List of battles (alphabetical)
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Alphabetical list of historical battles (see also Military history, List of battles):
NOTE: Where a year has been used to disambiguate battles it is the year when the battle started. In some cases these may still have gone on for several years.
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[edit] A
- Battle of Aachen - 1944 - Second World War
- Battle of Abensberg - 1809 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Abukir - 1799 - French Revolution
- Battle of Abu Klea - 1885 - Mahdist War
- Battle of Aclea - 851 - Danish Invasions of Britain
- Battle of Acragas - 406 BC - Carthaginian Invasion of Sicily
- Siege of Acre (1189-1191) - Third Crusade
- Siege of Acre (1291) - Fall of the last crusader city
- Siege of Acre (1799) - The French Revolution
- Battle of Acroinum - 739 - Moslem - Byzantine Wars
- Battle of Actium - 31 BC - Wars of the Second Triumvirate
- Battle of Adana - 964 - Byzantine - Moslem wars
- Battle of Adwa - 1896 - First Italo–Ethiopian War
- Battle of Adwalton Moor - 1643 - English Civil War
- Battle of Aegina - 458 BC- First Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Aegospotami - 405 BC - Great Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Agendicum - 52 BC - Gallic Wars
- Battle of Agincourt - 1415 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - 1509 - Italian Wars
- Battle of Ahvenanmaa - 1714 - Great Northern War
- Battle of Ain Jalut - 1260 - Mameluk-Mongol Wars
- First Battle of the Aisne - 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of the Aisne - 1917 - World War I
- Third Battle of the Aisne - 1918 - World War I
- Batlle Ajnadain - 634 - Moslem Conquest of Syria
- Battle of Akraba (632) (a.k.a. Battle of Yemama) - Recovery of Arabia - Campaign of Khalid
- Battle of Akraba (1972) - Israeli defoliation of Arab wheat crops
- Battle of Alalia - 535 BC - Greek-Carthaginian Wars
- Battle of Alamance - 1771 - Colonial Wars of the United States
- Battle of the Alamo - 1836 - Texas Revolution
- Battle of Aldenhoven (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battles of El Alamein - both 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Alesia - 52 BC - Gallic Wars
- Battle of Alfarrobeira - 1449 - Portuguese War of rebellion
- Battle of Algeciras - 1344 - Spanish-Moslem Wars
- Battle of Alma - 1854 - Crimean War
- Battle of Almonacid - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Al-Safra - 1812 - Ottoman-Saudi War
- Battle of Amberg - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Amiens - 1870 - Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Amiens - 1918 - World War I
- Battle of Amphipolis - 422 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Amstetten - 1805 - War of the Third Coalition
- Battle of Ankara (a.k.a. Battle of Angora) - 1402 - Timur's Invasion of Turkey
- Battle of Antietam - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Antioch (1097) - First Crusade
- Battle of Antioch (1119) - Crusader-Turkish Wars
- Battle of Antioch (1268) - Crusader-Turkish Wars
- Battle of Antwerp (1584) - Netherlands' War of Independence
- Battle of Antwerp (1914) - World War I
- Battle of Antwerp (1944) - World War II
- Battle of Aong - 1857 - Indian Mutiny
- Battle of Araure - 1813 - Venezuelan War of Independence
- Battle of Arbedo - 1422 - Milanese led by Francesco Bussone vs. Swiss
- Battle of Arcole (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Ardennes - World War I
- Battle of Arklow - 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Battle of Arnhem - 1944 - World War II (Operation Market Garden)
- Battle of Arras (1654) - Thirty Years' War (Spanish-French extension)
- Battle of Arras (1917) - World War I
- Battle of Arsuf - 1191 - Third Crusade
- Battle of Artemisium - 480 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Artois-Loos - 1915 - World War I
- Battle of Asal Uttar - 1965 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
- Battle of Ascalon - 1099 - First Crusade
- Battle of Ashdown - 871 - Viking-Saxon wars
- Battle of Athens (Alabama) - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Athens (Missouri) - 1861 - American Civil War
- Battle of Auerstaedt - 1806 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Austerlitz - 1805 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of the Atlantic (1915) - World War I
- Battle of the Atlantic (1940) - World War II
- Battle of Auberoche - 1345 - Hundred Years War
- Battle of Audenaarde - 1708 - War of the Spanish Succession
[edit] B
- Battle of Badung Strait (18-20th Feb, 1942)
- Battle of the Bagradas River (239 BC) - Carthage's Mercenary War
- Battle of the Bagradas River (49 BC) - Caesar's civil war
- Battle of Bakhmach - 1918 - World War I
- Battle of Balaclava - 1854 - Crimean War
- Battle of Balikpapan 1st battle (23-24th Jan, 1942) (Pacific Campaign of WW2)
- Battle of Balikpapan 2nd battle ( 1–21 July 1945) (Pacific Campaign of WW2)
- Battle of Bamianshan (19-31st Jan, 1950) (Chinese Civil War)
- Battle of Bang Rajan - 1767 - Burmese-Siamese Wars
- Battle of Bannockburn - 1314 - First War of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Baoyang (15-23rd Aug, 1945)
- Operation Barbarossa - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Barfleur - 1692 - War of the Grand Alliance
- Battle of Barletta - 1503 - see Challenge of Barletta
- Battle of Barnet - 1471 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Basantar - 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- Battle of Bassorah (a.k.a. Battle of the Camel) - 656 - Moslem Civil Wars
- Battle of Bautzen - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Beecher Island - 1868 - American Indian Wars
- Battle of Beersheba - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Belleau Wood - 1918 - World War I
- Battle of Benburb - 1646 - Irish Confederate Wars
