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Battle of San Juan de Ulúa
The Battle of San Juan de Ulúa was a 1568 naval action at Veracruz, New Spain, where a Spanish fleet destroyed John Hawkins's English squadron.
Battle of San Juan Hill
Battle of San Juan Hill, July 1, 1898: U.S. Fifth Corps assault on the San Juan Heights near Santiago de Cuba in the Spanish-American War, involving Roosevelt's Rough Riders and the Buffalo Soldiers of the 9th and 10th Cavalry.
Battle of San Lorenzo
The Battle of San Lorenzo was an 1813 victory by José de San Martín's Mounted Grenadiers over a Spanish royalist landing party at San Lorenzo, Argentina.
Battle of San Mateo
The Battle of San Mateo was a pair of 1814 defensive engagements in Venezuela where Simón Bolívar repulsed José Tomás Boves, remembered for Captain Antonio Ricaurte's death.
Battle of San Pasqual
The Battle of San Pasqual was a December 6, 1846 Mexican–American War engagement near San Diego, where Californio lancers under Andrés Pico inflicted heavy losses on Stephen W. Kearny's troops.
Battle of Sanfengshan
The Battle of Sanfengshan (三峰山之战) was the decisive battle of the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty, where Tolui's smaller Mongol army destroyed a 150,000-strong Jin force in heavy snow in 1232.
Battle of Sangala
The Battle of Sangala (کیتھیوں کی جنگ) was Alexander the Great's 326 BC storming of Sangala, a fortified town of the Cathaean confederacy in the Punjab.
Battle of Sangarará
The Battle of Sangarará, fought on 18 November 1780 at Sangarará in the Viceroyalty of Peru, saw Túpac Amaru II's rebels destroy a royalist expedition from Cusco.
Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales
The Battle of Santa Cruz de Rosales was an American victory at Santa Cruz de Rosales, Chihuahua, on March 16, 1848, led by General Sterling Price.
Battle of Santa Isabel
The name Battle of Santa Isabel refers to two Mexican events: the republican victory over a French-imperialist force near Parras, Coahuila, on March 1, 1866.
Battle of Santa Rosa
The Battle of Santa Rosa, fought on 20 March 1856 at Hacienda Santa Rosa in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, was the filibusters' first defeat in Central America.
Battle of Santiago (1962 FIFA World Cup)
The Battle of Santiago (Battaglia di Santiago) was the notoriously violent 1962 World Cup match between host Chile and Italy, won 2-0 by Chile with two sendings-off and four police interventions.
Battle of Santiago de Cuba
The Battle of Santiago de Cuba was a naval battle fought on 3 July 1898 off Santiago de Cuba, where the US Navy destroyed Spain's entire squadron.
Battle of Santomé
The Battle of Santomé was a Dominican victory over an invading Haitian army under Emperor Faustin Soulouque, won by General José María Cabral on 22 December 1855.
Battle of Sao Salvador (1709)
The Battle of Sao Salvador was fought on 15 February 1709 at Kongo's former capital, where King Pedro IV defeated the claimant Pedro Constantinho da Silva, known as Kibenga.
Battle of Saragarhi
1897 last stand in which 21 Sikhs of the 36th Sikhs under Havildar Ishar Singh died defending the Saragarhi heliograph post between Fort Lockhart and Gulistan against tribesmen commonly numbered at 10,000; all received the Indian Order of Merit.
Battle of Saraighat
The Battle of Saraighat (সৰাইঘাটৰ যুদ্ধ) was a largely naval battle fought in March 1671 on the Brahmaputra River near Guwahati, where the Ahom Kingdom under Lachit Borphukan defeated the invading Mughal army.
Battle of Sarantaporo
The Battle of Sarantaporo (Greek: Μάχη του Σαρανταπόρου) was a battle of 9–10 October 1912 in northern Thessaly, the first major Greek victory of the First Balkan War.
Battle of Sardarabad
The Battle of Sardarabad (Սարդարապատի ճակատամարտ) was fought from May 21 to 28, 1918, near Sardarapat in the Ararat plain, halting the Ottoman advance on Yerevan.
Battle of Sarhu
The Battle of Sarhu (萨尔浒之战) was a 1619 victory of Nurhaci's Later Jin over a Ming army advancing in four routes, breaking Ming power in Liaodong.
Battle of Sarikamish
Battle of Sarikamish (Sarıkamış Harekâtı), a WWI Caucasus Front battle, 22 December 1914 to January 1915, where Enver Pasha's Ottoman Third Army was destroyed by cold and Russian forces under Yudenich near Sarıkamış, Kars province.
Battle of Şarköy
The Battle of Şarköy, also known as the Şarköy Landing, was an Ottoman amphibious operation on the Sea of Marmara in February 1903 during the First Balkan War.
Battle of Sarsa
The Battle of Sarsa (सरसा की लड़ाई) was a Mughal attack on Guru Gobind Singh's party as it crossed the flooded Sarsa river in 1704 or 1705.
Battle of Saule
The Battle of Saule (Saulės mūšis) was a 1236 victory of Lithuanian and Semigallian forces that destroyed the Livonian Brothers of the Sword near Šiauliai.
Battle of Savi
The Battle of Savi was the capture and burning of Savi, capital of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, by King Agaja of Dahomey in March 1727.
Battle of Savo Island
Battle of Savo Island (First Battle of Savo Island), a night action of 8–9 August 1942 off Guadalcanal in which Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi's cruiser force sank four Allied heavy cruisers, including HMAS Canberra, in about half an hour, the US Navy's worst single-fleet-action defeat.
Battle of Savra
The Battle of Savra was fought on 18 September 1385 near Lushnja in Albania, where an Ottoman army defeated and killed Balša II of Zeta.
Battle of Schellenberg
The Battle of Schellenberg was fought on 2 July 1704, when Marlborough and Louis of Baden stormed a fortified hill above Donauwörth, opening the way into Bavaria.
Battle of Schwechat
The Battle of Schwechat, fought on 30 October 1848 near Vienna, ended in an Austrian victory over the revolutionary Hungarian Army during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Battle of Sedan
The Battle of Sedan was the decisive 1870 battle of the Franco-Prussian War, in which the German army under Moltke encircled the French Army of Châlons at Sedan.