List of battles (alphabetical)
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.
- Battle of Aachen - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Abensberg - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Abukir - two battles - 1798 and 1801 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Abukir Bay - see Battle of the Nile
- Battle of Abrittus - 251 - Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Actium - 31 BC - Wars of the Second Triumvirate
- Battle of Ad Decimum - 533 - Wars of the Byzantine Empire - Campaign against the Vandals
- Battle of Adrianople (323) - Civil Wars of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Adrianople (378) - Gothic Invasions of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Adrianople (972) - Wars of the Byzantine Empire - against the Russians
- Battle of Adrianople (1205) - Fourth Crusade
- Battle of Adrianople (1254) - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
- Battle of Adrianople (1365) - Capture by Ottoman Turks
- Battle of Adrianople (1913) - First Balkan War
- Battle of Adowa - 1896 - First Italian-Ethiopian War
- Battle of Adwalton Moor - 1643 - English Civil War
- Battle of Aegospotami - 405 BC - Great Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1915) - World War I - Turkish Assimilation of Armenians
- Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1921) - Second Greek-Turkish War
- Battle of Agincourt - 1415 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Agnadello - 1509 - French Wars in Italy
- 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
- 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 Ankara (a.k.a. Battle of Angora) - 1402 - Timur's Invasion of Turkey
- 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 Ardennes (1914) - World War I
- Battle of Ardennes (1944) (a.k.a. Battle of the Bulge) - World War II
- Battle of Arnhem - 1944 - World War II
- 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 Bannockburn - 1314 - English-Scottish Wars
- Operation Barbarossa - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Barletta - 1502 - French-Spanish Wars in Italy
- Battle of Barnet - 1471 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Basra (a.k.a. Battle of the Camel) - 656 - Moslem Civil Wars
- Battle of Benevento - 1266 - French Invasion of Italy
- Battle of Beneventum - 275 BC - Rise of Rome
- Battle of Beresteczko - 1651 - Polish-Cosack Wars
- Battle of Bitonto - 1734 - War of Polish Succession
- Battle of Blenheim - 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Borodino - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Bosworth Field - 1485 - Wars of the Roses
- Battle of Bouvines - 1214 - English-French Wars
- Battle of the Boyne River - 1690 - First Jacobite Insurrection
- Battle of Britain - 1940 - World War II
- Battle of Brunkeberg - 1471 - Danish-Swedish Wars
- Battle of the Bulge - see Battle of Ardennes (1944)
- Battle of Bunker Hill - 1775 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Burkersdorf - 1762 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of the Camel - see Battle of Basra
- 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 Capua (212 BC) - Second Punic War
- Battle of Capua (1734) - War of Polish Succession
- Battle of Carchemish - 605 BC - Babylonian-Egyptian 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 Cedynia - 972 - First Polish-German War
- Battle of Ceuta - 1415 - Portuguese Invasion of Africa
- Battle of Châlons-sur-Marne (366) - Germanic Invasions of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Châlons-sur-Marne (451) - Wars of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Changsha (3rd century) - Wars of the three kingdoms - (several reports on this but none give precise year)
- Battle of Changsha (1930) - Gunboat Diplomacy - basis for movie, The Sand Pebbles
- Battle of Changsha (1939) - Second Chinese-Japanese War merged into World War II
- Battle of Changsha (1941) - Second Chinese-Japanese War merged into World War II
- Battle of Changsha (1942) - Second Chinese-Japanese War merged into World War II
- Battle of Changsha (1944) (a.k.a. Changsha-Hengyang) - Second Chinese-Japanese War merged into World War II
- Battle of Chengping - 206 BC - Consolidation of Qin dynasty
- Battle of the Chesapeake - 1781 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Chojnice (a.k.a. Battle of Conitz) - 1454 - Thirteen Years War
- Battle of Chosin Reservoir - 1951 - Korean War
- Battle of Cold Harbor - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Copenhagen (1801) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Copenhagen (1807) - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
- Battle of the Crater - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Crecy - 1346 - Hundred Years War
- World War II/The Battle of Crete
- Battle of Cunaxa
- Battle of Culloden
- Battle of Deorham
- World War II/Dunkerque
- Battle of Dunbar
- Battle of Edgehill
- Battle of Evesham
- Battle of Eylau
- Battle of Falkirk
- Battle of Feishui
- Battle of Fontenay
- Battle of Gettysburg
- Battle of Gilboa
- Battle of Grathe Heath
- Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion
- Battle of Grunwald
- World War II/Guadalcanal
- Battle of Guadalete - 711 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
- Battle of Guan Du
- Battle on the Halys
- Battle of Hastings
- Battle of Helgoland
- Battle of Helsingborg - 1362 - Danish-German War
- Battle of Hundred Regiments (a.k.a. Hundred Regiments Offensive) - 1940 - Second Chinese-Japanese War merged into World War II
- Battle of Issus
- World War II/Iwo Jima
- Battle of the Ironclads - American Civil War
- Battle of Izonzo
- Battle of Jutland
- Battle of Kabul (709) - Moslem Conquest of the East
- Battle of Kabul (1842) - First Afghan-British War
- Battle of Karkar
- Battle of Kepaniwai
- Battle of Kunyang
- Battle of Kursk
- Battle of Largs
- Battle of Lechfeld
- Battle of Leipzig
- Battle of Lepanto
- Battle of Lesnaya
- Battle of Lewes
- World War II/Leyte Gulf
- Battle of Lipany
- Battle of Loos
- Battle of Lostwithiel
- World War II/Battle of Lugou Bridge
- Battle of Lumphanan
- Second Battle of Magh Tuiredh
- The Battle of Maldon
- Battle of Mantinea
- Battle of Manzikert
- Battle of Marathon
- Battle of Marston Moor
- World War II/Battle of Midway
- Battle of Milan
- Battle of Milvian Bridge
- Battle of Mohacs
- Mons Badonicus
- Battle of Mons Graupius
- Battle of Muhlberg
- Battle of Naissus
- Battle of Naseby
- Battle of Nashville
- Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
- Battle of Nineveh
- Battle of the Nile - 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of New Orleans
- World War II/Normandy
- World War II/Okinawa
- Battle of Orleans - 1429 Joan of Arc Hundred Years War
- Battle of Pakozd
- Battle of Pampeluna
- Battle of Panipat
- Battle of Pavia
- Battle of Peleliu
- World War II/Pearl Harbor
- Battle of Pharsalus
- Battle of Philippi
- Battle on the Plains of Abraham
- Battle of Poitiers
- Battle of Polentia
- Battle of Puebla
- Battle of Pydna
- Battle of Quebec
- Battle of Ramillies
- Battle of Ramoth-gilead
- Battle of Red Cliff (208)
- The Battle of the River Plate
- Battle of Ruvo - 1503 - French-Spanish Wars in Italy
- Battle of Salamis
- Batle of San Jacinto
- Battle of Sarmada
- Battle of Schwechat
- Battle of Sedgemoor
- Battle of Sekigahara
- Battle of Shiloh
- Battle of Shrewsbury
- Battle of the Somme
- Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
- Battle of Stalingrad
- Battle of Stirling Bridge
- Battle of Stoke Field
- Battle of Suiyang
- 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 Polish Succession
- World War II/Battle of Tai er zhuang
- Battle of Tannenberg
- Battle of Tarifa
- Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
- Battle of Tewkesbury
- Battle of Tippecanoe
- Battle of Tours
- Battle of Towton
- Battle of Trafalgar
- Battle of Trepani - 1735 - War of Polish Succession
- Battle of Troy circa 1200 BC
- Battle of Tsushima
- Battle of Tumu Castle
- Battle of Ucles
- Battle of Wakefield
- Battle of Waterloo
- Battle of Wayna Daga
- Battle of the White Mountain
- Battle of the Wilderness
- Battle of Worringen
- Battle of Vaila
- Battle of Xiangyang
- Battle of Yavin
- Battle of Zama
- Battle of Zarnowiec