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Battle of Dessau Bridge
The Battle of Dessau Bridge (German: Schlacht bei Dessau) was a Thirty Years' War battle fought on 25 April 1626 at the Elbe bridge near Dessau, where Wallenstein decisively defeated Mansfeld.
Battle of Dettingen
Battle of Dettingen (27 June 1743): George II, last reigning British monarch to lead troops in battle, commanded the Pragmatic Army of British, Hanoverian, and Austrian forces to victory over the French under Noailles in Bavaria.
Battle of Diamond Hill
The Battle of Diamond Hill, also called the Battle of Donkerhoek, was a battle of the Second Boer War fought on 11 and 12 June 1900 east of Pretoria.
Battle of Didgori
Battle of Didgori (Didgoris brdzola), 12 August 1121: King David IV the Builder of Georgia defeated a Seljuk-led Muslim coalition near Tbilisi, enabling the 1122 capture of Tbilisi and Georgian unification, and is commemorated annually as Didgoroba.
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ), 13 March to 7 May 1954: decisive Viet Minh siege victory under Giap that destroyed the French fortified airbase, ended French rule in Vietnam, and led to the Geneva accords dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel.
Battle of Diffa
The Battle of Diffa was a series of armed clashes in February 2015 between Boko Haram and Niger's armed forces in Diffa and Bosso, southeastern Niger.
Battle of Digomi
The Battle of Digomi (Georgian: დიღმის ბრძოლა) was a battle fought in 1567 on the Digomi plain near Tbilisi, where King Simon I of Kartli defeated his brother David XI and his Qizilbash troops.
Battle of Dimawe
The Battle of Dimawe was a battle fought in August 1852 at Dimawe, capital of the Bakwena chief Sechele I in present-day Botswana, between a Transvaal Boer commando and Batswana defenders.
Battle of Dithakong
The Battle of Dithakong was fought in June 1823 near present-day Kuruman, South Africa, where about one hundred mounted Griqua gunmen defeated large forces of Sotho-speaking raiders known as the Mantatees.
Battle of Diu
The Battle of Diu was a naval battle fought on 3 February 1509 near Diu, India, in which a Portuguese fleet under Viceroy Francisco de Almeida destroyed the Egyptian fleet.
Battle of Dobrich
The Battle of Dobrich (Битката при Добрич) was a 1916 World War I battle in which Bulgarian forces repelled Russian, Romanian, and Serbian troops at Dobrich.
Battle of Dobro Pole
The Battle of Dobro Pole (Пробив при Добро Поле) was a September 1918 battle on the Macedonian Front where French and Serbian forces broke through Bulgarian defenses.
Battle of Dodowa
The Battle of Dodowa, also known as the Katamanso War, was an 1826 defeat of the Asante army by a coalition of southern Gold Coast forces near Accra.
Battle of Dogali
The Battle of Dogali, also called the Dogali Massacre, was fought on 26 January 1887 in present-day Eritrea, where Ethiopian forces under Ras Alula destroyed an Italian relief column.
Battle of Domažlice
The Battle of Domažlice (Czech: bitva u Domažlic) was a 1431 battle in which a Hussite army under Prokop the Great routed a crusading force in western Bohemia.
Battle of Domokos
The Battle of Domokos, Dömeke in Ottoman usage, was the last major battle of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, an Ottoman victory under Edhem Pasha.
Battle of Domstadtl
The Battle of Domstadtl (Czech: Domašov), fought on 30 June 1758 at Domašov nad Bystřicí in Moravia, was an Austrian victory under Ernst Gideon von Laudon that destroyed a Prussian supply convoy.
Battle of Donbas (2022)
Battle of Donbas (2022): Russia's April–July 2022 eastern Ukraine offensive after the failed Kyiv assault, also called the battle for Donbas. Artillery-driven advances took Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, giving Russia all of Luhansk oblast and over half of Donetsk.
Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu
The Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu (Trận Đông Bộ Đầu) was a 1258 Trần dynasty victory over Mongol invaders at a Red River wharf in Hanoi.
Battle of Đống Đa
The Battle of Đống Đa, fought on 30 January 1789, was the decisive victory in which Emperor Quang Trung's Tây Sơn army destroyed the Qing invasion of Vietnam.
Battle of Đồng Xoài
The Battle of Đồng Xoài was a June 1965 Vietnam War battle where Viet Cong forces overran the CIDG camp at Đồng Xoài, north of Saigon.
Battle of Dos Ríos
The Battle of Dos Ríos was a minor 1895 skirmish near the Contramaestre and Cauto rivers in eastern Cuba where Spanish troops killed independence leader José Martí.
Battle of Drăgășani
The Battle of Drăgășani was an 1821 defeat of Alexandros Ypsilantis's Greek revolutionaries by Ottoman cavalry at Drăgășani, Wallachia, that destroyed the Sacred Band and ended the Greek revolt in the Danubian principalities.
Battle of Dresden
The Battle of Dresden was a two-day battle on 26 and 27 August 1813 in which Napoleon defeated the larger allied Army of Bohemia under Prince Schwarzenberg, his last great victory in Germany.
Battle of Driniumor River
The Battle of Driniumor River, also known as the Battle of Aitape, was a July and August 1944 battle of World War II near Aitape, New Guinea.
Battle of Driskos
The Battle of Driskos (Greek: η μάχη του Δρίσκου) was a three-day battle of the First Balkan War fought near Ioannina in November 1912, ending in an Ottoman victory.
Battle of Dubica
The Battle of Dubica (Bitka kod Dubice) was a 1513 victory of Petar Berislavić's Croatian army over an Ottoman raiding force near the Una and Sava rivers.
Battle of Dubienka
The Battle of Dubienka was fought on 18 July 1792 on the Bug River in Poland between Tadeusz Kościuszko's Polish division and a much larger Russian force.
Battle of Dul Madoba
The Battle of Dul Madoba was an August 1913 Dervish victory over the British Camel Constabulary near Burao, in which commander Richard Corfield was killed.
Battle of Dunkirk
Battle of Dunkirk (Dunkerque): 26 May–4 June 1940 defensive battle and Operation Dynamo sea evacuation of 338,226 Allied troops under Vice Admiral Ramsay from Dover Castle, after the German breakthrough at Sedan during the Battle of France.