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Battle of Mons Badonicus In the Battle of Mons Badonicus (English Mount Badon, Welsh Mynydd Baddon) Romano-British and Celts severely defeated an invading Anglo-Saxon army some time in the decade before or after 500. It is a major political/military event of the 5th and 6th centuries in Britain, but there is no certainty about its date or place.
Battle of Mons Graupius The Battle of Mons Graupius took place in 83 or 84. Gnaeus Julius Agricola, the Roman governor had sent his fleet ahead to panic the Caledonians, and, with light infantry reinforced with British auxiliaries, reached the site, which he found occupied by the enemy.
Battle of Montaperti The Battle of Montaperti was fought on September 4, 1260, between Florence and Siena in Tuscany as part of the conflict between the Guelphs and Ghibellines. It gained notoriety for an act of treachery that turned the tide of the battle, which was immortalised by Dante Alighieri in his poem The Divine Comedy.
Battle of Monte Cassino The Battle of Monte Cassino (also known as the Battle for Rome and the Battle for Cassino) was a costly series of four battles in World War II, fought by the Allies with the intention of breaking through the Winter Line and seizing Rome. The Gustav Line was anchored by Germans holding the Rapido, Liri and Garigliano valleys and certain surrounding peaks and ridges, but not the historic abbey of Monte Cassino, founded in 524 AD by St.
Battle of Monte Pelato The Battle of Monte Pelato ("Bald Mountain") was an engagement of the Spanish Civil War fought on 28 August, 1936. It was notable as the first major engagement of the Italian anti-fascist volunteers of the Matteotti Battalion.
Battle of Monte Porzio The Battle of Monte Porzio or Battle of Tusculum was fought between a small hill outside Tusculum and the city walls, location "Prataporci", on 29 May 1167. The "greatest army which Rome had sent into the field in centuries"Gregorovius.
Battle of Montebello (1800) The Battle of Montebello was fought on 9 June 1800 near Montebello in Lombardy. During the lead-up to the Battle of Marengo, the vanguard of the French army in Italy engaged and defeated an Austrian force in a "glorious victory".
Battle of Montebello (1859) The Battle of Montebello (1859) was fought on May 20th, 1859 at Montebello (Lombardy). It was a minor engagement of the Second Italian War of Independence, fought between Piedmontese cavalry and French infantry against Austrian troops.
Battle of Montenotte The Battle of Montenotte was fought on 12 April 1796, during the French Revolutionary Wars, between French forces under General Bonaparte and Austro-Sardinian force under Count Argenteau. The battle was fought near the village of Montenotte, in northwestern Italy, and ended in a French victory.
Battle of Montereau The Battle of Montereau was fought near Montereau-Fault-Yonne on February 18, 1814 and resulted the victory of the French under Napoleon Bonaparte against Austrians and the WĂĽrttembergeois under Royal Prince of WĂĽrttemberg.
Battle of Montiel The Battle of Montiel was fought in 1369 between Franco-Castilian forces, and an alliance of pro-English forces led by the Portuguese. Henry II of Castile led the Franco-Castilian force, while Pedro of Castile led the Portuguese force.
Battle of Montmirail The Battle of Montmirail was a battle fought during the Six Days Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. It was fought on February 11 1814 in France and resulted the victory of the French under Napoleon Bonaparte over the Russians under General Fabian Wilhelm von Osten-Sacken and the Prussians under General Johann Yorck.
Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge NC The Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was fought near Wilmington, North Carolina, on February 27, 1776, between North Carolina patriots and Scottish Loyalists. The American victory helped spur sentiment for the revolution and increased recruitment of additional soldiers into their forces.
Battle of Moreuil Wood The Battle of Moreuil Wood (March 30, 1918) took place on the banks of the Arve River in France, where the 3rd British Cavalry Brigade with the attached Canadian Cavalry Brigade attacked and forced the German 243rd Division to withdraw from the Moreuil Woods, a commanding position on the river bank. This defeat at the hands of the Allies contributed to the halt of the springtime German offensive of 1918.
