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Battle of Tours

The Battle of Tours, also called the Battle of Poitiers, was a 732/3 battle in which Charles Martel's Franks defeated Umayyad forces under Abdul Rahman Al-Ghafiqi.

Battle of Towton

Battle of Towton, fought Palm Sunday 29 March 1461 in Yorkshire, was the largest and bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses, where Edward IV defeated a larger Lancastrian army and secured the throne from Henry VI.

Battle of Trafalgar

Battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 naval battle off Cape Trafalgar, Spain, where Nelson's 27 British ships defeated Villeneuve's 33 French and Spanish ships, capturing 17; Nelson was killed.

Battle of Transylvania

Battle of Transylvania (August–October 1916): Romania's opening WWI invasion of Austro-Hungarian Transylvania under Plan Z. Initial advances took Brașov and Făgăraș before Falkenhayn's 9th Army drove the Romanians back over the Carpathians by 6 October 1916.

Battle of Trautenau

The Battle of Trautenau, fought on 27 June 1866 near today's Trutnov in the Czech Republic, was an Austrian victory over the Prussian I Corps in the Austro-Prussian War.

Battle of Travnik (1993)

Battle of Travnik (1993): June 1993 Croat-Bosniak war fight in which ABiH forces, including the 3rd Corps with mujahideen, drove the HVO from Travnik, central Bosnia, expelling the Croat population; hundreds died and 7,000 Croats fled to Serb-held Vlasic.

Battle of Trenčín

The Battle of Trenčín, also called the Battle of Hámre, was the largest battle of Rákóczi's War of Independence, fought on 3 August 1708 near Trenčín in present-day Slovakia.

Battle of Trenton

Battle of Trenton, December 26, 1776 Revolutionary War engagement in Trenton, New Jersey, where Washington's Continental Army, after crossing the icy Delaware on Christmas night, surprised and defeated a Hessian garrison of about 1,500 under Colonel Johann Rall, reviving the American cause.

Battle of Triangle Hill

The Battle of Triangle Hill (Chinese: Shangganling campaign; Korean: Battle of Sniper Ridge) was a 43-day Korean War battle in 1952 in which Chinese forces held off United Nations attacks.

Battle of Trieste

The Battle of Trieste was the capture of Trieste by the Yugoslav Fourth Army in early May 1945, in the closing phase of World War II.

Battle of Tripoli (2011)

The Battle of Tripoli (2011) pitted the revolutionary forces of the National Transitional Council against Muammar Gaddafi's regime for control of the Libyan capital in August 2011.

Battle of Tryavna

The Battle of Tryavna (Битка при Трявна) was a 1190 ambush in the Tryavna Pass, Balkan Mountains, where Tsar Ivan Asen I's Bulgarians routed Byzantine emperor Isaac II Angelos's army.

Battle of Tsushima

Battle of Tsushima (日本海海戦), 27–28 May 1905: the Russian Second Pacific Squadron under Rozhestvensky was annihilated by Togo's Japanese Combined Fleet in the Tsushima Strait; 12,000+ Russians killed or captured versus fewer than 1,000 Japanese casualties, ending the Russo-Japanese War via the Treaty of Portsmouth.

Battle of Tucapel

The Battle of Tucapel was a defeat of Spanish forces under Pedro de Valdivia by Mapuche warriors led by the toqui Lautaro, fought in southern Chile in December 1553.

Battle of Tuchola Forest

The Battle of Tuchola Forest was a battle of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, in which German armored forces destroyed about a third of the Polish Army "Pomorze".

Battle of Tucumán

The Battle of Tucumán was a patriot victory won on 24 September 1812 near San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, where Manuel Belgrano's outnumbered Army of the North beat Pío Tristán's royalists.

Battle of Tugela Heights

The Battle of Tugela Heights was a February 1900 battle of the Second Boer War in which British forces under Redvers Buller defeated Boers led by Louis Botha.

Battle of Tughlaqabad

The Battle of Tughlaqabad (جنگ تغلق آباد) was fought at Tughlaqabad near Delhi in early October 1556 between Hemu and the Mughals, who fled and lost Delhi to Hemu.

Battle of Tukaroi

The Battle of Tukaroi, fought on 3 March 1575, was a Mughal victory over the Karrani Sultanate of Bengal under Daud Khan, won by generals Munim Khan and Raja Todar Mal.

Battle of Tunis (255 BC)

The Battle of Tunis (255 BC), also called the Battle of the Bagradas, was a battle in which Carthage, led by Xanthippus, destroyed the Roman army and captured Regulus.

Battle of Tunmen

The Battle of Tunmen (屯門海戰) was a 1521 naval clash in which a Ming fleet under Wang Hong drove a Portuguese fleet from Tunmen at the Pearl River mouth.

Battle of Turtucaia

The Battle of Turtucaia was a First World War battle fought in September 1916 around the Romanian bridgehead of Turtucaia, today Tutrakan in Bulgaria, on the Danube.

Battle of Tuyutí

Battle of Tuyutí (Batalha de Tuiuti), 24 May 1866: the largest field battle in South American history, fought in the War of the Triple Alliance when Paraguay's frontal assault on the allied camp at Tuyutí was repulsed.

Battle of Tyndaris

The Battle of Tyndaris was a naval battle of the First Punic War fought in 257 BC off Tyndaris on Sicily's north coast, where Rome's consul Gaius Atilius Regulus defeated a Carthaginian fleet.

Battle of Uedahara

The Battle of Uedahara (上田原の戦い) was a 1548 battle at Uedahara in Shinano Province, now Ueda, Nagano, where Murakami Yoshikiyo defeated Takeda Harunobu, killing two of his senior retainers.

Battle of Ueno

The Battle of Ueno (Ueno sensō) was a one-day battle of the Boshin War in 1868, in which the new Meiji government's army destroyed the Shōgitai at Kan'ei-ji in Edo.

Battle of Ugeumchi

The Battle of Ugeumchi (우금치 전투) was the decisive battle of the Second Donghak Peasant War, fought in November 1894 at a pass near Gongju, Korea.

Battle of Uhud (غزوة أُحُد)

Battle of Uhud (غزوة أُحُد), Ghazwat Uhud: battle of 23 March 625 AD (7 Shawwal 3 AH) near Mount Uhud north of Medina, where Quraysh forces under Abu Sufyan defeated Muhammad's army after Muslim archers abandoned Jabal al-Rumah.

Battle of Uji (1180)

The Battle of Uji (宇治川の戦い), fought in 1180, was the first battle of the Genpei War, ending in a Taira victory and the deaths of Minamoto no Yorimasa and Prince Mochihito.

Battle of Ula

The Battle of Ula, also called the Battle of Chashniki, was a 1564 Livonian War battle in present-day Belarus where a much smaller Lithuanian army destroyed a Muscovite corps.