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Battle of Aranzueque The Battle of Aranzueque was a September 1837 confrontation at the village of Aranzueque, Spain during the First Carlist War. The battle pitted the troops of the pretender to the Spanish crown, Carlos V, against the troops of the Queen Regent Maria Christina, led by the general Baldomero Espartero.
Battle of Arausio The Battle of Arausio took place on October 6, 105 BC, at a site between the town of Arausio (modern day Orange, Vaucluse) and the RhĂ´ne River. Ranged against the migratory tribes of the Cimbri under Boiorix and the Teutoni were two Roman armies, commanded by the proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio and consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
Battle of Arfderydd The Battle of Arfderydd (also know as Arderydd) was fought, according to the Annales Cambriae, in 573. The opposing armies are variously given in a number of Old Welsh sources, perhaps suggesting a number of allied armies were involved.
Battle of Argentovaria The Battle of Argentovaria was fought in May 378 between the Roman emperor Gratian and the invading army of the Lentienses, at Argentovaria (near Colmar, France). With this defeat, the Lentienses disappear from history.
Battle of Arginusae The naval Battle of Arginusae took place in 406 BC during the Peloponnesian War just east of the island of Lesbos. In the battle, an Athenian fleet commanded by eight strategoi defeated a Spartan fleet under Callicratidas.
Battle of Arica The Battle of Arica or the assault and capture of the Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), took place on July 7, 1880, between the forces of Chile and Peru. The Chileans were led by Coronel Pedro Lagos, while the defending Peruvian forces were under the command of Coronel Francisco Bolognesi.
Battle of Arklow The Battle of Arklow took place during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 on June 9 when a rebel force from Wexford, estimated at 10,000 strong, launched an assault into County Wicklow, on the British-held town of Arklow, in an attempt to spread the rebellion into Wicklow and to threaten the capital of Dublin.
Battle of Arras (1914) The Battle of Arras (also known as the First Battle of Arras), which began on October 1, 1914, was an attempt by the French Army to outflank the German Army to prevent its movement towards the English Channel during the Race to the Sea.
Battle of Arras (1917) The Battle of Arras took place in France from 9 April to 16 May, 1917. It was fought by the British (First Army under Allenby, Third Army under Horne, Fifth Army under Gough) under the supreme command of General Haig against the heavily fortified line held by German Sixth and Second Armies.
Battle of Artaxata The Battle of Artaxata was fought in 68 BC between the Roman Republic and the Kingdom of Armenia. The Romans were led by Consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus, while the Armenians were led by King Tigranes II, who was sheltering King Mithridates VI of Pontus.
Battle of Artemisium The naval Battle of Artemisium took place, according to tradition, on the same day as the Battle of Thermopylae on August 11 480 BC, though its exact date may be a few days prior or after (Prentice, 13). It was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persians in 480 BC.
Battle of Asculum (279 BC) The Battle of Asculum took place in 279 BC between the Romans under the command of Consul Publius Decius Mus and the combined Tarantine, Oscan, Samnites, and Epiriotic forces, under the command of king Pyrrhus of Epirus. This battle is set within the Romano-Tarantine conflict, to control the Magna Graecia.
Battle of Ashdown The Battle of Ashdown, in Berkshire (possibly the part now in Oxfordshire), took place on 8 January 871. Alfred the Great, then a mere prince of twenty-one, led the West Saxon armies of his brother, King Ethelred, in a victorious battle against the invading Danes.
Battle of Ashingdon The Battle of Ashingdon was fought on October 18, 1016, at Assandun, which is now believed to be Ashingdon in SE Essex, England, though the location is still debated. It was a victory for the Danes, led by Canute the Great, who triumphed over the English army led by King Edmund II ('Ironside').
Battle of Asiago The Battle of Asiago or Battle of the Plateaux (in Italian: Battaglia degli Altipiani), nicknamed Strafexpedition ("Punitive expedition") by the Austrians, was a counteroffensive launched by the Austro-Hungarians on the Italian Front on May 15, 1916, during World War I. Unexpectedly, it took place in Trentino (now in northeast Italy, then part of Austria-Hungary) after the Fifth Battle of the Isonzo (March 1916).
