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Battle of Dalry The Battle of Dalry or the Battle of Dail Righ-the King's Field- was fought in the summer of 1306 near Tyndrum, Scotland, between the army of Robert Bruce and the Macdougalls of Argyll, kinsmen of the murdered John Comyn, and allies of the English. Bruce's army reeling westwards after defeat by the English at the Battle of Methven was intercepted and all but destroyed, Bruce himself narrowly escaping capture.
Battle of Dan-no-ura The was a major sea battle of the Genpei War, occurring at Dan-no-ura, in the Shimonoseki Strait off the southern tip of Honshū. On April 25 1185, the Genji (Minamoto) clan fleet, led by Minamoto no Yoshitsune, defeated the Heike (Taira) clan fleet, during a half-day engagement.
Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads The Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads was an engagement between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War, which took place on October 7, 1864 at Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign.
Battle of Darbytown Road The Battle of Darbytown Road was fought on October 7, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces. The Confederates were attempting to retake ground they had lost to Federal forces during battles near Richmond, Virginia.
Battle of Daugavpils Battle of Daugavpils (also known as the Battle of Dyneburg) was the final battle of the joint Polish and Latvian Operation Winter against the Red Army. It took place in late December of 1919 in the area around the city of Daugavpils.
Battle of Davis' Cross Roads The Battle of Davis' Cross Roads, also known as the Battle of Dug Gap, was fought on September 10–11, 1863, in northwestern Georgia, as part of the Chickamauga Campaign of the American Civil War. It was more of a series of maneuvers than an actual battle and casualties were negligible.
Battle of Day's Gap The Battle of Day's Gap, which occurred on April 30, 1863, was the first in a series of skirmishes during the American Civil War that lasted until May 2. Commanding the Union forces was Colonel Abel Streight, while Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest led the Confederate forces.
Battle of DĂĽrenstein The Battle of DĂĽrenstein (also known as the Battle of DĂĽrrenstein or Battle of DĂĽrnstein) was an engagement in the Napoleonic Wars during the War of the Third Coalition. The battle was fought on 11 November 1805, three weeks after the Battle of Ulm and three weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz, near the town of DĂĽrenstein (modern DĂĽrnstein) in the Wachau Valley in Austria, beside the River Danube, near the castle where Richard the Lionheart was held captive.
Battle of Debre Abbay The Battle of Debre Abbay was a conflict between Ras Marye of Yejju, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia, and his rival from Tigray, Dejazmach Sabagadis of Agame. Although Ras Marye lost his life in this battle, Dejazmach Sabagadis was defeated, and after surrendering was executed by Ras Marye's Oromo followers.
Battle of Debre Tabor The Battle of Debre Tabor was a conflict during the Zemene Mesafint in 1842 initiated by Dejazmach Wube Haile Maryam to overthrow Ras Ali II as Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia and gain control of Ethiopia. This confused battle was won by Ras Ali, but at a steep price, and this victory failed to cement his position as the most powerful warlord of his time.
Battle of Debrecen The Battle of Debrecen was a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II. In October 1944, General Maximilian Fretter-Pico's German Sixth Army and allied Hungarian units encircled and destroyed three corps of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky's Mobile Group Pliyev near Debrecen, Hungary.
Battle of Delhi The Battle of Delhi took place on September 11 1803, between 4,500 British troops under General Lake, and 19,000 Marathas of Scindia's army under General Bourquin. The Marathas occupied a strong position with the Jumna in their rear, and Lake, feigning a retreat, drew them from their lines, and then turning upon them drove them with the bayonet into the river, inflicting enormous losses upon them.
Battle of Denain The Battle of Denain was fought on July 24, 1712, as part of the War of the Spanish Succession, and resulted in a French victory under Marshal Villars against Austrian and Dutch forces under Prince Eugene of Savoy.
Battle of Dengbu Island The Battle of Dengbu Island (登步島戰役) was a conflict between the Republic of China Army and People's Liberation Army over Denbu Island near mainland China. This conflict occurred from November 3 , 1949 to November 5 , 1949 and resulted in a Republic of China victory.
