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Battle of Grozny (1999–2000)
Battle of Grozny (1999–2000), Second Battle of Grozny: Russian federal siege and storming of the Chechen capital, December 1999 to February 2000, using artillery and air power; ended with the city razed, a deadly minefield rebel breakout, and documented civilian killings.
Battle of Grunwald
Battle of Grunwald (Žalgirio mūšis, First Battle of Tannenberg), 15 July 1410: Polish-Lithuanian forces under Jagiełło and Vytautas defeated Ulrich von Jungingen's Teutonic Order near Lake Łubień, ending Order dominance.
Battle of Guadalajara
Battle of Guadalajara (8–23 March 1937): Spanish Civil War battle where the Italian CTV's offensive to encircle Madrid from the northeast was defeated by Republican forces with International Brigades and Soviet tanks; Franco then shifted to the northern front.
Battle of Guadalcanal order of battle
Battle of Guadalcanal order of battle: formations and commanders of Operation Watchtower (7 August 1942 to 9 February 1943), covering the 1st Marine Division landing force, Japanese 8th Fleet and Seventeenth Army, and the November 1942 naval battle forces.
Battle of Guadalete
Battle of Guadalete, July 711, also linked to Wadi Lakka and the La Janda lagoon: Umayyad commander Tariq ibn Ziyad with about 7,000 mostly Berber troops defeated and probably killed Visigothic king Roderic, triggering the Muslim conquest of Iberia and the fall of Toledo.
Battle of Guadeloupe (1794)
The Battle of Guadeloupe (1794) was the French reconquest of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from British forces in 1794, led by Convention commissioner Victor Hugues.
Battle of Guam (1944)
Battle of Guam (1944), Second Battle of Guam, Liberation of Guam: American recapture of Japanese-held Guam, 21 July–10 August 1944, under Operation Forager by III Amphibious Corps; 1,769 American dead, 23,303 Japanese dead, island declared secure 10 August.
Battle of Guantánamo Bay
The Battle of Guantánamo Bay was a Spanish-American War land and naval engagement of June 1898 in which US Navy forces and Marines seized the bay in southeastern Cuba.
Battle of Guaxenduba
The Battle of Guaxenduba was a 1614 military engagement near present-day Icatu, Maranhão, Brazil, where Portuguese forces and indigenous allies defeated the French and their Tupinambá allies.
Battle of Guilford Court House
Battle of Guilford Court House (Guilford Courthouse), March 15, 1781 Revolutionary War battle near Greensboro, North Carolina; Cornwallis's pyrrhic British victory over Greene led to Yorktown.
Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou
The Battle of Guilin–Liuzhou (桂柳會戰) was the third phase of Japan's 1944 Operation Ichi-Go, in which Japanese forces captured Guilin and Liuzhou, Guangxi, in November 1944.
Battle of Gundet
The Battle of Gundet was an 1875 battle near the Mereb River in which Emperor Yohannes IV and Ras Alula destroyed an Egyptian expeditionary force under Colonel Arendrup, the first major engagement of the Ethiopian–Egyptian War.
Battle of Gura
The Battle of Gura was a decisive Ethiopian victory over an invading Egyptian army on the Gura plain in March 1876, ending Egypt's ambitions to annex Ethiopia.
Battle of Guruslău
The Battle of Guruslău was fought on 3 August 1601 near Guruslău in Transylvania, where Michael the Brave and Giorgio Basta defeated the larger army of Sigismund Báthory.
Battle of Gvozd Mountain
Battle of Gvozd Mountain was a battle fought in late May 1097, in which King Coloman of Hungary defeated the Croatian army of Petar Svačić, who was killed.
Battle of Gwoza
The Battle of Gwoza was Boko Haram's August 2014 capture of Gwoza in Borno State, Nigeria, which the group declared part of an Islamic caliphate until Nigerian forces retook it in March 2015.
Battle of Hadong
The Battle of Hadong (하동 전투) was a 1950 Korean War engagement in which North Korean forces destroyed the US 3rd Battalion, 29th Infantry at Hadong, South Korea.
Battle of Hafir
The Battle of Hafir was a September 1896 engagement of the Dongola Expedition, in which Anglo-Egyptian gunboats and artillery under Herbert Kitchener forced Mahdist defenses on the Nile.
Battle of Hakone-Takenoshita
The Battle of Hakone-Takenoshita (箱根・竹ノ下の戦い), also called the battle of Takenoshita, was a 1335 battle in Suruga Province where Ashikaga Takauji defeated the army of Nitta Yoshisada.
Battle of Halbe
The Battle of Halbe (Kessel von Halbe) was the Soviet encirclement and destruction of the German Ninth Army in the Spree Forest, 24 April–1 May 1945, during the Battle of Berlin.
Battle of Haldighati
Battle of Haldighati, fought June 1576 between Maharana Pratap of Mewar and Mughal forces under Man Singh of Amber for Emperor Akbar; a Mughal tactical success that failed to subdue Mewar, and whose verdict remains debated by historians.
Battle of Halfaya Pass
The Battle of Halfaya Pass, known to British troops as Hellfire Pass, covers the 1941–1942 fights where British and Commonwealth forces repeatedly attacked a fortified Axis strongpoint on the Egypt-Libya frontier.
Battle of Hamburger Hill
The Battle of Hamburger Hill was an eleven-day US and South Vietnamese assault on Hill 937 in South Vietnam's A Shau Valley in May 1969.
Battle of Hampton Roads
Battle of Hampton Roads, also called the Battle of the Monitor and Merrimack: two-day Civil War naval battle, March 8–9, 1862, Virginia, where USS Monitor fought CSS Virginia in the first ironclad-versus-ironclad battle, ending in a draw.
Battle of Hanau
The Battle of Hanau, fought on 30 and 31 October 1813 at Hanau east of Frankfurt, saw Napoleon break through Karl Philipp von Wrede's Austro-Bavarian corps after Leipzig.
Battle of Hanoi (1882)
The Battle of Hanoi (1882) was the seizure of Hanoi's citadel by French forces under Henri Rivière on 25 April 1882, opening the second French expedition to Tonkin.
Battle of Harar
The Battle of Harar was the final operation of the southern front of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, in which Italian forces captured Harar in May 1936.
Battle of Harbin
The Battle of Harbin was a January and February 1932 battle of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, after which the city fell to Japan on February 5.
Battle of Hargeisa (1988)
The Battle of Hargeisa (1988) was the Somali National Movement's capture of much of Hargeisa, which the government answered with bombardment that destroyed roughly 90% of the city.
Battle of Hastings
The Battle of Hastings, also known as the Battle of Senlac, was fought on 14 October 1066, where William of Normandy defeated and killed King Harold II of England.