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Battle of Omdurman At the Battle of Omdurman (September 2, 1898) an army commanded by the British General Sir Horatio Kitchener defeated the army of the successor to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad, Abdullah al-Taashi. It was a bloody demonstration of the superiority of machine guns and artillery over older weapons and marked the success of British efforts to re-conquer the Sudan.
Battle of Omosu The 1580 battle of Omosu was one of many battles fought between the HĹŤjĹŤ and Takeda clans during Japan's Sengoku period. It is distinguished, however, as one of the very few naval battles to be fought in pre-modern Japan.
Battle of Ongala The battle of Ongala took place in the summer of 680 in the Ongala area, an unspecified location in southern Ukraine, slightly to the north of the Danube delta. The battle had an enormous significance and influence not only for the Balkan but also for the European history with the creation of the first Slavic state, Bulgaria.
Battle of Oravais The Battle of Oravais (fi: Oravaisten taistelu, sv: Slaget vid Oravais) is sometimes regarded as the turning point of the Finnish War: the last chance for Sweden to turn the war to her advantage. It was the bloodiest battle of the conflict, which some historians attribute to the exhaustion, resignation and desperation of the Swedish army: it was losing the war.
Battle of Orewin Bridge The Battle of Orewin Bridge was fought between English and Welsh armies on December 11, 1282 near Builth Wells in mid-Wales. It was a decisive defeat for the Welsh because their leader, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd was killed, and this effectively ended the independence of Wales.
Battle of Orgreave The Battle of Orgreave is the name given to a confrontation between police and picketing miners at a British Steel coking plant in Orgreave, South Yorkshire, in 1984, during the UK miners' strike. In 2001 it was the subject of a historical reenactment.
Battle of Oriskany The Battle of Oriskany was one of the bloodiest battles in the American Revolutionary War and a significant engagement of the Saratoga campaign. It also has the distinction of being one of the few battles of the war where all of the participants were North American: Loyalists and Native Americans fought against Patriots in the absence of British soldiers.
Battle of Ormoc Bay The Battle of Ormoc Bay was a series of air-sea battles between Imperial Japan and the United States in the Camotes Sea in the Philippines between 11 November 1944 and 21 December 1944, part of the Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II. The battles resulted from Japanese operations to reinforce and resupply their forces on Leyte and US attempts to interdict them.
Battle of Orsha The Battle of Orsha took place September 8, 1514, between the forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland (less than 30,000 troops), under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Muscovy under Konyushy (конюший, "Tsar's Equerry") Ivan Chelyadnin (Иван Челяднин) and Kniaz (Prince) Mikhail Golitsa (Михаил Голицын). The Battle of Orsha was part of a long chain of the Russo-Lithuanian Wars conducted by Russian rulers striving to gather all the Old Ruthenian lands under their rule.
Battle of Orthez The Battle of Orthez was fought on February 27, 1814, between the First French Empire and the forces of the Allies. The Allied forces were led by Sir Arthur Wellesley, while the French were led by Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult.
Battle of Ortona The Battle of Ortona (December 20, 1943 to December 27, 1943) was a small yet extremely fierce battle fought between German Fallschirmjäger (paratroops), and assaulting Canadians forces from the 1st Canadian Division. It was considered among Canada's greatest achievements during the war.
Battle of Osel Island This battle took place 24 May 1719, during the Great Northern War. Fought near the island of Saaremaa, it was a victory for the Russian captain Naum Senyavin, whose forces captured three enemy vessels, sustaining as few as eighteen casualties.
Battle of Ostrołęka The Battle of Ostrołęka of May 26, 1831, was one of the largest battles of the November Uprising. Throughout the entire day, the Polish forces under Jan Skrzynecki fought for the control over the town of Ostrołęka against the assaulting Russian forces of Hans Karl von Diebitsch.
Battle of Ostrovo The Battle of Ostrovo occurred in 1041 near Ostrovo, an area close to the lake of the same name in modern northern Greece. In 1040 Peter Delyan led an uprising against the Byzantines and was proclaimed Emperor of Bulgaria.
Battle of Ostrowno The Battle of Ostrowno took place on July 25 and 26 1812, between the French corps of Marshal Ney and Prince Eugene, with Marshal Murat's cavalry, and the Russian corps of Count Alexander Osterman and Pyotr Konovnitsyn. The Russians sternly repelled the attacks of the outnumbering enemy, giving Barclay de Tolly a three-day advantage over the French.
Battle of Overloon The Battle of Overloon (Code named "Operation Aintree") took place between September 30th and October 18th 1944. During the battle some 2500 soldiers died making it one of the bloodiest battles in the Netherlands during the Second World War.
Battle of Pabaiskas Battle of Pabaiskas (also known as the Battle of Vilkomir) took place on September 1, 1435 near UkmergÄ—. The forces of Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund Kestutaitis with the help of Polish military units defeated Ĺ vitrigaila, and his Livonian Order allies.
Battle of Pacocha The naval Incident of Pacocha took place on 6 May 1877 when Nicolas de Pierola was leading a revolution to overthrow then Peruvian President Mariano Ignacio Prado. Piérola used the Peruvian monitor Huáscar as a raiding ship.
Battle of Pagan The Battle of Pagan was fought in 1287 between Kublai Khan's Mongol Yuan dynasty of China, and their neighbors to the south, the Pagan Empire. The battle was initiated by the Mongols, who sensed opportunity in the political turmoil caused by their successful 1283 invasion of the Pagan Empire in the Battle of Bhamo.
Battle of Pagsanjan The Battle of Pagsanjan was a small skirmish between the 1st Battalion of Sharpshooters, under the command of Brigadier General Charles King, and Philippine Nationalists during the Laguna Campaign of the Philippine-American War.
Battle of Pakchon The Battle of Pakchon was a battle in the Korean War between the 27th Commonwealth Brigade and an unknown number of Chinese and North Korean troops. The battle took place around the small village of Pakchon and around the Taeryoung River.
Battle of Palermo The naval Battle of Palermo took place on 2 June 1676 during the Franco-Dutch War, between a French force led by Abraham Duquesne and an Spanish force supported by a Dutch maritime expedition force. Largely due to the fact that the Dutch and Spanish ships were at bay making repairs from earlier a battle, the French fleet destroyed 4 Spanish and 3 Dutch Ships with fireships.
Battle of Palkhed Battle of Palkhed was a land battle that took place on February 28, 1728 at the village of Palkhed, near the city of Nashik, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha Peshwa, Baji Rao I and the Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad. The Marathas defeated the Nizam.
Battle of Palo Alto The Battle of Palo Alto was the first major battle of the Mexican-American War and was fought on May 8, 1846, on disputed ground five miles (8 km) from the modern-day city of Brownsville, Texas. A force of some 3,400 Mexican troops (a portion of the Army of The North) led by General Mariano Arista, with the de La Vega & Garcia Infantry Brigades & the Torrejon Cavalry Brigade engaged a force of 2,400 United States troops — the so called US Army of Observation.
Battle of Palonegro On May 26th, 1900, in the beginning days of the Thousand Days War, the commanding general of the Liberal armies, Gabriel Vargas Santos, ordered his troops to retire to Palonegro. Few could have imagined the affect it would have on Colombian history.
Battle of Pancorbo The Battle of Pancorbo was one of the opening engagements in Napoleon's invasion of Spain. On October 31, 1808, Marshal Lefebvre bloodied the Army of Galicia under Lieutenant General JoaquĂ­n Blake but failed to encircle or destroy it, upsetting both the Emperor and the French strategic situation.
Battle of Panium The Battle of Panium was fought in 198 BC between Seleucid and Ptolemaic forces as part of the Syrian Wars. The Seleucids were led by Antiochus III the Great, while the Ptolemaic army was led by Scopas of Aetolia.