Battle of Morval The Battle of Morval, which began on 25 September, 1916, was an attack by the British Fourth Army on the German-held villages of Morval, Gueudecourt and Lesboeufs during the Battle of the Somme. These villages were originally objectives of the major British offensive of 15 September, the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.
Battle of Moscow The Battle of Moscow (, Romanized: Bitva za Moskvu) refers to the Soviet defense of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet counter-offensive that occurred between October 1941 and January 1942 on the Eastern Front of World War II against German forces. Adolf Hitler considered Moscow, which was the capital of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the largest Soviet city, to be the primary military and political objective for the Axis forces in their invasion of the Soviet Union.
Battle of Mosul (731) The Battle of Mosul was a battle that took place during the Second Khazar-Arab War between the armies of the Khazar Khaganate, led by the khagan's son Barjik, and the Umayyad Caliphate, whose commanding general may have been Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik. After the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Marj Ardebil, the Arabs made a last-ditch stand outside Mosul to halt the Khazar incursion into Iraq, which threatened the Umayyad capital at Damascus.
Battle of Motien Pass The Battle of Motien Pass was a minor land conflict of the Russo-Japanese War, between the Imperial Japanese Army under General Kuroki Tamemoto and the Imperial Russian Army under General Count Fedor Keller over control of a strategic mountain pass on the main road between the coast and Liaoyang, Manchuria on 27 June 1904.
Battle of Mount Tabor The Battle of Mount Tabor or Skirmish of Mount Tabor opposed French forces under General Kleber to an Ottoman force led by the Pasha of Damascus on 16 April 1799. General Bonaparte was besieging Acre and to relieve the siege Damascus sent its army.
Battle of Mount Zion Church The Battle of Mount Zion Church was a battle of the American Civil War, which occurred on December 28, 1861 in Boone County, Missouri. The resulting Union victory here and elsewhere in central Missouri curtailed Confederate recruiting activities in the region.
Battle of Mouquet Farm The Battle of Mouquet Farm, which began on 8 August, 1916, was part of the Battle of the Somme and followed the Battle of Pozières. During the battle, the Australian divisions of I Anzac Corps advanced northwest along the Pozières ridge towards the German strongpoint of Mouquet Farm, with British divisions supporting on the left.
Battle of Moyry Pass The Battle of Moyry Pass (Bealach na mhaighre in Irish) was fought during September and October 1600 in counties Armagh and Louth, in the north of Ireland, during the Nine Years War. It was the first significant engagement of forces following the cessation of arms agreed in the previous year between the rebel Hugh O'Neill and the crown commander, the Earl of Essex.
Battle of Mughar Ridge The Battle of El Mughar Ridge on 13 November 1917 took place at Junction Station, where the Haifa-Jerusalem line branches to Beersheba. The battle succeeded in causing the Ottoman Seventh and Eighth Armies to withdraw towards Jerusalem and Haifa respectively.
Battle of Mukden The Battle of Mukden (Japanese: 奉天会戦 Hōten kaisen), the last major land battle of the Russo-Japanese War, was fought from 20 February to 10 March, 1905 between Japan and Russia near Mukden in Manchuria. The city is now called Shenyang, the capital of Liaoning province in China.
Battle of Mulhouse The Battle of Mulhouse (or MĂĽlhausen), which began on August 9th 1914, was the opening attack of World War I by the French army against Germany. The battle was part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace, which the French had ceded to Germany after their defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71.
Battle of Mulroy The Battle of Mulroy was fought in August 1688 in the Lochaber district of Scotland between the MacDonalds of Keppoch and the Mackintoshes of Clan Chattan, their nominal overlords. It is sometimes described as the last of the private battles between clans of the kind fought in the Highlands in ages past; but the Mackintoshes had official support for their actions against the Macdonalds, and their army was in part made up of government troops.
Battle of Munfordville The Battle of Munfordville (also known as the Battle of Green River) was a September 1862 engagement in Kentucky during the American Civil War. The victory allowed the Confederates to temporarily strengthen their hold on the region and impair Union supply lines.
