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Battle of Kota Bharu
The Battle of Kota Bharu was the Japanese amphibious assault on British and Indian defenses in northern Malaya on 8 December 1941, the opening engagement of the Pacific War.
Battle of Kousseri
The Battle of Kousseri was an 1900 battle in northern Cameroon in which French colonial forces crushed the army of the Sudanese warlord Rabah az-Zubayr.
Battle of Kozludzha
The Battle of Kozludzha was an 1774 battle of the Russo-Turkish War in which Russian forces under Alexander Suvorov defeated a larger Ottoman army near Kozludzha, Bulgaria.
Battle of Kramatorsk
Battle of Kramatorsk (April 12 – July 5, 2014): Donbas war fight in which Igor Girkin's pro-Russian separatists seized the Ukrainian city and its airfield, and Ukrainian forces retook it during the Anti-Terrorist Operation.
Battle of Krasnoi
The Battle of Krasnoi, also Krasny (Красный), refers to two engagements near Krasny, southwest of Smolensk, during Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812: an August rearguard action and November fighting, generally counted as a Russian victory.
Battle of Krbava Field
The Battle of Krbava Field (Krbavska bitka) was a 1493 battle in Lika, in present-day Croatia, where an Ottoman army decisively defeated a Croatian noble army.
Battle of Kresna Gorge
The Battle of Kresna Gorge was a series of battles fought in July 1913 on the Struma River in southwestern Bulgaria, on the southern front of the Second Balkan War.
Battle of Kressenbrunn
The Battle of Kressenbrunn (Bitva u Kressenbrunnu) was fought on 12 July 1260 between King Ottokar II of Bohemia and King Béla IV of Hungary, near the river March in Lower Austria.
Battle of Krojanty
The Battle of Krojanty, also called the Charge at Krojanty, was a Polish cavalry charge on the first day of the German invasion of Poland, 1 September 1939, near Krojanty in Pomerania.
Battle of Krtsanisi
The Battle of Krtsanisi (نبرد کرتسانسی) was fought on 10–11 September 1795 near Tbilisi, where about 35,000 Persian troops under Agha Mohammad Khan defeated King Erekle II's 5,000 Georgians.
Battle of Kruty
The Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Бій під Крутами) was a 1918 defensive engagement near Kyiv, where roughly 500 young Ukrainian volunteers held up a much larger Bolshevik force.
Battle of Kufra
The Battle of Kufra was a 1941 World War II engagement in which Free French forces under Colonel Leclerc captured the Italian-held oasis of Kufra in southeastern Libya.
Battle of Kulbiyow
The Battle of Kulbiyow was a January 2017 al-Shabaab attack on a Kenyan Army base at Kulbiyow near the Kenya-Somalia border, which was breached and looted.
Battle of Kulevicha
The Battle of Kulevicha (Кулевчинское сражение) was fought on 30 May 1829 near Kulevcha in eastern Bulgaria, where about 18,000 Russians under General Ivan Dibich defeated a 40,000-man Ottoman army.
Battle of Kulikovo (Куликовская битва)
Battle of Kulikovo (Куликовская битва), 8 September 1380, near the Don: Dmitry of Moscow's alliance defeated Mamai, a rebel Golden Horde general. Sources are scarce; troop numbers and the battle's legacy as Russia's first national feat remain heavily mythologized.
Battle of Kulm
The Battle of Kulm (Czech: bitva u Chlumec) was a battle of the War of the Sixth Coalition fought near Ústí nad Labem in 1813.
Battle of Kumanovo
The Battle of Kumanovo (Кумановска битка) was a two-day First Balkan War battle fought on 23 and 24 October 1912 near Kumanovo, ending in a Serbian victory that opened the way to Skopje.
Battle of Kummuh
The Battle of Kummuh, also known as the Battle of Qummuh, was a 743 BC battle in which Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria crushed a coalition led by Sarduri II of Urartu.
Battle of Kumsong
The Battle of Kumsong (금성 전투; 金城战役, Jincheng Campaign) was the final major offensive of the Korean War, where Chinese forces broke through South Korean lines days before the 1953 armistice.
Battle of Kunersdorf
Battle of Kunersdorf (12 August 1759, Kunowice, Poland): Russian-Austrian army under Saltykov and Laudon crushed Frederick the Great's 50,900 Prussians; his worst defeat, with 19,100 Prussian casualties and 172 guns lost.
Battle of Kunlun Pass
The Battle of Kunlun Pass (昆仑关战役) was a December 1939 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in which China's Fifth Army recaptured Kunlun Pass in Guangxi.
Battle of Kunu-ri
The Battle of Kunu-ri (군우리 전투) was a Korean War battle fought in late November 1950 in northwestern North Korea, where Chinese forces mauled the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division.
Battle of Kunyang
The Battle of Kunyang (昆阳之战) was fought in 23 AD at Kunyang, Henan, where Han restoration forces under Liu Xiu destroyed Wang Mang's vastly larger Xin army.
Battle of Kurakhove
Battle of Kurakhove (Курахове), fought late October 2024 to January 2025 in Donetsk Oblast; Russia's 51st and 8th Combined Arms Armies captured the city after a two-month battle, with Ukrainian withdrawal completed by mid-January 2025.
Battle of Kurikara
The Battle of Kurikara (倶利伽羅峠の戦い), also called the Battle of Tonamiyama, was an 1183 battle where Kiso Yoshinaka destroyed the Taira army of Taira no Koremori at Kurikara Pass.
Battle of Kursk (Курская битва)
Battle of Kursk (Курская битва), 5 July–23 August 1943 Eastern Front battle; Germany's Operation Citadel pincer failed against prepared Soviet defenses, and Prokhorovka's 'largest tank battle' claim is now considered exaggerated.
Battle of Kuryłówka
The Battle of Kuryłówka, fought near Kuryłówka in southeastern Poland on 6 May 1945, saw Polish anti-communist underground units repel an attack by Soviet NKVD troops.
Battle of Kutná Hora
Battle of Kutná Hora (Bitva u Kutné Hory), December 21–22, 1421, Hussite Wars: Sigismund of Hungary's 30,000 crusaders took the silver city from Jan Žižka's 12,000 Hussites, but Žižka's wagon-column breakout led to a January 1422 counter-offensive that expelled Sigismund from Bohemia.
Battle of Kwajalein
The Battle of Kwajalein was a 1944 World War II amphibious assault in which U.S. Army and Marine forces captured Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands from Japan.
Battle of Kyiv (2022)
Battle of Kyiv (2022), February 24 to April 2: Russian forces from Belarus and northern Ukraine tried to seize Ukraine's capital via Hostomel Airport; Ukrainian defenders blocked the Irpin crossings and Russia withdrew, failing its coup de main.