Battle of Pankalia The Battle of Pankalia (Pancalia) was fought between the army loyal to the Byzantine emperor Basil II and the forces of the rebel general Bardas Skleros. It took place to the west of Caesarea, in the thema of Charsianon on 24 March 979.
Battle of Panormus The Battle of Panormus was fought in 251 BC between a Roman consular army led by Lucius Caecilius Metellus and Carthaginians led by Hasdrubal during the First Punic War. The resulting Roman victory allowed for Panormus to remain in Roman control for the remainder of the war.
Battle of Papudo The Naval Battle of Papudo was a naval engagement fought between Spanish and Chilean forces on November 26, 1865, during the Chincha Islands War. It was fought 55 miles north of Valparaiso, Chile, near the coastal town of Papudo.
Battle of Pasir Panjang The Battle of Pasir Panjang was initiated upon the advancement of elite Imperial Japanese Army forces towards Pasir Panjang at Pasir Panjang Ridge on 13 February 1942 during World War II in the Battle of Singapore. 13,000 Japanese troops had made an amphibious landing in the northwest part of Singapore near Sarimbun, and had started to advance south towards Pasir Panjang.
Battle of Pass of Brander The Battle of the Pass of Brander in Scotland forms a small part of the wider struggle known as the Wars of Scottish Independence, and a large part of the civil war between the Bruce and Balliol factions, a parallel and overlapping conflict. It was a victory for King Robert Bruce over the MacDougalls of Argyll, kinsmen of John Comyn, also known as the Red Comyn, who had been murdered by Bruce and his adherents at Dumfries in 1306.
Battle of Pavan Khind Battle of Pavankhind was a rear guard battle that took place on July 13, 1660 at a mountain pass in the vicinity of fort Vishalgad, near the city of Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha sardar Baji Prabhu and Siddi Masud of Adilshah. The Marathas held the Adilshahi forces till Shivaji reached the fort Vishalgad.
Battle of Pavón The Battle of Pavón was fought in Pavón, in the province of Santa Fé, Argentina, on September 17, 1861, between the Army of Buenos Aires, commanded by Bartolomé Mitre, and the National Army, commanded by Justo José de Urquiza.
Battle of Paye The Battle of Paye was a great morale boosting victory for the Filipinos during the Philippine-American War. It was fought on December 19, 1899 near San Mateo in Morong (now Rizal) between the forces of General Henry W.
Battle of Pákozd The Battle of Pákozd happened on September 29, 1848 during the Revolution of 1848, near Pákozd in central Hungary. The outcome, a Hungarian victory, was an important victory for the outnumbered Hungarian troops against the forces of Ban Josip Jelačić.
Battle of Pea Ridge The Battle of Pea Ridge (also known as Elkhorn Tavern) was a land battle of the American Civil War, fought on March 7 and 8, 1862, at Pea Ridge in northwest Arkansas, near Bentonville. In the battle, Union forces led by General Samuel R.
Battle of Pelagonia The Battle of Pelagonia took place in September of 1259, between the Empire of Nicaea and the Principality of Achaea. It was a decisive event in the Near East history, ensuring the Byzantine reconquest of Constantinople and the end of the Latin Empire in 1261, and marks the beginning of the Byzantine recovery of Greece.
Battle of Pelekanon The Battle of Pelekanon or Battle of Pelekanos occurred on June 10-11, 1329 between an expeditionary force by the Byzantines led by Andronicus III and an Ottoman army led by Orhan I. The Byzantines were again defeated, with no further attempt made at relieving the cities in Anatolia under Ottoman siege.
Battle of Peleliu The Battle of Peleliu, like the bloody World War II island campaigns before it, was a fight to capture an airstrip on a speck of coral in the Western Pacific. And, as with previous island battles, the Americans would prevail, but at a higher cost than anticipated, against the determined resistance of the Japanese forces.
Battle of Pell's Point The Battle of Pell's Point, also known as the Battle of Pelham, was a skirmish during the American Revolutionary War]. It took place on [[October 18, 1776, in what is now part of Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, New York City.
