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Battle of Marracuene
The Battle of Marracuene, also called Gwaza Muthini, was fought in Mozambique on 2 February 1895, when a Portuguese column defeated an alliance of local chiefs.
Battle of Marrakesh
The Battle of Marrakesh was fought outside Marrakesh, Morocco, on 19 August 1908, when supporters of Abd al-Hafid destroyed the field army of his brother, Sultan Abd al-Aziz.
Battle of Marston Moor
Battle of Marston Moor, 2 July 1644, largest battle of the First English Civil War, fought west of York; 28,000 Scots and Parliamentarians under Leven, Manchester, and Fairfax defeated Prince Rupert's 18,000 Royalists, ending Royalist power in northern England.
Battle of Martín García
The Battle of Martín García, fought from 10 to 15 March 1814, saw Guillermo Brown's Buenos Aires squadron capture the island from the Spanish, opening the campaign that forced Montevideo's surrender.
Battle of Marv
The Battle of Marv, or Battle of Maḥmudi, was a 1510 battle near Marv in Khorasan where Shah Esmāʿīl I of Iran defeated the Uzbeks.
Battle of Maryang San
The Battle of Maryang San was an October 1951 Korean War action in which the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment captured fortified Hill 317 from Chinese troops.
Battle of Mataquito
The Battle of Mataquito was a 1557 Spanish victory in Chile, where a surprise dawn attack killed the Mapuche toqui Lautaro and ended the threat to Santiago.
Battle of Matasiete
The Battle of Matasiete was a battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence fought on 31 July 1817 on Margarita Island, where Colonel Francisco Esteban Gómez defeated General Pablo Morillo.
Battle of Matsumae
The Battle of Matsumae (松前攻防戦) was the capture of Matsumae Castle in southern Hokkaido by Enomoto Takeaki's former shogunate army in November 1868, during the Hakodate War.
Battle of Maule
The Battle of Maule (Spanish: Batalla del Maule) is a reported clash on Chile's Maule River where an Inca army faced the Promaucaes and their allies.
Battle of Mavinga
The Battle of Mavinga was a series of failed Angolan government offensives between 1985 and 1990 to capture the UNITA-held town of Mavinga in southeastern Angola.
Battle of Maxen
The Battle of Maxen was a Seven Years' War defeat on 20 November 1759 near Dresden, where an entire Prussian corps under General Finck surrendered to the Austrians.
Battle of Maychew
The Battle of Maychew, also spelled Maichew, was fought on 31 March 1936 near Maychew, Ethiopia, where Haile Selassie's final counterattack against Marshal Badoglio's forces failed.
Battle of Mayi
The Battle of Mayi (马邑之谋) was a failed Han dynasty ambush against the Xiongnu in 133 BC that ended the heqin peace and began open war.
Battle of Mbanda Kasi
The Battle of Mbanda Kasi was a decisive Kongo victory over a Portuguese-led invading army in January 1623, fought in Mbamba province under King Pedro II.
Battle of Mbororé
The Battle of Mbororé was fought on 11 March 1641 on the Uruguay River, where Guaraní militia of the Jesuit missions defeated a Portuguese bandeirante slave raid.
Battle of Mbumbi
The Battle of Mbumbi was a 1622 military engagement in southern Kongo, in present-day Angola, won by Portuguese Angola in the first battle between the two states' main armies.
Battle of Mbwila
The Battle of Mbwila, also spelled Ambuila, was fought on 29 October 1665 between the Kingdom of Kongo and a Portuguese force from Angola, which killed King António I.
Battle of Medan Area
The Battle of Medan Area, known locally as Pertempuran Medan Area, was a conflict between Indonesian Republican and Allied troops in Medan, North Sumatra, fought from October 1945 through 1946.
Battle of Medenine
The Battle of Medenine was an Axis spoiling attack at Medenine, southern Tunisia, on 6 March 1943, repulsed in a day and Rommel's last offensive in Africa.
Battle of Medina
The Battle of Medina was an 1813 battle near San Antonio in which Spanish royalists under Joaquín de Arredondo destroyed the Republican Army of the North, ending the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition.
Battle of Medjez el Bab
The Battle of Medjez el Bab was a series of engagements in northern Tunisia from 1942 to 1943. Allied forces secured a strategic road junction leading toward Tunis.
Battle of Meester Cornelis
The Battle of Meester Cornelis was a British-Indian assault on 26 August 1811 that stormed the fortified camp near Batavia, Java, deciding the island's conquest.
Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)
Battle of Megiddo (c. 1457 BCE): victory of Pharaoh Thutmose III over a Canaanite coalition led by Kadesh and Megiddo, via the Aruna pass surprise and a seven-month siege; earliest battle recorded in detail in the Karnak Annals.
Battle of Megiddo (1918)
The Battle of Megiddo (1918) saw British and French troops defeat the German-Ottoman forces in northern Palestine. Under General Allenby, the Allied forces inflicted over 25,000 casualties.
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC)
Battle of Megiddo (609 BC), clash at Megiddo in northern Israel where Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt defeated and killed King Josiah of Judah as Necho marched to aid Assyria against Babylon; distinct from Thutmose III's 15th-century battle and the 1918 battle.
Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay
The Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay was a pair of connected engagements in central Burma in February and March 1945, in which William Slim's British Fourteenth Army destroyed the Japanese Burma Area Army's ability to defend central Burma.
Battle of Mekelle (2021)
The Battle of Mekelle (2021) was the recapture of Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, by the Tigray Defense Forces on 28 June 2021, ending seven months of federal occupation.
Battle of Ménfő
The Battle of Ménfő (ménfői csata) was a battle fought on 5 July 1044 near Győr, where Henry III of Germany defeated King Aba Sámuel of Hungary.
Battle of Mengo
Battle of Mengo, also called the Mengo Crisis, refers to two battles at Mengo in Kampala: the 1892 Protestant-Catholic battle and the 1966 army assault ending Buganda's autonomy.