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Battle of Phước Long
The Battle of Phước Long, also known as the Route 14 – Phước Long Campaign, was a December 1974 to January 1975 battle in which North Vietnamese forces overran a South Vietnamese province.
Battle of Pichincha
The Battle of Pichincha (Batalla de Pichincha) was fought on 24 May 1822 on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano near Quito, securing the independence of present-day Ecuador.
Battle of Pinaglabanan
The Battle of Pinaglabanan, also called the Battle of San Juan del Monte, was the first major battle of the Philippine Revolution, fought at San Juan del Monte in 1896.
Battle of Pingxingguan
The Battle of Pingxingguan, also known as the Battle of Pinghshingkuan Pass, was fought in northwestern Shanxi in September 1937, where Lin Biao's Eighth Route Army ambushed a Japanese supply column.
Battle of Piribebuy
The Battle of Piribebuy (Batalla de Piribebuy) was the storming of Piribebuy, Paraguay's third provisional capital, by some 20,000 Allied troops on 12 August 1869 during the Paraguayan War.
Battle of Pirot
The Battle of Pirot names two battles fought at Pirot in eastern Serbia: a Serbian attack on the Ottomans in December 1877 and a Bulgarian victory in November 1885.
Battle of Pisagua
The Battle of Pisagua (desembarco y combate de Pisagua) was a Chilean amphibious landing operation on November 2, 1879, which opened the Tarapacá Campaign during the War of the Pacific.
Battle of Placentia (217 BC)
The Battle of Placentia in 217 BC was a near-draw between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces under consul Sempronius near Placentia in the Po valley.
Battle of Placilla
The Battle of Placilla, or Batalla de Placilla, was the decisive land battle of the Chilean Civil War of 1891, fought near Valparaíso on 28 August.
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Plassey (Palashi), 23 June 1757: East India Company victory under Robert Clive over Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, secured by Mir Jafar's betrayal; began Company rule in Bengal and British colonial power in South Asia.
Battle of Plataea (Μάχη των Πλαταιών)
Battle of Plataea (Μάχη των Πλαταιών), 479 BCE land battle in Boeotia where Pausanias' Greek coalition defeated and killed Mardonius, ending Xerxes' invasion of Greece, near the Asopus river.
Battle of Playa Honda
The Battle of Playa Honda was a series of naval engagements off Zambales, Luzon, in 1610, 1617, and 1624, in which Spanish forces from Manila defeated Dutch VOC fleets during the Eighty Years' War.
Battle of Pliska
Battle of Pliska (811): Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I sacked the Bulgarian capital Pliska, then was ambushed by Khan Krum in the Vărbitsa Pass on 26 July 811; the army was annihilated and Nikephoros killed, his skull made a silver-lined drinking cup.
Battle of Pločnik
The Battle of Pločnik (Serbian: Битка на Плочник) was an encounter between Prince Lazar's forces and the Ottoman army of Sultan Murad I, fought near Prokuplje around 1386.
Battle of Plum Creek
The Battle of Plum Creek was an engagement on August 11–12, 1840, in which a volunteer Texan army and Texas Rangers routed Comanche warriors returning from the Linnville Raid, near present Lockhart, Texas.
Battle of Pochonbo
Battle of Pochonbo (보천보 전투, 普天堡戰鬪): June 4, 1937 night raid in which Kim Il Sung's Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army unit crossed the Amnok River, burned the Pochonbo police substation and offices, and became nationally famous.
Battle of Podhajce (1667)
The Battle of Podhajce (1667) was a defensive battle fought near Pidhaitsi, in present-day Ukraine, in October 1667, where Jan Sobieski's entrenched army withstood a larger Cossack-Tatar force until the invaders agreed to a truce.
Battle of Point 4875
Battle of Point 4875, also called Batra Top or Gun Hill, a July 1999 Kargil War engagement in Mushkoh Valley where 13 JAK Rifles under 79 Mountain Brigade recaptured the 15,990-foot peak; Vikram Batra and Sanjay Kumar won the Param Vir Chakra.
Battle of point 5140
The Battle of Point 5140 was fought in the 1999 Kargil War, when 13 JAK Rifles led by Captain Vikram Batra recaptured a 5,140-meter peak overlooking Dras.
Battle of Point Pleasant
Battle of Point Pleasant (October 10, 1774), the only major engagement of Lord Dunmore's War: Andrew Lewis's 800 Virginia militia defeated Cornstalk's roughly 800 Shawnee warriors at the Ohio-Kanawha confluence, leading to the Treaty of Camp Charlotte.
Battle of Poitiers
Battle of Poitiers (19 September 1356): Hundred Years' War victory by the Black Prince near Poitiers, France, capturing King John II and leading to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360); distinct from the 732 battle of Charles Martel.
Battle of Pollilur
The Battle of Pollilur, also called the Battle of Polilore, was fought in 1780 near Kanchipuram, where Mysore under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan routed a British force.
Battle of Polonka
The Battle of Polonka was fought on 28 June 1660 near Slonim in present-day Belarus, where Commonwealth forces under Sapieha and Czarniecki routed Ivan Khovansky's Muscovite army.
Battle of Poltava
Battle of Poltava (27 June/8 July 1709), decisive engagement of the Great Northern War: Peter I's Russian army defeated Charles XII's Swedish army near Poltava, ending Sweden's great-power status and confirming Russia's rise.
Battle of Poona (1802)
The Battle of Poona (पुणे की लड़ाई) was fought on 25 October 1802, when Yashwantrao Holkar defeated the combined forces of Daulat Rao Scindia and Peshwa Baji Rao II near Poona.
Battle of Porédaka
The Battle of Porédaka, fought on 14 November 1896 in present-day Guinea, was the final defeat of the Fulani state of Fouta-Djallon by a small French column.
Battle of Pork Chop Hill
Battle of Pork Chop Hill (Hill 255): two 1953 Korean War infantry battles between the US 7th Infantry Division and Chinese People's Volunteer Army during armistice talks; US won the April fight, abandoned the hill July 11, 1953.
Battle of Port Arthur
Battle of Port Arthur (8–9 February 1904): Japanese destroyer torpedo attack and daylight fleet action against the Russian Pacific Squadron, opening the Russo-Japanese War before Japan's 10 February declaration; three Russian ships damaged, no decision, siege followed.
Battle of Port-au-Prince (1803)
The Battle of Port-au-Prince, also called the Siege of Port-au-Prince, was the capture of Port-au-Prince by Jean-Jacques Dessalines's Indigenous Army in October 1803 during the Haitian War of Independence.
Battle of Portada de Guías
The Battle of Portada de Guías, also called the battle of Guía, was fought on 21 August 1838 outside Lima, where Manuel Bulnes's Restoring Army defeated Orbegoso's forces.