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Battle of Taleh
The Battle of Taleh was the January 1920 British assault on Taleh, the fortified capital of Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State, ending 21 years of resistance.
Battle of Talikota
Battle of Talikota, also Battle of Rakshasi-Tangadi (23 or 26 January 1565): Deccan sultanate coalition defeated Vijayanagara's Rama Raya on the Krishna river; the sack and abandonment of Hampi followed.
Battle of Tamai
The Battle of Tamai, also called Tamanieh, was a battle fought in eastern Sudan on 13 March 1884, in which a British force under Sir Gerald Graham defeated Osman Digna's Mahdist army.
Battle of Tampico (1829)
The Battle of Tampico, also called the Barradas Expedition, was Spain's final attempt to reconquer Mexico in 1829, ending when Isidro Barradas surrendered to Santa Anna on 11 September.
Battle of Tanga
Battle of Tanga (2–5 November 1914), also the Battle of the Bees: failed British-Indian amphibious assault under General Aitken on the German East African port of Tanga, defeated by Lettow-Vorbeck's colonial forces in the opening clash of the East African campaign.
Battle of Tannenberg
Battle of Tannenberg, 26–30 August 1914, East Prussia: German Eighth Army under Hindenburg and Ludendorff encircled Samsonov's Russian Second Army, taking about 90,000 prisoners; named for the 1410 Teutonic defeat and central to the Hindenburg myth.
Battle of Tarakan (1945)
The Battle of Tarakan (1945) was an amphibious assault by Australian forces on 1 May 1945 that recaptured the Japanese-held oil island of Tarakan off Borneo.
Battle of Tarapacá
The Battle of Tarapacá was a War of the Pacific battle fought on 27 November 1879, where a Peruvian force under General Juan Buendía defeated a Chilean division.
Battle of Tarawa
Battle of Tarawa: November 20-23, 1943 WWII battle in which the U.S. 2nd Marine Division took fortified Betio Island, Gilbert Islands, in Operation Galvanic's 76-hour, high-casualty first Central Pacific assault.
Battle of Tarqui
The Battle of Tarqui, also called Batalla del Portete de Tarqui, was a battle fought on 27 February 1829 near Cuenca, Ecuador, during the Gran Colombia–Peru War.
Battle of Tassafaronga (ルンガ沖夜戦)
Battle of Tassafaronga (ルンガ沖夜戦), 30 November 1942: night action off Guadalcanal where Raizo Tanaka's eight destroyers with Long Lance torpedoes sank USS Northampton and crippled three cruisers under Carleton Wright, though no supplies reached shore.
Battle of Tatarahama
The Battle of Tatarahama (多々良浜の戦い) was fought in 1336 near Hakata in Fukuoka, where Ashikaga Takauji defeated Kikuchi Taketoshi and then marched east to establish the Ashikaga shogunate.
Battle of Tawergha
The Battle of Tawergha (تاورغاء) was the August 2011 capture of the Libyan town of Tawergha by Misrata fighters, after which its entire population was displaced.
Battle of Tây Kết
The Battle of Tây Kết (Trận Tây Kết) was a 1285 victory of Đại Việt over Yuan forces, killing the Mongol marshal Sogetu in present-day Hưng Yên, Vietnam.
Battle of Tegoshigawara
The Battle of Tegoshigawara (手越河原の戦い) was a battle fought in 1335 at Tegoshigawara in Suruga Province, where Nitta Yoshisada's eastward army defeated Ashikaga Tadayoshi.
Battle of Tejucupapo
The Battle of Tejucupapo (Batalha de Tejucupapo) was fought on 24 April 1646 in Pernambuco, Brazil, where local women armed with farm tools and boiling pepper water helped repel about 600 Dutch soldiers.
Battle of Tenmokuzan
The Battle of Tenmokuzan (天目山の戦い), also called the Battle of Tanō, was the final engagement of the 1582 Kōshū campaign, where Takeda Katsuyori died and the Takeda clan ended.
Battle of Tennōji
The Battle of Tennōji (天王寺の戦い) refers to two battles fought near Tennōji in Osaka: Oda Nobunaga's 1576 victory and the 1615 battle that destroyed the Toyotomi clan.
Battle of Terek River (1262)
The Battle of Terek River was a defeat of the Ilkhanate army by Berke's Golden Horde on the frozen Terek in January 1263, opening the Berke–Hulagu war.
Battle of Ternate (1606)
The Battle of Ternate (1606) was the Spanish conquest of Ternate in the Maluku Islands led by Governor Pedro Bravo de Acuña, beginning nearly six decades of Spanish rule.
Battle of Tessalit
The Battle of Tessalit was the fighting for Tessalit, a garrison town in Mali's Kidal region, most notably the 2012 siege that expelled the Malian army.
Battle of Tétouan
The Battle of Tétouan was a victory on 4 February 1860 by a Spanish army under General Leopoldo O'Donnell over a Moroccan army, during the Hispano-Moroccan War of 1859 to 1860.
Battle of Tewkesbury
Battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471, Gloucestershire: Yorkist Edward IV crushed the Lancastrian army of Queen Margaret and Somerset, killing Prince Edward, heir of Henry VI, ending the second phase of the Wars of the Roses.
Battle of the Alamo
Battle of the Alamo: thirteen-day siege (February 23 to March 6, 1836) of the former mission San Antonio de Valero, San Antonio, Texas, during the Texas Revolution; Santa Anna's Mexican army stormed the garrison under Travis and Bowie, killing all defenders.
Battle of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas
The siege of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas was the storming of Guanajuato's public granary by insurgents under Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende on 28 September 1810, early in the Mexican War of Independence.
Battle of the Allia
Battle of the Allia (dies Alliensis, 18 July 390 BCE; 387/386 Greek reckoning): defeat of a Roman army by Senones under Brennus near the Tiber, leading to the Gallic sack of Rome and a 1,000-pound gold ransom.
Battle of the Alta River
The Battle of the Alta River is the name of two battles on the Alta River near Pereiaslav in Kievan Rus', fought in 1019 and 1068.
Battle of the Argenta Gap
The Battle of the Argenta Gap was an April 1945 Allied victory in which the British Eighth Army broke through German defenses onto the Po plains in Italy.
Battle of the Argeș
The Battle of the Argeș, also called the Battle for Bucharest, was Romania's last major defeat of the 1916 campaign, fought in late 1916 near Bucharest.
Battle of the Atlantic
Battle of the Atlantic: the 1939-1945 WWII campaign in which German U-boats tried to sever Britain's Atlantic supply lifeline and Allied convoys, escorts, aircraft, radar, HF/DF, and Enigma codebreaking defeated them, with the May 1943 'Black May' withdrawal as the turning point.