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Battle of Domstadtl

The Battle of Domstadtl (Czech: Domašov), fought on 30 June 1758 at Domašov nad Bystřicí in Moravia, was an Austrian victory under Ernst Gideon von Laudon that destroyed a Prussian supply convoy.

Battle of Donbas (2022)

Battle of Donbas (2022): Russia's April–July 2022 eastern Ukraine offensive after the failed Kyiv assault, also called the battle for Donbas. Artillery-driven advances took Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk, giving Russia all of Luhansk oblast and over half of Donetsk.

Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu

The Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu (Trận Đông Bộ Đầu) was a 1258 Trần dynasty victory over Mongol invaders at a Red River wharf in Hanoi.

Battle of Đống Đa

The Battle of Đống Đa, fought on 30 January 1789, was the decisive victory in which Emperor Quang Trung's Tây Sơn army destroyed the Qing invasion of Vietnam.

Battle of Đồng Xoài

The Battle of Đồng Xoài was a June 1965 Vietnam War battle where Viet Cong forces overran the CIDG camp at Đồng Xoài, north of Saigon.

Battle of Dongola

The Battle of Dongola was a 651 CE siege of Old Dongola, capital of the Christian kingdom of Makuria, by a Rashidun Arab army that withdrew after a truce.

Battle of Dongxing

The Battle of Dongxing (东兴之战), also called the Battle of Dongguan, was a 252 battle in which Eastern Wu repelled a Cao Wei attack at Dongxing.

Battle of Dorylaeum (1097)

The Battle of Dorylaeum (Dorylaion Muharebesi), fought on 1 July 1097 near present-day Eskishehir in Anatolia, was a First Crusade victory over Seljuk forces under Kilij Arslan I that opened the way toward Antioch.

Battle of Dos Ríos

The Battle of Dos Ríos was a minor 1895 skirmish near the Contramaestre and Cauto rivers in eastern Cuba where Spanish troops killed independence leader José Martí.

Battle of Drăgășani

The Battle of Drăgășani was an 1821 defeat of Alexandros Ypsilantis's Greek revolutionaries by Ottoman cavalry at Drăgășani, Wallachia, that destroyed the Sacred Band and ended the Greek revolt in the Danubian principalities.

Battle of Drepana

The Battle of Drepana, also called the Battle of Drepanum, was a 249 BC naval battle in which Carthage under Adherbal destroyed most of a larger Roman fleet during the First Punic War.

Battle of Dresden

The Battle of Dresden was a two-day battle on 26 and 27 August 1813 in which Napoleon defeated the larger allied Army of Bohemia under Prince Schwarzenberg, his last great victory in Germany.

Battle of Driniumor River

The Battle of Driniumor River, also known as the Battle of Aitape, was a July and August 1944 battle of World War II near Aitape, New Guinea.

Battle of Driskos

The Battle of Driskos (Greek: η μάχη του Δρίσκου) was a three-day battle of the First Balkan War fought near Ioannina in November 1912, ending in an Ottoman victory.

Battle of Dubica

The Battle of Dubica (Bitka kod Dubice) was a 1513 victory of Petar Berislavić's Croatian army over an Ottoman raiding force near the Una and Sava rivers.

Battle of Dubienka

The Battle of Dubienka was fought on 18 July 1792 on the Bug River in Poland between Tadeusz Kościuszko's Polish division and a much larger Russian force.

Battle of Dul Madoba

The Battle of Dul Madoba was an August 1913 Dervish victory over the British Camel Constabulary near Burao, in which commander Richard Corfield was killed.

Battle of Dunkirk

Battle of Dunkirk (Dunkerque): 26 May–4 June 1940 defensive battle and Operation Dynamo sea evacuation of 338,226 Allied troops under Vice Admiral Ramsay from Dover Castle, after the German breakthrough at Sedan during the Battle of France.

Battle of Dur-Papsukkal

The Battle of Dur-Papsukkal was a battle fought in 814 BC near Der in Babylonia, where Shamshi-Adad V of Assyria defeated the Babylonian king Marduk-balassu-iqbi.

Battle of Durbe

The Battle of Durbe, fought on 13 July 1260 near Durbe in present-day Latvia, was a Samogitian victory over the Teutonic Order's army, the largest Lithuanian victory of the 13th and 14th centuries.

Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)

Battle of Dyrrhachium (Dyrrachion), 18 October 1081: Robert Guiscard's Normans defeated Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos outside Dyrrachium; the Anglo-Saxon Varangian Guard was annihilated and the city fell in November 1081.

Battle of Ebelsberg

The Battle of Ebelsberg, also called Ebersberg, was a costly French victory on 3 May 1809 at Ebelsberg near Linz during the War of the Fifth Coalition.

Battle of Eckmühl

The Battle of Eckmühl, also spelled Eggmühl, was fought on 21–22 April 1809 in Bavaria during the War of the Fifth Coalition, where Napoleon's French forces defeated Archduke Charles's Austrian army.

Battle of Edessa

Battle of Edessa, 260 CE, fought near Carrhae and Edessa between Shapur I of the Sasanian Empire and Roman emperor Valerian; Shapur destroyed the Roman field army and captured Valerian, the first Roman emperor taken prisoner by a foreign enemy.

Battle of Edgehill

The Battle of Edgehill, fought in Warwickshire on 23 October 1642, was the first major pitched battle of the English Civil War, ending in a draw.

Battle of Edington

Battle of Edington (Ethandun), May 878: Alfred the Great of Wessex defeated the Viking leader Guthrum in Wiltshire, leading to Guthrum's baptism at Aller and withdrawal to East Anglia.

Battle of Edson's Ridge

The Battle of Edson's Ridge, also called Bloody Ridge, was a September 1942 Guadalcanal battle in which about 800 US Marines under Merritt Edson repelled Japanese attacks on a ridge south of Henderson Field.

Battle of Egubba

The Battle of Egubba was fought on 29 December 1445 in north-eastern Shewa, where Negus Zareʿa Yaʿqob of Ethiopia defeated and killed Sultan Ahmad Badlay of Adal.

Battle of El Adde

The Battle of El Adde was a January 2016 attack in which al-Shabaab overran an African Union base in southern Somalia held by Kenyan troops.

Battle of El Caney

The Battle of El Caney was fought on July 1, 1898, near Santiago de Cuba, where about 500 Spaniards under Joaquín Vara de Rey held off a larger American force for most of the day.