Battle of Pensacola (1781) The Battle of Pensacola marked the culmination of Spain's reconquest of Florida from Britain during the American Revolutionary War. Commanded by Field Marshal Bernardo de Gálvez, Governor of Louisiana and architect of the successful Spanish campaign, a powerful flotilla of warships neutralized outer British defences and began an amphibious siege of the town on March 9.
Battle of Peralta The Battle of Peralta was a minor engagement near the end of Confederate General Henry Hopkins Sibley's 1862 New Mexico Campaign. Retreating after the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Confederate troops of the 5th Texas Mounted Volunteers under Colonel Thomas Green camped in the town of Peralta, New Mexico and planned to cross a series of irrigation canals the next day.
Battle of Perryville The Battle of Perryville, also known as Battle at Perryville and Battle of Chaplin Hills, was an important but largely neglected encounter in the American Civil War. It was fought on October 8, 1862, in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky.
Battle of Perugia The Battle of Perugia was fought in the winter of 41 BC and 40 BC between Octavian and Lucius Antonius, the brother of Marc Antony, who was aided by Antony's wife, Fulvia. Octavian's forces were victorious, obtaining the surrender of Perugia.
Battle of Petersburg I The first Battle of Petersburg was a minor, unsuccessful Union assault against the city of Petersburg, Virginia, June 9, 1864. Due to the rag-tag group of defenders involved, it is sometimes known as the Battle of Old Men and Young Boys.
Battle of Petersburg II The Second Battle of Petersburg, also known as the Assault on Petersburg, was the major attempt by the Union Army to take Petersburg, Virginia, before the main Confederate Army could reinforce the city. The failure of the Union to defeat the Confederates in these actions resulted in the start of the ten-month Siege of Petersburg.
Battle of Petersburg III The Third Battle of Petersburg, also known as the Breakthrough at Petersburg or the Fall of Petersburg, was a decisive Union assault on the Confederate trenches, ending the ten-month Siege of Petersburg and leading to the fall of Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia.
Battle of Petsamo (1939) The Battle of Petsamo was fought between Finnish and Soviet troops in the area of Petsamo in the far north of Finland. The Finnish troops were greatly outnumbered but managed to contain the Soviet troops due to the extreme terrain and weather.
Battle of Pharsalus The Battle of Pharsalus was fought at Pharsalus (Greece) on August 9 48 BC, between the Populares faction, led by Gaius Iulius Caesar, and the Optimates faction, led by Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, of the Roman Republic. The victory of Caesar weakened the Senatorial forces and solidified his control over the Republic.
Battle of Philiphaugh The Battle of Philiphaugh was fought on September 13 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders. The Royalist army of the Marquess of Montrose was destroyed by the Covenanter army of Sir David Leslie, restoring the power of the Committee of Estates.
Battle of Philippi The Battle of Philippi was the final battle in the Wars of the Second Triumvirate between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian (the Second Triumvirate) against the forces of Julius Caesar's assassins Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus in 42 BC, at Philippi in Macedonia. The Second Triumvirate declared this civil war to avenge Julius Caesar's murder.
Battle of Philippi Races The Battle of Philippi, also called The Philippi Races, was fought on June 3, 1861, in and around Philippi, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Operations in Western Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the first organized land action in the Eastern Theater of the war, but is often treated dismissively as a skirmish rather than a significant battle.
Battle of Phuoc Long The Battle of Phuoc Long took place in Phuoc Long Province, about 100km from South Vietnam's capital, Saigon. The campaign against Phuoc Long reflected North Vietnam's change in policy after the strategic raids of 1974, taking full advantage of South Vietnam's critical military situation.
Battle of Phyle The Battle of Phyle was fought between Athenian exiles who were seeking to restore democracy to Athens and a Spartan garrison trying to protect the oligarchic Thirty Tyrants. In the battle, 700 Athenian exiles under Thrasybulus decisively defeated the Spartans and their Athenian cavalry in a dawn ambush.