Battle of Dertosa The Battle of Dertosa, also known as the ‘’’Battle of Ibera’’’, was fought in the spring of 215 BC on the south of the Ebro River across the town of Dertosa. A Roman army, under the command of Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and Publius Cornelius Scipio defeated a similar size Carthaginian army under Hasdrubal Barca.
Battle of Dessau Bridge With the entrance of King Christian IV of Denmark into the Thirty Years' War in 1625, Protestant forces that had been dealt one defeat after another were suddenly infused with fresh hope as Denmark became the first major European nation to formally enter the war since the Austrian defeat in the early years. With the new alliance came ambitious plans involving Christian of Brunswick, fresh from victory at Fleurus in the previous year.
Battle of Dettingen The Battle of Dettingen (German: Schlacht bei Dettingen) took place on June 16 (June 27 according to the Gregorian calendar, which the English had not officially adopted), 1743 at Dettingen in Bavaria during the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the last time that a British monarch, George II, personally led his troops into battle.
Battle of Devil's Hole Road The Battle of Devil's Hole Road, also known as the Devil's Hole Massacre, was fought on September 14, 1763 between a detachment of the British 80th Regiment of Light Armed Foot (light infantry formed from Roger's Rangers) and a local Seneca tribe during Pontiac's Rebellion.
Battle of Didgori The Battle of Didgori was fought between the Georgia and Seljuk armies at the place of Didgori sixteen kilometers northwest of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, on August 12, 1121. Known in the Georgian history as the Miraculous Victory (ძლევაჲ საკვირველი, dzlevay sakvirveli), it is generally considered as the greatest military victory of Georgian arms.
Battle of DimDim The Battle of DimDim was the name for some battles between the Kurds and the Savavid empire between 1609 and 1610. The reason was that the rulers of eastern Kurdish settlement didn't want to be part of the empire.
Battle of Dinwiddie Court House The Battle of Dinwiddie Court House was a minor engagement in the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War that was the immediate prelude to the decisive Battle of Five Forks. On March 29, 1865, with the Cavalry Corps and the II and V Corps of the Army of the Potomac, Maj.
Battle of Diu (1509) The naval Battle of Diu was a critical sea battle that took place on 2-3 February, 1509 near the port town of Diu, India , between Portugal and a joint fleet of Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire, the Zamorin of Calicut and the Sultan of Gujarat, with technical maritime assistance from the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik) .
Battle of Djerba The Battle of Djerba (near the island of Djerba off the coast of Tunisia) was a naval battle that took place in 1560 and in which the Ottomans under Piyale Pasha's command overwhelmed a large joint European fleet, chiefly Spanish forces, sinking half its ships. Ted Thornton's History of the Middle East Database
Battle of DĹŤmyĹŤji On June 3, 1615 the Eastern Army of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Osaka Army of Toyotomi Hideyori clashed in battle at DĹŤmyĹŤji, Osaka. This battle was one of Japan's major historical battles between samurai forces.
Battle of Dobro Pole The Battle of Dobro Pole was a World War I battle, fought on September 15, 1918. The battle resulted in a decisive Anglo-French victory, with a defeated Bulgaria left to sign an armistice, which removed it from World War I.
Battle of Dogger Bank (1696) The Battle of Dogger Bank is the name of a battle which took place on june 17 1696 as part of the War of the Grand Alliance. It was a victory for a French force of 7 ships over a Dutch force of 5 ships and the convoy it was escorting.
Battle of Dogger Bank (1781) The naval Battle of the Dogger Bank took place on 5 August 1781 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, part of the American War of Independence, in the North Sea. It was a bloody encounter between a British squadron under Vice Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, Sr.
Battle of Dogger Bank (1915) The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval battle fought near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea that took place on 24 January 1915, during the First World War, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet.
Battle of Dollar The Battle of Dollar was a 875 battle fought in Dollar, Scotland between Danish invaders under Thorstem and the men of Alba under Constantine I. The Danes defeated the men of Alba and occupied Caithness, Sutherlandshire, Ross, and Moray.
