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Battle of Bergendal The Battle of Bergendal (also known as the Battle of Belfast) was the last set-piece battle of the Second Anglo-Boer War. It lasted from 21 to 27 August 1900 and took place on the farm Bergendal (Hill and Dale) near the town of Belfast.
Battle of Berlin (air) The Battle of Berlin was launched by Arthur "Bomber" Harris, AOC of RAF Bomber Command in November 1943, as a concerted air campaign on the German capital, other cities continued to be attacked to prevent the Germans concentrating their defences in Berlin. Harris believed this could be the blow which broke German resistance.
Battle of Berne The Battle of Berne is a name used to refer to the infamous 1954 World Cup quarter-final between Hungary and Brazil, played on June 27 1954 at the Wankdorf Stadium in Berne, Switzerland. The game became notorious for its violent tactics, brutal challenges and spiteful petulance.
Battle of Beroia The Battle of Beroia (modern Stara Zagora) was fought between the Pechenegs and Emperor John II Komnenos of the Byzantine Empire in the year 1122 in what is now Bulgaria, and resulted in the disappearance of the Pecheneg people as an independent force.
Battle of Beth Horon The Battle of Beth Horon was fought in 166 BC between Jewish forces led by Judas Maccabaeus and a Seleucid Empire force under the command of Seron. Maccabaeus gained the element of surprise and successfully routed the much larger Syrian Greek army.
Battle of Beth-zechariah The Battle of Beth-zechariah was fought between Jewish and Greek forces during the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire.In 164 BC, Judas Maccabeus crushed the numerically superior Greeks under Lysias at the Battle of Beth-zur and restored the temple in Jerusalem.
Battle of Bezzecca The Battle of Bezzecca was fought on July 21, 1866 between Italy and Austria, in the course of the Third Italian Independence War. The Italian force, the Hunters of the Alps, were led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, and had invaded Trentino as part of the general Italian offensive against the Austrian force occupying north-eastern Italy after the decisive Prussian victory of Battle of Königgrätz, which had led Austria to move part of their troops towards Vienna (see Invasion of Trentino).
Battle of Bicocca The Battle of Bicocca, sometimes known as the Battle of La Bicocca, was fought on April 27, 1522, during the Italian War of 1521. A combined French and Venetian force under Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, was decisively defeated by an Imperial, Spanish, and Papal army under the overall command of Prospero Colonna.
Battle of Big Bethel The Battle of Big Bethel, also known as the Battle of Bethel Church or Great Bethel, took place on June 10, 1861, in Tabb and Hampton, Virginia, as part of the blockade of Chesapeake Bay during the American Civil War. It was arguably the first Civil War land battle in the Eastern Theater, and the first organized land battle of the entire war.
Battle of Big Sandy Creek The Battle of Big Sandy Creek was fought in northwestern New York on May 29–May 30, 1814, during the War of 1812. The battle was a decisive American victory in which American militia and Oneida Indians launched a surprise attack on British soldiers who were chasing them inland from Lake Ontario.
Battle of Bir Hakeim The Battle of Bir Hakeim (May 26, 1942 - June 11, 1942) is a World War II battle following the Afrika Korps' 1942 campaign. It was fought between the German/Italian Panzer Army Africa and the 1st Free French Brigade.
Battle of Birch Coulee The Battle of Birch Coulee was a battle in the Sioux Uprising in September of 1862. After the Battle of Fort Ridgely and the Battle of New Ulm, Colonel Henry Hastings Sibley was planning to defeat and punish the Sioux and to obtain the release of the settlers they were holding captive.
Battle of Bitonto The Battle of Bitonto was a battle of the War of Polish Succession fought on May 25, 1734 between Spain and Austria near Bitonto, Puglia (southern Italy). The Spanish, led by the Count of Montemar and their future king Carlos de Bourbon, were victorious.
Battle of Bizani The Battle of Bizani was an action in the Balkan Wars fought on 20-21 February 1913 between the Hellenic Army and the last Ottoman army ever to enter Macedonia and Epirus. The Ottoman defeat lead to the capture of Ioannina in Epirus.
