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Battle of Segale
The Battle of Segale (Amharic: ሰገሌ) was fought on 27 October 1916, when Ras Mikael of Wollo was defeated by Shewan forces backing Empress Zewditu.
Battle of Segesvár
The Battle of Segesvár (Segesvári csata) was an 1849 defeat of Józef Bem's Hungarian revolutionary army by a larger Russian force, best known as Sándor Petőfi's last battle.
Battle of Sekigahara
Battle of Sekigahara (関ヶ原の戦い, Sekigahara no Tatakai), fought October 21, 1600 in Gifu Prefecture: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army defeated Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army after Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection, ending the Sengoku period and leading to the Tokugawa shogunate.
Battle of Sela Dingay
The Battle of Sela Dingay refers to military engagements at Sela Dingay (ሰላ ድንጋይ), a town in North Shewa, Ethiopia, most notably Negus Mikael's 1916 occupation.
Battle of Șelimbăr
The Battle of Șelimbăr (Bătălia de la Șelimbăr, German: Schellenberg) was fought on 28 October 1599 near Sibiu, where Mihai Viteazul of Wallachia defeated Prince Andrei Báthory and took over Transylvania.
Battle of Selinus (409 BC)
The Battle of Selinus, or Sack of Selinus, was the 409 BC destruction of the Greek city of Selinus in Sicily by a Carthaginian army under Hannibal Mago.
Battle of Sempach
The Battle of Sempach (Schlacht bei Sempach) was a 1386 battle near Lucerne, Switzerland, where Swiss troops destroyed the army of Duke Leopold III of Habsburg.
Battle of Seonghwan
The Battle of Seonghwan (성환 전투), fought on 29 July 1894, was the first land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War, in which Japanese forces overwhelmed Qing troops at Seonghwan near Asan.
Battle of Seta
The Battle of Seta was the decisive final battle of the Jinshin War, fought in 672 at the Seta bridge in present Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Battle of Sevan
The Battle of Sevan, fought on Lake Sevan in 921, saw King Ashot II of Armenia defeat a much larger Sajid army under the general Beshir.
Battle of Seven Oaks
The Battle of Seven Oaks was a 15-minute fight near Winnipeg in 1816 in which Métis fighters under Cuthbert Grant killed Hudson's Bay Company governor Robert Semple and 20 of his men.
Battle of Sfax
The Battle of Sfax was the capture of the Tunisian port city of Sfax by French naval and landing forces on 16 July 1881, during the conquest of Tunisia.
Battle of Shaggy Ridge
The Battle of Shaggy Ridge was fought from October 1943 to February 1944 between Australia's 7th Division and the Japanese 78th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea's Finisterre Mountains.
Battle of Shaho
The Battle of Shaho (沙河会戦) was a major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought around the Sha River between Mukden and Liaoyang in October 1904.
Battle of Shamkor
The Battle of Shamkor (شامکور جنگی) was fought in June 1195 near Shamkhor, in present-day Shamkir, Azerbaijan, ending in the defeat of Atabeg Abu Bakr by Queen Tamar's Georgian army.
Battle of Shangani
The Battle of Shangani, called Bonko by the amaNdebele, was the first major engagement of the First Matabele War, fought at the Shangani River on 25 October 1893.
Battle of Shanggao
The Battle of Shanggao, known in Japanese as Operation Kinkō, was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War fought in Jiangxi, China, in 1941, ending in a Chinese victory.
Battle of Shanghai (淞沪会战)
Battle of Shanghai (淞沪会战, Battle of Songhu), 13 August to mid-November 1937, first major battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War; China committed over 700,000 troops against about 250,000 Japanese; ended in Japanese victory after the Jinshanwei flanking landing.
Battle of Shanhai Pass
The Battle of Shanhai Pass (山海關之戰) was a decisive 1644 battle in which the Qing army under Dorgon joined Ming general Wu Sangui to crush Li Zicheng's rebel army.
Battle of Shayuan
The Battle of Shayuan was a battle of 537 in which Yuwen Tai's Western Wei, vastly outnumbered, ambushed and defeated Gao Huan's larger Eastern Wei army, seizing the strategic initiative.
Battle of Shelon River
The Battle of Shelon River (Шелонская битва) was fought on 14 July 1471 between Moscow and Novgorod, where about 5,000 Muscovites under Daniil Kholmsky routed a far larger Novgorod militia.
Battle of Shijiazhuang
The Battle of Shijiazhuang (石家庄战役), also called the Battle of Shimen, was a six-day battle of November 1947 in which Communist forces captured the fortified city of Shijiazhuang, Hebei.
Battle of Shijōnawate
The Battle of Shijōnawate (四條畷の戦い) was a Nanboku-chō battle fought in 1348 at Shijōnawate in Kawachi Province, where Kusunoki Masatsura's Southern army was destroyed by Kō no Moronao.
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, April 6-7, 1862, Civil War battle in southwestern Tennessee; Confederate surprise attack under Albert Sidney Johnston, killed April 6, repulsed by Grant and Buell; 23,746 casualties, Union victory.
Battle of Shimbra Kure
The Battle of Shimbra Kure was fought in Ethiopia in March 1529, where Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi's smaller Adal army defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel.
Battle of Shimonoseki Straits
The Battle of Shimonoseki Straits was an 1863 naval action in which the USS Wyoming sank two Chōshū Domain ships in Japan, the first U.S.-Japanese naval engagement.
Battle of Shiojiritoge
The Battle of Shiojiritoge (塩尻峠の戦い) was a 1548 battle at Shiojiri Pass in Nagano Prefecture, where Takeda Shingen, then Takeda Harunobu, crushed Ogasawara Nagatoki's army.
Battle of Shipka Pass
The Battle of Shipka Pass (Defense of Shipka 1877) was fought in 1877 and January 1878 for control of the Shipka Pass through Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains during the Russo-Turkish War.
Battle of Shirakawa
The Battle of Shirakawa (白河口の戦い, Shirakawaguchi no tatakai) was a roughly 100-day campaign of the 1868 Boshin War fought around Komine Castle in Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture.
Battle of Shirimni
The Battle of Shirimni (Georgian: შირიმნის ბრძოლა) was a 1021 battle in which Byzantine emperor Basil II defeated King Giorgi I of Georgia near Lake Çıldır.