- Battle of Benevento - 1266 - French Invasion of Italy
- Battle of Beneventum (275 BC) - Rise of Rome
- Battle of Benfleet - 894 - Viking invasion of England
- Battle of Beresteczko - 1651 - The Deluge
- Battle of Bergen (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Bitonto - 1734 - War of Polish Succession
- Battle of Blanchetaque - 1346 - Hundred Years War
- Battle of Blenheim - 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Blood River - 1838 -
- Battle of Blore Heath - 1459 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Böhmisch-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)
- Battle of Borodino - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Borysthenes - 1512 - Russo-Polish Wars
- Battle of the Bosnian Highlands - 927 - Croatian-Bulgarian War of 927
- Battle of Bosworth Field - 1485 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Boulou (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Bouvines - 1214 - English-French Wars
- Battle of the Boyne River - 1690 - First Jacobite Insurrection
- Battle of Breisach - 1638 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Breitenfeld (1642) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Brentford - 1642 - English Civil War
- Battle of Brienne - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Britain - 1940 - World War II
- Battle of Brandywine (1777) - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Brooklyn (a.k.a. Battle of Long Island) - 1776 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Brunanburh - 937
- Battle of Brunkeberg - 1471 - Danish-Swedish Wars
- Battle of Bråvalla - ca 750 - Danish-Swedish Wars
- Battle of Buçaco - 1810 - Peninsular War
- Battle of Buena Vista - 1847 - Mexican–American War
- Brusilov offensive - 1916 - World War I
- Battle of the Bulge - 1944 - World War II
- First Battle of Bull Run - 1861 - American Civil War
- Second Battle of Bull Run - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Bunker Hill - 1775 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Burgos - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Burkersdorf - 1762 - Seven Years' War
[edit] C
- Battle of Cadiz - 1587 - Anglo-Spanish War
- Battle of Caen (1346) - Hundred Years War
- Battle for Caen - 1944 - Second World War
- Battle of Cambrai - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of the Camel (see Battle of Bassorah)
- Battle of Camlann - 573, the only mentioning of king Arthur
- Battle of Camperdown - 1797 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Cannae - 216 BC - Second Punic War
- Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Caporetto (a.k.a. Twelfth Battle of Isonzo) - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Capua (212 BC) - Second Punic War
- Battle of Capua (1734) - War of Polish Succession
- Battle of Carabobo - 1821 - Venezuelan War of Independence
- Battle of Carbisdale (1650)
- Battle of Carchemish - 605 BC - Babylonian-Egyptian War
- Battle of Carillon (1758) - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Carthage (149 BC) - Third Punic War
- Battle of Carthage (533) (see Battle of Ad Decimum)
- Battle of Carthage (698) - Moslem Conquest of North Africa
- Battle of Castle Turjak - 1943 - World War II
- Battle of Cassel - 1677 - Franco-Dutch War
- Battle of Cassinga - 1978 - South African Border War
- Battle of Castillon - 1453 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (see Battle of Châlons)
- Battle of the Caudine Forks - 321 BC - Samnite Wars
- Second Battle of Cawnpore - 1857 - Indian Rebellion of 1857
- Battle of Cedynia - 972 - First Polish-German War
- Battle of Cefn Digoll - 630
- Battle of Cesky´-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)
- Battle of Ceuta - 1415 - Portuguese Invasion of Africa
- Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC) - Wars of Alexander the Great
- Battle of Chaeronea (86 BC) - First Mithridatic War
- Battle of Chalcis - 429 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Châlons-sur-Marne (366) - Germanic Invasions of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Châlons (451) - Wars of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Champaubert - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Changsha (3rd century) - Wars of the three kingdoms
- Battle of Changsha (1930) - gunboat diplomacy - basis for movie, The Sand Pebbles
- Battle of Changsha (1939) - Second Chinese-Japanese War
- Battle of Changsha (1941) - Second Chinese-Japanese War
- Battle of Changsha (1942) - Second Chinese-Japanese War as merged into World War II
- Battle of Changsha (1944) (a.k.a. Changsha-Hengyang) - Second Chinese-Japanese War as merged into World War II
- Battle of Changping - 206 BC - Consolidation of Qin dynasty
- Battle of Chateauguay - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Chernaya River - 1855 - Crimean War
- Battle of the Chesapeake - 1781 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Chesma - 1770 - Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774)
- Battle of Chickamauga - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Chippawa - 1812 - War of 1812
- Battle of Chojnice (a.k.a. Battle of Conitz) - 1454 - Thirteen Years' War
- Battle of the Chongchon River - 1950 - Korean War
- Battle of Chosin Reservoir - 1950 - Korean War
- Battle of Chrysopolis - 324 - Constantine I becomes the only Roman Emperor
- Battle of Ciudad-Real - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo - 1810 and 1812 - Napoleonic War, Peninsular War
- Battle of Civitate - 1053 - Norman vs. Swabian-Italian-Lombard Papal coalition
- Battle of Clyst St. Mary - 1549 - Prayer Book Rebellion
- Battle of Cocherel - 1364 - French vs. the forces of Charles II of Navarre
- Battle of Cold Harbor - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Colenso - 1899 - Second Boer War
- Battle of Copenhagen - 1659 - Northern Wars
