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Battle of Yenidje

The Battle of Yenidze (Greek: Μάχη των Γιαννιτσών, Battle of Giannitsa) was a Greek victory over Ottoman forces at Giannitsa, Macedonia, on 19–20 October 1912.

Battle of Yinshan

The Battle of Yinshan was a 630 night attack by a Tang army of over 100,000 under Li Jing that crushed the Eastern Turks and dissolved their khaganate.

Battle of Yongsan

The Battle of Yongsan (영산전투; 靈山戰鬪) was a Korean War engagement fought 1 to 5 September 1950 at Yongsan, South Korea, part of the Pusan Perimeter campaign.

Battle of Ypres

Battles of Ypres (Ieper), Belgium: five major First World War battles, 1914-1918, around an Allied salient. Includes First Ypres 1914, Second Ypres 1915 with the first lethal chlorine gas attack, and Third Ypres 1917, known as Passchendaele.

Battle of Yultong (율동 전투)

Battle of Yultong (율동 전투), also Battle of Yuldong: Korean War defense on April 22–23, 1951, north of Yeoncheon, where 900 Filipino soldiers of PEFTOK's 10th Battalion Combat Team held against Chinese Spring Offensive forces.

Battle of Yungay

The Battle of Yungay was a victory of Chilean and anti-Confederation Peruvian forces over Andrés de Santa Cruz on 20 January 1839 in northern Peru.

Battle of Zadwórze

The Battle of Zadwórze was a battle of the Polish–Bolshevik War fought on 17 August 1920 near Lwów, in which a Polish volunteer battalion held off Budionny's cavalry.

Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang

The Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang (枣宜会战), called the Yichang Operation by Japan, was a 1940 Japanese offensive in Hubei that defeated Chinese forces around Zaoyang and captured Yichang, held until 1945.

Battle of Zapote Bridge

Battle of Zapote Bridge (Labanan sa Zapote), 17 February 1897: Filipino revolutionary forces under Emilio Aguinaldo defeated Spanish troops under Polavieja at the Zapote River bridge; engineer-general Edilberto Evangelista was killed. A second 1899 battle there was fought against Lawton's Americans.

Battle of Zaria

The Battle of Zaria was the 1902 takeover of the Fulani emirate of Zazzau in northern Nigeria by British forces, ending nearly a hundred years of emirate rule.

Battle of Zarumilla

The Battle of Zarumilla was a series of combats fought from 23 to 31 July 1941 along the Zarumilla River on the Peru–Ecuador border, ending in a Peruvian victory.

Battle of Zawiya

The Battle of Zawiya (معركة الزاوية) was a 2011 battle of the Libyan civil war between rebels and Gaddafi loyalists for the coastal city of Zawiya.

Battle of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah

Battle of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah (زوطر الشرقية): May 2026 fight for a Litani River bank village in Nabatieh district, southern Lebanon, during the 2026 Israel-Hezbollah war; Hezbollah claimed point-blank clashes, the IDF denied them, and Israel later fully occupied and demolished the village.

Battle of Zboriv

The Battle of Zboriv (Зборівська битва) was a 1649 battle in which Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack and Crimean Tatar armies fought King Jan II Casimir's Polish forces near Zboriv.

Battle of Zborov (1917)

The Battle of Zborov was a World War I engagement on July 2, 1917 near Zborov in Galicia, where the Czechoslovak Rifle Brigade broke through Austro-Hungarian lines.

Battle of Zebak (2026)

The Battle of Zebak (2026) was a series of armed clashes between the Afghanistan Freedom Front and the Taliban in Badakhshan province, Afghanistan, starting July 23, 2026.

Battle of Zerabulak

The Battle of Zerabulak was a decisive engagement of the Russo-Bukharan War fought on 2 June 1868, in which General Kaufman routed the army of Emir Muzaffar of Bukhara.

Battle of Zhovnyn

The Battle of Zhovnyn (Жовнинська битва) was the decisive 1638 defeat of Cossack rebels under Yakiv Ostrianyn and Dmytro Hunia by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ending the 1637–1638 uprising.

Battle of Zhuravno

The Battle of Zhuravno was a series of engagements fought from September to October 1676 between King Jan III Sobieski's Polish army and an Ottoman-Tatar force near the Dniester.

Battle of Zhvanets

The Battle of Zhvanets (Жванецька облога) was the 1653 encirclement of King John II Casimir's Polish army near Zhvanets, Ukraine, by Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks and Crimean Tatars.

Battle of Zieleńce

The Battle of Zieleńce (Зелінці) was a Polish victory over Russian forces near Zieleńce in Volhynia on 18 June 1792, during the war in defense of the Constitution of 3 May 1791.

Battle of Zinder

The Battle of Zinder was the 1899 defeat of the Sultanate of Damagaram's army by a French colonial column, followed by the occupation of Zinder in what is now Niger.

Battle of Zintan

The Battle of Zintan (معركة الزنتان) was a series of 2011 Libyan Civil War engagements in which rebels in the Nafusa Mountains town of Zintan broke a siege by Gaddafi's forces in June 2011.

Battle of Zitácuaro

The Battle of Zitácuaro was a royalist assault on Zitácuaro, Michoacán, on 2 January 1812, driving out the insurgent junta governing the Mexican War of Independence.

Battle of Zlatitsa

The Battle of Zlatitsa was a stalemate fought on 12 December 1443 in central Bulgaria between crusaders under Władysław III and John Hunyadi and Sultan Murad II.

Battle of Znaim

The Battle of Znaim, fought on 10–11 July 1809 at Znojmo in Moravia, was the last battle of the Franco-Austrian War, ending in an armistice.

Battle of Zsibó

The Battle of Zsibó (Hungarian: zsibói csata) was fought on 11 November 1705 near Zsibó, today Jibou, Romania, where Field Marshal Ludwig Herbeville's imperial army defeated Ferenc Rákóczi II.

Battle of Żurawno

The Battle of Żurawno, also spelled Żórawno, was a siege of 1676 in which King Jan III Sobieski held a fortified camp against a larger Ottoman-Tatar force.

Battle of Żyrzyn

The Battle of Żyrzyn was an 1863 ambush near Żyrzyn, Poland, in which Polish insurgents under Michał Heydenreich destroyed a Russian convoy during the January Uprising.

Battle off Cape Engaño

The Battle of Cape Engaño, fought off Luzon on 25 October 1944, was a Battle of Leyte Gulf engagement in which US carrier aircraft destroyed Japan's four remaining carriers.