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Battle of Magul

The Battle of Magul, also called Combate de Magul, was fought on 8 September 1895 in Gaza, modern Mozambique, between a Portuguese column under Freire de Andrade and the Gaza Empire of Gungunhana.

Battle of Mahoba

The Battle of Mahoba (महोबा का युद्ध) was fought around 1182 between Prithviraja III, a Chauhan king, and Paramardi, the Chandela ruler of Bundelkhand, who was defeated.

Battle of Maipú

The Battle of Maipú (Batalla de Maipú) was a decisive 1818 battle near Santiago, Chile, where José de San Martín defeated the Spanish royalist army.

Battle of Majuba Hill

The Battle of Majuba Hill, fought on 27 February 1881 near Volksrust, South Africa, saw Boer forces storm and rout a British force, ending the First Boer War.

Battle of Makahambus Hill

The Battle of Makahambus Hill was fought on June 4, 1900, during the Philippine-American War, when Filipino revolutionaries on Makahambus Hill near Cagayan de Oro defeated the U.S. 40th Infantry Regiment.

Battle of Makapan's Kloof

The Battle of Makapan's Kloof, also called the siege of Makapan's Cave, was a punitive siege in which Boer commandos trapped Chief Mugombane's Kekana Ndebele in 1854.

Battle of Makhram (1875)

The Battle of Makhram was an 1875 victory of a Russian force under General von Kaufman over the Kokand Khanate, ending in the capture of the Makhram fortress.

Battle of Makin

The Battle of Makin was a November 1943 amphibious assault in which US Army troops captured Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands, as part of Operation Galvanic alongside Tarawa.

Battle of Mal Tiempo

The Battle of Mal Tiempo was a battle of the Cuban War of Independence fought on December 15, 1895, near Cruces, in which Cuban cavalry defeated a Spanish column.

Battle of Mala Tokmachka (Мала Токмачка)

The Battle of Mala Tokmachka is a fight for the village of Mala Tokmachka in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, that began with a failed Ukrainian breach in June 2023.

Battle of Malavalli

The Battle of Malavalli (ಮಲವಳ್ಳಿ ಕದನ) was fought on 27 March 1799 at Malavalli, Karnataka, between Tipu Sultan of Mysore and a British East India Company army.

Battle of Maling

The Battle of Maling (马陵之战) was a battle of China's Warring States period, fought around 341 BC, in which Qi decisively defeated Wei and forced it to submit.

Battle of Małogoszcz

The Battle of Małogoszcz (Bitwa pod Małogoszczem) was a large battle of the January Uprising fought on 24 February 1863 near Kielce, where Marian Langiewicz's insurgents escaped Russian encirclement.

Battle of Malolos

The Battle of Malolos was the capture of Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, by American forces under General Arthur MacArthur on March 31, 1899.

Battle of Maloyaroslavets (Малоярославецкое сражение)

Battle of Maloyaroslavets (Малоярославецкое сражение), 24 October 1812: Eugène de Beauharnais's corps held the Kaluga-province town against Dokhturov's Russians, but the battle forced Napoleon to abandon the Kaluga route and retreat via Smolensk.

Battle of Malplaquet

Battle of Malplaquet, 11 September 1709, War of the Spanish Succession: Marlborough and Prince Eugene's roughly 86,000 Allies defeated Villars and Boufflers' 75,000 French near Mons, but with 20,000 to 30,000 Allied casualties against about 12,000 French, it became a strategic victory for France.

Battle of Mancheng

The Battle of Mancheng (满城之战) was a rare Song victory over the Liao in the early Song–Liao war, won by a feigned surrender, an ambush, and terrain.

Battle of Mangshan

The Battle of Mangshan was a 543 battle between Eastern Wei and Western Wei, fought in the Beimangshan area near Luoyang, ending in defeat for the Western Wei army.

Battle of Maniaki

The Battle of Maniaki (Μάχη στο Μανιάκι), fought on 20 May 1825 at Maniaki in Messenia, saw Papaflessas and his Greek forces defeated by Ibrahim Pasha's Egyptian army.

Battle of Manila (1945)

Battle of Manila (Labanan sa Maynila, マニラの戦い), 3 February to 3 March 1945: US and Filipino forces recaptured the Philippine capital from the Japanese garrison; about 100,000 civilians died and the city was near-totally destroyed.

Battle of Manila Bay

Naval battle of 1 May 1898 in the Spanish-American War: Commodore George Dewey's U.S. Asiatic Squadron destroyed Admiral Montojo's Spanish Pacific Squadron at Manila, Philippines, without American losses.

Battle of Mansurah

The Battle of Mansurah (معركة المنصورة) was a 1250 Ayyubid victory over Louis IX's Seventh Crusade at Mansurah in the Nile Delta, ending with the king's capture and the rise of the Mamluks.

Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)

Battle of Mantinea (362 BC): pitched battle near Mantinea, Arcadia, where Epaminondas' Thebans with Argives, Messenians, and southern Arcadians defeated Sparta, Athens, Mantinea, and Elis; Epaminondas died, ending Theban hegemony.

Battle of Manupur

Battle of Manupur (11 March 1748), also called the battle near Sirhind, Punjab: Mughal victory under Wazir Qamar ud-Din, Prince Ahmad Shah, and Muin-ul-Mulk over Ahmad Shah Durrani's 12,000 troops, ending his first Indian invasion.

Battle of Manzikert

Battle of Manzikert (Malazgirt), 26 August 1071: Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan defeated and captured Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes in eastern Anatolia; the ensuing civil war, not battlefield losses, opened Asia Minor to Turkification.

Battle of Maqongqo

The Battle of Maqongqo, also called Maqongqo Hills, was fought on 29 January 1840 between Zulu king Dingane and his half-brother Mpande, whose victory made him king.

Battle of Marabda

The Battle of Marabda was a 1625 defeat of King Teimuraz I's Georgian army by Safavid Persia near Tbilisi, yet it ended Abbas I's bid to subjugate Georgia.

Battle of Mărășești

The Battle of Mărășești (Bătălia de la Mărășești) was a 1917 World War I battle where the Romanian 1st Army stopped the German offensive in Romania.

Battle of Mărăști

The Battle of Mărăști was a July 1917 World War I offensive in which the Romanian Second Army under General Alexandru Averescu drove a 30 km gap into the Austro-Hungarian front.

Battle of Marathon

Battle of Marathon (490 BC): Athenian and Plataean hoplites under Miltiades defeated Datis and Artaphernes' Persian expedition at Marathon, Attica, using weakened-center tactics; casualties 192 Athenians, 6,400 Persians per Herodotus.