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Battle of the Beanfield
Battle of the Beanfield: 1 June 1985 confrontation near Stonehenge, Wiltshire, where roughly 1,300 police stopped about 600 New Age travellers in the Peace Convoy, making 537 arrests.
Battle of the Big Hole
The Battle of the Big Hole was a two-day fight of the Nez Perce War fought August 9–10, 1877, between the Nez Perce and US Army troops under Colonel John Gibbon in southwestern Montana.
Battle of the Bismarck Sea
The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was a 1943 World War II air-sea engagement in which Allied aircraft destroyed a Japanese troop convoy bound for Lae, New Guinea.
Battle of the Bogside
Battle of the Bogside, 12-14 August 1969 rioting in Derry's Catholic Bogside against the RUC after the Apprentice Boys parade; CS gas used, 'Free Derry' barricades, and British Army deployment that marked the Troubles' start.
Battle of the Bowling Alley
The Battle of the Bowling Alley was a series of engagements in August 1950 north of Taegu, Korea, where US and South Korean forces blocked a North Korean offensive.
Battle of the Boyne
Battle of the Boyne, fought 1 July 1690 (Old Style) at Oldbridge on the River Boyne, Ireland: William III defeated James II in the largest engagement on Irish soil, part of the Williamite War and Nine Years War, now commemorated on 12 July by the Orange Order.
Battle of the Bridge of Calderón
The Battle of the Bridge of Calderón (Batalla del Puente de Calderón) was a battle of the Mexican War of Independence fought on 17 January 1811.
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge, or Ardennes Counteroffensive (German: Wacht am Rhein), was Nazi Germany's last major Western Front offensive of World War II, launched December 16, 1944 through the Ardennes toward Antwerp and defeated by late January 1945.
Battle of the Bzura
Battle of the Bzura (Bitwa nad Bzurą), also called Battle of Kutno: the largest battle of the 1939 German invasion of Poland, 9–19 September, where Polish armies Poznań and Pomorze counterattacked the German 8th Army before being encircled and destroyed.
Battle of the Camel
Battle of the Camel (وقعة الجمل, Battle of Jamal), 36 AH/656 CE near Basra: first battle of the First Fitna, where Caliph Ali defeated Aisha, Talha, and al-Zubayr; named for Aisha's camel.
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, also called Battle of Châlons: 451 battle where Attila's Hunnic army was turned back in Gaul by a confederate army under Roman general Aetius; known mainly through Jordanes' later account.
Battle of the Caucasus (Битва за Кавказ)
Battle of the Caucasus (Битва за Кавказ), 1942–1943 Soviet-German campaign of Operation Edelweiss for the Baku, Maikop, and Grozny oil fields; German advance stalled, then withdrew by March 1943.
Battle of the Cauldron
The Battle of the Cauldron was the central phase of the Battle of Gazala in Libya, where Rommel's trapped Axis forces held out and destroyed British counterattacks in June 1942.
Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River
The Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River (清川江战役), a decisive Korean War battle fought November 25 to December 2, 1950, in northwestern North Korea, forced UN forces to withdraw.
Battle of the Chateauguay
The Battle of the Chateauguay was a War of 1812 engagement on 26 October 1813 in Lower Canada, where a Canadian force under de Salaberry repulsed an American advance on Montréal.
Battle of the Chesapeake
Battle of the Chesapeake (Battle of the Virginia Capes), September 5, 1781 naval battle off Chesapeake Bay where de Grasse's French fleet under Graves's British fleet secured bay control, enabling the Yorktown siege and Cornwallis's surrender.
Battle of the Colline Gate
Battle of the Colline Gate (1 November 82 BC): Sulla and Crassus defeated Pontius Telesinus's Samnite-Lucanian army outside Rome's Colline Gate, ending Sulla's civil war and leading to his proscriptions and dictatorship.
Battle of the Coral Sea (珊瑚海海戦)
Battle of the Coral Sea (珊瑚海海戦), 4–8 May 1942: first carrier-versus-carrier battle, fought near Port Moresby and Tulagi during Japan's Operation MO. Japanese tactical victory, Allied strategic victory; Shōhō and USS Lexington sunk; Shōkaku and Zuikaku missed Midway.
Battle of the Cosmin Forest
The Battle of the Cosmin Forest was fought on 26 October 1497 between Moldavia under Stephen the Great and invading Polish forces, ending in a major Moldavian victory.
Battle of the Crater
Battle of the Crater (the Mine), July 30, 1864, Siege of Petersburg: Union mine with 8,000 pounds of powder blew a gap in the Confederate line, but attackers ran into the 130-foot crater; Confederate victory, 5,289 casualties, Burnside relieved.
Battle of the Day River
The Battle of the Day River, or Quang Trung campaign, was a failed Viet Minh offensive against the French Day River line in northern Vietnam in May and June 1951.
Battle of the Denmark Strait
The Battle of the Denmark Strait (24 May 1941): Bismarck and Prinz Eugen sank HMS Hood, killing 1,415 men, and damaged HMS Prince of Wales during Operation Rheinübung; Bismarck was sunk three days later.
Battle of the Dnieper
The Battle of the Dnieper (Битва за Днепр) was a Red Army offensive from August to December 1943 that forced the Dnieper and liberated Kiev.
Battle of the Downs
Battle of the Downs (De Slag bij Duins), 21 October 1639: Maarten Tromp's Dutch fleet destroyed Antonio de Oquendo's Spanish Armada de Flandes in the neutral English Downs anchorage, ending Spanish naval dominance in northern European waters.
Battle of the Drina
The Battle of the Drina (Serbian: Битка на Дрини) was a series of battles between Serbian and Austro-Hungarian armies along the Drina and Sava rivers in 1914.
Battle of the Dukla Pass
The Battle of the Dukla Pass (Karpatsko-duklianska operácia) was a 1944 Carpathian offensive by the Soviet Red Army and Czechoslovak corps to aid the Slovak National Uprising.
Battle of the Eastern Solomons
Battle of the Eastern Solomons (Second Battle of the Solomon Sea), 23–25 August 1942: third Pacific War carrier battle, during Operation Ka; Saratoga and Enterprise sank the light carrier Ryujo, damaged Enterprise, and turned back Japanese Guadalcanal reinforcements.
Battle of the Ebro
Battle of the Ebro (Batalla del Ebro, Batalla de l'Ebre), 25 July to 16 November 1938: longest, largest battle of the Spanish Civil War; Republican crossing under Modesto ended in defeat and Catalonia's fall.
Battle of the Falkland Islands
Battle of the Falkland Islands (8 December 1914): Royal Navy victory in which Vice Admiral Sturdee's battlecruisers Invincible and Inflexible destroyed von Spee's German East Asia Squadron off Port Stanley, avenging Coronel and ending German surface power in the South Atlantic.
Battle of the Frontiers
Battle of the Frontiers, August 1914, opening WWI battles along the French, Belgian, and German borders; German armies defeated French Plan XVII offensives and the BEF at Lorraine, the Ardennes, Charleroi, and Mons, clearing the way toward Paris.