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Battle of Antonov Airport
Battle of Antonov Airport (Battle of Hostomel Airport), 24-25 February 2022: Russian VDV helicopter assault on the Hostomel cargo airfield near Kyiv failed to open an air bridge; Il-76s turned back, the An-225 Mriya was destroyed, and Russians withdrew in April.
Battle of Añyraqai
The Battle of Añyraqai (Аңырақай шайқасы) was the decisive battle of the Kazakh-Dzungar wars, where a united Kazakh army routed the Dzungars near Lake Balkhash around 1730.
Battle of Anzio
Battle of Anzio (Operation Shingle), Allied amphibious landing by U.S. VI Corps at Anzio-Nettuno, 30 miles south of Rome, on 22 January 1944; surprise landing became a four-month besieged beachhead until the May breakout and capture of Rome in June 1944.
Battle of Ấp Bắc
The Battle of Ấp Bắc (Trận Ấp Bắc) was a 1963 Vietnam War battle in which Viet Cong forces defeated a larger South Vietnamese force near Saigon.
Battle of Appomattox Court House
Final Civil War battle of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Virginia; Lee surrendered to Grant in the McLean House after his breakout failed against Sheridan's cavalry and Federal infantry.
Battle of Aqaba (معركة العقبة)
Battle of Aqaba (معركة العقبة), 6 July 1917: Arab Revolt forces under Auda abu Tayi, with T. E. Lawrence, took the Ottoman Red Sea port by a 600-mile desert approach, giving the Arab Northern Army a supply base for Allenby's Palestine campaign.
Battle of Araure
The Battle of Araure (Spanish: Batalla de Araure) was a battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence, won by Simón Bolívar over royalist forces on December 5, 1813.
Battle of Arcadiopolis (1194)
The Battle of Arcadiopolis was a 1194 battle in Thrace where Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria destroyed a Byzantine army under Alexios Gidos and Basil Vatatzes.
Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube
The Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube was a two-day engagement fought March 20-21, 1814, between Napoleon and Prince Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg, marking his last major battle of the 1814 campaign.
Battle of Argaon
The Battle of Argaon (आडगाव), also written Argaum, was fought on 29 November 1803, when Arthur Wellesley routed the Maratha armies of Raghuji II Bhonsle and Daulat Rao Scindia.
Battle of Arica
Battle of Arica (Asalto y Toma del Morro de Arica), 7 June 1880, War of the Pacific action in which Colonel Pedro Lagos's Chilean infantry took the Morro de Arica from Francisco Bolognesi's Peruvian garrison in about 55 minutes; Bolognesi's refusal of surrender and death, about 1,500 Peruvian dead, and the 1883 and 1929 treaties distinguish it from other engagements named for Arica.
Battle of Arnhem
The Battle of Arnhem was a September 1944 battle in which the British 1st Airborne Division failed to hold the Arnhem road bridge during Operation Market Garden.
Battle of Aror
The Battle of Aror (جنگ اروڑ) was fought around 712 CE near Aror, capital of Sindh, ending in an Arab victory and the death of Raja Dahir.
Battle of Arpad (743 BC)
The Battle of Arpad was a 743 BC battle in which Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria crushed Sarduri II of Urartu and his Syrian allies, ending Urartu's influence in Syria.
Battle of Arpad (754 BC)
The Battle of Arpad in 754 BC was a defeat of Assyria's Aššur-nerari V by Urartu's Sarduri II, fought in the territory of Arpad in northern Syria.
Battle of Arrapha
The Battle of Arrapha was a battle fought in 616 BC at Madanu near modern Kirkuk, Iraq, where Nabopolassar of Babylon defeated the Assyrian army and captured its chariots and horses.
Battle of Arras (1917)
Battle of Arras (1917): British-led Western Front offensive, 9 April–16 May 1917, a diversion for the Nivelle offensive; included Canada's capture of Vimy Ridge; over 150,000 British and Canadian and about 100,000 German casualties, no breakthrough.
Battle of Arroyo Grande
The Battle of Arroyo Grande was a decisive battle of the Platine civil wars, fought on 6 December 1842 in Entre Ríos, Argentina, where Manuel Oribe crushed Fructuoso Rivera.
Battle of Arsuf
Battle of Arsuf, 7 September 1191, Third Crusade field battle where Richard I of England defeated Saladin's larger Ayyubid army during the coastal march from Acre to Jaffa; a Hospitaller charge triggered the victory, but Saladin's army survived and Jerusalem was never taken.
Battle of Artemisium
Battle of Artemisium (Ἀρτεμίσιον), 480 BCE: three-day naval battle off northern Euboea where the 271-ship Greek fleet under Eurybiades and Themistocles fought Xerxes's Persian fleet during Thermopylae, then retreated to Salamis.
Battle of Arzashkun
The Battle of Arzashkun was a battle of about 856 BC in which Shalmaneser III of Assyria captured and destroyed Arzashku, the royal city of Urartu's ruler Arame.
Battle of Ash Hollow
The Battle of Ash Hollow, also called the Battle of Blue Water Creek, was an 1855 attack in which US troops under William S. Harney destroyed a Brule Sioux village in Nebraska.
Battle of Ashikaga
Battle of Ashikaga (足利の戦い) is a name for fighting during the collapse of the Kenmu Restoration, when Nitta Yoshisada's forces loyal to Emperor Go-Daigo fought Ashikaga Takauji's army.
Battle of Aslanduz
The Battle of Aslanduz (آصلاندوز) was a surprise Russian night attack in October 1812 that routed Abbas Mirza's much larger Persian army on the Aras river.
Battle of Aspern–Essling
Battle of Aspern-Essling, also called the Battle of Aspern, 21-22 May 1809 Danube crossing near Vienna where Archduke Charles's Austrians repelled Napoleon, his first personal battlefield defeat; Marshal Lannes was mortally wounded, and Napoleon won at Wagram six weeks later.
Battle of Aspindza
The Battle of Aspindza (Georgian: ასპინძის ბრძოლა) was fought on 20 April 1770 near Aspindza, southern Georgia, where King Erekle II routed a combined Ottoman and Lezgin force.
Battle of Assaye
Battle of Assaye, 23 September 1803, Second Anglo-Maratha War: Arthur Wellesley (later Duke of Wellington) defeated a much larger Maratha army under Scindia and the Raja of Berar in the Deccan, losing about a third of his force.
Battle of Atbara
The Battle of Atbara (معركة عطبرة) was fought on 8 April 1898 in Sudan, where an Anglo-Egyptian army under Kitchener destroyed a Mahdist army and captured the Emir Mahmud.
Battle of Athens (1946)
Battle of Athens (1946), or McMinn County War: August 1-2, 1946 armed confrontation in Athens, Tennessee, where WWII veterans of the GI Non-Partisan League besieged the county jail to seize ballot boxes from Sheriff Pat Mansfield's deputies and defeated the Cantrell-Crump machine, winning the election.
Battle of Atlanta
Battle of Atlanta (July 22, 1864): Civil War engagement in which John Bell Hood's Confederates attacked Sherman's Union army southeast of Atlanta and were repulsed; McPherson was killed, casualties totaled about 12,140, and Atlanta fell September 1–2.