All articles starting with B
27,400 articles
Battle of Nsamankow
The Battle of Nsamankow was an Asante victory over a British-led force under Governor Sir Charles MacCarthy in January 1824, near Bonsaso in present-day Ghana, opening the First Anglo-Ashanti War.
Battle of Numistro
The Battle of Numistro was an indecisive 210 BC engagement between Hannibal and the Roman consul Marcellus near Numistro in Lucania, during the Second Punic War.
Battle of Nuremberg (2006 FIFA World Cup)
Battle of Nuremberg: Portugal v Netherlands, 2006 World Cup Round of 16, 25 June 2006, Nuremberg. Portugal won 1-0 (Maniche); referee Valentin Ivanov issued a World Cup record 16 yellow and 4 red cards, both teams finishing with nine men.
Battle of Nvarsak
The Battle of Nvarsak (Նվարսակ) was the 484 clash ending Vahan Mamikonian's Armenian revolt against Sasanian rule, settled by the Treaty of Nvarsak granting Armenia autonomy and religious freedom.
Battle of Nyala (معركة نيالا)
Battle of Nyala (معركة نيالا): six-month 2023 SAF-RSF struggle for Sudan's second city, capital of South Darfur; RSF took the 16th Division base on 26 October 2023 amid 130+ civilian deaths and over 670,000 displaced.
Battle of Obertyn
The Battle of Obertyn, fought on 22 August 1531 near Obertyn in Pokucie, was a complete Polish victory under Hetman Jan Tarnowski over Moldavia's Petru Rareș.
Battle of Ocotal
The Battle of Ocotal was fought on 16 July 1927, when Sandino's rebels attacked US Marines and Nicaraguan guards at Ocotal and were driven off by dive-bombing planes.
Battle of Ocracoke
Battle of Ocracoke, also called the death of Blackbeard: November 22, 1718 naval fight in Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, where Lt. Robert Maynard's sloops Jane and Ranger killed the pirate Edward Teach.
Battle of Oituz
The Battle of Oituz was a 1917 defensive victory in which the Romanian Second Army under General Averescu halted a German and Austro-Hungarian offensive in the Eastern Carpathians.
Battle of Ojinaga
The Battle of Ojinaga was a Mexican Revolution battle fought at Ojinaga, Chihuahua in January 1914, where Francisco Villa's constitutionalists crushed the last federal stronghold in Chihuahua.
Battle of Okehazama
The Battle of Okehazama (桶狭間の戦い) was fought in 1560 at Okehazama in Owari Province, Japan, where Oda Nobunaga, with about 3,000 men, defeated and killed Imagawa Yoshimoto despite a large disparity in numbers.
Battle of Okhmativ
The Battle of Okhmativ (Охматівська битва) was a four-day battle fought near Okhmativ, Ukraine, in 1655 between Polish-Tatar and Cossack-Muscovite armies, ending without a victor.
Battle of Okinawa (沖縄戦)
The Battle of Okinawa (沖縄戦) was the largest land battle of the Pacific War, fought on Okinawa Island in 1945, followed by 27 years of American occupation.
Battle of Okinawa (激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦) (1971 film)
Battle of Okinawa (激動の昭和史 沖縄決戦) is a 1971 Toho war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto, scripted by Kaneto Shindo, starring Keiju Kobayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, and Tatsuya Nakadai, depicting the 1945 Okinawa ground battle from the Japanese 32nd Army's perspective.
Battle of Okitanawate
The Battle of Okitanawate (沖田畷の戦い) was a 1584 battle near Shimabara in Hizen Province, where a Shimazu–Arima coalition defeated the much larger Ryūzōji army and killed its leader, Ryūzōji Takanobu.
Battle of Okpo
The Battle of Okpo (옥포해전) was a 1592 naval battle off Okpo on Geoje Island, where a Joseon fleet under Yi Sun-sin destroyed 26 Japanese ships under Todo Takatora.
Battle of Ollantaytambo
The Battle of Ollantaytambo was a January 1537 Inca victory at the fortress town of Ollantaytambo, Peru, where Manco Inca defeated Hernando Pizarro's Spanish force.
Battle of Olshanitsa
The Battle of Olshanitsa (Ольшаницька битва) was a 1527 victory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, whose cavalry destroyed a Crimean Tatar raiding force near Kiev.
Battle of Olszynka Grochowska
The Battle of Olszynka Grochowska, also called the Battle of Grochów, was the largest battle of the November Uprising, fought near Warsaw on 25 February 1831.
Battle of Oltenița
The Battle of Oltenița, also spelled Oltenitza, was fought at Oltenița on the Danube in Wallachia on 23 October 1853, the first engagement of the Crimean War.
Battle of Omdurman (معركة أم درمان)
Battle of Omdurman (معركة أم درمان), also Battle of Kerreri, 2 September 1898: Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army of about 25,000 with artillery, Maxims, and gunboats destroyed the Khalifa's roughly 52,000 Mahdists, ending the Mahdist state.
Battle of Ongal
The Battle of Ongal (Битката при Онгъла) was a 680 victory of Khan Asparuh's Bulgars over Emperor Constantine IV, leading to the First Bulgarian Empire.
Battle of Opis
The Battle of Opis, fought on the Tigris in October 539 BC, was the decisive Persian victory of Cyrus the Great over Nabonidus's Babylonian army, leading to Babylon's fall.
Battle of Oranik
Battle of Oranik: two 15th-century victories of Skanderbeg over Ottoman armies at Oranik near Debar, in 1448 against Mustafa Pasha and in 1456 against the defector Moisi Arianit Golemi.
Battle of Orbulak
The Battle of Orbulak (Орбұлақ шайқасы) was a 1643 battle in which Kazakh ruler Zhangir Khan, with a small force, stopped a much larger Dzungar army under Erdeni Batur.
Battle of Orbulaq
The Battle of Orbulaq (Орбұлақ, also Orbulak) was a 1643 battle of the Kazakh-Dzungar wars in which 600 Kazakh warriors under Sultan Zhangir halted a Dzungar army.
Battle of Oriskany
The Battle of Oriskany, also called the Battle of Oriska, was a bloody 1777 Revolutionary War ambush in New York's Mohawk Valley during the Saratoga campaign.
Battle of Ormoc Bay
The Battle of Ormoc Bay was a series of naval and air actions in November and December 1944 that cut Japan's last supply route to Leyte in the Philippines.
Battle of Ormoc Valley
The Battle of Ormoc Valley was the final land phase of the 1944 Leyte Campaign, in which US forces drove the Japanese 35th Army from Leyte.
Battle of Oroscopa
The Battle of Oroscopa, or Oroscopis, was the 151/150 BC defeat of a Carthaginian army under Hasdrubal by Massinissa, king of Numidia, after he besieged Oroscopa.