Chronological list of historical battles (see also Military history) (For alphabetical list see List of battles (alphabetical), For battles by country see List of battles (geographic)):
Before The Common Era (BC)
- 1469 BC Battle of Megiddo Egypt defeats Canaan
- 1184 BC Battle of Troy After ten year Trojan War, Troy falls
- 885 BC Battle of Karkar -- indecisive, Assyrian Shelmanasar III faced a military alliance of king of Damascus and princes representing Tyre
- 605 BC Battle of Carchemish Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia begins reign by defeating Necho
- 540 BC Battle of Alalia
- 490 BC Battle of Marathon Greece under Militides defeat Persia under Darius, Pheidippides dies after running a long distance
- 480 BC Battle of Thermopylae Aug. 11 Persians under Xerxes defeat Greeks under Leonidas
- 480 BC Battle of Salamis Sep. 23 Greeks under Themistocles defeat Persia
- 479 BC Battle of Mycale
- 479 BC Battle of Plaetea Aug 20 Ends Persian invasion of Greece, Mardonius routed by Pausanius
- 418 BC Battle of Mantinea (418 BC)
- 405 BC Battle of Aegospotami late Battle in Peloponnesian War
- 401 BC Battle of Cunaxa
- 387 BC Battle of Rome Gauls sack Rome
- 371 BC Battle of Leuctra
- 362 BC Battle of Mantinea (362 BC)
- 338 BC Battle of Chaeronea Aug 2 Philip of Macedon crushes Athens and Thebes in their struggle for independence
- 333 BC Battle of Issus
- 331 BC Battle of Arbela Oct. 1 Alexander defeats Darius III, gets Persia
- 260 BC Battle of Chengping Army of Qin under Bai Qi routed Zhao army and massacred 500,000 prisoners of war. Military superiority of Qin over all other states of China. Unification became a matter of time.
- 216 BC Battle of Cannae Hannibal defeats Romans
- 202 BC Battle of Zama Oct. 19 Scipio Africanus Major defeats Carthage and Numidia under Hannibal
- 197 BC Battle of Cynoscephalae in Thessaly Romans under Flaminus defeat Philip V of Macedon
- 190 BC Battle of Magnesia near Smyrna Romans under Scipio Asiaticus defeat Antichus III of Syria
- 168 BC Battle of Pydna Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paulus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus
- 160 BC Battle of Elasa Jewish leader Judah Macabee dies
- 149 BC Battle of Carthage (149 BC) - Third Punic War
- 102 BC Battle of Aix Romans under Marius defeat Teutones
- 101 BC Battle of Campi Raudii Romans under Marius defeat Cimbri
- 82 BC Battle of Colline Gate Romans under Sulla repel Samnites
- 53 BC Battle of Carrhae Parthians defeat Rome
- 52 BC Battle of Alesia
- 48 BC Battle of Pharsalus Julius Caesar defeats Pompey
- 42 BC Battle of Philippi Marc Antony and Octavian defeat Cassius
- 31 BC Battle of Actium Octavian defeats Marc Antony and Cleopatra
- 9 Battle of the Teutoburg Forest Rhine established as boundary between Romans and Germans
- 24 Battle of Kunyang June, After being siege for 2 months, 9000 insurgents under Liu Xiu defeated 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops, ushering in the fall of Wang Mang and restoration of Han Dynasty.
- 43 Roman invasion of Britain Romans under Claudius invade Britain
- 44 Battle of Antioch
- 61 British Uprising Boedicea rebels against Romans in Britain
- 69 Battle of Bedriacum Apr. 19 Vitellius defeats Otho
- 73 Masada Romans besiege Judean mountaintop
- 84 Battle of Mons Graupius
- 312 Battle of Milvian Bridge October 28
- 323 Battle of Adrianople (323) July 3 Flavius Julius Crispus son of Constantine defeats naval forces of Licinus
- 323 Battle of Chrysopolus Sep. 18 Flavius Julius Crispus defeats Licinus
- 378 Battle of Adrianople (378) Hadrianople Aug. 9 Visigoths kill Roman Emporer Valens, first cavalry battle
- 383 Battle of Feishui
- 402 Battle of Pollentia Apr. 6 Stilcho stymies Visigoths
- 410 Battle of Capture of Rome Visigoths under Alaric capture Rome
- 451 Battle of Chalons Attilla Hun loses to Rome under Flavius
- 455 Battle of Sack of Rome Vandals Sack Rome
- 500 Battle of Mons Badonicus or Battle of Mynydd Baddon
- 528 Battle of Daras Justinian's commander Belisarius defeats Persians in his first major battle of the campaign to regain empire
- 552 Battle of Tagina Eunuch general Narses replaces Belisarius and defeats Ostrogoths under Totila
- 553 Battle of Carthage (533) - Battle of Ad Decimum
- 577 Battle of Deorham
- 627 Battle of Nineveh (627)
- 632 Battle of Akraba
- 636 Battle of Yarmak Islamic forces conquer Syria from Byzantines
- 642 Battle of Nehaward Arabs gain final victory over Persians, Sassarian dynasty ended
- 656 Battle of Jamal or Battle of Camel
- 677 Battle of Syllaeum Arab fleet destroyed by Byzantium, menace to Europe ended
- 680 Battle of Kerbela Oct. 10 Husain killed, becomes Shi'ite martyr
- 685 Battle of Nechtansmere Picts defeat Northumbrians in Scotland
- 692 Battle of Sevastapol Arabs defeat Justinian II
- 698 Battle of Carthage (698) - Moslem Conquest of North Africa
- 709 Battle of Kabul (709) - Moslem Conquest of the East
- 718 Battle of Covadonga - Spain first time Christians defeat Moors (date uncertain 718 - 725
- 732 Battle of Tours near Poitiers Oct. 11 Moors lose to Charles Martel
- 757 Battle of Suiyang
- 778 Battle of Roncesvalles Charlemagne's rear guard Roland devastated by Basques
- 917 Battle of Anchialus August 20 Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria invades Thrace and drive Byzantines out.
