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Battle of Smârdan
The Battle of Smârdan, fought on 24 January 1878 during the Russo-Turkish War, saw Romanian troops storm the Ottoman fortified village of Smârdan near Vidin, Bulgaria.
Battle of Smolensk (Смоленское сражение) (1812)
Battle of Smolensk (Смоленское сражение), 16-17 August 1812: Napoleon's Grande Armée assaulted Smolensk during the Russian campaign; the Russian armies under Barclay de Tolly and Bagration evacuated on 17-18 August, escaping toward Borodino.
Battle of Sobraon
The Battle of Sobraon was the final, decisive battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War, won by the British East India Company in Punjab on 10 February 1846.
Battle of Socabaya
The Battle of Socabaya, also called the Battle of Alto de la Luna, was the final battle of the Peruvian civil war of 1835–1836, won by Andrés de Santa Cruz.
Battle of Sokhoista
The Battle of Sokhoista (სოხოისტას ბრძოლა) was a 1545 battle near Basiani in southern Georgia between a coalition of Georgian kingdoms and the Ottoman Empire, ending in a decisive Ottoman victory.
Battle of Solebay
Battle of Solebay (Slag bij Solebay), 28 May/7 June 1672: first naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, off Southwold, Suffolk. De Ruyter's Dutch fleet surprised the Anglo-French fleet, burned Sandwich's flagship Royal James, and prevented the planned invasion of Holland.
Battle of Solferino
The Battle of Solferino, fought on 24 June 1859 in northern Italy, saw a Franco-Piedmontese army under Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II defeat the Austrians of Franz Joseph.
Battle of Somba Opu
The Battle of Somba Opu was the June 1669 storming of the Gowa Sultanate's fortified palace-port at Makassar, South Sulawesi, by Bugis troops allied with the Dutch East India Company.
Battle of Somosierra
The Battle of Somosierra was fought on 30 November 1808 at the Somosierra pass north of Madrid, where Napoleon's French army defeated a Spanish force under General Benito de San Juan.
Battle of Sondani
The Battle of Sondani (सोंधनी का युद्ध) was the defeat of the Huna king Mihirakula by Yashodharman of Malwa near Mandsaur around 528 or 532 CE.
Battle of Songjin
The Battle of Songjin (松錦之戰) was the decisive 1640 to 1642 campaign in which the Qing destroyed the Ming's elite northeastern army around Songshan and Jinzhou.
Battle of Songzhou
The Battle of Songzhou was a battle between Tang China and Tibet at the frontier prefecture of Songzhou in Sichuan, ending in a boundary agreement and the marriage alliance of Princess Wencheng.
Battle of South Guangxi
The Battle of South Guangxi was a Second Sino-Japanese War campaign from late 1939 into 1940, in which Japan invaded Guangxi to sever Chinese supply routes through French Indochina.
Battle of South Shanxi
The Battle of South Shanxi, or Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain (中条山战役), was a May 1941 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in southern Shanxi, China.
Battle of Sphacteria (1825)
The Battle of Sphacteria (1825) was an Ottoman-Egyptian victory under Ibrahim Pasha over Greek defenders of the islet closing Navarino's harbor during the Greek War of Independence.
Battle of Spion Kop
Battle of Spion Kop (Spioenkop), 23–24 January 1900, Second Boer War: British attempt to relieve Ladysmith on the Tugela River, Natal, defeated by Louis Botha's Boers; gave its name to Liverpool's Kop stand.
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (May 8–21, 1864), also called Spotsylvania, second battle of Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia; Grant vs. Lee, about 30,000 casualties, including nearly 20 hours of fighting at the Bloody Angle of the Mule Shoe salient.
Battle of Sri Hargobindpur
The Battle of Sri Hargobindpur (ਸ੍ਰੀ ਹਰਗੋਬਿੰਦਪੁਰ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was a 17th-century battle in Punjab in which Guru Hargobind's Sikhs defeated a Mughal army sent by Abdulla Khan.
Battle of Sripurambiyam
The Battle of Sripurambiyam (श्रीपुरम्बियम्) was a late 9th-century battle near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, where a Pandya king was defeated by a Pallava, Western Ganga, and Chola coalition.
Battle of St. George's Caye
The Battle of St. George's Caye was an 1798 naval engagement in which British settlers in Belize, aided by H.M.S. Merlin, repelled a Spanish fleet from Yucatán.
Battle of St. Lucia
The Battle of St. Lucia was a British naval victory off St. Lucia in the West Indies on 15 December 1778, during the American Revolutionary War.
Battle of St. Thome
The Battle of St. Thome was a 1746 battle in which a small French force routed the much larger army of the Nawab of the Carnatic.
Battle of Stadtlohn
The Battle of Stadtlohn, or Battle of the Lohner Bruch, was a decisive Catholic League victory by Tilly over Christian of Brunswick on 6 August 1623.
Battle of Stalingrad (Сталинградская битва)
Battle of Stalingrad (Сталинградская битва), 17 July 1942 to 2 February 1943, Eastern Front battle for Volgograd; Soviet Operation Uranus encircled Paulus's 6th Army, taking 91,000 prisoners and marking the war's turning point.
Battle of Stamford Bridge
Battle of Stamford Bridge, fought 25 September 1066 in Yorkshire: Harold Godwinson's English army surprised and destroyed Harald Hardrada's Norwegian invasion force, killing Hardrada and Tostig, three weeks before Harold's death at Hastings.
Battle of Stănilești
A battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1710–1713, fought on the Prut River in Moldavia in July 1711, where the Ottomans surrounded Peter the Great's army.
Battle of Stara Zagora
The Battle of Stara Zagora (Битката при Стара Загора), fought on 19 July 1877 in the Russo-Turkish War, saw a small Russian and Bulgarian force hold off Suleiman Pasha's much larger Ottoman army for a day.
Battle of Stavuchany
The Battle of Stavuchany (Russian: Ставучанское сражение) was fought on 28 August 1739 near Khotyn, where Field Marshal Munnich's 48,000 Russians defeated about 90,000 Ottomans in one day.
Battle of Stiklestad
Battle of Stiklestad (Slaget på Stiklestad), fought 29 July 1030 at Stiklestad, Verdal, Trøndelag, where King Olav Haraldsson was killed by a Trøndelag peasant army led by Kalv Arnesson, Tore Hund, and Hårek of Tjøtta, then canonized as St. Olav.
Battle of Stilo
The Battle of Stilo, also known as the Battle of Capo Colonna, was fought in July 982 in Calabria, where the Kalbids of Sicily defeated Emperor Otto II.