Battle of Munychia The Battle of Munychia was fought between Athenians exiled by the oligarchic government of the Thirty Tyrants and the forces of that government, supported by a Spartan garrison. In the battle, a substantially superior force composed of the Spartan garrison of Athens and the army of the oligarchic government attacked a hill in Piraeus (the Munychia) which had been seized by 1,000 exiles under Thrasybulus, but were defeated.
Battle of Muroyama The battle of Muroyama was one of many battles of the 12th century Japanese civil war known as the Genpei War. At Muroyama, Minamoto no Yukiie tried to recoup the loss of the Battle of Mizushima by attacking Taira forces.
Battle of Mutina The Battle of Mutina was fought on April 21, 43 BC between the forces of Marc Antony and the forces of Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus and Aulus Hirtius, who were providing aid to one of Caesar's assassins, Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus.
Battle of Muzayyah When Khalid ibn Walid gone from Ain-ul-Tamr to Daumat ul jandal for the help of Ayadh. The Persian court believed that Khalid had returned to Arabia with a large part of his army, Persians decided to throw the Muslims back into the desert and regain the territories and the prestige which the Empire had lost.
Battle of Mycale The Battle of Mycale was one of the two major battles that ended the Persian invasion of Greece, during the Greco-Persian Wars. The battle took place on or about August 27, 479 BC on the slopes of Mount Mycale, in mainland Ionia opposite the island of Samos.
Battle of Myeongnyang In the Battle of Myeongnyang, on October 26 1597, the Korean admiral Yi Sunsin fought the Japanese navy at sea in Myeongnyang Strait, near Jindo Island. He only had 13 ships, which was all that was left from Won Kyun's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chilchonryang.
Battle of Mylae The Battle of Mylae took place in 260 BC, during the First Punic War, off the coast of Mylae, Sicily, and was the first real naval battle between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic. The result was a decisive Roman victory.
Battle of Myonessus The naval Battle of Myonessus was fought in 190 BC within the war of Rome against Antiochus III the Great for the domination over Greece, between a Seleucid Empire fleet and a Roman plus Rhodian fleet. The Romans were victorious.
Battle of Nagashino The took place in 1575 at Nagashino Castle in the Mikawa province of Japan. The castle had been under siege by Takeda Katsuyori since the 17th of June; Okudaira Sadamasa, a Tokugawa vassal, commanded the defending force.
Battle of Naissus The Battle of Naissus took place in September of 268 between the armies of the Goths and forces of the Roman Empire, led by Emperor Gallienus and the future Emperors Claudius II as Commander in chief and Aurelian as cavalry commander.
Battle of Namaraq The Battle of Namaraq was a conflict between the Muslim forces of the Caliph Umar against the Persian army commanded by Jaban, taking place September 634 in Namaraq near modern day Kufa. The battle ended in the defeat of the Persians, who lost heavily.
Battle of Nancy Despite the disasters of 1476 Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, remained confident that 1477 would bring an upturn in the fortunes of his beloved Burgundy. From the accounts of the siege of Nancy it is obvious that not all his followers shared such optimism, as it is recorded that one Burgundian noble was hanged for treason after suggesting that the Duke should be loaded into a bombard and fired into Nancy.
Battle of Nanchang The Battle of Nanchang (Traditional Chinese: 南昌會戰, Simplified Chinese: 南昌会战) was a major battle between the Chinese National Revolutionary Army and the Japanese Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was the first major conflict to occur following the Chinese defeat at the Battle of Wuhan.
Battle of Nanjing The Battle of Nanjing () began after the fall of Shanghai in October 9, 1937, and ended with the fall of the capital city of Nanjing in December, 1937 to Japanese troops, a few days after the Republic of China Government had evacuated the city and relocated to Chongqing. The Nanking Massacre followed the fall of the city.
Battle of Nanri Island The Battle of Nanri Island (南日島戰役) was a conflict between the Republic of China Army and the People's Liberation Army, over PRC owned Nanri island near Mainland China. This conflict occurred from April 11, 1952 to April 15, 1952 and resulted in a ROCA victory with complete destruction of PLA forces.