Battle of Piave River (1809) The Battle of Piave River was fought on 7 and 8 May 1809 during the War of the Fifth Coalition, between Franco-Italian forces under Prince Eugene de Beauharnais and Austrian forces under General of Cavalry Johann, in north-eastern Italy near the Piave River. The battle ended in a Franco-Italian victory over the Austrians.
Battle of Picacho Pass The Battle of Picacho Pass (also known as the Battle of Picacho Peak) was fought on April 15, 1862 near Picacho Peak, 50 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona, USA. It was fought between a Union cavalry patrol from California and a party of Confederate pickets from Tucson, and 3 Union soldiers were killed.
Battle of Pickett's Mill The Battle of Pickett's Mill was fought on May 27, 1864 in Paulding County, Georgia during the American Civil War between Union and Confederate forces. Union General William Tecumseh Sherman attempted an attack on the right flank of Confederate Joseph E.
Battle of Pindus The Battle of Pindus () took place in the Pindus Mountains in Epirus, Greece in the autumn of 1940. The battle was fought between the Greeks and the Italians during the first stages of the Italian invasion of Greece.
Battle of Pingxingguan The Battle of Pingxingguan, commonly called the "Great Victory of Pingxingguan" (平型关大捷) in Mainland China, was an engagement fought between the 8th Route Army of the Communist Party of China and the Imperial Japanese Army on September 25, 1937. It resulted in a minor, morale-boosting victory in which 8th Route Army was able to capture a cache of weapons and annihilate a Japanese brigade.
Battle of Pinjarra The Battle of Pinjarra was a conflict that occurred in Pinjarra, Western Australia, between a group of 60-80 Australian Aborigines and a detachment of 25 soldiers and policemen led by Governor Stirling in 1834. The name 'battle' has recently been criticised by many Aboriginal activists who aim to rewrite Australian history as an invasion of an Aboriginal land.
Battle of Pinkie Cleugh The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, along the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh on 10 September 1547, was part of the War of the Rough Wooing. It was the last battle to be fought between the Scottish and the English Royal armies and the first "modern" battle to be fought in the British Isles.
Battle of Piraeus (403 BC) The Battle of Piraeus was fought in 403 BC between Athenian exiles who had defeated the government of the Thirty Tyrants and occupied Piraeus and a Spartan force sent to combat them. In the battle, the Spartans narrowly defeated the exiles, with both sides suffering appreciable casualties.
Battle of Pisagua The Battle of Pisagua was fought on November 2, 1879, between Chile and the combined forces of Peru and Bolivia. The Chileans, led by Erasmo Escala, launched an amphibious assault on the port of Pisagua, and successfully drove back the Peruvian-Bolivian force, allowing a force of 10,000 Chileans to land.
Battle of Pistoria The Battle of Pistoria was fought in January of 62 BC between the forces of the Roman Republic and Catiline, a senatorial conspirator who wished to overthrow the republic, but failed in his objective. Catiline had been denounced by Cicero, and was attempting to flee with his force into Gaul and had been blocked by forces of Quintus Metellus Celer and Gaius Antonius Hybrida (joint Consul with Cicero for the year in question).
Battle of Plains Store The Battle of Plains Store or the Battle of Springfield Road was fought May 21, 1863 in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, during the campaign to capture Port Hudson in the American Civil War. The Union victory closed the last Confederate escape route from Port Hudson.
Battle of Plassey The Battle of Plassey (, Pâlāshīr Juddha) was a battle] that took place on [[June 23 1757, on the banks of the Bhagirathi River, about 150 km north of Calcutta. It is near Murshidabad, then the capital of the Nawab of Bengal in India.
Battle of Plataea The Battle of Plataea was the last battle of the Persian Wars in southern Greece. It took place in 479 BC between an alliance of Greek city-states Sparta, Athens, Corinth, Megara, and others against the Persians and with it the Persians were repelled from Greece.
Battle of Plataea (427 BC) The Battle of Plataea was fought in 479 BC between a united Greek army and the invading Persian force under the rule of Xerxes. With a considerable contribution from Sparta, the Persians were defeated, forcing Xerxes to retreat.
