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Battle of Kunyang The Battle of Kunyang (昆陽之戰) was fought in June of 23 between the resurgent Han and Xin forces. The Han forces (Lülin) were led by Liu Xiu, while the far more numerous Xin were led by Wang Yi and Wang Xun.
Battle of Kurekdere The Battle of Kurekdere occurred when the Turkish army of kars marched towards Gyumri to attack the Russian force, already weakened with detachments, the battle was related with great spirit and the defeat of the Turkish army by the Russians force.A Narrative of the Siege of Kars: Together with a narrative of travel and adventures in Armenia...
Battle of Kursk The Battle of Kursk (or Kursk Campaign, July 4, 1943 – July 20, 1943), also called Operation Zitadelle by the German Army (Operation Citadel in English), was a significant (deliberate) defensive battle strategy on the Soviets' part in the Eastern Theater during World War II. Having good intelligence on Hitler's intentions, the Soviets established and managed to conceal elaborate layered defense works, mine fields, and stage and disguise large reserve forces poised for a tactical and strategic counterattack end game typical of defensive battle plans.
Battle of Kutná Hora An early campaign in the Hussite Wars, the Battle of Kutná Hora was fought on December 21, 1421 between German and Hungarian troops of the Holy Roman Empire and the Hussites, a group of early Protestants founded in what is now the Czech Republic. Following a seige by royalist troops, the remaining Hussites plowed through enemy lines and went on to win many battles against the Roman Catholic forces.
Battle of Kwajalein The Battle of Kwajalein was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought from January 31, 1944 to February 3, 1944 on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Employing the hard-learned lessons of the battle of Tarawa, the United States launched a successful twin assault on the main islands of Kwajalein in the south and Roi-Namur in the north.
Battle of La Fère-Champenoise The Battle of La Fère-Champenoise was fought on March 25, 1814, between France and the Sixth Coalition. The battleground was near the town Fère-Champenoise, 40 km southwest of Châlons-sur-Marne, Marne département.
Battle of La Mesa The Battle of La Mesa occurred on January 9, 1847, in present-day Vernon, California, the day after the Battle of Rio San Gabriel. At La Mesa, the outgunned and outnumbered Californios were quickly defeated by a force commanded by Commodore Robert F.
Battle of La Motta The Battle of La Motta, also known as the Battle of Schio, Battle of Vicenza or Battle of Creazzo, which took place on October 7, 1513 between the Republic of Venice and Spain, was a significant battle of the War of the League of Cambrai. A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano attempted to prevent the Spanish under Ramon de Cardona from withdrawing from the Veneto, but was defeated and scattered.
Battle of La Plata The Battle of La Plata (11 July 1958-21 July 1958) was part of Operation Verano, the summer offensive of 1958 launched by the Batistia government during the Cuban Revolution. The battle resulted from a complex plan created by Cuban General Cantillo to directly attack Castro's mountain base in the Sierra Maestra.
Battle of La Roche-Derrien The Battle of La Roche-Derrien was one of the battles of the Hundred Years' War, fought in 1347 during the night between English and French forces. Approximately 4000–5000 French, Breton & Genoese mercenaries (the largest field army ever assembled by Duke Charles of Blois) laid siege to the town of La Roche-Derrien in hope of luring Sir Thomas Dagworth, the commander of the only standing English field army in Brittany at the time, into an open pitched battle.
Battle of Lacolle (1838) The Battle of Lacolle was fought on November 7, 1838 between Loyal volunteer forces under Major John Scriver and Lower Canada rebels under Colonel Ferdinand-Alphonse Oklowski. On November 6, on their way to Lacolle, the Patriote rebels had won a first skirmish but they lost in the final confrontation the next day.
Battle of Lacolle Mills (1812) The Battle of Lacolle Mills was fought on November 20, 1812, during the War of 1812. In this relatively short and fast battle, a very small garrison of British troops and Canadian volunteers, with the assistance of Kahnawake Mohawk warriors, defended the blockhouse of Lacolle Mills near the village of Champlain, Ontario.
Battle of Lacolle Mills (1814) The Second Battle of Lacolle Mills was fought on March 30, 1814 during the War of 1812. American Major-General James Wilkinson planned another invasion of Canada to make up for his humiliating defeat by the British at the Battle of Crysler's Farm.
Battle of Lake Benacus The Battle of Lake Benacus was one of the decisive battles that marked the beginning of the Roman Empire's emergence from the Crisis of the Third Century. The battle was fought along the banks of Lake Garda in northern Italy, which was known to the Romans as Benacus.
Battle of Lake Erie The Battle of Lake Erie, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on September 10, 1813 in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812. Nine ships of the United States Navy decisively defeated six vessels of Great Britain’s Royal Navy.
Battle of Lake Okeechobee The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was one of the major battles of the Second Seminole War. It was fought between 800 troops of the 6th Infantry Regiment (under the command of Colonel Zachary Taylor) and 400 Seminoles.
Battle of Lake Poyang The naval battle of Lake Poyang (鄱陽湖之戰) took place 30 August - 4 October 1363 and was one of the final battles fought in the fall of China's Mongol-controlled Yuan Dynasty. There were at this time a number of rebel groups who sought to topple the reigning dynasty; the three most powerful were called the Ming, the Han, and the Wu.
Battle of Lake Trasimene The Battle of Lake Trasimeno (June 24, 217 BC, April on the Julian calendar) was a Roman defeat in the Second Punic War between the Carthaginians under Hannibal and the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius. The battle is perhaps one of the largest and most successful ambushes in military history.
Battle of LamaÄŤ The Battle of LamaÄŤ (LamaÄŤ is today a city-part of, at that time a suburb of, Bratislava) was the last battle fought in the Austro-Prussian War. It was fought near LamaÄŤ on July 22, 1866 (on the day of the conclusion of peace), with the Austrians defending against the Prussian army.
Battle of Landen The Battle of Landen (or Neerwinden), in the current Belgian province of Flemish Brabant, was a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance, fought in the Netherlands on July 29, 1693 between the French army of Marshal Luxembourg and the Allied army of King William III of England. The French assaulted the allied position three times before the French cavalry finally penetrated the allied defenses and drove William's army from the field in a rout.
Battle of Landshut (1809) The Battle of Landshut took place on April 21 1809, between the French, WĂĽrttembergers (VIII Corps) and Bavarians (VII Corps) under Napoleon which numbered about 77,000 strong, and 36,000 Austrians under the General Johann Hiller. The battle resulted in a French victory.
Battle of Langensalza (1866) The Battle of Langensalza was fought on June 15th 1866 near Bad Langensalza. The Hanoverians won the battle but were then surrounded by a massive army of 40,000, and, unable to link up with their Bavarian allies to the south, they surrendered.
Battle of Langport The Battle of Langport was a Parliamentarian victory late in the English Civil War, which destroyed the last Royalist field army, and ultimately gave Parliament control of the West of England, which had hitherto been a major source of manpower, raw materials and imports for the Royalists.
Battle of Langside The Battle of Langside, fought on May 13 1568, was one of the more unusual contests in Scottish history, bearing a superficial resemblance to a grand family quarrel, in which a mother fought her brother who was defending the rights of her infant son. In 1567 Mary Queen of Scots's short period of personal rule ended in recrimination, intrigue and disaster when she was forced to abdicate in favour of James VI, her infant son.
Battle of Lansdowne The English Civil War battle of Lansdowne (or Lansdown) was fought on July 5, 1643, near Bath. Although the Royalists under Lord Hopton forced the Parliamentarians under Sir William Waller to retreat from their hilltop position, they suffered so many casualties themselves and were left so disordered and short of ammunition that an injured Hopton was forced to retire.
Battle of Larga The Battle of Larga was fought between 80,000 Crimean Tatars and Turkish janissaries and 38,000 Russians under Field-Marshal Rumyantsev on the banks of the Larga River (a tributary of the Pruth) for eight hours on 7 July, 1770. It was fought on the same day as Battle of Chesma, a key naval engagement of the Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774.
Battle of Largs The Battle of Largs was an engagement fought between the armies of Norway and Scotland near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland on 2 October 1263. It was the most important military engagement of the Scottish-Norwegian war.
Battle of Las Mercedes The Battle of Las Mercedes (29 July 1958-8 August 1958) was the last battle of Operation Verano, the summer offensive of 1958 launched by the Batistia government during the Cuban Revolution. The battle was a trap, designed by Cuban General Cantillo to lure Castro's guerrillas into a place where they could be surrounded and destroyed.