Battle of Asseiceira The Battle of Asseiceira, fought on May 16 1834, was the last and decisive engagement of the Portuguese Civil War, or "War of the Two Brothers", between Dom Pedro, ex-Emperor of Brazil (fighting to restore his daughter Donna Maria da Gloria as rightful Queen of Portugal) and the usurper Dom Miguel. Don Miguel's rebel forces were defeated.
Battle of Atapuerca The Battle of Atapuerca was fought in 1 September 1054 at the site of Piedrahita ("standing stone") in the valley of Atapuerca between brothers King García V, El de Nájera, of Navarre and King Ferdinand I, the Great, of Castile and León.
Battle of Atbara The Battle of Atbara was a part of the Second Sudan War as Anglo-Egyptian forces crushed 15,000 Sudanese Rebels, called Mahdists or Dervishes. The Battle proved to be the turning point in the conquest of Sudan by a British and Egyptian coalition.
Battle of Athens (1861) The Battle of Athens was a small American Civil War battle that took place in Northeast Missouri (near present Revere along the Des Moines River) in 1861. In 5 August of 1861, a force of about 2000 Missouri State Guard (which were loyal to the Confederacy), led by Colonel Martin Green, tried to liberate the town the from 500 troops loyal to the Union.
Battle of Athens (1864) The Battle of Athens was fought in Athens, Alabama (Limestone County, Alabama), on January 26, 1864, as part of the American Civil War. The Union force was a detachment under Captain Emil Adams from the 9th Illinois Mounted Infantry regiment.
Battle of Athos The naval Battle of Mount Athos (also known as the Battle of Monte Sancto and the Battle of Lemnos) took place from 19-29 June, 1807 and was a key naval battle of the Russo-Turkish War (1806-12, part of the Napoleonic Wars). It was fought a month after the Russians under Dmitry Senyavin had defeated the Turks in the naval Battle of the Dardanelles.
Battle of Atlanta The Battle of Atlanta was a battle of the Atlanta campaign fought during the American Civil War on July 22, 1864 just southeast of Atlanta, Georgia. Despite the implication of finality in its name, the battle occurred mid-way through the campaign and the city would not fall for another six weeks.
Battle of Auldearn The Battle of Auldearn, an engagement of the Scottish Civil War, took place on May 9, 1645, in and around the village of Auldearn in Nairn. It was a victory for Montrose and Alasdair MacColla, heading the royalist forces, over a Covenanter army under the command of Sir John Hurry.
Battle of Austerlitz The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of Napoleon's greatest victories, effectively destroying the Third Coalition against the French Empire. On December 2 1805, French troops, commanded by Emperor Napoleon I, decisively defeated a Russo-Austrian army, commanded by Tsar Alexander I, after nearly nine hours of difficult fighting in many sectors.
Battle of Avarayr Battle of Avarayr (, May 26, 451, also known as Battle of Vartanantz, ) is remembered by Armenians as probably the greatest battle in their history. It was fought on the Avarayr Field in Vaspurakan between the Armenian rebels under Saint Vartan and their Sassanid overlords.
Battle of Averasborough The Battle of Averasborough, fought March 16, 1865, in Harnett and Cumberland counties, North Carolina, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War, was a prelude to the climactic Battle of Bentonville, which began three days later.
Battle of Avignon During the Battle of Avignon in 737 Charles Martel expelled Arab forces which had occupied the city in 734 after it had been surrendered to Yusuf ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Fihri, Umayyad governor of Narbonne, by Duke Maurontus of Provence.Riche, Pierre (1993).
Battle of Awazu Continuing to flee from his cousins' armies after attacking Kyoto, burning the Hōjūjiden, and kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa, Minamoto no Yoshinaka made his final stand at Awazu. He had met up with his companion & foster brother Imai Kanehira at Seta, along the way, and was also joined in battle by his wife, Tomoe Gozen.
Battle of Axtorna The Battle of Axtorna was fought October 20 1565. Daniel Rantzau had been forced to yield the fortress Varberghus to the Swedes on September 15 1565, after they had taken Ny Varberg, then Skåneland's next largest city after Malmö.
