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Battle of Santiago The Battle of Santiago is the name given to a particularly unsavoury and infamous football match during the 1962 World Cup Finals. It was a game played between hosts Chile and Italy on June 2, 1962 in Santiago .
Battle of Santiago de Cuba The Battle of Santiago de Cuba, fought between Spain and the United States on 3 July 1898, was the largest naval engagement of the Spanish-American War, and resulted in the destruction of the Spanish Caribbean Squadron (also known as the Flota de Ultramar).
Battle of Saragarhi The Battle of Saragarhi was fought on 12 September 1897 between twenty one Sikhs of the 4th Battalion (then 36th Sikhs) of the Sikh Regiment of India, defending an army post, and 10,000 Afghan and Orakazais tribesmen. The battle occurred in the North-West Frontier Province, now a part of Pakistan, which then formed part of British India.
Battle of Saraighat The Battle of Saraighat was fought in 1671 between the Mughals (led by Kachwaha king Raja Ramsingh I), and the Ahoms (led by Lachit Borphukan, the Ahom governor of Guwahati) on the Brahmaputra river at Saraighat near Guwahati. Although considered to be the weaker force, the Ahom army defeated the Mughal by using a combination of guerrilla tactics, psychological warfare and military intelligence.
Battle of Saratoga The Battle of Saratoga in September and October 1777 was a decisive American victory over a British army invading from Canada during the American Revolutionary War. The Battle of Saratoga includes two small battles (Battle of Freeman's Farm and the Battle of Bemis Heights) which took place 9 miles to the south of present-day Saratoga, in Stillwater.
Battle of Sarimbun Beach The Battle of Sarimbun Beach or the Sarimbun Beach Battle was an assault of the Japanese army against Allied forces in Singapore in February 1942. This beach at Sarimbun was the first site where Japanese troops entered into Singapore during World War II.
Battle of Sark The Battle of Sark , sometimes known as the Battle of Lochmaben Stone, was fought in October 1448 as part of the intermittent border war between England and Scotland left over from the Wars of Independence of the preceding century. It was the largest battle fought on the borders between Homildon in 1402 and Flodden in 1513.
Battle of Sasireti The Battle of Sasireti took place in 1042 at the village of Sasireti in the present day Shida Kartli region, not far from the town of Kaspi, during the civil war in the Kingdom of Georgia. It resulted in a decisive defeat of the army of King Bagrat IV by the rebel feudal lord Liparit IV, Duke of Kldekari.
Battle of Saturn's Rings The Battle of Saturn's Rings is a Fictional Battle depicted in the episode 6 of the Robotech animated series. In the Robotech timeline, it was the first major engagement in space between the two armies and took place before the Battle of Mars.
Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu The Battle of Saucourt occurred between Danish forces of pagan Viking warriors and the Christian troops of King Louis III of France on 3 August 881 at Saucourt-en-Vimeu. Louis was victorious in what must have been a rare pitched battle against the northern raiders.
Battle of Sauchieburn The Battle of Sauchieburn was fought on June 11, 1488, at the side of Sauchie Burn, a brook about two miles south of Stirling, Scotland. The battle was fought between as many as 30,000 troops of King James III and some 18,000 troops raised by Scottish nobles who favored the King's then-15-year-old son, Prince James.
Battle of Saule The Battle of Saule (German: Schlacht von Schaulen, , ) was fought on September 22,1236 between the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and pagan Samogitians. Having been defeated, the remnants of the Livonian Brethren accepted incorporation into the Teutonic Order in 1237.
Battle of Savo Island The Battle of Savo Island, also known as the First Battle of Savo Island and, in Japanese sources, as the First Battle of the Solomon Sea (第一次ソロモン海戦), took place August 8–9, 1942, and was a naval battle of the Pacific Campaign of World War II, between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval forces. The battle was the first major naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands campaign.
Battle of Scarrifholis The battle of Scarrifholis was fought in Donegal in north-western Ireland, on the 21st of June 1650, during the Irish Confederate Wars – part of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It was fought between the Irish Catholic Ulster Army, commanded by Heber MacMahon, Bishop of Clogher and an English Parliamentarian army commanded by Charles Coote and composed of troops from the New Model Army and local British Protestant settlers.
Battle of Sedgemoor The Battle of Sedgemoor was fought on 6 July 1685. and took place near Bridgwater in Somerset between the troops of the rebel James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth and James II of England in an attempt to seize the English throne, the "Monmouth Rebellion".
