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Second Battle of Fort Wagner
Second Battle of Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863, Morris Island, Charleston Harbor: failed Union assault led by the 54th Massachusetts; Shaw killed, 1,515 Union casualties, fort taken by siege two months later.
Second Battle of Homs
The Second Battle of Homs was fought on 29 October 1281 north of Homs, Syria, where Sultan Qalawun's Mamluk army defeated a full-scale Mongol Ilkhanate invasion under Abaqa.
Second Battle of Jijiga
The Second Battle of Jijiga was a March 1978 battle in which Ethiopian, Cuban, and Soviet-backed forces recaptured Jijiga from Somalia, deciding the Ogaden War.
Second Battle of Kharkov
The Second Battle of Kharkov was a failed Soviet offensive launched in May 1942 during World War II, ending when German counterattacks encircled the attacking forces.
Second Battle of Panipat
Second Battle of Panipat (5 November 1556): Hemu, Hindu king of Delhi, defeated by Akbar's forces led by regent Bairam Khan; Hemu hit in the eye by an arrow, captured and beheaded; victory began Mughal rule under Akbar.
Second Battle of Rivas
The Second Battle of Rivas was fought on 11 April 1856 in Rivas, Nicaragua, between Costa Rican forces under President Mora and William Walker's filibusters.
Second Battle of Seoul
The Second Battle of Seoul was the September 1950 urban battle in which UN and South Korean forces recaptured Seoul from North Korea, completing the Inchon landing's objective.
Second Battle of Tarain
Second Battle of Tarain (1192), also called Second Battle of Taraori, fought at Taraori, Haryana: Muhammad Ghori's Ghurid army defeated and killed Prithviraja III, ending Rajput rule in Delhi and founding the path to the Delhi Sultanate.
Second Battle of the Marne
Second Battle of the Marne (15 July–6 August 1918), also Marneschutz-Reims/Friedensturm: Germany's final Spring Offensive drive toward Paris, halted and then defeated by the 18 July Allied counterattack under Foch, ending German offensive capability on the Western Front.
Second Battle of the Naktong Bulge
The Second Battle of the Naktong Bulge was a September 1950 Korean War battle in which North Korean forces made their last major effort to break the Pusan Perimeter and were defeated.
Second Battle of Ypres
Second Battle of Ypres (22 April–25 May 1915), German offensive in the Ypres Salient featuring the first mass chlorine gas attack; 1st Canadian Division's first major battle, about 6,000 Canadian casualties.
Second Battle of Zurich
Second Battle of Zurich (Zweite Schlacht bei Zürich), 25–26 September 1799: Masséna's French recaptured Zürich from Korsakov's Russians, defeating Hotze on the Linth, ruining the Second Coalition's Swiss plan and forcing Suvorov's alpine retreat.
Second Boer War
The Second Boer War, also the South African War or Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), was fought between Britain and the Transvaal and Orange Free State republics, ending with the Treaty of Vereeniging after sieges, guerrilla warfare, and British concentration camps.
Second Chechen War
The Second Chechen War (1999–2009), also called the Second Russo-Chechen War, began with the August 1999 Dagestan incursion and September apartment bombings, ended with Russian-backed Chechenization under the Kadyrovs and the 2009 end of counterterrorist operations.
Second Congo War
Second Congo War (1998–2003), also called Africa's World War: Rwanda and Uganda invaded the DRC in August 1998; Zimbabwe, Angola, and Namibia defended Kabila; deadliest war since WWII, about 5.4 million deaths.
Second Crusade
The Second Crusade (1145–1149), also called the crusade of Quantum praedecessores, was preached by Bernard of Clairvaux after Edessa fell to Zengi; led by Louis VII and Conrad III, it failed at Damascus in 1148 but captured Lisbon.
Second Federal Republic of Mexico
The Second Federal Republic of Mexico, also known as the Second Mexican Republic, restored federalism in 1847 and was consolidated by the Constitution of 1857 under Benito Juárez.
Second French intervention in Mexico
Second French intervention in Mexico (1861–1867), also called the Second Franco-Mexican War: Napoleon III's invasion that installed Maximilian of Habsburg as emperor, defeated by Juárez's republic in 1867.
Second Intifada (الانتفاضة الثانية)
The Second Intifada, also called the al-Aqsa Intifada, was a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation that began in September 2000 after Ariel Sharon's Temple Mount visit and ended in 2005.
Second Ivorian Civil War
The Second Ivorian Civil War was the 2010–2011 conflict in Côte d'Ivoire after Laurent Gbagbo refused to concede the disputed presidential election to Alassane Ouattara.
Second Liberian Civil War
The Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003) pitted Charles Taylor's government against the Guinea-backed LURD and Côte d'Ivoire-based MODEL rebels, ending with the August 2003 Accra Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Taylor's exile to Nigeria, and UNMIL peacekeepers.
Second Maroon War
The Second Maroon War was an armed conflict in Jamaica from 1795 to 1796 between the British colonial government and the Trelawny Town Maroons, who were defeated and deported.
Second Mexican Empire
Second Mexican Empire (Segundo Imperio Mexicano), 1864-1867: Habsburg monarchy under Maximilian I installed by Napoleon III's French intervention, collapsed with the Querétaro defeat and Maximilian's 1867 execution.
Second Mithridatic War
Second Mithridatic War (83–81 BC), also dated 83–82, a short Roman-Pontic conflict provoked by governor Lucius Licinius Murena's raids into Pontus; Mithridates VI defeated him before Sulla ordered withdrawal.
Second Mongol invasion of Hungary
Second Mongol invasion of Hungary (1285), the largest Mongol campaign against the kingdom after 1241–1242, part of later thirteenth-century raids; Hungary had since rebuilt with stone castles under Béla IV.
Second Nagorno-Karabakh War
The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War (Six-Week War, 44-day war) was the September 27 to November 10, 2020 war in which Azerbaijan, using Turkish and Israeli drones, defeated Armenia and Artsakh and regained territory under a Russia-brokered ceasefire.
Second Occupation of Cuba
The Second Occupation of Cuba (1906–1909) was the second period of United States military government on the island, begun after President Tomás Estrada Palma resigned during an armed revolt.
Second Opium War
Second Opium War (第二次鸦片战争), also Arrow War or Second Anglo-Chinese War: the 1856–1860 war in which Britain and France forced Qing China to legalize opium, open treaty ports, and cede Kowloon via the Treaties of Tianjin and the Convention of Peking.
Second Philippine Republic
The Second Philippine Republic (1943–1945), the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic under President José P. Laurel, governed by the 1943 Constitution and the sole party KALIBAPI, inaugurated October 1943 and terminated August 17, 1945.
Second Samoan Civil War
The Second Samoan Civil War (1898–1899) was fought between rival Samoan claimants to the kingship backed by Germany and by Britain and the United States.