Battle of Ayacucho The Battle of Ayacucho took place during the final phase of Peru's War of Independence. It is considered by historians as the battle that sealed the independence of Peru, as well as the victory that ensured independence for the rest of South America
Battle of Aydın The Battle of Aydın or "The defence of Aydın" (tr: Aydın savunması), 27 June 1919 to 4 July 1919, was a series of wide-scale armed conflicts during the initial stage of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in and around the city of Aydın in western Turkey. The warfare, as well as the burning of several quarters of the city (principally Turkish, but also Greek) and consecutive massacres made several thousands of victims, Turkish civilians, Greek troops and Greek civilians, according to converging estimates.
Battle of Aylesbury On the 1 November 1642, Royalist forces, under the command of Prince Rupert engaged Aylesbury's Parliamentarian garrison, at Holman's Bridge. The Parliamentarian forces were victorious, despite being heavily outnumbered.
Battle of Azukizaka (1542) In the first battle of Azukizaka, Oda Nobuhide defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto, setting the stage for his son, Oda Nobunaga, to become one of Japan's greatest warlords. Despite the defeat, Imagawa continued to expand his territory until 1560, when he faced Nobunaga and was killed in the battle of Okehazama.
Battle of Azukizaka (1564) The second battle of Azukizaka took place in 1564, when Tokugawa Ieyasu sought to combat the growing threat of the IkkĹŤ-ikki, a sect of warrior monks who were strongly against samurai rule. The Ikki consisted of samurai, monks, and peasants, many of whom were vassals of Tokugawa.
Battle of Ă–rlygsstaĂ°ir The Battle of Ă–rlygsstaĂ°ir was fought on August 21, 1238 between Sighvatur Sturluson (brother of Snorri Sturluson) and his son Sturla on the one hand and Kolbeinn the Young and Gissur Ăžorvaldsson (later Earl Gissur) on the other. The latter were the victors.
Battle of Älgarås The Battle of Älgarås took place at the royal estate of Älgarås () in northernmost Västergötland in November 1205 between the House of Sverker and the House of Erik fighting for the Swedish crown. The brothers Jon, Joar, Knut and Erik Knutsson were staying at the estate when the Sverker clan attacked.
Battle of Baçente The Battle of Baçente was fought on February 2, 1542 when a Portuguese army under Christovão da Gama took a hillfort held by Muslim forces in northern Ethiopia. The Portuguese suffered minimal casualties, while the defenders were reportedly all killed.
Battle of Badajoz (1812) The Battle of Badajoz lasted between March 16 and April 6, 1812. The Spanish city of Badajoz was besieged by an Anglo-Portuguese army under the command of Lord Wellington, finally resulting in the surrender of the French garrison after an obstinate resistance.
Battle of Badajoz (1936) The Battle of Badajoz was one of the first major Nationalist victories in the Spanish Civil War. A series of costly assaults won the Nationalists the fortified border city of Badajoz on August 14 1936, cutting off the Spanish Republic from neighbouring Portugal and linking the northern and southern zones of Nationalist control (although actual contact with General Mola's northern troops was not established until September 8).
Battle of Badr The Battle of Badr (), fought March 17, 624 CE (17 Ramadan 2 AH in the Islamic calendar) in the Hejaz of western Arabia (present-day Saudi Arabia), was a key battle in the early days of Islam and a turning point in Muhammad's struggle with the Meccan QuraishQuraish refers to the tribe in control of Mecca. The plural and adjective are Quraishi.
Battle of Badung Strait The Battle of Badung Strait was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of 19 February – 20 February 1942 in Badung Strait between the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the engagement, the four Japanese destroyers, defeated an Allied force that outnumbered and outgunned them, escorting two transports to safety and sinking the Dutch destroyer Piet Hein.
Battle of Baecula The Battle of Baecula was Scipio Africanus’s first major field battle after he had taken command of Roman interests in Spain during the Second Punic War, in which he routed the Carthaginian army under the command of Hasdrubal Barca.
