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First Battle of Naktong Bulge
The First Battle of Naktong Bulge was a Korean War battle fought August 5 to 19, 1950, in which American forces repelled a North Korean crossing of the Naktong River.
First Battle of Panipat
The First Battle of Panipat was fought near Panipat, in present-day Haryana, on 21 April 1526, where Babur defeated Ibrahim Lodi, Sultan of Delhi, founding the Mughal Empire in India.
First Battle of Seoul
The First Battle of Seoul was the North Korean capture of the South Korean capital on 28 June 1950, three days after invading across the 38th parallel.
First Battle of Tarain
The First Battle of Tarain was an 1191 battle in Haryana, India, where Prithviraj Chauhan's Rajput forces defeated the invading army of Muhammad of Ghor.
First Battle of the Marne
First Battle of the Marne, or Miracle of the Marne (6-10 September 1914): Allied counteroffensive near Paris that halted the German advance, opened a 48-km gap between Kluck's and Bülow's armies, and ended the Schlieffen Plan.
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes, September 1914 East Prussian battle; German Eighth Army under Hindenburg drove Rennenkampf's Russian First Army out of Germany after Tannenberg, though without encircling it.
First Battle of Ueda
The First Battle of Ueda (第一次上田合戦), also called the Battle of Kangawa, was a 1585 battle in which Sanada Masayuki defeated a larger Tokugawa army at Ueda Castle in Shinano Province.
First Battle of Ypres
First Battle of Ypres, 19 October–22 November 1914, also called the Battles of Flanders by Germany: last German attempt to break through to the Channel ports; ended the Race to the Sea and nearly destroyed the original BEF.
First Boer War
First Boer War, also called the First Anglo-Boer War or Transvaal War: 1880–1881 war between Britain and Transvaal Boers after the 1877 annexation; Boer victory at Majuba Hill led to the Pretoria Convention of 1881.
First Carnatic War
First Carnatic War (1746–1748), Indian theatre of the War of the Austrian Succession: French under Dupleix and La Bourdonnais captured Madras, won the Battle of Adyar, survived Boscawen's siege of Pondicherry, and returned Madras at Aix-la-Chapelle.
First Central American Civil War
The First Central American Civil War (1826–1829) was the Federal Republic of Central America's first large-scale armed conflict, ended by Francisco Morazán's capture of the capital.
First Chechen War (Первая чеченская война)
First Chechen War (Первая чеченская война), 1994–1996 war between Russia and secessionist Chechnya under Dudayev; failed New Year assault on Grozny, partisan war, and the August 1996 Khasavyurt Accords granting de facto independence.
First Chimurenga
The First Chimurenga, also known as the Second Matabele War, was the Ndebele and Shona uprising of 1896–1897 against the British South Africa Company in what became Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.
First Congo War
The First Congo War, also called Africa's First World War, was a seven-month conflict from 1996 to 1997 in which Laurent-Désiré Kabila's AFDL, backed by Rwanda and others, overthrew Mobutu Sese Seko.
First Czechoslovak Republic
The First Czechoslovak Republic (První československá republika) was a parliamentary democracy lasting from 1918 to 1938, formed when the Czech and Slovak territories of Austria-Hungary became independent.
First day on the Somme
First day on the Somme: 1 July 1916 opening day of the Somme offensive (Bataille de la Somme) near the Somme river, France. 14 British divisions attacked at 7:30am; 57,470 British casualties including 19,240 killed, the deadliest day in British military history.
First Indochina War
First Indochina War (1946–1954), the French War to the Vietnamese: France and the French Union against Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh. Ended with the Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu (7 May 1954) and the Geneva Accords dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
First Intifada (الانتفاضة الأولى)
First Intifada (الانتفاضة الأولى), Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, 9 December 1987 to 13 September 1993, begun in Gaza's Jabaliya camp; largely unarmed civil disobedience ended by the Oslo Mutual Recognition Memo.
First Italo-Ethiopian War
First Italo-Ethiopian War (1895–96), also called the first Guerra d'Abissinia: Italy's attempt to enforce a protectorate claim from the Treaty of Wuchale, ended by Menelik II's victory at Adwa on 1 March 1896 and the Treaty of Addis Ababa recognizing Ethiopian independence.
First Ivorian Civil War
The First Ivorian Civil War was a conflict in Côte d'Ivoire from 2002 to 2007 that split the country between a rebel-held north and government south.
First Jewish–Roman War
The First Jewish–Roman War, or Great Revolt (66–73 CE), was the Judean uprising against Rome, caused partly by procurator Gessius Florus's abuses, crushed by Vespasian and Titus, ending in the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE and the fall of Masada.
First Liberian Civil War
First Liberian Civil War (1989-1997), also called the Liberian Civil War: Charles Taylor's NPFL uprising against Samuel Doe, ECOMOG intervention, factional fighting, 200,000+ deaths, ending with Taylor's 1997 election.
First Matabele War
The First Matabele War (October 1893 to January 1894) was a war of conquest in what is now Zimbabwe, in which Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Company destroyed King Lobengula's Ndebele Kingdom.
First Mongol invasion of Burma
The First Mongol invasion of Burma (1277–1287) was Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty campaign against the Pagan Empire under Narathihapate, triggered by tribute refusal and envoy executions, ending with Pagan's fall and Tai princes replacing Burmese rule.
First Nagorno-Karabakh War
First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988–1994), also called the Karabakh war: ethnic conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian-majority Nagorno-Karabakh oblast, ending in a 1994 Russian-brokered ceasefire with Armenian forces holding about 20 percent of Azerbaijan.
First Opium War (第一次鸦片战争)
First Opium War (第一次鸦片战争), or First Anglo-Chinese War: 1839–1842 conflict between Britain and Qing China triggered by Lin Zexu's destruction of over 20,000 chests of opium at Humen; ended by the Treaty of Nanjing, which ceded Hong Kong Island and opened five treaty ports.
First Peloponnesian War
First Peloponnesian War (460–446 BC), also called Sparta's First Attic War: Athenian conflicts with the Peloponnesian powers ending in the Thirty Years' Peace; turning points Aegina, Tanagra, Oenophyta, Coronea.
First Perso-Turkic War
The First Perso-Turkic War, fought in 588–589, saw Hephthalites backed by Turkic forces invade Sasanian Khorasan before Bahrām Čōbīn routed them and restored the Oxus frontier.
First Samori–French War
The First Samori–French War (1882–1887) was the first phase of armed conflict between France and the Wassoulou Empire of Samori Ture in the upper Niger region of West Africa.
First Seminole War
The First Seminole War (1817–1818) was an armed conflict in which US forces under Andrew Jackson invaded Spanish Florida to attack Seminole towns, helping bring about Spain's cession of Florida.