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Battle of Shaho

The Battle of Shaho (沙河会戦) was a major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought around the Sha River between Mukden and Liaoyang in October 1904.

Battle of Shamkor

The Battle of Shamkor (شامکور جنگی) was fought in June 1195 near Shamkhor, in present-day Shamkir, Azerbaijan, ending in the defeat of Atabeg Abu Bakr by Queen Tamar's Georgian army.

Battle of Shangani

The Battle of Shangani, called Bonko by the amaNdebele, was the first major engagement of the First Matabele War, fought at the Shangani River on 25 October 1893.

Battle of Shanggao

The Battle of Shanggao, known in Japanese as Operation Kinkō, was a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War fought in Jiangxi, China, in 1941, ending in a Chinese victory.

Battle of Shanghai (淞沪会战, Battle of Songhu), 13 August to mid-November 1937, first major battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War; China committed over 700,000 troops against about 250,000 Japanese; ended in Japanese victory after the Jinshanwei flanking landing.

Battle of Shanhai Pass

The Battle of Shanhai Pass (山海關之戰) was a decisive 1644 battle in which the Qing army under Dorgon joined Ming general Wu Sangui to crush Li Zicheng's rebel army.

Battle of Shayuan

The Battle of Shayuan was a battle of 537 in which Yuwen Tai's Western Wei, vastly outnumbered, ambushed and defeated Gao Huan's larger Eastern Wei army, seizing the strategic initiative.

Battle of Shelon River

The Battle of Shelon River (Шелонская битва) was fought on 14 July 1471 between Moscow and Novgorod, where about 5,000 Muscovites under Daniil Kholmsky routed a far larger Novgorod militia.

Battle of Shijiazhuang

The Battle of Shijiazhuang (石家庄战役), also called the Battle of Shimen, was a six-day battle of November 1947 in which Communist forces captured the fortified city of Shijiazhuang, Hebei.

Battle of Shijōnawate

The Battle of Shijōnawate (四條畷の戦い) was a Nanboku-chō battle fought in 1348 at Shijōnawate in Kawachi Province, where Kusunoki Masatsura's Southern army was destroyed by Kō no Moronao.

Battle of Shiloh

Battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, April 6-7, 1862, Civil War battle in southwestern Tennessee; Confederate surprise attack under Albert Sidney Johnston, killed April 6, repulsed by Grant and Buell; 23,746 casualties, Union victory.

Battle of Shimbra Kure

The Battle of Shimbra Kure was fought in Ethiopia in March 1529, where Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi's smaller Adal army defeated Emperor Lebna Dengel.

Battle of Shimonoseki Straits

The Battle of Shimonoseki Straits was an 1863 naval action in which the USS Wyoming sank two Chōshū Domain ships in Japan, the first U.S.-Japanese naval engagement.

Battle of Shiojiritoge

The Battle of Shiojiritoge (塩尻峠の戦い) was a 1548 battle at Shiojiri Pass in Nagano Prefecture, where Takeda Shingen, then Takeda Harunobu, crushed Ogasawara Nagatoki's army.

Battle of Shipka Pass

The Battle of Shipka Pass (Defense of Shipka 1877) was fought in 1877 and January 1878 for control of the Shipka Pass through Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains during the Russo-Turkish War.

Battle of Shirakawa

The Battle of Shirakawa (白河口の戦い, Shirakawaguchi no tatakai) was a roughly 100-day campaign of the 1868 Boshin War fought around Komine Castle in Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture.

Battle of Shirimni

The Battle of Shirimni (Georgian: შირიმნის ბრძოლა) was a 1021 battle in which Byzantine emperor Basil II defeated King Giorgi I of Georgia near Lake Çıldır.

Battle of Shiroyama

Battle of Shiroyama (城山の戦い), 24 September 1877: final battle of the Satsuma Rebellion, where Saigō Takamori and about 350-400 samurai were destroyed by roughly 30,000 Imperial Japanese Army troops under Yamagata Aritomo at Kagoshima, ending armed samurai resistance.

Battle of Shiting

The Battle of Shiting (石亭之战) was a 228 battle in which Wu under Lu Xun lured Wei's Cao Xiu with a fake surrender and routed his army.

Battle of Shizugatake

The Battle of Shizugatake (賤ヶ岳の戦い) was a 1583 Sengoku battle in Ōmi Province where Hashiba Hideyoshi defeated Shibata Katsuie, who killed himself, opening Hideyoshi's path to unifying Japan.

Battle of Sholinghur

The Battle of Sholinghur, fought on 27 September 1781 near Madras, saw Eyre Coote's East India Company forces defeat Hyder Ali's Mysore army with heavy losses.

Battle of Shrewsbury

The Battle of Shrewsbury was a 1403 battle near Shrewsbury in which King Henry IV defeated a rebel army under Sir Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, who was killed on the field.

Battle of Shunchang

The Battle of Shunchang (顺昌之战) was a 1140 defensive victory in which the Southern Song general Liu Qi repelled a larger Jin army at Fuyang, Anhui.

Battle of Sidi Barrani

The Battle of Sidi Barrani was the opening phase of the British Operation Compass offensive, fought 9–11 December 1940, which destroyed the Italian 10th Army's fortified camps in Egypt.

Battle of Sidi Bou Zid

The Battle of Sidi Bou Zid was a February 1943 tank battle in central Tunisia where two German panzer divisions overwhelmed the inexperienced US 1st Armored Division.

Battle of Sidi Brahim

The Battle of Sidi Brahim was a four-day defeat of a French column by Emir Abd el-Kader's forces in western Algeria in September 1845, commemorated by the French chasseurs.

Battle of Sidi Nsir

The Battle of Sidi Nsir was a 1943 defensive action in northern Tunisia where a British battalion and artillery battery delayed a German Tiger-tank thrust toward Beja.

Battle of Sidi Rezegh

The Battle of Sidi Rezegh was an armored battle near Tobruk, Libya, during Operation Crusader in November 1941, part of Rommel's first defeat in North Africa.

Battle of Sievierodonetsk (2022)

Battle of Sievierodonetsk (2022), fought May 6 to June 25, 2022 in Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine; Russia committed nearly half its combat force and captured the city, after which Ukraine withdrew to Lysychansk, which fell July 3, completing Russia's capture of Luhansk Oblast.