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Battle of Navarino (Ναυμαχία του Ναυαρίνου)
Battle of Navarino (Ναυμαχία του Ναυαρίνου), 20 October 1827 at Pylos: British, French, and Russian fleets under Codrington, Heiden, and De Rigny destroyed the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet (~82 ships, ~6,000 dead), the last major battle under sail, securing Greek independence.
Battle of Ndondakusuka
The Battle of Ndondakusuka, also known as the Battle of Tugela, was a Zulu succession battle fought on 2 December 1856, in which Prince Cetshwayo destroyed Prince Mbuyazi's forces.
Battle of Nedumkotta
The Battle of Nedumkotta (നെടുംകോട്ട യുദ്ധം) was the defense of the Nedumkotta fortification, the Travancore Lines, against Tipu Sultan of Mysore, fought from December 1789 into 1790.
Battle of Německý Brod
The Battle of Německý Brod, also called the Battle of Deutschbrod, was a Hussite victory won by Jan Žižka on 10 January 1422 in Bohemia.
Battle of Nepheris
The Battle of Nepheris (147–146 BC) was the destruction by Scipio Aemilianus of Carthage's last field army at Nepheris south of Carthage, before the city fell in 146 BC.
Battle of New Market
Battle of New Market (May 15, 1864), Shenandoah Valley Civil War battle where John C. Breckinridge's Confederates, including 257 VMI cadets of the Field of Lost Shoes, defeated Franz Sigel; not the separate New Market Heights battle.
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of New Orleans: final major battle of the War of 1812, January 8, 1815, at Chalmette Plantation; Andrew Jackson's ~5,700 mixed-force army routed Sir Edward Pakenham's 8,000 British regulars two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent was signed.
Battle of Ngasaunggyan
The Battle of Ngasaunggyan (牙嵩延之战) was a 1277 battle in which a small Mongol Yuan force routed the Pagan Kingdom's much larger Burmese army, which fought with war elephants.
Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống Đa
The Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống Đa was a 1789 victory in which Emperor Quang Trung's Tây Sơn army destroyed the Qing invasion force near Thăng Long, present-day Hanoi.
Battle of Ngouboua
The Battle of Ngouboua was Boko Haram's first known fatal attack on Chadian soil, a raid on the Lake Chad village of Ngouboua on 13 February 2015.
Battle of Nhu Nguyet River
The Battle of Nhu Nguyet River (Trận sông Như Nguyệt) was the decisive 1077 battle where Ly Thuong Kiet halted the Song invasion of Dai Viet.
Battle of Nicopolis
Battle of Nicopolis, 25 September 1396, on the Danube in Bulgaria: crusader army of French, Burgundian, Hungarian, and allied troops under Sigismund and John of Nevers crushed by Bayezid I's Ottomans, ending large-scale crusades.
Battle of Nieuwpoort
Battle of Nieuwpoort (Slag bij Nieuwpoort), 2 July 1600: Dutch States army under Maurice of Nassau defeated Archduke Albert's Spanish army in the Flemish dunes during the Eighty Years' War; first combat use of volley fire, yet a strategically fruitless victory.
Battle of Nihonmatsu
The Battle of Nihonmatsu (二本松の戦い) was a July 1868 battle of the Boshin War at Nihonmatsu Castle in Fukushima, where the Nihonmatsu domain was overwhelmed by the new government army.
Battle of Nihriya
The Battle of Nihriya (also written Niḫriya) was a late 13th-century BC battle in which an Assyrian army defeated the Hittite army of King Tudhaliya IV near Nihriya.
Battle of Nikopol
The Battle of Nikopol (Turkish: Niğbolu Muharebesi) was an 1877 battle of the Russo-Turkish War, won by Russia at the Ottoman fortress of Nikopol in Bulgaria.
Battle of Ning-Jin
The Battle of Ning-Jin (宁锦之战) was a 1627 battle of the Ming–Later Jin wars, in which Yuan Chonghuan's Ming defenders repulsed Huang Taiji's attack on Jinzhou and Ningyuan.
Battle of Ningping
The Battle of Ningping (宁平城之战) was the 311 annihilation of a Western Jin army of over 100,000 by Shi Le's cavalry at Ningpingcheng, Kuxian, as it escorted regent Sima Yue's coffin.
Battle of Ningwu Pass
The Battle of Ningwu Pass (宁武关之战) was Li Zicheng's 1644 storming of a Ming fortress in Shanxi, where commander Zhou Yuji died after seven days of fighting.
Battle of Nioro
The Battle of Nioro refers to the conquest of the Kaarta capital Nioro in Mali by Umar Tall in 1855 and its capture by the French in 1891.
Battle of Niquitao
The Battle of Niquitao was an 1813 battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence, in which José Félix Ribas's republican division defeated a royalist column under José Martí.
Battle of Nirmohgarh
The Battle of Nirmohgarh (ਨਿਰਮੋਹਗੜ੍ਹ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was an October 1700 battle in which hill rajas attacked Guru Gobind Singh's Khalsa army, which repulsed them before breaking out across the Sutlej.
Battle of Niš
The Battle of Niš refers to two engagements at Niš, Serbia: a crusader victory over the Ottomans in 1443, and an Austrian conquest of the city in 1689.
Battle of Nola (216 BC)
The Battle of Nola (216 BC), the first of three battles at Nola, was an engagement in which Marcellus repulsed Hannibal's army at Nola in Campania, southern Italy.
Battle of Nong Sarai
The Battle of Nong Sarai (ยุทธการที่ดงหรดี) was fought in January 1593 at Nong Sarai in Suphanburi province, where King Naresuan of Ayutthaya defeated an invading Burmese army.
Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
The Battle of Nördlingen (1634) was a Thirty Years' War battle where an Imperial, Spanish, and Bavarian army crushed the Swedish-Protestant army, ending Swedish dominance in southern Germany.
Battle of North Borneo
The Battle of North Borneo was the liberation of British North Borneo, Brunei, and northeastern Sarawak by the Australian 9th Division in June and August 1945, as Operation Oboe Six.
Battle of Noryang
The Battle of Noryang (露梁海戰) was a 1598 naval battle of the Imjin War in which combined Ming Chinese and Joseon Korean fleets destroyed the retreating Japanese fleet.
Battle of Novara (1849)
The Battle of Novara (Battaglia di Novara), fought on 23 March 1849 near Novara in Piedmont, saw Radetzky's Austrian army decisively defeat King Charles Albert's Sardinian forces.
Battle of Nowshera
The Battle of Nowshera (नौशहरा की लड़ाई) was fought in March 1823 between Pakhtun tribesmen led by Sayed Akbar Shah and Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh army, which won.