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Battle of Tarawa

Battle of Tarawa: November 20-23, 1943 WWII battle in which the U.S. 2nd Marine Division took fortified Betio Island, Gilbert Islands, in Operation Galvanic's 76-hour, high-casualty first Central Pacific assault.

Battle of Tarentum (209 BC)

The Battle of Tarentum in 209 BC was the recapture of Tarentum from Carthage by the Roman consul Quintus Fabius Maximus in the Second Punic War.

Battle of Tarqui

The Battle of Tarqui, also called Batalla del Portete de Tarqui, was a battle fought on 27 February 1829 near Cuenca, Ecuador, during the Gran Colombia–Peru War.

Battle of Tassafaronga (ルンガ沖夜戦)

Battle of Tassafaronga (ルンガ沖夜戦), 30 November 1942: night action off Guadalcanal where Raizo Tanaka's eight destroyers with Long Lance torpedoes sank USS Northampton and crippled three cruisers under Carleton Wright, though no supplies reached shore.

Battle of Tatarahama

The Battle of Tatarahama (多々良浜の戦い) was fought in 1336 near Hakata in Fukuoka, where Ashikaga Takauji defeated Kikuchi Taketoshi and then marched east to establish the Ashikaga shogunate.

Battle of Tawergha

The Battle of Tawergha (تاورغاء) was the August 2011 capture of the Libyan town of Tawergha by Misrata fighters, after which its entire population was displaced.

Battle of Taximaroa

The Battle of Taximaroa was a 1478 battle at Taximaroa, today Ciudad Hidalgo, Michoacán, where a Purépecha army defeated an invading Aztec force under Axayácatl.

Battle of Tây Kết

The Battle of Tây Kết (Trận Tây Kết) was a 1285 victory of Đại Việt over Yuan forces, killing the Mongol marshal Sogetu in present-day Hưng Yên, Vietnam.

Battle of Tedorigawa

The Battle of Tedorigawa (手取川の戦い) was a 1577 battle at the Tedori River in Kaga Province, where Uesugi Kenshin defeated the Oda army under Shibata Katsuie.

Battle of Tegoshigawara

The Battle of Tegoshigawara (手越河原の戦い) was a battle fought in 1335 at Tegoshigawara in Suruga Province, where Nitta Yoshisada's eastward army defeated Ashikaga Tadayoshi.

Battle of Tejucupapo

The Battle of Tejucupapo (Batalha de Tejucupapo) was fought on 24 April 1646 in Pernambuco, Brazil, where local women armed with farm tools and boiling pepper water helped repel about 600 Dutch soldiers.

Battle of Tell el-Kebir

The Battle of Tell el-Kebir (معركة التل الكبير), fought on 13 September 1882 near Zagazig, Egypt, saw General Garnet Wolseley's British force storm and defeat Ahmad Urabi's army, beginning the British occupation of Egypt.

Battle of Tenmokuzan

The Battle of Tenmokuzan (天目山の戦い), also called the Battle of Tanō, was the final engagement of the 1582 Kōshū campaign, where Takeda Katsuyori died and the Takeda clan ended.

Battle of Tennōji

The Battle of Tennōji (天王寺の戦い) refers to two battles fought near Tennōji in Osaka: Oda Nobunaga's 1576 victory and the 1615 battle that destroyed the Toyotomi clan.

Battle of Tepeaca

The Battle of Tepeaca was a military engagement fought in August 1520, in which Hernán Cortés's Spanish and Tlaxcaltec force defeated the Mexica and Tepeaca defenders of Tepeaca after the Noche Triste.

Battle of Terek River (1262)

The Battle of Terek River was a defeat of the Ilkhanate army by Berke's Golden Horde on the frozen Terek in January 1263, opening the Berke–Hulagu war.

Battle of Ternate (1606)

The Battle of Ternate (1606) was the Spanish conquest of Ternate in the Maluku Islands led by Governor Pedro Bravo de Acuña, beginning nearly six decades of Spanish rule.

Battle of Tessalit

The Battle of Tessalit was the fighting for Tessalit, a garrison town in Mali's Kidal region, most notably the 2012 siege that expelled the Malian army.

Battle of Tétouan

The Battle of Tétouan was a victory on 4 February 1860 by a Spanish army under General Leopoldo O'Donnell over a Moroccan army, during the Hispano-Moroccan War of 1859 to 1860.

Battle of Tewkesbury

Battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471, Gloucestershire: Yorkist Edward IV crushed the Lancastrian army of Queen Margaret and Somerset, killing Prince Edward, heir of Henry VI, ending the second phase of the Wars of the Roses.

Battle of the Admin Box

The Battle of the Admin Box, or Battle of Ngakyedauk, was a February 1944 battle in Arakan, Burma, where British Indian troops first defeated a Japanese offensive.

Battle of the Aegates Islands

The Battle of the Aegates Islands, also called the Battle of Aegusa, was a naval battle off western Sicily in 241 BC that ended the First Punic War.

Battle of the Alamo

Battle of the Alamo: thirteen-day siege (February 23 to March 6, 1836) of the former mission San Antonio de Valero, San Antonio, Texas, during the Texas Revolution; Santa Anna's Mexican army stormed the garrison under Travis and Bowie, killing all defenders.

Battle of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas

The siege of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas was the storming of Guanajuato's public granary by insurgents under Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende on 28 September 1810, early in the Mexican War of Independence.

Battle of the Allia

Battle of the Allia (dies Alliensis, 18 July 390 BCE; 387/386 Greek reckoning): defeat of a Roman army by Senones under Brennus near the Tiber, leading to the Gallic sack of Rome and a 1,000-pound gold ransom.

Battle of the Alma

The Battle of the Alma (Сражение на Альме) was a Crimean War battle on 20 September 1854, where British, French, and Turkish forces defeated the Russians.

Battle of the Alta River

The Battle of the Alta River is the name of two battles on the Alta River near Pereiaslav in Kievan Rus', fought in 1019 and 1068.

Battle of the Argenta Gap

The Battle of the Argenta Gap was an April 1945 Allied victory in which the British Eighth Army broke through German defenses onto the Po plains in Italy.

Battle of the Argeș

The Battle of the Argeș, also called the Battle for Bucharest, was Romania's last major defeat of the 1916 campaign, fought in late 1916 near Bucharest.

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of the Atlantic: the 1939-1945 WWII campaign in which German U-boats tried to sever Britain's Atlantic supply lifeline and Allied convoys, escorts, aircraft, radar, HF/DF, and Enigma codebreaking defeated them, with the May 1943 'Black May' withdrawal as the turning point.