Battle of Blaauwberg The Battle of Blaauwberg, fought near Cape Town on 8 January 1806, was a small but significant military engagement. It established British rule in South Africa, which was to have many ramifications during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Battle of Blackett Strait The Battle of Blackett Strait (Japanese: ビラ・スタンモーア夜戦) was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on 6 March 1943 in the Blackett Strait, between Kolombangara Island and Arundel Island in the Solomon Islands.
Battle of Blair Mountain The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest organized armed uprising in American labor history and led almost directly to the labor laws currently in effect in the United States of America. For nearly a week in late August and early September 1921, in Logan County, West Virginia, between 10,000 to 15,000 coal miners confronted state and federal troops in an effort to unionize the south western West Virginia mine counties as had been done else where in the Railroad triggered demographic boom growth characterized by unprecedented immigrant hiring and exploitation in the region.
Battle of Blanchetaque The battle of Blanchetaque in 1346 was the second of the three battles which made up what became the Crecy campaign of King Edward III of England during the early stages of the Hundred Years War. Although smaller and less notorious than the battle of Crecy which followed it, it can be said that without the victory at Blanchetaque the subsequent defeat of the French royal army at Crecy would never have been possible, as the English force would not have been in any position to oppose the French adequately had they not successfully forded the Somme River during the battle of Blanchetaque.
Battle of Bléneau The Battle of Bléneau was a battle of the Fronde fought on April 7, 1652 near Bléneau in France between the armies of the rebel Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé and the Royalist Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne. Condé destroyed part of the Royalist army but failed to exploit his victory, retreating to Paris.
Battle of Blenheim The Battle of Blenheim (referred to in some countries as the Battle of Höchstädt) was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession fought on 13 August, 1704. The village of Blindheim (Blenheim in English) lies on the Danube River, 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Donauwörth in Bavaria, southern Germany.
Battle of Blood River The Battle of Blood River (Afrikaans: Slag van Bloedrivier) was fought on 16 December 1838 on the banks of the Blood River (Bloedrivier) in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A group of about 470 Voortrekkers, led by Andries Pretorius, defended a laager (circle of ox wagons) against Zulu impis, ruled by King Dingane and led by Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela kaSompisi, numbering 10,000-20,000.
Battle of Bloody Ridge The Battle of Bloody Ridge took place during the Korean War from August 18 to September 5, 1951. Located in hills north of the 38th parallel in the central Korean mountain range, it was fought between the communist North Korean forces of the KPA (Korean People's Army) and U.
Battle of Bloody Run The Battle of Bloody Run was fought during Pontiac's Rebellion on July 31, 1763. In an attempt to break Pontiac's siege of Fort Detroit, about 250 British troops attempted to make a surprise attack on Pontiac's encampment.
Battle of Blore Heath The Battle of Blore Heath was the first major battle in the English Wars of the Roses and was fought on September 23, 1459, at Blore Heath in Staffordshire, two miles east of the town of Market Drayton in Shropshire, England.
Battle of Blue Licks The Battle of Blue Licks was fought on August 19, 1782, and was the last battle of the American Revolutionary War fought in Kentucky. The battle occurred ten months after Lord Cornwallis's famous surrender at Yorktown, which had effectively ended the war in the east.
Battle of Bogesund The Battle of Bogesund was an important conflict in the campaign of Christian II to gain power over Sweden. In 1520, Christian's army of mercenaries had landed in Sweden, seeking to consolidate Christian's powers over Sweden within the Kalmar Union and to unseat the rebellious Swedish viceroy Sten Sture the Younger.
Battle of Boksum The Battle of Boksum (January 17th 1586) was a battle during the Eighty Years' War between a Spanish and a Dutch rebel army (largely comprised of Frisians) commanded by Willem Lodewijk of Nassau, a nephew of William of Orange. The Spanish won the battle, but gained little strategic advantages.
Battle of Bonari Pass The Battle of Bonari Pass (Japanese:母成峠の戦い) was part of the Boshin War, and occurred on October 6th, 1868 (Gregorian Calendar), or August 21 (Lunar Calendar). The Bonari pass was a strategic access at the limit of the fief of Aizu.
Battle of Boonville The Battle of Boonville was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring on June 17, 1861, in Cooper County, Missouri. This early victory established Union control of the Missouri River and helped douse attempts to place Missouri in the Confederacy.