- Battle of Copenhagen (1801) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Copenhagen (1807) - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of the Coral Sea - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Coronea - 447 BC - pre-Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Coronel - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Muslim Conquest of Spain
- Battle of Cracow - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Craonne - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Cravant - 1423 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of the Crater - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Crécy - 1346 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Crete - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Crysler's Farm - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Culloden (a.k.a. Culloden Moor) - 1746 - Jacobite Rebellions
- Battle of Cunaxa - 401 BC - Persian-Greek Wars
- Battle of Cut Knife - 1885 - North-West Rebellion
- Battle of Chapultepec - 1847 - Mexican-American War
[edit] D
- Battle of Dairen - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Delium - 424 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Denain - 1712 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Deorham (a.k.a. Dyrham) - 577 - Teutonic conquest of England
- Battle of Dessau Bridge - (1626) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Detroit - 1812 - War of 1812
- Battle of Dettingen - 1743 - War of Austrian Succession
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu - 1954 - French Indochina
- Battle of Diersheim (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Diriyah - 1818 - Ottoman-Saudi War
- Battle of Dogger Bank (1781) - War of American Independence
- Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) - World War I
- Battle of Domstadtl (Domašov) - 1758 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Dorylaeum - 1097 - First Crusade
- Battle of Dražgoše - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Drepana - 249 BC - First Punic War
- Battle of Dresden - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Dufile - 1888 - Emin Pasha - Moyo District - Uganda
- Battle of Dumlupınar - 1922 - Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
- Battle of the Dunes (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths
- Battle of the Dunes (1658) - Spanish French Wars
- Battle of Dunkirk (a.k.a. Dunkerque) - 1940 - World War II
- Battle of Dunbar (1296) - Wars of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Dunbar (1650) - English Civil Wars
- Battle of Dungans Hill- 1647 - Irish Confederate Wars
- Battle of Dun Nechtain
- Battle of Dunnichen - See Battle of Dun Nechtain
- Battle of Dupplin Moor - 1332 - Second War of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Dybbøl - 1864 - Second Schleswig War
[edit] E
- Battle of the Ebro - 1938 - Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
- Battle of Eckmülh - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Edgehill - 1642 - English Civil War
- Battle of Elchingen - 1805 - War of the Third Coalition
- Battle of Elena - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
- Battle of Elvina - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Embabo - 1882
- Battle of Engen (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Siege of Eshowe - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Espinosa - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Essling-Aspern - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of the Eurymedon - c. 466 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Evesham - 1265 - Second Barons' War of England
- Siege of Exeter (c.630)
- Siege of Exeter - 893 - Danish Invasion of England
- Battle of Exeter - 1068 - Norman Conquest of England
- Siege of Exeter - 1549 - Prayer Book Rebellion
- Sieges of Exeter - 1642, 1643, 1645 - English Civil War
- Battle of Eylau - 1807 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
[edit] F
- Battle of the Falaise Gap - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Falkirk (1298) - Wars of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Falkirk (1746) - Jacobite Rebellions
- Battle of the Falkland Islands - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Fehrbellin - 1675 - Northern Wars
- Battle of Feishui - 383 - Wars of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
- Battle of Five Forks - 1865 - American Civil War
- Battle of Flandres - 1914 - World War I - 1513 - War of League of Cambrai
- Battle of Fleurus (1622) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Fleurus (1690) - War of the Grand Alliance
- Battle of Fleurus (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Flodden Field - 1513 - War of League of Cambrai
- Battle of Focşani - 1789 - Russo–Turkish War (1787–1792)
- Battle of Fontenay (841) (Latin Fontanetum, near Auxerre, and now Fontenoy-en-Puisaye) - Division of Charlemagne's Empire
- Battle of Fontenay (1944) (Fontenay-le-Pesnel near Caen) - World War II
- Battle of Fontenoy (1745) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Formigny - 1450 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Fornovo - 1495 - Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII
- Battle of Fort Charlotte - 1780 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Fort Donelson - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Frankfurt on the Oder - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Fredericksburg - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Freiburg - 1644 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Freiberg - 1762 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Friedland - 1807 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of the Frontiers - 1914
- Battle of Fuentes de Onoro - 1811 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Fulford - 1066 - Viking Conquest of England
