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Battle of Ngouboua

The Battle of Ngouboua was Boko Haram's first known fatal attack on Chadian soil, a raid on the Lake Chad village of Ngouboua on 13 February 2015.

Battle of Nhu Nguyet River

The Battle of Nhu Nguyet River (Trận sông Như Nguyệt) was the decisive 1077 battle where Ly Thuong Kiet halted the Song invasion of Dai Viet.

Battle of Nicopolis

Battle of Nicopolis, 25 September 1396, on the Danube in Bulgaria: crusader army of French, Burgundian, Hungarian, and allied troops under Sigismund and John of Nevers crushed by Bayezid I's Ottomans, ending large-scale crusades.

Battle of Nieuwpoort

Battle of Nieuwpoort (Slag bij Nieuwpoort), 2 July 1600: Dutch States army under Maurice of Nassau defeated Archduke Albert's Spanish army in the Flemish dunes during the Eighty Years' War; first combat use of volley fire, yet a strategically fruitless victory.

Battle of Nihonmatsu

The Battle of Nihonmatsu (二本松の戦い) was a July 1868 battle of the Boshin War at Nihonmatsu Castle in Fukushima, where the Nihonmatsu domain was overwhelmed by the new government army.

Battle of Nihriya

The Battle of Nihriya (also written Niḫriya) was a late 13th-century BC battle in which an Assyrian army defeated the Hittite army of King Tudhaliya IV near Nihriya.

Battle of Nikopol

The Battle of Nikopol (Turkish: Niğbolu Muharebesi) was an 1877 battle of the Russo-Turkish War, won by Russia at the Ottoman fortress of Nikopol in Bulgaria.

Battle of Ning-Jin

The Battle of Ning-Jin (宁锦之战) was a 1627 battle of the Ming–Later Jin wars, in which Yuan Chonghuan's Ming defenders repulsed Huang Taiji's attack on Jinzhou and Ningyuan.

Battle of Ningping

The Battle of Ningping (宁平城之战) was the 311 annihilation of a Western Jin army of over 100,000 by Shi Le's cavalry at Ningpingcheng, Kuxian, as it escorted regent Sima Yue's coffin.

Battle of Ningwu Pass

The Battle of Ningwu Pass (宁武关之战) was Li Zicheng's 1644 storming of a Ming fortress in Shanxi, where commander Zhou Yuji died after seven days of fighting.

Battle of Nioro

The Battle of Nioro refers to the conquest of the Kaarta capital Nioro in Mali by Umar Tall in 1855 and its capture by the French in 1891.

Battle of Niquitao

The Battle of Niquitao was an 1813 battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence, in which José Félix Ribas's republican division defeated a royalist column under José Martí.

Battle of Nirmohgarh

The Battle of Nirmohgarh (ਨਿਰਮੋਹਗੜ੍ਹ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was an October 1700 battle in which hill rajas attacked Guru Gobind Singh's Khalsa army, which repulsed them before breaking out across the Sutlej.

Battle of Niš

The Battle of Niš refers to two engagements at Niš, Serbia: a crusader victory over the Ottomans in 1443, and an Austrian conquest of the city in 1689.

Battle of Nola (216 BC)

The Battle of Nola (216 BC), the first of three battles at Nola, was an engagement in which Marcellus repulsed Hannibal's army at Nola in Campania, southern Italy.

Battle of Nong Sarai

The Battle of Nong Sarai (ยุทธการที่ดงหรดี) was fought in January 1593 at Nong Sarai in Suphanburi province, where King Naresuan of Ayutthaya defeated an invading Burmese army.

Battle of Nördlingen (1634)

The Battle of Nördlingen (1634) was a Thirty Years' War battle where an Imperial, Spanish, and Bavarian army crushed the Swedish-Protestant army, ending Swedish dominance in southern Germany.

Battle of North Borneo

The Battle of North Borneo was the liberation of British North Borneo, Brunei, and northeastern Sarawak by the Australian 9th Division in June and August 1945, as Operation Oboe Six.

Battle of Noryang

The Battle of Noryang (露梁海戰) was a 1598 naval battle of the Imjin War in which combined Ming Chinese and Joseon Korean fleets destroyed the retreating Japanese fleet.

Battle of Novara (1849)

The Battle of Novara (Battaglia di Novara), fought on 23 March 1849 near Novara in Piedmont, saw Radetzky's Austrian army decisively defeat King Charles Albert's Sardinian forces.

Battle of Nowshera

The Battle of Nowshera (नौशहरा की लड़ाई) was fought in March 1823 between Pakhtun tribesmen led by Sayed Akbar Shah and Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Sikh army, which won.

Battle of Nsamankow

The Battle of Nsamankow was an Asante victory over a British-led force under Governor Sir Charles MacCarthy in January 1824, near Bonsaso in present-day Ghana, opening the First Anglo-Ashanti War.

Battle of Numistro

The Battle of Numistro was an indecisive 210 BC engagement between Hannibal and the Roman consul Marcellus near Numistro in Lucania, during the Second Punic War.

Battle of Nvarsak

The Battle of Nvarsak (Նվարսակ) was the 484 clash ending Vahan Mamikonian's Armenian revolt against Sasanian rule, settled by the Treaty of Nvarsak granting Armenia autonomy and religious freedom.

Battle of Nyala (معركة نيالا)

Battle of Nyala (معركة نيالا): six-month 2023 SAF-RSF struggle for Sudan's second city, capital of South Darfur; RSF took the 16th Division base on 26 October 2023 amid 130+ civilian deaths and over 670,000 displaced.

Battle of Obertyn

The Battle of Obertyn, fought on 22 August 1531 near Obertyn in Pokucie, was a complete Polish victory under Hetman Jan Tarnowski over Moldavia's Petru Rareș.

Battle of Ocotal

The Battle of Ocotal was fought on 16 July 1927, when Sandino's rebels attacked US Marines and Nicaraguan guards at Ocotal and were driven off by dive-bombing planes.

Battle of Ocracoke

Battle of Ocracoke, also called the death of Blackbeard: November 22, 1718 naval fight in Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina, where Lt. Robert Maynard's sloops Jane and Ranger killed the pirate Edward Teach.

Battle of Oituz

The Battle of Oituz was a 1917 defensive victory in which the Romanian Second Army under General Averescu halted a German and Austro-Hungarian offensive in the Eastern Carpathians.

Battle of Ojinaga

The Battle of Ojinaga was a Mexican Revolution battle fought at Ojinaga, Chihuahua in January 1914, where Francisco Villa's constitutionalists crushed the last federal stronghold in Chihuahua.