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Battle of Jam
The Battle of Jam was a 1528 battle in Khorasan where Shah Tahmasp I's Safavid army defeated an invading Uzbek army led by Ubayd-Allah Khan of Bukhara.
Battle of Jankau
The Battle of Jankau, a 1645 battle of the Thirty Years' War near Prague, saw Lennart Torstensson's Swedish army destroy the Imperial-Bavarian army and capture Melchior von Hatzfeldt.
Battle of Jao Modo
The Battle of Jao Modo, also known as the Battle of Zuunmod, was a 1696 battle in which the Qing Empire routed Galdan Boshugtu Khan's Dzungar forces.
Battle of Jaquijahuana
The Battle of Jaquijahuana was fought on 9 April 1548 near Cusco, where royalists under Pedro de La Gasca defeated Gonzalo Pizarro, ending the encomendero rebellion in Peru.
Battle of Java (1942)
The Battle of Java (1942) was the final Japanese campaign of the conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, ending with the KNIL surrender on 8 March 1942.
Battle of Javor
The Battle of Javor, popularly known as the Javor War, was a series of engagements in 1876 on Mount Javor in western Serbia during the First Serbian-Turkish War.
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, twin battles of 14 October 1806 in Thuringia where Napoleon's Grande Armée destroyed the Prussian army; Napoleon won at Jena while Marshal Davout's lone corps routed the Prussian main army at Auerstedt, leading to the fall of Berlin.
Battle of Jenipapo
The Battle of Jenipapo was an engagement fought near Campo Maior, Piauí, on 13 March 1823, where Brazilian independence fighters lost to Portuguese troops but secured Piauí's adhesion to independence.
Battle of Jiksan
The Battle of Jiksan, also called the Battle of Sosapyeol, was a 1597 land battle of the Japanese invasion of Korea, fought near Cheonan between Ming and Japanese forces.
Battle of Jimaguayú
The Battle of Jimaguayú was a battle of Cuba's Ten Years' War fought on 11 May 1873 in Camagüey, where Spanish forces killed Cuban commander Ignacio Agramonte.
Battle of Jizzakh
The Battle of Jizzakh was the storming of the fortified town of Jizzakh, then held by the Emirate of Bukhara, by Russian troops on 18 October 1866.
Battle of Jolo (1876)
The Battle of Jolo (1876) was the capture and burning of Jolo, capital of the Sulu Sultanate, by a Spanish force under Governor-General José Malcampo in February 1876.
Battle of Jordanów
The battle of Jordanów (Bitwa pod Jordanowem) was a delaying action fought on 1–3 September 1939 in the Skawa valley, where Maczek's brigade blocked a German armored thrust.
Battle of Junín
The Battle of Junín (Batalla de Junín) was a cavalry battle fought on 6 August 1824 in the Peruvian Andes, where Simón Bolívar defeated the royalist army of José de Canterac.
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak), 31 May to 1 June 1916: the only major naval battle of World War I, fought in the North Sea between the British Grand Fleet and German High Seas Fleet; a German tactical success but British strategic victory preserving the blockade.
Battle of Ka-san
The Battle of Ka-san was a September 1950 fight for Hill 902, a 3,000-foot mountain 10 miles north of Taegu, during North Korean pressure on the Pusan Perimeter defenses.
Battle of Kaba
The Battle of Kaba refers to Samori Ture's campaigns of 1880–1881 that defeated the Kaba dynasty and ended their rule over Kankan, a major Dyula trading center.
Battle of Kadesh
The Battle of Kadesh, also spelled Qadesh, was a large chariot battle around 1274 BCE between Ramesses II of Egypt and the Hittite Empire, usually judged a draw.
Battle of Kadugli
Battle of Kadugli refers to fighting for Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan, Sudan: 2011 SAF–SPLM-N clashes, then the RSF siege of the SAF-held city from February 2025, broken by the Sudanese army on 3 February 2026.
Battle of Kagamlik
The Battle of Kagamlik was a decisive battle of 1299–1300 near the Kagamlyk river in Poltava oblast, where Khan Toqta defeated the powerful Jochid prince Nogai.
Battle of Kairouan (1554)
The Battle of Kairouan (1554) refers to the fighting in which the Ottoman corsair Dragut (Turgut Reis) wrested the Tunisian city of Kairouan from the pro-Spanish Hafsids in 1558.
Battle of Kajmakčalan
The Battle of Kajmakčalan (Битка на Кајмакчалану) was a 1916 World War I battle in which the Serbian Army took Mount Nidže's summit from Bulgarian and German forces.
Battle of Kakarong de Sili
The Battle of Kakarong de Sili (Labanan sa Kakarong) was fought on January 1, 1897, at Pandi, Bulacan, where Spanish forces destroyed the Kakarong Republic.
Battle of Kalenga
The Battle of Kalenga was the storming of the fortified capital of Hehe chief Mkwawa by German colonial forces in October 1894, near present-day Iringa, Tanzania.
Battle of Kaliakra
The Battle of Kaliakra, also called the Attack of the Drazki, was a First Balkan War naval engagement fought off Bulgaria on 21 November 1912.
Battle of Kalimanci
The Battle of Kalimanci was a defensive battle of the Second Balkan War, where the Bulgarian 4th Army stopped the Serbian offensive in July 1913.
Battle of Kalisz
The Battle of Kalisz names several battles fought at Kalisz in western Poland, including major engagements in 1706 and 1813 and the Red Army's capture of the city in 1945.
Battle of Kałuszyn
The Battle of Kałuszyn (Bitwa pod Kałuszynem), fought at night on 11–12 September 1939 during the German invasion of Poland, was a Polish victory that reopened the 1st Legions Infantry Division's route of retreat southward.
Battle of Kambula
The Battle of Kambula, also spelled Khambula, was an Anglo-Zulu War battle fought on 29 March 1879, in which Colonel Evelyn Wood's British force repulsed some 20,000 Zulu warriors.
Battle of Kamdesh
Battle of Kamdesh, October 3, 2009 assault on Combat Outpost Keating, Nuristan, Afghanistan, by about 300 Taliban and HiG fighters; 13-hour fight, 8 Americans killed, two Medals of Honor (Romesha, Carter), outpost abandoned.