- 923 Battle of Soissons June 15 Robert Rollo of Normandy killed by Charles III, but Charles is defeated and imprisoned by Rudolf duke of Burgundy who succeeded Robert
- 955 Battle of Lechfeld Aug. 10 Otto the Great defeats Magyars, ends invasion of West
- 972 Battle of Cedynia
- 991 Battle of Maldon
- 1014 Battle of Cloutarf Irish King Brian Born ends Norse rule of Ireland
- 1018 Battle of Vlaardingen Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor at Vlaardingen
- 1054 Battle of Dunsinane Malcolm defeats Macbeth
- 1057 Battle of Lumphanan
- 1066 Battle of Stamford Bridge another battle of 1066
- 1066 Battle of Hastings William the Norman changes the course of Western civilization
- 1071 Battle of Manzikert Byzantines lose Asia Minor, Emporer Romanus IV Diogenes leads Christians against Seljuk Turks
- 1071 Battle of Bari Byzantines lose Italy tto Norman Robert Guiscard
- 1097 Battle of Nicaea Moslems defeated by Byzantines and Crusaders
- 1106 Battle of Tinchebrai Henry I defeated brother Robert of Normandy in NW France
- 1108 Battle of Ucles May
- 1109 Battle of Naklo Boleslav III of Poland defeats Pomeranians
- 1109 Battle of Hundsfeld Boleslav III of Poland defeats German king Henry V
- 1119 Battle of Sarmada August 1
- 1138 Battle of of the Standard near Northallerton
- 1157 Battle of Grathe Heath
- 1176 Battle of Legnano May 29Lombard League defeats and wounds HRE Frederick Barbarossa
- 1205 Battle of Adrianople (1205) - Fourth Crusade
- 1212 Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa July 16 Moors expelled from most of Iberia by Alphonso VIII of Castille
- 1214 Battle of Bouvines France conquers Flanders
- 1214 Battle of Tournai France defeats HRE Frederick II and King John of England
- 1223 Battle of Kalka River Subutai leads Mongols as they show force in Russia
- 1241 Battle of Liegnitz Mongols of Golden Horde defeat feudal nobility including Knights Templar in Silesia and then retire to Asia
- 1245 Battle of Evesham August 4 - (Baron's War)
- 1242 Battle of Lake Peipus Apr. 5 Alexander Nevski defeats Teutonic Knights
- 1250 Battle of Fariskur Apr. 6 Egyptians defeat 7th Crusade forces of Louis IX
- 1254 Battle of Adrianople (1254) - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- 1263 Battle of Largs
- 1266 Battle of Benevento
- 1268 Battle of Xiangyang First war ever involving the usage of firearms.
- 1288 Battle of Worringen -Germany
- 1296 Battle of Dunbar (1296)
- 1296 Battle of Curzota Genoa defeats Venetian fleet including Marco Polo
- 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge
- 1298 Battle of Falkirk July 22 in Stirlingshire, English Archers defeat Scots led by William Wallace, longbow's first great victory
- 1302 Battle of the Spurs July 11 in Flanders, Flemish burghers led by Counts Guy de Danspierre defeat French cavalry
- 1314 Battle of Bannockburn Robert Bruce VIII defeats Edward II, takes Stirling Castle and frees Scotland
- 1315 Battle of Morgarten Nov. 15 Swiss defeat Leopold of Austria
- 1322 Battle of Muhldorf Sep. 28 German Louis IV defeats Frederick of Austria
- 1332 Battle of Plowce Sep. 27 Poland's Ladislas IV Lokietek defeats Teutonic Knights
- 1333 Battle of Halidon Hill July 19 Edward III avenges Bannockburn
- 1340 Battle of Rio Salado Oct. 30 Alphonso XI of Castile defeats Moslems
- 1340 Battle of Sluys June 24 Edward III beats back fleet of Philip VII of France and gains control of Channel
- 1346 Battle of Crecy Aug. 26 England’s longbowmen defeat French cavalry at Abbeville
- 1354 Battle of Sapienza Genoans destroy Venetian fleet
- 1356 Battle of Poitiers Edward the Black Prince capture King John II of France, France is in chaos
- 1362 Battle of Helsingborg - Danish-German War
- 1365 Battle of Adrianople (1365) Capture by Ottoman Turks
- 1380 Battle of Kulikovo Dmitri Donskoi of Moscow stops Mongols
- 1385 Battle of Aljubarrota Aug. 14 Portugal gains independence from Castile, Joao I establishes Avis dynasty in
- 1386 Battle of Sempach July 9 Swiss defeat Leopold III and Austria
- 1389 Battle of Kosovo Ottoman Murad I defeats Serbs, ends Serb empire under Prince Lazar
- 1402 Battle of Angora or Battle of Ankara July 28 Tamurlane captures Ottoman Bayazid I in Anatolia
- 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
- 1410 Battle of Tannenberg (1410) or (a.k.a. Battle of Grunwald or Battle of Zalgiris)) July 15 Poles and Lithuanians defeat Teutonic Knights
- 1415 Battle of Agincourt English archers under Henry V defeat French under Charles d'Albert
- 1415 Battle of Ceuta captured by the Portuguese on August 14
- 1428 Battle of Orleans English forces with duke of Bedford besiege French city
- 1434 Battle of Lipany May 30
- 1440 Battle of Anghiari Niccolo Piccinino overlord of Bologna defeats Milans Filipo Maria Visconti and is then opposed by Cosimo de Medici
- 1444 Battle of Varna Nov. 10 Ottoman Murad II defeats Hungarians and Wallachians
- 1449 Battle of Alfarrobeira May 20
- 1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress
- 1453 Battle of Constantinople Ottomans end Byzantine Empire
- 1454 Battle of Chojnice
- 1462 Battle of Swiecin a.k.a. Battle of Zarnowiec or Battle of Schwetz. Sept. 7 during the Thirteen Years War between the Poles and the Teutons (Poles won battle)
- 1468 Battle of Megiddo
- 1471 Battle of Brunkeberg
- 1477 Battle of Nancy Jan 5 Swiss pikemen defeat cavalry of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, who died
- 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field Ends War of Roses fought since 1460, Henry VII becomes King
- 1507 Battle of Vouilile
- 1509 Battle of Dui Feb 2 Portugal's India viceroy destroys Moslem fleet, controls spice trade
- 1509 Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - [French Wars in Italy]
- 1513 Battle of Flodden Field Sep. 9 Henry VIII's army under Earl of Surrey killed James IV of Scotland
- 1513 Battle of Guingate (of the Spurs) Henry VIII and HRE Maximillian crush French
- 1521 Battle of Villalar Apr. 23 HRE Charles V ends Spanish resistances to Absolutism
- 1525 Battle of Pavia Spain and Germany defeat France, Francois I is captured
- 1526 Battle of Mohacs August 29
- 1529 Battle of Vienna Ottoman reach limit of empire, can't capture Vienna and settle in Buda
- 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga - February 11 Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
- 1547 Battle of Muhlberg Apr. 24 HRE Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg in the Schmalkadic War.