Battle of Domstadtl The Battle of Domstadtl (also spelled Domstadt, Czech Domašov) was a battle between Habsburg Monarchy and Kingdom of Prussia at a Moravian village Domašov nad Bystřicí during the Seven Years' War on 30 June 1758, preceded by a minor clash at Guntramovice (Gundersdorf) on 28 June. Austrians under the command of Major General Ernst Gideon von Laudon and Major General Joseph von Siskovits attacked and destroyed a supply convoy bound for the Prussian army besieging Olomouc (Olmütz).
Battle of Dong Xoai The Battle of Dong Xoai was a battle that occurred during the early stages of the Vietnam War. Dong Xoai district was manned by US-trained South Vietnamese special forces (Luc Luong Dac Biet, LLDB) and militiamen (Civil Irregular Defense Force, CIDG), those troops were reinforced with two more battalions following VC attacks on Phuoc Binh and Song Be.
Battle of Dornach At the Battle of Dornach on 22 July 1499, the troops of Emperor Maximilian I were decisively beaten by the Old Swiss Confederacy close to the Swiss village of Dornach (). This concluded the Swabian War, between the Swiss and the Swabian League, and amounted to de-facto independence of Switzerland from the Holy Roman Empire, acknowledged by Maximilian in the Treaty of Basel on 22 September (the independence was however not formally recognized until the Peace of Westphalia of 1648).
Battle of Dornock The Battle of Dornock was a minor engagement between England and Scotland, fought on the western border on 25 March 1333 at the outset of the second of the Wars of Scottish Independence. The Scots were defeated in what was later viewed as a foretaste of the much greater disaster at the Battle of Halidon Hill.
Battle of Dover (1217) The battle of Dover was a naval battle fought in early 1217 between an English fleet of 30-40 ships under Hubert de Burgh and a French fleet of 80 (mostly small craft) under Eustace the Monk. An English victory, the battle is notable as the first known example of the use of sailing tactics.
Battle of Dražgoše The Battle of Dražgoše was a Second World War battle between Slovenian partisans and German troops, which took place between January 9 and January 11, 1942, in the village of Dražgoše. This battle was the first confrontation, between the two, of the war.
Battle of Drøbak sound The Battle of Drøbak Sound took place in the fjord approaching Oslo on April 9 1940, the day the German invasion of Norway began. It was the start of the war in Western Europe — and an end to the "Phony War".
Battle of Dresden The Battle of Dresden was fought on August 26-27, 1813, and resulted in a French victory under Napoleon Bonaparte against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg. However, Napoleon's victory was not as complete as it could have been.
Battle of Drewry's Bluff The Battle of Drewry’s Bluff, also known as the Battle of Fort Darling or Fort Drewry, took place on May 15, 1862, in Chesterfield County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War.
Battle of Driniumor River The Battle of Driniumor River, also known as The Battle of Aitape, July 10-August 25, 1944, was part of the Western New Guinea campaign of World War II. Japanese forces attacked United States forces on the Driniumor River, near Aitape in New Guinea.
Battle of Dry Wood Creek The Battle of Dry Wood Creek (also known as the Battle of Big Dry Wood Creek or the Battle of the Mules) occurred on September 2, 1861 in Vernon County, Missouri during the American Civil War. The Confederate troops were successful in their campaign to force the Union army to abandon southwestern Missouri and to concentrate on holding the Missouri Valley.
Battle of Dubbo The Battle of Dubbo (March 24, 1843) was a battle between British forces under Sir Charles Napier and the Talpur amirs of the now Pakistani region of Sindh. The British were upset about the local amirs' stance during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42).
Battle of Dubienka The Battle of Dubienka occurred during the Polish-Russian War of 1792 where on July 18 1792, the Polish army under the command of General Tadeusz Kościuszko defended the Bug River crossing against a Russian army under General Kachovski. The Russian attacks were stymied by field fortifications raised by Polish engineers, leading to a Polish victory.
