List of battles (alphabetical)
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Alphabetical list of historical battles (see also Military history, Lists 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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- Battle of 73 Easting - 1991 - Gulf War
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 - Viking invasions of England
- Battle of Acragas - 406 BC - Greek–Punic Wars
- Siege of Acre (1189–91) - Third Crusade
- Siege of Acre (1291) - Fall of the last crusader city
- Siege of Acre (1799) - French Revolution
- Battle of Acroinum - 740 - Arab–Byzantine wars
- Battle of Actium - 31 BC - Final War of the Roman Republic
- 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 - 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 - Mongol conquests
- 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
- Battle of Ajnadayn - 634 - Muslim conquest of the Levant
- Battle of Akraba (632) (a.k.a. Battle of Yemama) - "Apostate Wars"
- Battle of Alalia - 535 BC - Greek–Punic Wars
- Battle of Alamance - 1771 - War of the Regulation
- Battle of Alam el Halfa - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of the Alamo - 1836 - Texas Revolution
- Battle of Aldenhoven (1794) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battles of El Alamein - both 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Alesia - 52 BC - Gallic Wars
- Battle of Alfarrobeira - 1449
- Battle of Algeciras - 1344 - Reconquista
- Battle of Alma - 1854 - Crimean War
- Battle of Almonacid - 1809 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Al-Safra - 1812 - Ottoman–Saudi War
- Battle of Amberg - French Revolutionary Wars
- 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 (218) - Inter-Roman battle
- Battle of Antioch (1097) - First Crusade
- Siege of Antioch (1268) - Crusades
- Battle of Antwerp (1584) - Dutch Revolt
- Battle of Antwerp (1832) - Ten Days' Campaign
- Battle of Antwerp (1914) - World War I
- Battle of Antwerp (1944) - World War II
- Battle of Anzen - 838 - Byzantine–Arab Wars
- Battle of Aong - 1857 - Indian Rebellion of 1857
- Battle of Araure - 1813 - Venezuelan War of Independence
- Battle of Arbedo - 1422 - Milanese led by Francesco Bussone vs. Swiss
- Battle of Arcole (1796) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube - 1814 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of the 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 - Greco-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 Wars
- Battle of Austerlitz - 1805 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of the Atlantic - World War I
- Battle of the Atlantic - World War II
- Battle of Auberoche - 1345 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Audenaarde - 1708 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Azaz (1030) - Arab–Byzantine Wars
- Battle of Azaz (1125)
B
- Battle of Badung Strait (18-20 Feb, 1942)
- Battle of the Baggage - 737 - Umayyad–Turgesh Wars
- 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 (23-24 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 (May 1902) Moro Rebellion
- Operation Barbarossa - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Barfleur - 1692 - Nine Years' War
- 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 - First Fitna
- Battle of Bathys Ryax - 872/878 - Byzantine-Paulician Wars
- Battle of Bautzen - 1813 - Napoleonic 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 Berestechko - 1651 - The Deluge
- Battle of Bergen (1799) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Bitonto - 1734 - War of the 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 Borodino - 1812 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Borysthenes - 1512 - Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars
- Battle of the Bosnian Highlands - 927 - Croatian–Bulgarian wars
- Battle of Bosworth Field - 1485 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Boulou - 1794 – French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Bouvines - 1214 - Anglo-French War (1202–14)
- Battle of the Boyne - 1690 - Williamite War in Ireland
- 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 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 - Dano-Swedish War (1470–71)
- 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 Wars
- Battle of Burkersdorf - 1762 - Seven Years' War
C
- Battle of Cadiz - 1587 - Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)
- 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
- 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) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Caporetto (a.k.a. Twelfth Battle of Isonzo) - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Capua - Second Punic War
- Siege of Capua (1734) - War of the 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 (c. 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-en-Champagne (or Battle of Châlons-sur-Marne) - 274 - Germanic Invasions of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Châlons - 451 - Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Champaubert - 1814 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Changsha (1911) - Xinhai Revolution