- 1547 Battle of Pinkie Sep. 10 Earl of Hertford guardian of Edward VI crushes Scottish resistance
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto Spain and Venices fleets defeat Ottoman fleet
- 1580 Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
- 1588 Battle of Spanish Armada's Destruction
- 1590 Battle of Ivry Mar. 14 Henri IV of Navarre defeats Catholic League in War of the Three Henries
- 1598 - Battle of Yellow Ford - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, destroy English force
- 1600 Battle of Sekugahara or Battle of Sekigahara Japanese General Ieyasu defeats three regents of son of the dictator Hideyohi, he moves the capital to Edo and uses the Englishman Will Adams as advisor (see Shogun)
- 1620 Battle of the White Mountain
- 1622 Battle of Weisloch Protestants under Count Mansfield defeat Catholics under Count von Tilly in Thirty Years War
- 1627 Battle of La Rochelle
- 1631 Battle of Britenfeld Leipzig Sep. 17 Saxons and Swedes defeat Catholics under Tilly
- 1632 Battle of Lutzen Swedes defeat Catholics but Gustavus II Adolphus is killed
- 1634 Battle of Nordlingen
- 1642 Battle of Edge Hill English Civil War
- 1642 Battle of Lostwithiel (1642)
- 1643 Battle of Rocroi
- 1643 Battle of Adwalton Moor - English Civil War
- 1644 Battle of Lostwithiel (1644)
- 1644 Battle of Marston Moor Oliver Cromwell Roundheads defeat king Charles I of England’s Cavaliers securing the North for the Puritans
- 1645 Battle of Naseby Cromwell's Ironsides defeat Charles' Cavaliers
- 1647 Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces
- 1648 Battle of Preston Aug 17 Cromwell defeats William Duke of Hamilton
- 1650 Battle of Dunbar (1650)
- 1651 Battle of Worcester Sep. 3 Cromwell defeats Royalists, Charles King of Scots escapes disguised as a servant
- 1651 Battle of Beresteczko
- 1652 Battle of Blenau Apr. 7 Great Conde commands Fronds against French under Marshall Turenne
- 1656 Battle of Warsaw Charles X Gustavus of Sweden defeats Poland and is declared war upon by every country of significance in the Northern War
- 1658 Battle of the Dunes June 4 English and French defeat Spanish at Dunkirk
- 1675 Battle of Fehrbellin June 28 Swedes invade Brandenburg and lose
- 1687 Second Battle of Mohacs August 12 Charles of Lorraine defeats Ottomans
- 1690 Battle of Beachy Head June 30 French defeat the English fleet under command of Admiral Arthur Herbert in War of League of Augsburg
- 1690 Battle of Fleurus Louis XIV's marshall Montmorency
- 1690 Battle of the Boyne William III of Orange defeats James II of England
- 1691 Battle of Szcelankeman Aug. 19 Louis of Baden defeats Ottoman Turks
- 1692 Battle of La Hogue May 29 French lose 15 ship to England
- 1693 Battle of Lagos June 30 near Portugal Compte de Tourville avenges La Hogue
- 1693 Battle of Neerwinden July 29 duc de Luxembourg defeats English
- 1700 Battle of Narva Nov. 30 Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia
- 1704 Battle of Blenheim Aug. 14 Duke of Marlborough defeats French and Bavaria and Prussia
- 1706 Battle of Ramilles or Battle of Ramillies May 23 Duke of Marlborough defeats the French in the War of Spanish Succession
- 1707 Battle of Almanza Apr. 25 French forces defeat Portuguese
- 1708 Battle of Oudenarde July 11 Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat French and besiege Lille
- 1708 Battle of Lesnaya September 28
- 1709 Battle of Poltova July 8 Peter the Great of Russia defeats Sweden, become Northern Europe's dominant power
- 1709 Battle of Malplaquet Sep. 11 Prince of Savoy and duke of Marlborough defeat French
- 1734 Battle of Bitonto May 25
- 1741 Battle of Milan April 20
- 1741 Battle of Mollwitz Apr. 10 Prussia under Frederick II fights Austria in Silesian War
- 1745 Battle of Prestonpans Sep. 21 Jacobites Stuarts under Bonny Prince Charlie defeat English
- 1746 Battle of Falkirk Jan. 17 Jacobites defeat English dragoons
- 1746 Battle of Culloden Moor (or Battle of Culloden) Apr. 16 Jacobites lose to English
- 1746 Battle of Rocoux France liberates Netherlands from Austria
- 1750 Battle of Kathio Chippewas defeat Sioux and gain control of Minnesota
- 1755 Battle of the Wilderness (1755) also called Braddock's defeat, British lose two thirds of their force to French and Indian allies in Virginia backcountry
- 1757 Battle of Fort William Henry British defeated by French then Indians slaughter prisoners
- 1757 Battle of Kolin June 18 Frederick the Great loses to Austria but says "Schweinhunds, would you live forever" in Seven Years War
- 1757 Battle of Plassey June 23 Robert Clive establishes English rule over India
- 1757 Battle of Rossbach Nov. 5 Frederick crushes French, Louis XV says "After me, the Deluge"
- 1757 Battle of Leuthen Dec. 5 Frederick crushes Austria
- 1758 Battle of Luisbourg also Louisburg, British capture fort controlling entrance to St. Lawrence River
- 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) also called Carillon, British badly routed after attacking French fort
- 1758 Battle of Crefield June 23 Ferdinand son of duke of Brunswick drives French across the Rhine
- 1758 Battle of Zornsdorff Aug. 25 Frederick defeats Russians in Prussia
- 1758 Battle of Hochkirk Oct. 14 Austrians mildly defeat Prussians
- 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) British capture French fort
- 1759 Battle of Brunswick Apr. 13 French defeat Ferdinand
- 1759 Battle of Minden Aug. 1 Ferdinand defeats French
- 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf Aug. 12 Austria and Russia defeat Prussia
- 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759) Sep. 13 English defeat French outside Quebec
- 1760 Battle of Landshut June 23 in Bavaria Austria captures a Prussian army
