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Battle of Atsukashiyama
The Battle of Atsukashiyama (阿津賀志山) was fought August 8 to 10, 1189, in present-day Kunimi, Fukushima Prefecture, where Fujiwara Yasuhira's defeat led to the fall of the Ōshū Fujiwara.
Battle of Attu
The Battle of Attu, Operation Landcrab, was a 19-day May 1943 battle in which US forces recaptured Attu Island in Alaska's Aleutians from a Japanese garrison.
Battle of Aussig
The Battle of Aussig was a Hussite victory over a Saxon relief army near Ústí nad Labem in Bohemia on 16 June 1426, during the Hussite Wars.
Battle of Austerlitz
Battle of Austerlitz (Battle of the Three Emperors), 2 December 1805: Napoleon's decisive defeat of a larger Austro-Russian army in Moravia, ending the War of the Third Coalition via the Treaty of Pressburg.
Battle of Avaí
The Battle of Avaí was a battle of the Paraguayan War fought in December 1868 between Brazil and the retreating Paraguayan army under General Bernardino Caballero.
Battle of Avarayr
The Battle of Avarayr (Armenian: Ավարայրի ճակատամարտ) was a battle fought in 451 on the Avarayr plain, where Armenian rebels under Vardan Mamikonian resisted Persia's forced conversion to Zoroastrianism.
Battle of Avdiivka (2017)
Battle of Avdiivka (2017): late-January 2017 DPR assault on the government-held industrial zone of Avdiivka, Ukraine, near Donetsk; 19 hours of fighting, 8 Ukrainian killed, and over 17,000 civilians left without heat, water or power.
Battle of Awa
The Battle of Awa, or Awa oki kaisen, was a naval battle of the Boshin War fought on 28 January 1868, the first between steam warships in Japan.
Battle of Awazu
The Battle of Awazu (粟津の戦い) was an 1184 battle of the Genpei War at Lake Biwa, Japan, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka was defeated and killed.
Battle of Ayacucho
The Battle of Ayacucho, also known as Battle Of Pampa De La Quinua, occurred in Peru on December 9, 1824. Antonio José de Sucre's army defeated the royalists, securing independence.
Battle of Ayohuma
The Battle of Ayohuma, fought in Upper Peru on 14 November 1813, ended in a decisive royalist victory over General Manuel Belgrano's Army of the North.
Battle of Azcapotzalco
The Battle of Azcapotzalco was a victory of the Army of the Three Guarantees over royalist forces on 19 August 1821, the last armed action of the Mexican War of Independence.
Battle of Azua
The Battle of Azua, or Battle of 19 March, was the first major battle in defense of Dominican independence, won by Pedro Santana on 19 March 1844.
Battle of Azukizaka
The Battle of Azukizaka (小豆坂の戦い) was a Sengoku-period battle fought in 1548 near Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, where Imagawa Yoshimoto's army defeated Oda Nobuhide and secured control of Mikawa Province.
Battle of Bab El Oued
The Battle of Bab El Oued was a March 1962 confrontation between the French Army and the OAS, the group fighting to keep Algeria French, in a working-class district of Algiers.
Battle of Badr (غزوة بدر)
Battle of Badr (غزوة بدر), first major Muslim victory, fought 17 Ramadan 2 AH (March 624 CE) at the wells of Badr; about 313 Muslims under Muhammad defeated a Quraysh force of over 1,000 led by Abu Jahl after an intercepted caravan under Abu Sufyan.
Battle of Bagdoura
The Battle of Bagdoura (Arabic: معركة بقدورة) was a 741 battle in which Berber rebels destroyed a 30,000-man Umayyad army sent to crush the Great Berber Revolt.
Battle of Baghdad (2003)
Battle of Baghdad (Fall of Baghdad), April 2003: U.S. 3rd Infantry Division and 1st Marine Division captured Iraq's capital via armored Thunder Runs, taking the city on 9 April 2003 during the Iraq invasion.
Battle of Baghuz Fawqani
Battle of Baghuz Fawqani (الباغوز), February 9 to March 23, 2019: the Islamic State's final stand in Syria, taken by the SDF with coalition air support, ending ISIS territorial rule and producing a contested March 18 civilian casualty strike.
Battle of Bagrevand
The Battle of Bagrevand, also known as the battle of Artzni, was a crushing Abbasid victory over rebelling Armenian princes on 25 April 775, north of Lake Van.
Battle of Baia
The Battle of Baia was a night battle fought on 14/15 December 1467 at Baia in Moldavia, where Stephen the Great defeated the invading army of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.
Battle of Baideng
The Battle of Baideng (白登之围), or Siege of Pingcheng, was a 200 BCE battle in which Han founder Liu Bang was surrounded for seven days by Xiongnu cavalry.
Battle of Baidoa
The Battle of Baidoa, fought from 20 December 2006 around Baidoa, Somalia, pitted Transitional Federal Government and Ethiopian forces against the advancing Islamic Courts Union.
Battle of Bakhmut (Битва за Бахмут)
Battle of Bakhmut (Битва за Бахмут): longest, bloodiest battle of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, fought 2022 to May 2023 in Donetsk region; Wagner Group led the assault; Russia captured the ruined city of about 70,000 at heavy cost.
Battle of Baku
Battle of Baku (Bakı döyüşü, Bakü Muharebesi), August-September 1918: Nuri Pasha's Ottoman-Azerbaijani Caucasus Islamic Army captured Baku's oil city from Dunsterforce and local defenders on 15 September 1918, before the Mudros Armistice reversed the outcome.
Battle of Balaclava
Battle of Balaclava (Balaklava), 25 October 1854, Crimean War battle: Liprandi's ~25,000 Russians attacked the British supply port, featuring the Thin Red Line, Scarlett's Heavy Brigade charge, and the Light Brigade blunder; stalemate.
Battle of Balanguingui
The Battle of Balanguingui was an amphibious assault by Spanish forces in February 1848, capturing four fortresses on a Moro pirate stronghold in the Sulu Archipelago.
Battle of Balikpapan (1945)
The Battle of Balikpapan, codenamed Operation Oboe Two, was an amphibious assault by the Australian 7th Division on the Japanese-held oil port of Balikpapan in Dutch Borneo on 1 July 1945.
Battle of Baltimore
Battle of Baltimore: September 12-14, 1814, War of 1812 engagement where US militia at North Point and Fort McHenry's 25-hour-bombarded garrison repelled the British Chesapeake Campaign, inspiring Francis Scott Key's Star-Spangled Banner.
Battle of Bamber Bridge
Battle of Bamber Bridge: June 24-25, 1943 racial mutiny in Lancashire, England, where Black troops of the 1511st Quartermaster Truck Regiment fought white U.S. MPs; Private William Crossland killed, 32 convicted, locals sided with the soldiers.