Battle of Segale The nobility of Ethiopia had grown uneasy with the rule of Emperor Iyasu V. At last, on 27 September while Iyasu was absent from the capital Addis Ababa, the nobles convinced Abuna Mattewos to excommunicate Iyasu on the accusation of having converted to Islam, and announced that he had been deposed in favor of Empress Zawditu.
Battle of Segesvár The Battle of Segesvár (Romanian: Sighişoara) took place on July 31 1849 between forces of the Hungarian Transylvanian Army under the command of General Józef Bem and the Russian V Corps under the Russian General Alexander Lüders.
Battle of Segou El Hadj Umar Tall, a Toucouleur conqueror who swept across West Africa from Fouta Djallon, invaded Segou and found an already shaken Bambara Empire. Better prepared and equipped, Umar Tall's mujahideen readily and easily defeated the Bambara, seizing SĂ©gou itself on March 10, 1861, forcing the population to convert to Islam, and declaring an end to the Bambara Empire.
Battle of Sekigahara The , popularly known as the , was a decisive battle on October 21, 1600 that cleared the path to the Shogunate for Tokugawa Ieyasu. Though it would take three more years for Tokugawa to consolidate his position of power over the Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, Sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa bakufu, the last shogunate to control Japan.
Battle of Sellasia The Battle of Sellasia was a battle that took place in 222 BC between the armies of Antigonus III Doson, King of Macedonia, and Cleomenes III, King of Sparta. The Spartan Forces were massacred and Cleomenes fled to Egypt.
Battle of Seminara The Battle of Seminara, part of the First Italian War, was fought in Calabria on June 28, 1495 between a French garrison in recently-conquered southern Italy and the allied forces of Spain and Naples which were attempting to reconquer these territories. Against the redoubtable combination of gendarmes and Swiss mercenary pikemen in the French force, the allies had only Neapolitan troops of indifferent quality and a small corps of lightly-armed Spanish soldiers, accustomed to fighting the Moors of Spain.
Battle of Sendanno The battle of Sendanno was a battle during the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan, one of many fought by daimyo (feudal lords) who sought to suppress the anti-samurai uprisings of the IkkĹŤ-ikki. The Ikki were mobs of peasants, commoners, monks and low-ranking samurai who desired the overthrow of the daimyo.
Battle of Seneffe The Battle of Seneffe was fought on August 11, 1674 and resulted in a draw.The armies were under the command of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (France) and the Dutch-Spanish-Austrian army under William III of Orange.
Battle of Sentinum The Battle of Sentinum was the decisive battle of the Third Samnite War, fought in 295 BC near Sentinum (next to Sassoferrato, Marche), in which the Romans were able to overcome a formidable coalition of Samnites, Etruscans, Umbrians, and their Gallic allies. The result was a Roman victory and Rome went on to unify Central Italy.
Battle of Seonghwan The Battle of Seonghwan (Japanese: 成歓作戦) was the first major land battle of the First Sino-Japanese War. It took place on 29 July 1894 at Seonghwan, outside of Asan, Chungcheongnam-do Korea between the forces of Meiji Japan and Qing China.
Battle of Serravalle The Battle of Serravalle took place on June 2, 1544, during the Italian War of 1542. A Spanish-Imperial army under Alfonso d'Avalos d'Aquino, Marquis del Vasto, defeated a force of freshly-raised Italian mercenaries in French service, commanded by Pietro Strozzi and Giovan Francesco Orsini, Count of Pitigliano.
Battle of Seven Oaks (1816) The Battle of Seven Oaks (known to the Métis as la Victoire de la Grenouillière, or the Victory of Frog Plain) took place on June 19th 1816 during the long dispute between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies in western Canada. Because of a shortage of food in 1814, Miles Macdonell had issued a proclamation prohibiting the export of food called the Pemmican Proclamation.
Battle of Seven Pines The Battle of Seven Pines, also known as the Battle of Fair Oaks or Fair Oaks Station, took place from May 31 – June 1, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as part of the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of an offensive up the Virginia Peninsula by Union Major General George B.
Battle of Sezawa The battle of Sezawa was one of many battles fought by Takeda Shingen in his bid to take control of Shinano Province. Here, he was opposed by the combined forces of Ogasawara Nagatoki, Suwa Yorishige, Murakami Yoshikiyo, and Kiso Yoshiyasu, but defeated them all.