- Battle of Changsha (1939) - Second Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of Changsha (1941) - Second Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of Changsha (1942) - Second Sino-Japanese War as merged into World War II
- Battle of Changsha (1944) (a.k.a. Changsha-Hengyang) - Second Sino-Japanese War as merged into World War II
- Battle of Changping - 206 BC - Consolidation of Qin dynasty
- Battle of the Chateauguay - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of the Chernaya - 1855 - Crimean War
- Battle of the Chesapeake - 1781 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Chesma - 1770 - Russo-Turkish War (1768–74)
- 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 Ch'ongch'on 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 Wars
- Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo - 1810 and 1812 - Napoleonic Wars, 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
- Assault on Copenhagen (1659) - Northern Wars
- Battle of Copenhagen (1801) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Copenhagen (1807) - Napoleonic 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 - Umayyad conquest of Hispania
- Battle of Cracow - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Craonne - 1814 - Napoleonic 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 rising of 1745
- Battle of Cunaxa - 401 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Cut Knife - 1885 - North-West Rebellion
- Battle of Chapultepec - 1847 - Mexican–American War
D
- Battle of Dairen - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of the Defile - 731 - Umayyad–Turgesh Wars
- Battle of Delium - 424 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Debaltseve - 2015 - War in Donbass
- Battle of Denain - 1712 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Deorham (a.k.a. Dyrham) - 577 - Anglo-Saxon conquest of England
- Battle of Dessau Bridge - (1626) - Thirty Years' War
- Siege of Detroit - 1812 - War of 1812
- Battle of Dettingen - 1743 - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu - 1954 - First Indochina War
- Battle of Diersheim (1797) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Siege of Diriyah - 1818 - Ottoman–Saudi War
- Battle of Dogger Bank (1781) - American Revolutionary War
- 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 Wars
- Battle of Dufile - 1888 - Emin Pasha - Moyo District - Uganda
- Battle of Dumlupınar - 1922 - Greco-Turkish War (1919–22)
- Battle of the Dunes (1658) - Franco-Spanish War (1635–59)
- Battle of Dunkirk (a.k.a. Dunkerque) - 1940 - World War II
- Battle of Dunbar (1296) - Wars of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Dunbar (1650) - Third English Civil War
- Battle of Dungan's Hill - 1647 - Irish Confederate Wars
- Battle of Dun Nechtain (a/k/a Battle of Dunnichen)
- Battle of Dupplin Moor - 1332 - Second War of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Dybbøl - 1864 - Second Schleswig War
E
- Battle of the Ebro - 1938 - Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
- Battle of Eckmühl - 1800 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Edgehill - 1642 - English Civil War
- Battle of Elchingen - 1805 - War of the Third Coalition
- Battle of Elena - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)
- Battle of Elvina - 1809 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Embabo - 1882
- Battle of Engen - 1800 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Siege of Eshowe - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros - 1808 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Essling-Aspern - 1809 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of the Eurymedon - c. 466 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Evesham - 1265 - Second Barons' War of England
- Siege of Exeter (c. 630) - almost certainly fictional
- Battle of Exeter - 1068 - Norman conquest of England
- Siege of Exeter - 1549 - Prayer Book Rebellion
- Battle of Eylau - 1807 - Napoleonic Wars
F
- Battle of the Falaise Gap - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Falkirk – 1298 - Wars of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Falkirk Muir – 1746 - Jacobite rising of 1745
- Battle of the Falkland Islands - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Fehrbellin - 1675 - Northern Wars
- Battle of Fei River - 383 - Wars of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
- Battle of Five Forks - 1865 - American Civil War
- First Battle of Flanders - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Fleurus (1622) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Fleurus (1690) - Nine Years' War
- Battle of Fleurus (1794) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Flodden Field - 1513 - War of the League of Cambrai
