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Battle of Khe Sanh
Battle of Khe Sanh: Vietnam War battle at the U.S. Marine base in Quảng Trị Province, January 21 to July 9, 1968; a 77-day siege of 6,000 Marines relieved by Operation Pegasus, defended by air campaign Operation Niagara.
Battle of Khénifra
The Battle of Khénifra was a 1914 French victory in Morocco, where General Henrys' colonial troops captured the Zaïan stronghold of Khénifra in the Middle Atlas.
Battle of Kherson
Battle of Kherson (August–November 2022): Ukrainian counteroffensive that liberated the city of Kherson and right-bank Kherson Oblast, retaken 11 November 2022 after a logistics-cutting campaign of HIMARS strikes on Dnipro crossings; Russia withdrew to the left bank on 9 November.
Battle of Khiam (معركة الخيام) (2026)
Battle of Khiam (معركة الخيام) 2026: fight between the IDF and Hezbollah for the strategic hilltop town of Khiam in the 2026 Lebanon war, beginning March 2-4, with Israel seizing the town after intense ground fighting.
Battle of Khiva (1920)
The Battle of Khiva (1920) was the capture of Khiva by Bolshevik Red Army and Turkmen forces on 1 February 1920, ending the Khanate of Khiva.
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980)
Battle of Khorramshahr (1980), First Battle of Khorramshahr, Iran–Iraq War urban battle, 22 September to late October 1980, where roughly 3,000 Iranian militia held off over an Iraqi division for about a month, earning the city the name City of Blood.
Battle of Khovd
The Battle of Khovd was a 1912 siege in which Mongol forces stormed the town of Khovd, expelling the last Qing garrison from western Mongolia.
Battle of Khresili
The Battle of Khresili (Georgian: ხრესილის ბრძოლა) was a decisive 1757 victory of King Solomon I of Imereti over an invading Ottoman army in western Georgia.
Battle of Kiev (1941)
The Battle of Kiev, also called the First Battle of Kiev, was a September 1941 German encirclement east of Kyiv that took about 665,000 Soviet prisoners.
Battle of Kigali
The Battle of Kigali was the Rwandan Patriotic Front's campaign, fought from April to July 1994, to capture Rwanda's capital, Kigali, from government forces during the genocide.
Battle of Kilkis–Lahanas
The Battle of Kilkis–Lahanas (Μάχη Κιλκίς–Λαχανά) was a Greek victory over Bulgaria fought from 19 to 21 June 1913, the first battle of the Second Balkan War.
Battle of Killdeer Mountain
The Battle of Killdeer Mountain, also called the Battle of Tahkahokuty Mountain, was a July 1864 U.S. Army attack on a large Lakota and Dakota encampment in Dakota Territory.
Battle of Kings Mountain
Battle of Kings Mountain, October 7, 1780: about 900 Overmountain Men patriot militiamen surrounded and defeated Major Patrick Ferguson's Loyalist force on a South Carolina ridge, the first major patriot victory after Charleston, with 28 patriot and 157 Loyalist dead.
Battle of Kircholm
Battle of Kircholm (Salaspils), 27 September 1605: Jan Karol Chodkiewicz's ~3,600 Commonwealth troops, mostly hussars, destroyed Charles IX's three-times-larger Swedish army near Riga, killing about 74 percent of it, during the Polish-Swedish War over Livonia.
Battle of Kirk Kilisse
The Battle of Kirk Kilisse, won by Bulgaria over the Ottoman Empire on 24 October 1912, was the First Balkan War's first battle and cut Edirne off from Constantinople.
Battle of Kismayo (2012)
The Battle of Kismayo was an offensive launched on 28 September 2012 by Kenyan, Somali, and Raskamboni forces that captured the Somali port city from Al-Shabaab.
Battle of Kitombo
The Battle of Kitombo was fought on 18 October 1670, when the army of Soyo annihilated a Portuguese expeditionary force that had invaded the province earlier that year.
Battle of Kizakibaru
The Battle of Kizakibaru (木崎原の戦い) was a 1572 battle in Hyūga Province, now Ebino City, Japan, where Shimazu Yoshihiro's small force repelled an invading Itō army, killing commander Itō Sukeyasu.
Battle of Kizugawaguchi
The Battle of Kizugawaguchi (木津川口の戦い) was fought in 1576 and 1578 at the mouth of the Kizu River in Osaka Bay between Oda Nobunaga and the Mōri clan.
Battle of Kleidion
Battle of Kleidion, 29 July 1014, Klyuch pass in the Belasitsa mountains: Basil II's Byzantines destroyed Tsar Samuel's Bulgarian army via Nikephoros Xiphias's flank march; the famous 15,000-blinded-prisoners story rests solely on the later chronicler Skylitzes.
Battle of Kletsk
The Battle of Kletsk (Бітва пад Клецкам; Klecko mūšis) was a 1506 victory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania over Crimean Tatars near Kletsk, in present-day Belarus.
Battle of Klokotnitsa
The Battle of Klokotnitsa (Битката при Клокотница) was a decisive victory of Tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria over Theodore Komnenos of Epirus on 9 March 1230, making Bulgaria the dominant Balkan power.
Battle of Klushino
The Battle of Klushino (Kłuszyn), fought on 4 July 1610 during the Polish-Muscovite War, saw Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski's heavily outnumbered Polish-Lithuanian cavalry rout a Russian-Swedish army, opening the road to Moscow.
Battle of Ko Chang
The Battle of Ko Chang was a 1941 naval engagement in which a French squadron surprised and defeated a Thai squadron during the Franco-Thai War.
Battle of Kock (1939)
The Battle of Kock (Bitwa pod Kockiem) was the last battle of the German invasion of Poland, fought near Kock in eastern Poland on 2–5 October 1939.
Battle of Koh Tang
The Battle of Koh Tang was a 1975 US Marine assault on a Khmer Rouge-held island in the Gulf of Thailand, part of the Mayaguez incident.
Battle of Kohima
Battle of Kohima, April–June 1944, Naga Hills, India: British-Indian garrison of about 1,500 held off 15,000 Japanese of the 31st Division; relieved 18 April, Imphal road reopened 22 June; turning point of the Burma campaign.
Battle of Kokenhausen
Battle of Kokenhausen (Koknese), 23 June 1601, first major battle of the Polish-Swedish war 1600-1611; Krzysztof 'Piorun' Radziwiłł defeated Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm's larger relief force and the Swedish garrison capitulated.
Battle of Kolberg (1945)
The Battle of Kolberg (bitwa o Kołobrzeg; Festung Kolberg) was a March 1945 urban battle in which the Polish 1st Army took the fortified Baltic port.
Battle of Kolín
The Battle of Kolín (bitva u Kolína), fought on June 18, 1757 near Kolín, Bohemia, saw Austria under Field Marshal Daun defeat Frederick II of Prussia.