- 1760 Battle of Liegnitz Aug 15 Frederick defeats Austrians
- 1760 Battle of Wandewash
- 1761 Battle of Panipat Jan. 14 Afghans defeat Marathas helping English
- 1763 Battle of Bushy Run British defeat Indians in Pennsylvania backcountry
- 1770 Battle of Golden Hill Jan. 19 in New York the first bloodshed between the patriots Sons of Liberty and their colonial oppressors
- 1770 Battle of Chesme July 6 Russian fleet with British officers defeats Ottoman fleet
- 1771 Battle of Alamance May 16 Colonial oppressors crush North Carolina patriots Regulators
- 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant Oct. 10 Frontiersmen defeat Shawnees
- 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord Apr. 19 Patriots lose 8 and with guerrilla action kill British
- 1775 Battle of Ft. Ticonderoga (1775) May 10 Allen and Arnold capture fort
- 1775 Battle of Crown Point May 12 Seth Warren captures Garrison
- 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill June 17 British win a pyrrhic victory, their casualties double patriots
- 1775 Battle of Quebec Dec. 31 Arnold and Richard Montgomery driven from city
- 1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge NC Feb. 27 NC patriots defeat Scottish Loyalists
- 1776 Battle of Long Island Aug. 27 William Howe crushes George Washington
- 1776 Battle of Harlem Heights Sep. 16 Washington repels Howe
- 1776 Battle of White Plains Oct. 28 Howe inflicts casualties on George Washington’s army
- 1776 Battle of Fort Lee Nov. 19 Cornwallis forces Greene to evacuate
- 1777 Battle of Bennington Aug. 16 Stark eradicates detachment sent by Burgoyne
- 1777 Battle of Brandywine Sep. 9 Howe drives George Washington’s troops to Philadelphia
- 1777 Battle of 1st Saratoga Freeman's Farm Sep. 19 Morgan defeats Burgoyne
- 1777 Battle of Germantown Oct. 4 Howe kills 700 patriots while losing 534
- 1777 Battle of 2nd Saratoga Oct.7 Gates defeats Burgoyne, Burgoyne surrenders
- 1778 Battle of Monmouth June 27 GW stands off Clinton, Clinton continues retreat to NY, Charles Lee order of retreat leads to court-martial
- 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek Feb. 14 Pickens defeats loyalist brigade
- 1779 Battle of Briar Creek Mar. 3 Ashe loses 350 men near Augusta to British
- 1779 Battle of Stony Point July 15 Wayne takes 700 prisoners in bayonet attack with only 15 patriot casualties
- 1779 Battle of Paulus Hook Aug. 19 Henry Lee drives British from NJ
- 1780 Battle of Charleston May 12 Lincoln surrenders Charleston to Clinton
- 1780 Battle of Springfield June 23 Greene defeats British
- 1780 Battle of Camden Aug. 16 Cornwallis crushes Gates, 900 patriots killed
- 1780 Battle of Fishing Creek Aug. 18 Tarleton defeats Sumter
- 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain Oct. 7 Patriots capture loyalists
- 1781 Battle of Cowpens Jan. 17 Morgan defeats Tarleton
- 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse Mar. 15 Cornwallis achieves a Pyrrhic victory over Greene and Morgan
- 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake - naval battle
- 1781 Battle of Yorktown Sep. 28 American siege of Cornwallis begins
- 1782 Battle of Chillicothe Nov. 10 G.R. Clark defeats Shawnees in last battle of war
- 1790 Battle of Kepaniwai - united Hawaii under King Kamehameha
- 1792 Battle of Verdun Aug. 20 Prussians defeat French Revolutionaries
- 1792 Battle of Valmy Sep. French win and proceed to declare war on Europe
- 1793 Battle of Toulon Napoleon gains fame as the French defeat the English
- 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers Aug. 20 Wayne defeats Indians, ends menace
- 1796 Battle of Millesimo Napoleon defeats Austrians in Italy
- 1796 Battle of Modovi Napoleon defeats Piedmontese
- 1797 Battle of Rivoli January 14 Napoleon's first decisive victory over Austria
- 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent February 14
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids July 21 Napoleon defeats Marmalukes in Mediterranean Egyptian Campaign
- 1798 Battle of the Nile Abukir Bay French fleet destroyed by Nelson
- 1799 Battle of Abukir July 25 Napoleon and Joachim Murat defeat Turks
- 1799 Battle of Novi Aug. 15 Joubert is defeated and killed
- 1799 Battle of Zurich June 4 Russian defeat French, later driven out
- 1800 Battle of Marengo June 14 Napoleon defeats Austrians under Baroun von Melas
- 1800 Battle of Hohenlinden Dec. 3 Gen. Moreau defeats archduke John
- 1801 Battle of Copenhagen Apr. 2 Nelson defeats Danish fleet, pretends not to see an order to withdraw by putting telescope to blind eye
- 1801 Battle of Algeciras July 6
- 1803 Battle of Assaye Sept. 23 English under Wellesley defeat India forces
- 1805 Battle of Ulm Oct. 17 Napoleon forces surrender of Austrian army under Baron von Leiberich
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar Oct. 21 Nelson defeats Villeneuve, code is England expects every man to do his duty, Nelson killed
- 1805 Battle of Austerlitz Dec. 2 Napoleon defeats combined Austrian and Russian forces
- 1806 Battle of Jena and Auerstad Oct. 14 Napoleon defeats Prussians
- 1807 Battle of Eylau Feb. 7 indecisive battle Napoleon vs Russia and Prussia
- 1807 Battle of Friedland June 14 French defeat Russians
- 1808 Battle of Bailen July 23 Gen. DuPont surrenders to Spain
- 1809 Battle of Abensberg Napoleonic Empire Wars
- 1809 Battle of Corunna Jan. 16 French defeat Sir John Moore in Peninsular War
- 1809 Battle of Wagram July 5 French defeat Austrians at great cost
- 1809 Battle of Talavera de la Reina July 27 Wellesley defeats Joseph Bonaparte in Spain, made Duke of Wellington
- 1811 Battle of Fuentes do Onoro May 5 British defeat French
