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Battle of Santomé
The Battle of Santomé was a Dominican victory over an invading Haitian army under Emperor Faustin Soulouque, won by General José María Cabral on 22 December 1855.
Battle of Sao Salvador (1709)
The Battle of Sao Salvador was fought on 15 February 1709 at Kongo's former capital, where King Pedro IV defeated the claimant Pedro Constantinho da Silva, known as Kibenga.
Battle of Saragarhi
1897 last stand in which 21 Sikhs of the 36th Sikhs under Havildar Ishar Singh died defending the Saragarhi heliograph post between Fort Lockhart and Gulistan against tribesmen commonly numbered at 10,000; all received the Indian Order of Merit.
Battle of Saraighat
The Battle of Saraighat (সৰাইঘাটৰ যুদ্ধ) was a largely naval battle fought in March 1671 on the Brahmaputra River near Guwahati, where the Ahom Kingdom under Lachit Borphukan defeated the invading Mughal army.
Battle of Sarantaporo
The Battle of Sarantaporo (Greek: Μάχη του Σαρανταπόρου) was a battle of 9–10 October 1912 in northern Thessaly, the first major Greek victory of the First Balkan War.
Battle of Sardarabad
The Battle of Sardarabad (Սարդարապատի ճակատամարտ) was fought from May 21 to 28, 1918, near Sardarapat in the Ararat plain, halting the Ottoman advance on Yerevan.
Battle of Sarhu
The Battle of Sarhu (萨尔浒之战) was a 1619 victory of Nurhaci's Later Jin over a Ming army advancing in four routes, breaking Ming power in Liaodong.
Battle of Sarikamish
Battle of Sarikamish (Sarıkamış Harekâtı), a WWI Caucasus Front battle, 22 December 1914 to January 1915, where Enver Pasha's Ottoman Third Army was destroyed by cold and Russian forces under Yudenich near Sarıkamış, Kars province.
Battle of Şarköy
The Battle of Şarköy, also known as the Şarköy Landing, was an Ottoman amphibious operation on the Sea of Marmara in February 1903 during the First Balkan War.
Battle of Sarsa
The Battle of Sarsa (सरसा की लड़ाई) was a Mughal attack on Guru Gobind Singh's party as it crossed the flooded Sarsa river in 1704 or 1705.
Battle of Saule
The Battle of Saule (Saulės mūšis) was a 1236 victory of Lithuanian and Semigallian forces that destroyed the Livonian Brothers of the Sword near Šiauliai.
Battle of Savi
The Battle of Savi was the capture and burning of Savi, capital of the Hueda (Whydah) Kingdom, by King Agaja of Dahomey in March 1727.
Battle of Savo Island
Battle of Savo Island (First Battle of Savo Island), a night action of 8–9 August 1942 off Guadalcanal in which Vice Admiral Mikawa Gunichi's cruiser force sank four Allied heavy cruisers, including HMAS Canberra, in about half an hour, the US Navy's worst single-fleet-action defeat.
Battle of Savra
The Battle of Savra was fought on 18 September 1385 near Lushnja in Albania, where an Ottoman army defeated and killed Balša II of Zeta.
Battle of Schellenberg
The Battle of Schellenberg was fought on 2 July 1704, when Marlborough and Louis of Baden stormed a fortified hill above Donauwörth, opening the way into Bavaria.
Battle of Schwechat
The Battle of Schwechat, fought on 30 October 1848 near Vienna, ended in an Austrian victory over the revolutionary Hungarian Army during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.
Battle of Sedan
The Battle of Sedan was the decisive 1870 battle of the Franco-Prussian War, in which the German army under Moltke encircled the French Army of Châlons at Sedan.
Battle of Segale
The Battle of Segale (Amharic: ሰገሌ) was fought on 27 October 1916, when Ras Mikael of Wollo was defeated by Shewan forces backing Empress Zewditu.
Battle of Segesvár
The Battle of Segesvár (Segesvári csata) was an 1849 defeat of Józef Bem's Hungarian revolutionary army by a larger Russian force, best known as Sándor Petőfi's last battle.
Battle of Sekigahara
Battle of Sekigahara (関ヶ原の戦い, Sekigahara no Tatakai), fought October 21, 1600 in Gifu Prefecture: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army defeated Ishida Mitsunari's Western Army after Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection, ending the Sengoku period and leading to the Tokugawa shogunate.
Battle of Sela Dingay
The Battle of Sela Dingay refers to military engagements at Sela Dingay (ሰላ ድንጋይ), a town in North Shewa, Ethiopia, most notably Negus Mikael's 1916 occupation.
Battle of Șelimbăr
The Battle of Șelimbăr (Bătălia de la Șelimbăr, German: Schellenberg) was fought on 28 October 1599 near Sibiu, where Mihai Viteazul of Wallachia defeated Prince Andrei Báthory and took over Transylvania.
Battle of Selinus (409 BC)
The Battle of Selinus, or Sack of Selinus, was the 409 BC destruction of the Greek city of Selinus in Sicily by a Carthaginian army under Hannibal Mago.
Battle of Sempach
The Battle of Sempach (Schlacht bei Sempach) was a 1386 battle near Lucerne, Switzerland, where Swiss troops destroyed the army of Duke Leopold III of Habsburg.
Battle of Seonghwan
The Battle of Seonghwan (성환 전투), fought on 29 July 1894, was the first land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War, in which Japanese forces overwhelmed Qing troops at Seonghwan near Asan.
Battle of Seta
The Battle of Seta was the decisive final battle of the Jinshin War, fought in 672 at the Seta bridge in present Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Battle of Sevan
The Battle of Sevan, fought on Lake Sevan in 921, saw King Ashot II of Armenia defeat a much larger Sajid army under the general Beshir.
Battle of Seven Oaks
The Battle of Seven Oaks was a 15-minute fight near Winnipeg in 1816 in which Métis fighters under Cuthbert Grant killed Hudson's Bay Company governor Robert Semple and 20 of his men.
Battle of Sfax
The Battle of Sfax was the capture of the Tunisian port city of Sfax by French naval and landing forces on 16 July 1881, during the conquest of Tunisia.
Battle of Shaggy Ridge
The Battle of Shaggy Ridge was fought from October 1943 to February 1944 between Australia's 7th Division and the Japanese 78th Infantry Regiment in New Guinea's Finisterre Mountains.