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Battle of the Imjin River (임진강 전투)
Battle of the Imjin River (임진강 전투) names two battles at Korea's Imjin River: the 1592 Joseon river-defense defeat early in the Imjin War, and the 22–25 April 1951 Korean War battle where the British 29th Brigade, including the Glosters, held the Chinese Spring Offensive.
Battle of the Indus
The Battle of the Indus River was fought in November 1221, when Genghis Khan crushed Jalal al-Din Mingburnu on the bank of the Indus in what is now Pakistan.
Battle of the Java Sea
Battle of the Java Sea (27 February 1942): ABDA fleet under Admiral Karel Doorman defeated by Takeo Takagi's force; five Allied ships lost, Java invaded next day; Houston and Perth lost in Sunda Strait.
Battle of the Jiu
The Battle of the Jiu was a series of engagements fought in October and November 1916 on the Jiu River in Romania, ending in a Central Powers breakthrough.
Battle of the Kalka River (Битва на реке Калке)
Battle of the Kalka River (Битва на реке Калке), 31 May 1223: Jebe and Subutai's Mongol detachment destroyed a Rus'-Polovtsian coalition after a nine-day feigned retreat, then raided to Kiev; conquest of Rus' was postponed until the 1230s.
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula
A five-month Second World War campaign on the Eastern Front, from December 1941 to May 1942, in which Soviet landings on the Kerch Peninsula in Crimea ended in German victory.
Battle of the Komandorski Islands
Battle of the Komandorski Islands, also called the Battle off Attu, a 26 March 1943 daylight surface naval battle in the Bering Sea where an outnumbered US cruiser-destroyer force under McMorris turned back Hosogaya's convoy, ending Japanese surface resupply of Attu and Kiska.
Battle of the Kondurcha River
The Battle of the Kondurcha River, also called the Battle of Kunduzcha, was Timur's defeat of Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde on 18 June 1391.
Battle of the Lipari Islands
The Battle of the Lipari Islands, also called the Battle of Lipara, was a small Carthaginian naval victory over Rome in 260 BC during the First Punic War.
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Battle of the Little Bighorn, also called Battle of the Greasy Grass or Custer's Last Stand: June 25-26, 1876 defeat of Custer's 7th Cavalry by Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho forces in Montana, killing Custer and 268 men.
Battle of the Lomba River
The Battle of the Lomba River was fought in southeastern Angola on 3 October 1987, when a South African force destroyed most of an Angolan brigade.
Battle of the Mareth Line
The Battle of the Mareth Line (20–26 March 1943) was a major North African battle where the British Eighth Army challenged the fortifications held by the Italo-German 1st Army.
Battle of the Maritsa
The Battle of the Maritsa, also known as the Battle of Maritsa, was a 1371 Ottoman night-attack victory that killed Serbian commanders Vukašin and Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević.
Battle of the Masts
The Battle of the Masts (Dhat al-Sawari) was a naval battle off Lycia in 654–655, where the Caliphate's fleet defeated Emperor Constans II's Byzantine fleet.
Battle of the Metaurus
The Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC) was a Second Punic War battle in which Roman consuls Nero and Livius Salinator destroyed Hasdrubal Barca's invading Carthaginian army.
Battle of the Milvian Bridge
Battle of the Milvian Bridge (28 October 312): Constantine defeated and drowned his rival Maxentius outside Rome, securing the West. Known for the vision accounts of Lactantius and Eusebius and its link to Constantine's turn toward Christianity.
Battle of the Monongahela
Battle of the Monongahela, or Braddock's Defeat (July 9, 1755): French, Canadian, and Native forces under Dumas and Beaujeu destroyed Major General Edward Braddock's column near Fort Duquesne; Braddock died July 13; about 1,000 British casualties against roughly 90 French.
Battle of the Motya channel
The Battle of the Motya channel was a 397 BC naval action during the siege of Motya, Sicily, where Dionysius I hauled his trapped fleet overland to escape Himilco.
Battle of the Narmada
The Battle of the Narmada (नर्मदा) was a 7th-century battle on the Narmada river where Chalukya emperor Pulakeshin II repulsed the invasion of the north Indian emperor Harsha.
Battle of the Neva
The Battle of the Neva was a 1240 engagement where a Swedish force was defeated by Novgorodians under Prince Aleksandr Yaroslavich. The victory earned him the epithet Nevskii.
Battle of the Niemen River
The Battle of the Niemen River, also called the Niemen operation, was the last major battle of the Polish-Soviet War, won by Piłsudski's forces in September 1920.
Battle of the Nile
Battle of the Nile, also Battle of Aboukir Bay: naval battle of 1 August 1798 in which Nelson destroyed the French fleet at anchor in Aboukir Bay, cutting Napoleon's army off from Europe during the Egyptian campaign.
Battle of the Nobles
The Battle of the Nobles (Arabic: mawqiʿat al-ashrāf) was a December 740 battle of the Great Berber Revolt in which Berber rebels wiped out an Umayyad army, with heavy losses among Ifrīqiya's Arab aristocracy.
Battle of the North Cape
Battle of the North Cape, 26 December 1943: HMS Duke of York and cruiser forces sank the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst (Admiral Bey) as she attacked Arctic convoy JW 55B; 1,968 German dead, 36 survivors.
Battle of the Oenoparus
The Battle of the Oenoparus was a July 145 BC battle in Syria where Ptolemy VI of Egypt defeated Alexander Balas but died of his wounds.
Battle of the Paracel Islands (西沙海战)
Battle of the Paracel Islands (西沙海战): 19-20 January 1974 naval and amphibious clash in which the PLAN defeated the South Vietnamese navy, sank HQ-10, and took de facto control of the entire Paracel archipelago, still disputed by Vietnam and Taiwan.
Battle of the Persian Gate
The Battle of the Persian Gate (نبرد دروازه پارس) was a battle in 330 BCE where Alexander the Great outflanked and destroyed the Persian force of Ariobarzanes.
Battle of the Piave River
The Battle of the Piave River, also called the Battle of the Solstice, was a defensive victory of the Italian Army against Austria-Hungary in June 1918.
Battle of the Plain of Jars
A series of campaigns from the early 1960s to 1975 for control of a strategic plateau in northern Laos during the Laotian Civil War, part of the secret war.
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Battle of the Plains of Abraham (Bataille des plaines d'Abraham), September 13, 1759: Wolfe's British army defeated Montcalm's French force outside Quebec City after an eleven-week siege, leading to the city's capitulation and the British conquest of New France.