Battle of Baekgang The Battle of Baekgang, also known as Battle of Baekgang-gu or by the Japanese name Battle of Hakusukinoe (白村江の戦い Hakusuki-no-e no Tatakai or Hakusonkō no Tatakai (although suki is used in the former reading as a kun reading, the Kojien states that this was an ancient Korean word meaning "village"), was a battle between Baekje, and its ally, Yamato Japan, against the allied forces of Silla and the Tang Dynasty of China. The battle took place in the lower reaches of the Geum River in Jeollabuk-do province, Korea.
Battle of Bagbrades The Battle of Bagrades (also known as Battle of Campi Magni, Great Plains) was fought in 203 BC between a combined Carthaginian and Numidian force, and the Roman army of Scipio Africanus. The Carthaginians were led by Hasdrubal Gisco, while the Numidians were led by Syphax.
Battle of Baia The Battle of Baia, which took place on the 15 December 1467, was an important battle in the history of medieval Moldavia. The battle was a confrontation between the Moldavian prince Stephen the Great and Mathias Corvinus, Hungarian king.
Battle of Bailén The Battle of Bailén was a series of clashes between the Spanish regular army— operating in conjunction with guerrilla formations—under Generals Francisco Castaños and Theodor von Reding and the French commanded by General Pierre Dupont, between July 18 and July 22 1808, as a part of the Peninsular War.
Battle of Bajor In the fictional Star Trek universe, the Battle of Bajor (known by its Starfleet planners as Operation Return) was a major battle and a turning point in the Dominion War. It is depicted in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "Favor the Bold" and "Sacrifice of Angels".
Battle of Bakhmach Battle of Bakhmach (Bitva u Bachmače in Czech), was a battle between the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia and German forces occupying Ukraine. The battle lasted from March 8 to March 13 1918 over the city of Bakhmach (Бахмач), today in Ukraine.
Battle of Baku The Battle of Baku was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place in the vicinity of Baku, in 1918. The Ottoman-Azerbaijani forces of the Army of Islam led by Nuri Pasha won the battle against a coalition of British, Armenian and White Russian forces led by Lionel Dunsterville.
Battle of Balaclava The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854, was a key battle during the Crimean War, fought between the allied forces of the United Kingdom, French Empire and the Ottoman Empire on one side and Russia on the other. It was the first of two attempts by the Russians to break the Siege of Sevastopol.
Battle of Balanjar (723) In 722 or 723, according to Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Umayyad soldiers under al-Djarrah ibn Abdullah crossed the Caucasus Mountains and attacked Balanjar. The inhabitants of Balanjar tried to defend their town by fastening 3,000 wagons together and circling them around the key fortress on high terrain, but were defeated in the attack.
Battle of Balanjar (730s) The Battle of Balanjar was fought around 732 near the Khazar city of Balanjar. The Umayyad army, commanded by the prince Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik, was victorious and sacked the town, advancing on towards Samandar.
Battle of Ball's Bluff The Battle of Ball's Bluff, also known as the Battle of Harrison’s Landing or the Battle of Leesburg, took place on October 21, 1861, in Loudoun County, Virginia, as part of Major General George B. McClellan's operations in northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
Battle of Ballantyne Pier The Battle of Ballantyne Pier refers to a clash between city, provincial, and federal police and Communist-led protesters on June 18, 1935 in the East End of Vancouver, British Columbia. It lasted for about three hours and was the climax of a strike by longshoremen.
Battle of Ballyellis The Battle of Ballyellis on 30 June 1798 was a clash during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 (Éirí Amach 1798 in Irish), between a surviving column of the dispersed Wexford rebel army and pursuing British forces which resulted in a total victory for the rebels.
Battle of Ballymore-Eustace The Battle of Ballymore-Eustace was one of the events in the United Irish rebellion of 1798. It took place on May 24 1798 after the stationing of the 9th Dragoons, and members of the Tyrone, Antrim and Armagh Militias at Ballymore in County Kildare near the Kildare-Wicklow border on May 10.
