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Battle of Shiroyama
Battle of Shiroyama (城山の戦い), 24 September 1877: final battle of the Satsuma Rebellion, where Saigō Takamori and about 350-400 samurai were destroyed by roughly 30,000 Imperial Japanese Army troops under Yamagata Aritomo at Kagoshima, ending armed samurai resistance.
Battle of Shiting
The Battle of Shiting (石亭之战) was a 228 battle in which Wu under Lu Xun lured Wei's Cao Xiu with a fake surrender and routed his army.
Battle of Shizugatake
The Battle of Shizugatake (賤ヶ岳の戦い) was a 1583 Sengoku battle in Ōmi Province where Hashiba Hideyoshi defeated Shibata Katsuie, who killed himself, opening Hideyoshi's path to unifying Japan.
Battle of Sholinghur
The Battle of Sholinghur, fought on 27 September 1781 near Madras, saw Eyre Coote's East India Company forces defeat Hyder Ali's Mysore army with heavy losses.
Battle of Shrewsbury
The Battle of Shrewsbury was a 1403 battle near Shrewsbury in which King Henry IV defeated a rebel army under Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, who was killed on the field.
Battle of Shunchang
The Battle of Shunchang (顺昌之战) was a 1140 defensive victory in which the Southern Song general Liu Qi repelled a larger Jin army at Fuyang, Anhui.
Battle of Sidi Barrani
The Battle of Sidi Barrani was the opening phase of the British Operation Compass offensive, fought 9–11 December 1940, which destroyed the Italian 10th Army's fortified camps in Egypt.
Battle of Sidi Bou Zid
The Battle of Sidi Bou Zid was a February 1943 tank battle in central Tunisia where two German panzer divisions overwhelmed the inexperienced US 1st Armored Division.
Battle of Sidi Brahim
The Battle of Sidi Brahim was a four-day defeat of a French column by Emir Abd el-Kader's forces in western Algeria in September 1845, commemorated by the French chasseurs.
Battle of Sidi Nsir
The Battle of Sidi Nsir was a 1943 defensive action in northern Tunisia where a British battalion and artillery battery delayed a German Tiger-tank thrust toward Beja.
Battle of Sidi Rezegh
The Battle of Sidi Rezegh was an armored battle near Tobruk, Libya, during Operation Crusader in November 1941, part of Rommel's first defeat in North Africa.
Battle of Sievierodonetsk (2022)
Battle of Sievierodonetsk (2022), fought May 6 to June 25, 2022 in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine; Russia committed nearly half its combat force and captured the city, after which Ukraine withdrew to Lysychansk, which fell July 3, completing Russia's capture of Luhansk Oblast.
Battle of Siffin
Battle of Siffin (Waq'at Siffin), 37 AH/657 CE: inconclusive battle of the First Fitna between Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib and Syrian governor Muawiya on the Euphrates, ended by Quran-on-lances arbitration that spawned the Kharijites.
Battle of Silva Litana
The Battle of Silva Litana was a 216 BC ambush in Cisalpine Gaul during the Second Punic War, in which the Boii annihilated a Roman army of about 25,000 men.
Battle of Sinhagad (सिंहगडाची लढाई)
Battle of Sinhagad (Kondhana), 4 February 1670: night assault by Tanaji Malusare with about 300 Mavle infantry recaptured the fort ceded by the 1665 Treaty of Purandar; Tanaji and Udaybhan Rathod died in single combat.
Battle of Sinop
The Battle of Sinop (Sinope) was an 1853 Black Sea engagement where Russia's squadron used shell guns, ending the sailing era, and destroying the Ottoman fleet.
Battle of Sipe-Sipe
The Battle of Sipe-Sipe, known in Spanish as the Battle of Viluma, was a November 1815 royalist victory over José Rondeau's Argentine army in Upper Peru, now Bolivia.
Battle of Sirhind (1764)
The Battle of Sirhind (ਸਿਰਹਿੰਦ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was fought on 14 January 1764, when Sikh misls under Jassa Singh Ahluwalia defeated and killed Zain Khan, governor of Sirhind.
Battle of Sirmium
The Battle of Sirmium was a battle fought on 8 July 1167 near the Sava river, where a Byzantine army under Andronikos Kontostephanos destroyed the Hungarian field army.
Battle of Sirte (2016)
The Battle of Sirte (2016) was a military campaign in which Libyan GNA forces, mainly Misratan militias, drove ISIS from the city of Sirte between May and December 2016.
Battle of Sisak
The Battle of Sisak, fought on 22 June 1593 at Sisak in Croatia, was a decisive defeat of an Ottoman army by Habsburg and Croatian forces.
Battle of Sitabuldi
The Battle of Sitabuldi (सीताबर्डीची लढाई) was fought at Nagpur on 26 and 27 November 1817 between Maratha king Appasaheb Bhonsle and the British East India Company.
Battle of Sitka
The Battle of Sitka, fought in October 1804, was a decisive fight between the Kiks.ádi Tlingit and Russian-American Company forces under Alexander Baranov at Sitka Sound, Alaska.
Battle of Skra-di-Legen
The Battle of Skra-di-Legen was a May 1918 First World War battle on the Macedonian Front, where Greek forces captured a fortified Bulgarian salient near Skra.
Battle of Slankamen
The Battle of Slankamen was a 1691 Imperial victory over the Ottomans near Stari Slankamen, Serbia, where Grand Vizier Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha was killed.
Battle of Slim River
The Battle of Slim River was fought on 7 January 1942 during the Malayan campaign, when a small Japanese armored force shattered two brigades of the Indian 11th Division.
Battle of Slivnitsa
The Battle of Slivnitsa (Битката при Сливница) was the decisive battle of the Serbo-Bulgarian War of 1885, fought in November near Sofia, where the Bulgarian army defeated the invading Serbian army.
Battle of Slobodyshche
The Battle of Slobodyshche (Битва під Слободищем) was fought on 17 October 1660 near Slobodyshche, in present-day Zhytomyr oblast, Ukraine, between Hetman Yurii Khmelnytsky's Cossacks and a Polish-Tatar force.
Battle of Slobodzeya
The Battle of Slobodzeya (Сражение при Слободзее) was the encirclement and destruction of an Ottoman army by Russian troops under Mikhail Kutuzov on the Danube in 1811.
Battle of Sluys
The Battle of Sluys, also called the Battle of l'Ecluse, was a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340, in which Edward III's English fleet destroyed a larger Franco-Genoese fleet.