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Battle of Playa Honda
The Battle of Playa Honda was a series of naval engagements off Zambales, Luzon, in 1610, 1617, and 1624, in which Spanish forces from Manila defeated Dutch VOC fleets during the Eighty Years' War.
Battle of Pliska
Battle of Pliska (811): Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I sacked the Bulgarian capital Pliska, then was ambushed by Khan Krum in the Vărbitsa Pass on 26 July 811; the army was annihilated and Nikephoros killed, his skull made a silver-lined drinking cup.
Battle of Pločnik
The Battle of Pločnik (Serbian: Битка на Плочник) was an encounter between Prince Lazar's forces and the Ottoman army of Sultan Murad I, fought near Prokuplje around 1386.
Battle of Plum Creek
The Battle of Plum Creek was an engagement on August 11–12, 1840, in which a volunteer Texan army and Texas Rangers routed Comanche warriors returning from the Linnville Raid, near present Lockhart, Texas.
Battle of Pochonbo
Battle of Pochonbo (보천보 전투, 普天堡戰鬪): June 4, 1937 night raid in which Kim Il Sung's Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army unit crossed the Amnok River, burned the Pochonbo police substation and offices, and became nationally famous.
Battle of Podhajce (1667)
The Battle of Podhajce (1667) was a defensive battle fought near Pidhaitsi, in present-day Ukraine, in October 1667, where Jan Sobieski's entrenched army withstood a larger Cossack-Tatar force until the invaders agreed to a truce.
Battle of Point 4875
Battle of Point 4875, also called Batra Top or Gun Hill, a July 1999 Kargil War engagement in Mushkoh Valley where 13 JAK Rifles under 79 Mountain Brigade recaptured the 15,990-foot peak; Vikram Batra and Sanjay Kumar won the Param Vir Chakra.
Battle of point 5140
The Battle of Point 5140 was fought in the 1999 Kargil War, when 13 JAK Rifles led by Captain Vikram Batra recaptured a 5,140-meter peak overlooking Dras.
Battle of Point Pleasant
Battle of Point Pleasant (October 10, 1774), the only major engagement of Lord Dunmore's War: Andrew Lewis's 800 Virginia militia defeated Cornstalk's roughly 800 Shawnee warriors at the Ohio-Kanawha confluence, leading to the Treaty of Camp Charlotte.
Battle of Poitiers
Battle of Poitiers (19 September 1356): Hundred Years' War victory by the Black Prince near Poitiers, France, capturing King John II and leading to the Treaty of Brétigny (1360); distinct from the 732 battle of Charles Martel.
Battle of Pollilur
The Battle of Pollilur, also called the Battle of Polilore, was fought in 1780 near Kanchipuram, where Mysore under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan routed a British force.
Battle of Polonka
The Battle of Polonka was fought on 28 June 1660 near Slonim in present-day Belarus, where Commonwealth forces under Sapieha and Czarniecki routed Ivan Khovansky's Muscovite army.
Battle of Poltava
Battle of Poltava (27 June/8 July 1709), decisive engagement of the Great Northern War: Peter I's Russian army defeated Charles XII's Swedish army near Poltava, ending Sweden's great-power status and confirming Russia's rise.
Battle of Poona (1802)
The Battle of Poona (पुणे की लड़ाई) was fought on 25 October 1802, when Yashwantrao Holkar defeated the combined forces of Daulat Rao Scindia and Peshwa Baji Rao II near Poona.
Battle of Porédaka
The Battle of Porédaka, fought on 14 November 1896 in present-day Guinea, was the final defeat of the Fulani state of Fouta-Djallon by a small French column.
Battle of Pork Chop Hill
Battle of Pork Chop Hill (Hill 255): two 1953 Korean War infantry battles between the US 7th Infantry Division and Chinese People's Volunteer Army during armistice talks; US won the April fight, abandoned the hill July 11, 1953.
Battle of Port Arthur
Battle of Port Arthur (8–9 February 1904): Japanese destroyer torpedo attack and daylight fleet action against the Russian Pacific Squadron, opening the Russo-Japanese War before Japan's 10 February declaration; three Russian ships damaged, no decision, siege followed.
Battle of Port-au-Prince (1803)
The Battle of Port-au-Prince, also called the Siege of Port-au-Prince, was the capture of Port-au-Prince by Jean-Jacques Dessalines's Indigenous Army in October 1803 during the Haitian War of Independence.
Battle of Portada de Guías
The Battle of Portada de Guías, also called the battle of Guía, was fought on 21 August 1838 outside Lima, where Manuel Bulnes's Restoring Army defeated Orbegoso's forces.
Battle of Porto Novo
The Battle of Porto Novo, fought on 1 July 1781 near Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu, saw Sir Eyre Coote's 8,000 British troops defeat Hyder Ali's much larger Mysore army.
Battle of Portobelo
The Battle of Portobelo, also spelled Porto Bello, was the capture of the Spanish Caribbean port of Portobelo, Panama, by a British fleet under Admiral Edward Vernon in 1739.
Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze
The Battle of Porytowe Wzgórze (Bitwa pod Porytowym Wzgórzem), fought on 14 June 1944 in the Janowskie Forests, saw about 3,000 partisans hold out against a 30,000-strong German force before breaking out at night.
Battle of Posada
The Battle of Posada was a November 1330 battle in which Basarab I of Wallachia decisively defeated King Charles Robert of Hungary's army in the mountains, securing Wallachian independence.
Battle of Pozo Almonte
The Battle of Pozo Almonte was fought on 7 March 1891 at Pozo Almonte, Tarapacá, Chile, during the Northern Campaign of the Chilean Civil War of 1891.
Battle of Praga
The Battle of Praga, also called the Second Battle of Warsaw, was a Russian assault on Warsaw's Praga suburb on 4 November 1794, followed by a massacre.
Battle of Prague (1757)
The Battle of Prague, fought on 6 May 1757, was a costly Prussian victory by Frederick the Great over an Austrian army under Charles of Lorraine near Prague, Bohemia.
Battle of Pratapgad
The Battle of Pratapgad (प्रतापगडाची लढाई) was fought on 10 November 1659 at Pratapgad fort in Maharashtra, where Shivaji killed the Bijapur general Afzal Khan and routed his army.
Battle of Pratapgarh
The Battle of Pratapgarh (प्रतापगड की लड़ाई) was fought on 10 November 1659, when Shivaji's Marathas killed Bijapur general Afzal Khan and routed his army.
Battle of Pressburg
The Battle of Pressburg (Pozsonyi csata) was a two-day Hungarian victory over an invading East Frankish-Bavarian army near Pressburg, today Bratislava, on 4 and 5 July 907.
Battle of Prestonpans
Battle of Prestonpans, 21 September 1745, first major battle of the Jacobite Rising of 1745; Charles Edward Stuart's Highlanders routed Sir John Cope's government army in about ten minutes east of Edinburgh.