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa The July 16 1212 battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (Spanish:Batalla de Las Navas de Tolosa / Arabic:معركة العقاب) is considered a major turning point in the history of Medieval Iberia. The forces of King Alfonso VIII of Castile were joined by the armies of his Christian rivals, Sancho VII of Navarre, Afonso II of Portugal and Peter II of Aragon in battle against the The Moroccan Muslim Almohad rulers of the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula.
Battle of Las Salinas The Battle of Las Salinas was a bloody and decisive confrontation between the forces of Hernando and Gonzalo Pizarro against those of rival conquistador Diego de Almagro, on April 26, 1538, during the Conquest of Peru. Both camps claimed to represent the authority of the Spanish Crown; Pizarro's forces controlled the province of Nueva Castilla, and those of Almagro, Nueva Toledo.
Battle of Lasy Królewskie Battle of Lasy Królewskie (Polish: Bitwa w Lasach Królewskich, Battle of Royal Forests) refers to the battle on 1 September 1939 near Janowo and Krzynowołga Mała during the battle of the border of the Invasion of Poland.
Battle of Latakia The Battle of Latakia was a small but revolutionary naval battle of the Yom Kippur War, fought on October 7, 1973, between Israel and Syria. It was the first naval battle in history to see combat between surface-to-surface missile-equipped missile boats and the use of electronic warfare deception.
Battle of Latema Nek After the Battle of Salaita, General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, commander of German forces in East Africa, reorganised the defences to the north of the colony in anticipation of another assault. The Salaita positons were abandoned, and German forces moved south to the Latema-Reata Hills - which stood on the route to Kahe.
Battle of LĂĽtzen (1813) In the Battle of LĂĽtzen (May 2, 1813), Napoleon lured a combined Prussian and Russian force into a trap, halting the advances of the Sixth Coalition after his devastating losses in Russia. The Russian commander, Prince Peter Wittgenstein, attacked Napoleon's advanced column near LĂĽtzen, Germany, in an attempt to undo Napoleon's capture of Leipzig.
Battle of Lee's Mills The Battle of Lee's Mills was fought on April 16, 1862, as part of the Battle of Yorktown, Peninsula Campaign, during the American Civil War. Assigned to perform a reconnaissance in force against Confederate positions behind Warwick Creek, the 3rd Vermont Infantry advanced to attack the Confederate forces that were entrenched in pits only yards from the bank.
Battle of Leghorn The naval Battle of Leghorn (the Dutch call the encounter by the Italian name Livorno) took place on 14 March 1653, during the First Anglo-Dutch War, near Leghorn (Livorno), Italy. It was a victory of a Dutch fleet under Commodore Johan van Galen over an English squadron under Captain Henry Appleton.
Battle of Legnano The Battle of Legnano was fought on 29 May 1176 between the German forces of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and the forces of the Lombard League of north Italian cities. It was the first of the wars of the Guelphs and Ghibellines which dominated north Italian politics for the next century.
Battle of Legnica The Battle of Legnica (), also known as the Battle of Liegnitz () or Battle of Wahlstatt (), was a battle which took place at Legnickie Pole (Wahlstatt) near the city of Legnica (Liegnitz) in Silesia on April 9 1241.
Battle of Lechaeum The Battle of Lechaeum (391 BC) was an Athenian victory in the Corinthian War. In the battle, the Athenian general Iphicrates took advantage of the fact that a Spartan hoplite regiment operating near Corinth was moving in the open without the protection of any missile throwing troops.
Battle of Lechfeld The Battle of Lechfeld (10 August 955), perhaps the defining event for holding off the incursions of the Magyars into Central Europe, was a decisive victory of the forces of Otto the Great, King of the Germans, over the Magyar leaders, the harka (military leader) BulcsĂş and the chieftains LĂ©l (Lehel) and SĂşr. Located south of Augsburg, the Lechfeld is the flood plain that lies along the Lech River.
Battle of Leipzig The Battle of the Nations or Battle of Leipzig (, 16–19 October, 1813) was the most decisive defeat suffered by Napoleon Bonaparte in the Napoleonic Wars. The Völkerschlacht was fought on German soil and involved German troops on both sides, as a large proportion of Napoleon's troops actually came from the German Confederation of the Rhine.
