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Battle of Durbe
The Battle of Durbe, fought on 13 July 1260 near Durbe in present-day Latvia, was a Samogitian victory over the Teutonic Order's army, the largest Lithuanian victory of the 13th and 14th centuries.
Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)
Battle of Dyrrhachium (Dyrrachion), 18 October 1081: Robert Guiscard's Normans defeated Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos outside Dyrrachium; the Anglo-Saxon Varangian Guard was annihilated and the city fell in November 1081.
Battle of Ebelsberg
The Battle of Ebelsberg, also called Ebersberg, was a costly French victory on 3 May 1809 at Ebelsberg near Linz during the War of the Fifth Coalition.
Battle of Eckmühl
The Battle of Eckmühl, also spelled Eggmühl, was fought on 21–22 April 1809 in Bavaria during the War of the Fifth Coalition, where Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles's Austrian army.
Battle of Edessa
Battle of Edessa, 260 CE, fought near Carrhae and Edessa between Shapur I of the Sasanian Empire and Roman emperor Valerian; Shapur destroyed the Roman field army and captured Valerian, the first Roman emperor taken prisoner by a foreign enemy.
Battle of Edgehill
The Battle of Edgehill, fought in Warwickshire on 23 October 1642, was the first major pitched battle of the English Civil War, ending in a draw.
Battle of Edington
Battle of Edington (Ethandun), May 878: Alfred the Great of Wessex defeated the Viking leader Guthrum in Wiltshire, leading to Guthrum's baptism at Aller and withdrawal to East Anglia.
Battle of Edson's Ridge
The Battle of Edson's Ridge, also called Bloody Ridge, was a September 1942 Guadalcanal battle in which about 800 US Marines under Merritt Edson repelled Japanese attacks on a ridge south of Henderson Field.
Battle of Egubba
The Battle of Egubba was fought on 29 December 1445 in north-eastern Shewa, where Negus Zareʿa Yaʿqob of Ethiopia defeated and killed Sultan Ahmad Badlay of Adal.
Battle of El Adde
The Battle of El Adde was a January 2016 attack in which al-Shabaab overran an African Union base in southern Somalia held by Kenyan troops.
Battle of El Caney
The Battle of El Caney was fought on July 1, 1898, near Santiago de Cuba, where about 500 Spaniards under Joaquín Vara de Rey held off a larger American force for most of the day.
Battle of El Carmen
The Battle of El Carmen was a battle of the Chaco War won by Paraguay in November 1934, destroying two Bolivian reserve divisions north of fortín Ballivián.
Battle of El Guettar
Battle of El Guettar, Tunisia, March-April 1943: US II Corps under Patton defeated the German 10th Panzer Division's counterattack, an early American victory after Kasserine Pass in the Tunisian campaign.
Battle of El Herri
The Battle of El Herri was a 1914 battle near Khenifra, Morocco, in which Zaian forces under Mouha ou Hammou Zayani routed a French colonial column, killing over 600 men.
Battle of El Obeid
The Battle of El Obeid, or Battle of Shaykan, was fought on 3–5 November 1883 in Kordofan, Sudan, where Mahdist forces annihilated William Hicks's Egyptian army.
Battle of El Teb
The Battle of El Teb was fought in eastern Sudan in February 1884 during the Mahdist War, where a Mahdist victory over an Egyptian column was followed by a British victory.
Battle of Elandslaagte
The Battle of Elandslaagte was a British victory over the Boers on 21 October 1899 near Elandslaagte station in Natal, during the early South African War.
Battle of Elisabethpol
The Battle of Elisabethpol, also called the Battle of Ganja, was a battle on 25 September 1826 where Russian forces under Paskevich defeated a Persian army near Ganja, Azerbaijan.
Battle of Elli
The Battle of Elli (Ναυμαχία της Έλλης) was a 1912 naval battle of the First Balkan War off the Dardanelles, won by the Greek fleet under Pavlos Kountouriotis.
Battle of Embabo
The Battle of Embabo was fought on 6 June 1882 in western Ethiopia between rival vassals of Emperor Yohannes IV; Menilek's victory secured Shewan dominance over the south.
Battle of Empress Augusta Bay
The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay was a night naval battle off Bougainville on 1–2 November 1943, won by an American task force under Admiral Merrill.
Battle of Enfidaville
The Battle of Enfidaville, or Operation Oration, was a British Eighth Army assault in Tunisia on 19–21 April 1943 that captured the town but failed to break through.
Battle of Eniwetok
The Battle of Eniwetok, Operation Catchpole, was an American amphibious operation of the Pacific War that captured Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands in February 1944.
Battle of Espíritu Santo
The Battle of Espíritu Santo (Batalla del Espíritu Santo) was a battle fought on 6 April 1839, where Francisco Morazán's Salvadoran forces defeated an allied Honduran and Nicaraguan army.
Battle of Estelí
The Battle of Estelí refers to three 1978 and 1979 insurrections by Sandinista guerrillas against Somoza's National Guard in Estelí, Nicaragua, known as the "Thrice Heroic City".
Battle of Estrelleta
The Battle of Estrelleta (Batalla de La Estrelleta) was a Dominican victory over an invading Haitian army on 17 September 1845, ending Haiti's southern offensive.
Battle of Eylau
Battle of Eylau (Preussisch-Eylau, now Bagrationovsk), 7–8 February 1807, War of the Fourth Coalition: Napoleon's Grande Armée vs Bennigsen's Russians and L'Estocq's Prussians; a bloody, inconclusive draw and Napoleon's first serious setback, famous for Murat's massed cavalry charge.
Battle of Fada
The Battle of Fada was fought on 2 January 1987, when Chadian forces recaptured the oasis town of Fada in northeastern Chad from a Libyan garrison.
Battle of Falkirk
Battle of Falkirk (22 July 1298): Edward I's English longbowmen defeated William Wallace's Scottish schiltrons near Falkirk, ending Wallace's guardianship after Stirling Bridge; distinct from the 1746 Jacobite Battle of Falkirk Muir.
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Battle of Fallen Timbers, August 20, 1794, Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio; Anthony Wayne's Legion of the United States defeated Little Turtle's, Blue Jacket's, and Buckongahelas' Native confederacy, ending the Northwest Indian War and leading to the 1795 Treaty of Greenville ceding Ohio.