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Battle of Zhizhi
The Battle of Zhizhi (郅支之战) was a Han dynasty campaign in which Gan Yanshou and Chen Tang, acting without imperial authorization, killed the rival Xiongnu chanyu Zhi Zhi.
Battle of Zhongli
The Battle of Zhongli (钟离之战) was a 507 defensive battle of the Northern and Southern dynasties, in which the Liang army defeated Northern Wei's siege of Zhongli on the Huai River.
Battle of Zhovnyn
The Battle of Zhovnyn (Жовнинська битва) was the decisive 1638 defeat of Cossack rebels under Yakiv Ostrianyn and Dmytro Hunia by the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, ending the 1637–1638 uprising.
Battle of Zhovti Vody
The Battle of Zhovti Vody (Битва під Жовтими Водами) was the first major battle of the Khmelnytsky Uprising, where Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossack-Tatar army destroyed a Polish force in 1648.
Battle of Zhuravno
The Battle of Zhuravno was a series of engagements fought from September to October 1676 between King Jan III Sobieski's Polish army and an Ottoman-Tatar force near the Dniester.
Battle of Zhvanets
The Battle of Zhvanets (Жванецька облога) was the 1653 encirclement of King John II Casimir's Polish army near Zhvanets, Ukraine, by Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Cossacks and Crimean Tatars.
Battle of Zieleńce
The Battle of Zieleńce (Зелінці) was a Polish victory over Russian forces near Zieleńce in Volhynia on 18 June 1792, during the war in defense of the Constitution of 3 May 1791.
Battle of Zinder
The Battle of Zinder was the 1899 defeat of the Sultanate of Damagaram's army by a French colonial column, followed by the occupation of Zinder in what is now Niger.
Battle of Zintan
The Battle of Zintan (معركة الزنتان) was a series of 2011 Libyan Civil War engagements in which rebels in the Nafusa Mountains town of Zintan broke a siege by Gaddafi's forces in June 2011.
Battle of Zitácuaro
The Battle of Zitácuaro was a royalist assault on Zitácuaro, Michoacán, on 2 January 1812, driving out the insurgent junta governing the Mexican War of Independence.
Battle of Zlatitsa
The Battle of Zlatitsa was a stalemate fought on 12 December 1443 in central Bulgaria between crusaders under Władysław III and John Hunyadi and Sultan Murad II.
Battle of Znaim
The Battle of Znaim, fought on 10–11 July 1809 at Znojmo in Moravia, was the last battle of the Franco-Austrian War, ending in an armistice.
Battle of Zsibó
The Battle of Zsibó (Hungarian: zsibói csata) was fought on 11 November 1705 near Zsibó, today Jibou, Romania, where Field Marshal Ludwig Herbeville's imperial army defeated Ferenc Rákóczi II.
Battle of Zubarah
The Battle of Zubarah (معركة الزبارة) was a 1783 conflict between the Utub Arabs of Zubarah in Qatar and Shaikh Nasr al-Madhkur of Bahrain, ending in al-Khalifa conquest of Bahrain.
Battle of Żurawno
The Battle of Żurawno, also spelled Żórawno, was a siege of 1676 in which King Jan III Sobieski held a fortified camp against a larger Ottoman-Tatar force.
Battle of Żyrzyn
The Battle of Żyrzyn was an 1863 ambush near Żyrzyn, Poland, in which Polish insurgents under Michał Heydenreich destroyed a Russian convoy during the January Uprising.
Battle off Cape Engaño
The Battle of Cape Engaño, fought off Luzon on 25 October 1944, was a Battle of Leyte Gulf engagement in which US carrier aircraft destroyed Japan's four remaining carriers.
Battle off Samar
Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944: Taffy 3 (Task Unit 77.4.3), six escort carriers with destroyers under C. A. F. Sprague, repelled Kurita's Center Force of four battleships including Yamato during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, losing Hoel, Johnston, Samuel B. Roberts, Gambier Bay, and St. Lo.
Battle on the Ice
Battle on the Ice: 5 April 1242 defeat of the Livonian Order and Bishopric of Dorpat by Alexander Nevsky's Novgorod forces on frozen Lake Peipus; sources diverge on scale, and the famous ice-breaking image comes from Eisenstein's 1938 film, not medieval chronicles.
Battle on the Marchfeld
The Battle on the Marchfeld, fought on 26 August 1278 near Dürnkrut, Austria, saw Rudolf I of Habsburg and Ladislaus IV of Hungary defeat and kill King Ottokar II of Bohemia.
Battle with Naravas
The Battle with Naravas was a 240 BC engagement of the Mercenary War in which Naravas defected to Hamilcar Barca with 2,000 Numidian horsemen, defeating the rebels.
Battlefield Palette
The Battlefield Palette, also called the Vultures Palette, is an Egyptian ceremonial cosmetic palette from around 3150 BC, showing vultures and a lion over defeated men.
Battles of Alashiya
The Battles of Alashiya were Hittite campaigns against Cyprus, identified with Alašiya, in 1220–1200 BC under Tudhaliya IV and Suppiluliuma II, recorded on tablet KBo XII 38 found at Hattusa.
Battles of antiquity: overview and timelines
An overview and timeline guide to battles of antiquity, covering Kadesh, Salamis, and Cannae, and explaining how thin and uneven the ancient record is, with same-named battles distinguished.
Battles of Kawanakajima
The Battles of Kawanakajima (川中島の戦い) were five engagements fought from 1553 to 1564 between Takeda Shingen of Kai and Uesugi Kenshin of Echigo on the Kawanakajima plain in Shinano Province.
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
Battles of Khalkhin Gol, also called the Nomonhan Incident (ノモンハン事件), an undeclared 1939 Soviet-Japanese-Mongolian border war on Mongolia's frontier, ending in a Soviet victory under Zhukov that pushed Japan toward the Pacific war.
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775, first armed engagements of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts; about 700 British regulars under Gage's orders marched to Concord, fought militia at Lexington Green and North Bridge, and retreated with 273 casualties.
Battles of Narvik
Battles of Narvik (Slaget om Narvik), April–June 1940: naval and land fighting after Germany's 9 April invasion of Norway. Ten German destroyers were destroyed in Ofotfjord on 10 and 13 April; Allied and Norwegian forces retook Narvik on 28 May before withdrawing.
Battles of Plataea and Mycale
The Battles of Plataea and Mycale (Πλαταιαί καὶ Μυκάλη) were twin Greek victories over Persia in 479 BC, reportedly on the same day, ending Xerxes' invasion of Greece.
Battles of Rzhev
Battles of Rzhev (Ржевская битва): series of Red Army offensives against the Wehrmacht's Rzhev salient, 8 January 1942 to 31 March 1943, including Operation Mars; called the Rzhev Meat Grinder for Soviet losses of roughly 1.16 to 2.3 million.