Battle of Shaho The Battle of Shaho was a land battle of the Russo-Japanese War fought along a 37-mile front centered at the Sha River on the Mukden–Port Arthur spur of the China Far East Railway just north of Liaoyang, Manchuria.
Battle of Shamkor Fought on June 1, 1195 near the city of Shamkor, Arran (present day Shamkir, Azerbaijan), the Battle of Shamkor was a major victory won by the Georgian army, commanded by David Soslan, over the army of the Azerbaijani Atabeg Abu Bakr.
Battle of Shanghai The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the twenty-two major engagements fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the entire war.
Battle of Shanhai Pass Battle of Shanhai Pass (山海关之战), fought in Shanhaiguan, China, was the decisive battle leading to the formation of the Qing Dynasty in China. Qing leader Dorgon, along with former Ming general Wu Sangui, defeated rebel Li Zicheng's forces, allowing Dorgon and the Qing to rapidly conquer Beijing and replace the Ming Dynasty.
Battle of Shelon The Battle of Shelon (Шелонская битва in Russian) was a decisive battle between the Muscovite forces and the army of the Novgorod Republic, which took place on the Shelon River on July 14 of 1471.
Battle of Shepherdstown The Battle of Shepherdstown, also known as the Battle of Boteler's Ford, took place from September 19–20, 1862, in Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia), as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War.
Battle of Shiloh The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought on April 6 and April 7 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and P.
Battle of Shimbra Kure The Battle of Shimbra Kure was fought in March of 1529 between the forces of Adal led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, and the Ethiopian army, under Dawit II(Liben Digel). Despite being outnumbered, Adal was victorious due to an elite company of matchlockmen.
Battle of Shinohara Following the Battle of Kurikara, Minamoto no Yoshinaka caught up with the retreating Taira no Munemori. An archery duel by champions on both sides preceded general fighting, which included several celebrated instances of single combat.
Battle of Shiojiritoge The 1548 battle of Shiojiritoge was one of many battles fought by Takeda Shingen in his bid to conquer Japan's Shinano Province. It took place soon after Shingen suffered a devastating loss in the battle of Uedahara; he sought revenge, and to return to a string of victories.
Battle of Shirimni The Battle of Shirimni also known as the Battle of Palakazio was fought between the Byzantine and Georgian armies at the place of Shirimni at the Palakazio Lake (now Çildir, Turkey; then part of Georgia) on September 11 1021.
Battle of Shizugatake In May, 1583, a former general of Nobunaga's named Shibata Katsuie coordinated a number of simultaneous attacks on these fortresses, believing that Hideyoshi could not defend all his forts at once. To that end, Oda Nobutaka attacked the castle at ĹŚgaki, distracting Hideyoshi while Sakuma Morimasa launched his attack on Shizugatake.
Battle of Schöngrabern The Battle of Schöngrabern (also known as the Battle of Hollabrunn) was an engagement in the Napoleonic Wars during the War of the Third Coalition, fought on 16 November 1805, four weeks after the Battle of Ulm and two weeks before the Battle of Austerlitz.
Battle of Schellenberg The Battle of Schellenberg was fought during the War of the Spanish Succession on 2 July, 1704. The fort of Schellenberg overlooks the walled town of Donauwörth on the Danube River in Bavaria, southern Germany.
Battle of Scheveningen The Battle of Scheveningen (also known as the Battle of Texel or the Battle of Ter Heijde) was the final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War. It took place on 8–10 August 1653 between the fleets of the Commonwealth of England and the United Provinces.
Battle of Schooneveld The Battles of Schooneveld were two naval battles of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, fought off the coast of the Netherlands on 7 and 14 June 1673 between an allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and the fleet of the United Provinces, commanded by Michiel de Ruyter. The Dutch victories in the two battles, and at the Battle of Texel that followed in August, saved their country from an Anglo-French invasion.
Battle of Schuinshoogte Battle of Schuinshoogte Also known as Ingogo, was a battle fought on February 8, 1881 during the First Boer War. General Sir George Pomeroy Colley's communications with Newcastle were under constant harassment by mounted Boer patrols under Commander J D Weilbach after the Battle of Laing's Nek (another British defeat) and as a result the General made it his plan to clear a clean unmolested path along the Newcastle-Mount Prospect road in order to better protect the British supply line, and receive fresh reinforcements he needed to bolster his ranks.
Battle of Schwaderloh The Battle of Schwaderloh took place on April 11, 1499 near Triboltingen, a village on the Swiss shores of the Untersee just south of Constance. It was one of the major battles of the Swabian War between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the forces of the Swabian League and of emperor Maximilian I.
