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Battle of the Delta
The Battle of the Delta, or Battle of the Nile Delta, was a naval battle in which Ramesses III defeated the Sea Peoples around 1176 BC.
Battle of the Denmark Strait
The Battle of the Denmark Strait (24 May 1941): Bismarck and Prinz Eugen sank HMS Hood, killing 1,415 men, and damaged HMS Prince of Wales during Operation Rheinübung; Bismarck was sunk three days later.
Battle of the Dnieper
The Battle of the Dnieper (Битва за Днепр) was a Red Army offensive from August to December 1943 that forced the Dnieper and liberated Kiev.
Battle of the Downs
Battle of the Downs (De Slag bij Duins), 21 October 1639: Maarten Tromp's Dutch fleet destroyed Antonio de Oquendo's Spanish Armada de Flandes in the neutral English Downs anchorage, ending Spanish naval dominance in northern European waters.
Battle of the Drina
The Battle of the Drina (Serbian: Битка на Дрини) was a series of battles between Serbian and Austro-Hungarian armies along the Drina and Sava rivers in 1914.
Battle of the Dukla Pass
The Battle of the Dukla Pass (Karpatsko-duklianska operácia) was a 1944 Carpathian offensive by the Soviet Red Army and Czechoslovak corps to aid the Slovak National Uprising.
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Battle of the Eastern Solomons (Second Battle of the Solomon Sea), 23–25 August 1942: third Pacific War carrier battle, during Operation Ka; Saratoga and Enterprise sank the light carrier Ryujo, damaged Enterprise, and turned back Japanese Guadalcanal reinforcements.
Battle of the Ebro
Battle of the Ebro (Batalla del Ebro, Batalla de l'Ebre), 25 July to 16 November 1938: longest, largest battle of the Spanish Civil War; Republican crossing under Modesto ended in defeat and Catalonia's fall.
Battle of the Falkland Islands
Battle of the Falkland Islands (8 December 1914): Royal Navy victory in which Vice Admiral Sturdee's battlecruisers Invincible and Inflexible destroyed von Spee's German East Asia Squadron off Port Stanley, avenging Coronel and ending German surface power in the South Atlantic.
Battle of the Frontiers
Battle of the Frontiers, August 1914, opening WWI battles along the French, Belgian, and German borders; German armies defeated French Plan XVII offensives and the BEF at Lorraine, the Ardennes, Charleroi, and Mons, clearing the way toward Paris.
Battle of the Fuwa Pass
The Battle of the Fuwa Pass was the 672 blockade of the Fuwa road in Mino Province by Prince Ōama, the opening move of the Jinshin War.
Battle of the Granicus
Battle of the Granicus, 334 BCE, on the Granicus River (Biga Çayı): Alexander the Great's first victory over a Persian army; satrapal cavalry held the riverbank, fled, and the Greek mercenaries behind them were annihilated.
Battle of the Great Plains
The Battle of the Great Plains, also called the Battle of the Campi Magni, was fought in 203 BC in Tunisia, where Scipio Africanus defeated Hasdrubal Gisco and Syphax.
Battle of the Han River
The Battle of the Han River was a six-day South Korean delaying action, fought June 28 to July 3, 1950, after the fall of Seoul in the Korean War.
Battle of the Heligoland Bight (1939)
The Battle of the Heligoland Bight was an 18 December 1939 air battle in which Luftwaffe fighters destroyed 12 of 22 RAF Wellington bombers over the German Bight.
Battle of the Himera River (311 BC)
The Battle of the Himera River (311 BC) was a Carthaginian victory over Agathocles of Syracuse in southern Sicily, fought on the modern Salso river.
Battle of the Hydaspes
Battle of the Hydaspes (Jhelum), also Vitasta, May 326 BC: Alexander the Great's last pitched battle, defeating Porus (Puru) in the monsoon Punjab; famous for its stealth river crossing, war-elephant countermeasures, and divergent ancient casualty figures.
Battle of the Imjin River (임진강 전투)
Battle of the Imjin River (임진강 전투) names two battles at Korea's Imjin River: the 1592 Joseon river-defense defeat early in the Imjin War, and the 22–25 April 1951 Korean War battle where the British 29th Brigade, including the Glosters, held the Chinese Spring Offensive.
Battle of the Indus
The Battle of the Indus River was fought in November 1221, when Genghis Khan crushed Jalal al-Din Mingburnu on the bank of the Indus in what is now Pakistan.
Battle of the Java Sea
Battle of the Java Sea (27 February 1942): ABDA fleet under Admiral Karel Doorman defeated by Takeo Takagi's force; five Allied ships lost, Java invaded next day; Houston and Perth lost in Sunda Strait.
Battle of the Jiu
The Battle of the Jiu was a series of engagements fought in October and November 1916 on the Jiu River in Romania, ending in a Central Powers breakthrough.
Battle of the Kalka River (Битва на реке Калке)
Battle of the Kalka River (Битва на реке Калке), 31 May 1223: Jebe and Subutai's Mongol detachment destroyed a Rus'-Polovtsian coalition after a nine-day feigned retreat, then raided to Kiev; conquest of Rus' was postponed until the 1230s.
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
A five-month Second World War campaign on the Eastern Front, from December 1941 to May 1942, in which Soviet landings on the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea ended in German victory.
Battle of the Komandorski Islands
Battle of the Komandorski Islands, also called the Battle off Attu, a 26 March 1943 daylight surface naval battle in the Bering Sea where an outnumbered US cruiser-destroyer force under McMorris turned back Hosogaya's convoy, ending Japanese surface resupply of Attu and Kiska.
Battle of the Kondurcha River
The Battle of the Kondurcha River, also called the Battle of Kunduzcha, was Timur's defeat of Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde on 18 June 1391.
Battle of the Lipari Islands
The Battle of the Lipari Islands, also called the Battle of Lipara, was a small Carthaginian naval victory over Rome in 260 BC during the First Punic War.
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Battle of the Greasy Grass or Custer's Last Stand: June 25-26, 1876 defeat of Custer's 7th Cavalry by Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces in Montana, killing Custer and 268 men.
Battle of the Lomba River
The Battle of the Lomba River was fought in southeastern Angola on 3 October 1987, when a South African force destroyed most of an Angolan brigade.
Battle of the Mareth Line
The Battle of the Mareth Line (20–26 March 1943) was a major North African battle where the British Eighth Army challenged the fortifications held by the Italo-German 1st Army.
Battle of the Maritsa
The Battle of the Maritsa, also known as the Battle of Maritsa, was a 1371 Ottoman night-attack victory that killed Serbian commanders Vukašin and Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević.