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 Artois-Loos - 1915 - World War I
- 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 Böhmisch-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)
- 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 Caporetto (a.k.a. Twelfth Battle of Isonzo) - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Capua (212 BC) - Second Punic War
- Battle of Capua (1734) - War of Polish Succession
- Battle of 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 Ceský-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)
- 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 Coral Sea - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
- Battle of the Crater - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Crecy - 1346 - Hundred Years War
- Battle of Crete - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Culloden (a.k.a. Culloden Moor) - 1746 - Jacobite Rebellions
- Battle of Cunaxa - 401 BC - Persian-Greek Wars
- Battle of Deorham (a.k.a. Dyrham) - 577 - Teutonic conquest of Britain
- Battle of Detroit - 1812 - War of 1812
- Battle of the Dunes (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths
- Battle of the Dunes (1658) - Spanish French Wars
- Battle of Dunkirk (a.k.a. Dunkerque) - 1940 - World War II
- Battle of Dunbar (1296) - Wars of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Dunbar (1650) - English Civil Wars
- Battle of Edgehill - 1642 - English Civil War
- Battle of Evesham - 1265 - Second Barons' War of England
- Battle of Eylau - 1807 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Falkirk (1298) - Wars of Scottish Independence
- Battle of Falkirk (1746) - Jacobite Rebellions
- Battle of Feishui - 383 - Wars of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
- Battle of Fontenay (841) (Latin Fontanetum, near Auxerre, and now Fontenoy-en-Puisaye) - Division of Charlemagne's Empire
- Battle of Fontenay (1944) (Fontenay-le-Pesnel near Caen) - World War II
- Battle of Fontenoy (1745) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Gettysburg - 1863 - American Civil War
- Battle of Gilboa - 1000 BC - Israeli Philistine Wars
- Battle of Grathe Heath - 1157 - Dispute over Danish Throne
- Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion
- Battle of Grunwald (see Battle of Tannenberg (1410)
- Battle of Guadalcanal - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Guadalete - 711 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
- Battle of Guan Du - 200 - Conquest of Northern China
- Battle of Halys (547 BC) - Persian Wars
- Battle of Halys (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths
- Battle of Halys (1101) - First Crusade
- Because the Halys is a river the above battles sometimes use the terms "on the" or "at the"
- Battle of Hampton Roads (see Battle of the Ironclads)
- Battle of Hastings - 1066 - Norman conquest of Britain
- Battle of Heligoland (1864) - Second Schleswig War
- Battle of Heligoland (1914) (a.k.a. Heligoland Bight) - World War I
- 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 - 333 BC - Macedonian conquests
- Battle of Ituzaingo - 1827 - Uruguayan War of Independence
- Battle of Iwo Jima - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of the Ironclads (a.k.a. Monitor vs. Merrimack, Battle of Hampton Roads) - 1862 - American Civil War
- Battle of Isonzo (489) - Ostrogoth invasion of Italy
- Battle of Isonzo (1915 - World War I - really a series of eleven related battles.
- Battle of Java Sea - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Jutland - 1916 - World War I
- Battle of Kabul (709) - Moslem Conquest of the East
- Battle of Kabul (1842) - First Afghan-British War
- Battle of Kadesh - 1472 BC - Egyptian-Canaanite War
- Battle of Karkar - 854 BC or 853 BC - Assyrian Wars of Conquest
- Battle of Kepaniwai - 1790 - Unification of Hawaiian Islands
- Battle of Kunyang - 23 - Rise of the Eastern Han
- Battle of Kursk - 1943 - World War II
- Battle of Kyushu - 1281 - Mongol Invasions of Japan
- Battle of La Bicoca - 1522 - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Largs - 1263 - Norse invasion of Scotland
- Battle of Lechfeld - 955 - German states stop the Magyars
- Battle of Leipzig - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Lepanto (1499) - Turkish-Venetian Wars
- Battle of Lepanto (1571) - Defeat of the Turkish fleet
- Battle of Lesnaya 1708 - Great Northern War
- Battle of Lewes - 1264 - Second Barons' War of England
- Battle of Leyte (land battle) - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Leyte Gulf (sea battle) - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Lipany (a.k.a. Ceský-Brod or Böhmisch-Brod) - 1434 - Hussite Wars
- Battle of Lissa - 1866 - Seven Weeks' War
- Battle of the Long Orchard - 432 - Byzantine War against the Goths
- Battle of Loos (see Battle of Artois-Loos)
- Battle of Lostwithiel (two connected battles) - 1642 and 1644 - English Civil War
- Battle of Lugou Bridge (a.k.a. Incident at Marco Polo Bridge) - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War merged into World War II
- Battle of Lumphanan - 1057 - Scottish dispute over the throne; Macbeth died here.