- Battle of Fürth - 1632 - Thirty Years' War
[edit] G
- Battle of Gallipoli - 1915 - World War I
- Battle of Garibpur - 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- Battle of Gaugamela - 331 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great
- First Battle of Gaza - 1917 - World War I
- Second Battle of Gaza - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Geisberg (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Germantown(1777) - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Gettysburg - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Gilboa - 1000 BC - Israeli Philistine Wars
- Battle of Gingindlovu - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Glorious First of June - 1794 - French Revolutionary War
- Siege of Gloucester - 1643 - English Civil War
- Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive - 1915 - World War I
- Battle of Grathe Heath - 1157 - Dispute over Danish Throne
- Battle of Grandson - 1476
- Battle of the Granicus - 334 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great
- Battle of Gravelines - 1588 - Spanish Armada
- Battle of Grengam - 1720 - Great Northern War
- Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion
- Battle of Grunwald - 1410
- Battle of Guadalcanal - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Guadalete - 711 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
- Battle of Guan Du - 200 - Conquest of Northern China
- Battle of the Guise - (See Battle of St. Quentin (1914))
- Battle of Gully Ravine - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Gumbinnen - 1914
- Battle of Gvozd Mountain (Peter`s Mountain) - 1097 - Croatian-Hungarian War of 1097
[edit] H
- Battle of Halys (547 BC) - Persian Wars
- Battle of Halys (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths
- Battle of Halys (1101) - First Crusade
- Because the Halys is a river the above battles sometimes use the terms "on the" or "at the"
- Battle of Hampton Roads (see Battle of the Ironclads)
- Siege of Harfleur - 1415 - Hundred Years War
- Battle of Harlaw - 1411 - Aberdeenshire Scotland
- Hartmannswillerkopf - 1914 - Alsace
- Battle of Hastings - 1066 - Norman conquest of England
- Battle of Hattin - 1187 - Crusades
- Battle of Le Havre - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Heligoland (1864) - Second Schleswig War
- Battle of Heligoland (1914) (a.k.a. Heligoland Bight) - World War I
- Battle of Hellespont - 324
- Battle of Helsingborg - 1362 - Danish-German War
- Battle of Hemmingstedt - 1500 - Danish invasion in Dithmarschen, Germany
- Battle of Heraclea - 280 BC - Pyrrhic War
- Battle of Hill 60 (Gallipoli) - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Hill 60 (Western Front) - 1915 - World War I - Western Front
- Battle of Hilli 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- Battle of Hlobane - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Höchst - 1622 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Hochstadt - 1703 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Hochstadt (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Hohenfriedberg - 1745 - Second Silesian War and War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Hohenlinden (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Hondshoote (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Hopton Heath - 1643 - English Civil War
- Battle of Hue - 1968 - Vietnam War
- Battle of Hundred Regiments (a.k.a. Hundred Regiments Offensive) - 1940 - Second Chinese-Japanese War
- Battle of the Hydaspes River - 326 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great
[edit] I
- Battle of Iena - 1806 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Ilipa - 206 BC - Second Punic War
- Battle of Inkerman - 1854 - Crimean War
- Battle of Intombe - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Inverlochy - 1431
- Battle of Inverlochy - 1645 - English Civil War
- Battle of Issus - 333 BC - Macedonian conquests
- Battle of Ituzaingo - 1827 - Uruguayan War of Independence
- Battle of Iwo Jima - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of the Ironclads (a.k.a. Monitor vs. Merrimack, Battle of Hampton Roads) - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Isandhlwana - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Isonzo (489) - Ostrogoth invasion of Italy
- Battles of Isonzo - World War I - a series of eleven related battles, ending with the Battle of Caporetto
[edit] J
- Battle of Jackson, Mississippi - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Jackson, Tennessee - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Jankau - 1645 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Java Sea - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Jeddah - 1813 - Ottoman-Saudi War
- Battle of Jemappes - 1792 - War of the First Coalition
- Battle of Jena - 1806 - War of the Fourth Coalition
- Battle of Jutland - 1916 - World War I
[edit] K
- Battle of Kabul (709) - Moslem Conquest of the East
- Battle of Kabul (1842) - First Afghan-British War
- Battle of Kadesh - 1472 BC - Egyptian-Canaanite War
- Battle of Kalcicrum (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Kambula - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Kapyong 1951 - Korean War
- Battle of Karkar - 854 BC or 853 BC - Assyrian Wars of Conquest
- Battle of Kepaniwai - 1790 - Unification of Hawaiian Islands
- Siege of Khartoum - 1884/5 - The Mahdist, Anglo-Sudan War
- Battle of Killiecrankie - 1689 - Jacobite Uprising
- Siege of Kimberley - 1899/1900 - Second Boer War
- Battle of King's Mountain - 1780 - part of American Revolution
- Battle of Kircholm - 1605 - War between Sweden and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for the Inflants
- Battle of Kleidion - 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgar Wars
- Battle of Kłuszyn - 1610, Poles defeat Russians during Times of Troubles in Russia.