Battle of Bordeaux (football) The Battle of Bordeaux is an informal name for the World Cup football match between Brazil and Czechoslovakia on June 12, 1938 in the Parc Lescure in Bordeaux, France, one of the quarter-finals of the 1938 World Cup finals. The match had a series of brutal fouls by both sides, due to the lax officiating of Hungarian referee Paul Hertza.
Battle of Bornhöved (1227) The (second) Battle of Bornhöved took place on 22 July 1227 near Bornhöved in Holstein. Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein - leading an army consisting of troops from the cities of Lübeck and Hamburg, about 1000 Dithmarsians and combined troops of Holstein next to various north German nobles - defeated King Valdemar II of Denmark.
Battle of Bornholm (1676) The Battle of Bornholm (1676) was a battle in the Scanian War between the fleet of Charles XI of Sweden, and a combined Dutch and Danish squadron. The Dutch and Danish forces attacked the Swedish fleet and after a two day fight manage to force the superior Swedish force to retreat.
Battle of Borodino The Battle of Borodino (, ) (September 7, 1812, or August 26 in the Julian calendar then used in Russia), was the largest and bloodiest single-day battle of the Napoleonic Wars, involving more than a quarter of a million soldiers.
Battle of Borota The Battle of Borota took place in Borota, Chad, near the eastern city of Adre, on January 6, 2006. The attack began when Janjaweed, Sudanese militiamen, crossed the border from Sudan into Chad and attacked the cities of Borota, Ade, and Moudaina.
Battle of Boroughbridge The Battle of Boroughbridge was a small but important battle in the conflicts between Edward II of England and his rebellious barons. The battle took place near an important bridge across the River Ure called Boroughbridge, northwest of York.
Battle of Boroughmuir The Battle of Boroughmuir was fought on 30 July 1335 between Guy, Count of Namur, a cousin of Queen Philippa and John Randolph, Earl of Moray, the Guardian of Scotland. Namur was on his way to join Edward III on his invasion of Scotland, when he was intercepted on the common grazing ground to the south of Edinburgh-the borough muir.
Battle of Borsele The Battle of Borsele (April 22nd 1573) was a naval battle during the Eighty Years' War between a Spanish fleet commanded by Sancho d'Avila (Which sailed from the port of Antwerp) and a Gueux fleet under Admiral Worst.
Battle of Boryspil The Battle of Boryspil happened on June 2, 1920, near the town of Boryspil near Kiev. It was fought between the Polish and Russian forces during the Polish-Bolshevik War and was a part of the Polish counter-assault after the ill-fated Russian offensive of May 27.
Battle of Bosworth Field The Battle of Bosworth or Bosworth Field was an important battle during the Wars of the Roses in 15th century England. It was fought on 22 August, 1485 between the Yorkist King Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet dynasty, and the Lancastrian contender for the crown, Henry Tudor, 2nd Earl of Richmond (later King Henry VII).
Battle of Bothwell Brig The Battle of Bothwell Brig or the Battle of Bothwell Bridge was fought on on 22 June 1679 in Lanarkshire between an army of Covenanters and a government army commanded by James, Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II. Badly prepared and ill-led the rebel forces were defeated with ease.
Battle of Bound Brook The Battle of Bound Brook, one of the battles in the New York and New Jersey campaign during the American Revolutionary War, occurred on April 13, 1777, and resulted in a defeat for the Continental Army, who were routed by about 4,000 troops under British command.
Battle of Bouvines The Battle of Bouvines, July 27, 1214, was the first great international conflict of alliances among national forces in Europe. In the alliances, orchestrated by Pope Innocent III, Philip Augustus of France defeated Otto IV of Germany and count Ferrand of Flanders so decisively that Otto was deposed and replaced by Frederick II Hohenstaufen.
Battle of Bovillae The Battle of Bovillae was a term that Cicero used to describe a fight between the gangs of Clodius and Milo on January 18, 52 BC. The two were bitter political rivals—Clodius was a candidate for the praetorship and Milo the consulship.
