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Battles of Khalkhin Gol
Battles of Khalkhin Gol, also called the Nomonhan Incident (ノモンハン事件), an undeclared 1939 Soviet-Japanese-Mongolian border war on Mongolia's frontier, ending in a Soviet victory under Zhukov that pushed Japan toward the Pacific war.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, first armed engagements of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts; about 700 British regulars under Gage's orders marched to Concord, fought militia at Lexington Green and North Bridge, and retreated with 273 casualties.
Battles of Narvik
Battles of Narvik (Slaget om Narvik), April–June 1940: naval and land fighting after Germany's 9 April invasion of Norway. Ten German destroyers were destroyed in Ofotfjord on 10 and 13 April; Allied and Norwegian forces retook Narvik on 28 May before withdrawing.
Battles of Plataea and Mycale
The Battles of Plataea and Mycale (Πλαταιαί καὶ Μυκάλη) were twin Greek victories over Persia in 479 BC, reportedly on the same day, ending Xerxes' invasion of Greece.
Battles of Rzhev
Battles of Rzhev (Ржевская битва): series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht's Rzhev salient, 8 January 1942 to 31 March 1943, including Operation Mars; called the Rzhev Meat Grinder for Soviet losses of roughly 1.16 to 2.3 million.
Battles of Saratoga
Battles of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights), two Revolutionary War engagements of September 19 and October 7, 1777, where Gates's American army defeated Burgoyne, whose surrender on October 17 brought France into the war.
Battles of the Isonzo
Battles of the Isonzo (Soča Front): twelve World War I battles between Italy and Austria-Hungary along the Isonzo River, 23 June 1915 to 10 November 1917, ending with the German-Austrian breakthrough at Caporetto.
Battles of Yuhigok and Dadaepo
The Battles of Yuhigok and Dadaepo were 1592 engagements of the Japanese invasion of Korea near Busan, where commander Yun Heung-sin died defending Dadaejin fortress.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い)
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (仁義なき戦い, Jingi naki tatakai), aka The Yakuza Papers: Kinji Fukasaku's 1973–74 Toei five-film yakuza series starring Bunta Sugawara, based on Kozo Mino's prison memoirs of the Hiroshima gang wars, which ended the ninkyo eiga genre.
Battlesbury Camp
Battlesbury Camp is an Iron Age bivallate hillfort of 9.7 ha on Battlesbury Hill near Warminster, Wiltshire, a scheduled monument paired with Scratchbury, excavated by Maud Cunnington in 1922.
Battleship
A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship armed with major-caliber guns, the principal capital ship of the major navies until the last American ships retired in 1992.
Battleship (film)
Battleship is a 2012 American science-fiction action film directed by Peter Berg, in which alien invaders attack a US Navy fleet near Hawaii, starring Taylor Kitsch, Rihanna, and Liam Neeson.
Battleship (game)
Battleship (Salvo, Schiffe Versenken) is a two-player grid guessing game: hidden fleets, coordinate shots, hits and misses. Paper game circa WWI, Salvo 1931, Milton Bradley plastic pegboard 1967, over 100 million copies sold.
Battleship Cove
Battleship Cove is a non-profit naval museum and war memorial in Fall River, Massachusetts, founded in 1965 around the battleship USS Massachusetts, with five National Historic Landmark vessels including USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., USS Lionfish, and the only restored PT boat pair.
Battleship Potemkin
Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) is a 1925 Soviet silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein, dramatizing the 1905 mutiny of the battleship Potemkin's crew and the unrest in Odessa.
Battleship Row
Battleship Row: line of Ford Island mooring quays at Pearl Harbor where seven US battleships berthed on 7 December 1941 and bore the attack's heaviest losses; Arizona and Oklahoma never returned to service.
Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson in 1978 and reimagined by Ronald D. Moore in 2003-2009, following Cylon-attack survivors aboard the Galactica searching for Earth; four seasons, 74 episodes, Emmy-winning.
Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)
Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), also called Classic Battlestar Galactica, is Glen A. Larson's American ABC science fiction series about Cylons pursuing 50,000 human survivors toward Earth; it cost $1 million per episode and was cancelled after 24 episodes.
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Ronald D. Moore's reimagining of Glen A. Larson's 1978 series: four seasons, 76 episodes, human-form Cylons, post-9/11 allegory, Hugo and Peabody awards, finale March 20, 2009.
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries)
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries), aka Battlestar Galactica: The Mini Series, is the 2003 two-part Sci Fi Channel pilot by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick rebooting the 1978 series; Cylons destroy the Twelve Colonies and the Galactica leads under 50,000 survivors toward Earth, averaging nearly 4.2 million viewers.
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (also Blood and Chrome) is a 2012-2013 prequel following young William Adama during the first Cylon War, released as ten Machinima webisodes, a Syfy TV film, and an unrated Blu-ray/DVD edition.
Battlestar Galactica: Razor
Battlestar Galactica: Razor, also called Razor, is a 2007 Battlestar Galactica TV film about the battlestar Pegasus, Kendra Shaw, and Admiral Helena Cain, aired 24 November 2007 between seasons 3 and 4.
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy
Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy is a ten-part 2008-2009 Sci Fi Channel webisode series set during the season 4 mid-season break, following Lt. Felix Gaeta stranded on a Raptor where passengers die mysteriously; notable for revealing Gaeta's bisexuality and for its absence from most home-video releases.
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance
Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance is a 2006 series of ten webisodes on SCIFI.com bridging seasons 2 and 3 of the re-imagined series, covering the New Caprica resistance and Duck's and Jammer's divergent paths.
BattleTech
BattleTech: sci-fi wargaming franchise created by FASA in 1984 (originally BattleDroids), featuring BattleMech combat on hex maps; Classic and Alpha Strike rulesets, MechWarrior RPG, novels, and the 2018 Harebrained Schemes video game.
BattleTech (video game)
BattleTech (2018) is a turn-based tactical strategy game by Harebrained Schemes, published by Paradox Interactive, funded on Kickstarter with $2,785,537 from 41,733 backers; players run a mercenary 'Mech company in the 3025 Succession Wars.
Battletoads
Battletoads: Rare's brutally difficult beat 'em up franchise (NES, June 1991) starring toads Rash, Zitz, and Pimple, a TMNT rival known for the Turbo Tunnel, five 1990s games, and a 2020 Dlala Studios reboot.
Battlezone (1998 video game)
Battlezone (1998), Activision's PC/Mac FPS-RTS hybrid, alternate-history space race over alien bio-metal, 25-mission campaign, expansions Battlegrounds and The Red Odyssey, remastered as Battlezone 98 Redux in 2016.
Battman Energy
Battman Energy is a Danish developer and operator of battery energy storage systems, founded in Aarhus in 2022, with a committed portfolio of 350 MW and 1,040 MWh.
Batu
Batu is the stage name of Omar McCutcheon, a Bristol-based DJ, producer, and founder of the Timedance label, active in UK bass and techno since 2013.