- Battle of Focșani - 1789 - Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)
- Battle of Fontenoy (841) (Latin Fontanetum, near Auxerre, and now Fontenoy-en-Puisaye) - Carolingian Civil War
- Battle of Fontenay-le-Comte - 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars
- 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 an der 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 Wars
- Battle of the Frontiers - 1914
- Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro - 1811 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Fulford - 1066 - Viking invasion of England
- Battle of Fürth - 1632 - Thirty Years' War
G
- Gallipoli Campaign - 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) - French Revolutionary Wars
- 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 Wars
- 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 - Burgundian Wars
- 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 Grotniki - 1439 - Hussite Wars
- Battle of Grunwald - 1410 - Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
- Guadalcanal Campaign - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Guadalete - 711 - Umayyad conquest of Hispania
- Battle of Guandu - 200 - Conquest of Northern China
- Battle of the Guise - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Gully Ravine - 1915 - World War I - Gallipoli Campaign
- Battle of Gumbinnen - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Gvozd Mountain (Peter`s Mountain) - 1097 - Croatian–Hungarian War of 1097
H
- Battle of Halidon Hill - 1333 - Second War of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Halule - 691 BC - Neo-Assyrian Border Wars
- Battle of Halys - 585 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Halys (430)
- Battle of Halys (1101) - First Crusade
- Battle of Hampton Roads - 1862 - American Civil War
- Siege of Harfleur - 1415 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Harlaw - 1411 - Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Battle of Hartmannswillerkopf - 1915 - 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 Bight (1914) - World War I
- Battle of the 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 - Gallipoli Campaign
- 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
- First Battle of Höchstädt - 1703 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Höchstädt (1800) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Hohenfriedberg - 1745 - Second Silesian War and War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Hohenlinden - 1800 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Hondschoote (1793) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Hopton Heath - 1643 - First English Civil War
- Battle of Huế - 1968 - Vietnam War
- Hundred Regiments Offensive - 1940 - Second Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of the Hydaspes - 326 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great
I
- Battle of Iena - 1806 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Ilipa - 206 BC - Second Punic War
- Battle of Ilovaisk - 2014 - War in Donbass
- Battle of Inkerman - 1854 - Crimean War
- Battle of Intombe - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Inverlochy (1431) -
- Battle of Inverlochy (1645) - 1645 - Scottish Civil War
- Battle of Issus - 333 BC - Wars of Alexander the Great
- Battle of Ituzaingó - 1827 - Cisplatine War
- Battle of Iwo Jima - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of the Iron Bridge - 637 - Arab–Byzantine wars
- Battle of the Ironclads (a.k.a. Monitor vs. Merrimack, Battle of Hampton Roads) - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Isandlwana - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Isonzo (489)
- Battles of the Isonzo - World War I - a series of eleven related battles, ending with the Battle of Caporetto
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 Jarama - 1937 Spanish Civil War
- Battle of the 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–Auerstedt - 1806 - War of the Fourth Coalition
- Battle of Jutland - 1916 - World War I
K
- Battle of Kabul (709)
- Battle of Kabul (1842) - First Anglo-Afghan War
- Battle of Kadesh - 1472 BC - Second Syrian campaign of Ramesses II
- Battle of Kalcicrum (1799) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Kambula - 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War
- Battle of Kapyong 1951 - Korean War
- Battle of Karkar - 854 BC or 853 BC - Assyrian conquest of Aram
- Battle of Kharistan - 737 - Umayyad–Turgesh Wars
- Battle of Kepaniwai - 1790 - Unification of the Hawaiian Islands
- Battle of Khafji - 1991 - Gulf War
- Siege of Khartoum - 1884/5 - Mahdist War
- Battle of Killiecrankie - 1689 - First Jacobite Rising
- Siege of Kimberley - 1899/1900 - Second Boer War
- Battle of Kings 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–Bulgarian wars
- Battle of Klushino - 1610, Poles defeat Russians during Time of Troubles in Russia.
