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Battle of Vella Gulf
The Battle of Vella Gulf was a night naval battle in the Solomon Islands on 6–7 August 1943, where U.S. destroyers sank three Japanese destroyers undamaged.
Battle of Vella Lavella
The Battle of Vella Lavella was a 1943 campaign in the Solomon Islands where Allied forces seized the island, leapfrogging the Japanese stronghold of Kolombangara.
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun (21 February-18 December 1916), the longest battle of World War I, a German attrition offensive under Falkenhayn against the French fortress city; about 700,000 casualties, Forts Douaumont and Vaux lost and retaken, ending with both armies back on their February positions.
Battle of Vescera
The Battle of Vescera, known in Arabic as the Battle of Tahouda, was a 683 battle in Algeria where the Berber leader Kusaila ambushed and killed the Arab governor Uqba ibn Nafi.
Battle of Vezekény
The Battle of Vezekény, also called the Battle of Veľké Vozokany, was fought on 26 August 1652 between Hungarian Habsburg forces and Ottoman raiders near Érsekújvár.
Battle of Vienna
Battle of Vienna, 11-12 September 1683: Polish-Austrian-German relief army of 84,450 under John III Sobieski defeated Kara Mustafa's Ottoman army, ending the second siege of Vienna and starting the Ottoman rollback.
Battle of Vientiane
The Battle of Vientiane was the December 1960 assault by General Phoumi Nosavan's rightist forces on the Laotian capital, held by Captain Kong Le's neutralist paratroopers since August.
Battle of Vigo Bay
Battle of Vigo Bay (Battle of Rande), naval battle of 23 October 1702 in the War of the Spanish Succession: Rooke's Anglo-Dutch fleet destroyed the Franco-Spanish treasure fleet at Vigo, though most silver had already been unloaded.
Battle of Vilcapugio
The Battle of Vilcapugio was fought on 1 October 1813 in present-day Bolivia, ending in the defeat of Manuel Belgrano's patriot army by royalist forces under Joaquín de la Pezuela.
Battle of Villamontes
The Battle of Villamontes was a February and March 1935 battle of the Chaco War, in which a Paraguayan offensive against Villa Montes, Bolivia, failed.
Battle of Vilnius (1794)
Two 1794 engagements of the Kościuszko Uprising at Vilnius: insurgents under Jakub Jasiński took the city in April, and the Russians retook it in August.
Battle of Vimy Ridge
Battle of Vimy Ridge, fought 9-12 April 1917 near Arras, France, when the four divisions of the Canadian Corps first attacked together and captured the fortified German ridge, taking Hill 145 and the Pimple at a cost of over 10,600 casualties.
Battle of Vĩnh Yên
The Battle of Vĩnh Yên (Trận Vĩnh Yên) was a First Indochina War battle fought near Hanoi in January 1951, won by French forces under General de Lattre.
Battle of Visby
Battle of Visby, 27 July 1361: Danish king Valdemar IV Atterdag's professional army defeated a Gotlandic peasant army outside Visby's walls; four Korsbetningen mass graves with 1,185 skeletons and armor define its archaeology.
Battle of Vitebsk (1944)
The Battle of Vitebsk (1944) was the encirclement and destruction of the German LIII Army Corps at Vitebsk, Belarus, by two Soviet fronts in June 1944.
Battle of Vítkov Hill
The Battle of Vítkov Hill (Bitva na Vítkově) was a 1420 Hussite victory near Prague, where Jan Žižka repelled crusader forces of Sigismund of Luxembourg.
Battle of Vittorio Veneto
Battle of Vittorio Veneto (third battle of the Piave): final Italian-led Allied offensive of WWI, 24 October to 4 November 1918, under General Armando Diaz; broke the Austro-Hungarian army, took about 500,000 prisoners, and led to the Villa Giusti armistice.
Battle of Voronezh
The Battle of Voronezh was the fight for the Soviet city of Voronezh, beginning on 28 June 1942 as the opening of the German summer offensive.
Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
The Battle of Vrbanja Bridge was a 1995 firefight in Sarajevo in which French UN peacekeepers recaptured a bridge post seized by disguised Bosnian Serb troops.
Battle of Vučji Do
The Battle of Vučji Do was an 1876 victory of united Montenegrin and Herzegovinian forces over an Ottoman army near Bileća, during the Montenegrin-Ottoman war.
Battle of Vukovar
The Battle of Vukovar, or Siege of Vukovar, was an 85-day siege of the Croatian town of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army in 1991.
Battle of Wadi Akarit
The Battle of Wadi Akarit, also called Operation Scipio, was a British Eighth Army attack in southern Tunisia on 6–7 April 1943 during the Tunisia Campaign.
Battle of Waegwan
The Battle of Waegwan (왜관 전투) was a Korean War battle fought from August to September 1950 at Waegwan on the Naktong River north of Daegu, South Korea.
Battle of Wagram
The Battle of Wagram, fought on 5 and 6 July 1809 northeast of Vienna, saw Napoleon's army defeat Archduke Charles's Austrians, ending the War of the Fifth Coalition.
Battle of Wake Island
Battle of Wake Island (8–23 December 1941): Marines and civilians on the atoll repulsed the first Japanese amphibious assault on 11 December, sinking destroyers Hayate and Kisaragi, then surrendered on 23 December to a reinforced invasion force.
Battle of Wanat
The Battle of Wanat was a 2008 insurgent assault on a US combat outpost near Wanat, Afghanistan, killing 9 American soldiers in one of the war's bloodiest days.
Battle of Wanjialing
The Battle of Wanjialing (万家岭战役) was a 1938 encirclement battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in Jiangxi, where Chinese forces under Xue Yue trapped Japan's 106th Division.
Battle of Warka
The Battle of Warka was a Polish victory over a Swedish relief corps near Warka, Poland, on 7 April 1656, during the Second Northern War.
Battle of Warsaw (1920)
Battle of Warsaw (Bitwa Warszawska), 13–25 August 1920, decisive Polish victory over Tukhachevski's Red Army in the Polish-Soviet War, the "Miracle on the Vistula".
Battle of Washita River
The Battle of Washita River, also called the Washita Massacre, was a dawn attack by Custer's 7th Cavalry on Black Kettle's Cheyenne village in Oklahoma on November 27, 1868.