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Battle of Magenta
The Battle of Magenta, fought on 4 June 1859 near Magenta in Lombardy, was the first major battle of the Second War of Italian Independence, ending in Austrian defeat.
Battle of Magersfontein
The Battle of Magersfontein, fought on 11 December 1899 near Kimberley, South Africa, saw Boer forces under General Piet Cronjé defeat Lord Methuen's advancing British army.
Battle of Magul
The Battle of Magul, also called Combate de Magul, was fought on 8 September 1895 in Gaza, modern Mozambique, between a Portuguese column under Freire de Andrade and the Gaza Empire of Gungunhana.
Battle of Majuba Hill
The Battle of Majuba Hill, fought on 27 February 1881 near Volksrust, South Africa, saw Boer forces storm and rout a British force, ending the First Boer War.
Battle of Makahambus Hill
The Battle of Makahambus Hill was fought on June 4, 1900, during the Philippine-American War, when Filipino revolutionaries on Makahambus Hill near Cagayan de Oro defeated the U.S. 40th Infantry Regiment.
Battle of Makapan's Kloof
The Battle of Makapan's Kloof, also called the siege of Makapan's Cave, was a punitive siege in which Boer commandos trapped Chief Mugombane's Kekana Ndebele in 1854.
Battle of Makhram (1875)
The Battle of Makhram was an 1875 victory of a Russian force under General von Kaufman over the Kokand Khanate, ending in the capture of the Makhram fortress.
Battle of Makin
The Battle of Makin was a November 1943 amphibious assault in which US Army troops captured Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, as part of Operation Galvanic alongside Tarawa.
Battle of Mal Tiempo
The Battle of Mal Tiempo was a battle of the Cuban War of Independence fought on December 15, 1895, near Cruces, in which Cuban cavalry defeated a Spanish column.
Battle of Mala Tokmachka (Мала Токмачка)
The Battle of Mala Tokmachka is a fight for the village of Mala Tokmachka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, that began with a failed Ukrainian breach in June 2023.
Battle of Małogoszcz
The Battle of Małogoszcz (Bitwa pod Małogoszczem) was a large battle of the January Uprising fought on 24 February 1863 near Kielce, where Marian Langiewicz's insurgents escaped Russian encirclement.
Battle of Malolos
The Battle of Malolos was the capture of Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, by American forces under General Arthur MacArthur on March 31, 1899.
Battle of Maloyaroslavets (Малоярославецкое сражение)
Battle of Maloyaroslavets (Малоярославецкое сражение), 24 October 1812: Eugène de Beauharnais's corps held the Kaluga-province town against Dokhturov's Russians, but the battle forced Napoleon to abandon the Kaluga route and retreat via Smolensk.
Battle of Malplaquet
Battle of Malplaquet, 11 September 1709, War of the Spanish Succession: Marlborough and Prince Eugene's roughly 86,000 Allies defeated Villars and Boufflers' 75,000 French near Mons, but with 20,000 to 30,000 Allied casualties against about 12,000 French, it became a strategic victory for France.
Battle of Maniaki
The Battle of Maniaki (Μάχη στο Μανιάκι), fought on 20 May 1825 at Maniaki in Messenia, saw Papaflessas and his Greek forces defeated by Ibrahim Pasha's Egyptian army.
Battle of Manila (1945)
Battle of Manila (Labanan sa Maynila, マニラの戦い), 3 February to 3 March 1945: US and Filipino forces recaptured the Philippine capital from the Japanese garrison; about 100,000 civilians died and the city was near-totally destroyed.
Battle of Manila Bay
Naval battle of 1 May 1898 in the Spanish-American War: Commodore George Dewey's U.S. Asiatic Squadron destroyed Admiral Montojo's Spanish Pacific Squadron at Manila, Philippines, without American losses.
Battle of Manupur
Battle of Manupur (11 March 1748), also called the battle near Sirhind, Punjab: Mughal victory under Wazir Qamar ud-Din, Prince Ahmad Shah, and Muin-ul-Mulk over Ahmad Shah Durrani's 12,000 troops, ending his first Indian invasion.
Battle of Manzikert
Battle of Manzikert (Malazgirt), 26 August 1071: Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan defeated and captured Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes in eastern Anatolia; the ensuing civil war, not battlefield losses, opened Asia Minor to Turkification.
Battle of Maqongqo
The Battle of Maqongqo, also called Maqongqo Hills, was fought on 29 January 1840 between Zulu king Dingane and his half-brother Mpande, whose victory made him king.
Battle of Marabda
The Battle of Marabda was a 1625 defeat of King Teimuraz I's Georgian army by Safavid Persia near Tbilisi, yet it ended Abbas I's bid to subjugate Georgia.
Battle of Mărășești
The Battle of Mărășești (Bătălia de la Mărășești) was a 1917 World War I battle where the Romanian 1st Army stopped the German offensive in Romania.
Battle of Mărăști
The Battle of Mărăști was a July 1917 World War I offensive in which the Romanian Second Army under General Alexandru Averescu drove a 30 km gap into the Austro-Hungarian front.
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Marathon (490 BC): Athenian and Plataean hoplites under Miltiades defeated Datis and Artaphernes' Persian expedition at Marathon, Attica, using weakened-center tactics; casualties 192 Athenians, 6,400 Persians per Herodotus.
Battle of Marengo
Battle of Marengo (14 June 1800): French victory under Napoleon Bonaparte over Melas's Austrians near Alessandria, Piedmont; won late in the day by Desaix's return and Kellermann's cavalry charge, securing the Consulate.
Battle of Marib
Battle of Marib: Houthi offensive beginning February 2021 against the Yemeni government's last northern stronghold, an oil-rich governorate; Houthis repelled late 2021, fighting resumed after the 2022 truce collapsed in 2026.
Battle of Marignano
Battle of Marignano (Battle of Giants), 13-14 September 1515: Francis I's French army with massed artillery defeated Swiss pikemen near Melegnano, restoring French rule over the Duchy of Milan and leading to the 1516 Perpetual Peace.
Battle of Marihueñu
The Battle of Marihueñu was an Arauco War battle of February 1554 in which the Mapuche leader Lautaro defeated a Spanish army under Francisco de Villagra near Concepción, Chile.
Battle of Mariupol (May–June 2014)
Battle of Mariupol (May–June 2014): clashes between Ukrainian forces and DPR separatists in Mariupol, Ukraine; April base assault, deadly 9 May police headquarters fighting, DPR control, and Ukrainian recapture on 13 June 2014.
Battle of Marj Ardabil
The Battle of Marj Ardabil, also called the Battle of Ardabil, was a 730 victory in which a Khazar army annihilated the Umayyad force of al-Jarrah outside Ardabil.