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence fought on 31 July 1817 on Margarita Island, where Colonel Francisco Esteban Gómez defeated General Pablo Morillo.
Battle of Matsumae
The Battle of Matsumae (松前攻防戦) was the capture of Matsumae Castle in southern Hokkaido by Enomoto Takeaki's former shogunate army in November 1868, during the Hakodate War.
Battle of Maule
The Battle of Maule (Spanish: Batalla del Maule) is a reported clash on Chile's Maule River where an Inca army faced the Promaucaes and their allies.
Battle of Mauropotamos
Battle of Mauropotamos (Μάχη τοῦ Μαυροποτάμου), 844 Byzantine defeat by the Abbasids in Asia Minor; Theoktistos commanded against Amr and Abu Said; site disputed between Bithynia and Cappadocia.
Battle of Mavinga
The Battle of Mavinga was a series of failed Angolan government offensives between 1985 and 1990 to capture the UNITA-held town of Mavinga in southeastern Angola.
Battle of Maxen
The Battle of Maxen was a Seven Years' War defeat on 20 November 1759 near Dresden, where an entire Prussian corps under General Finck surrendered to the Austrians.