Battle of Bowang The Battle of Bowang (博望之戰), more famously known as the Battle of Bowang Slope (博望坡之戰), was a battle fought near Fangcheng, Henan between the forces of Cao Cao and Liu Bei during the Three Kingdoms period in China. It is popularly remembered as famous strategian Zhuge Liang's first battle, although that is only a fabrication carried by the novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Battle of Boyacá Colombia, then known as New Granada, acquired its definitive independence from Spain at the Battle of Boyacá. Brigadier Generals Francisco de Paula Santander and José Antonio Anzoátegui led a combined republican army of Colombians and Venezuelans, complemented by a small British Legion made up of mostly Irish volunteers (including some veterans from the Napoleonic Wars), to victory over a Spanish Royalist force led by Colonels José María Barreiro and Francisco Jiménez.
Battle of Boydton Plank Road The Battle of the Boydton Plank Road (or First Hatcher's Run) followed the successful Battle of Peebles' Farm in the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War. It was an attempt by the Union Army to seize the Boydton Plank Road and cut the South Side Railroad, a critical supply line to Petersburg, Virginia.
Battle of Brandywine The Battle of Brandywine was a battle of the American Revolutionary War fought on September 11, 1777, near Chadds Ford on Brandywine Creek in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The battle was a major victory for the British and enabled them to capture the city of Philadelphia.
Battle of Brávellir The Battle of Brávellir or the Battle of Bråvalla was a legendary battle that took place on the Brávellir between Sigurd Ring, king of Sweden and the Geats of West Götaland, and Harald Wartooth, king of Denmark and the Geats of East Götaland.
Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Battle of Breitenfeld was the first major Protestant victory in the religious pretexted conflicts known as the Thirty Years' War. It was the battle where the Lion of the North, the redoubtable Gustavus II Adolphus, sealed his fame and entered the annals of 'great' military leaders—some have labeled him the Father of Modern Warfare for his unique mauneuvering warfare style and early use of what is today referred to as combined arms tactics.
Battle of Bremule The Battle of Bremule was fought in 1119 between Henry I of England against Louis VI (the Fat) of France. Henry I had to defend his holdings in Normandy several times and defeated a French invasion at the Battle of Bremule in 1119.
Battle of Brentford (1016) The Battle of Brentford (1016) was fought in 1016 some time between 9 May (the approximate date Canute landed at Greenwich) and 18 October (the date of the later Battle of Ashingdon) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Canute. It was one of a series of battles fought between Edmund and Canute, ultimately resulting in the lands held by Edmund's father Ethelred the Unready being divided between the two.
Battle of Breslau (1945) The Battle of Breslau, otherwise known as the Siege of Breslau was a four months long siege of the city of Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland) in Lower Silesia, Germany. The city was besieged by the Soviet 6th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal Ivan Konev from February 13, 1945 and the siege lasted until the final days of World War II.
Battle of Brest (1342) The battle of Brest, sometimes called the battle of the River Penfeld was an action in 1342 between an English squadron of converted merchant ships and that of a mercenary galley force from Genoa fighting for the Franco-Breton faction of Charles of Blois during the Breton War of Succession, a side conflict of the Hundred Years War.
Battle of Brice's Crossroads The Battle of Brice's Crossroads was fought on June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn in Lee County, Mississippi, during the American Civil War. It pitted a 4,787-man contingent led by Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest against an 7,900-strong Union force led by Brigadier General Samuel D.
Battle of Brihuega The Battle of Brihuega took place on December 8, 1710 in the War of the Spanish Succession. A British rearguard under Lord Stanhope was outfought and overwhelmed by the duc de VendĂ´me on the road to Barcelona.
Battle of Brisbane The "Battle of Brisbane" is the name given to violence between United States (US) servicemen on one side and Australian servicemen and civilians on the other, in Brisbane, on November 26-27 1942, during World War II. Australia and the US were Allies at the time.
Battle of Brissarthe The Battle of Brissarthe was fought on 15 September 866 between the Franks and a joint Breton-Viking army near Brissarthe, Neustria. It was marked by the death of Robert the Strong, the Neustrian margrave, and Ranulf I, the duke of Aquitaine.
Battle of Britain One of the major campaigns of the early part of World War II, the Battle of Britain is the name commonly given to the attempt by the German Luftwaffe, as part of German Blitzkrieg tactics, to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), before a planned sea and airborne invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion). Neither Hitler nor the German Wehrmacht believed it possible to carry out a successful amphibious assault on the British Isles until the Royal Air Force had been neutralised.