Battle of Siffin The Battle of Siffin (May-July 657 CE) occurred during the First Fitna, or First Muslim civil war, with the main engagement taking place from July 26 to July 28. It was fought between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I, on the banks of the Euphrates river, in what is now Syria.
Battle of Signal Hill The Battle of Signal Hill was fought on September 15, 1762 in the closing months of the French and Indian War. Although modest as regards the number of troops, the battle was the final battle of the Seven Years' War in North America and forced the French to surrender St.
Battle of Siikajoki The Battle of Siikajoki was fought between Swedish and Russian troops on April 18 1808 at Siikajoki, near Oulu, Finland. During the first stage of the Finnish War the Swedish commander Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor had decided to retreat from southern Finland.
Battle of Simancas The Battle of Simancas was a military battle that took place in 939 AD in the Iberian Peninsula between the troops of the Christian king Ramiro II of Leon and Muslim caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III near the walls of the city of Simancas. The battle decided the control of the lands of the Duero.
Battle of Sinhagad The Battle of Sinhagad was a night battle that took place on February 4, 1670 in the fort of Sinhagad, near the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India between the Maratha narvir Tanaji and the Udaybhan of Mughals. The Marathas defeated the Mughal forces.
Battle of Sinop The naval Battle of Sinope (or Sinop) took place on 30 November 1853 at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey, when Imperial Russian battleships annihilated a force of Ottoman frigates. It is often considered to be the last major battle of the epoch of sailing and the first battle of the Crimean War (1854–1856).
Battle of Sipe-Sipe The Battle of Sipe-Sipe was an important battle in the South American wars of independence in which the United Provinces of RĂ­o de la Plata (the insurgents in the old Spanish viceroyalty of the same name) were decisively defeated by Spanish royalist forces in Alto PerĂş (now Bolivia). The battle took place on November 29, 1815, and resulted in the loss of Alto PerĂş by the insurgents.
Battle of Sirmium The Battle of Sirmium or Battle of Zemun (Hungarian: zimonyi csata) was fought on July 8 1167 between the Byzantine Empire (also known as Eastern Roman Empire), and the Kingdom of Hungary. The Byzantines achieved a decisive victory, forcing the Hungarians to sue for peace on Byzantine terms.
Battle of Sishui Pass The Battle of Sishui Pass (汜水關之戰) was a fictional battle of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It is said to have taken place in 190, near the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty of China.
Battle of Sitka The Battle of Sitka (1804) was the last major armed conflict between Europeans and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years prior. The primary combatant groups were the native Tlingits of Sheet’-ká X'áat'l (Baranof Island) and agents of the Russian-American Company.
Battle of Skafida The battle of Skafida(Bulgarian: Битка при Скафида) occurred in 1304 near Sozopol, Bulgaria. As a result the Bulgarian Empire overcame the crisis from the end of the 13th century, achieved internal stability and regained most of Thrace.
Battle of Slim Buttes The Battle of Slim Buttes was fought on September 8–9, 1876, in the Dakota Territory between the United States Army and Miniconjou Sioux during the Black Hills War. It marked the first significant victory for the army since the stunning defeat of George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn in June.
Battle of Slivnitsa Called by historians the "Battle of the captains vs the generals," referring to the young Bulgarian army, whose highest rank went up to a captain, the Battle of Slivnitsa was a decisive factor in the victory of the Bulgarian army over the Serbians on November 17-19, 1885. It solidified the unification between the kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
Battle of Sluis (1603) The Battle of Sluis was a naval battle during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch fleet defeated a Spanish squadron led by the Portuguese captain Federico Spinola. Though the Spanish outnumbered the Dutch, they were defeated after a lengthy and harsh battle.
Battle of Sluys The naval Battle of Sluys was fought on 24 June 1340 as one of the opening conflicts of the Hundred Years' War. It is significant as it resulted in the destruction of most of France's fleet ensuring that the remainder of the war would mostly be fought in France and not carried over to an invasion of England.
Battle of Smolensk (1812) The First Battle of Smolensk took place on August 17 1812, between 175,000 men of the Grande Armée under Napoleon Bonaparte and 130,000 Russians under Prince Bagration, of whom about 50,000 and 60,000 respectively were actually engaged. Bagration's corps occupied the town of Smolensk, which Napoleon attacked, carrying two of the suburbs.
