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Battle of Tepeaca

The Battle of Tepeaca was a military engagement fought in August 1520, in which Hernán Cortés's Spanish and Tlaxcaltec force defeated the Mexica and Tepeaca defenders of Tepeaca after the Noche Triste.

Battle of Terek River (1262)

The Battle of Terek River was a defeat of the Ilkhanate army by Berke's Golden Horde on the frozen Terek in January 1263, opening the Berke–Hulagu war.

Battle of Ternate (1606)

The Battle of Ternate (1606) was the Spanish conquest of Ternate in the Maluku Islands led by Governor Pedro Bravo de Acuña, beginning nearly six decades of Spanish rule.

Battle of Tessalit

The Battle of Tessalit was the fighting for Tessalit, a garrison town in Mali's Kidal region, most notably the 2012 siege that expelled the Malian army.

Battle of Tétouan

The Battle of Tétouan was a victory on 4 February 1860 by a Spanish army under General Leopoldo O'Donnell over a Moroccan army, during the Hispano-Moroccan War of 1859 to 1860.

Battle of Tewkesbury

Battle of Tewkesbury, 4 May 1471, Gloucestershire: Yorkist Edward IV crushed the Lancastrian army of Queen Margaret and Somerset, killing Prince Edward, heir of Henry VI, ending the second phase of the Wars of the Roses.

Battle of the Admin Box

The Battle of the Admin Box, or Battle of Ngakyedauk, was a February 1944 battle in Arakan, Burma, where British Indian troops first defeated a Japanese offensive.

Battle of the Aegates Islands

The Battle of the Aegates Islands, also called the Battle of Aegusa, was a naval battle off western Sicily in 241 BC that ended the First Punic War.

Battle of the Alamo

Battle of the Alamo: thirteen-day siege (February 23 to March 6, 1836) of the former mission San Antonio de Valero, San Antonio, Texas, during the Texas Revolution; Santa Anna's Mexican army stormed the garrison under Travis and Bowie, killing all defenders.

Battle of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas

The siege of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas was the storming of Guanajuato's public granary by insurgents under Miguel Hidalgo and Ignacio Allende on 28 September 1810, early in the Mexican War of Independence.

Battle of the Allia

Battle of the Allia (dies Alliensis, 18 July 390 BCE; 387/386 Greek reckoning): defeat of a Roman army by Senones under Brennus near the Tiber, leading to the Gallic sack of Rome and a 1,000-pound gold ransom.

Battle of the Alma

The Battle of the Alma (Сражение на Альме) was a Crimean War battle on 20 September 1854, where British, French, and Turkish forces defeated the Russians.

Battle of the Alta River

The Battle of the Alta River is the name of two battles on the Alta River near Pereiaslav in Kievan Rus', fought in 1019 and 1068.

Battle of the Argenta Gap

The Battle of the Argenta Gap was an April 1945 Allied victory in which the British Eighth Army broke through German defenses onto the Po plains in Italy.

Battle of the Argeș

The Battle of the Argeș, also called the Battle for Bucharest, was Romania's last major defeat of the 1916 campaign, fought in late 1916 near Bucharest.

Battle of the Atlantic

Battle of the Atlantic: the 1939-1945 WWII campaign in which German U-boats tried to sever Britain's Atlantic supply lifeline and Allied convoys, escorts, aircraft, radar, HF/DF, and Enigma codebreaking defeated them, with the May 1943 'Black May' withdrawal as the turning point.

Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC)

The Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC) was a Carthaginian victory in which Hamilcar Barca defeated a rebel mercenary army under Spendius during the Mercenary War.

Battle of the Bagradas River (310 BC)

The Battle of the Bagradas River (310 BC), near Tunis, saw Agathocles of Syracuse defeat a Carthaginian army under Hanno and Bomilcar, opening Carthage's hinterland to plunder.

Battle of the Banu Ghaniya

The Battle of the Banu Ghaniya was the Banu Ghaniya of Majorca's fifty-year revolt against the Almohads, begun at Bijaya in 1184; their defeat let the Hafsids take Ifriqiya.

Battle of the Beanfield

Battle of the Beanfield: 1 June 1985 confrontation near Stonehenge, Wiltshire, where roughly 1,300 police stopped about 600 New Age travellers in the Peace Convoy, making 537 arrests.

Battle of the Berezina

The Battle of the Berezina (Березинская операция) was a series of engagements in November 1812 near Borisov, Belarus, where Napoleon's retreating Grande Armée escaped Russian encirclement.

Battle of the Big Hole

The Battle of the Big Hole was a two-day fight of the Nez Perce War fought August 9–10, 1877, between the Nez Perce and US Army troops under Colonel John Gibbon in southwestern Montana.

Battle of the Bismarck Sea

The Battle of the Bismarck Sea was a 1943 World War II air-sea engagement in which Allied aircraft destroyed a Japanese troop convoy bound for Lae, New Guinea.

Battle of the Bogside

Battle of the Bogside, 12-14 August 1969 rioting in Derry's Catholic Bogside against the RUC after the Apprentice Boys parade; CS gas used, 'Free Derry' barricades, and British Army deployment that marked the Troubles' start.

Battle of the Bowling Alley

The Battle of the Bowling Alley was a series of engagements in August 1950 north of Taegu, Korea, where US and South Korean forces blocked a North Korean offensive.

Battle of the Boyne

Battle of the Boyne, fought 1 July 1690 (Old Style) at Oldbridge on the River Boyne, Ireland: William III defeated James II in the largest engagement on Irish soil, part of the Williamite War and Nine Years War, now commemorated on 12 July by the Orange Order.

Battle of the Bridge

The Battle of the Bridge (معركة الجسر) was a 634–635 defeat of the Muslim Arab army by the Sasanian Persians on the Euphrates in Iraq.

Battle of the Bridge of Calderón

The Battle of the Bridge of Calderón (Batalla del Puente de Calderón) was a battle of the Mexican War of Independence fought on 17 January 1811.

Battle of the Bulge

The Battle of the Bulge, or Ardennes Counteroffensive (German: Wacht am Rhein), was Nazi Germany's last major Western Front offensive of World War II, launched December 16, 1944 through the Ardennes toward Antwerp and defeated by late January 1945.

Battle of the Bzura

Battle of the Bzura (Bitwa nad Bzurą), also called Battle of Kutno: the largest battle of the 1939 German invasion of Poland, 9–19 September, where Polish armies Poznań and Pomorze counterattacked the German 8th Army before being encircled and destroyed.