- Battle of Knocknanuss- 1647- Irish Confederate Wars
- Battle of Kolin - 1757 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Kolubara - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Königgrätz - 1866 - Austro-Prussian War
- Battle of Kosovo - 1389 - Ottoman wars in Europe
- Battle of Kosovo (1448) - Ottoman wars in Europe
- Battle of Kosovo (1915) - World War I
- Battle of Krbava field - 1493 - Ottoman-Croatian Wars
- Battles of Krithia - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Kunyang - 24 - Rise of the Eastern Han
- Battle of Kursk - 1943 - World War II
- Siege of Kut - 1915/16 - World War I
- Battle of Kyushu - 1281 - Mongol Invasions of Japan
[edit] L
- Battle of La Bicocca - 1522 - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Lade - 494 BC - Ionian Revolt
- Battle of La Hogue - 1692 - War of the Grand Alliance
- Battle of Lake Erie - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of La Loiera - 1353 - Venetians and Aragonese vs. Genoese
- Battle of Laon - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Largs - 1263 - Scottish–Norwegian War
- Battle of Lauffeld (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Le Cateau - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Lechfeld - 955 - German states stop the Magyars
- Battle of Legnano - 1176 - Wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines
- Siege of Leicester - 1645 - English Civil War
- Battle of Leipzig - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Lens - 1648 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Lepanto (1499) - Third Turkish-Venetian War
- Battle of Lepanto (1500) - a second battle at the same place during the Third Turkish-Venetian War
- Battle of Lepanto (1571) - a third battle at Lepanto, during the Fifth Turkish-Venetian War
- Battle of Lesnaya 1708 - Great Northern War
- Battle of Leuthen - 1757 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Leuven - 891
- Battle of Lewes - 1264 - Second Barons' War of England
- Battle of Lexington and Concord - 1775 - American War of Independence
- Battle of Leyte (land battle) - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Leyte Gulf (sea battle) - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Liaoyang - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Ligny - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Lincoln (1141), on 2 February 1141 - Stephen of England vs Matilda, England.
- Battle of Lincoln (1217), on 20 May 1217 - First Barons' War of England.
- Battle of Lipany (a.k.a. Cesky´-Brod or Böhmisch-Brod) - 1434 - Hussite Wars
- Battle of Lisnagarvey - 1649 - Cromwellian Wars
- Battle of Lissa - 1866 - Seven Weeks' War
- Battle of Littleferry - April 15, 1746 - Jacobite rising of 1745
- Battle of the Little Bighorn - 1876 - Second Sioux War
- Battle of Łódź - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Lone Pine - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Long Island (a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn) - 1776 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of the Long Orchard - 432 - Byzantine War against the Goths
- Battle of Longewala - 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
- Battle of Loos (see Battle of Artois-Loos)
- Battle of Lostwithiel (two connected battles) - 1642 and 1644 - English Civil War
- Battle of Lowestoft - 1665 - Second Anglo-Dutch War
- Battle of Łowicz - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Lugou Bridge (a.k.a. Incident at Marco Polo Bridge) - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War
- Battle of Lumphanan - 1057 - Scottish dispute over the throne; Macbeth died here.
- Battle of Lundy's Lane - 1814 - War of 1812
- Battle of Lutter am Barenberge - 1626 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Lützen (1632) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Lützen (1813) - Napoleonic Empire Wars
[edit] M
- Battle of Magdeburg - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Magdhaba - 1916 - World War I
- Battle of Magenta - 1859 - Italian Independence War
- Battle of Magersfontein - 1899 - Second Boer War
- Battle of Magh Tuiredh (two battles) - Irish mythology - see also Tuatha Dé Danann, Lugh
- Battle of Maiwand - 1880 - Second Anglo-Afghan War
- Battle of Majuba Hill - 1881 - First Boer War
- Battle of Malakoff - 1855 - Crimean War
- Battle of Maldon - 991 - Rise of England
- Battle of Malplaquet - 1709 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Manila (1762) - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Manila (1898) - Spanish-American War
- Battle of Manila (1899) - Philippine-American War
- Battle of Manila (1945) - World War II
- Battle of Manila Bay (1898) - Spanish-American War
- Battle of Manners Street - 1943 World War II
- Battle of Mantinea (418 BC) - 418 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Mantinea (362 BC) - 362 BC - Greek City-States War
- Battle of Manzikert - 1071 - Byzantine-Turkish Wars
- Battle of Marakesh - 1908
- Battle of Marathon - 490 BC - Persian-Greek Wars
- Battle of Marengo - 1800 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Marignani - 1515 - French Wars in Italy
- Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem) - 1944 - World War II
- First Battle of the Marne - 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of the Marne - 1918 - World War I
- Battle of Marston Moor - 1644 - English Civil War
- First Battle of Masurian Lakes - September 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of Masurian Lakes - February 1915 - World War I
- Battle of Matchin - 1791 - Russo–Turkish War (1787–1792)
- Battle of Mecca - 1813 - Ottoman-Saudi War
- Battle of Medelin - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Medina (1812) - 1812 - Ottoman-Saudi War
- Battle of Meelick Island -1650 - Cromwellian Wars
- Battle of Mello - 1358 - Peasant Jacquerie
- Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) - Egyptian-Canaanite War
- Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) - 609 BC
- Battle of Megiddo (1918) - 1918 - World War I
- Battle of Mergentheim - 1645 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Meloria (1241) - Frederick II and Pisa vs. Genoa
- Battle of Meloria (1284) - Pisa vs. Genoa
- Battle of Mhlatuze River - Zulu Civil War
- Battle of Miani - 1843 - Anglo-Baluchi War
- Battle of Midway - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Milan (1522) - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Milan (1535) - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Milan (1741) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Milvian Bridge - 312 - Civil Wars of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Mindanao - 1945 - Second World War
- Battle of Minden - 1759 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Mirbat - 1972 - [Oman Coup]