Battle of Leliefontein The Battle of Leliefontein was an engagement between Canadian and Boer forces during the Second Boer War on 7 November, 1900. The Canadians of the Royal Canadian Dragoons were tasked with covering the withdrawal of the larger British force under the command of Major-General Horace Smith-Dorrien During the battle, three Canadian solders, Sergeant Edward James Gibson Holland, Lieutenant Richard Ernest William Turner and Lieutenant Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn, would win the Victoria Cross.
Battle of Lemnos (1912) The Battle of Lemnos took place in October 1912 during the First Balkan War. Ensuing the initiation of hostilities in the First Balkan War, the Greek PM Eleftherios Venizelos ordered the Commander in Chief of the Hellenic Navy Pavlos Kountouriotis to engage the Ottoman fleet in the Aegean Sea and to:
Battle of Lenino The battle of Lenino was a World War II battle that took place from 12th October to 13th October 1943 near the village of Trigubovo, north of the village of Lenino in the Byelorussian SSR. It was fought between the forces of the Soviet 33rd Army (Soviet Western Front) and Nazi German forces.
Battle of Lens The Battle of Lens (August 20 1648) was a French victory under Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé against the Spanish army under Archduke Leopold in the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648). It was the last major battle of the war.
Battle of Lepanto (1571) The Battle of Lepanto (Ναύπακτος in Greek, İnebahtı in Turkish) took place on 7 October 1571 when a galley fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of the Papacy (under Pope Pius V), Spain, Venice, Republic of Genoa, Duchy of Savoy, the Knights of Malta and others, defeated a force of Ottoman galleys. The 5-hour battle was fought at the northern edge of the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, where the Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, in the morning of Sunday 7 October.
Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer The naval Battle of Les Espagnols sur Mer (Spanish on the Sea), or Battle of Winchelsea took place on 29 August (Old Style) 1350 and was a victory for an English fleet of 50 ships commanded by Edward III, with the Black Prince, over a Castilian fleet of 40 ships commanded by de la Cerda. Between 14 and 26 Castilian ships were captured, and some were sunk, while 2 or more English vessels were sunk.
Battle of Les Formigues The naval Battle of Les Formigues (or Las Hormigas) took place probably in the early morning of 4 September 1285 near Las Hormigas, about 85kms north-east of Barcelona, when an Aragonese-Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated a French and Genoese galley fleet commanded by Henry di Mari and John de Orreo.
Battle of Lesnaya The Battle of Lesnaya was one of the decisive battles of the Great Northern War. It took place on September 28, 1708 between a Russian army of 12,000 (14,500 by Swedish sources) men commanded by Princes Repnin and Menshikov and a Swedish force of 16,000 (12,500 by Swedish sources) men, under the command of General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, at the village of Lesnaya, located on the border between Poland and Russia (now the village of Lisna, Belarus).
Battle of Leuctra The Battle of Leuctra was a battle fought between the Thebans and the Spartans and their respective allies amidst the post-Corinthian War conflict. The battle took place in the neighbourhood of Leuctra, a village in Boeotia in the territory of Thespiae.
Battle of Levounion The Battle of Levounion was the first decisive Byzantine victory of the Komnenian restoration. On April 29 1091, an invading force of Pechenegs was heavily defeated by the combined forces of the Byzantine Empire under Alexios I Komnenos and his Cuman allies.
Battle of Lewis's Farm The Battle of Lewis's Farm (also known as Quaker Road, Military Road, or Gravelly Road) was a one-day battle of the American Civil War in Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was the opening of the Appomattox Campaign in which Robert E.
Battle of Lexington I The First Battle of Lexington or the Battle of the Hemp Bales was a battle of the American Civil War, occurring from September 13 to September 20 1861, in Lafayette County, Missouri. The engagement bolstered Southern sentiment and consolidated Confederate control in the Missouri Valley west of Arrowrock.
Battle of Leyte The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of Leyte in the Philippines by the United States and Australian forces and allied Filipino guerrillas under the command of General Douglas MacArthur and waged against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 17 October 1944 to 31 July 1945. The battle launched the Philippines campaign of 1944-45 for the recapture and liberation of the entire Philippine Archipelago and to end almost three years of Japanese occupation.