Battle of Baltimore In the Battle of Baltimore, one of the turning points in the War of 1812, American forces warded off a combined British land and sea invasion of the busy port city of Baltimore, Maryland. The American defense of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry in this battle inspired Francis Scott Key to compose the poem which would become the national anthem of the United States, “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
Battle of Bandiradley The Battle of Bandiradley in Somalia began on December 23, 2006, when Ethiopian and Puntland forces, along with a Somali militia representing the nascent semi-autonomous state of Galmudug under Abdi Qeybdid, attacked the forces of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) defending Bandiradley. The fighting pushed the Islamists out of Bandiradley and over the border south into Adado district, Galgadud region, by December 25.
Battle of Banquan The Battle of Banquan (阪泉之戰) happened in 26th century BC, and is the first battle in Chinese history as recorded by Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian. This battle is credited for the formation of the Huaxia tribe, the basis of the Han Chinese civilization.
Battle of Bapheus The Battle of Bapheus occurred in July 27, 1302 between an Ottoman army under Osman I and a Byzantine army. The Byzantines, whom had suffered a number of raids by the Ottomans, possessed an army of far lesser quality and strategy than that of the Komnenos dynasty, and were defeated outside of Nicomedia.
Battle of Bar-sur-Aube The Battle of Bar-sur-Aube was fought on February 27, 1814, between France and Austria. The French were led by Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, while the Austrians and their Bavarian allies were led by Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg.
Battle of Barking Creek The Battle of Barking Creek was an incident that happened on September 6, 1939, resulting in the first death of a British fighter pilot in World War II. An air raid siren prompted a squadron of Royal Air Force Hurricanes to take off from North Weald Airfield, followed by two reserve Hurricanes.
Battle of Basantar The Battle of Basantar or the Battle of Barapind (December 4th - 16th, 1971) was one of the vital battles fought as part of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 in the western sector of India. Despite being outnumbered, the Indian troops won a hard fought battle that secured this vital area in the Punjab/Jammu sector.
Battle of Bash Abaran The Battle of Bash Abaran was a battle of Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place in the vicinity of Bash Abaran, in 1918. The Turkish divisions attacked on May 21, but after three days of fierce combat the Armenians remained firm and the Turkish regiments were in retreat for the first time since the offensive had begun.
Battle of Basra (1914) The Battle of Basra was a battle of World War I which took place in the city of Basra (modern-day Iraq) between British and Ottoman troops on December 10, 1914. The battle resulted in the British capture of Basra
Battle of Basra (634) Busra was the first important town to be captured by the Muslims in Syria, it was capital city of Ghassanid kingdom, which was under the rule of eastern roman empire.The siege of Basra took place between June-July 634 A.
Battle of Bassano The Battle of Bassano was fought on 8 September 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, in the Italian Province of Venetia, between French forces under General Bonaparte and Austrian forces under Count Wurmser. The battle ended in a French victory, the Austrians abandoned their artillery and baggage, losing supplies, cannons, and battle standards to the French.
Battle of Bassignano The Battle of Bassignano was fought in the Italian campaign of the War of the Austrian Succession on September 27, 1745. It resulted in a victory for the combined armies of France and Spain over Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Battle of Bassorah The Battle of Bassorah, Battle of the Camel, or Battle of Jamal was a battle that took place at Basra, Iraq in 656 between forces allied to Ali (Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law) and the superior forces of rebel Arabs allied to Aisha (a previous wife of Muhammad, and now his widow) who wanted justice for the perpotrators of the assassanation of the previous caliph Uthmaan.
Battle of Bataan The Battle of Bataan represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines, in the early stages of the Pacific War. The capture of the Philippine Islands was crucial to Japan's effort to control the Southwest Pacific, seize the resource-rich Dutch East Indies, and protect its Southeast Asia flank.
Battle of Bathys Ryax The Battle of Bathys Ryax was fought in 878 between the Byzantines and the Paulician heretics. The Paulicians believed that Christ was not Mary's son, and they had long been persecuted by the Christian Orthodox church.