Battle of Nanshan The Battle of Nanshan (Japanese: 南山の戦い Nanzan no tatakai) was one of many vicious land battles of the Russo-Japanese War. It took place on 25 May, 1904 across a two-mile wide defense line across the narrowest part of the Liaotung peninsula, covering the approaches to Port Arthur and on the 116 meter high Nanshan hill, outside the present-day city of Dalian, Liaoning, China.
Battle of Nantwich The Battle of Nantwich took place during the English Civil War, between the forces of Parliament and of King Charles I to the northwest of the town of Nantwich in Cheshire on 26 January 1644 (some sources say 24 January). The town was occupied by Parliamentary forces in what was predominantly a county with Royalist sympathies.
Battle of Narva - Battle for the Narva Bridgehead (1944) The Battle of Narva was a battle, or more correctly a campaign, which took place between January and September 1944. The battle was fought on the Eastern Front during World War II between the forces of the German Heeresgruppe Nord and the Soviet Volhkov and Leningrad Fronts.
Battle of Narva - Battle of the Tannenbergstellung (1944) The Battle of Narva was a battle, or more correctly a campaign, which took place between January and September 1944. The battle was fought on the Eastern Front during World War II between the forces of the German Heeresgruppe Nord and the Soviet Volhkov and Leningrad Fronts.
Battle of Narva (1700) The Battle of Narva was an early battle in the Great Northern War fought in November of 1700. The Swedish army under King Charles XII of Sweden defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva in a stunning tactical victory.
Battle of Narva (1944) The Battle of Narva was a battle, or more correctly a campaign, which took place between January and September 1944. The battle was fought on the Eastern Front during World War II between the forces of the German Army Group North and the Soviet Volhkov and Leningrad Fronts.
Battle of Nashinokidaira The 1526 battle of Nashinokidaira was one of many battles fought between the Takeda and HĹŤjĹŤ clans in Japan's Sengoku period. On 8 July of that year, the battle was won by Takeda Nobutora over HĹŤjĹŤ Ujitsuna.
Battle of Nashville The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15 and December 16, 1864.
Battle of Nassau The Battle of Nassau (March 2 – March 3, 1776) was a naval action and amphibious assault by American forces against British-occupied Nassau, Bahamas during the American Revolutionary War. It is considered the first cruise and one of the first engagements of the United States Navy, and the first action of the newly-created Continental Marines, the progenitor of the United States Marine Corps.
Battle of Natural Bridge The Battle of Natural Bridge was a battle during the American Civil War, fought near Tallahassee, Florida on March 6, 1865. A small band of Confederate troops and volunteers, mostly composed of teenagers from the nearby university that would later become Florida State University and the elderly, protected by breastworks, prevented Union troops from crossing the Natural Bridge on the St.
Battle of Naulochus The naval Battle of Naulochus was fought on 3 September 36 BC between the fleets of Sextus Pompeius and Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, off Naulochus Cape, Sicily. The victory of Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, marked the end of the Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate.
Battle of Naupactus (429 BC) The Battle of Naupactus was a naval battle in the Peloponnesian War. The battle, taking place a week after the Athenian victory at Rhium set an Athenian fleet of 20 ships, commanded by Phormio against a Peloponnesian fleet of 77 ships, commanded by Cnemus.
Battle of Navarino The naval Battle of Navarino was fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence (1821–29) in Navarino Bay, western Greece, on the Ionian Sea. A combined Ottoman and Egyptian armada was destroyed by a combined British, French and Russian naval force, at the port of Navarino.
Battle of Nájera (Navarrete) The Battle of Nájera, also known as the Battle of Navarrete, was fought on 3 April 1367 between English and Franco-Castilian forces near Nájera, in the province of La Rioja, Spain. The English were led by Edward, the Black Prince, and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, allied with Pedro of Castile (called "The Cruel") against his brother Henry of Trastámara.
Battle of Nîmes The Battle of Nîmes took place shortly after the capture and destruction of Avignon in 737. Charles Martel failed to capture the Umayyad city of Narbonne but devastated most of the other principal settlements of Septimania, including Nîmes, Agde, Béziers and Maguelonne, which he viewed as potential strongholds of the Saracens.