Battle of Leyte Gulf The Battle of Leyte Gulf, also known as the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, was the largest naval battle in history. It was fought during the Pacific Theatre of Operations of World War II, in the seas surrounding the Philippine island of Leyte from 23 October to 26 October 1944 between the Allies and the Empire of Japan.
Battle of Liberty The Battle of Liberty (also known as the Battle of Blue Mills Landing or the Battle of Blue Mills) was a battle of the American Civil War that occurred on September 17, 1861, in Clay County, Missouri. The Confederates were able to consolidate their influence in northwestern Missouri.
Battle of Lihula Battle of Lihula was fought between invading Swedes and Estonians for the control of a castle in Lihula, Estonia in 1220. The exact date remains uncertain, though some historians suggest that the battle took place on August 8th.
Battle of Lincoln (1141) Battle of Lincoln or First Battle of Lincoln occurred on 2 February 1141. The forces of King Stephen of England had been besieging Lincoln Castle but were themselves attacked by a relief force loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, Matilda's half-brother.
Battle of Lincoln (1217) The Second Battle of Lincoln occurred at Lincoln Castle on 20 May 1217, during the First Barons' War, between the forces of the future Louis VIII of France and those of King Henry III of England. Louis' forces were attacked by a relief force under the command of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
Battle of Lipany The Battle of Lipany, also called the Battle of Cesky Brod, was fought 40 km east of Prague on May 30, 1434 and virtually ended the Hussite Wars. An army of Utraquist nobility and Catholics, called the Bohemian League, defeated the radical Taborites led by Prokop the Great, the overall commander, and by Čapek of Sány, the cavalry commander.
Battle of Lipnic The Battle of Lipnic (or Lipnica, or LipniĹŁi) was a battle between the Moldavian forces under Stephen the Great, and the Volga Tatars of the Golden Horde lead by Khan Mamak, and which took place on the August 20 1470.
Battle of Liscarroll The battle of Liscarroll was fought in county Cork in July 1642, at the start of the Irish Confederate Wars. An Irish Confederate army around 6000 strong and commanded by Garret Barry – a professional soldier - was defeated by an English force commanded by a Protestant Irishman, Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin.
Battle of Lissa (1811) The naval Battle of Lissa (1811) was fought near the island of Lissa (modern name Vis) in the Adriatic Sea. A mixed flotilla of French and Venetian frigates commanded by Commodore Dubordieu, together with troops and transports approached the island with a view to invading and occupying it.
Battle of Lissa (1866) The Battle of Lissa took place on 20 July 1866 in the Adriatic Sea near the island of Lissa (now Vis) and was a victory for an outnumbered Austrian force over an Italian force. It was the first major sea battle involving ships using iron and steam, and one of the last to involve deliberate ramming.
Battle of Llongborth The Battle of Llongborth was an ancient battle in Great Britain mentioned in a poem of the same name, traditionally attributed to Llywarch Hen. The poem in question, also known as Elegy for Geraint, celebrates Geraint ab Erbin from Dyfnaint, who died in the battle.
Battle of Lobositz The Battle of Lobositz (Lovosice) was the opening battle of the Seven Years' War, fought on 1 October 1756 between a Prussian army of about 29,000 men led by Frederick the Great and an Austrian army of 34,500 men led by Field Marshal von Browne. Because the Prussians achieved their objective of preventing the Austrian army from substantially relieving the besieged army of its Saxon allies, the battle is considered to be a Prussian victory.
Battle of Lochmaben Fair The Battle of Lochmaben Fair was fought on 22 July 1484 in the town of Lochmaben in south-west Scotland. A party of cavalry led by the rebel Earl of Douglas and the Duke of Albany, crossed from England and clashed with local forces loyal to James III, the Scottish king.
Battle of Long Island The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn, fought on August 27 1776, was the first major battle in the American Revolutionary War following the United States Declaration of Independence, the largest battle of the entire conflict, and the first battle an army of the United States ever engaged in.
Battle of Longewala The Battle of Longewala December 5 - December 6 1971 was part of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, fought between Indian and Pakistani forces in the Thar Desert of the Rajasthan state in India. It is generally regarded to be one of the decisive battles in the two week long war.
