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Battle of Ia Drang
Battle of Ia Drang, also called the Pleiku Campaign battle, was the first major US Army vs PAVN engagement, fought November 14–18, 1965 at LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany in South Vietnam's Central Highlands.
Battle of Ichi-no-Tani
The Battle of Hyōgo, known in Japanese as the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani (一ノ谷の戦い), was a Genpei War battle fought at Kobe in 1184, won by the Minamoto.
Battle of Iganie
The Battle of Iganie (Bitwa pod Iganiami) was a Polish victory over a Russian corps near Siedlce on 10 April 1831, the high point of the November Uprising's spring offensive.
Battle of Ikh Bayan
The Battle of Ikh Bayan was a victory in June 89 CE by a Han army under Dou Xian and Southern Xiongnu allies over the Northern Xiongnu.
Battle of Ilovaisk
Battle of Ilovaisk (Іловайська трагедія), August 2014 Donbas battle where Russian regular troops encircled Ukrainian forces and ambushed their 29 August 'green corridor' breakout, killing 366 officially.
Battle of Imagbon
The Battle of Imagbon was the final engagement of the 1892 British punitive expedition against the Yoruba kingdom of Ijebu, fought on 19 May at Imagbon, in present-day Ogun State, Nigeria.
Battle of Imphal
Battle of Imphal (8 March-18 July 1944): Second World War battle in Manipur, India, where Mutaguchi's Japanese Fifteenth Army and the INA failed to take IV Corps' Imphal base; decisive air supply and the simultaneous Battle of Kohima broke Japan's invasion of India.
Battle of Imus
The Battle of Imus was a September 1896 battle of the Philippine Revolution at Imus, Cavite, in which Katipunan forces under Emilio Aguinaldo defeated a Spanish column under General Ernesto de Aguirre.
Battle of Iñaquito
The Battle of Iñaquito, also written Añaquito, was fought on 18 January 1546 near Quito, in present-day Ecuador, where rebel Gonzalo Pizarro defeated royalist forces.
Battle of Inates
The Battle of Inates was a jihadist assault on 10 December 2019 against a Nigerien military camp near Inates, killing at least 71 soldiers, Niger's deadliest attack on security forces.
Battle of Inchon
Battle of Inchon (Incheon), 15 September 1950, Operation Chromite: UN amphibious landing led by MacArthur's X Corps at Inchon, Korea, recapturing Seoul and destroying the North Korean army's organized force.
Battle of Ingavi
The Battle of Ingavi was an 1841 victory in which Bolivia under General José Ballivián defeated the invading Peruvian army of Agustín Gamarra, who was killed.
Battle of Ingogo
The Battle of Ingogo, also called the Battle of Schuinshoogte, was an engagement of the First Anglo-Boer War fought in Natal on 8 February 1881.
Battle of Inō
The Battle of Inō, also called the Battle of Inōhara, was a 1556 clash at Inō near the Shōnai River in Owari Province, where Oda Nobunaga defeated his younger brother Nobuyuki.
Battle of Ipsus
Battle of Ipsus (301 BCE): decisive clash of the Diadochi in central Phrygia where Antigonus the One-Eyed and Demetrius were defeated by Lysimachus, Seleucus I, and Cassander, ending Antigonid hopes of reuniting Alexander's empire.
Battle of Iquique
The Battle of Iquique, or Combate Naval de Iquique, was an 1879 naval battle of the War of the Pacific in which Peru's Huáscar sank the Chilean Esmeralda.
Battle of Irjar
The Battle of Irjar (Ирджарская битва) was an 1866 victory in which a small Russian force under General Romanovskii defeated Amir Muzaffar's much larger Bukharan army.
Battle of Irtysh River
The Battle of Irtysh River, also called the Battle of Yexi River, was fought in 657 between the Tang dynasty and the Western Turkic Khaganate, ending in Tang victory.
Battle of Isandlwana
The Battle of Isandlwana, fought on 22 January 1879 in Zululand, saw a Zulu army destroy a British invasion column's camp, killing more than 1,300 troops in the Anglo-Zulu War.
Battle of Isaszeg
The Battle of Isaszeg (Isaszegi csata) was fought on 6 April 1849 near Isaszeg, Hungary, where Artúr Görgei's Hungarian army defeated Prince Windisch-Grätz's imperial forces.
Battle of Isly
The Battle of Isly was the only major battle of the Franco-Moroccan War, fought on 14 August 1844 near Oujda, where Marshal Bugeaud routed a far larger Moroccan army.
Battle of Issus
The Battle of Issus was fought in 333 BCE in southeastern Cilicia, resulting in a Macedonian victory over Darius III, though the Persian army remained scattered.
Battle of Isurava
The Battle of Isurava was fought from 26 to 31 August 1942 on the Kokoda Trail in Papua, where Maroubra Force held back the advancing Japanese for six days.
Battle of Italeni
The Battle of Italeni, also given as eThaleni, was an 1838 Zulu ambush that defeated a Voortrekker commando near uMgungundlovu, killing commandant Piet Uys and his son Dirkie.
Battle of Itapirú
The Battle of Itapirú was a series of engagements in April 1866 in which Triple Alliance forces captured the southernmost fortress of Paraguay's river defenses in the Paraguayan War.
Battle of Itororó
The Battle of Itororó was a battle of the Paraguayan War fought on 6 December 1868, in which the Marquês de Caxias's Allied army defeated a Paraguayan force.
Battle of Itsukushima
The Battle of Itsukushima was a 1555 battle on Itsukushima island, now in Hiroshima Prefecture, where Mōri Motonari annihilated Sue Harukata's much larger army in a dawn surprise attack.
Battle of Ituzaingó
The Battle of Ituzaingó was fought on 20 February 1827, when a combined Argentine-Oriental army under Carlos María de Alvear defeated the imperial Brazilian army in the Cisplatine War.
Battle of Iwo Jima (硫黄島の戦い)
The Battle of Iwo Jima (硫黄島の戦い), February 19 to March 26, 1945, was the 36-day US Marine Corps invasion of the 8-square-mile volcanic island in Operation Detachment; US casualties (6,821 killed, 19,217 wounded) exceeded Japanese, the only such Pacific battle.
Battle of Jagaraga
The Battle of Jagaraga, called Perang Jagaraga or the Second Bali War, was the 1848–1849 resistance of Bali's Buleleng kingdom against Dutch expeditions in northern Bali.