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Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is Amy Chua's 2011 Yale professor memoir on strict "tiger parenting" of daughters Sophia and Lulu; a 30-language bestseller that sparked abuse and effectiveness debates.

Battle in Berlin

Battle in Berlin (Schlacht um Berlin), April 16–May 2, 1945: the Red Army under Zhukov and Konev encircled and stormed the German capital, ending with Hitler's suicide, the Reichstag flag, and Germany's surrender.

Battle in the Bay of Matanzas

The Battle in the Bay of Matanzas (Batalla de la Bahía de Matanzas) was the Dutch capture of Spain's New Spain treasure fleet under Piet Heyn in Cuba in 1628.

Battle of 203 Hill

The Battle of 203 Hill (二〇三高地攻防戦) was fought in late 1904 at a 203-meter hill outside Port Arthur, captured by Japan's Third Army during the siege in the Russo-Japanese War.

Battle of 73 Easting

Battle of 73 Easting, February 26, 1991 Desert Storm tank battle: US 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment defeated Iraq's Republican Guard Tawakalna Division on a desert grid line, later reconstructed in SIMNET simulations.

Battle of Aachen

Battle of Aachen, World War II urban battle (13 September–21 October 1944) in which U.S. First Army took the first German city to fall to the Allies, after Hitler ordered it defended to the last man.

Battle of Abacaenum (393 BC)

The Battle of Abacaenum was a battle fought in 393 BC near Abacaenum, a Sicel city in north-eastern Sicily, where Dionysius I of Syracuse defeated Carthaginian forces under Mago.

Battle of Abaran

The Battle of Abaran, or Battle of Bash Abaran, was a May 1918 Armenian victory over Ottoman forces near Aparan, halting their advance on Yerevan.

Battle of Abensberg

The Battle of Abensberg was fought on 20 April 1809 near Abensberg in Bavaria, where Napoleon's Franco-German army defeated the Austrian left wing in the War of the Fifth Coalition.

Battle of Abeokuta

The Battle of Abeokuta was the unsuccessful 1851 assault by King Ghezo's Dahomey army of 12,000, including the Amazons, against the walled Egba city in southwestern Nigeria.

Battle of Abidjan (2002)

The Battle of Abidjan was the failed coup attempt of 19 September 2002 in Côte d'Ivoire's commercial capital, which escalated into civil war between north and south.

Battle of Abomey

The Battle of Abomey was the capture of Abomey, capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in present-day Benin, by a French column under Colonel Alfred-Amédée Dodds on 17 November 1892.

Battle of Abrolhos

The Battle of Abrolhos was a 1631 naval battle off Brazil between a Luso-Spanish fleet under António de Oquendo and a Dutch squadron, ending in a draw.

Battle of Abtao

Naval Battle of Abtao (7 February 1866): Spanish frigates Villa de Madrid and Blanca fought the allied Peruvian-Chilean squadron (Apurímac, Unión, América, Covadonga) under Manuel Villar in Chile's gulf of Ancud; a tactical allied victory.

Battle of Abu Hamed

The Battle of Abu Hamed, fought on 7 August 1897, saw a flying column of about 3,000 Anglo-Egyptian troops under Sir Archibald Hunter storm and capture the Mahdist-held town on the Nile in Sudan.

Battle of Abu Klea

The Battle of Abu Klea, or Battle of Abu Tulayh, was fought on 17 January 1885 in Sudan between a Mahdist army and a British desert column.

Battle of Accra

The Battle of Accra was the campaign in which the Akwamu state defeated the Ga kingdom of Accra, beginning in 1677 and completing its conquest by 1680 or 1681.

Battle of Aceh River

The Battle of Aceh River was a 1629 battle at Malacca in which Aceh's large armada attacked the Portuguese position but was defeated after reinforcements arrived from Goa.

Battle of Achelous (917)

The Battle of Achelous (Битка при Ахелой), also called the Battle of Anchialus, was fought on 20 August 917 near the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, where Tsar Simeon I crushed a Byzantine army.

Battle of Acosta Ñu

The Battle of Acosta Ñu, or Batalla de Acosta Ñu, was an 1869 battle of the War of the Triple Alliance in Paraguay, where child soldiers were massacred.

Battle of Actium (Ναυμαχία του Ακτίου)

Battle of Actium (Ναυμαχία του Ακτίου), naval battle of 2 September 31 BCE off the Ambracian Gulf where Octavian and Agrippa defeated Antony and Cleopatra, ending the Roman civil war and leading to the Principate of Augustus.

Battle of Aculco

The Battle of Aculco was the first defeat of Miguel Hidalgo's insurgents in the Mexican War of Independence, by Félix María Calleja on 7 November 1810.

Battle of Aden (2015)

Battle of Aden (2015), also called Operation Golden Arrow: March-July 2015 urban battle in which Houthi-Saleh forces invaded Aden and were expelled by the Yemeni resistance with UAE and Saudi-led coalition support, giving Hadi's government its base.

Battle of Aden (2018)

Battle of Aden (2018): January 2018 clashes in Yemen's interim capital between Hadi loyalists (Saudi-backed) and the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, whose Security Belt forces seized most of Aden in three days, killing about 40, before Saudi mediation forced a retreat.

Battle of Adrianople

Battle of Adrianople (Hadrianopolis), 9 August 378 CE: Gothic forces under Fritigern crushed the eastern Roman army of Emperor Valens near modern Edirne, Turkey, killing the emperor and wiping out two-thirds of the eastern field army.

Battle of Adwa

Battle of Adwa, fought March 1, 1896 near Adwa, northern Ethiopia: Emperor Menelik II's army defeated an Italian expeditionary force under Baratieri, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War, preserving Ethiopian independence, and inspiring Pan-Africanism.

Battle of Adyar

The Battle of Adyar was fought in 1746 near Madras, where about 1,000 French troops under Captain Louis Paradis defeated 10,000 of the Nawab of the Carnatic's soldiers.

Battle of Adys

The Battle of Adys was a Roman victory under Marcus Atilius Regulus over a Carthaginian army near Adys in Tunisia in 256 BC, during the First Punic War.

Battle of Afabet

The Battle of Afabet was a battle of the Eritrean War of Independence fought in March 1988, in which the EPLF destroyed the Ethiopian Army's Nadew Command.

Battle of Ager Falernus

The Battle of Ager Falernus was a blockade in late 217 BC, when Fabius Maximus trapped Hannibal in Campania and Hannibal escaped at night using burning oxen.