Battle of Smolensk (1941) The Battle of Smolensk (July 10-September 10, 1941) refers to the fierce engagement of the German Army Group Centre with the Soviet Army at Smolensk on the Eastern Front of World War II. The Soviets referred to this conflict as the Great Patriotic War.
Battle of Smolensk (1943) The second Battle of Smolensk (7 August 1943 – 2 October 1943), also known as Operation Suvorov, was a major World War II offensive by the Red Army in western Russia. Staged almost simultaneously with the Battle of the Dnieper, the offensive lasted 2 months and was led by Generals Andrei Yeremenko and Vasily Sokolovsky.
Battle of Smoliani At the Battle of Smoliani (November 13-November 14, 1812), the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein defeated the French forces of Marshal Claude Victor and Marshal Nicholas Oudinot. This battle was the last effort of the French to reestablish their northern flank in Russia, known as the “Dwina Line”.
Battle of Sobraon The Battle of Sobraon was fought on February 10, 1846 between the forces of the British East India Company and the Khalsa, the army of the Sikh kingdom of the Punjab. The Sikhs were completely defeated, making this the deciding battle of the First Anglo-Sikh War.
Battle of Soissons (486) The Battle of Soissons in the year 486 was a milestone for the Franks (under Clovis I) in their attempt to establish themselves as a major power. It was fought between the Franks and the remains of the Western Roman Empire (the inaccurately named Kingdom of Soissons), under Syagrius.
Battle of Soissons (718) The Battle of Soissons of 718 was the last of the great pitched battles of the civil war between the heirs of Pepin of Heristal. Since Pepin's death in December 714, his grandson and heir Theudoald, his widow Plectrude, his bastard son Charles Martel, his successor as mayor of the palace in Neustria Ragenfrid, and the new king Chilperic II had been waging a war for ascendancy.
Battle of Soissons (923) The Battle of Soissons in 923 was a battle during which King Robert I of France was killed, possibly by King Charles III, and the latter was defeated and imprisoned by Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy who succeeded Robert I as French monarch.
Battle of Solachon The Battle of Solachon was fought in 586 between the Byzantines, led by General Philippicus (Emperor Maurice brother in law), and the Sassanids. The fighting occurred because the Byzantine Empire refused to pay a tribute to Persia.
Battle of Solebay The naval Battle of Solebay took place on 7 June 1672 and was the first naval battle of the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A fleet of 75 ships of the United Provinces, commanded by Lieutenant-Admirals Michiel de Ruyter, Adriaen Banckert and Willem Joseph van Ghent, surprised a joint Anglo-French fleet of 93 at anchor in Solebay (nowadays Sole Bay), Suffolk, on the east coast of England.
Battle of Solferino The Battle of Solferino was fought on June 24, 1859 and resulted in the victory of the allied French Army under Napoleon III and Kingdom of Sardinia Army under Victor Emmanuel II (together known as the Franco-Sardinian Alliance) against the Austrian Army under Emperor Francis-Joseph (also known as Franz Joseph). Over 200,000 soldiers fought in this important battle, the largest since the Battle of Leipzig in 1813.
Battle of Solicinium The Battle of Solicinium was fought in 367 between a Roman Empire army and the Alamanni. The Roman force was lead by Emperor Valentinian I, and they managed to repel the Alamanni, but suffered heavy losses during the battle.
Battle of Solomon The Battle of Solomon was a major engagement in the anime and manga series Mobile Suit Gundam. It was one of the desicive battles of the devastating One Year War and often considered the turning point of the war in space (the Odessa Campaign being the equivalent on Earth itself).
Battle of Somosierra In the Battle of Somosierra (November 30, 1808) an outnumbered Spanish force failed to to prevent Napoleon from capturing Madrid. It took place on at the Somosierra pass in the Sierra de Guadarrama north of Madrid in the Peninsular War.
Battle of Soncino The Battle of Soncino was a battle of the Wars in Lombardy, fought in Mach 1431. It was fought between the armies of the Republic of Venice, under Count of Carmagnola, and of the Duchy of Milan, under Francesco I Sforza.
Battle of Song Be The Battle of Song Be was a major action between the NLF (Viet Cong) and ARVN, the South Vietnamese army. Planned as a major show of force against the rapidly collapsing ARVN forces, the NLF attempted to capture the capital of Phuoc Long province, Song Be.