- 1811 Battle of Albuera May 16 British under General Beresford defeat Marshal Soult
- 1811 Battle of Tippiecanoe Nov. 7 W.H. Harrison repels The Prophet
- 1811 Battle of Tarifa
- 1812 Battle of Ostrowo July Grand Armee invades Russia and gets sick
- 1812 Battle of Salamanck July 22 Wellington defeats French
- 1812 Battle of Borodino Sep. 7 Kutusov retreats after bloody battle and burns Moscow
- 1812 Battle of Smolensk Nov. Russians under Kutusov defeats French under Ney and Davout
- 1812 Battle of 1st Sackett's Harbor July 19 US drives back British naval attack
- 1812 Battle of Fort Dearborn Aug. 15 Fort burned by Indians
- 1812 Battle of Detroit Aug. 16 Wm. Hull surrenders to Brock
- 1812 Battle of off Nova Scotia Aug. 19 Isaac Hull's USS Constitution defeats HMS Guerriere
- 1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights Oct. 13 Rensselear attempts to capture town, loses but kills Brock
- 1812 Battle of off Virginia 600 miles Oct. 17 Jacob Jones USS Wasp defeats HMS Frolic
- 1812 Battle of off Madeira Oct. 25 Decatur's USS United States captures HMS Macedonian
- 1812 Battle of off Brazil Dec. 29 Bambridge's USS Constitution destroys HMS Java
- 1812 Battle of Beresina
- 1813 Battle of Lutzen May 2 Napoleon defeats Allies
- 1813 Battle of Bautzen and Wurschen May 20 Napoleon gets costly victories
- 1813 Battle of Vittorio June 23 Wellington defeats Joseph Bonaparte
- 1813 Battle of Dresden Aug. 26 Napoleon's last victory on German soil
- 1813 Battle of Dennewitz Sep. 6 von Bulow defeats Ney
- 1813 Battle of Leipzig Oct. 16 (of the Nations) Napoleon loses big
- 1813 Battle of Raisin River Jan. 22 British General Proctor defeats KT militia
- 1813 Battle of off Guiana Feb. 24 Lawrence's USS Hornet sinks HMS Peacock
- 1813 Battle of Mobile Apr. 15 Wilkinson captures Spanish
- 1813 Battle of York Apr. 27 Dearborn and Chauncey capture British garrison and burn capital
- 1813 Battle of Ft. George May 27 Lt.Col. Winfield Scott captures British garrison
- 1813 Battle of 2nd Sackett's Harbor May 28 US Gen. Brown turns back Prevost
- 1813 Battle off Boston Harbor June 1 HMS Shannon captures Lawrence's USS Chesapeake, Lawrence says: "Don't give up the ship"
- 1813 Battle of Pampeluna or Battle of Pamplona
- 1813 Battle off Great Britain Aug. 14 HMS Pelican captures Allen's USS Argus
- 1813 Battle of Lake Erie Sep. 10 Perry's fleet defeats British, Perry says "We have met the enemy and they are ours"
- 1813 Battle of Thames Oct. 5 WHH defeats British and Indians, kills Tecumsah
- 1813 Battle of Chateaugay Oct. 25 Wade Hampton in drive to Montreal fights British, later withdraws
- 1813 Battle of Chrysler's Farm Nov. 11 Wilkinson defeated by Brits SW of Montreal
- 1813 Battle of Bari
- 1814 Battle of La Rothiere Feb. 1 Prussians under von Blucher defeat Napoleon
- 1814 Battle of Chanpaubert Napoleon victory
- 1814 Battle of Montmitrail Napoleon victory
- 1814 Battle of Chateau-Thierry Napoleon victory
- 1814 Battle of Vauchamps Napoleon victory
- 1814 Battle of Nangis Napoleon victory
- 1814 Battle of Montereau Napoleon victory
- 1814 Battle of Laon Mar. 9 Allies defeat Napoleon
- 1814 Battle of Bordeaux Mar. 12 Wellington defeats French
- 1814 Battle of Arcis sur Aube Mar. 20 Allies defeat Napoleon
- 1814 Battle of La Fere Chanpenoise Mar. 25 French lose
- 1814 Battle of Montmartre Mar. 30, Montmartre, Quarter of Paris where French lose and Napoleon abdicates
- 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend Mar. 27 Jackson pounds Creeks and Cherokees
- 1814 Battle of off Chile Mar. 28 Porter's USS Essex surrenders to HMS Phoebe and HMS Cherub
- 1814 Battle of off Florida Apr. 29 USS Peacock captures HMS Epervier
- 1814 Battle of Chippewa July 5 Gen. Scott defeats Gen. Ball
- 1814 Battle of Lundy's Lane July 25 Gen. Brown's Americans take on the British in very violent indecisive battle
- 1814 Battle of Bladensburg MD Aug. 24 British forces rout Americans, witnessed by Madison
- 1814 Battle of Washington DC Aug. 24 British burn capital in retaliation for York
- 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain Sep. 11 Capt. McDonough squadron defeats the British under Downie
- 1814 Battle of North Point Sep. 12 Land Battle complement of Battle for Ft. McHenry
- 1814 Battle of Ft. McHenry Sep. 12 Baltimore saves nation, Star Spangled Banner
- 1815 Battle of Quartre Bras June 16 Ney fights Wellington
- 1815 Battle of Ligny June 16 Napoleon defeats Prussian
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo June 18 Wellington and von Blucher defeat Napoleon
- 1815 Battle of New Orleans (1815) Jan. 8 Jackson destroys Packenham, Peace already signed
- 1817 Battle of Chacabaco Feb. 12 Chile free from Spain
- 1822 Battle of Pichincha May 24 de Sucre defeats Spaniards near Quito
- 1826 Battle of Ganja Russia defeats Persian invaders
- 1827 Battle of Huzaingo Feb. 20 Brazil defeat Argentina and Uruguay
- 1827 Battle of Navarino Sep. 8 British French and Russians destroy Egyptian and Turkish fleets
- 1829 Battle of Kulevicha June 11 Russia defeats Ottomans
- 1831 Battle of Ostrolenka May 26 Russia defeats Poland's Revolutionaries
- 1832 Battle of Bad Axe Aug. 2 Illinois militia massacres Black Hawk's Saux and Fox
- 1836 Battle of Alamo Feb. 23 Wm. Travis and Davy Crockett killed in siege
- 1836 Battle of Goliad Mar. 27 Capt. James Farrin troops massacred by Santa Anna
- 1836 Battle of San Jacinto Apr. 21 Texans capture Santa Anna
- 1838 Battle of Blood River Dec. 16 Boers kill 3000 Zulus in Natal
- 1842 Battle of Kabul (1842) - First Afghan-British War
- 1843 Battle of Hyderabad March Sind emirs destroyed
- 1845 Battle of Ohaeawai British Army attacks Maori Pa, but fortifications are too strong.