Battle of Dublin The Irish Civil War 1922-23, began with the Battle of Dublin, with a week of street fighting in Dublin the Irish capital from June 28 1922 to July 5. The violence began with an assault by the Provisional Government of the new Irish Free State on the Four Courts building which had been occupied by a hardline section of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army.
Battle of Dufile The Battle of Dufile was fought at the fort of Dufile, Uganda on November 28, 1888 between Mahdist forces and a garrison loyal to the Khedive of Egypt. This followed a three-day siege in which the fort was penetrated and members of steamer crews were killed in the harbour.
Battle of Dujaila The Battle of Dujaila was fought on March 8, 1916, between British and Ottoman forces. The Ottoman forces, led by Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz were besieging Kut, when the British, led by Fenton Aylmer, attempted to relieve the city.
Battle of Dumlupınar The Battle of Dumlupınar was the last battle in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922), which is part of the Turkish War of Independence. The battle was fought during 26 August - 30 August 1922, near Afyonkarahisar in Turkey.
Battle of Dunbar (1296) The Battle of Dunbar was the first major battle in the First War of Scottish Independence. King Edward I of England had invaded Scotland in 1296 to punish John Balliol for his refusal to support English military action in France.
Battle of Dunbar (1650) The Battle of Dunbar (3 September, 1650) was a battle of the Third English Civil War. The English Parliamentary forces under Oliver Cromwell defeated a Scottish army commanded by David Leslie which was loyal to King Charles II of Great Britain, who had been proclaimed King in Scotland on 5 February 1649.
Battle of Dunkeld The Battle of Dunkeld was fought between Jacobite clans supporting King James VII of Scotland and a government regiment of covenanters supporting William of Orange, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, on August 21, 1689, and formed part of the first Jacobite rising.
Battle of Dynekilen The naval Battle of Dynekilen took place on 8 July 1716 during the Great Northern War, when a light Dano-Norwegian force under Tordenskjold trapped and defeated a similar Swedish force in Dynekilen fjord (just north of Strömstad), on the west coast of Sweden. 80 percent of the sailors and 90 percent of the soldiers in Tordenskjolds force were Norwegian.
Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC) The Battle of Dyrrachium (or Dyrrhachium) on 10 July 48 BC was one of a series of contests between Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus that ended with Pompey's defeat in the Battle of Pharsalus a month later. However, at Dyrrachium Caesar was fortunate to escape disaster.
Battle of Ebro River Battle of Ebro River was a naval battle fought between a Carthaginian fleet of approximately 40 quinqueremes under Himilco and a Roman fleet of 55 ships under Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus near the mouth of Ebro river in the spring of 217 BC. Hasdrubal Barca, the Carthaginian commander in Spain, had launched a joint expidition to destroy the Romans established north of the Ebro.
Battle of Eccles Hill The Battle of Eccles Hill was part of a raid into Canadian territory led by John O'Neill and Samuel Spiers. The army of the Fenian Brotherhood was defeated by local militia units based in Huntingdon on May 25, 1870.
Battle of Eckmühl The Battle of Eckmühl (also known as "Eggmühl") fought on 21 April – 22 April, 1809, was the turning point of the 1809 Campaign, also known as the War of the Fifth Coalition. Napoleon I had been unprepared for the start of hostilities on April 10, 1809, by the Austrians under the Archduke Charles of Austria and for the first time since assuming the French Imperial Crown had been forced to cede the strategic initiative to an opponent.
Battle of Edgecote Moor The Battle of Edgecote Moor took place 6 miles northeast of Banbury (Oxfordshire), England on July 26, 1469 during the Wars of the Roses. The site of the battle was actually Danes Moor in Northamptonshire, at a crossing of a tributary of River Cherwell.
Battle of Edson's Ridge The Battle of Edson's Ridge, also known as the Battle of the Bloody Ridge, Battle of Raiders Ridge, and Battle of the Ridge, took place September 12–14, 1942 and was a land battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II between Imperial Japanese Army and Allied (mainly United States Marine Corps) ground forces. The battle took place on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands and was the second of three separate major Japanese ground offensives in the Guadalcanal campaign.