- Battle of Mitla Pass - 1956 - Suez Crisis
- Battle of Mobile (1781) - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Mobile Bay - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Modder River - 1899 - Second Boer War
- Battle of Möerskirch (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Mohács - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
- Battle of Mollwitz - 1741 - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Monocacy Junction - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of the Monongahela - 1755 - French and Indian War
- Battle of Mons - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Mons Badonicus - abount 500 - Teutonic Conquest of Britain
- Battle of Mons Graupius - 84 - Roman Invasion of Britain
- Battle of Monte Cassino - 1944 - Italian Campaign (World War II)
- Battle of Montereau - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Montmirail - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Mormans - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Moscow - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Mouquet Farm - 1916
- Battle of Mühlberg - 1547 - German Reformation Wars
- Battle of Mycale - 479 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Myriokephalon - 1176 - Byzantine-Turkish Wars
[edit] N
- Battle of Naissus - 269 - Gothic Invasion of the Roman Empire
- The Night Attack - 1462 - Vlad III Dracula versus Mehmed II
- Battle of Nanjing - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War
- Battle of Nanos - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Naseby - 1645 - English Civil War
- Battle of Nashville - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Naupactus - 429 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Navarino - 1827 - Greek War of Independence
- Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa - 1212 - Spanish-Moslem Wars
- Battle of Neaje - 1016- Saint Olav Haraldsson
- Battle of Nechtansmere - 685 - see Battle of Dun Nechtain
- Battle of Neerwinden (1693) - War of the Grand Alliance
- Battles of Nejd - 1817 / 1818 - Ottoman-Saudi War
- Battle of the Nek - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Neresheim (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Neuwied (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of New Orleans - 1815 - War of 1812
- Battle of New Ross (1798) - Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Battle of Nicopolis - 1396 - Ottoman wars in Europe
- Battle of the Nile - 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) - Fall of Assyria
- Battle of Nineveh (627) - Byzantine-Persian Wars
- Battle of Niquitao - 1813 - Venezuelan War of Independence
- Battle of Nördlingen (1634) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Nördlingen (1645) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Normandy - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Novara (1513) - War of the League of Cambrai
- Battle of Novara (1849) - Italian Independence wars
- Battle of Novi (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Mooretown (1776) - Revolutionary War
[edit] O
- Battle of Ocana - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Oenophyta - 457 BC - First Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Okinawa - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of Olpae - 426 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Omdurman - 1898 - The Mahdist, Anglo-Sudan War
- Battle of Orchomenus - 84 BC - First Mithridatic War
- Battle of Orléans - 1429 - Hundred Years' War - Joan of Arc participated
- Battle of Osankarica - 1943 - World War II
- Battle of Otterburn - 1388 - Scottish/English border dispute
- Battle of Oudenarde - 1708 - War of the Spanish Succession
[edit] P
- Battle of Paardeberg - 1900 - Second Boer War
- Battle of Pakozd - 1848 - Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- Battle of Pampeluna (778) - Charlemagne's War against the Moors
- Battle of Pampeluna (1521) - French-Spanish Wars
- Battle of Pampeluna (1813) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Panipat (1526) - Mogul-Afghan Wars
- Battle of Panipat (1556) - Mogul-Afghan Wars
- Battle of Panipat (1761) - Afghan-Maratha Wars
- Battle of Passchendaele - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Patay - 1429 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Pavia (271) - Alamanni Invasion of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Pavia (476) - Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Pavia (569) - Lombard Invasion of Italy
- Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
- Battle of Pavia (1431) - Wars in Lombardy
- Battle of Pavia (1525) - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Peking - 1900 - Boxer Rebellion
- Battle of Peleliu - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Pearl Harbor - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Pharsalus - 48 BC - Wars of the First Triumvirate
- Battle of Philippi (42 BC) (in Macedonia) - Wars of the Second Triumvirate
- Battle of Philippi (1861) (in West Virginia) - American Civil War
- Battle of Philippine Sea - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham - 1759 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Pilsen - 1618 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Pinkie - 1547 - War of the Rough Wooing, England v. Scotland
- Battle of Plataea - 479 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Platzberg (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Pliska - Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars
- Battle of Poitiers - 1356 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Poljana - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of Pollentia - 402 - Goth Invasion of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Poltava - 1709 - Great Northern War
- Battle of Port Arthur - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Portland - 1653 - First Anglo–Dutch War
- Battle of Portland Harbour - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Pozzolo (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Prague (1420) - Hussite Wars
- Battle of Prague (1648) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Prague (1744) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Prague (1757) - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Preston (1648) - Second English Civil War
- Battle of Preston (1715) - First Jacobite rising
- Battle of Prestonpans - 1745 - Jacobite rising
- Battle of Princeton - 1777 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Puebla (1847) - Mexican-American War
- Battle of Puebla (1862) - French-Mexican War
- Battle of Pydna - 168 BC - Third Macedonian War
- Battle of Pylos - 425 BC - Peloponnesian War
[edit] Q
- Battle of Quatre Bras - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Quebec (1691) - British attack during King William's War
