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Battle of Orsha
The Battle of Orsha (Bitwa pod Orszą) was fought in 1514 near Orsha on the Dnieper, where Polish-Lithuanian forces under Konstanty Ostrogski routed a Muscovite army.
Battle of Osan
The Battle of Osan was the first US ground engagement of the Korean War, fought on July 5, 1950, where Task Force Smith was routed by North Korean forces.
Battle of Osogbo
The Battle of Osogbo, conventionally dated to about 1840, saw an allied army led by Ibadan defeat an invading Ilorin Emirate force and lift its siege of the Yoruba town of Osogbo.
Battle of Ostrołęka (1831)
The Battle of Ostrołęka, fought on 26 May 1831, was a Polish defeat by Russian forces under Ivan Dybicz and the turning point of the November Uprising.
Battle of Osuchy
The Battle of Osuchy (Bitwa pod Osuchami) was a June 1944 battle in the Solska Forest between Polish partisans and German forces, ending in a German victory.
Battle of Otlukbeli
The Battle of Otlukbeli (Otlukbeli Muharebesi), fought on 11 August 1473 near Tercan, ended in an Ottoman victory of Mehmed II over Uzun Hasan's Aq Qoyunlu.
Battle of Otumba
The Battle of Otumba (Batalla de Otumba), fought on 7 July 1520 near Otumba in Mexico, saw Hernán Cortés's retreating Spaniards and Tlaxcaltecs defeat the pursuing Mexica army.
Battle of Ouadi Doum
The Battle of Ouadi Doum was a 1987 battle of the Chadian–Libyan conflict in which Chadian forces captured Libya's main air base in northern Chad.
Battle of Ouagadougou
The Battle of Ouagadougou was the capture of Ouagadougou, capital of the Mossi kingdoms in present-day Burkina Faso, by a French column under Voulet and Chanoine in 1896.
Battle of Oudong
Battle of Oudong, March 1974 Cambodian Civil War engagement: Khmer Rouge forces captured the former royal capital of Oudong, 34 km northwest of Phnom Penh, massacred the garrison, displaced about 20,000 people, and lost the ruined town to a FANK recapture in July 1974.
Battle of Paardeberg
The Battle of Paardeberg was a Second Boer War battle and siege at the Modder River in February 1900, ending in General Piet Cronjé's surrender to Lord Roberts.
Battle of Pabaiskas
The Battle of Pabaiskas, also called the Battle of Ukmergė or Vilkmergė, was a battle fought in Lithuania on 1 September 1435 between rival claimants to the grand ducal throne.
Battle of Paju
The Battle of Paju (Estonian: Paju lahing) was a fierce battle of the Estonian War of Independence, fought on 31 January 1919 at Paju manor near Valga.
Battle of Pákozd
The Battle of Pákozd (Hungarian: pákozdi csata) was fought on 29 September 1848 near Lake Velence, where János Móga's Hungarian army stopped Josip Jelačić's invading Croatian forces.
Battle of Palgongsan
The Battle of Palgongsan (팔공산 전투), also called the Battle of Gongsan, was a 927 Later Baekje victory over Goryeo near Daegu, where Wang Geon barely escaped defeat.
Battle of Palkhed
The Battle of Palkhed (पालखेड की लड़ाई) was a 1728 campaign near the Godavari river where Peshwa Baji Rao I encircled Nizam-ul-Mulk and starved him into a favorable treaty.
Battle of Palmito Ranch
Battle of Palmito Ranch (also Palmetto Ranch, Palmito Hill), May 12-13, 1865, near Brownsville, Texas: the last land battle of the Civil War, a Confederate victory under Rip Ford over Barrett's Union force weeks after Appomattox.
Battle of Palnadu
The Battle of Palnadu (పల్నాడు యుద్ధం) was a late 12th-century war at Karempudi, Andhra Pradesh, between the Haihaya step-brothers Nalagama and Malideva; it preceded Kakatiya rise.
Battle of Palo Alto
The Battle of Palo Alto was the first major engagement of the Mexican-American War, fought on May 8, 1846, north of Brownsville, Texas, and won by U.S. artillery.
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon was a surprise dawn attack by Colonel Ranald Mackenzie's 4th U.S. Cavalry on Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne camps in the Texas Panhandle on September 28, 1874.
Battle of Palo Seco
The Battle of Palo Seco was an engagement of Cuba's Ten Years' War fought in Camagüey on 2 December 1873, where Máximo Gómez's Cuban insurgents destroyed a Spanish column.
Battle of Palonegro
The Battle of Palonegro (11–26 May 1900) was a battle of Colombia's Thousand Days' War fought near Bucaramanga, in which the Conservative government army destroyed the Liberal regular army.
Battle of Pangal
The Battle of Pangal was a 1419 victory of the Vijayanagara Empire, led by Deva Raya I, over Firuz Shah Bahmani at Nalgonda-Pangal in the Warangal region.
Battle of Panium
The Battle of Panium, also called the Battle of Panion, was fought around 200 BC near Paneas between Antiochus III and the Ptolemaic general Scopas.
Battle of Panormus
The Battle of Panormus was a 250 BC Roman victory in the First Punic War near Palermo, Sicily, where Metellus defeated Hasdrubal and captured war elephants.
Battle of Pantano de Vargas
The Battle of Pantano de Vargas (Batalla del Pantano de Vargas) was fought on 25 July 1819 near Paipa, Colombia, during Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada.
Battle of Papudo
The Battle of Papudo, or Combate Naval de Papudo, was a naval action fought off Papudo, Chile, on 26 November 1865, in which the Chilean corvette Esmeralda captured the Spanish schooner Virgen de Covadonga.
Battle of Paraguarí
The Battle of Paraguarí, fought on 19 January 1811 in Paraguay, saw Paraguayan militias defeat Manuel Belgrano's Buenos Aires expeditionary army, paving the way for independence.
Battle of Párkány
The Battle of Párkány was a defeat and then a victory fought by Polish and Imperial troops under John III Sobieski against Ottoman forces on 7 and 9 October 1683.
Battle of Partskhisi
The Battle of Partskhisi was a Georgian-Seljuk wars battle in which King Giorgi II of Georgia defeated an invading Seljuk army under the commander Sarang, around 1075.