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Battle of Loos
Battle of Loos, 25 September to mid-October 1915: largest British offensive of WWI to that date, first British use of gas, near Lens, France. Six divisions gained Loos village and Hill 70, then lost them; about 60,000 British casualties; led to Sir John French's resignation.
Battle of Los Angeles
Battle of Los Angeles: false alarm of February 24-25, 1942, also called the Great Los Angeles Air Raid, when US 37th Coast Artillery Brigade fired over 1,400 anti-aircraft shells at phantom Japanese planes after the Ellwood shelling; no enemy aircraft appeared, five civilians died, and official explanations disagreed.
Battle of Los Horcones
The Battle of Los Horcones was an 1813 battle of Venezuela's independence war, fought near Barquisimeto, in which patriot colonel José Félix Ribas defeated the royalist Francisco Oberto.
Battle of Los Negros
The Battle of Los Negros was the opening action of the Allied invasion of the Admiralty Islands in World War II, fought from 29 February to 8 March 1944.
Battle of Loudoun Hill
Battle of Loudoun Hill, 10 May 1307: Robert the Bruce's first major victory as King of Scots, defeating Aymer de Valence's larger English force using prepared ditches and dismounted pikemen in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Battle of Lovcha
The Battle of Lovcha was a series of 1877 engagements between Russian and Ottoman forces for the town of Lovcha in northern Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War.
Battle of Lubieszów
The Battle of Lubieszów (Bitwa pod Lubieszowem, also Battle of Lubiszewo) was fought on 17 April 1577 near Lubiszewo Tczewskie in Pomerania, where King Stefan Batory's royal army crushed the forces of rebellious Gdańsk.
Battle of Lucena
The Battle of Lucena (معركة لوسينا), fought on 20 April 1483 near Lucena, Cordoba, was a Castilian victory in which the Granadan emir Boabdil was captured and Ali Atar killed.
Battle of Lugalo
The Battle of Lugalo, fought on 17 August 1891 near Iringa in present-day Tanzania, was an ambush in which Hehe warriors under Chief Mkwawa annihilated a German colonial column.
Battle of Lugos
The Battle of Lugos was fought in September 1695 near Lugoj, Romania, during the Great Turkish War, when Sultan Mustafa II's Ottoman army destroyed Count Veterani's Imperial corps.
Battle of Lule Burgas
The Battle of Lule Burgas was a battle of the First Balkan War in 1912, in which Bulgarian armies defeated the Ottoman East Army in Eastern Thrace.
Battle of Lumë
Battle of Lumë (Beteja e Lumës), November 1912 First Balkan War engagements in northeastern Albania between a Serbian Third Army column under Božidar Janković and irregular Albanian fighters led by Elez Isufi; dates, casualties and outcome are contested between Serbian and Albanian accounts.
Battle of Lüshunkou
The Battle of Lüshunkou, known as the fall of Port Arthur, was a First Sino-Japanese War land engagement in which Japan captured Lüshunkou in November 1894.
Battle of Lutibu
The Battle of Lutibu was a battle fought in 858 BC at Lutibu, where Shalmaneser III of Assyria claimed victory over a coalition of Syro-Hittite and Aramean rulers.
Battle of Lützen (1632)
The Battle of Lützen was a bloody 1632 battle of the Thirty Years' War near Leipzig, where the Swedish king Gustav II Adolf was killed.
Battle of Luzon
The Battle of Luzon was the 1945 campaign in which the US Sixth Army invaded and recaptured Luzon, the largest Philippine island, landing at Lingayen Gulf on 9 January.
Battle of Lwów (1675)
The Battle of Lwów (1675), also called Lesienice, was a victory for King John III Sobieski of Poland over a large Crimean Tatar army on August 24, 1675.
Battle of Maaten al-Sarra
The Battle of Maaten al-Sarra was a surprise Chadian raid on a Libyan air base in southeastern Libya on 5 September 1987, during the Toyota War.
Battle of Mabitac
The Battle of Mabitac, fought on September 17, 1900, at Mabitac in Laguna province, Luzon, saw Filipino forces under General Juan Cailles defeat American troops commanded by Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham, Jr.
Battle of Macau
The Battle of Macau was a Dutch assault on the Portuguese settlement of Macau, China, on 24 June 1622, which ended in the repulse of the Dutch landing force.
Battle of Maciejowice
The Battle of Maciejowice (Bitwa pod Maciejowicami), fought on 10 October 1794 near Warsaw, was a Russian victory over Tadeusz Kościuszko's insurgents in which Kościuszko was wounded and captured.
Battle of Macontene
The Battle of Macontene (Combate de Macontene), also called the Second Battle of Macontene, was fought in 1897 in Gaza province, Mozambique, ending Vatua resistance under chief Maguiguana.
Battle of Macta
The Battle of Macta was a defeat of a French column under General Trézel by Emir Abd al-Qadir's forces in the Macta marshes near Mostaganem, Algeria, in June 1835.
Battle of Mactan
Battle of Mactan, 27 April 1521: Lapulapu's warriors defeated Magellan's Spanish landing party on Mactan Island, killing Magellan; known chiefly through Antonio Pigafetta's eyewitness journal.
Battle of Madagascar
Battle of Madagascar (5 May to 6 November 1942), also known as the Madagascar Campaign, opened with Operation Ironclad, a British amphibious landing capturing Diego Suarez from Vichy France, and ended with Free French administration of the island.
Battle of Madras
The Battle of Madras was the French capture of the British East India Company settlement of Madras (now Chennai) in September 1746, during the First Carnatic War.
Battle of Maesoseong
The Battle of Maesoseong (매소성 전투) was fought in 675, when a Silla army routed the Tang force at Maesoseong fortress during the Silla–Tang War.
Battle of Magdala
The Battle of Magdala (መቅደላ) was the storming of Emperor Tewodros II's mountain fortress in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) on 13 April 1868 by a British and Indian force under Sir Robert Napier.
Battle of Magenta
The Battle of Magenta, fought on 4 June 1859 near Magenta in Lombardy, was the first major battle of the Second War of Italian Independence, ending in Austrian defeat.
Battle of Magersfontein
The Battle of Magersfontein, fought on 11 December 1899 near Kimberley, South Africa, saw Boer forces under General Piet Cronjé defeat Lord Methuen's advancing British army.