Battle of Plattsburgh The Battle of Plattsburg, also known as the Battle of Lake Champlain, ended the final invasion of the northern states during the War of 1812. Fought just prior to the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, the American victory denied the British any leverage to demand exclusive control over the Great Lakes and any territorial gains against the New England states.
Battle of Platzberg (1794) The Battle of Platzberg was fought on July 13, 1794, and resulted in the victory of the French under General Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr against the Prussians under Marshall Moellendorff. Prussian casualties consisted of 5000 men killed or wounded.
Battle of Playa Honda The naval Battle of Playa Honda was the first of 3 known minor conflicts during the Eighty Years' War between the United Provinces and Spain held in the Philippines. It was won by the Dutch, meanwhile the next two were won by the Spanish, although the historical accounts of these battles are not fully verified.
Battle of Pleasant Hill The Battle of Pleasant Hill was fought during the Red River Campaign of the American Civil War on April 9, 1864, near Pleasant Hill, Louisiana, between Union forces led by Nathaniel P. Banks and Confederate forces, the victors of the battle, led by Richard Taylor.
Battle of Plovdiv Following the crushing Russian victory at the last battle of Shipka Pass, Russian commander Joseph Vladimirovich Gourko began to move southeast towards Constantinople. Blocking the route was the Turkish fortress at Plovdiv under Suleiman Pasha.
Battle of Plymouth The naval Battle of Plymouth took place on 26 August 1652 during the First Anglo-Dutch War. General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England, commanding a fleet of forty men-of-war and five fire ships, attacked an outward bound convoy of the United Provinces escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter.
Battle of Podhajce (1698) Battle of Podhajce took place on 8-9 September 1698 near Podhajce in Ruthenian Voivodship during Great Turkish War. 6000 Polish army under command of Field Crown Hetman Feliks Kazimierz Potocki completely crushed Tatar 14 000 expedition there.
Battle of Point Pleasant The Battle of Point Pleasant, sometimes known as the Battle of Kanawha, was the only major battle of Dunmore's War. It was fought on October 10, 1774, primarily between Virginia militia and American Indians from the Shawnee and Mingo tribes.
Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations The Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations were a series of battles fought by the British Indian Army on the China Burma India Theater during World War II that led to the eventual capture of Rangoon. The battle was fought between the 7th Indian Infantry Division and the Japanese.
Battle of Poljana The Battle of Poljana was the last battle of World War II in Europe. It took place on May 15, 1945 at Poljana, near Prevalje and Slovenj Gradec in Slovenia It took place between the Wehrmacht](the Nazi German Army) and [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|Yugoslav partisans.
Battle of Pondicherry The Battle of Pondicherry 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 Pondicherry during the Seven Years' War. The battle took place on 10 September 1759.
Battle of Ponte Novu The Battle of Ponte Novu took place on May 8 and 9, 1769 between royal French forces and the native Corsicans under Pascal Paoli. The battle opened the route through the rugged mountains to the Corsican capital of Corte.
Battle of Pontlevoy The Battle of Pontlevoy was fought on 6 July 1016 between the forces of Fulk III of Anjou and Herbert I of Maine on one side and Odo II of Blois on the other. It was one of the largest battles of early medieval France and was determining of the balance of power in the Loire Valley for years after it was fought.
Battle of Ponza The naval Battle of Ponza took place on 14 June 1300 near the islands of Ponza and Zannone, in the Gulf of Gaeta (NW of Naples), when a galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria defeated an Aragonese-Sicilian galley fleet commanded by Conrad d'Oria.
Battle of Port Republic The Battle of Port Republic was fought on June 9, 1862, in Rockingham County, Virginia, as part of Confederate States Army Major General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Campaign through the Shenandoah Valley during the American Civil War.
Battle of Port Royal The Battle of Port Royal was one of the earliest amphibious operations of the American Civil War, in which a United States Navy fleet and United States Army expeditionary force captured Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, on November 7, 1861.
