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Battle of Preveza
The Battle of Preveza (Preveze Deniz Savashi) was a naval battle fought on 28 September 1538 off Preveza in Epirus, where Barbarossa's Ottoman fleet defeated Andrea Doria's Holy League fleet.
Battle of Prilep
The Battle of Prilep was a First Balkan War battle in which the Serbian Army defeated the Ottoman Vardar Army near Prilep in early November 1912.
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777): Washington's Continental Army defeated Lt. Col. Charles Mawhood's British force in New Jersey, final victory of the Ten Crucial Days after Trenton, freeing most of New Jersey from British occupation.
Battle of Prokhorovka
The Battle of Prokhorovka was an armored engagement fought on 12 July 1943 near Kursk, where the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army counterattacked the German II SS Panzer Corps.
Battle of Prosopitis
The Battle of Prosopitis was the Persian siege and capture, around 455/4 BC, of the Greek and Egyptian force holding Prosopitis, an island in the Nile Delta.
Battle of Pszczyna
The Battle of Pszczyna, or Bitwa pszczyńska, was a 1939 border battle of the Polish defensive war in Upper Silesia, where Polish forces destroyed about 30 German tanks.
Battle of Pteria
The Battle of Pteria was fought around 547 BC between Croesus, king of Lydia, and Cyrus II of Persia at Pteria in Cappadocia, ending in a draw by Herodotus' account.
Battle of Puebla
Battle of Puebla (Batalla de Puebla), May 5, 1862: Ignacio Zaragoza's Mexican army defeated Lorencez's French forces at the forts of Loreto and Guadalupe during the Second French Intervention, delaying the fall of Mexico City and giving rise to Cinco de Mayo.
Battle of Pulang Lupa
The Battle of Pulang Lupa was a Philippine-American War engagement of September 13, 1900, in which Filipino forces under Maximo Abad ambushed and captured an American detachment on Marinduque.
Battle of Pullalur
The Battle of Pullalur (புல்லலூர் போர்) was a mid-7th-century battle between Chalukya king Pulakesin II and Pallava king Mahendravarman I at Pullalur near Kanchipuram, opening the long Pallava–Chalukya conflict.
Battle of Pungdo
The Battle of Pungdo (豊島沖海戦) was a naval battle fought off Korea's west coast on July 25, 1894, opening the First Sino-Japanese War before either side declared war.
Battle of Punta Gruesa
The Battle of Punta Gruesa, or Combate Naval de Punta Gruesa, was an 1879 naval action of the War of the Pacific in which Chile's Covadonga forced Peru's frigate Independencia aground.
Battle of Puruarán
The Battle of Puruarán was a defeat of the Mexican insurgent army by royalist forces at Puruarán, Michoacán, on 5 January 1814, during the War of Mexican Independence.
Battle of Pusan Perimeter
The Battle of the Pusan Perimeter was a series of defensive battles in August and September 1950, in which UN forces held an enclave around Pusan against North Korean offensives.
Battle of Pushang
The Battle of Pushang (نبرد پوشنگ) was the 867 defeat of the Tahirid army by the Saffarid ruler Ya'qub ibn al-Layth near Herat, opening his conquest of Khorasan and the Tahirids' fall in 873.
Battle of Pyliavtsi
The Battle of Pyliavtsi was a decisive September 1648 victory of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-peasant army, with Crimean Tatar cavalry, over a Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth levy en masse in Ukraine.
Battle of Pyongyang (371)
The Battle of Pyongyang (371) was a winter assault in which the Baekje king Geunchogo led 30,000 troops against Goguryeo's Pyongyang Fortress, killing King Gogugwon.
Battle of Qarqar
The Battle of Qarqar, also spelled Karkar, was fought in 853 BC between Assyrian king Shalmaneser III and a Levantine coalition including Ahab of Israel.
Battle of Qarqar (720 BC)
The Battle of Qarqar (720 BC) was a siege in northern Syria where Sargon II of Assyria crushed a western revolt led by Yau-bi'di of Hamath, who was captured and flayed.
Battle of Qatwan
The Battle of Qatwan, fought in 1141 on the steppe north of Samarkand, saw the Qara Khitai under Yelü Dashi defeat the Seljuk sultan Ahmad Sanjar and his Qarakhanid vassals.
Battle of Qianmu
The Battle of Qianmu (千亩之战) was a defeat of the Zhou royal army by the Jiangshizhirong in 789 BC, near the end of King Xuan of Zhou's reign.
Battle of Qianshuiyuan
The Battle of Qianshuiyuan (浅水原之战) was a pair of 618 engagements between the new Tang dynasty and the Western Qin of Xue Ju and Xue Rengao, won by Li Shimin.
Battle of Qigou Pass
The Battle of Qigou Pass (岐沟关之战) was a decisive 986 defeat of the Northern Song's eastern army by the Liao dynasty under Empress Dowager Xiao and Yelü Xiuge.
Battle of Qinghai
The Battle of Qinghai (青海之战) was a 678 defeat of a Tang army by Tibetan forces above Qinghai Lake, in which the vanguard commander Liu Shenli was captured.
Battle of Qiqihar
The Battle of Qiqihar, known in Chinese historiography as the Jiangqiao Campaign (江桥抗战), was General Ma Zhanshan's 1931 defense of Heilongjiang's capital against the Japanese Kwantung Army.
Battle of Quảng Trị
The Battle of Quảng Trị was a 1972 battle of the Easter Offensive in which North Vietnam captured Quảng Trị City and South Vietnam retook it in September.
Battle of Quatre Bras
Battle of Quatre Bras, 16 June 1815 action at the Belgian crossroads where Marshal Ney's French left wing fought Wellington's Anglo-Allied army; Wellington held the crossroads but could not aid Blücher at Ligny, and d'Erlon's corps fought in neither battle.
Battle of Quebec (1775)
Battle of Quebec (1775): December 31, 1775 British victory at Quebec City, Canada, where Montgomery was killed and Arnold wounded, ending the American invasion of Canada during the Revolutionary War.
Battle of Quifangondo
The Battle of Quifangondo, also known as Nshila wa Lufu, was fought on 10 November 1975 near Luanda, where MPLA forces and Cuban allies crushed the FNLA the day before independence.
Battle of Quingua
The Battle of Quingua was a battle of the Philippine-American War fought on 23 April 1899 at Quingua, now Plaridel, Bulacan, where Colonel Stotsenburg died.