- 1846 Battle of Palo Alto May 3 Taylor defeats Mexicans
- 1846 Battle of Resaca de la Palma May 9 Taylor attacks retreating Mexicans
- 1846 Battle of Los Angeles Aug. 13 Stockton, Sloat, and Fremont take LA but later lose it
- 1846 Battle of Santa Fe Aug. 18 Kearney occupies Santa Fe
- 1846 Battle of San Pascual Dec. 6 Kearney defeats Mexican Americans
- 1847 Battle of Vera Cruz Mar. 9 Scott takes Vera Cruz
- 1847 Battle of Buena Vista Feb. 22 Taylor's outnumbered men trounce Santa Anna
- 1847 Battle of Cerro Gordo Apr. 18 Scott defeats Santa Anna
- 1847 Battle of Molino del Rey Sep. 8 Scott takes town
- 1847 Battle of Chapultepec Sep. 12 Scott takes town and then marches through Mexico City
- 1848 Battle of Custozza
- 1848 Battle of Pakozd September 29 Hungary
- 1848 Battle of Schwechat October 30 Hungary
- 1849 Battle of Temesovar Aug. 9 Russia puts down Kussuth's Hungarian revolt
- 1849 Battle of Chillanwalla British defeat Sikhs
- 1849 Battle of Gujarat British defeat Sikhs, Punjab annexed
- 1854 Battle of Alma
- 1854 Battle of Balaclava Oct. 25 Charge of Light Brigade on Crimea under Cardigan
- 1854 Battle of Inkermann Nov. 5 Allies get another victory
- 1855 Battle of Chermaia Aug. 16 Piedmont aids British in defeat of Russia
- 1855 Battle of Sevastapol Sept. 11 Russians evacuate with scorched earth policy
- 1859 Battle of Solerino June 24 Both sides suffer in Austria
- 1859 Battle of Magenta June 4 Austria withdraws from Italy
- 1861 Battle of Fort Sumter Apr. 12 Bearegard fires on Fort
- 1861 Battle of Phillipi June 3 Union under McClellan defeats rebels
- 1861 Battle of 1st Bull Run July 21 Union under McDowell lose to rebels under J.E. Johnston, P.T. Beauregard, Jackson anointed Stonewall
- 1861 Battle of Wilson's Creek August 10 Union forces lose
- 1861 Battle of Ball's Bluff October 21 1900 Union soldiers die
- 1862 Battle of Fort Henry February 6 Grant takes fort from west
- 1862 Battle of Fort Donelson February 16 Grant takes fort
- 1862 Battle of Hampton Roads March 9 Monitor defeats Merrimac
- 1862 Battle of Glorieta March 27
- 1862 Battle of Shiloh April 6 Rebel A.S. Johnston loses to Grant
- 1862 Battle of Island No. 10 April 8 Union victory by Pope
- 1862 Battle of Ft. Pulaski April 11 Union takes fort
- 1862 Battle of Puebla May 5 Cinco de Mayo - Mexicans defeat French
- 1862 Battle of Seven Pines May 31 J.E. Johnston attacks Union forces, he is wounded, inconclusive
- 1862 Battle of Seven Days Battle June 26 Lee ends Peninsular Campaign of McClellan
- 1862 Battle of Cedar Mountain July 30 Jackson defeats Union
- 1862 Battle of Baton Rouge August 5
- 1862 [[Battle of Aspromonte - Italian royal forces defeat rebels August 29
- 1862 Battle of 2nd Bull Run Aug. 30 Jackson, Lee, and Longstreet defeat Pope
- 1862 Battle of Antietam Sep. 17 McClellan ends Lee's invasion of North, bloodiest day of war
- 1862 Battle of Perryville Oct. 8 Buell v. Bragg, indecisive
- 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg Dec. 13 Lee routs Burnside
- 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro Jan. 2 forces fight to a draw
- 1863 Battle of Port Gibson May 1 in Vicksburg campaign, Grant defeats rebels
- 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville May 2 Lee defeats Hooker's Army of Potomac, Jackson killed
- 1863 Battle of Jackson May 14 Sherman and McPherson defeat Johnston
- 1863 Battle of Champion's Hill May 16 Grant defeats rebels
- 1863 Battle of Big Black River May 16 Grant defeats rebels
- 1863 Battle of Gettysburg July 1 Lee loses to Meade, Pickett's charge fails
- 1863 Battle of Vicksburg July 4 siege from May 22 ends, Grant annointed "Unconditional Surrender"
- 1863 Battle of Port Hudson July 8 last rebel stronghold on Mississippi surrenders
- 1863 Battle of Chattanooga Sep. 9 Rosecrans forces Bragg to evacuate rebel troops
- 1863 Battle of Chickamauga Sep. 19 Bragg defeats Rosecrans, George Thomas of USA anointed "The Rock of Chickamauga"
- 1864 Battle of Meridian Jan. 14 Sherman occupies town and destroys things
- 1864 Battle of Olustee Feb. 20 Union can't take Florida
- 1864 Battle of Sabine Crossroads LA Apr. 8 Banks Union Red River Campaign halted by rebels
- 1864 Battle of Fort Pillow Apr. 12 N.B. Forrest takes fort and massacres black soldiers
- 1864 Battle of the Wilderness May 5 Grant and Lee meet inconclusively
- 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania May 8 Grant and Lee meet inconclusively, Grant writes to Halleck "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"
- 1864 Battle of Resaca May 13 Sherman defeats Johnston
- 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor June 3 Lee repulses Grant, a rebel general says "This is not war, this is murder"
- 1864 Battle of Brices Crossroads June 10 N.B. Forrest routes Union force almost three times as large.
