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Battle of Carthage (698)
The Battle of Carthage (698), also called the Fall of Carthage, was the capture and destruction of Carthage in 698 by the Umayyad army under Hassan ibn al-Nu'man, ending Byzantine rule in Ifriqiya.
Battle of Casa Forte
The Battle of Casa Forte (Batalha de Casa Forte) was fought on 17 August 1645 near Recife, Pernambuco, where Luso-Brazilian insurgents captured an entire Dutch West India Company column.
Battle of Casas Grandes
The Battle of Casas Grandes was an 1911 Mexican Revolution engagement in which Francisco I. Madero personally led about 800 rebels against the town's federal garrison and was defeated.
Battle of Casma
The Battle of Casma (Combate naval de Casma) was an 1839 naval battle in which a Chilean squadron under Captain Roberto Simpson defeated Confederate corsairs in Peru.
Battle of Castillon
Battle of Castillon (17 July 1453), also called the battle of Castillon-sur-Dordogne, was the final battle of the Hundred Years' War: Jean Bureau's roughly 300-gun fortified artillery camp destroyed John Talbot's Anglo-Gascon army, killed Talbot, and left England only Calais.
Battle of Castle Itter
Battle of Castle Itter (Schloss Itter), May 5, 1945: American soldiers, Wehrmacht troops under Major Josef Gangl, Austrian resistance fighters, and French VIP prisoners defended a Tyrolean castle against Waffen-SS attackers; one of the clearest US-German joint fights of WWII.
Battle of Çatalca
A First Balkan War battle fought 17-20 November 1912 at the Çatalca defensive line about 20 miles from Constantinople, where Ottoman forces repelled the Bulgarian 1st and 3rd Armies.
Battle of Catubig
The Battle of Catubig, also called the Siege of Catubig, was a four-day 1900 engagement in Samar where Filipino guerrillas forced American troops to abandon the town.
Battle of Cầu Giấy
The Battle of Cầu Giấy (Trận Cầu Giấy) was an 1883 ambush near Hanoi in which Black Flag forces killed the French commander Henri Rivière.
Battle of Cebu
The Battle of Cebu was a 1945 World War II campaign in which American troops and Filipino guerrillas recaptured Cebu island, landing at Talisay on 26 March.
Battle of Cecora (1620)
The Battle of Cecora, also called the Battle of Țuțora, was a 1620 victory of an Ottoman-Tatar army over the Commonwealth forces of Grand Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski, who was killed.
Battle of Cedar Creek
Battle of Cedar Creek (Battle of Belle Grove), October 19, 1864, Middletown, Virginia: Jubal Early's dawn surprise attack was reversed by Philip Sheridan's counterattack, ending Confederate resistance in the Shenandoah Valley and aiding Lincoln's reelection.
Battle of Ceja del Negro
The Battle of Ceja del Negro was an 1896 Cuban War of Independence battle where Antonio Maceo's forces defeated a Spanish column near Pinar del Río.
Battle of Cepeda (1820)
The Battle of Cepeda was an 1820 battle of the Argentine civil wars where federal forces under Estanislao López and Francisco Ramírez defeated the Directory army.
Battle of Cer (Церска битка)
Battle of Cer (Церска битка), August 1914: Serbian victory over invading Austro-Hungarian forces on Cer Mountain, Serbia, regarded as the first major Allied victory of World War I and site of the first aerial dogfight.
Battle of Cerro Corá
The Battle of Cerro Corá, fought on 1 March 1870 in Paraguay, was the final battle of the Paraguayan War, in which Brazilian cavalry killed Marshal Francisco Solano López.
Battle of Cerro de Pasco
The Battle of Cerro de Pasco, also called the Battle of Pasco, was a patriot victory over royalists at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, on 6 December 1820.
Battle of Cerro Gordo
The Battle of Cerro Gordo was a battle of the Mexican–American War fought on April 17–18, 1847, where Winfield Scott's US army routed Santa Anna's entrenched Mexican army near Xalapa.
Battle of Cēsis
The Battle of Cēsis (Cēsu kaujas, Võnnu lahing) was a June 1919 victory of Estonian and Latvian forces over the German-led Baltic Landeswehr in the Latvian War of Independence.
Battle of Chaeronea (Μάχη της Χαιρώνειας) (338 BC)
Battle of Chaeronea (Μάχη της Χαιρώνειας), August 338 BC: Philip II of Macedon and his 18-year-old son Alexander defeated an Athenian-Theban coalition in Boeotia, ending Greek city-state independence and founding Macedonian hegemony via the League of Corinth.
Battle of Chakirmaut
The Battle of Chakirmaut, known as Naqu Gun, was Temüjin's 1204 victory over a Naiman-led coalition under Tayang Khan, clearing his path to founding the Mongol Empire.
Battle of Chalchuapa
The Battle of Chalchuapa (Batalla de Chalchuapa) was a battle fought on 2 April 1885 at Chalchuapa, El Salvador, where Guatemalan president Justo Rufino Barrios was killed.
Battle of Chaldiran
Battle of Chaldiran (Čālderān, 23 August 1514): decisive Ottoman victory of Selim I over Shah Esmail I's Safavids near Khoy; Ottoman artillery and Janissaries crushed Qizilbash cavalry; Tabriz briefly occupied and Safavid expansion stopped.
Battle of Chamdo
Battle of Chamdo (Qamdo, 昌都战役), October 1950 campaign in which the PLA 18th Army crossed the Jinsha River, defeated the Tibetan army, captured Chamdo and Ngabo, and forced negotiations leading to the 1951 Seventeen-Point Agreement.
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Chancellorsville, May 1–6, 1863, Virginia: Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, about 60,000, defeated Hooker's 130,000-man Army of the Potomac via Jackson's flank march; Jackson died, Lee lost 22% of his army, then moved to Gettysburg.
Battle of Changping
Battle of Changping (长平之战, 262–260 BCE): decisive Qin–Zhao Warring States battle at modern Gaoping, Shanxi. Bai Qi encircled Zhao Kuo's army, starved it 46 days, and killed about 400,000 surrendered Zhao soldiers.
Battle of Chapultepec
Battle of Chapultepec, 12–13 September 1847, Mexican–American War assault on Chapultepec Castle near Mexico City; Winfield Scott's 7,000 troops overcame Nicolás Bravo's ~800 defenders, and six cadets, the Niños Héroes, became a partly mythologized national symbol.
Battle of Chasiv Yar
Battle of Chasiv Yar (Битва за Часів Яр): 2023–2025 Russo-Ukrainian battle for the hilltop city 12 km west of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, begun April 2024; Russia claimed capture July 31, 2025, a claim Ukraine disputed.
Battle of Château-Thierry (1918)
Battle of Château-Thierry (1–4 June 1918), also called the defense of the Marne bridges: US 3rd Division and French 10th Colonial Division stopped the German Aisne offensive at the Marne, 80 km from Paris, then pushed the Germans back across the river.
Battle of Chelenqo
The Battle of Chelenqo was fought on 6 January 1887 between Negus Menelik of Shewa and Emir Abdullahi II of Harar, ending in a Shewan victory.