Battle of Nördlingen (1634) The Battle of Nördlingen was fought on September 6, 1634 during the Thirty Years' War. The Catholic Imperial army, bolstered by 18,000 professional Spanish troops under the Cardinal-Infante, won a decisive victory over the Protestant army of Sweden and Saxony.
Battle of Nördlingen (1645) The second Battle of Nördlingen (or Battle of Allerheim) was fought on August 3, 1645 between forces of the Holy Roman Empire and France. An Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz, Freiherr von Mercy, were encamped around the village of Alerheim near Nördlingen in Bavaria.
Battle of Nedao The Battle of Nedao, named after the Nedava, a tributary of the Sava, was a battle fought in Pannonia in 454. After the death of Attila the Hun, allied forces of the Germanic subject peoples under the leadership of Ardaric, king of the Gepids, defeated the Hunnic forces of the son of Attila, who had struggled with his half-brother Ardaric (Aladar) for supremacy after Attila's death, and eventually killed him in single combat.
Battle of Negapatam (1758) The Battle of Negapatam was an indecisive battle between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral George Pocock and French squadron under Comte d'Aché off the Carnatic coast of India near Negapatam during the Seven Years' War. The battle took place on 3 August 1758.
Battle of Negapatam (1782) The Battle of Negapatam was the third in the series of battles fought between a British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes and a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren off the coast of India during the American Revolutionary War. The battle was fought on July 61782.
Battle of Nemea The Battle of Nemea (394 BC) was a battle in the Corinthian War, between Sparta and the allied cities of Argos, Athens, Corinth, and Thebes. The battle was fought in Corinthian territory, at the dry bed of the Nemea River.
Battle of Neretva The Battle of Neretva also known by the German code-name Fall Weiss (German for "Case White"), and known in Yugoslavia as the Fourth enemy offensive (Serbo-Croatian ÄŚetvrta neprijateljska ofenziva) was a German strategic plan for a combined Axis attack launched in early 1943 against the Partisans throughout occupied Yugoslavia, in the fascist puppet Independent State of Croatia, during the Second World War. The offensive took place between January and April 1943.
Battle of Nesbit Moor The Battle of Nesbit Moor (or Nisbet Muir) was a small but significant clash between Scottish and English forces in the borders area north of the River Tweed. In 1402, Scottish nobles launched a coordinated invasion of Northern England.
Battle of New Bern The Battle of New Bern (also known as the Battle of New Berne) was fought on March 14, 1862, near the city of New Bern, North Carolina, as part of Burnside's North Carolina Expedition of the American Civil War.
Battle of New Market The Battle of New Market was a battle fought on May 15, 1864, in Virginia during Valley Campaigns of 1864 in the American Civil War. Cadets from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) fought alongside the Confederate Army and forced Union General Franz Sigel and his army out of the Shenandoah Valley.
Battle of New Orleans The Battle of New Orleans, also known as the Battle of Chalmette Plantation, took place on January 8, 1815, at the end of the War of 1812, when the American forces under General Andrew Jackson decisively defeated an invading British army intent on seizing New Orleans and control of the Mississippi River. The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the war, had been signed—though not ratified by the United States—over two weeks earlier, but the news had not yet reached the Southern front.
Battle of New Ross The Battle of New Ross was a minor battle of the Irish Confederate Wars fought in 1643. In the battle, James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde defeated Thomas Preston, 1st Viscount Tara, and an Irish Confederate army north of the town of New Ross.
Battle of New Ross (1798) The Battle of New Ross took place in county Wexford in south-eastern Ireland, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. It was fought between the Irish Republican insurgents called the United Irishmen and British Crown forces composed of regular soldiers, militia and yeomanry.
Battle of Newburn The Battle of Newburn was fought on 28 August 1640 during the Second Bishops' Wars between a Scottish Covenanter army led by General Alexander Leslie and English royalist forces commanded by Edward, Lord Conway. Conway, heavily outnumbered, was defeated, and the Scots went on to occupy the port of Newcastle, obtaining a stranglehold on London's coal supply.
