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Battle of Medenine

The Battle of Medenine was an Axis spoiling attack at Medenine, southern Tunisia, on 6 March 1943, repulsed in a day and Rommel's last offensive in Africa.

Battle of Medina

The Battle of Medina was an 1813 battle near San Antonio in which Spanish royalists under Joaquín de Arredondo destroyed the Republican Army of the North, ending the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition.

Battle of Medjez el Bab

The Battle of Medjez el Bab was a series of engagements in northern Tunisia from 1942 to 1943. Allied forces secured a strategic road junction leading toward Tunis.

Battle of Meester Cornelis

The Battle of Meester Cornelis was a British-Indian assault on 26 August 1811 that stormed the fortified camp near Batavia, Java, deciding the island's conquest.

Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)

Battle of Megiddo (c. 1457 BCE): victory of Pharaoh Thutmose III over a Canaanite coalition led by Kadesh and Megiddo, via the Aruna pass surprise and a seven-month siege; earliest battle recorded in detail in the Karnak Annals.

Battle of Megiddo (1918)

The Battle of Megiddo (1918) saw British and French troops defeat the German-Ottoman forces in northern Palestine. Under General Allenby, the Allied forces inflicted over 25,000 casualties.

Battle of Megiddo (609 BC)

Battle of Megiddo (609 BC), clash at Megiddo in northern Israel where Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt defeated and killed King Josiah of Judah as Necho marched to aid Assyria against Babylon; distinct from Thutmose III's 15th-century battle and the 1918 battle.

Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay

The Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay was a pair of connected engagements in central Burma in February and March 1945, in which William Slim's British Fourteenth Army destroyed the Japanese Burma Area Army's ability to defend central Burma.

Battle of Mekelle (2021)

The Battle of Mekelle (2021) was the recapture of Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, by the Tigray Defense Forces on 28 June 2021, ending seven months of federal occupation.

Battle of Ménfő

The Battle of Ménfő (ménfői csata) was a battle fought on 5 July 1044 near Győr, where Henry III of Germany defeated King Aba Sámuel of Hungary.

Battle of Mengo

Battle of Mengo, also called the Mengo Crisis, refers to two battles at Mengo in Kampala: the 1892 Protestant-Catholic battle and the 1966 army assault ending Buganda's autonomy.

Battle of Messana (264 BC)

The Battle of Messana, also called the Siege of Messana, was fought in 264 BC at Messana in northeast Sicily, the opening clash of the First Punic War.

Battle of Messines (1917)

The Battle of Messines was a British offensive on the Western Front, 7 to 14 June 1917, opening with 19 mines and capturing the Messines ridge south of Ypres before the Third Battle of Ypres.

Battle of Metele

The Battle of Metele was an attack on 18 November 2018 in which Boko Haram overran a Nigerian Army battalion base at Metele village in Borno State, Nigeria.

Battle of Metemma

The Battle of Metemma, also called the Battle of Gallabat, was an 1889 battle in which Emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia was mortally wounded fighting the Mahdist state of Sudan.

Battle of Mezőkeresztes

The Battle of Mezőkeresztes (Haçova Muharebesi) was a battle of the Long Turkish War in October 1596, won by Sultan Mehmed III's Ottomans over Archduke Maximilian and Sigismund Báthory.

Battle of Mhlatuze River

The Battle of Mhlatuze River was a decisive victory by Shaka's Zulu forces over King Zwide's Ndwandwe army around 1818 to 1820 on the Mhlatuze River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Battle of Miahuatlán

The Battle of Miahuatlán, fought on 3 October 1866 near Miahuatlán in Oaxaca, Mexico, saw republican general Porfirio Díaz defeat Carlos Oronoz's Franco-Mexican column, opening the way to Oaxaca City.

Battle of Michika

The Battle of Michika was Boko Haram's September 2014 capture of Michika in Adamawa State, Nigeria, and the Nigerian military's recapture of the town in January 2015.

Battle of Midway (ミッドウェー海戦)

Battle of Midway (ミッドウェー海戦), June 4–7, 1942 Pacific naval battle near Midway Atoll where U.S. codebreaking and carrier aircraft sank four Japanese carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu), losing Yorktown, marking the Pacific War's turning point.

Battle of Migdol (601 BC)

The Battle of Migdol in 601 BC saw Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon fight Necho II of Egypt to mutual heavy losses near Egypt's eastern frontier.

Battle of Mikatagahara

The Battle of Mikatagahara (三方ヶ原の戦い) was fought on 22 December 1572 on the Mikatagahara plateau in Tōtōmi Province, Japan, where Takeda Shingen defeated Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Battle of Milk Creek

The Battle of Milk Creek, or Battle of Milk River, was a six-day 1879 fight between Ute warriors and US Army troops in northwestern Colorado.

Battle of Milne Bay

The Battle of Milne Bay was a Second World War land battle fought in Papua from 25 August to 7 September 1942, in which Australian and American defenders defeated a Japanese amphibious force.

Battle of Miłosław

The Battle of Miłosław, fought on 30 April 1848 between Polish insurgents under Ludwik Mierosławski and the Prussian army, was the largest engagement of the Greater Poland uprising.

Battle of Mimigawa

The Battle of Mimigawa (耳川の戦い), also called the Battle of Takajō, was a 1578 Sengoku battle in which the Shimazu clan crushed the Ōtomo clan in Kyushu.

Battle of Minatogawa

The Battle of Minatogawa (湊川の戦い) was a 1336 battle at present-day Kobe, Japan, where Ashikaga Takauji defeated the loyalist army of Nitta Yoshisada and Kusunoki Masashige, who died by his own hand.

Battle of Mindanao

The Battle of Mindanao was a 1945 World War II campaign in which the United States Eighth Army, with Filipino guerrillas, liberated Mindanao from Japanese occupation.

Battle of Mindoro

The Battle of Mindoro was the American amphibious invasion of Mindoro in the Philippines on 15 December 1944, the first step of the Luzon Campaign.

Battle of Mir

The Battle of Mir was a two-day cavalry action of June 1812 near Mir, Belarus, where Platov's Cossacks won the first Russian victory of Napoleon's invasion.