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Battle of Qatwan
The Battle of Qatwan, fought in 1141 on the steppe north of Samarkand, saw the Qara Khitai under Yelü Dashi defeat the Seljuk sultan Ahmad Sanjar and his Qarakhanid vassals.
Battle of Qianmu
The Battle of Qianmu (千亩之战) was a defeat of the Zhou royal army by the Jiangshizhirong in 789 BC, near the end of King Xuan of Zhou's reign.
Battle of Qianshuiyuan
The Battle of Qianshuiyuan (浅水原之战) was a pair of 618 engagements between the new Tang dynasty and the Western Qin of Xue Ju and Xue Rengao, won by Li Shimin.
Battle of Qigou Pass
The Battle of Qigou Pass (岐沟关之战) was a decisive 986 defeat of the Northern Song's eastern army by the Liao dynasty under Empress Dowager Xiao and Yelü Xiuge.
Battle of Qinghai
The Battle of Qinghai (青海之战) was a 678 defeat of a Tang army by Tibetan forces above Qinghai Lake, in which the vanguard commander Liu Shenli was captured.
Battle of Qiqihar
The Battle of Qiqihar, known in Chinese historiography as the Jiangqiao Campaign (江桥抗战), was General Ma Zhanshan's 1931 defense of Heilongjiang's capital against the Japanese Kwantung Army.
Battle of Quảng Trị
The Battle of Quảng Trị was a 1972 battle of the Easter Offensive in which North Vietnam captured Quảng Trị City and South Vietnam retook it in September.
Battle of Quatre Bras
Battle of Quatre Bras, 16 June 1815 action at the Belgian crossroads where Marshal Ney's French left wing fought Wellington's Anglo-Allied army; Wellington held the crossroads but could not aid Blücher at Ligny, and d'Erlon's corps fought in neither battle.
Battle of Quebec (1775)
Battle of Quebec (1775): December 31, 1775 British victory at Quebec City, Canada, where Montgomery was killed and Arnold wounded, ending the American invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War.
Battle of Quifangondo
The Battle of Quifangondo, also known as Nshila wa Lufu, was fought on 10 November 1975 near Luanda, where MPLA forces and Cuban allies crushed the FNLA the day before independence.
Battle of Quingua
The Battle of Quingua was a battle of the Philippine-American War fought on 23 April 1899 at Quingua, now Plaridel, Bulacan, where Colonel Stotsenburg died.
Battle of Quipaipán
The Battle of Quipaipán (Batalla de Quipaipán) was a decisive battle of the Inca civil war fought in April 1532 between the brothers Huáscar and Atahualpa.
Battle of Quito
The Battle of Quito, also known as the Battle of Iñaquito, was fought on January 18, 1546, in the Spanish colonial city of Quito, in present-day Ecuador.
Battle of Quramati
The Battle of Quramati was an engagement on the Euphrates in 606/605 BC in which an Egyptian army from Carchemish pushed back the Babylonian army of King Nabopolassar.
Battle of Raab
The Battle of Raab, fought on 14 June 1809 near Győr in western Hungary, saw Eugène de Beauharnais's Franco-Italian army defeat Archdukes John and Joseph, clearing the road to Wagram.
Battle of Rabaul (1942)
The Battle of Rabaul was the Japanese capture of Rabaul, capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea, from the garrison Lark Force on 23 January 1942.
Battle of Racławice
The Battle of Racławice was fought on 4 April 1794 near Kraków, where Polish forces under Tadeusz Kościuszko defeated a Russian column in the first victory of the Kościuszko Uprising.
Battle of Radviliškis
The Battle of Radviliškis (Radviliškio kautynės) was fought on 21–22 November 1919, when the Lithuanian Army stormed the railway junction of Radviliškis and defeated the Bermontians entrenched there.
Battle of Radzymin (1920)
The Battle of Radzymin (Polish: Bitwa pod Radzyminem) was a three-day engagement of the Polish-Soviet War fought near Warsaw on 13-15 August 1920, part of the Battle of Warsaw.
Battle of Raichur
The Battle of Raichur (रायचूर की लड़ाई) was a 1520 battle in which the Vijayanagara Empire under Krishna Deva Raya decisively defeated the Sultanate of Bijapur and captured Raichur fort.
Battle of Rajmahal
The Battle of Rajmahal (بنگال کی فتح) was a 1576 Mughal victory under Khan Jahan over Daud Khan Karrani, ending Afghan rule and beginning Mughal rule in Bengal.
Battle of Rakovor
The Battle of Rakovor (Раковорская битва) was fought on 18 February 1268 near Rakvere, Estonia, between Novgorod, Pskov, and Russian princes and a united German-Danish crusader army.
Battle of Ramadi (2006)
Battle of Ramadi (2006), or Second Battle of Ramadi: year-long U.S.-Iraqi counterinsurgency campaign in Anbar's capital against al-Qaeda in Iraq, beginning 17 April 2006, producing combat outposts, mass police recruitment, and the Anbar Awakening, with al-Qaeda defeated there during 2007.
Battle of Ramnagar
The Battle of Ramnagar (ਰਾਮਨਗਰ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was fought on 22 November 1848 on the River Chenab in the Punjab during the Second Sikh War.
Battle of Ramoth-gilead
The Battle of Ramoth-gilead, fought around 842/841 BC, was a defeat of Israel and Judah by Aram-Damascus in which King Joram of Israel was wounded.
Battle of Ramree Island (ရမ်းဗြဲကျွန်း တိုက်ပွဲ)
Battle of Ramree Island (ရမ်းဗြဲကျွန်း တိုက်ပွဲ): January–February 1945 amphibious operation in which the British 26th Indian Infantry Division took Ramree Island, Burma, for airfields; famed but disputed crocodile massacre claim examined.
Battle of Rancagua
The Battle of Rancagua, fought on 1 and 2 October 1814 in Chile, was a royalist victory under Colonel Mariano Osorio that ended the Patria Vieja.
Battle of Raphia
Battle of Raphia (23 June 217 BCE): Ptolemy IV defeated Antiochus III near Raphia in southern Palestine in the largest battle of the Syrian Wars, featuring the only ancient clash of African and Indian war elephants, recorded by Polybius 5.79–85.
Battle of Raqqa (2017)
Battle of Raqqa (2017), part of Operation Euphrates Wrath (غضب الفرات): SDF offensive, June 6–October 17, 2017, that expelled ISIS from its self-declared Syrian capital; ended with an October 13 surrender deal and a contested civilian death toll above 1,600.
Battle of Ras Doumeira
The Battle of Ras Doumeira was a June 2008 border clash between Djiboutian and Eritrean forces at the undemarcated Doumeira frontier, killing more than 35 people.