Battle of Newtown The Battle of Newtown (29 August 1779), was the only major battle of the Sullivan Expedition, an armed offensive led by General John Sullivan that was ordered by the Continental Congress to end the threat of the Iroquois who had sided with the British in the American Revolutionary War.
Battle of Ngasaunggyan The Battle of Ngasaunggyan was fought in 1277 between Kublai Khan's Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China, and their neighbors to the south, the Pagan Empire (in present-day Myanmar) led by Narathihapate. The battle was initiated by Narathihapate, who invaded the Yunnan province of China.
Battle of Nibley Green The Battle of Nibley Green was fought on March 20, 1469/1470, between the troops of Thomas Talbot, 2nd Viscount Lisle and William Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley. It is notable for being the last battle fought in England entirely between the private armies of feudal magnates.
Battle of Nicaea The Battle of Nicaea was fought in 193 between the forces of Septimus Severus and his eastern rival, Pescennius Niger. Severus defeated his rival, and ended his bid for the Roman Empire the next year at Issus.
Battle of Nietjärvi The Battle of Nietjärvi (July 15 to July 17, 1944) was part of the Continuation War (1941-1944) - between Finland and the Soviet Union -, which occurred during the World War II. The battle ended in a decisive Finnish victory, which ultimately helped to ensure Finland's continuous independence.
Battle of Nineveh (627) The Battle of Nineveh was the climactic battle of the last of the Roman-Persian Wars between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire, in 627. The Byzantine victory broke the power of the Sassanid dynasty and for a period of time restored the empire to its ancient boundaries in the Middle East.
Battle of Nisbis The Battle of Nisbis took place between the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire under the command of General Belisarius and Sassanid Persians under Kavadh I in year 530 during the Iberian War. Kavadh I, with the aid of Lakhmids defeated Belisarius's forces resulting into a Sassanid victory after Persian defeat in the previous Battle of Dara.
Battle of Nivelle The Battle of Nivelle (November 10, 1813) took place in front of the River Nivelle near the end of the Peninsular War (1808-1814). After the Allied siege of San Sebastian, the Wellesley's 80 000 British and Spanish troops (20 000 of the spaniards were untried in battle) were in hot pursuit of Marshal Soult who only had 60 000 men to place in a 20 mile parameter.
Battle of Nola (216 BC) The First Battle of Nola was fought in 216 BC between the forces of Hannibal and a Roman force led by Marcus Claudius Marcellus. Hannibal was attempting to seize the town of Nola: He failed, and would make two more unsuccessful attempts on the city in the next two years.
Battle of Noreia The Battle of Noreia in 112 BC, was the opening action of the Cimbrian War fought between the Roman Republic and the migrating Proto-Germanic tribes the Cimbri and the Teutons (Teutones). It ended in defeat, and near disaster, for the Romans.
Battle of Normandy The Battle of Normandy was fought in 1944 between Nazi Germany in Western Europe and the invading Allied forces as part of the larger conflict of World War II. Over sixty years later, the Normandy invasion, codenamed Operation Overlord, still remains the largest seaborne invasion in history, involving almost three million troops crossing the English Channel from England to Normandy in then German-occupied France.
Battle of North Cape In the World War II naval Battle of the North Cape, ships of the British Royal Navy sank the German light battleship Scharnhorst off Norway's North Cape on December 26 1943. It may be the northernmost naval battle in history.
Battle of Northampton (1264) In April 1264 an encounter took place, as part of the Baron's War wherein Henry III of England besieged Simon de Montfort's supporters who were holed in at Northampton Castle. De Montfort mounted a rear-guard rescue attempt but on April 6 1264 the castle fell and De Montfort's son (another Simon) was captured by the King's forces.
Battle of Noryang Point The naval Battle of Noryang Point was the final battle of the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592-1598) between the Japanese navy and the allied Korean and Chinese fleets. The battle took place on December 16 (November 19 in Lunar calendar), 1598.
