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Battle of Pelagonia
The Battle of Pelagonia was a battle fought in 1259 in western Macedonia, in which the Empire of Nicaea defeated a coalition of Epirus, Sicily, and Achaea.
Battle of Peleliu (ペリリューの戦い)
The Battle of Peleliu (ペリリューの戦い), September–November 1944, Palau Islands: US Marines and the 81st Division overcame Colonel Nakagawa's cave-based defense in depth, costing 1,544 US killed and nearly 11,000 Japanese dead in a 74-day battle later judged strategically unnecessary.
Battle of Pelusium (343 BC)
The Battle of Pelusium (343 BC) was the opening action of Artaxerxes III's Persian invasion of Egypt, defeating Pharaoh Nectanebo II and ending roughly sixty years of Egyptian independence.
Battle of Pelusium (525 BC)
The Battle of Pelusium in 525 BC was a decisive Persian victory in which Cambyses II defeated Pharaoh Psamtik III, opening Persia's conquest of Egypt.
Battle of Pelusium (674 BC)
The Battle of Pelusium (674 BC) was the first recorded Assyrian attempt to invade Egypt, ending in defeat of Esarhaddon's army by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa.
Battle of Pengcheng
The Battle of Pengcheng (彭城之战) was a battle in April 205 BC in which Xiang Yu's 30,000 Chu troops routed Liu Bang's much larger army at Pengcheng.
Battle of Penghu
The Battle of Penghu (澎湖海战) was a naval battle fought on 16 July 1683, where the Qing fleet under Shi Lang destroyed the Zheng regime's navy near Taiwan.
Battle of Peralejo
The Battle of Peralejo was an 1895 battle of Cuba's War of Independence, where Antonio Maceo's Cuban forces fought a Spanish column under Martínez Campos.
Battle of Pereiaslav (1630)
The Battle of Pereiaslav was the culminating engagement of the 1630 Cossack uprising, fought in May 1630 between hetman Taras Fedorovych and Polish forces under Stanisław Koniecpolski.
Battle of Peshawar (1001)
The Battle of Peshawar (جنگ پشاور) was fought in 1001 near Peshawar between Mahmud of Ghazni and Jayapala of the Hindu Shahi dynasty, ending in Ghaznavid victory.
Battle of Peta
The Battle of Peta (ἡ μάχη τοῦ Πέτα) was an Ottoman victory over Greek revolutionary forces at Peta near Arta on 4 July 1822, during the Greek War of Independence.
Battle of Petelia
The Battle of Petelia was an ambush Hannibal set for an unscouted Roman column under the hill of Petelia, in Bruttium, in 208 BC during the Second Punic War.
Battle of Petra
The Battle of Petra (Μάχη της Πέτρας) was the last battle of the Greek War of Independence, won by Dimitrios Ypsilantis in Boeotia on 12 September 1829.
Battle of Petrovaradin
The Battle of Petrovaradin was a battle fought on 5 August 1716 at Petrovaradin, near present-day Novi Sad, Serbia, where Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated a larger Ottoman army.
Battle of Pharsalus
Battle of Pharsalus, 9 August 48 BCE, Thessaly: Julius Caesar defeated Pompey the Great and the Senate's larger army, routing its cavalry with a hidden fourth line; the victory ended the republic and led to Pompey's assassination in Egypt.
Battle of Phichai
The Battle of Phichai (พิชัย) refers to two Burmese attacks on the northern Siamese town of Phichai during the Thonburi period, in 1772 and 1773, both repelled.
Battle of Philippi
Battle of Philippi (3 and 23 October 42 BC): two engagements near Philippi, Macedonia, where triumvirs Antony and Octavian defeated Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius, ending the republican cause.
Battle of Philippopolis (1878)
The Battle of Philippopolis, also called the Battle of Plovdiv, was the final major battle of the Russo-Turkish War, won by Russian forces under General Iosif Gurko in January 1878.
Battle of Phintias
The Battle of Phintias was a Carthaginian naval attack on a Roman fleet sheltering at Phintias, a city on Sicily's south coast, in 249 BC during the First Punic War.
Battle of Phước Long
The Battle of Phước Long, also known as the Route 14 – Phước Long Campaign, was a December 1974 to January 1975 battle in which North Vietnamese forces overran a South Vietnamese province.
Battle of Pichincha
The Battle of Pichincha (Batalla de Pichincha) was fought on 24 May 1822 on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano near Quito, securing the independence of present-day Ecuador.
Battle of Pinaglabanan
The Battle of Pinaglabanan, also called the Battle of San Juan del Monte, was the first major battle of the Philippine Revolution, fought at San Juan del Monte in 1896.
Battle of Pingxingguan
The Battle of Pingxingguan, also known as the Battle of Pinghshingkuan Pass, was fought in northwestern Shanxi in September 1937, where Lin Biao's Eighth Route Army ambushed a Japanese supply column.
Battle of Piribebuy
The Battle of Piribebuy (Batalla de Piribebuy) was the storming of Piribebuy, Paraguay's third provisional capital, by some 20,000 Allied troops on 12 August 1869 during the Paraguayan War.
Battle of Pirot
The Battle of Pirot names two battles fought at Pirot in eastern Serbia: a Serbian attack on the Ottomans in December 1877 and a Bulgarian victory in November 1885.
Battle of Pisagua
The Battle of Pisagua (desembarco y combate de Pisagua) was a Chilean amphibious landing operation on November 2, 1879, which opened the Tarapacá Campaign during the War of the Pacific.
Battle of Placentia (217 BC)
The Battle of Placentia in 217 BC was a near-draw between Hannibal's Carthaginian army and Roman forces under consul Sempronius near Placentia in the Po valley.
Battle of Placilla
The Battle of Placilla, or Batalla de Placilla, was the decisive land battle of the Chilean Civil War of 1891, fought near Valparaíso on 28 August.
Battle of Plassey
Battle of Plassey (Palashi), 23 June 1757: East India Company victory under Robert Clive over Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah, secured by Mir Jafar's betrayal; began Company rule in Bengal and British colonial power in South Asia.
Battle of Plataea (Μάχη των Πλαταιών)
Battle of Plataea (Μάχη των Πλαταιών), 479 BCE land battle in Boeotia where Pausanias' Greek coalition defeated and killed Mardonius, ending Xerxes' invasion of Greece, near the Asopus river.