- Battle of Knocknanuss- 1647- Irish Confederate Wars
- Battle of Kōan - 1281 - Mongol invasions of Japan
- Battle of Kolín - 1757 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Kolubara - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Königgrätz - 1866 - Austro-Prussian War
- Battle of Kopidnadon - 788 - Arab–Byzantine wars
- 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 Krasos - 804 - Arab–Byzantine wars
- Battle of Krbava Field - 1493 - Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War
- Battles of Krithia - 1915 - World War I - Gallipoli Campaign
- 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
L
- Battle of La Bicocca - 1522 - Italian War of 1521–26
- Battle of Lade - 494 BC - Ionian Revolt
- Battle of La Hogue - 1692 - Nine Years' War
- Battle of Lake Erie - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Lalakaon - 863 - Arab–Byzantine wars
- Battle of La Loiera - 1353 - Venetians and Aragonese vs. Genoese
- Battle of Laon - 1814 - Napoleonic 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 - First English Civil War
- Battle of Leipzig - 1813 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Lens - 1648 - Thirty Years' War
- First Battle of Lepanto - 1499 - Ottoman–Venetian War (1499–1503)
- Second Battle of Lepanto - 1500 - a second battle at the same place during the Ottoman–Venetian War
- Battle of Lepanto - 1571 - a third battle at Lepanto, during the Ottoman–Venetian War (1570–73)
- 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
- Battles 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 - Austro-Prussian War
- Battle of Littleferry - April 15, 1746 - Jacobite rising of 1745
- Battle of the Little Bighorn - 1876 - Great Sioux War of 1876
- Battle of Łódź - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Lone Pine - 1915 - World War I - Gallipoli Campaign
- Battle of Long Island (a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn) - 1776 - American Revolutionary War
- 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 Sino-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 - 1626 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Lützen (1632) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Lützen (1813) - Napoleonic Wars
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
- 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
- Battle of Manzikert - 1071 - Byzantine–Seljuq wars
- Battle of Marathon - 490 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Marengo - 1800 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Marignano - 1515 - War of the League of Cambrai
- 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 Marrakech - 1908
- Battle of Marston Moor - 1644 - First English Civil War
- First Battle of the Masurian Lakes - September 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes - February 1915 - World War I
- Battle of Măcin - 1791 - Russo-Turkish War (1787–92)
- Battle of Mauropotamos - Arab–Byzantine wars
- Battle of Mecca - 1813 - Ottoman–Saudi War
- Battle of Medellín - 1809 - Napoleonic 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) - Italian War of 1521–26
- Battle of Milan (1535) - Italian War of 1536–38
- Battle of Milan (1741) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge - 312 - Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
- 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 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Mohács - 1526 - Ottoman–Hungarian Wars
- Battle of Mollwitz - 1741 - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Monocacy - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of the Monongahela - 1755 - French and Indian War
- Battle of Mons - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Mons Badonicus - about 500 - Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain
- Battle of Mons Graupius - 84 - Roman conquest of Britain
- Battle of Monte Cassino - 1944 - Italian Campaign (World War II)
- Battle of Montereau - 1814 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Montmirail - 1814 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Mormans - 1814 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Moscow - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Mouquet Farm - 1916
- Battle of Mühlberg - 1547 - Schmalkaldic War
- Battle of Mycale - 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Myriokephalon - 1176 - Byzantine–Seljuq wars
N
- Battle of Naissus - 269 - Crisis of the Third Century
- The Night Attack - 1462 - Vlad III Dracula versus Mehmed II
- Battle of Nanking - 1937 - Second Sino-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 - Reconquista
- Battle of Nechtansmere - 685 - see Battle of Dun Nechtain
- Battle of Neerwinden (1693) - Nine Years' War
- Battles of Nejd - 1817 / 1818 - Ottoman–Saudi War
- Battle of the Nek - 1915 - World War I - Gallipoli Campaign
- Battle of Neresheim - 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Nesjar - 1016- Saint Olav Haraldsson
- Battle of Neuwied (1797) - French Revolutionary Wars
- 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 Nikiou - 646 - Arab–Byzantine wars
- Battle of the Nile - 1798 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) - Fall of Assyria
- Battle of Nineveh (627) - Byzantine–Sasanian 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) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Mooretown (1776) - American Revolutionary War
