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Battle of the Pomeranian Wall

The Battle of the Pomeranian Wall (Bitwa o Wał Pomorski, Pommernstellung) was a February 1945 battle in which Polish and Soviet forces broke the German fortified line in Pomerania.

Battle of the Port of Carthage

The Battle of the Port of Carthage was a 147 BC naval sortie from Carthage's military harbor against Scipio Aemilianus's fleet during the Third Punic War.

Battle of the Punchbowl

The Battle of the Punchbowl (Korean: 펀치볼전투), also called the battle for the Haean Basin, was fought from 31 August to 20 September 1951 during the Korean War.

Battle of the Pyana River

The Battle of the Pyana River (Битва на реке Пьяне) was fought on 2 August 1377, when Arab-Shah's Horde army annihilated a Russian army camped unprepared on the Pyana.

Battle of the Pyramids (معركة الأهرام)

Battle of the Pyramids (معركة الأهرام), or Battle of Embabeh: Napoleon's 21 July 1798 victory over Murad Bey's Mamluks near Cairo using divisional infantry squares, enabling the French occupation of Cairo.

Battle of the Rhone crossing

The Battle of the Rhone crossing, or Hannibal's crossing of the Rhone, was his 218 BC forced passage of the river in Gaul against Volcae resistance.

Battle of the Rio Salado

The Battle of the Rio Salado (معركة ريو سالادو) was a 1340 battle near Tarifa where Castile and Portugal won a decisive victory over Morocco and Granada.

Battle of the River Plate

Battle of the River Plate (13 December 1939): British cruisers Ajax, Exeter, and Achilles under Commodore Harwood fought the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee; her scuttling at Montevideo made it Britain's first major naval victory of World War II.

Battle of the Rosebud

The Battle of the Rosebud was a battle of the Great Sioux War of 1876, where Crazy Horse's Sioux and Cheyenne warriors fought George Crook's column to a standstill.

Battle of the Saintes

The Battle of the Saintes was a 1782 naval battle of the American Revolutionary War in which Admiral Rodney's British fleet defeated the French under de Grasse.

Battle of the Salnitsa River

The Battle of the Salnitsa River (Битва на Сальнице) was an 1111 victory of Rus' princes led by Vladimir Monomakh over a Cuman army near the Don.

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (南太平洋海戦)

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands (南太平洋海戦), 26 October 1942: fourth Pacific War carrier battle near Guadalcanal. Japan tactically won, sinking USS Hornet, but lost 97 aircraft and 148 aviators, a strategic defeat.

Battle of the Saw

The Battle of the Saw was a battle of the Mercenary War in 238 BC, where Hamilcar Barca trapped and destroyed a rebel mercenary army under Spendius.

Battle of the Scheldt

Battle of the Scheldt (De Slag om de Schelde), Oct–Nov 1944: First Canadian Army cleared the Westerschelde estuary (Breskens, South Beveland, Walcheren) to open Antwerp's port, at a cost of 12,873 Allied casualties.

Battle of the Sea of Azov

The Battle of the Sea of Azov, fought in southern Ukraine from late September to mid-October 1941, saw German forces encircle and destroy most of two Soviet armies.

Battle of the Seelow Heights

Battle of the Seelow Heights, 16-19 April 1945: Zhukov's 1st Belorussian Front broke Heinrici's German defense on high ground about 70 km east of Berlin, opening the road to the capital at a cost of over 30,000 Soviet dead.

Battle of the Sibuyan Sea

The Battle of the Sibuyan Sea (23–24 October 1944) opened the Battle of Leyte Gulf, as American submarines and carrier aircraft struck Admiral Kurita's force and sank the battleship Musashi.

Battle of the Silarus

The Battle of the Silarus was a 212 BC Second Punic War engagement near the Silarus river in Lucania, where Hannibal destroyed a Roman army.

Battle of the Sit River

The Battle of the Sit River (Битва на реке Сити) was fought on 4 March 1238, where Mongols under Burundai destroyed Yuri Vsevolodovich's army and killed him.

Battle of the Sittang Bend

The Battle of the Sittang Bend, also called the Sittang breakout, was a July 1945 Japanese diversionary attack in Burma that preceded a disastrous breakout across the Sittang River.

Battle of the Smala

The Battle of the Smala was the 1843 capture of the mobile tented capital of Algerian emir Abd el-Kader by French forces led by duc d'Aumale.

Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme (Bataille de la Somme; Schlacht an der Somme), also called the Somme offensive, was the main Anglo-French offensive of 1916 on the Western Front, 1 July to 18 November, marked by 57,000 British casualties on its first day and the first use of tanks.

Battle of the Southern Carpathians

A defensive phase of Romania's 1916 campaign in World War I, in which Erich von Falkenhayn's German and Austro-Hungarian counteroffensive drove Romanian forces back into Walachia.

Battle of the Soyang River

The Battle of the Soyang River was a Korean War engagement in May 1951 where U.S. X Corps defeated the Chinese spring offensive in eastern Korea.

Battle of the St. Lawrence

Battle of the St. Lawrence: German U-boat campaign in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and river, 1942–1944, part of the Battle of the Atlantic; 16 U-boats sank 24 ships including HMCS Raccoon, Charlottetown, and Shawinigan, with no U-boats lost.

Battle of the Strait of Messina

A naval battle fought in the Strait of Messina in 276 or 275 BC, in which Carthage attacked Pyrrhus of Epirus' fleet as he returned from Sicily to Italy.

Battle of the Stugna River

The Battle of the Stugna River was a heavy defeat of the combined armies of three Rus' princes by the Cumans on 26 May 1093.

Battle of the Tagus (220 BC)

The Battle of the Tagus was a 220 BC battle in which Hannibal's Carthaginian army defeated a Carpetani-led tribal coalition on the Tagus river in Hispania.

Battle of the Ten Kings

Battle of the Ten Kings (Daśarājña Yuddha, दशराज्ञ युद्ध), an Early Vedic battle in Rigveda Mandala 7: Bharata king Sudas defeated a ten-tribe confederacy on the Parushni (Ravi) river, c. 1400–1200 BCE.

Battle of the Tenaru

Battle of the Tenaru (Alligator Creek, Ilu River), 21 August 1942: Ichiki's 917-man first echelon of the 28th Infantry Regiment was destroyed by the 1st Marine Regiment on Guadalcanal; nearly 800 Japanese killed, 34 Marines dead.