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Battle of Ituzaingó

The Battle of Ituzaingó was fought on 20 February 1827, when a combined Argentine-Oriental army under Carlos María de Alvear defeated the imperial Brazilian army in the Cisplatine War.

Battle of Iwo Jima (硫黄島の戦い)

The Battle of Iwo Jima (硫黄島の戦い), February 19 to March 26, 1945, was the 36-day US Marine Corps invasion of the 8-square-mile volcanic island in Operation Detachment; US casualties (6,821 killed, 19,217 wounded) exceeded Japanese, the only such Pacific battle.

Battle of Jagaraga

The Battle of Jagaraga, called Perang Jagaraga or the Second Bali War, was the 1848–1849 resistance of Bali's Buleleng kingdom against Dutch expeditions in northern Bali.

Battle of Jajau

The Battle of Jajau (जजौ का युद्ध) was a 1707 Mughal succession battle near Agra in which Bahadur Shah I defeated and killed his brother Azam Shah.

Battle of Jam

The Battle of Jam was a 1528 battle in Khorasan where Shah Tahmasp I's Safavid army defeated an invading Uzbek army led by Ubayd-Allah Khan of Bukhara.

Battle of Jankau

The Battle of Jankau, a 1645 battle of the Thirty Years' War near Prague, saw Lennart Torstensson's Swedish army destroy the Imperial-Bavarian army and capture Melchior von Hatzfeldt.

Battle of Jao Modo

The Battle of Jao Modo, also known as the Battle of Zuunmod, was a 1696 battle in which the Qing Empire routed Galdan Boshugtu Khan's Dzungar forces.

Battle of Jaquijahuana

The Battle of Jaquijahuana was fought on 9 April 1548 near Cusco, where royalists under Pedro de La Gasca defeated Gonzalo Pizarro, ending the encomendero rebellion in Peru.

Battle of Jaran-Manjur

The Battle of Jaran-Manjur, also known as the battle of Jalandhar, was a February 1298 victory of the Delhi Sultanate over Mongol raiders in Punjab.

Battle of Jarte

The Battle of Jarte was a pair of victories in April 1542 by a Portuguese force under Cristóvão da Gama against Ahmad al-Ghazi's Adal army in Ethiopia.

Battle of Jaunpur

The Battle of Jaunpur (جنگ جونپور) was the decisive 1479 defeat of Husain Shah Sharqi, sultan of Jaunpur, by Bahlul Lodi of Delhi, ending Sharqi rule over Jaunpur.

Battle of Java (1942)

The Battle of Java (1942) was the final Japanese campaign of the conquest of the Netherlands East Indies, ending with the KNIL surrender on 8 March 1942.

Battle of Javor

The Battle of Javor, popularly known as the Javor War, was a series of engagements in 1876 on Mount Javor in western Serbia during the First Serbian-Turkish War.

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt, twin battles of 14 October 1806 in Thuringia where Napoleon's Grande Armée destroyed the Prussian army; Napoleon won at Jena while Marshal Davout's lone corps routed the Prussian main army at Auerstedt, leading to the fall of Berlin.

Battle of Jenipapo

The Battle of Jenipapo was an engagement fought near Campo Maior, Piauí, on 13 March 1823, where Brazilian independence fighters lost to Portuguese troops but secured Piauí's adhesion to independence.

Battle of Jiangling

Battle of Jiangling (江陵之战) is the name Chinese historiography gives to several distinct battles at Jiangling, seat of Nanjun on the Yangtze, fought in 208–209, 219, and 222–223.

Battle of Jiangyin

The Battle of Jiangyin (江阴之战) was an 81-day siege in 1645 in which Jiangyin, led by Yan Yingyuan, resisted Qing forces after the hair-shaving edict.

Battle of Jiazhai

The Battle of Jiazhai (夹寨之战) was a surprise dawn assault in which Li Cunxu's Jin army stormed Later Liang's fortified siege camps around Luzhou, lifting a year-long blockade.

Battle of Jieqiao

The Battle of Jieqiao (界橋之戰) was a battle in the early 190s in which the warlord Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan south of Jieqiao in Hebei.

Battle of Jieting

The Battle of Jieting (街亭之战) was a spring 228 defeat of a Shu Han army under Ma Su by Wei's Zhang He, forcing Zhuge Liang to abandon his first northern expedition.

Battle of Jiksan

The Battle of Jiksan, also called the Battle of Sosapyeol, was a 1597 land battle of the Japanese invasion of Korea, fought near Cheonan between Ming and Japanese forces.

Battle of Jiluoshan

The Battle of Jiluoshan (稽落山之战) was a victory won in 89 AD by a Han army under Dou Xian and Geng Bing over the Northern Xiongnu.

Battle of Jimaguayú

The Battle of Jimaguayú was a battle of Cuba's Ten Years' War fought on 11 May 1873 in Camagüey, where Spanish forces killed Cuban commander Ignacio Agramonte.

Battle of Jimo

The Battle of Jimo (即墨之战), from 284 BC, was a siege of Jimo in Qi, where Tian Dan's fire-oxen night attack defeated Yan and recovered Qi's territory.

Battle of Jindo

The Battle of Jindo in May 1271 was the storming of the Sambyeolcho rebel capital on Jindo island by a joint Goryeo-Mongol army, ending the rebellion's government.

Battle of Jingxing

The Battle of Jingxing (井陉之战) was a battle of the Chu–Han contention in which Han Xin, using the backwater formation, destroyed a Zhao army said to number over 200,000.

Battle of Jinyang

The Battle of Jinyang (晋阳之战) was the decisive 453 BC clash in which Zhao, allied with Han and Wei, destroyed the Zhi clan and partitioned Jin.

Battle of Jixi

The Battle of Jixi (济西之战) was a decisive battle of the Warring States period, fought in 284 BC west of the Ji River, where a coalition led by Yan crushed Qi.

Battle of Jizzakh

The Battle of Jizzakh was the storming of the fortified town of Jizzakh, then held by the Emirate of Bukhara, by Russian troops on 18 October 1866.

Battle of Jolo (1876)

The Battle of Jolo (1876) was the capture and burning of Jolo, capital of the Sulu Sultanate, by a Spanish force under Governor-General José Malcampo in February 1876.