- 1864 Battle of Petersburg June 15 Lee repulses Grant at the Back door to Richmond
- 1864 Battle off Cherbourg France June 19 USS Kearsarge sinks CSS Alabama
- 1864 Battle of Kenesaw Mountain June 27 Johnston repulses Sherman
- 1864 Battle of Monacacy July 14 Union Gen. Lew Wallace slows up Jubal Early, saving DC
- 1864 Battle of Atlanta (Outside Atlanta) July 22 Sherman turns back Hood
- 1864 Battle of Petersburg July 30 Burnside loses again Battle of the Crater
- 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay Aug. 23 Farragut takes port, says "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead"
- 1864 Battle of Atlanta Sep. 2 Sherman occupies Atlanta from Hood
- 1864 Battle of Winchester Sep. 19 Sheridan defeats Early
- 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek Oct. 19 Sheidan defeats Early, drives rebels from Shenendoah Valley
- 1864 Sherman's March to the Sea Nov. 16 Sherman lays waste to South
- 1864 Battle of Nashville Nov. 30 Hood attacks Thomas but loses
- 1864 Battle of Heligoland (1864) May 9
- 1865 Battle of Fort Fisher Jan. 15 Union takes fort
- 1865 Battle of Wilmington Feb. 22 last rebel port falls
- 1865 Battle of Bentonville Mar. 13 Sherman defeats rebels
- 1865 Battle of Fort Steadman Mar. 25 Lee fails to break out of siege
- 1865 Battle of Five Forks Apr. 1 Sheridan routs rebels in last important battle
- 1866 Battle of Burkersdorf June 28
- 1866 Battle of Sadowa Koniggratz July 3 Count von Molke defeats Austrians in Seven Weeks War
- 1868 Battle of Arogee Apr. 10 Napier's Anglo
- 1870 Battle of Sedan Sept. 1 MacMahon's French lose to Germans in Franco
- 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse of Sioux defeat Custer in Montana
- 1867 Battle of Big Hole - Nez Percé Indians clash with the U.S. Army
- 1877 Battle of Plevna Dec. 10 Russians, after reverses, defeat Ottomans
- 1878 Battle of Shipka Pass Russians defeat Ottomans
- 1883 Battle of El Obeid Mahdi wipes out Egyptians controlling Sudan
- 1885 Battle of Khartoum Jan. 26 Mahdi takes city from Chinese Gordon
- 1887 Battle of Dogali Jan. 24 Ethiopians crush Italians
- 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee Dec. 29 Sioux crushed in last Indian Wars battle
- 1896 Battle of Adowa Mar. 1 Ethiopians crush Italians
- 1898 Battle of Manila Bay May 1 Dewey says "You may fire when you are ready Gridley"
- 1898 Battle of Las Guasiman June 24 First land battle of SPAM War, Hawkins leads US, TR takes Kettle Hill
- 1898 Battle of San Juan Hill July 1 Wheeler leads volunteers, Wood and TR lead Rough Riders
- 1898 Battle of Santiago Bay July 3 One American, 180 Spanish die
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman Sept. 2 British under Kitchener defeat Sudanese
- 1898 Battle of El Caney
- 1904 Battle of Port Arthur Feb. 8 Japan defeats Russia in Russo
- 1904 Battle of Yalu River May Japan defeats Russia
- 1904 Battle of Dairen May 30 Japan defeats Russia
- 1904 Battle of Liaoyang Oct. Japan defeats Russia
- 1905 Battle of Tsushima
- 1908 Battle of Marakesh Aug. 23 Mulay Hafid successfully revolts against Morocco Sultan
- 1913 Battle of Adrianople (1913) - First Balkan War
- 1914 Battle of Vera Cruz Apr. 21 US occupies Mexican town
- 1914 Battle of Gumbinnen
- 1914 Battle of the Frontiers Aug. 14 French lose badly, news of this censored
- 1914 Battle of Tannenberg (1914) Aug. 26 Sarsanov's Russians lose badly to Hindenberg and Ludendorf
- 1914 Battle of First Marne Sep. 5 German advance ended by French
- 1914 Battle of Masurian Lakes Sep. 6 Germans under Maclenson defeat Russians
- 1914 Battle of Antwerp September 28
- 1914 Battle of First Ypres Oct. 30 Trench warfare lasting over a month
- 1914 Battle of Falkland Islands Dec. 8 British defeat Admiral Graf Spee
- 1914 Battle of Cracow Nov. 16 heavy casualties to Austria and Russia
- 1914 Battle of Lodz Nov. Russians take city, lose it Dec. 6
- 1914 Battle of Lowicz Nov. Russians take city
- 1914 Battle of Kolubara Dec. Serbs drive out Austrians
- 1915 Battle of Gallipoli Fisher proposes, Churchill takes blame, Kemal says to Turkish troops: "I do not order you to attack, I order you to die"
- 1915 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1915) - World War I - Turkish Assimilation of Armenians
- 1915 Battle of Loos September 25-September 28
- 1915 Battle of Second Ypres Apr. 22 Germans use poison chlorine gas
- 1915 Battle of Sair Bair
- 1916 Battle of Verdun Feb. 21 Five month battle kills 700,000
- 1916 Battle of Jutland Skagerrak May 31 German fleet escapes British fleet
- 1916 Brusilov Offensive June 1916 Russia nearly collapses Austria but losses are staggering.
