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Battle of Nà Sản
The Battle of Nà Sản (Trận Nà Sản) was a 1952 First Indochina War engagement where an air-supplied French garrison repelled two Việt Minh divisions.
Battle of Nachod
The Battle of Nachod (Bitva u Náchoda), also called the Battle of Dobenín, was a Prussian victory over Austria fought on 27 June 1866 in eastern Bohemia during the Austro-Prussian War.
Battle of Naco
The Battle of Naco was fighting at Naco, Sonora, on the Arizona border during the Mexican Revolution, including a 114-day siege in which carrancista forces under Benjamín Hill held the town against pro-Villa forces.
Battle of Nagaoka
The Battle of Nagaoka (長岡城攻防戦) was fought around Nagaoka Castle in Echigo Province, present-day Niigata, from May to July 1868, the central phase of the Hokuetsu War in the Boshin War.
Battle of Nagashino (長篠の戦い)
The Battle of Nagashino (長篠の戦い) was a 1575 Sengoku battle in which Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu crushed Takeda Katsuyori's army on the Shitaragahara plain in Mikawa Province.
Battle of Nagyszeben (1849)
The Battle of Nagyszeben, fought on 21 January 1849, saw Hungarian general Józef Bem repulsed in his assault on Baron Puchner's Austrian headquarters and supply base at Nagyszeben.
Battle of Nahavand
The Battle of Nahavand (معركة نهاوند), fought in 641–642 near Hamadan, was a decisive Rashidun Arab victory that destroyed the last major Sasanian field army.
Battle of Nahrawan
The Battle of Nahrawan (معركة النهروان) was a 658 victory of Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib over the Kharijites at the Nahrawan canal in Iraq.
Battle of Nakfa
The Battle of Nakfa was the six-month siege by which the Eritrean People's Liberation Front captured the town of Nakfa from Ethiopia in March 1977.
Battle of Nakhon Ratchasima
The Battle of Nakhon Ratchasima was Chao Anouvong's 1827 capture of the Siamese city of Khorat during his rebellion against Siam, followed by an uprising of his deportees.
Battle of Nam Bac
The Battle of Nam Bac was the January 1968 destruction of a Royal Lao Government garrison in northern Laos by Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces.
Battle of Nam Tha
The Battle of Nam Tha was fought on 6 May 1962, when Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese forces seized the provincial capital of Nam Tha in northern Laos.
Battle of Namasigüe
The Battle of Namasigüe was a March 1907 battle at Namasigüe, in Choluteca, Honduras, in which Nicaragua defeated the allied armies of Honduras and El Salvador, decisively ending the Honduran-Nicaraguan War.
Battle of Nanawa
The Battle of Nanawa was a failed Bolivian assault on a fortified Paraguayan position in the Chaco War in January 1933, earning Nanawa the label "South American Verdun."
Battle of Nanchang
The Battle of Nanchang (南昌会战) was a 1939 campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War in which the Japanese 11th Army captured Nanchang, capital of Jiangxi Province, and repelled a Chinese counteroffensive.
Battle of Nanking (南京保卫战)
The Battle of Nanking (南京保卫战), or Defence of Nanjing, was the December 1937 battle in which the Imperial Japanese Army captured Nanjing, China's capital, followed by the Nanjing Massacre.
Battle of Nanshan
The Battle of Nanshan, or Battle of Jinzhou, was a battle of the Russo-Japanese War won by Japan in May 1904, opening the way to Port Arthur.
Battle of Narva (1700)
Battle of Narva (1700): 30 November 1700 Great Northern War victory in which Charles XII's Swedish relief army of roughly 8,000–12,000 routed Peter I's Russian besieging army of about 24,000–35,000, taking ~20,000 prisoners before Russia retook Narva in 1704.
Battle of Naseby
The Battle of Naseby, fought on 14 June 1645 in Northamptonshire, ended the First English Civil War: Thomas Fairfax's Parliamentarian New Model Army destroyed King Charles I's main field army.
Battle of Nashville
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day Civil War battle on December 15–16, 1864, in which Union forces under George H. Thomas destroyed the Confederate Army of Tennessee.
Battle of Nassau
The Battle of Nassau, or Raid of Nassau, was a 1776 American amphibious assault that seized gunpowder at Nassau, Bahamas, the first US Marine Corps landing.
Battle of Navarino (Ναυμαχία του Ναυαρίνου)
Battle of Navarino (Ναυμαχία του Ναυαρίνου), 20 October 1827 at Pylos: British, French, and Russian fleets under Codrington, Heiden, and De Rigny destroyed the Ottoman-Egyptian fleet (~82 ships, ~6,000 dead), the last major battle under sail, securing Greek independence.
Battle of Ndondakusuka
The Battle of Ndondakusuka, also known as the Battle of Tugela, was a Zulu succession battle fought on 2 December 1856, in which Prince Cetshwayo destroyed Prince Mbuyazi's forces.
Battle of Nedumkotta
The Battle of Nedumkotta (നെടുംകോട്ട യുദ്ധം) was the defense of the Nedumkotta fortification, the Travancore Lines, against Tipu Sultan of Mysore, fought from December 1789 into 1790.
Battle of Německý Brod
The Battle of Německý Brod, also called the Battle of Deutschbrod, was a Hussite victory won by Jan Žižka on 10 January 1422 in Bohemia.
Battle of Nepheris
The Battle of Nepheris (147–146 BC) was the destruction by Scipio Aemilianus of Carthage's last field army at Nepheris south of Carthage, before the city fell in 146 BC.
Battle of New Market
Battle of New Market (May 15, 1864), Shenandoah Valley Civil War battle where John C. Breckinridge's Confederates, including 257 VMI cadets of the Field of Lost Shoes, defeated Franz Sigel; not the separate New Market Heights battle.
Battle of New Orleans
Battle of New Orleans: final major battle of the War of 1812, January 8, 1815, at Chalmette Plantation; Andrew Jackson's ~5,700 mixed-force army routed Sir Edward Pakenham's 8,000 British regulars two weeks after the Treaty of Ghent was signed.
Battle of Ngasaunggyan
The Battle of Ngasaunggyan (牙嵩延之战) was a 1277 battle in which a small Mongol Yuan force routed the Pagan Kingdom's much larger Burmese army, which fought with war elephants.
Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống Đa
The Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống Đa was a 1789 victory in which Emperor Quang Trung's Tây Sơn army destroyed the Qing invasion force near Thăng Long, present-day Hanoi.