Battle of El Alamein There were two battles of El Alamein, both during 1942. In Egypt, Allied (primarily Commonwealth) forces under a British Field Marshal Montgomery finally stopped the Germans under the command of Field Marshal Rommel .
Battle of El Guettar The Battle of El Guettar was a World War II battle that took place during the larger Battle of Tunisia, fought between the Deutsches Afrika Korps under JĂĽrgen von Arnim and the American II Corps under George Patton in south-central Tunisia. It was the first battle in which US forces were able to defeat the experienced German tank units, but the followup to the battle was inconclusive.
Battle of El Mazuco The Battle of El Mazuco was fought in September 1937, between the Republican (government) and Nationalist (rebel) armies of the Spanish Civil War. The Republican defence of El Mazuco and the surrounding mountains halted the Nationalist advance into eastern Asturias, despite their forces being outnumbered seven-fold.
Battle of El Obeid The Battle of El Obeid was fought between Anglo-Egyptian forces under the command of Hicks Pasha and forces of Mohammed Ahmed, the self-proclaimed Mahdi, on a plain near the town of Al Ubayyid (El Obeid) on November 3rd-5th, 1883.
Battle of Elandslaagte The Battle of Elandslaage was a battle of the Second Boer War, and one of the few clear-cut tactical victories won by the British in that conflict. However, the British force retreated afterwards, throwing away their advantage.
Battle of Elba The naval Battle of Elba (or Battle of Monte Cristo) was a tough battle which took place on 6 September 1652 between a Dutch fleet under Johan van Galen and an English fleet under Richard Badiley. The English were trying to reach Livorno, where a squadron under Henry Appleton was.
Battle of Emmaus The Battle of Emmaus took place in 166 BC between the Hasmonean rebels of Judea, led by Judas Maccabeus and the third expedition of Greek forces sent by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, this time led by Lysias and his general, Gorgias.
Battle of Empress Augusta Bay The Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, on November 1-2, 1943 — also known as the Battle of Gazelle Bay, Operation Cherry Blossom, and in Japanese sources as the Sea Battle of Bougainville Bay Shore (ブーゲンビル島沖海戦) — was a naval battle fought near the island of Bougainville. The naval battle was a result of Allied landings on nearby Bougainville in the first action in the Bougainville campaign of World War II and may also be seen as part of the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns.
Battle of Emridy Meadows In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Battle of Emridy Meadows was a critical military event in which the allied forces of good sacked the Temple of Elemental Evil and dispersed hordes of its cultists. Emridy Meadows itself is a series of grassy clearings south of the Velverdyva.
Battle of Engen (1800) The Battle of Engen was fought between France and Austria on May 3, 1800 as a part of the 1800 campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars. It resulted in a French victory under General Jean Victor Marie Moreau against the Austrians under General Kray.
Battle of Entrames The Battle of Entrames was fought on 27 October, 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars between French Republican forces and Vendée Royalist forces. The battle was fought near Entrames in Mayenne France, and ended in a Royalist victory.
Battle of Epéhy The Battle of Epéhy was a World War I battle fought on 18 September 1918, involving the British Fourth Army (under the command of General Henry Rawlinson) against German outpost positions in front of the Hindenburg Line.
Battle of Ergeme The Battle of Ergeme (German: Schlacht bei Ermes, Estonian: Härgmäe lahing, Russian: Эргемская битва) was fought on 2 August, 1560 in present-day Estonia (near Valga) as part of the Livonian War between the forces of Ivan IV of Russia and the Livonian Order. It was the last battle fought by the German knights in Livonia and an important Russian victory.
Battle of Espinosa The Battle of Espinosa was fought on November 10 and November 11, 1808 at the township of Espinosa in the Cantabrian Mountains and resulted in a French victory under General Victor against Lieutenant General JoaquĂ­n Blake's Army of Galicia.
Battle of Esquiroz The Battle of Esquiroz was fought near Pamplona on June 30, 1521, during the Italian War of 1521. A makeshift Spanish army defeated the French forces under Henry d'Albret and Lesparre, driving them out of Navarre.