- 1916 Battle of Romani, Egypt August 3, 1916
- 1916 Battle of Mouquet Farm
- 1916 Battle of the Somme (1916) July Four month battle, bloodiest in history
- 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge Apr. 9 Canada's finest hour.
- 1917 Battle of Passchendaele July 31 Three month battle costs Britain 400,000
- 1917 Battle of Cambrai Nov. 20 First great tank attack helps Brits recover
- 1917 Battle of Caporetto or Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo Italians fight Austrians
- 1917 Battle of Third Ypres August 1 Australian soldiers in action at Menin Road, Glencorse Wood, Polygon Wood, Broodseinde Ridge and Passchendaele
- 1918 Battle of Cantigny May 28 US First Division wins in first independent action
- 1918 Battle of Bellau Wood June 25 US Second Division Marines capture woods
- 1918 Battle of Second Marne July 17 Allies halt four month German drive
- 1918 Battle of Amiens Aug. British force Germans to Hindenburg line
- 1918 Battle of Meuse Argonne Forest Oct. 8 Private Alvin York attacks German machine gun nest
- 1918 Battle of Vittoria Veneto
- 1918 Battle of Chateau Thierry
- 1921 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1921) - Second Greek-Turkish War
- 1921 Battle of Anual July 21 in Morocco, Spanish army loses
- 1936 Battle of Guernica
- 1937 Battle of Lugou Bridge - July 7 World War II Japanese victory triggered outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War
- 1938 Battle of Tai er zhuang - March 27 World War II Chinese claim victory over Japanese
- 1939 Battle of River Plate Dec. 13
- 1940 Battle of Dunkirk May 27 - June 5 World War II
- 1940 Battle of Britain July 9 Germans try to bomb Britain into submission
- 1940 Battle of Hundred Regiments August - September
- 1941 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic - World War II
- 1941 Battle of Crete World War II
- 1941 Operation Barbarossa German invasion of Russia, June 22
- 1941 Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 Japanese temporarily destroy US Fleet
- 1942 Battle of Macasser Strait Jan. US and Dutch forces attack Jap convoy
- 1942 Battle of Drazgose January 9 First frontal engagement on Slovene soil with the German occupier
- 1942 Battle of Java Sea Feb. Japanese wipe out allied squadron
- 1942 Battle of Corregidor April 9 Wainwright's troops surrender, forced on Bataan Death March
- 1942 Battle of Coral Sea May 4 US loses USS Lexington, Japanese lose big
- 1942 Battle of Midway June 3 US loses USS Yorktown, Japanese lose superiority
- 1942 Battle of El Alamein Field Marshall Montgomery stops axis at Egypt (First Battle of El Alamein, Second Battle of El Alamein)
- 1942 Battle of Sevastapol July 2 After eight month siege, city captured
- 1942 Battle of Changsha - World War II Chinese claim victory over Japanese
- 1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 siege begins
- 1942 Battle of the East Solomon Islands. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho is sunk.
- 1942 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea (August 25)
- 1942 Battle of Santa Cruz October 25 USS Hornet sunk, Japanese lose near Guadalcanal
- 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal Nov 12 US under Halsey sinks Japs
- 1942 Battle of Dieppe
- 1943 Battle of Osankarica January 8 Over 2000 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men and had 31 wounded
- 1943 Battle of Guadalcanal February 8 Allies take this Solomon Island
- 1943 Battle of Bismarck Sea March 2 US sinks Japanese transports
- 1943 Battle of Warsaw Ghetto April 18 from Passover 5000 Jews and 5000 Germans die, Jews confined
- 1943 Battle of Castle Turjak September 19 Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries
- 1943 Battle of Kursk July Russians defeat Germans in battle with 6000 tanks, 4000 planes
- 1944 Battle of Peleliu - September 17
- 1944 Battle of Aachen - World War II
- 1944 Battle of Normandy June 6 176,000 allies land on 5 beaches Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword, Gold
- 1944 Battle of Philippine Sea June 19 - 402 Japanese planes lost, 27 US planes downed
- 1944 Battle of Fontenay June 25
- 1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 World War II Operation Market Garden
- 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf - World War II October 23 - October 26
- 1944 Battle of the Bulge December 16 German counterattack in Ardennes: McAuliffe "NUTS"
- 1945 Battle of Mindanao March 10 US invasion of Philippines
- 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima March 16 After a month, US takes island
- 1945 Battle of Poljana The last battle of the World War II in Europe.
- 1945 Battle of Okinawa June 21 Island in Ryukyus taken
- 1948 Israel War of Independence War of independence drives many Arabs from country
- 1950 Battle of Inchon Sept. 14 UN retakes S. Korea, reach Seoul in 12 days
- 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir November 27
- 1951 Battle of Heartbreak Ridge September 23 After 37 days, heights fall to UN
- 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu France loses Indochina when besieged here, from 1953
- 1956 Battle of Suez Britain, France, Israel attempt to retake canal, Ike says No
- 1967 Six Day War June 5 Israel defeats combined Arab forces
- 1968 Tet Offensive Jan. 30 N. Vietnam loses militarily but wins hearts and minds of American Media
- 1968 My Lai Massacre March 16 Lt. Calley killed innocents
- 1969 Football War July 14, El Salvador, Honduras
- 1973 Yom Kippur War Oct. 6 Israel, taken by surprise on Holy Day, defeats combined forces, Kissinger prevents their capturing of three Arab capitals
- 1982 Falkland Islands War Apr. 2 Britain waves the Rules, attacks retreating Argentine Ships, captures islands
- 1983 Battle of Grenada Oct. 25 US invades island
=== FICTIONAL/MYTHICAL BATTLES === (move to separate page)
- Battle of Yavin -- Star Wars
- Battle of Ramoth-Gilead - 953 BC - Bible
- Battle of Magh Tuiredh (three battles) - Irish mythology, see also Tuatha de Danaan, Lugh
- Battle of Gilboa --Bible
Supposed Battles
No date to be found ... whoever posted please clean up details/spelling/find common name
- Battle of Grotnik, Poland -- 3 V 1439
- Battle of Halys
Other
There are two dates for this battle, just de-orphanising it:
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