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Battle of South Shanxi
The Battle of South Shanxi, or Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain (中条山战役), was a May 1941 battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War in southern Shanxi, China.
Battle of Sphacteria (1825)
The Battle of Sphacteria (1825) was an Ottoman-Egyptian victory under Ibrahim Pasha over Greek defenders of the islet closing Navarino's harbor during the Greek War of Independence.
Battle of Spion Kop
Battle of Spion Kop (Spioenkop), 23–24 January 1900, Second Boer War: British attempt to relieve Ladysmith on the Tugela River, Natal, defeated by Louis Botha's Boers; gave its name to Liverpool's Kop stand.
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (May 8–21, 1864), also called Spotsylvania, second battle of Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia; Grant vs. Lee, about 30,000 casualties, including nearly 20 hours of fighting at the Bloody Angle of the Mule Shoe salient.
Battle of Sri Hargobindpur
The Battle of Sri Hargobindpur (ਸ੍ਰੀ ਹਰਗੋਬਿੰਦਪੁਰ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ) was a 17th-century battle in Punjab in which Guru Hargobind's Sikhs defeated a Mughal army sent by Abdulla Khan.
Battle of Sripurambiyam
The Battle of Sripurambiyam (श्रीपुरम्बियम्) was a late 9th-century battle near Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, where a Pandya king was defeated by a Pallava, Western Ganga, and Chola coalition.
Battle of St. George's Caye
The Battle of St. George's Caye was an 1798 naval engagement in which British settlers in Belize, aided by H.M.S. Merlin, repelled a Spanish fleet from Yucatán.
Battle of St. Lucia
The Battle of St. Lucia was a British naval victory off St. Lucia in the West Indies on 15 December 1778, during the American Revolutionary War.
Battle of St. Thome
The Battle of St. Thome was a 1746 battle in which a small French force routed the much larger army of the Nawab of the Carnatic.
Battle of Stadtlohn
The Battle of Stadtlohn, or Battle of the Lohner Bruch, was a decisive Catholic League victory by Tilly over Christian of Brunswick on 6 August 1623.
Battle of Stalingrad (Сталинградская битва)
Battle of Stalingrad (Сталинградская битва), 17 July 1942 to 2 February 1943, Eastern Front battle for Volgograd; Soviet Operation Uranus encircled Paulus's 6th Army, taking 91,000 prisoners and marking the war's turning point.
Battle of Stamford Bridge
Battle of Stamford Bridge, fought 25 September 1066 in Yorkshire: Harold Godwinson's English army surprised and destroyed Harald Hardrada's Norwegian invasion force, killing Hardrada and Tostig, three weeks before Harold's death at Hastings.
Battle of Stănilești
A battle of the Russo-Turkish War of 1710–1713, fought on the Prut River in Moldavia in July 1711, where the Ottomans surrounded Peter the Great's army.
Battle of Stara Zagora
The Battle of Stara Zagora (Битката при Стара Загора), fought on 19 July 1877 in the Russo-Turkish War, saw a small Russian and Bulgarian force hold off Suleiman Pasha's much larger Ottoman army for a day.
Battle of Stavuchany
The Battle of Stavuchany (Russian: Ставучанское сражение) was fought on 28 August 1739 near Khotyn, where Field Marshal Munnich's 48,000 Russians defeated about 90,000 Ottomans in one day.
Battle of Stiklestad
Battle of Stiklestad (Slaget på Stiklestad), fought 29 July 1030 at Stiklestad, Verdal, Trøndelag, where King Olav Haraldsson was killed by a Trøndelag peasant army led by Kalv Arnesson, Tore Hund, and Hårek of Tjøtta, then canonized as St. Olav.
Battle of Stilo
The Battle of Stilo, also known as the Battle of Capo Colonna, was fought in July 982 in Calabria, where the Kalbids of Sicily defeated Emperor Otto II.
Battle of Stirling Bridge
Battle of Stirling Bridge, 11 September 1297, First War of Scottish Independence victory where William Wallace and Andrew Moray destroyed the English vanguard of John de Warenne and Hugh de Cressingham crossing the narrow River Forth bridge.
Battle of Stoczek
The Battle of Stoczek was a Polish victory under General Józef Dwernicki over Russian forces near Stoczek on 14 February 1831, the first battle of the November Uprising.
Battle of Stone Fortress City
The Battle of Stone Fortress City (石堡城之战) was a 749 Tang assault under Ge Shuhan that took the Tibetan-held fortress of Shibaocheng at heavy cost.
Battle of Stones River
Battle of Stones River, also called Battle of Murfreesboro: Civil War battle near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland defeated Bragg's Army of Tennessee, with the war's highest major-battle casualty percentage.
Battle of Strėva
The Battle of Strėva was a 1348 defeat of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by the Teutonic Order near the Strėva river, with many drowned.
Battle of Studzianki
The Battle of Studzianki (Bitwa pod Studziankami) was an August 1944 tank battle in central Poland where Polish and Soviet forces held the Warka-Magnuszew bridgehead.
Battle of Suakin
The Battle of Suakin was fighting outside the Red Sea port of Suakin in eastern Sudan in March 1885, during the second Suakin expedition after the fall of Khartoum.
Battle of Sufetula
The Battle of Sufetula (Ma'rakat Sbeitla), fought in 647 near Sbeitla, Tunisia, ended in a decisive Arab victory and the death of the rebel exarch Gregory.
Battle of Sugagu
The Battle of Sugagu was a mid-14th-century BC battle on the Tigris between Enlil-nirari of Assyria and Kurigalzu II of Babylonia, with each chronicle claiming victory for its own king.
Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill
A week-long engagement of the Battle of Okinawa, fought May 12 to 18, 1945, in which the U.S. 6th Marine Division stormed a fortified hill anchoring the Japanese Shuri Defense Line near Naha.
Battle of Sugar Point
The Battle of Sugar Point, also called the Battle of Leech Lake, was an 1898 conflict between the Pillager Ojibwe and the U.S. Army in Minnesota.
Battle of Sugunia
The Battle of Sugunia was the capture of Sugunia, royal city of Arame of Urartu, by the Assyrian army of Shalmaneser III in 858 BC, recorded in the Kurkh Monolith annals.
Battle of Suipacha
The Battle of Suipacha, fought on 7 November 1810 near Suipacha, Upper Peru (present-day Bolivia), was the first patriot victory of the May Revolution's war for independence.