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Battle of Hattin (معركة حطين)
Battle of Hattin (معركة حطين), 3–4 July 1187 near Lake Tiberias: Saladin destroyed the Kingdom of Jerusalem's field army under Guy of Lusignan using heat, water denial, and archery, then took Jerusalem in October 1187, prompting the Third Crusade.
Battle of Hayes Pond
Battle of Hayes Pond, or Maxton Riot: January 18, 1958 confrontation near Maxton, North Carolina, where about 500 armed Lumbee Indians routed a roughly 50-man Ku Klux Klan rally led by "Catfish" Cole, leaving four injured and no deaths.
Battle of Heartbreak Ridge
The Battle of Heartbreak Ridge was a month-long Korean War battle fought from September to mid-October 1951, in which the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division drove North Korean forces from a fortified ridge.
Battle of Hel
The Battle of Hel was the 32-day Polish defense of the fortified Hel Peninsula against German forces from 1 September to 2 October 1939, during the invasion of Poland.
Battle of Hengyang
The Battle of Hengyang (衡阳保卫战) was a 47-day 1944 siege in which China's 10th Army under Fang Xianjue defended Hengyang, Hunan, against Japan's Operation Ichi-Go.
Battle of Heraclea
The Battle of Heraclea, fought in 280 BC in Lucania, southern Italy, saw King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeat the consul Publius Valerius Laevinus, opening the Pyrrhic War.
Battle of Herat (484)
The Battle of Herat (484) is the name given to the decisive 484 defeat of the Sasanian king Peroz by the Hephthalites, in which Peroz was killed.
Battle of Hetsugigawa
The Battle of Hetsugigawa (戸次川の戦い) was a battle fought in January 1587 on the Ōno River in Bungo Province, Japan, where Shimazu Iehisa routed a Toyotomi relief force under Sengoku Hidehisa.
Battle of Hill 355
The Battle of Hill 355 (Kowang San) was a Korean War defensive action fought from 22 to 25 November 1951, in which Canadian troops held beside the hill.
Battle of Himera (480 BC)
Battle of Himera (480 BC): decisive Sicilian Greek victory under Gelon of Syracuse and Theron of Acragas over Hamilcar's Carthaginian invasion, distinct from the later 409 BC battle at the same city.
Battle of Hitotoribashi
The Battle of Hitotoribashi (人取橋の戦い) was a 1585 battle near Motomiya, Fukushima, where teenage Date Masamune held off an anti-Date coalition led by Satake Yoshishige.
Battle of Hlobane
The Battle of Hlobane was a defeat of Colonel Evelyn Wood's British raiding force by Zulu troops on 28 March 1879 at Hlobane Mountain during the Anglo-Zulu War.
Battle of Hochkirch
The Battle of Hochkirch was a surprise dawn attack on 14 October 1758 in which Austrian Field Marshal Daun routed Frederick the Great's Prussian camp at Hochkirch, Saxony, during the Seven Years' War.
Battle of Höchst
The Battle of Höchst was a Thirty Years' War battle fought near Frankfurt on 20 June 1622, in which Count Tilly's Catholic forces routed Christian of Brunswick's army.
Battle of Hoengsong
The Battle of Hoengsong (횡성전투) was a Korean War engagement fought around Hoengsong, South Korea, from 11 February 1951, in which Chinese forces destroyed the South Korean 8th Division.
Battle of Hohenfriedberg
Battle of Hohenfriedberg (Striegau), 4 June 1745: Frederick the Great's first Prussian victory over Austrian and Saxon forces in the Second Silesian War, featuring the Bayreuth dragoons' charge.
Battle of Hōjūjidono
The Battle of Hōjūjidono was fought at retired emperor Go-Shirakawa's palace in eastern Kyoto, where Minamoto no Yoshinaka's cavalry set the palace on fire, scattered the defenders, and captured Go-Shirakawa.
Battle of Hollandia
The Battle of Hollandia, or Operation Reckless, was a 1944 Allied amphibious operation that seized Hollandia, New Guinea, bypassing Japanese garrisons; the area then became General MacArthur's headquarters.
Battle of Hong Kong (香港保卫战)
Battle of Hong Kong (香港保卫战): 18-day battle, 8–25 December 1941, in which about 14,000 defenders under Maltby, including 2,000 Canadians, were defeated by roughly 35,000 Japanese troops, ending in surrender on Black Christmas and a three-year-eight-month occupation.
Battle of Hornkranz
The Battle of Hornkranz (Hoornkrans) was a surprise attack by German colonial troops on Hendrik Witbooi's Nama settlement in German South West Africa in April 1893.
Battle of Horseshoe Bend
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend, fought March 27, 1814, saw Andrew Jackson's forces destroy the Red Stick Creek village of Tohopeka on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama.
Battle of Hostomel
Battle of Hostomel, also called Battle of Antonov Airport: 24 February to 2 April 2022 fight for the airfield 20 km northwest of Kyiv, where a Russian VDV helicopter assault failed to establish an air bridge and the An-225 Mriya was destroyed.
Battle of Huamachuco
The Battle of Huamachuco was a Chilean victory over Cáceres's Peruvian army in the Andes on 10 July 1883, the last major battle of the War of the Pacific.
Battle of Huamantla
The Battle of Huamantla was an 1847 engagement of the Mexican-American War at Huamantla, Tlaxcala, where Joseph Lane defeated Santa Anna's forces and Texas Ranger captain Samuel Walker was killed.
Battle of Huarina
The Battle of Huarina was a battle of the Peruvian civil wars fought near Lake Titicaca in 1547, won by Gonzalo Pizarro's rebels over Diego Centeno's royalists.
Battle of Huế
Battle of Huế (31 January–2 March 1968), Huế City battle of the Tet Offensive: NVA and Viet Cong forces seized Vietnam's former imperial capital, US Marines and ARVN retook it in month-long urban combat, leaving thousands dead.
Battle of Humera
Battle of Humera: November 2020 seizure of Humera, western Tigray, by Ethiopian federal, Amhara, and Eritrean forces early in the Tigray war; shelling from Eritrea killed dozens and led to ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans.
Battle of Hunayn (غزوة حنين)
Battle of Hunayn (Ghazwat Hunayn, Ghazwat Hawazin), January 630 CE (Shawwal 8 AH): 12,000-strong Muslim army under Muhammad ambushed by Hawazin and Thaqif under Malik ibn Awf in the valley between Mecca and Ta'if; initial rout reversed into Muslim victory, named in Quran 9:25.
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest, or Schlacht im Hürtgenwald, was the lengthiest battle in U.S. Army history, fought near Germany's western border from September 1944 to February 1945.
Battle of Hwangtohyeon
The Battle of Hwangtohyeon (황토현 전투) was an 1894 victory of the Donghak Peasant Army under Jeon Bongjun over the Jeolla provincial army, opening the way to Jeonju.