- Battle of Quebec (1711) - British attack during Queen Anne's War
- Battle of Quebec (1759) - Seven Years' War, includes the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
- Battle of Quebec (1760) - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Quebec (1775) - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Queenston Heights - 1812 - War of 1812
[edit] R
- Battle of Rafa - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Rain - 1632 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Rakvere - 1268 -
- Battle of Ramillies - 1706 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Ramoth-Gilead - 953 BC - Israeli-Syrian War
- Battle of Rastadt (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Raszyn - 1809- Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Raucoux (1746) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Ravenna (419) - Roman Empire vs. Ostrogoths
- Battle of Ravenna (432) - Bonifacius vs. Flavius Aëtius
- Battle of Ravenna (1512) - War of the League of Cambrai
- Battle of Reading - 871 - Ethelred of Wessex and Alfred the Great defeated by a Danish army
- Battle of Reading - 1688 - Glorious Revolution
- Battle of Red Cliffs - 208 - Rise of the Three Kingdoms
- Battle of Remagen - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of Rheinfelden - 1638 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Rivas 1856 - Central American coalition defeats filibuster William Walker
- The Battle of the River Plate - 1939 - World War II
- Battle of Rivoli - 1796 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Rocroi - 1643 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Romani - 1916 - World War I
- Battle for Rome - 1944 - Italian Campaign (World War II)
- Battle of Rorke's Drift - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Rosbach - 1757 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Roundway Down - 1643 - English Civil War
- Battle of Ruvo - 1503 - French-Spanish Wars in Italy
[edit] S
- Battle of St-Laurent-de-la-Muga (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Saint-Omer - 1340 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of St Pol de Leon - 1346 - Breton War of Succession
- Battle of St. Quentin (1914) - World War I
- Battle of Sablat - 1619 - Thirty Years' War
- First Battle of Saigon - 1968 - Vietnam War
- Battle of Sainte-Foy - 1760
- Battle of Salamanca - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Salamis - 480 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus) - 450 BC - pre-Peloponnesian War
- Battle of San Jacinto - 1836 - Texan War of Independence
- Battle of Santa Rosa - 1856 - Costa Rican troops rout Walker's soldiers
- Battle of Santiago de Cuba - 1898 - Spanish-American War
- Battle of Saratoga - 1777 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Sarhū - 1619
- Battle of Sari Bair - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Sarmada - 1119 - Crusader-Turkish Wars
- Battle of Scheveningen - 1653 - First Anglo–Dutch War
- Battle of Schwechat - 1848 - Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- Battle of Schwetz - see Battle of Świecino
- Battle of Scimitar Hill - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Sedan - 1870 - Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Sedgemoor - 1685 - Monmouth's Revolt
- Battle of Sekigahara - 1600 - Unification of Japan
- Battle of Sempach - 1386 - Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy
- Battle of Seneffe - 1674 - Franco-Dutch War
- Siege of Sevastopol - 1854-5 - Crimean War
- Battle of Shanhai Pass - 1644 - Manchu conquest
- Battle of Shijō Nawate - 1348 - Nanboku-chō period
- Battle of Shiloh - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Sherrifmuir - 1715 - Jacobite uprising of 1715
- Battle of Shrewsbury - 1403 - Percy Revolt against Henry IV
- Battle of Sitka - 1804 - Russian colonization of the Americas
- Battle of Skibo and Strathfleet -1480- Scottish clan battle
- Battle of Sluis (1603) - Eighty Years' War
- Battle of Sluys - 1340 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Solférino - 1859 - Italian Independence War
- Battle of the Somme (1916) - World War I
- Battle of the Somme (1918) - World War I
- Battle of Sphacteria - 425 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Spion Kop - 1900 - Second Boer War
- Battle of Spotsylvania Court House - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Stadtlohn - 1623 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Stalingrad - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Stamford Bridge - 1066 - Viking invasion of England
- First Battle of St Albans - 1455 - Wars of the Roses
- Second Battle of St Albans - 1461 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of St-Dizier - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Saint Gotthard - 1664 - Ottoman wars in Europe
- Battle of Steenkerque - 1692 - War of the Grand Alliance
- Battle of Stiklestad - 1030 - Christianization of Norway
- Battle of Stirling Bridge - 1297 - First War of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Stirling (1648) - Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- Battle of Stoke Field - 1487 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Stockash (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Stralsund (1628) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Stralsund (1715) - Great Northern War
- First Battle of the Stronghold - 1873 - Modoc War
- Battle of Stångebro - 1598
- Battle of Suiyang - 757
- Battle of Surat - 1664 - Imperial Maratha Conquests
- Battle of Svistov - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
- Battle of Świecino (a.k.a. Schwetz, Żarnowiec) - 1462 - Thirteen Years' War
- Battle of Syracuse (415 BC) - Great Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Syracuse (387 BC) - Carthaginian Invasion of Sicily
- Battle of Syracuse (214 BC) - Second Punic War
- Battle of Syracuse (1734) - War of the Polish Succession
- Battle of Syria - 431 - Byzantine War against the Goths
[edit] T
- Battle of Tagliacozzo - 1268 - French Invasion of Italy
- Battle of Tai er zhuang - 1938 - Second Chinese-Japanese War
- Battle of Taku Forts - 1900 - Boxer Rebellion
- Battle of Talavera - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Tannenberg (1410) - Rise of Poland
- Battle of Tannenberg (1914) - World War I
- Battle of Tarawa (a.k.a. Tarawa-Makin) - 1943 - World War II
- Battle of Tarifa - 1811 - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Tassafaronga - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Tashkessen - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
- Battle of Teruel - 1937 - Spanish Civil War (1936–1939)
- Battle of Te Tumo - 1835 - Maori Wars
- Battle of Tchernaïa - 1855 - Crimean War