- Battle of Magh Tuiredh (three battles) - Irish mythology - see also Tuatha de Danaan, Lugh
- Battle of Maldon - 991 - Rise of England
- Battle of Mantinea - 362 BC - Greek City-States War
- Battle of Manzikert - 1071 - Byzantine-Turkish Wars
- Battle of Marathon - 490 BC - Persian-Greek Wars
- Battle of Marignani - 1515 - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Marston Moor - 1644 - English Civil War
- Battle of Megiddo - 1480 BC - Egyptian-Canaanite War
- Battle of Midway - 1942 - World War II
- Battle of Milan (1522) - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Milan (1535) - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Milan (1741) - War of the Austrian Succession
- Battle of Milvian Bridge - 312 - Civil Wars of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
- Battle of Mons Badonicus - abount 500 - Teutonic Conquest of Britain
- Battle of Mons Graupius - 84 - Roman Conquest of Britain
- Battle of Muhlberg - 1547 - German Reformation Wars
- Battle of Naissus - 269 - Gothic Invasion of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Naseby - 1645 - English Civil War
- Battle of Nashville - 1864 - American Civil War
- Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa - 1212 - Spanish-Moslem Wars
- Battle of New Orleans (1815) - War of 1812
- Battle of New Orleans (1862) - American Civil War
- Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) - Fall of Assyria
- Battle of Nineveh (627) - Byzantine-Persian Wars
- Battle of the Nile - 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Normandy - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Okinawa - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of Orleans - 1429 - Hundred Years War - Joan of Arc participated
- Battle of Pakozd - 1848 - Hungarian-Croatian War
- Battle of Pampeluna (778) - Charlemagne's War against the Moors
- Battle of Pampeluna (1521) - French-Spanish Wars
- Battle of Pampeluna (1813) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Panipat (1526) - Mogul-Afghan Wars
- Battle of Panipat (1556) - Mogul-Afghan Wars
- Battle of Panipat (1761) - Afghan-Maratha Wars
- Battle of Pavia (271) - Alamanni Invasion of the Roman Empire
- Battle of Pavia (476) - Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Pavia (569) - Lombard Invasion of Italy
- Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
- Battle of Pavia (1525) - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Peleliu - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of Pearl Harbor - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Pharsalus - 48 BC - Wars of the First Triumvirate
- Battle of Philippi (42 BC) (in Macedonia) - Wars of the Second Triumvirate
- Battle of Philippi (1861) (in West Virginia) - American Civil War
- Battle of Philippine Sea - 1944 - World War II
- Battle of the Plains of Abraham see Battle of Quebec (1759) of which it was a part.
- Battle of Poitiers - 1356 - Hundred Years War
- Battle of Polentia - 402 - Goth Invasion of the Western Roman Empire
- Battle of Puebla (1847) - Mexican-American War
- Battle of Puebla (1862) - French-Mexican War
- Battle of Pydna - 168 BC - Third Macedonian 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 Ramillies - 1706 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Ramoth-Gilead - 953 BC - Israeli-Syrian War
- Battle of Red Cliff - 208 - Rise of the Three Kingdoms
- The Battle of the River Plate - 1939 - World War II
- 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 the Polish Succession
- Battle of Syria - 431 - Byzantine War against the Goths
- Battle of Tai er zhuang - 1938 - Second Chinese-Japanese War merged into World War II
- Battle of Tannenberg (1410) - Rise of Poland
- Battle of Tannenberg (1914) - World War I
- Battle of Tarawa (a.k.a. Tarawa-Makin) - 1943 - World War II
- Battle of Tarifa
- Battle of Tassafaronga - 1942 - World War II
- 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 the 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 Zalgiris (see Battle of Tannenberg (1410))
- Battle of Zama
- Battle of Zarnowiec