Battle of Eupatoria The Storm of Eupatoria was the most important military engagement of the Crimean War during the winter of 1855. The Russian general Stepan Khrulev, wishing to preclude a wide-scale Turkish offensive, determined to storm their base in Eupatoria with 19,000 soldiers.
Battle of Evarts The Battle of Evarts is the name given to a mining strike and ensuing violence that occurred in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1931. In February of 1931, The Harlan County Coal company cut wages for their employees.
Battle of Evesham The Battle of Evesham was an important battle in the history of England which took place on August 4 1265. It was the decisive battle in the Second Barons' War, in which Simon de Montfort led a number of rebellious barons against the Royalist forces led by Prince Edward (later King Edward I of England).
Battle of Eylau The Battle of Eylau, fought on 7-February 8, 1807, was a bloody and inconclusive contest between the forces of Napoléon and a mostly Russian army under General Bennigsen. It was fought near the town of Preußisch Eylau in East Prussia.
Battle of Ezra Church The Battle of Ezra Church, also known as the Battle of the Poor House, was fought on July 28, 1864, in Fulton County, Georgia, during the American Civil War. The battle was part of the Atlanta Campaign, which featured General William T.
Battle of Fairfield The Battle of Fairfield was a cavalry engagement during the Gettysburg Campaign of the American Civil War. It was fought July 3, 1863, near Fairfield, Pennsylvania, concurrently with the Battle of Gettysburg, although it was not a formal part of that battle.
Battle of Falconaria The Battle of Falconaria (also La Falconara or Falconeria) was a battle of the latter days of the War of the Sicilian Vespers. Fought on 1 December 1299 between the forces of Frederick II of Sicily and Philip I of Taranto of the Kingdom of Naples, it was a momentous victory for Frederick and a disaster for Philip, who was captured.
Battle of Falkirk (1746) During the Second Jacobite Rising, the Battle of Falkirk was the last noteworthy Jacobite success. After turning back from the London campaign for winter, the Jacobite Army returned to Scotland and besieged Major General Blakeney in Stirling Castle.
Battle of Fallen Timbers The Battle of Fallen Timbers (August 20, 1794) was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between American Indians and the United States for control of the Northwest Territory. The battle, which was a decisive victory for the United States, ended major hostilities in the region until "Tecumseh's War" and the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.
Battle of Famars The Battle of Famars was fought during the War of the First Coalition, between French forces under General Lamarche and Allied forces (Austrian, Hanoverian, and British) under The Duke of York. The battle was fought near the village of Famars in northern France, and ended in a victory for the Allies.
Battle of Fancheng The Battle of Fancheng (樊城之戰) was fought between the Shu and Wei kingdoms during the Three Kingdoms period of ancient China. It is named after Fancheng, a city which is now a part of the city of Xiangfan.
Battle of Fariskur The Battle of Fariskur was fought on April 6, 1250 between the French Crusaders led by Louis IX and an Egyptian army. The French had been in retreat following a failed siege of Al Mansurah after defeating them at the Battle of Al Mansurah.
Battle of Farrukhabad The Battle of Farrukhabad took place on November 14 1803, between a small British force under General Lake, and an army of 60,000 Marathas under Jeswunt Rao Holkar. Holkar was signally defeated with heavy losses.
Battle of Farsetmore The Battle of Farsetmore was fought near Letterkenny in Donegal, north-western Ireland, on the 8th May 1567, between the O’Neill and O’Donnell clans. Shane O'Neill, chief of the O’Neills of Tyrone, was defeated and the O’Donnells freed themselves from O’Neill overlordship.
Battle of Faughart The Battle of Faughart, also known as the Battle of Dundalk, was fought on 14 October 1318 between an Anglo-Irish force led by John de Birmingham and Edmund Butler, and a Scots-Irish army commanded by Edward Bruce, brother of Robert Bruce, king of Scotland.it was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence and more precisely the Irish Bruce Wars.
