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Battle of Parwan

The Battle of Parwan was fought in 1221 between Jalal al-Din Mingburnu, the last Khwarazmshah, and a Mongol detachment under Genghis Khan, who won the first major field victory against the Mongols.

Battle of Pasir Salak

The Battle of Pasir Salak was the culminating engagement of the Perak War, in which British forces captured a fortified Malay position on the Perak River in December 1875.

Battle of Passchendaele, final phase of the Third Battle of Ypres (31 July-10 November 1917), a British offensive in Flanders under Haig; notorious for mud, about 300,000 British and 260,000 German casualties, and the Canadian capture of the ridge.

Battle of Pasuruan

The Battle of Pasuruan was a 1706-1707 assault by some 60,000 Dutch East India Company, Mataram, and Madurese troops on the stronghold of Untung Surapati near Pasuruan, eastern Java.

Battle of Pavan Khind

The Battle of Pavan Khind (पावन खिंड) was a 1660 rearguard action in which Baji Prabhu Deshpande held a mountain pass so Shivaji could escape to Vishalgad.

Battle of Pavia

Battle of Pavia (24 February 1525), decisive battle of the Italian War of 1521–26 near Pavia, Italy, where Habsburg arquebusiers under Pescara, Bourbon, and Lannoy destroyed Francis I's French army and captured the king.

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Battle of Pavón

The Battle of Pavón (Batalla de Pavón), fought on 17 September 1861 in Santa Fe province, ended the Argentine Confederation and opened the way for a unified Argentina led by Buenos Aires.

Battle of Pea Ridge

Battle of Pea Ridge, or Battle of Elkhorn Tavern: Civil War battle fought March 7-8, 1862 in northwestern Arkansas, where Samuel Curtis's Union Army of the Southwest defeated Earl Van Dorn's larger Confederate Army of the West, securing Missouri for the Union.

Battle of Peachtree Creek

The Battle of Peachtree Creek was a Civil War battle fought on July 20, 1864, near Atlanta, Georgia, where John Bell Hood's Confederate attack on George H. Thomas's Union army was repulsed.

Battle of Pease River

The Battle of Pease River was an 1860 attack by Texas Rangers and US troops on a Comanche camp in Texas that captured Cynthia Ann Parker.

Battle of Peking (1900)

Battle of Peking (1900), or Relief of Peking: 14-15 August 1900 assault in which the Eight-Nation Alliance under Sir Alfred Gaselee fought into Beijing, ending the 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion.

Battle of Pelagonia

The Battle of Pelagonia was a battle fought in 1259 in western Macedonia, in which the Empire of Nicaea defeated a coalition of Epirus, Sicily, and Achaea.

Battle of Peleliu (ペリリューの戦い)

The Battle of Peleliu (ペリリューの戦い), September–November 1944, Palau Islands: US Marines and the 81st Division overcame Colonel Nakagawa's cave-based defense in depth, costing 1,544 US killed and nearly 11,000 Japanese dead in a 74-day battle later judged strategically unnecessary.

Battle of Pelusium (343 BC)

The Battle of Pelusium (343 BC) was the opening action of Artaxerxes III's Persian invasion of Egypt, defeating Pharaoh Nectanebo II and ending roughly sixty years of Egyptian independence.

Battle of Pelusium (525 BC)

The Battle of Pelusium in 525 BC was a decisive Persian victory in which Cambyses II defeated Pharaoh Psamtik III, opening Persia's conquest of Egypt.

Battle of Pelusium (674 BC)

The Battle of Pelusium (674 BC) was the first recorded Assyrian attempt to invade Egypt, ending in defeat of Esarhaddon's army by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa.

Battle of Pengcheng

The Battle of Pengcheng (彭城之战) was a battle in April 205 BC in which Xiang Yu's 30,000 Chu troops routed Liu Bang's much larger army at Pengcheng.

Battle of Penghu

The Battle of Penghu (澎湖海战) was a naval battle fought on 16 July 1683, where the Qing fleet under Shi Lang destroyed the Zheng regime's navy near Taiwan.

Battle of Peralejo

The Battle of Peralejo was an 1895 battle of Cuba's War of Independence, where Antonio Maceo's Cuban forces fought a Spanish column under Martínez Campos.

Battle of Pereiaslav (1630)

The Battle of Pereiaslav was the culminating engagement of the 1630 Cossack uprising, fought in May 1630 between hetman Taras Fedorovych and Polish forces under Stanisław Koniecpolski.

Battle of Peshawar (1001)

The Battle of Peshawar (جنگ پشاور) was fought in 1001 near Peshawar between Mahmud of Ghazni and Jayapala of the Hindu Shahi dynasty, ending in Ghaznavid victory.

Battle of Peta

The Battle of Peta (ἡ μάχη τοῦ Πέτα) was an Ottoman victory over Greek revolutionary forces at Peta near Arta on 4 July 1822, during the Greek War of Independence.

Battle of Petelia

The Battle of Petelia was an ambush Hannibal set for an unscouted Roman column under the hill of Petelia, in Bruttium, in 208 BC during the Second Punic War.

Battle of Petra

The Battle of Petra (Μάχη της Πέτρας) was the last battle of the Greek War of Independence, won by Dimitrios Ypsilantis in Boeotia on 12 September 1829.

Battle of Petrovaradin

The Battle of Petrovaradin was a battle fought on 5 August 1716 at Petrovaradin, near present-day Novi Sad, Serbia, where Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a larger Ottoman army.

Battle of Pharsalus

Battle of Pharsalus, 9 August 48 BCE, Thessaly: Julius Caesar defeated Pompey the Great and the Senate's larger army, routing its cavalry with a hidden fourth line; the victory ended the republic and led to Pompey's assassination in Egypt.

Battle of Phichai

The Battle of Phichai (พิชัย) refers to two Burmese attacks on the northern Siamese town of Phichai during the Thonburi period, in 1772 and 1773, both repelled.

Battle of Philippi

Battle of Philippi (3 and 23 October 42 BC): two engagements near Philippi, Macedonia, where triumvirs Antony and Octavian defeated Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius, ending the republican cause.

Battle of Philippopolis (1878)

The Battle of Philippopolis, also called the Battle of Plovdiv, was the final major battle of the Russo-Turkish War, won by Russian forces under General Iosif Gurko in January 1878.