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Battle of Porto Novo
The Battle of Porto Novo, fought on 1 July 1781 near Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, saw Sir Eyre Coote's 8,000 British troops defeat Hyder Ali's much larger Mysore army.
Battle of Portobelo
The Battle of Portobelo, also spelled Porto Bello, was the capture of the Spanish Caribbean port of Portobelo, Panama, by a British fleet under Admiral Edward Vernon in 1739.
Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze
The Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze (Bitwa pod Porytowym Wzgórzem), fought on 14 June 1944 in the Janowskie Forests, saw about 3,000 partisans hold out against a 30,000-strong German force before breaking out at night.
Battle of Posada
The Battle of Posada was a November 1330 battle in which Basarab I of Wallachia decisively defeated King Charles Robert of Hungary's army in the mountains, securing Wallachian independence.
Battle of Pozo Almonte
The Battle of Pozo Almonte was fought on 7 March 1891 at Pozo Almonte, Tarapacá, Chile, during the Northern Campaign of the Chilean Civil War of 1891.
Battle of Praga
The Battle of Praga, also called the Second Battle of Warsaw, was a Russian assault on Warsaw's Praga suburb on 4 November 1794, followed by a massacre.
Battle of Prague (1757)
The Battle of Prague, fought on 6 May 1757, was a costly Prussian victory by Frederick the Great over an Austrian army under Charles of Lorraine near Prague, Bohemia.
Battle of Pratapgad
The Battle of Pratapgad (प्रतापगडाची लढाई) was fought on 10 November 1659 at Pratapgad fort in Maharashtra, where Shivaji killed the Bijapur general Afzal Khan and routed his army.
Battle of Pratapgarh
The Battle of Pratapgarh (प्रतापगड की लड़ाई) was fought on 10 November 1659, when Shivaji's Marathas killed Bijapur general Afzal Khan and routed his army.
Battle of Pressburg
The Battle of Pressburg (Pozsonyi csata) was a two-day Hungarian victory over an invading East Frankish-Bavarian army near Pressburg, today Bratislava, on 4 and 5 July 907.
Battle of Prestonpans
Battle of Prestonpans, 21 September 1745, first major battle of the Jacobite Rising of 1745; Charles Edward Stuart's Highlanders routed Sir John Cope's government army in about ten minutes east of Edinburgh.
Battle of Preveza
The Battle of Preveza (Preveze Deniz Savashi) was a naval battle fought on 28 September 1538 off Preveza in Epirus, where Barbarossa's Ottoman fleet defeated Andrea Doria's Holy League fleet.
Battle of Prilep
The Battle of Prilep was a First Balkan War battle in which the Serbian Army defeated the Ottoman Vardar Army near Prilep in early November 1912.
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777): Washington's Continental Army defeated Lt. Col. Charles Mawhood's British force in New Jersey, final victory of the Ten Crucial Days after Trenton, freeing most of New Jersey from British occupation.
Battle of Prokhorovka
The Battle of Prokhorovka was an armored engagement fought on 12 July 1943 near Kursk, where the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army counterattacked the German II SS Panzer Corps.
Battle of Prosopitis
The Battle of Prosopitis was the Persian siege and capture, around 455/4 BC, of the Greek and Egyptian force holding Prosopitis, an island in the Nile Delta.
Battle of Pszczyna
The Battle of Pszczyna, or Bitwa pszczyńska, was a 1939 border battle of the Polish defensive war in Upper Silesia, where Polish forces destroyed about 30 German tanks.
Battle of Pteria
The Battle of Pteria was fought around 547 BC between Croesus, king of Lydia, and Cyrus II of Persia at Pteria in Cappadocia, ending in a draw by Herodotus' account.
Battle of Puebla
Battle of Puebla (Batalla de Puebla), May 5, 1862: Ignacio Zaragoza's Mexican army defeated Lorencez's French forces at the forts of Loreto and Guadalupe during the Second French Intervention, delaying the fall of Mexico City and giving rise to Cinco de Mayo.
Battle of Pulang Lupa
The Battle of Pulang Lupa was a Philippine-American War engagement of September 13, 1900, in which Filipino forces under Maximo Abad ambushed and captured an American detachment on Marinduque.
Battle of Pullalur
The Battle of Pullalur (புல்லலூர் போர்) was a mid-7th-century battle between Chalukya king Pulakesin II and Pallava king Mahendravarman I at Pullalur near Kanchipuram, opening the long Pallava–Chalukya conflict.
Battle of Pungdo
The Battle of Pungdo (豊島沖海戦) was a naval battle fought off Korea's west coast on July 25, 1894, opening the First Sino-Japanese War before either side declared war.
Battle of Punta Gruesa
The Battle of Punta Gruesa, or Combate Naval de Punta Gruesa, was an 1879 naval action of the War of the Pacific in which Chile's Covadonga forced Peru's frigate Independencia aground.
Battle of Puruarán
The Battle of Puruarán was a defeat of the Mexican insurgent army by royalist forces at Puruarán, Michoacán, on 5 January 1814, during the War of Mexican Independence.
Battle of Pusan Perimeter
The Battle of the Pusan Perimeter was a series of defensive battles in August and September 1950, in which UN forces held an enclave around Pusan against North Korean offensives.
Battle of Pushang
The Battle of Pushang (نبرد پوشنگ) was the 867 defeat of the Tahirid army by the Saffarid ruler Ya'qub ibn al-Layth near Herat, opening his conquest of Khorasan and the Tahirids' fall in 873.
Battle of Pyliavtsi
The Battle of Pyliavtsi was a decisive September 1648 victory of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-peasant army, with Crimean Tatar cavalry, over a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth levy en masse in Ukraine.
Battle of Pyongyang (371)
The Battle of Pyongyang (371) was a winter assault in which the Baekje king Geunchogo led 30,000 troops against Goguryeo's Pyongyang Fortress, killing King Gogugwon.
Battle of Qarqar
The Battle of Qarqar, also spelled Karkar, was fought in 853 BC between Assyrian king Shalmaneser III and a Levantine coalition including Ahab of Israel.
Battle of Qarqar (720 BC)
The Battle of Qarqar (720 BC) was a siege in northern Syria where Sargon II of Assyria crushed a western revolt led by Yau-bi'di of Hamath, who was captured and flayed.