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Battle of Farrukhabad
The Battle of Farrukhabad (फर्रुखाबाद की लड़ाई) was a British victory over Yashwantrao Holkar's Maratha cavalry in the Second Anglo-Maratha War, fought on 17 November 1804.
Battle of Farsala
The Battle of Farsala (Greek: Μάχη των Φαρσάλων) was a battle of the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 in which three Ottoman divisions drove the Greeks from Farsala.
Battle of Fei River
The Battle of Fei River (淝水之战) of 383 saw Eastern Jin under Xie Xuan rout a far larger Former Qin army, killing the Qin commander Fu Rong.
Battle of Fengwudong
The Battle of Fengwudong (봉오동 전투) was a June 1920 battle in Jilin, China, where Korean independence fighters under Hong Beom-do defeated a Japanese battalion.
Battle of Ferozeshah
The Battle of Ferozeshah (ਫਿਰੋਜ਼ਸ਼ਾਹ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was a costly British victory over the Sikh Khalsa Army at Ferozeshah in the Punjab on 21–22 December 1845, the first decisive battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War.
Battle of Feyiase
The Battle of Feyiase was a 1701 battle near Kumasi, Ghana, where Osei Tutu's Akan coalition defeated Denkyira, killed Ntim Gyakari, and founded independent Asante.
Battle of Finta
The Battle of Finta, fought near Finta, Wallachia, in May 1653, was a decisive victory of Matei Basarab over Vasile Lupu, ending Lupu's reign in Moldavia.
Battle of Firket
The Battle of Firket was a dawn surprise attack on 7 June 1896 in which Kitchener's Anglo-Egyptian army routed a Mahdist force on the Nile in Sudan.
Battle of Fleurus (1622)
The Battle of Fleurus (1622), fought on 29 August 1622 near Fleurus in the Spanish Netherlands, pitted a Spanish-Imperialist army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba against Protestant forces.
Battle of Flodden
Battle of Flodden (Flodden Field), 9 September 1513, near Branxton, Northumberland: English army under the Earl of Surrey defeated invading Scots under James IV, who was killed with much of the Scottish nobility.
Battle of Focșani
The Battle of Focșani was a battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792, won on 1 August 1789 by Russian and Austrian forces under Suvorov near Focșani.
Battle of Fondouk Pass
The Battle of Fondouk Pass was a pair of Allied attacks in late March and early April 1943 against Axis positions in central Tunisia during World War II.
Battle of Fontenoy
Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, War of the Austrian Succession victory of Marshal Maurice de Saxe's French army over the Duke of Cumberland's Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian Pragmatic Army near Tournai, with Louis XV and the Dauphin present and the famous 'fire first' courtesy anecdote.
Battle of Fort Dearborn
The Battle of Fort Dearborn, also called the Fort Dearborn Massacre, was an 1812 attack in which Potawatomi warriors destroyed a US evacuation column from Fort Dearborn in Chicago.
Battle of Fort Donelson
Battle of Fort Donelson (February 11-16, 1862), Union Civil War victory on the Cumberland River, Tennessee, where Ulysses S. Grant captured about 12,000 Confederates and won his 'Unconditional Surrender' nickname.
Battle of Fort Pillow
Battle of Fort Pillow (Fort Pillow Massacre), April 12, 1864: Confederate cavalry under Nathan Bedford Forrest overran a Union garrison of 295 white Tennesseans and 262 USCT on the Mississippi River, killing 229 of 262 black soldiers; a congressional inquiry found a massacre, and the controversy persists.
Battle of Fort Sumter
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the April 1861 Confederate bombardment of a Union garrison in Charleston Harbor, the opening engagement of the American Civil War.
Battle of Fotokol
The Battle of Fotokol was a Boko Haram attack on the Cameroonian border town of Fotokol on 4 February 2015, killing at least 90 civilians and 19 soldiers.
Battle of France
Battle of France (Fall Gelb, Fall Rot; Bataille de France): German invasion of May–June 1940 that conquered France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in six weeks, ending with the 22 June armistice and the Vichy regime.
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Fredericksburg (December 11-15, 1862): Confederate victory in which Lee's Army of Northern Virginia repelled Burnside's Army of the Potomac at the Rappahannock, with about 12,600 Union and 5,300 Confederate casualties.
Battle of Freiberg
The Battle of Freiberg (Schlacht bei Freiberg) was a Prussian victory near Freiberg, Saxony, on 29 October 1762, in the final phase of the Seven Years War.
Battle of Frenchtown
The Battle of Frenchtown, also called the Battle of the River Raisin, was an American defeat of the War of 1812, fought in January 1813 at Frenchtown, Michigan.
Battle of Friedland
Battle of Friedland (14 June 1807): Napoleon's decisive victory over Count von Bennigsen's Russian army at Friedland (Pravdinsk) on the Alle River; Lannes fixed the half-crossed Russians, Sénarmont's artillery charge broke them, and Tilsit ended the Fourth Coalition.
Battle of Fujiao
The Battle of Fujiao (夫椒之战) was a battle fought in 494 BC in Lake Tai, where Wu under King Fuchai crushed Yue's invading army under King Goujian.
Battle of Fujigawa
The Battle of Fujigawa (富士川の戦い) was an 1180 Genpei War battle where the Taira army fled in panic after startled waterfowl were mistaken for a Minamoto attack.
Battle of Fukuda Bay
The Battle of Fukuda Bay was a 1565 naval engagement in Japan in which a samurai flotilla of Matsuura Takanobu failed to board the Portuguese carrack.
Battle of Fundina
The Battle of Fundina was fought on 14 August 1876 in the Kuči region near Podgorica, where about 5,000 Montenegrins under Marko Miljanov routed an Ottoman army of 20,000, helping secure Montenegrin independence.
Battle of Gadara
The Battle of Gadara was a defeat inflicted around 93 BC by the Nabataean king Obodas I on the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus, ending his first Transjordanian conquests.
Battle of Gagron
The Battle of Gagron (गागरोन का युद्ध) was fought in 1519 at Gagron, in present-day Rajasthan, between Rana Sanga of Mewar and Mahmud Khilji II of Malwa.
Battle of Gaixia
The Battle of Gaixia (垓下之战) was the decisive battle of the Chu–Han contention, fought in 202 BC between Liu Bang of Han and Xiang Yu of Western Chu.