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Battle of Ulai River
The Battle of Ulai River, also called the Battle of Til-Tuba, was fought in 653 BC, when Ashurbanipal of Assyria defeated and beheaded the Elamite king Teumman.
Battle of Ulan Butung
The Battle of Ulan Butung (乌兰布通之战) was fought on 3 September 1690 between the Qing empire and Galdan Boshugtu Khan's Dzungar forces in Inner Mongolia, where the Qing broke his position but he escaped.
Battle of Ulm
Battle of Ulm: October 1805 capitulation of General Karl Mack's Austrian army, encircled by Napoleon's Grande Armée during the Ulm Campaign, War of the Third Coalition; victory without a pitched battle, opening the road to Vienna and Austerlitz.
Battle of Ulundi
The Battle of Ulundi (oNdini) of 4 July 1879 was the last major battle of the Anglo-Zulu War, where a Zulu army of about 20,000 was totally defeated.
Battle of Umachiri
The Battle of Umachiri was a battle fought on 11 March 1815 near Umachiri in present-day Puno, Peru, where royalists under Juan Ramírez Orozco defeated Mateo Pumacahua's rebel forces.
Battle of Uman
The Battle of Uman was a 1941 encirclement battle near Uman, Ukraine, where Axis forces destroyed the Soviet 6th and 12th Armies during the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
Battle of Umm Diwaykarat
The Battle of Umm Diwaykarat was the final battle of the Mahdist War, fought in Kordofan, Sudan, in November 1899, where the Khalifa was killed.
Battle of Unsan
The Battle of Unsan was a Korean War battle fought near Unsan, North Korea, from October 25 to November 4, 1950, when China's People's Volunteer Army surprised United Nations forces.
Battle of Urga
Battle of Urga: capture of Urga (Ulaanbaatar), Mongolia's capital, by Baron Ungern-Sternberg's Asiatic Cavalry Division from the Chinese garrison, 1-4 February 1921, restoring the Bogd Khan and leading to the Soviet occupation of July 1921.
Battle of Urica
The Battle of Urica (Batalla de Urica), fought on 5 December 1814 in what is now Anzoátegui state, was a royalist victory in the Venezuelan War of Independence.
Battle of Utica (203 BC)
The Battle of Utica in 203 BC was a night attack in which Scipio Africanus destroyed the fortified camps of Hasdrubal Gisco and Syphax near Utica.
Battle of Utica (Mercenary War)
The Battle of Utica, fought in early 240 BC during the Mercenary War, saw Hanno the Great's Carthaginian army drive rebels from their camp, then lose to their counterattack.
Battle of Vác
The Battle of Vác (Hungarian: váci csata) was fought on 27 June 1684 near Vác, Hungary, where Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, routed an Ottoman army marching against him.
Battle of Valea Albă
The Battle of Valea Albă, or Battle of Războieni, saw Stephen the Great's Moldavians defeated by Mehmed II's Ottomans on 26 July 1476 in Neamț County, Romania.
Battle of Valladolid (1813)
The Battle of Valladolid (1813) was the defeat of José María Morelos' insurgent army by royalists under Ciriaco de Llano and Agustín de Iturbide outside Valladolid, Mexico, in December 1813.
Battle of Valmy
Battle of Valmy (20 September 1792): French Revolutionary army under Dumouriez and Kellermann halted the Prussian invasion by Duke of Brunswick in an artillery duel, saving the Revolution and enabling the First French Republic.
Battle of Van Kiep
The Battle of Van Kiep (Trận Vạn Kiếp) was a 1285 battle in northern Vietnam where Tran Hung Dao's Dai Viet army repelled Kublai Khan's invading Yuan forces.
Battle of Varna
Battle of Varna (10 November 1444): decisive Ottoman victory of Murad II over the crusader army of Władysław III of Poland-Hungary and John Hunyadi near Varna, Bulgaria; the king's death ended the Crusade of Varna and the last major land crusade before 1453.
Battle of Vasai
The Battle of Vasai (वसई की लड़ाई) was the Maratha capture of the Portuguese fort town of Vasai (Bassein) in May 1739, led by Chimaji Appa, ending Portuguese rule there.
Battle of Vaslui
The Battle of Vaslui, also called the Battle of Podul Înalt, was a 1475 victory by Moldavia under Stephen the Great over an invading Ottoman army.
Battle of Vedrosha
The Battle of Vedrosha was a 1500 victory of Muscovy over Lithuania near Dorogobuzh, the first major battle of the Russo-Lithuanian war of 1500 to 1503.
Battle of Vegkop
The Battle of Vegkop, also spelled Vechtkop, was an October 1836 battle near Heilbron in which Voortrekkers held their wagon laager against an Ndebele attack.
Battle of Velbazhd
The Battle of Velbazhd, fought on 28 July 1330 near Velbazhd (modern Kyustendil, Bulgaria), ended in a Serbian victory in which Bulgarian Tsar Michael III Shishman was killed.
Battle of Vella Gulf
The Battle of Vella Gulf was a night naval battle in the Solomon Islands on 6–7 August 1943, where U.S. destroyers sank three Japanese destroyers undamaged.
Battle of Vella Lavella
The Battle of Vella Lavella was a 1943 campaign in the Solomon Islands where Allied forces seized the island, leapfrogging the Japanese stronghold of Kolombangara.
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun (21 February-18 December 1916), the longest battle of World War I, a German attrition offensive under Falkenhayn against the French fortress city; about 700,000 casualties, Forts Douaumont and Vaux lost and retaken, ending with both armies back on their February positions.
Battle of Vertières
The Battle of Vertières (Bataille de Vertières) was fought on 18 November 1803 near Cap-Français, where Dessalines defeated Rochambeau; Haiti declared independence on 1 January 1804.
Battle of Vescera
The Battle of Vescera, known in Arabic as the Battle of Tahouda, was a 683 battle in Algeria where the Berber leader Kusaila ambushed and killed the Arab governor Uqba ibn Nafi.
Battle of Vezekény
The Battle of Vezekény, also called the Battle of Veľké Vozokany, was fought on 26 August 1652 between Hungarian Habsburg forces and Ottoman raiders near Érsekújvár.
Battle of Victumulae
The Battle of Victumulae was a Carthaginian victory over Roman forces near Placentia in Cisalpine Gaul, fought in the winter after the Battle of the Trebia in 218 BC.