Battle of Batoh The Battle of Batoh was a battle in 1652 in which Polish forces under Marcin Kalinowski were defeated by Cossacks commanded by Hetman Bohdan Chmielnicki. About 8,000 Polish soldiers were taken prisoners and massacred after the battle, including Samuel Jerzy Kalinowski, Zygmunt Przyjemski, Jan Odrzywolski and Marek Sobieski.
Battle of Batoche The Battle of Batoche was the decisive Canadian victory over Métis rebels that led to the surrender of Louis Riel on May 15 1885 and the collapse of his Provisional Government of Saskatchewan`s resistance in the North-West Rebellion (the Cree, however, would continue to successfully engage Canadian authorities in the weeks that followed – see Battle of Frenchman's Butte). Fought over the week of May 5 to May 12 at the ad hoc Métis capital of Batoche, the siege was noted as the first true demonstration of tactical excellence and professional conduct by the Canadian army in 1885.
Battle of Baton Rouge (1779) The Battle of Baton Rouge was decided on September 21, 1779 during the American Revolutionary War. Baton Rouge was the second British outpost to fall to Spanish arms during Bernardo de Gálvez' march into British West Florida.
Battle of Baton Rouge (1862) The Battle of Baton Rouge (or Magnolia Cemetery) was a ground and naval battle in the American Civil War fought in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, on August 5, 1862. The Union victory effectively ended Confederate attempts to win back Louisiana.
Battle of Baugé The Battle of Baugé, fought between the English and the Franco-Scots on March 21, 1421 in Baugé, France, east of Angers, was one of the first defeats for England during the Hundred Years' War. The English army was led by Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, while the Franco-Scots were led by both John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan, and Sieur de Lafayette, the Constable of France.
Battle of Bayou Bourbeux The Battle of Bayou Bourbeux also known as the Battle of Grand Coteau was fought in Southwestern Louisiana, west of the town of Grand Coteau, Louisiana during the American Civil War. The engagement was between the forces of Confederate Brigadier General Thomas Green and Union Brigadier General Stephen G.
Battle of Bazentin Ridge The Battle of Bazentin Ridge, launched by the British Fourth Army at dawn on 14 July, 1916, marked the start of the second phase of the Battle of the Somme. Dismissed beforehand by one French commander as "an attack organized for amateurs by amateurs", it turned out to be a considerable success for the British, in complete contrast to the disaster of the first day on the Somme.
Battle of Beachy Head (1690) The Battle of Beachy Head – known in France as the Bataille de Béveziers or Bataille du cap Béveziers – was a naval engagement fought on 10 July 1690 during the War of the Grand Alliance. The Allied fleet was commanded by Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington; the French fleet was commanded by Anne Hilarion, Comte de Tourville.
Battle of Bear Paw The Battle of Bear Paw (also written as Battle of the Bears Paw or Battle of the Bears Paw Mountains) was the final engagement of the Nez Perce War. Some of the Nez Perce were able to escape to Canada but Chief Joseph was forced to surrender the majority of his tribe to Oliver O.
Battle of Beaver Dam Creek The Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, also known as the Battle of Mechanicsville or Ellerson's Mill, took place on June 26, 1862, in Hanover County, Virginia as the first major engagement of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War.
Battle of Beaver Dams The Battle of Beaver Dams was a small battle on June 24, 1813, during the War of 1812. An American attempt to surprise a British outpost at Beaver Dams near Fort George failed, and the Americans were ambushed by Indians, eventually surrendering to the commander of a small British detachment.
Battle of Bedriacum The Battle of Bedriacum refers to two battles fought during the Year of the four emperors (69) near the village of Bedriacum (now Calvatone), about twenty miles from the town of Cremona in northern Italy. The fighting in fact took place between Bedriacum and Cremona, and the battles are sometimes called "First Cremona" and "Second Cremona".
Battle of Beecher Island The Battle of Beecher Island (September 17–September 19, 1868), also known as the Battle of Arikaree Fork, was an armed conflict between elements of the United States Army and several of the Plains Indian tribes. Beecher Island on the Arikaree River, Colorado was named for Lieutenant Fredrick H.
Battle of Beersheba The Battle of Beersheba took place on 31 October 1917, as part of the Sinai and Palestine campaign during World War I. The Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade, under Brigadier General William Grant, charged more than four miles at the Turkish trenches, overran them and captured the wells at Beersheba.