O
- Battle of Ocaña - 1809 - Napoleonic 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 - Mahdist 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
- Battle of Ourique
P
- Battle of Paardeberg - 1900 - Second Boer War
- Battle of Pákozd - 1848 - Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- Battle of Pampeluna (778) - Charlemagne's war against the Moors
- Battle of Pampeluna (1521) - Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre
- Battle of Pampeluna (1813) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic 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) - Crisis of the Third Century
- Battle of Pavia (476) - Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Pavia (569) - Lombard invasion of Italy
- Siege of Pavia (773–74) - Conquests of Charlemagne
- Battle of Pavia (1431) - Wars in Lombardy
- Battle of Pavia - 1525 - Italian War of 1521–26
- Battle of Peking (1900) - Boxer Rebellion
- Battle of Peleliu - 1944 - World War II
- Attack on Pearl Harbor - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Pharsalus - 48 BC - Caesar's Civil War
- Battle of Philippi - 42 BC (in Macedonia) - Liberators' civil war
- Battle of Philippi (West Virginia) - (1861) - American Civil War
- Battle of the Philippine Sea - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham - 1759 - Seven Years' War
- Siege of Pilsen - 1618 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Pinkie Cleugh - 1547 - Rough Wooing, England v. Scotland
- Battle of Placentia (271) -
- Battle of Plataea - 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Platzberg (1794) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Pliska - Byzantine–Bulgarian 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 Harbor - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Pozzolo - 1800 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Prague (1420) - Hussite Wars
- Battle of Prague (1648) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Prague (1744) - War of the Austrian Succession#Campaign of 1744
- Battle of Prague (1757) - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Preston (1648) - Second English Civil War
- Battle of Preston (1715) - Jacobite rising of 1715
- Battle of Prestonpans - 1745 - Jacobite rising of 1745
- Battle of Princeton - 1777 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Pteria - 547 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Siege of Puebla (1847) - Mexican–American War
- Battle of Puebla - 1862 - French intervention in Mexico
- Battle of Pydna - 168 BC - Third Macedonian War
- Battle of Pylos - 425 BC - Peloponnesian War
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
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 Rastatt (1796) - French Revolutionary Wars
- 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
- Second Battle of Rivas 1856 - Central American coalition defeats filibuster William Walker
- Battle of the River Plate - 1939 - World War II
- Battle of Rivoli - 1796 - French Revolutionary Wars
- 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 Rossbach - 1757 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Roundway Down - 1643 - First English Civil War
- Battle of Ruvo - 1503 - Italian War of 1499–1504
S
- Battle of San Lorenzo de la Muga - 1794 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Saint-Omer - 1340 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of St Pol de Léon - 1346 - War of the Breton Succession
- Battle of St. Quentin (1914) - World War I
- Battle of Sablat - 1619 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Saigon (1968) - Vietnam War
- Battle of Sainte-Foy - 1760
- Battle of Salamanca - 1812 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Salamis - 480 BC - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus) - 450 BC - pre-Peloponnesian War
- Battle of San Jacinto - 1836 - Texas Revolution
- Battle of Santa Rosa - 1856 - Costa Rican troops rout Walker's soldiers
- Battle of Santiago de Cuba - 1898 - Spanish–American War
- Battles of Saratoga - 1777 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Sarhū - 1619
- Battle of Sari Bair - 1915 - World War I - Gallipoli Campaign
- 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 - Gallipoli Campaign
- Battle of Sedan (1870) - Franco-Prussian War
- Battle of Sedgemoor - 1685 - Monmouth Rebellion
- Battle of Sekigahara - 1600 - Re-unification of Japan and rise of the Tokugawa shogunate
- 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 of China
- Battle of Shijōnawate - 1348 - Nanboku-chō period
- Battle of Shiloh - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Sheriffmuir - 1715 - Jacobite rising 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 Solferino - 1859 - Second Italian War of Independence
- 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 Wars
- Battle of Saint Gotthard - 1664 - Ottoman wars in Europe
- Battle of Steenkerque - 1692 - Nine Years' War
- 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 Stockach (1800) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Siege of Stralsund (1628) - Thirty Years' War
- Siege of Stralsund (1711–15) - 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 (1877–78)
- Battle of Świecino (a.k.a. Schwetz, Żarnowiec) - 1462 - Thirteen Years' War