Battle of Britain Aircraft The most famous fighter aircraft used in the Battle of Britain were the British Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane and the German Messerschmitt Bf-109E or Emil. Although nowadays the glamorous Spitfire is often thought of as the main British fighter, in fact the Hurricanes were at first more numerous (by a factor of about 5:3) and (especially in the early part of the battle), were responsible for most German losses.
Battle of Britain Memorial Flight The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) is a Royal Air Force flight which provides an aerial display group comprising an Avro Lancaster, a Supermarine Spitfire and a Hawker Hurricane. The aircraft are regularly seen at events commemorating World War II, upon British State occasions, notably the Trooping the Colour celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's 80th birth day in 2006, and at air displays throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.
Battle of Britain Monument in London The Battle of Britain Monument in London is a sculpture on the Victoria Embankment overlooking the River Thames in central London, England which pays tribute to those who took part in the Battle of Britain during World War II. It was unveiled on 18 September 2005, the 65th anniversary of the Battle, by His Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall in the presence of many of the surviving airmen known collectively as "The Few", following the Royal Air Force Service of Thanksgiving and Rededication on Battle of Britain Sunday.
Battle of Brownstown The Battle of Brownstown was an early skirmish in the War of 1812. Although American forces outnumbered the enemy 8 to 1, they lost the battle and suffered substantial losses while the enemy was almost untouched.
Battle of Bruderholz The Battle of Bruderholz took place on March 22, 1499 in the Swabian War between Swabian troops and forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy. The Swabians had raided several Swiss villages and were on their way back when they met troops from Lucerne, Solothurn, and Berne, who also came back from a raid in the Alsace.
Battle of Brunanburh The Battle of Brunanburh was a West Saxon victory in 937 by the army of king Athelstan and his brother Edmund over the combined armies of Olaf III Guthfrithson, Viking king of Dublin, Constantine, king of Scotland and King Owain of Strathclyde (mention is also made in some sources of Irish and even Welsh mercenaries)
Battle of Brunete The Battle of Brunete (6 July – 25 July 1937), fought 15 miles west of Madrid, was a Republican attempt to alleviate the pressure exerted by the Nationalists on the capital and on the north during the Spanish Civil War. Although initially successful, the Republicans were forced to retreat from Brunete and suffered devastating casualties from the battle.
Battle of Bryn Glas The Battle of Bryn Glas, , (sometimes referred to in English accounts as the Battle of Pilleth) was fought on June 22 1402, near Presteigne in Herefordshire (now also known as Llanandras, and in the Welsh county of Powys). It was a great victory for the Welsh rebels under Owain Glyndŵr, and it resulted in the prolongation of Glyndŵr's revolt and the destabilisation of English politics for several years afterwards.
Battle of Brześć Litewski Battle of Brześć Litewski (otherwise known as the Siege of Brześć, Battle of Brest-Litovsk or simply Battle of Brześć) was a World War II battle that took place between 14 and 17 September 1939, near the town of Brześć Litewski (now Brest, Belarus). After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć the Polish forces managed to successfully withdraw.
Battle of Bu'ath The Battle of Bu'ath was fought in 617 between Aws and Khazraj, the Arab tribes of Medina (then Yathrib), in the south-eastern quarter of the Medinan oasis, belonging to the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. The Aws were supported by the Jewish tribes of Banu Nadir and Banu Qurayza, and by the Arab Bedouins of the Muzayna tribe; the leader of the alliance was Hudayr ibn Simak.
Battle of Buçaco The Battle of Buçaco (pron. IPA []) was a battle of the Peninsular War, fought by British and Portuguese forces under the command of Lord Wellington on September 27 1810, to check French pursuit of his retreat to the Lines of Torres Vedras.
Battle of Buckland Mills The Battle of Buckland Mills was fought on October 19, 1863, between Union and Confederate forces in the American Civil War. Union cavalry led by Judson Kilpatrick were caught in a Confederate ambush and defeated.
Battle of Budapest The Battle of Budapest was a siege lasting from 29 December, 1944 to 13 February, 1945 in which Soviet forces captured the city of Budapest from German (Wehrmacht and SS) and Hungarian forces in World War II. It was one of the bloodiest sieges of the war, being comparable, in terms of casualties, to the sieges of Berlin and Stalingrad.