Battle of Notium The Battle of Notium (or Ephesus) in 406 BC, was a Spartan naval victory in the Peloponnesian War. Prior to the battle, the Athenian commander, Alcibiades, left his helmsman, Antiochus, in command of the Athenian fleet, which was blockading the Spartan fleet in Ephesus.
Battle of Novara (1849) The Battle of Novara or Battle of Bicocca (Bicocca is a borough of Novara) was one of the battles fought between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia during the First Italian War of Independence, within the era of Italian unification. Lasting the whole day of March 22, 1849 and ending at dawn on March 23, it resulted in a severe defeat and retreat of the Piedmontese (Sardinian) army.
Battle of Novi (1799) The battle of Novi was a battle in the French Revolutionary Wars that was fought on August 15, 1799. It resulted in a victory for the Austrians and Russians under Fieldmarshal Alexander Suvorov over the French under General Barthelemy Catherine Joubert.
Battle of Numistro The Battle of Numistro was fought in 210 BC between Hannibal's army and a Roman army led by consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus. The battle was inconclusive, since the long battle ended with Hannibal retreating, and Marcellus hunting him until Asculum the following year.
Battle of Oak Grove The Battle of Oak Grove, also known as the Battle of French's Field or King’s School House, took place on June 25, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia as part of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War.
Battle of Obertyn The Battle of Obertyn (September 22, 1531) was fought between Moldavian Prince Petru RareĹź and the Polish King Zygmunt Stary, in the town of Obertyn, north of the Dniester River, now in Ukraine. The battle ended with a Polish victory and the reconquest of Pokutia.
Battle of Ocana In the Peninsular War, the Battle of Ocana was fought on November 19, 1809 and resulted in a victory of the French under Marshal Soult against the Spanish under General Don Juan de Arizagua. It was the Spanish army's greatest single defeat during the entire conflict.
Battle of Odaihara The 1546 battle of Odaihara was one of many steps taken by Takeda Shingen, one of Japan's great warlords of the Sengoku period, in his bid to take over Shinano province. He met the forces of Uesugi Norimasa on the plains of Odaihara, and defeated Uesugi's army while devoting a portion of his own force to the concurrent siege of nearby Shika castle.
Battle of Odelltown The Battle of Odelltown was fought on November 9, 1838 between Loyal volunteer forces under Lewis Odell and Charles McAllister and Lower Canada rebels under Robert Nelson, MĂ©dard HĂ©bert and Charles Hindelang. The Patriote rebels were defeated in this battle, the last one of the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1838.
Battle of Ohaeawai The Battle of Ohaeawai was fought between British forces and local Māori during July 1845 at Ohaeawai in the North Island of New Zealand. The battle was notable in that superior British forces were beaten by outnumbered Māori.
Battle of Okehazama The battle of Okehazama (桶狭間の戦い Okehazama-no-tatakai) took place in June 1560. In this battle, Oda Nobunaga defeated Imagawa Yoshimoto and established himself as one of the front-running warlords in the Sengoku period.
Battle of Okinawa The Battle of Okinawa, fought on the Japanese island of Okinawa was the largest amphibious assault during the Pacific campaigns of World War II. The planning for the amphibious assault and ensuing battle was codenamed Operation Iceberg by the Allies.
Battle of Old Byland The Battle of Old Byland was a significant encounter between Scots and English troops in Yorkshire in October 1322, forming part of the Wars of Scottish Independence. It was a victory for the Scots, the most significant since Bannockburn, though on a far smaller scale.
Battle of Old Fort Wayne The Battle of Old Fort Wayne (also known as Maysville, Beattie's Prairie, or Beaty’s Prairie) was an American Civil War battle on October 22, 1862 in Delaware County in what is now eastern Oklahoma, a part of the Trans-Mississippi Theater.
Battle of Oliwa The naval Battle of Oliwa or Battle of Gdańsk Roadstead took place on 28 November 1627 during the Polish-Sweden War outside Danzig (Gdańsk) harbour. It is commonly known as the Battle of Oliva (Polish: Oliwa), named after a village which at present is a district of Gdańsk.

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