- Battle of Syracuse (415 BC) - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Syracuse (387 BC) - Greek–Punic Wars
- Battle of Syracuse (214 BC) - Second Punic War
- Battle of Syracuse (1734) - War of the Polish Succession
T
- Battle of Tagliacozzo - 1268 - French invasion of Italy
- Battle of Taierzhuang - 1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of Taku Forts - 1900 - Boxer Rebellion
- Battle of Talavera - 1809 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Tannenberg (1410) - Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
- Battle of Tannenberg - 1914 - World War I
- Battle of Tarawa (a.k.a. Tarawa-Makin) - 1943 - World War II
- Battle of Tarifa - 1340 - during the Reconquista
- Battle of Tassafaronga - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Tashkessen - 1877 - Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)
- Battle of Teruel - 1937 - Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
- Battle of Tchernaïa - 1855 - Crimean War
- Fall of Tenochtitlan - 1521 - Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - 9 - Germanic Wars
- Battle of Tewkesbury - 1471 - 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 - Greco-Persian Wars
- Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) - French and Indian War
- Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) - French and Indian War
- Battle of Ticonderoga (1775) - American Revolutionary War
- Siege of Fort Ticonderoga (1777) - American Revolutionary War
- First Battle of Tikrit - 2014 - Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
- Second Battle of Tikrit - 2015 - Iraqi Civil War (2014–present)
- Battle of Tippecanoe - 1811 - Tecumseh's War
- 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 the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Toulon - 1744 - War of the Austrian Succession
- Siege of Toulon - 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Toulouse - 721 - Islamic invasion of Gaul
- Battle of Toulouse - 1814 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Tourcoing - 1794 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Tours - 732 - Islamic invasion of Gaul
- Battle of Towton - 1461 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Trafalgar - 1805 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Trebbia (1799) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Trenton - 1776 - American Revolutionary War
- Second Battle of Trenton - 1777 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Trippstadt (1794) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Troy - 1194 BC - Trojan War
- Battle of Tsushima - 1905 - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Tudela - 1808 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach -1406?- Scottish clan battle
- Battle of Turckheim - 1675 - Franco-Dutch War
- Battle of Tumu Fortress/Castle - 1449 - Ming wars against the Mongols
- Battle of Tunisia - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Turnham Green - 1642 - English Civil War
- Battle of Tuttlingen - 1643 - Thirty Years' War
U
- Battle of Uclés (1108) - Reconquista
- Battle of Uclés (1809) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic 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 Revolutionary War
V
- Battle of Vauchamps - 1814 - Napoleonic 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)
- Siege of Veracruz - 1847 - Mexican–American War
- Battle of Veracruz - 1914 - see United States occupation of Veracruz
- Battle of Verdun - 1916 - World War I
- Battle of Vimeiro - 1808 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Vimy Ridge - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Vinegar Hill - 1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Battle of Vitoria - 1813 - Napoleonic Wars
- Battle of Vukovar - 1991 - Croatian War of Independence
- Siege of Vicksburg - 1863 - American Civil War
W
- Battle of Wagram - 1809 - Napoleonic 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 Lagoon - 1463 - Thirteen Years' War
- Battle of Warsaw (1920), during the Polish–Soviet War
- Siege of Warsaw (1939), at the outset of World War II
- Warsaw Uprising - 1944, near the end of World War II
- Battle of Washita River - 1868 - the American Indian Wars
- Battle of Waterloo - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Wattignies - 1793 - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Wavre - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Wayna Daga - 1543 - Abyssinian–Adal war and Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts (1538–57)
- Battle of Werben - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Westerplatte - 1939 - the first battle of 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 Wœrth (1793) - French Revolutionary Wars
- Battle of Wogastisburg - 631
- Battle of Wolgast - 1628 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Worcester - 1651 - English Civil War
- Battle of Worringen - 1288 - War of the Limburg Succession
- Battle of Wounded Knee - 1890 - Sioux Wars
- Battle of Wuzhang Plains - 234 - Fought between Shu Han and Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China
X
- Battle of Xiangyang (191 AD) - End of the Han Dynasty
- Battle of Xiangyang (1268–1273) - Yuan conquest of Southern Song
- Battle of Xiangyang (1944) - World War II
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
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