Battle of Buena Vista The Battle of Buena Vista was a land battle of the Mexican-American War fought on 23 February 1847, in Buena Vista, Coahuila, seven miles (12 km) south of Saltillo, in northern Mexico. The numerically disadvantaged invading U.
Battle of Bukit Timah The Battle of Bukit Timah was a momentous battle fought during World War II on 11 February 1942 in Singapore between the Allied forces and the Japanese forces. The battle was one of the bloodiest during the Japanese conquest, with staggering casualties suffered on both the defending locals who fought with the Allied forces, and the invading Japanese forces.
Battle of Bukoba The Battle of Bukoba was the first victory for Entente forces in German East Africa, coming after the disasterous battles of Tanga and Jassin. The British objective was the destruction of the Bukoba wireless station.
Battle of Bun'ei The , also known as the First Battle of Hakata Bay was the first attempt by the Mongols to invade Japan. After conquering the Tsushima Island and Iki, Kublai Khan's fleet moved on to Japan proper, landing at Hakata Bay, a short distance from Kyūshū's administrative capital of Dazaifu.
Battle of Buna-Gona The Battle of Buna-Gona was a battle in the Pacific campaign of World War II. On November 16, 1942, Australian and United States forces began to attack the main Japanese beachheads in New Guinea, at Buna, Sanananda and Gona.
Battle of Bunclody The battle of Bunclody or Newtownbarry as it was then called, was a battle in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, which took place on 1 June 1798 when a force of some 5,000 rebels led by Catholic priest Fr. Mogue Kearns attacked the garrison at Bunclody as part of the Wexford rebels campaign against border garrisons.
Battle of Burgos The Battle of Burgos was fought on November 7, 1808, during the Peninsular War. A powerful French army under Marshal Bessières overwhelmed and destroyed the outnumbered Spanish under General Belveder, opening central Spain to invasion.
Battle of Buxar Battle of Buxar (October 1764) was a significant battle fought between the forces under the command of the British East India Company on the one side, and the combined armies of Mir Kasim, the Nawab of Bengal ; Suja-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Awadh; and Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor. The battle fought at Buxar, a town (currently in Bihar state, India) located on the bank of the Ganges river, was a decisive battle won by the forces of the British East India Company.
Battle of Buzenval The Battle of Buzenval, also known as the Battle of Mont Valerien was part of the siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. On January 19, the day after Wilhelm I was crowned German Emperor, Louis Jules Trochu attacked the Germans west of Paris in Buzenval Park.
Battle of Byczyna The Battle of Byczyna took place on January 24 1588 between the Polish-Lithuanian army of new elected Polish king Sigismund III Vasa under command of hetman Jan Zamojski and the Austrian army of pretender to Polish throne Maximilian III of Austria. The battle ended in overwhelming Polish victory; the archduke was captured, and Austrian intervention was stopped.
Battle of Bystryk The Battle of Bystrzyk happened on May 31, 1920, near the village of Bystryk near Kiev. It was a part of the ill-fated offensive of the Budionny's Cavalry Army assault on the Polish-Ukrainian troops defending Kiev after their successful offensive on Kiev a month earlier, during the Polish-Bolshevik War.
Battle of Cable Street The Battle of Cable Street or Cable Street Riot took place on Sunday October 4, 1936 in Cable Street in the East End of London. It was a clash between the police, overseeing a legal march by the anti-semitic British Union of Fascists led by Oswald Mosley, on one side and anti-fascists including local Jewish, socialist, Irish and communist groups on the other.
Battle of Cabrita point The Battle of Cabrita point was a naval battle near Gibraltar on march 21 1705 in the War of Spanish Succession.The battle was an English victory which effectively ended the French and Spanish siege of Gibraltar.
Battle of Cadsand The Battle of Cadsand was a minor battle of the Hundred Years War fought in 1337. It consisted of a raid on the Flemish island of Cadsand, designed to provoke a reaction and battle from the local garrison and so improve morale in England and amongst King Edward III's continental allies by providing his army with an easy victory.
Battle of Calabria The Battle of Calabria, also known as the Battle of Punta Stilo, was a naval battle between ships of Italian Regia Marina and the British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy. The battle occurred 30 miles to the east of Punta Stilo, the "toe" of Italy (Calabria), on 9 July 1940.