Battle of Beijing The Battle of Beijing (Zhongdu) was a battle in 1215 between the Mongols and the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, which controlled northern China. It saw the Mongols win and allowed them to continue their conquest of China.
Battle of Beiping-Tianjin The Battle of Beiping-Tianjin () or Peiking Tientsin Operation or by the Japanese as 北支事変 ( Northern China Incident) (25 July - 31 July, 1937) was a battle fought during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the proximity of Beiping (now Beijing) and Tianjin.
Battle of Belgorod The Battle of Belgorod was fought early August, 1943 between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. It was one of the battles of the Soviet counter-offensive Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev which followed the Battle of Kursk.
Battle of Belmont (1899) The Battle of Belmont is the name of an engagement of the Boer War in the town of Belmont, 23 November 1899, where the British under Lord Methuen assaulted a Boer position on a near by hill, the Boers under Commander J. Prinsloo fled along the train line to the next station at Graspan
Battle of Bemis Heights The Battle of Bemis Heights on October 7, 1777, is also known as the 2nd Battle of Saratoga since it was the second and last major engagement in the Battle of Saratoga of the American Revolutionary War. American forces under Major General Horatio Gates repelled the British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne's attempt to take their fortified position on the heights.
Battle of Benburb The Battle of Benburb took place in 1646 in the Irish Confederate Wars, the Irish theatre of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the forces of Confederate Ireland under Owen Roe O'Neill and a Scottish Covenanter army under Robert Munro.
Battle of Benevento The Battle of Benevento was fought near Benevento, in Southern Italy, on February 26, 1266, between the troops of Charles of Anjou and Manfred of Sicily. Manfred's defeat and death resulted in the capture of the Kingdom of Sicily by Charles.
Battle of Beneventum The Battle of Beneventum (275 BC) was the last battle fought between the forces of Pyrrhus of Epirus (without Samnite allies) and the Romans, led by consul Manius Curius Dentatus. It was fought near Benevento, in Southern Italy, and was central to subsequent Roman expansion.
Battle of Bennington The Battle of Bennington was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, taking place on August 16, 1777, not at its namesake of Bennington, Vermont, but instead a few miles over the border in Walloomsac, New York. An American force of 2,000 New Hampshire and Massachusetts militiamen, led by General John Stark with aid from Colonel Seth Warner, defeated a combined force of 1,250 Brunswick mercenaries, Canadians, Loyalists, and Native Americans led by Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Baum.
Battle of Bentonville The Battle of Bentonville was fought March 19–21, 1865, in Bentonville, North Carolina, near the current town of Four Oaks, as part of the Carolinas Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the last major battle to occur between the armies of Major General William T.
Battle of Berestechko The Battle of Berestechko (Beresteczko) in Volhynia, Ukraine, one of the largest battles of the 17th century, part of the Chmielnicki Uprising, lasted from June 28 to June 30, 1651, between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army under King Jan II Casimir and Cossack and Ukrainian peasant forces, led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and their Crimean Tatar allies. The Polish army had around 150,000 troops, the Cossacks around 100,000 plus 40,000 Crimean Tatar cavalry.
Battle of Bereza Kartuska (1919) Battle of Bereza Kartuska was one of the first armed conflicts between the organised forces of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Russia and considered by some historians the first battle of the Polish-Soviet War.
Battle of Berezina The Battle of Berezina took place November 26-29, 1812 between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina (near Borisov Belarus), and the Russian army under Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chichagov. The battle ended with a victory for the Russians.
Battle of Bergen (1799) The Battle of Bergen was fought on September 19, 1799, and resulted in a French-Dutch victory under General Brune and General Daendels against the Russians and British under the Duke of York who had landed in the North of Holland.
Battle of Bergen (Seven Years' War) The Battle of Bergen was a battle of the Seven Years' War fought near Frankfurt-am-Main on April 18, 1759, between the French army under the Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie and an allied army consisting of British, Hanoverian, Hessian, and Brunswick troops commanded by Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick.

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