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Battle of Deligrad

The Battle of Deligrad (Битка код Делиграда) was a Serbian victory of the First Serbian Uprising, fought in 1806 near Aleksinac against an Ottoman advance from Niš.

Battle of Demoso

The Battle of Demoso was an armed engagement from late May to mid-June 2021 in Demoso, Kayah State, Myanmar, between junta forces and Karenni and PDF resistance fighters.

Battle of Der

The Battle of Der (Battle of Dēr) was fought in 720 BC at Der, east of Babylon, between Sargon II of Assyria and an Elamite army under Humban-nikash.

Battle of Derna (2018–2019)

The Battle of Derna (2018–2019) was an offensive by Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army to capture Derna in eastern Libya, part of the Second Libyan Civil War.

Battle of Dertosa

The Battle of Dertosa, also called the Battle of Ibera, was a Second Punic War battle fought in 215 BC in Spain, where the Scipio brothers defeated Hasdrubal Barca.

Battle of Dervenakia

The Battle of Dervenakia (Μάχη των Δερβενακίων) was a Greek victory over Ottoman forces in the mountain passes between Corinth and Argos on 26 July 1822.

Battle of Dessau Bridge

The Battle of Dessau Bridge (German: Schlacht bei Dessau) was a Thirty Years' War battle fought on 25 April 1626 at the Elbe bridge near Dessau, where Wallenstein decisively defeated Mansfeld.

Battle of Dettingen

Battle of Dettingen (27 June 1743): George II, last reigning British monarch to lead troops in battle, commanded the Pragmatic Army of British, Hanoverian, and Austrian forces to victory over the French under Noailles in Bavaria.

Battle of Dewair

The Battle of Dewair was a 1582 or 1583 victory of Maharana Pratap's Mewar forces over the Mughal garrison at Dewair, in which Amar Singh killed Sultan Khan.

Battle of Dhat Irq

The Battle of Dhat Irq was a desert plundering raid launched by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia against Arab tribes in 599/598 BC, recorded in the Babylonian Chronicle.

Battle of Dhi Qar

The Battle of Dhi Qar (يوم ذي قار) was an early 7th-century victory by Arab tribes of Bakr ibn Wa'il over a Sasanian Persian force in southern Iraq.

Battle of Diamond Hill

The Battle of Diamond Hill, also called the Battle of Donkerhoek, was a battle of the Second Boer War fought on 11 and 12 June 1900 east of Pretoria.

Battle of Didgori

Battle of Didgori (Didgoris brdzola), 12 August 1121: King David IV the Builder of Georgia defeated a Seljuk-led Muslim coalition near Tbilisi, enabling the 1122 capture of Tbilisi and Georgian unification, and is commemorated annually as Didgoroba.

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ), 13 March to 7 May 1954: decisive Viet Minh siege victory under Giap that destroyed the French fortified airbase, ended French rule in Vietnam, and led to the Geneva accords dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel.

Battle of Diffa

The Battle of Diffa was a series of armed clashes in February 2015 between Boko Haram and Niger's armed forces in Diffa and Bosso, southeastern Niger.

Battle of Digomi

The Battle of Digomi (Georgian: დიღმის ბრძოლა) was a battle fought in 1567 on the Digomi plain near Tbilisi, where King Simon I of Kartli defeated his brother David XI and his Qizilbash troops.

Battle of Dimawe

The Battle of Dimawe was a battle fought in August 1852 at Dimawe, capital of the Bakwena chief Sechele I in present-day Botswana, between a Transvaal Boer commando and Batswana defenders.

Battle of Dingtao

The Battle of Dingtao (定陶之战) was a battle in 208 BC in which the Qin general Zhang Han defeated the Chu rebel army at Dingtao in modern Shandong and killed its leader, Xiang Liang.

Battle of Dithakong

The Battle of Dithakong was fought in June 1823 near present-day Kuruman, South Africa, where about one hundred mounted Griqua gunmen defeated large forces of Sotho-speaking raiders known as the Mantatees.

Battle of Diu

The Battle of Diu was a naval battle fought on 3 February 1509 near Diu, India, in which a Portuguese fleet under Viceroy Francisco de Almeida destroyed the Egyptian fleet.

Battle of Diyala River

A 693 BC battle near Nippur in southern Babylonia where Sennacherib's Assyrian army defeated Babylonian forces under Nergal-ušezib, aided by Elamite troops, and captured their king.

Battle of Djahy

The Battle of Djahy was a land battle in which the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses III defeated the Sea Peoples in his eighth regnal year, around 1176 BC.

Battle of Djerba

The Battle of Djerba (معركة جربة) was a naval battle fought in May 1560 off Djerba, Tunisia, in which an Ottoman fleet under Piyale Pasha destroyed a Spanish-led Christian fleet.

Battle of Do Ban

The Battle of Do Ban (Trận Đồ Bàn) was a 1377 battle at the Do Ban citadel in which Champa ambushed and killed Emperor Tran Due Tong of Dai Viet.

Battle of Dobrich

The Battle of Dobrich (Битката при Добрич) was a 1916 World War I battle in which Bulgarian forces repelled Russian, Romanian, and Serbian troops at Dobrich.

Battle of Dobro Pole

The Battle of Dobro Pole (Пробив при Добро Поле) was a September 1918 battle on the Macedonian Front where French and Serbian forces broke through Bulgarian defenses.

Battle of Dodowa

The Battle of Dodowa, also known as the Katamanso War, was an 1826 defeat of the Asante army by a coalition of southern Gold Coast forces near Accra.

Battle of Dogali

The Battle of Dogali, also called the Dogali Massacre, was fought on 26 January 1887 in present-day Eritrea, where Ethiopian forces under Ras Alula destroyed an Italian relief column.

Battle of Domažlice

The Battle of Domažlice (Czech: bitva u Domažlic) was a 1431 battle in which a Hussite army under Prokop the Great routed a crusading force in western Bohemia.

Battle of Domokos

The Battle of Domokos, Dömeke in Ottoman usage, was the last major battle of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, an Ottoman victory under Edhem Pasha.