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Battle of Pabaiskas
The Battle of Pabaiskas, also called the Battle of Ukmergė or Vilkmergė, was a battle fought in Lithuania on 1 September 1435 between rival claimants to the grand ducal throne.
Battle of Paju
The Battle of Paju (Estonian: Paju lahing) was a fierce battle of the Estonian War of Independence, fought on 31 January 1919 at Paju manor near Valga.
Battle of Pákozd
The Battle of Pákozd (Hungarian: pákozdi csata) was fought on 29 September 1848 near Lake Velence, where János Móga's Hungarian army stopped Josip Jelačić's invading Croatian forces.
Battle of Palgongsan
The Battle of Palgongsan (팔공산 전투), also called the Battle of Gongsan, was a 927 Later Baekje victory over Goryeo near Daegu, where Wang Geon barely escaped defeat.
Battle of Palkhed
The Battle of Palkhed (पालखेड की लड़ाई) was a 1728 campaign near the Godavari river where Peshwa Baji Rao I encircled Nizam-ul-Mulk and starved him into a favorable treaty.
Battle of Palmito Ranch
Battle of Palmito Ranch (also Palmetto Ranch, Palmito Hill), May 12-13, 1865, near Brownsville, Texas: the last land battle of the Civil War, a Confederate victory under Rip Ford over Barrett's Union force weeks after Appomattox.
Battle of Palnadu
The Battle of Palnadu (పల్నాడు యుద్ధం) was a late 12th-century war at Karempudi, Andhra Pradesh, between the Haihaya step-brothers Nalagama and Malideva; it preceded Kakatiya rise.
Battle of Palo Alto
The Battle of Palo Alto was the first major engagement of the Mexican-American War, fought on May 8, 1846, north of Brownsville, Texas, and won by U.S. artillery.
Battle of Palo Duro Canyon
The Battle of Palo Duro Canyon was a surprise dawn attack by Colonel Ranald Mackenzie's 4th U.S. Cavalry on Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne camps in the Texas Panhandle on September 28, 1874.
Battle of Palo Seco
The Battle of Palo Seco was an engagement of Cuba's Ten Years' War fought in Camagüey on 2 December 1873, where Máximo Gómez's Cuban insurgents destroyed a Spanish column.
Battle of Palonegro
The Battle of Palonegro (11–26 May 1900) was a battle of Colombia's Thousand Days' War fought near Bucaramanga, in which the Conservative government army destroyed the Liberal regular army.
Battle of Pangal
The Battle of Pangal was a 1419 victory of the Vijayanagara Empire, led by Deva Raya I, over Firuz Shah Bahmani at Nalgonda-Pangal in the Warangal region.
Battle of Panium
The Battle of Panium, also called the Battle of Panion, was fought around 200 BC near Paneas between Antiochus III and the Ptolemaic general Scopas.
Battle of Panormus
The Battle of Panormus was a 250 BC Roman victory in the First Punic War near Palermo, Sicily, where Metellus defeated Hasdrubal and captured war elephants.
Battle of Pantano de Vargas
The Battle of Pantano de Vargas (Batalla del Pantano de Vargas) was fought on 25 July 1819 near Paipa, Colombia, during Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada.
Battle of Papudo
The Battle of Papudo, or Combate Naval de Papudo, was a naval action fought off Papudo, Chile, on 26 November 1865, in which the Chilean corvette Esmeralda captured the Spanish schooner Virgen de Covadonga.
Battle of Paraguarí
The Battle of Paraguarí, fought on 19 January 1811 in Paraguay, saw Paraguayan militias defeat Manuel Belgrano's Buenos Aires expeditionary army, paving the way for independence.
Battle of Párkány
The Battle of Párkány was a defeat and then a victory fought by Polish and Imperial troops under John III Sobieski against Ottoman forces on 7 and 9 October 1683.
Battle of Partskhisi
The Battle of Partskhisi was a Georgian-Seljuk wars battle in which King Giorgi II of Georgia defeated an invading Seljuk army under the commander Sarang, around 1075.
Battle of Parwan
The Battle of Parwan was fought in 1221 between Jalal al-Din Mingburnu, the last Khwarazmshah, and a Mongol detachment under Genghis Khan, who won the first major field victory against the Mongols.
Battle of Pasir Salak
The Battle of Pasir Salak was the culminating engagement of the Perak War, in which British forces captured a fortified Malay position on the Perak River in December 1875.
Battle of Passchendaele
Battle of Passchendaele, final phase of the Third Battle of Ypres (31 July-10 November 1917), a British offensive in Flanders under Haig; notorious for mud, about 300,000 British and 260,000 German casualties, and the Canadian capture of the ridge.
Battle of Pasuruan
The Battle of Pasuruan was a 1706-1707 assault by some 60,000 Dutch East India Company, Mataram, and Madurese troops on the stronghold of Untung Surapati near Pasuruan, eastern Java.
Battle of Pavan Khind
The Battle of Pavan Khind (पावन खिंड) was a 1660 rearguard action in which Baji Prabhu Deshpande held a mountain pass so Shivaji could escape to Vishalgad.
Battle of Pavia
Battle of Pavia (24 February 1525), decisive battle of the Italian War of 1521–26 near Pavia, Italy, where Habsburg arquebusiers under Pescara, Bourbon, and Lannoy destroyed Francis I's French army and captured the king.
Battle of Pavón
The Battle of Pavón (Batalla de Pavón), fought on 17 September 1861 in Santa Fe province, ended the Argentine Confederation and opened the way for a unified Argentina led by Buenos Aires.
Battle of Pea Ridge
Battle of Pea Ridge, or Battle of Elkhorn Tavern: Civil War battle fought March 7-8, 1862 in northwestern Arkansas, where Samuel Curtis's Union Army of the Southwest defeated Earl Van Dorn's larger Confederate Army of the West, securing Missouri for the Union.
Battle of Peachtree Creek
The Battle of Peachtree Creek was a Civil War battle fought on July 20, 1864, near Atlanta, Georgia, where John Bell Hood's Confederate attack on George H. Thomas's Union army was repulsed.
Battle of Pease River
The Battle of Pease River was an 1860 attack by Texas Rangers and US troops on a Comanche camp in Texas that captured Cynthia Ann Parker.
Battle of Peking (1900)
Battle of Peking (1900), or Relief of Peking: 14-15 August 1900 assault in which the Eight-Nation Alliance under Sir Alfred Gaselee fought into Beijing, ending the 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter during the Boxer Rebellion.