Battle of Fehrbellin The Battle of Fehrbellin was fought on June 28, 1675 between Sweden and Brandenburg. The Swedes, under Count Waldemar von Wrangel (stepbrother of Carl Gustaf Wrangel), had invaded and occupied parts of Brandenburg from their possessions in Pomerania, but were repelled by the forces of Frederick William, the Great Elector, under Fieldmarshal Georg von Derfflinger near the town of Fehrbellin.
Battle of Ferozeshah The Battle of Ferozeshah was fought on December 21 and December 22 of 1845 between the British and the Sikhs, at the village of Ferozeshah in Punjab. The British were led by Sir Hugh Gough and Governor-General Sir Henry Hardinge, while the Sikhs were led by Lal Singh.
Battle of Finta The Battle of Finta (May 1653) was a confrontation between Matei Basarab's Wallachian army and a combined Moldo-Cossack force under Vasile Lupu and Tymofiy Khmelnytsky. It took place around Finta, a commune in Dâmboviţa county.
Battle of Firenzuola The Battle of Firenzuola was fought on 29 July 923 between the forces of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Adalbert I of Ivrea on one side and Berengar I of Italy on the other. The battle was a defeat for Berengar, who was thus de facto dethroned and replaced by Rudolf as King of Italy.
Battle of Fish Creek The Battle of Fish Creek, fought April 24, 1885 at Fish Creek, Saskatchewan, was a major MĂ©tis victory over the Dominion forces attempting to quell Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion. The reversal, though not decisive enough to ultimately alter the outcome of the war, halted Major General Frederick Middleton's advance on Batoche, where the MĂ©tis would later make their final stand.
Battle of Five Forks The Battle of Five Forks was fought on April 1, 1865, southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County, during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle, sometimes referred to as the " Waterloo of the Confederacy," pitted Union Major General Philip H.
Battle of Fleurus (1622) The Battle of Fleurus of August 29, 1622 was fought between a Catholic army, led by Spain, and the Protestant Powers of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War. The bloody struggle left the Protestants mangled and the Spanish masters of the field, but did not prevent Graf von Mansfeld from racing his army to the relief of Bergen op Zoom.
Battle of Fleurus (1690) The Battle of Fleurus was fought during the War of the Grand Alliance on 1 July, 1690. The French army of the Spanish Netherlands was commanded by François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg; the Allied army comprising Dutch, German, Spanish, and British troops was commanded by Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck.
Battle of Flowers The Jersey Battle of Flowers is an annual carnival held in the Channel Island of Jersey in the second week of August. The festival consists of music, funfairs, dancers, majorettes and a parade of flower floats alongside various street entertainers.
Battle of Flushing The Battle of Flushing was a naval battle of the Eighty Years' War, fought on April 17, 1573 near the city of Flushing, Netherlands. The Spanish fleet was led by Sancho d'Avila, the Dutch fleet by Lieven Keersmaker.
Battle of Focchies The naval Battle of Focchies took place on 12 May 1649, during the Cretan Wars, at Focchies, near Ä°zmir (Smyrna) in western Turkey, when a Venetian fleet of 19 ships, under Giacomo Riva, defeated a Turkish fleet of 11 ships, 10 galleasses (mahons) and 72 galleys.
Battle of Focşani The Battle of Focşani, Battle of Fokschani, or Battle of Focsani was a battle in the Russo–Turkish War of 1787–1792 fought on July 21, 1789, between the Ottoman Empire and the alliance of the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire. The Russians were led by Alexander Suvorov, the Austrians were led by Prince Josias of Coburg, and the Turks were led by Yusuf Pasha.
Battle of Folck's Mill The Battle of Folck's Mill, also known as the Battle of Cumberland, was a small cavalry battle fought August 1, 1864, in northern Maryland, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War.
Battle of Fontenay (841) Contention over the division of the Holy Roman Empire between the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious culminated in the decisive Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye fought at Fontenay on the 25 June 841. It was a defeat for the allied forces of Lothair I of Italy and Pepin II of Aquitaine and a victory for Charles the Bald and Louis the German.

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