Battle of Longue-Pointe The Battle of Longue-Pointe was fought on September 24, 1775, during the American Revolutionary War and was a British victory. A detachment of General Montgomery's army under Ethan Allen was defeated by Quebec militia outside the gates of Montreal.
Battle of Loon Lake The Battle of Loon Lake concluded the North-West Rebellion on June 3, 1885 and was the last battle ever fought on Canadian soil. Led by Major Sam Steele, a force of North-West Mounted Police, Alberta Mounted Rifles and Steele's Scouts (a body of mounted militia raised by Steele himself) caught up with and dispersed a band of Plains Cree warriors and their white and MĂ©tis hostages.
Battle of Los Corrales The Battle of Los Corrales took place in Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on June 21, 1880, and confronted the side leaded by Carlos Tejedor, governor of Buenos Aires, against the National Army leaded by president Nicolás Avellaneda.
Battle of Lost River The Battle of Lost River in November 1872 was the first battle in the Modoc War in the northwestern United States. The skirmish, which was fought near the Lost River along the California-Oregon border, was the result of an attempt by the U.
Battle of Loudoun Hill The Battle of Loudon Hill was fought in May 1307 between a Scots force led by Robert Bruce and the English commanded by Aymer de Valence. It took place beneath Loudoun Hill, in Ayrshire, and ended in a victory for Bruce.
Battle of Loulan The Battle of Loulan (樓蘭之戰) in the 108 BC, marks the earliest Chinese military exploration into Central Asia, after a conflicting of Loulan and Jushi with the Han Dynasty and a switch to the Xiongnu. The Han launch an attack by arresting the king of Loulan, and turned on to offense Jushi.
Battle of Lovejoy's Station The Battle of Lovejoy's Station was fought on August 20, 1864, near what is now Lovejoy, Georgia, in Clayton County, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War. The two sides had arrived at something of a stalemate, with the Union army half-encircling Atlanta and the Confederate defenders staying behind their fortifications.
Battle of Lovcha The Battle of Lovcha, or Loftcha (today Lovech), was a battle of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–78 which occurred during the siege of Pleven. Russian forces successfully reduced the fortress at Lovcha which had protected Pleven's communication and supply lines.
Battle of Lower Sioux Agency The Battle of Lower Sioux Agency was the initial battle of the Sioux Uprising in August of 1862. After the initial conflict at Acton Township, Minnesota on August 17, in which five white settlers were killed, tensions were running high within the Lower Sioux tribe.
Battle of Luçon The Battle of Luçon was fought on 14 August 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars, between forces of the French Republic under General Tuncq and Royalist forces under Gigot d’Elbée. The battle was fought near the town of Luçon in Vendée, France, the Royalists were defeated by French Republican forces.
Battle of Lucka The Battle of Lucka occurred on May 31, 1307 near the village of Lucka, which was first mentioned in 1320, but had already existed for around the around 700 years before that. Lucka is located in Altenburger Land in Turingia.
Battle of Lugdunum The Battle of Lugdunum, also called the Battle of Lyon, was fought on 19 February 197 at Lugdunum (modern Lyon, France), between the armies of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and of the Roman usurper Clodius Albinus. Severus' victory allowed him to become the sole ruler of the Roman Empire.
Battle of Lushunkou The Battle of LĂĽshunkou was a major land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War. It took place on 21 November 1894 in LĂĽshunkou, Manchuria (present day Liaoning Province, China) between the forces of Meiji Japan and Qing China.
Battle of Lutter The Battle of Lutter (Lutter am Barenberge) took place during the Thirty Years' War on 27 August 1626 between the forces of the Protestant Christian IV of Denmark and those of the Catholic League. Lutter am Barenberge lies to the south of the modern town of Salzgitter, then within the Imperial Circle Estate of Lower Saxony, and now in northwest Germany.
Battle of LwĂłw (1918) Battle of LwĂłw of 1918 and 1919 was a six months long conflict between the forces of West Ukrainian People's Republic, local civilian population and regular Polish Army for the control over the city of LwĂłw (modern Lviv), in what was then a part of Galicia and now a part of Ukraine. The battle sparked the Polish-Ukrainian War, ultimately won by the Poland.