Battle of Calatañazor Battle of Calatañazor was a decisive battle that took place in Spain in July 1002 between the invading Muslim forces under Almanzor and the forces of the Christian armies of Castile led by Count Sancho García and León led by Alfonso V.
Battle of Calcasieu Pass The Battle of Calcasieu Pass was fought on May 6, 1864, in Southwestern Louisiana, at the mouth of the Calcasieu River, during the American Civil War, and resulted in a Confederate victory. The engagement was between the forces of Confederate Colonel W.
Battle of Caldiero The Battle of Caldiero took place on October 30 1805. Marshal André Masséna with 37,000 Frenchmen, encountered the Austrian 50,000 strong army, under the Archduke Charles of Austria, who were posted in the village and on the heights of Caldiero.
Battle of Callabee Creek The Battle of Callabee Creek took place on January 27, 1814, during the Creek War, in Macon County, Alabama, fifty miles (80 km) west of Fort Mitchell. General Floyd, with 1,200 Georgia volunteers, a company of cavalry and 400 friendly Creeks, repulsed a night attack of the Red Sticks on his camp.
Battle of Callao The Battle of Callao (in Spanish, sometimes called el Combate del Dos de Mayo) occurred on May 2, 1866 between a Spanish fleet under the command of Admiral Casto Méndez Núñez and a combined alliance of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Ecuador during the Chincha Islands War. It bombarded the port of Callao (or El Callao), but eventually withdrew without any major damage to the city.
Battle of Callinicum The Battle of Callinicum took place between the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire under the command of General Belisarius and Sassanid Persians under Sepahbod Azarethes on 19 April AD 531 during the Iberian War. Belisarius had been skirmishing with the Persian forces after the Battle of Dara in an attempt to incite a rout, but the Persians were generally successful at Callinicum and both sides withdrew.
Battle of Camden The Battle of Camden was an important battle in the Southern theatre of the American Revolutionary War. On August 16, 1780, British forces under Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis routed the American forces of Major General Horatio Gates about six miles (10 km) north of Camden, South Carolina, strengthening the British hold on the Carolinas.
Battle of Camlann The Battle of Camlann is best known as the final battle of King Arthur, where he either died in battle, or was fatally wounded. As the surviving accounts of this battle are all generally little more than legend or myth (and all versions exhibit traces of folklore), some historians doubt this battle even took place.
Battle of Camp Alleghany The Battle of Camp Alleghany, also known as the Battle of Alleghany Mountain , took place on December 13, 1861, in Pocahontas County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Operations in Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.
Battle of Camp Wildcat The Battle of Camp Wildcat (also known as Wildcat Mountain and Camp Wild Cat) was one of the early engagements of the American Civil War. It occurred October 21, 1861, in northern Laurel County, Kentucky during the campaign known as the Kentucky Confederate Offensive.
Battle of Campaldino The Battle of Campaldino was a battle between the Guelphs and Ghibellines on June 11 1289. Mixed bands of pro-papal Guelf forces of Florence and allies, Pistoia, Lucca, Siena and Prato, all loosely commanded by the paid condottiero Amerigo di Narbona with his own professional following, met a Ghibelline force from Arezzo including the perhaps reluctant bishop, Guglielmino degli Ubertini, in the plain of Campaldino, which leads from Pratovecchio to Poppi, part of the Tuscan countryside along the upper Arno called the Casentino.
Battle of Camperdown The naval Battle of Camperdown took place on 11 October 1797 during the French Revolutionary Wars, and was a victory for a British fleet under Admiral Adam Duncan over a Dutch fleet under Admiral de Winter. The battle site was the North Sea, off the coastal village of Camperduin, north-west of Alkmaar.
Battle of Cannae (1018) The Battle of Cannae took place in 1018 between the Byzantines under the Catepan of Italy Basil Boioannes and the Lombards under Melus of Bari. The Lombards had also hired some Norman mercenaries under their leader Gilbert Buatère.
Battle of Cap de la Roque The Battle of Cap de la Roque was a naval battle that took place on May 22 1703 between an Dutch convoy protected by captain Roemer Vlacq and a French squadron under Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, during the War of the Spanish Succession.

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