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Battle of Peleliu (ペリリューの戦い)
The Battle of Peleliu (ペリリューの戦い), September–November 1944, Palau Islands: US Marines and the 81st Division overcame Colonel Nakagawa's cave-based defense in depth, costing 1,544 US killed and nearly 11,000 Japanese dead in a 74-day battle later judged strategically unnecessary.
Battle of Peralejo
The Battle of Peralejo was an 1895 battle of Cuba's War of Independence, where Antonio Maceo's Cuban forces fought a Spanish column under Martínez Campos.
Battle of Pereiaslav (1630)
The Battle of Pereiaslav was the culminating engagement of the 1630 Cossack uprising, fought in May 1630 between hetman Taras Fedorovych and Polish forces under Stanisław Koniecpolski.
Battle of Peta
The Battle of Peta (ἡ μάχη τοῦ Πέτα) was an Ottoman victory over Greek revolutionary forces at Peta near Arta on 4 July 1822, during the Greek War of Independence.
Battle of Petra
The Battle of Petra (Μάχη της Πέτρας) was the last battle of the Greek War of Independence, won by Dimitrios Ypsilantis in Boeotia on 12 September 1829.
Battle of Petrovaradin
The Battle of Petrovaradin was a battle fought on 5 August 1716 at Petrovaradin, near present-day Novi Sad, Serbia, where Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a larger Ottoman army.
Battle of Pharsalus
Battle of Pharsalus, 9 August 48 BCE, Thessaly: Julius Caesar defeated Pompey the Great and the Senate's larger army, routing its cavalry with a hidden fourth line; the victory ended the republic and led to Pompey's assassination in Egypt.
Battle of Phichai
The Battle of Phichai (พิชัย) refers to two Burmese attacks on the northern Siamese town of Phichai during the Thonburi period, in 1772 and 1773, both repelled.
Battle of Philippi
Battle of Philippi (3 and 23 October 42 BC): two engagements near Philippi, Macedonia, where triumvirs Antony and Octavian defeated Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius, ending the republican cause.
Battle of Philippopolis (1878)
The Battle of Philippopolis, also called the Battle of Plovdiv, was the final major battle of the Russo-Turkish War, won by Russian forces under General Iosif Gurko in January 1878.
Battle of Phước Long
The Battle of Phước Long, also known as the Route 14 – Phước Long Campaign, was a December 1974 to January 1975 battle in which North Vietnamese forces overran a South Vietnamese province.
Battle of Pinaglabanan
The Battle of Pinaglabanan, also called the Battle of San Juan del Monte, was the first major battle of the Philippine Revolution, fought at San Juan del Monte in 1896.
Battle of Pingxingguan
The Battle of Pingxingguan, also known as the Battle of Pinghshingkuan Pass, was fought in northwestern Shanxi in September 1937, where Lin Biao's Eighth Route Army ambushed a Japanese supply column.
Battle of Piribebuy
The Battle of Piribebuy (Batalla de Piribebuy) was the storming of Piribebuy, Paraguay's third provisional capital, by some 20,000 Allied troops on 12 August 1869 during the Paraguayan War.
Battle of Pirot
The Battle of Pirot names two battles fought at Pirot in eastern Serbia: a Serbian attack on the Ottomans in December 1877 and a Bulgarian victory in November 1885.
Battle of Pisagua
The Battle of Pisagua (desembarco y combate de Pisagua) was a Chilean amphibious landing operation on November 2, 1879, which opened the Tarapacá Campaign during the War of the Pacific.
Battle of Placilla
The Battle of Placilla, or Batalla de Placilla, was the decisive land battle of the Chilean Civil War of 1891, fought near Valparaíso on 28 August.
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Plassey (Palashi), 23 June 1757: East India Company victory under Robert Clive over Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, secured by Mir Jafar's betrayal; began Company rule in Bengal and British colonial power in South Asia.
Battle of Plataea (Μάχη των Πλαταιών)
Battle of Plataea (Μάχη των Πλαταιών), 479 BCE land battle in Boeotia where Pausanias' Greek coalition defeated and killed Mardonius, ending Xerxes' invasion of Greece, near the Asopus river.
Battle of Playa Honda
The Battle of Playa Honda was a series of naval engagements off Zambales, Luzon, in 1610, 1617, and 1624, in which Spanish forces from Manila defeated Dutch VOC fleets during the Eighty Years' War.
Battle of Pliska
Battle of Pliska (811): Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I sacked the Bulgarian capital Pliska, then was ambushed by Khan Krum in the Vărbitsa Pass on 26 July 811; the army was annihilated and Nikephoros killed, his skull made a silver-lined drinking cup.
Battle of Pločnik
The Battle of Pločnik (Serbian: Битка на Плочник) was an encounter between Prince Lazar's forces and the Ottoman army of Sultan Murad I, fought near Prokuplje around 1386.
Battle of Plum Creek
The Battle of Plum Creek was an engagement on August 11–12, 1840, in which a volunteer Texan army and Texas Rangers routed Comanche warriors returning from the Linnville Raid, near present Lockhart, Texas.
Battle of Pochonbo
Battle of Pochonbo (보천보 전투, 普天堡戰鬪): June 4, 1937 night raid in which Kim Il Sung's Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army unit crossed the Amnok River, burned the Pochonbo police substation and offices, and became nationally famous.
Battle of Podhajce (1667)
The Battle of Podhajce (1667) was a defensive battle fought near Pidhaitsi, in present-day Ukraine, in October 1667, where Jan Sobieski's entrenched army withstood a larger Cossack-Tatar force until the invaders agreed to a truce.
Battle of Point 4875
Battle of Point 4875, also called Batra Top or Gun Hill, a July 1999 Kargil War engagement in Mushkoh Valley where 13 JAK Rifles under 79 Mountain Brigade recaptured the 15,990-foot peak; Vikram Batra and Sanjay Kumar won the Param Vir Chakra.
Battle of point 5140
The Battle of Point 5140 was fought in the 1999 Kargil War, when 13 JAK Rifles led by Captain Vikram Batra recaptured a 5,140-meter peak overlooking Dras.
Battle of Point Pleasant
Battle of Point Pleasant (October 10, 1774), the only major engagement of Lord Dunmore's War: Andrew Lewis's 800 Virginia militia defeated Cornstalk's roughly 800 Shawnee warriors at the Ohio-Kanawha confluence, leading to the Treaty of Camp Charlotte.
Battle of Poitiers
Battle of Poitiers (19 September 1356): Hundred Years' War victory by the Black Prince near Poitiers, France, capturing King John II and leading to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360); distinct from the 732 battle of Charles Martel.
Battle of Polonka
The Battle of Polonka was fought on 28 June 1660 near Slonim in present-day Belarus, where Commonwealth forces under Sapieha and Czarniecki routed Ivan Khovansky's Muscovite army.