Battle of LwĂłw (1920) During the Polish-Soviet War of 1920 the city of LwĂłw (modern Lviv, Ukraine) was attacked by the forces of Aleksandr Yegorov. Since mid-June 1920 the 1st Cavalry Army of Semyon Budyonny was trying to reach the city from the north and east.
Battle of LwĂłw (1939) The Battle of LwĂłw (sometimes called the Siege of LwĂłw) was a battle for the control over the Polish city of LwĂłw between the Polish Army and the invading Wehrmacht and the Red Army. The city was seen as the key to the so-called Romanian Bridgehead and was defended at all cost.
Battle of Świecino The Battle of Świecino (named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17 1462 during the Thirteen Years' War. The Poles commanded by Piotr Dunin, consisting of some 2000 mercenaries decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, having some 2700 mercenaries, commanded by Fritz Raweneck and Kaspar Nostyc.
Battle of Şelimbăr The Battle of Şelimbăr (Hungarian: Sellenberk; German: Schellenberg) was one of the great events in medieval Romanian history. It took place on 18 October 1599 between the Wallachian army of Michael the Brave (Romanian: Mihai Viteazul) and the Transylvanian-Hungarian army of Andrew Bathory.
Battle of Ţuţora (1620) The Battle of Ţuţora (also known as Battle of Cecora) was a battle between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (assisted by Moldavian troops) and Ottoman forces (backed by Nogais), fought from September 17 to October 7 1620 in Moldavia, near the Prut river.
Battle of Łódź (1914) The Battle of Łódź took place from November 11 to December 6, 1914, near the city of Łódź in Poland. It was fought between the German Ninth Army and the Russian First, Second, and Fifth Armies, in appalling winter conditions.
Battle of Mackinac Island (1812) The Battle of Mackinac Island (1812) was a British victory in the War of 1812. The British captured the island soon after the outbreak of war between Britain and the United States, causing large numbers of Indians to rally to their support.
Battle of Maclodio The Battle of Maclodio was fought on 11 October 1427, resulting in a victory for the Venetians under Carmagnola over the Milanese under Carlo I Malatesta. The battle was fought at Maclodio (or Macalo) a small town near the River Oglio, fifteen kilometres (nine miles) south-west of Brescia.
Battle of Macragge Macragge is a rocky, hostile world situated within the Eastern Fringe of the Galaxy in the Warhammer 40,000 science fiction mythos. It was there that the Tyranid Hive Fleet Behemoth battled the Ultramarines chapter of Space Marines.
Battle of Macroom The Battle of Macroom was fought in 1650, near Macroom, County Cork, in southern Ireland, during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. An English Parliamentarian force under Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery defeated an Irish Confederate force under David Roche.
Battle of Mactan The Battle of Mactan was fought in the Philippines on April 27, 1521. The warriors of Lapu-Lapu, a chieftain of Mactan Island, defeated Spanish sailors and soldiers under Portuguese sea captain and explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo The Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo (also Battle of Cuneo) yielded a major victory for the armies of France and Spain over the Kingdom of Sardinia in the War of the Austrian Succession. It was fought on the outskirts of Cuneo on September 30, 1744.
Battle of Magdhaba The Battle of Magdhaba took place near the tiny Egyptian outpost of Magdhaba in the Sinai desert, some 22 miles from El Arish on the Mediterranean coast. In late 1916 the Turkish forces in the Sinai that had been menacing the British-controlled Suez Canal had retreated to the Palestine border, leaving garrisons at Magdhaba and Rafa.
Battle of Magersfontein The Battle of Magersfontein was fought on December 11, 1899 at Magersfontein, on the borders of Cape Colony and the Orange Free State. General Piet Cronje and his Boer troops defeated British troops under Lord Methuen.
Battle of Magnesia The Battle of Magnesia was fought in 190 BC near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia (modern Turkey), between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, the famed general Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum against the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire. The resulting decisive Roman victory ended the conflict for the control of Greece.
Battle of Maguaga The Battle of Maguaga (also known as the Battle of Monguagon) was a small battle between British troops, Canadian militia and Tecumseh's natives and a larger force of American troops near the Wyandot village of Maguaga in what is now the city of Trenton, Michigan.

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