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Battle of Maychew
The Battle of Maychew, also spelled Maichew, was fought on 31 March 1936 near Maychew, Ethiopia, where Haile Selassie's final counterattack against Marshal Badoglio's forces failed.
Battle of Mayi
The Battle of Mayi (马邑之谋) was a failed Han dynasty ambush against the Xiongnu in 133 BC that ended the heqin peace and began open war.
Battle of Maysalun
The Battle of Maysalun (معركة ميسلون) was fought on 24 July 1920 west of Damascus, where French forces under General Gouraud defeated the Syrian army of War Minister Yusuf al-Azma, who was killed.
Battle of Mbanda Kasi
The Battle of Mbanda Kasi was a decisive Kongo victory over a Portuguese-led invading army in January 1623, fought in Mbamba province under King Pedro II.
Battle of Mbanza Kongo
The Battle of Mbanza Kongo was the decisive 1506 engagement of the Kongo succession war, in which Afonso I defeated and killed his rival Mpanzu and took the throne.
Battle of Mbororé
The Battle of Mbororé was fought on 11 March 1641 on the Uruguay River, where Guaraní militia of the Jesuit missions defeated a Portuguese bandeirante slave raid.
Battle of Mbumbi
The Battle of Mbumbi was a 1622 military engagement in southern Kongo, in present-day Angola, won by Portuguese Angola in the first battle between the two states' main armies.
Battle of Mbwila
The Battle of Mbwila, also spelled Ambuila, was fought on 29 October 1665 between the Kingdom of Kongo and a Portuguese force from Angola, which killed King António I.
Battle of Medan Area
The Battle of Medan Area, known locally as Pertempuran Medan Area, was a conflict between Indonesian Republican and Allied troops in Medan, North Sumatra, fought from October 1945 through 1946.
Battle of Medenine
The Battle of Medenine was an Axis spoiling attack at Medenine, southern Tunisia, on 6 March 1943, repulsed in a day and Rommel's last offensive in Africa.
Battle of Medina
The Battle of Medina was an 1813 battle near San Antonio in which Spanish royalists under Joaquín de Arredondo destroyed the Republican Army of the North, ending the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition.
Battle of Medjez el Bab
The Battle of Medjez el Bab was a series of engagements in northern Tunisia from 1942 to 1943. Allied forces secured a strategic road junction leading toward Tunis.
Battle of Meester Cornelis
The Battle of Meester Cornelis was a British-Indian assault on 26 August 1811 that stormed the fortified camp near Batavia, Java, deciding the island's conquest.
Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)
Battle of Megiddo (c. 1457 BCE): victory of Pharaoh Thutmose III over a Canaanite coalition led by Kadesh and Megiddo, via the Aruna pass surprise and a seven-month siege; earliest battle recorded in detail in the Karnak Annals.
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
The Battle of Megiddo (1918) saw British and French troops defeat the German-Ottoman forces in northern Palestine. Under General Allenby, the Allied forces inflicted over 25,000 casualties.
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC)
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC), clash at Megiddo in northern Israel where Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt defeated and killed King Josiah of Judah as Necho marched to aid Assyria against Babylon; distinct from Thutmose III's 15th-century battle and the 1918 battle.
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay
The Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay was a pair of connected engagements in central Burma in February and March 1945, in which William Slim's British Fourteenth Army destroyed the Japanese Burma Area Army's ability to defend central Burma.
Battle of Mekelle (2021)
The Battle of Mekelle (2021) was the recapture of Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, by the Tigray Defense Forces on 28 June 2021, ending seven months of federal occupation.
Battle of Ménfő
The Battle of Ménfő (ménfői csata) was a battle fought on 5 July 1044 near Győr, where Henry III of Germany defeated King Aba Sámuel of Hungary.
Battle of Mengo
Battle of Mengo, also called the Mengo Crisis, refers to two battles at Mengo in Kampala: the 1892 Protestant-Catholic battle and the 1966 army assault ending Buganda's autonomy.
Battle of Messana (264 BC)
The Battle of Messana, also called the Siege of Messana, was fought in 264 BC at Messana in northeast Sicily, the opening clash of the First Punic War.
Battle of Messines (1917)
The Battle of Messines was a British offensive on the Western Front, 7 to 14 June 1917, opening with 19 mines and capturing the Messines ridge south of Ypres before the Third Battle of Ypres.
Battle of Metele
The Battle of Metele was an attack on 18 November 2018 in which Boko Haram overran a Nigerian Army battalion base at Metele village in Borno State, Nigeria.
Battle of Metemma
The Battle of Metemma, also called the Battle of Gallabat, was an 1889 battle in which Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia was mortally wounded fighting the Mahdist state of Sudan.
Battle of Mezőkeresztes
The Battle of Mezőkeresztes (Haçova Muharebesi) was a battle of the Long Turkish War in October 1596, won by Sultan Mehmed III's Ottomans over Archduke Maximilian and Sigismund Báthory.
Battle of Mhlatuze River
The Battle of Mhlatuze River was a decisive victory by Shaka's Zulu forces over King Zwide's Ndwandwe army around 1818 to 1820 on the Mhlatuze River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Battle of Miahuatlán
The Battle of Miahuatlán, fought on 3 October 1866 near Miahuatlán in Oaxaca, Mexico, saw republican general Porfirio Díaz defeat Carlos Oronoz's Franco-Mexican column, opening the way to Oaxaca City.
Battle of Michika
The Battle of Michika was Boko Haram's September 2014 capture of Michika in Adamawa State, Nigeria, and the Nigerian military's recapture of the town in January 2015.
Battle of Midway (ミッドウェー海戦)
Battle of Midway (ミッドウェー海戦), June 4–7, 1942 Pacific naval battle near Midway Atoll where U.S. codebreaking and carrier aircraft sank four Japanese carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu), losing Yorktown, marking the Pacific War's turning point.
Battle of Migdol (601 BC)
The Battle of Migdol in 601 BC saw Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon fight Necho II of Egypt to mutual heavy losses near Egypt's eastern frontier.