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Battle of Mukden (奉天会战)
Battle of Mukden (奉天会战), 19 February–10 March 1905, near Shenyang, China: the largest land battle before World War I, in which Oyama Iwao's five Japanese armies defeated Kuropatkin's three Russian armies in the Russo-Japanese War.
Battle of Muktsar
The Battle of Muktsar (ਮੁਕਤਸਰ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was fought on 29 December 1705 in Punjab between Guru Gobind Singh's Sikhs and a pursuing Mughal force, which retreated.
Battle of Muye
The Battle of Muye (牧野之战), also called King Wu's conquest of Shang, was the decisive 1046 BC victory of King Wu of Zhou over the Shang king Di Xin, ending the Shang dynasty.
Battle of Mycale
The Battle of Mycale (ميكالي) was a battle in August 479 BC at Mount Mycale in Ionia, where Greek allies destroyed the beached Persian fleet.
Battle of Myeongnyang
Battle of Myeongnyang (명량대첩), October 26, 1597: Admiral Yi Sun-sin's 13 Joseon panokseon warships defeated a Japanese fleet of 133 to 330 ships in the Uldolmok strait off Jindo, destroying 31 vessels without losing a ship during the Imjin War's Jeongyu invasion.
Battle of Myitkyina
The Battle of Myitkyina was a 1944 campaign in northern Burma where a Sino-American force under General Joseph Stilwell captured the town's airfield and besieged the Japanese-held town.
Battle of Mylae
The Battle of Mylae was a naval battle fought in 260 BC off northern Sicily, where Rome under Gaius Duilius won its first major naval victory over Carthage.
Battle of Myriokephalon
The Battle of Myriokephalon (میریوسفالون), fought on 17 September 1176, saw the Seljuk sultan Kilij Arslan II defeat Emperor Manuel I Komnenos's invading Byzantine army in a mountain pass.
Battle of N'Djamena
The Battle of N'Djamena refers to confrontations in Chad's capital from February 1979 to December 1980 between Hissène Habré's FAN and President Goukouni Oueddei's GUNT, ending with Libyan intervention.
Battle of Nà Sản
The Battle of Nà Sản (Trận Nà Sản) was a 1952 First Indochina War engagement where an air-supplied French garrison repelled two Việt Minh divisions.
Battle of Nachod
The Battle of Nachod (Bitva u Náchoda), also called the Battle of Dobenín, was a Prussian victory over Austria fought on 27 June 1866 in eastern Bohemia during the Austro-Prussian War.
Battle of Naco
The Battle of Naco was fighting at Naco, Sonora, on the Arizona border during the Mexican Revolution, including a 114-day siege in which carrancista forces under Benjamín Hill held the town against pro-Villa forces.
Battle of Nagaoka
The Battle of Nagaoka (長岡城攻防戦) was fought around Nagaoka Castle in Echigo Province, present-day Niigata, from May to July 1868, the central phase of the Hokuetsu War in the Boshin War.
Battle of Nagashino (長篠の戦い)
The Battle of Nagashino (長篠の戦い) was a 1575 Sengoku battle in which Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu crushed Takeda Katsuyori's army on the Shitaragahara plain in Mikawa Province.
Battle of Nagyszeben (1849)
The Battle of Nagyszeben, fought on 21 January 1849, saw Hungarian general Józef Bem repulsed in his assault on Baron Puchner's Austrian headquarters and supply base at Nagyszeben.
Battle of Nahavand
The Battle of Nahavand (معركة نهاوند), fought in 641–642 near Hamadan, was a decisive Rashidun Arab victory that destroyed the last major Sasanian field army.
Battle of Nahrawan
The Battle of Nahrawan (معركة النهروان) was a 658 victory of Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib over the Kharijites at the Nahrawan canal in Iraq.
Battle of Nakfa
The Battle of Nakfa was the six-month siege by which the Eritrean People's Liberation Front captured the town of Nakfa from Ethiopia in March 1977.
Battle of Nakhon Ratchasima
The Battle of Nakhon Ratchasima was Chao Anouvong's 1827 capture of the Siamese city of Khorat during his rebellion against Siam, followed by an uprising of his deportees.
Battle of Nam Bac
The Battle of Nam Bac was the January 1968 destruction of a Royal Lao Government garrison in northern Laos by Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces.
Battle of Nam Tha
The Battle of Nam Tha was fought on 6 May 1962, when Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces seized the provincial capital of Nam Tha in northern Laos.
Battle of Namasigüe
The Battle of Namasigüe was a March 1907 battle at Namasigüe, in Choluteca, Honduras, in which Nicaragua defeated the allied armies of Honduras and El Salvador, decisively ending the Honduran-Nicaraguan War.
Battle of Nanawa
The Battle of Nanawa was a failed Bolivian assault on a fortified Paraguayan position in the Chaco War in January 1933, earning Nanawa the label "South American Verdun."
Battle of Nanchang
The Battle of Nanchang (南昌会战) was a 1939 campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War in which the Japanese 11th Army captured Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi Province, and repelled a Chinese counteroffensive.
Battle of Nanking (南京保卫战)
The Battle of Nanking (南京保卫战), or Defence of Nanjing, was the December 1937 battle in which the Imperial Japanese Army captured Nanjing, China's capital, followed by the Nanjing Massacre.
Battle of Nanshan
The Battle of Nanshan, or Battle of Jinzhou, was a battle of the Russo-Japanese War won by Japan in May 1904, opening the way to Port Arthur.
Battle of Narva (1700)
Battle of Narva (1700): 30 November 1700 Great Northern War victory in which Charles XII's Swedish relief army of roughly 8,000–12,000 routed Peter I's Russian besieging army of about 24,000–35,000, taking ~20,000 prisoners before Russia retook Narva in 1704.
Battle of Naseby
The Battle of Naseby, fought on 14 June 1645 in Northamptonshire, ended the First English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax's Parliamentarian New Model Army destroyed King Charles I's main field army.
Battle of Nashville
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day Civil War battle on December 15–16, 1864, in which Union forces under George H. Thomas destroyed the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Battle of Nassau
The Battle of Nassau, or Raid of Nassau, was a 1776 American amphibious assault that seized gunpowder at Nassau, Bahamas, the first US Marine Corps landing.