Battle of Port Walthall Junction The Battle of Port Walthall Junction was fought May 6 – May 7, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. Though initially successful, the Confederates were eventually defeated, allowing Union forces to cut a railroad.
Battle of Portland The naval Battle of Portland, or Three Days' Battle took place during 28 February-2 March, 1653 (Old style), during the First Anglo-Dutch War, when the fleet of the Commonwealth of England under General at Sea Robert Blake was attacked by a fleet of the United Provinces under Lieutenant-Admiral Maarten Tromp escorting merchant shipping through the English Channel. The battle failed to settle supremacy of the English Channel, although both sides claimed victory, and ultimate control over the Channel would only be decided at the Battle of the Gabbard which allowed the English to blockade the Dutch coast until the Battle of Scheveningen, where Admiral Maarten Tromp would meet his fate at the hands of an English musket ball.
Battle of Porto The Battle of Porto took place on March 28 1809, when the French under Marshal Soult completely defeated the Portuguese under Lima Barreto and Pareiras, outside the city of Porto (traditionally called Oporto by the British). Soult followed up his success by storming the city, with horrible slaughter.
Battle of Porto Praya The Battle of Porto Praya was a naval battle which took place during the American Revolutionary War on April 16, 1781 between a British squadron under Commodore Johnstone and a French squadron under the Bailli de Suffren.
Battle of Posada The Battle of Posada (November, 1330) was a battle between the Wallachian Prince Basarab I and Charles I Robert, which resulted in a major Wallachian victory. The Hungarian defeat would be a turning point in the politics of Hungary, as they had to abandon their hopes of extending their kingdom to the Black Sea.
Battle of Potidaea The Battle of Potidaea was, with the Battle of Sybota, one of the catalysts for the Peloponnesian War. It was fought near Potidaea in 432 BC between Athens and a combined army from Corinth and Potidaea, along with their various allies.
Battle of Powick Bridge The Battle of Powick Bridge, fought on 23 September 1642, was the first major cavalry engagement of the English Civil War and it was a decisive victory for the Royalists who overthrew of the Parliamentary cavalry.
Battle of Pozières The Battle of Pozières was a two week struggle for the French village of Pozières, and the ridge on which it stands, during the middle stages of the 1916 Battle of the Somme. While British divisions were in action during most phases of the fighting, Pozières is primarily remembered as an Australian battle.
Battle of Prachuab Khirikhan The Battle of Prachuab Khrikhan was an early engagement of the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II. It was fought on December 8, 1941 at the airfield of Prachuap Khiri Khan in Thailand, on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand along the Kra Isthmus.
Battle of Prairie du Chien The Battle of Prairie du Chien was a British victory in the far western theater of the War of 1812. During the war, Prairie du Chien was a small frontier settlement with residents loyal to both American and British causes.
Battle of Pratapgarh Battle of Pratapgad was a land battle that took place on November 10, 1659 at the fortPratapgarh the city of Satara, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha Chhatrapati Shivaji and the Afzal Khan of Adilshah. The Marathas defeated the Adilshahi forces.
Battle of Preston (1648) The Battle of Preston (17 August – 19 August 1648 resulted in a victory by the troops of Oliver Cromwell over the Royalists and Scots commanded by the Duke of Hamilton. The Parliamentarian victory presaged the end of the Second English Civil War.
Battle of Preston (1715) The Battle of Preston (9 November–14 November 1715), also referred to as the Preston Fight, was fought during the Jacobite Rising of 1715 (often referred to as the First Jacobite Rising, or Rebellion by supporters of the Hanoverian government).
Battle of Prey Veng The Battle of Prey Veng was part of the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam's campaign in Cambodia. It took place in Prey Veng on June 15, 1970, where ARVN and Cambodian troops battled the Vietnam People's Army and Vietcong forces.
Battle of Princeton The Battle of Princeton was a battle of the American Revolutionary War, fought near Princeton, New Jersey, on January 3, 1777. The site is administered as a state park operated and maintained by the New Jersey Division of Parks and Forestry.

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