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - 9 - Germanic Wars of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Tewkesbury - 1491 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Texel - 1673 - Franco-Dutch and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars
- Battle of the Thames - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Thapsus - 46 BC - Caesar's civil war
- Battle of Thermopylae - 480 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Ticonderoga - 1758, 1759, 1775, 1777 - French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Tippecanoe - 1811 - War against Tecumseh
- Battle of Tippermuir - 1644 Wars of the Three Kingdoms
- Siege of Tobruk - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Tolentino - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Tololing - 1999 - Kargil War
- Battle of Torran Dubh -1517- Scottish clan battle
- Battle of Toulon - 1707 - War of Spanish Succession
- Battle of Toulon - 1744 - War of Austrian Succession
- Siege of Toulon - 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Toulouse - 721 - Moslem Invasion of Europe
- Battle of Toulouse - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Tourcoing (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Tours - 732 - Moslem Invasion of France
- Battle of Towton - 1461 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Trafalgar - 1805 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Trebia (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Trenton - 1776 - American Revolutionary War
- Second Battle of Trenton - 1777 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Trepani - 1735 - War of the Polish Succession
- Battle of Trieste - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of Trippstadt (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Troy - 1194 BC - Trojan War
- Battle of Tsushima - 1905 - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Tudela - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach -1406?- Scottish clan battle
- Battle of Turckeim - 1675 - Franco-Dutch War
- Battle of Tumu Fortress - 1449 - Ming Wars against the Mongols
- NOTE: This was previously listed as Tumu Castle, but the distinction may simply be a by-product of translation from Chinese.
- Battle of Tunisia - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Turnham Green - 1642 - English Civil War
- Battle of Tuttlingen - 1643 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Tenochtitlan - 1521 - Spanish conquest of Mexico
- First Battle of Torreón - 1913 - Mexican Revolution
- Second Battle of Torreón - 1914 - Mexican Revolution
- Third Battle of Torreón - 1914 - Mexican Revolution
[edit] U
- Battle of Ucles (1108) - Spanish-Moslem Wars
- Battle of Ucles (1809) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Ulm - 1805 - War of the Third Coalition
- Battle of Ulundi - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Uji - 1180- Genpei War
- Battle of Ushant - 1778 - American War of Independence
[edit] V
- Battle of Vauchamps - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Vaila - see Battle of Agnadello
- Battle of Valenciennes - 1656 - Thirty Years' War (Spanish-French Extension)
- Battle of Valmy - 1792 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Vaslui - 1475 - (Moldavian-Ottoman Wars)
- Battle of Vera Cruz - 1847 - Mexican-American War
- Battle of Veracruz - 1914 - see United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914
- Battle of Verdun - 1916 - World War I
- Battle of Vimeiro - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Vimy Ridge - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Vinegar Hill - 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Battle of Vitoria - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Vukovar - 1991 - Croatian War of Independence
- Battle of Vicksburg - 1863 - American Civil War
[edit] W
- Battle of Wagram - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Wakefield - 1460 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Warsaw (1656), during the Northern Wars
- Battle of Warsaw (1831), during the Polish revolt against Russia
- Battle of Vistula River-Warsaw, during World War I
- Battle of Warsaw (1920), during the Polish-Soviet War
- Battle of Warsaw (1939), at the outset of World War II
- Battle of Warsaw (1944), near the end of World War II
- Battle of Washita River - 1868 - the Indian Wars
- Battle of Waterloo - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Wattignies (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Wavre - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Wayna Daga - 1543 - Moslem Wars in Ethiopia
- Battle of Werben - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
- Defence of Westerplatte - 1939 - World War II
- Battle of White Mountain - 1620 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Wiesloch - 1622 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of the Wilderness - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Wimpfen - 1622 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Wittstock - 1636 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Woerth (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Wogastisburg - 631
- Battle of Wolgast - 1628 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Worcester - 1651 - English Civil War
- Battle of Worringen - 1288 - Cologne's revolt against church rule
- Battle of Wounded Knee - 1890 - Sioux Wars
- Battle of Wuzhang Plains - 234 AD - Fought between Shu Han and Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms Period of China. This battle saw the death of one of the top strategists that ancient warfare have ever saw in history.
[edit] X
- Battle of Xiangyang (209) (year uncertain) - Rise of the Three Kingdoms
- Battle of Xiangyang (360) (year uncertain) - Expansion of the Early Qin
- Battle of Xiangyang (1273) - Yuan conquest of Southern Sung
- Battle of Xiangyang (1944) - World War II
[edit] Y
- Battle of Yalu River (1894) - First Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of Yalu River (1904) - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Yarmuk - 636 - Byzantine-Arab Wars
- Battle of York - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Yorktown (1781) - American Revolutionary War
- First Battle of Ypres - 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of Ypres - 1915 - World War I
- Third Battle of Ypres - 1917 - World War I
[edit] Z
- Battle of Žalgiris - see Battle of Grunwald (1410)
- Battle of Zama - 202 BC - Second Punic War
- Battle of Żarnowiec - see Battle of Świecino
- Battle of Zborov - 1917 - World War I
- First Battle of Zurich 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Second Battle of Zurich 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Zusmarshausen - 1648 - Thirty Years' War
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