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Battle of the Upper Baetis
The Battle of the Upper Baetis, or Battle of Castulo and Ilorca, was a Carthaginian victory in Spain in 211 BC that killed both Scipio brothers.
Battle of the Valerik River
The Battle of the Valerik River was a battle of the Caucasian War fought in July 1840 between Russian forces under General Galafeyev and Chechen fighters, described in Lermontov's poem "Valerik".
Battle of the Visayas
The Battle of the Visayas was a 1945 World War II campaign in which US forces and Filipino guerrillas drove Japanese troops from the central Philippines.
Battle of the Vorskla River
The Battle of the Vorskla River (Битва на реке Ворскле) was fought in 1399 between Vytautas of Lithuania and the Golden Horde, ending in a decisive Horde victory.
Battle of the Vozha River
The Battle of the Vozha River (Битва на реке Воже) was a battle on 11 August 1378 in which Dmitry of Moscow routed a Golden Horde force.
Battle of the Wilderness
The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–6, 1864, in Virginia, was the opening engagement of the Overland Campaign between Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee.
Battle of the Wood of Ephraim
The Battle of the Wood of Ephraim is the battle reported in 2 Samuel 18 in which David's forces defeated the army of his son Absalom, ending his revolt.
Battle of the Yalu River (1894)
The Battle of the Yalu River, also known as the Battle of the Yellow Sea, was an 1894 naval battle of the First Sino-Japanese War in which Japan defeated China.
Battle of the Yarmuk (معركة اليرموك)
Battle of the Yarmuk (معركة اليرموك), also Battle of Yarmouk or Jabiya-Yarmuk: six-day battle, 15-20 August 636, near the Yarmuk River where the Rashidun Caliphate under Khalid ibn al-Walid destroyed Heraclius' Byzantine field army, ending Byzantine rule in Syria.
Battle of the Zab
Battle of the Zab (معركة الزاب), 25 January 750, on the Great Zab in northern Iraq: Abd Allah ibn Ali's Abbasid army defeated Marwan II, ending the Umayyad caliphate and founding Abbasid rule; Marwan fled to Egypt and was killed 6 August 750.
Battle of Thermae
The Battle of Thermae was a First Punic War battle in 259 BC, in which a Carthaginian army under Hamilcar defeated Roman allied forces in Sicily.
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC): Greek allied force under Spartan king Leonidas held the narrow Hot Gates pass against Xerxes I's Persian army, was outflanked via the Anopaia path, and died in a last stand of 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans.
Battle of Thị Nại (1801)
The Battle of Thị Nại (1801), or trận thủy chiến đầm Thị Nại, was a naval battle at Quy Nhơn where Nguyễn Ánh's fleet destroyed the Tây Sơn navy.
Battle of Thymbra
Battle of Thymbra (547 BCE): decisive victory of Cyrus the Great of Persia over Croesus of Lydia on the plain before Sardis, won by camel cavalry against Lydian horse, ending Lydia and enabling the Achaemenid Empire.
Battle of Tierra Blanca
The Battle of Tierra Blanca was a battle of the Mexican Revolution in November 1913, where Francisco Villa's División del Norte defeated a federal force near Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
Battle of Tigharghar
The Battle of Tigharghar, also called the Battle of the Ifoghas, was a 2013 battle in northeastern Mali where French and Chadian forces dislodged AQIM fighters.
Battle of Tigranocerta
The Battle of Tigranocerta, fought in October 69 BC, saw the Roman general Lucullus defeat a much larger Armenian army under Tigranes II outside the city.
Battle of Timbuktu
The Battle of Timbuktu was the recapture of the desert city of Timbuktu in northern Mali by French and Malian forces on 28 January 2013, ending ten months of occupation.
Battle of Timor
The Battle of Timor was a World War II campaign on Timor from February 1942 to February 1943, where a small Australian force waged a guerrilla campaign against Japan.
Battle of Tinian
The Battle of Tinian was a 1944 Pacific amphibious assault in which US Marines captured Tinian from Japan, securing airfields later used for the atomic bomb missions.
Battle of Tinta
The Battle of Tinta was the defeat of Tupac Amaru II, also known as Jose Gabriel Condorcanqui, by Spanish royalists at Tinta, near Cusco, on 6 April 1781.
Battle of Tinzaouaten (2024)
Battle of Tinzaouaten (Tin Zaouatine), July 25-27, 2024: Tuareg CSP-DPA rebels and JNIM jihadists routed a Malian army and Wagner Group convoy near Mali's Algerian border, killing dozens; Wagner's first major Mali defeat.
Battle of Tippecanoe
Battle of Tippecanoe, also called the fight at Prophetstown: November 7, 1811 clash in Indiana where William Henry Harrison's roughly 1,000 men repelled Tenskwatawa's warriors, burned Prophetstown, and opened the War of 1812.
Battle of Tirad Pass
The Battle of Tirad Pass, or Labanan sa Pasong Tirad, was a 1899 Philippine–American War rearguard action in Ilocos Sur where Gregorio del Pilar died delaying Americans.
Battle of Toba–Fushimi
The Battle of Toba–Fushimi (鳥羽・伏見の戦い), fought January 27–30, 1868 near Kyoto, saw the new imperial government's army rout the larger Tokugawa shogunate force, opening the Boshin War.
Battle of Tolentino
Fought May 2–3, 1815, in the Papal States, the Battle of Tolentino saw Joachim Murat's Neapolitan army defeated by the Austrian forces of Baron Federico Bianchi.
Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski
The Battle of Tomaszów Lubelski (bitwa pod Tomaszowem Lubelskim) was a pair of failed Polish breakout attempts around Tomaszów Lubelski, Poland, between 17 and 27 September 1939.
Battle of Tondibi
The Battle of Tondibi (معركة تونديبي) was fought in 1591 near Gao, where Judar Pasha's Moroccan force defeated the Songhai empire of Askia Ishaq II.
Battle of Tong Pass
The Battle of Tong Pass (潼关之战) was fought in autumn 211 between Cao Cao and a 100,000-strong coalition of Guanzhong warlords led by Ma Chao and Han Sui.
Battle of Tonlé Sap (1181)
The Battle of Tonlé Sap (Khmer: សមរភូមិទន្លេសាប) was a naval battle fought on Cambodia's great lake in 1181, where Jayavarman VII's fleet defeated the Cham, ending their four-year occupation of Angkor.