Battle of Soor The Battle of Soor was fought on September 30, 1745 between Prussian and Austro-Saxon forces. The Prussians were led by Frederick the Great, while the Austro-Saxons were led by Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
Battle of Sorauren The Battle of Sorauren was part of a series of engagements in late July 1813 called the Battle of the Pyrenees in which a combined British and Portugese force under Sir Arthur Wellesley held off Marshal Soult's French forces attempting to relieve San Sebastian.
Battle of South Mills The Battle of South Mills, also known as the Battle of Camden, took place on April 19, 1862 in Camden County, North Carolina as part of Union Army General Ambrose E. Burnside's North Carolina expedition during the American Civil War.
Battle of South Mountain The Battle of South Mountain (known in several early Southern accounts as the Battle of Boonsboro Gap) was fought September 14, 1862, as part of the Maryland Campaign of the American Civil War. Three pitched battles were fought for possession of three South Mountain passes: Crampton's, Turner's, and Fox's Gaps.
Battle of South Shanxi The Battle of South Shanxi (), also known as the Battle of Jinnan and as Chungyuan Operation by the Japanese, it was one of the 22 major engagements between the National Revolutionary Army and Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Battle of Southern Buh The battle of Southern Buh occurred near the banks of the so called river, in modern Ukraine. The result was a great Bulgarian victory which forced the Magyars to leave forever the steppes of southern Ukraine and to establish the strong Kingdom of Hungary a hundred years later.
Battle of Spion Kop The Battle of Spion Kop (Afrikaans: Slag van Spioenkop) was fought about 38 km (21 miles) west-south-west of Ladysmith on the hilltop of Spioenkop(1) along the Tugela River, Natal in South Africa. The battle was fought between Boer and British forces from 23-24 January 1900 as part of the Second Boer War, and resulted in a famous British defeat during the Boer War.
Battle of Springfield (1780) The Battle of Springfield was a battle fought in the American Revolutionary War. Long thought to have been a raid in force, British records came to light in the 1800's that showed it was an attempt at gaining a strategic foothold in New Jersey by capturing the American headquarters in Morristown.
Battle of Springfield I The First Battle of Springfield or Zagonyi's Charge was a battle of the American Civil War that occurred on October 25, 1861, in Greene County, Missouri. It was the only Union victory in southwestern Missouri in 1861.
Battle of St Pol de Leon The battle of St Pol de LĂ©on was a minor action during the Breton War of Succession and thus part of the larger Hundred Years War conflict. The battle was fought in June 1346 and marked a minor turning point in the fortunes of the Montfortists and their English allies in Brittany following several setbacks including the imprisonment and subsequent death of their leader, John de Montfort.
Battle of St. Kitts The Battle of St Kitts, also known as the Battle of Frigate Bay, took place on 25 and 26 January 1782 during the American Revolutionary War between a British fleet under Rear-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood and a larger French fleet under the Comte de Grasse.
Battle of St. Mathieu The naval Battle of St Mathieu took place on 10 August 1512 during the War of the League of Cambrai, near Brest, France, between an English fleet of 25 ships commanded by Edward Howard and a French fleet of 22 ships commanded by René de Clermont. After the English launched a surprise attack, all of the French ships except for Marie de la Cordelière and Nef de Dieppe retreated back to Brest, and these 2 ships fought 5 English ships (including Regent, Sovereign, Mary Rose and Mary James) for 7 hours before Regent and Marie de la Cordelière, stuck together, caught fire, probably caused by the English, and burned.
Battle of St. Quentin (1557) The Spanish won a significant victory over the French in the Battle of San Quentin (1557) during the Franco-Habsburg War (1551-1559), which Philip II of Spain resumed having gained English support with Queen Mary as an ally.
Battle of Stadtlohn The Battle of Stadtlohn was fought on August 6, 1623 between Catholic and Protestant forces during the Thirty Years' War. The Catholics were led by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, while the Protestants were led by Duke Christian of Brunswick.
Battle of Stamford Bridge The Battle of Stamford Bridge in England is often considered to mark the end of the Viking era in England.This fits badly within Scandinavian definitions of the period and the nature of the Norwegian invasion — Harald Hardråde was pursuing dynastic claims with an army of Norwegians, Norwegians vassals, and allies, with the intent of conquest, not raiding or colonization.
Battle of Stanhope Park The Battle of Stanhope Park was fought in northern England in August 1327 and forms part of the Wars of Scottish Independence. It was the centrepiece of the Weardale campaign, the first taste of war for the recently crowned Edward III of England.
Battle of StaszĂłw The Battle of StaszĂłw was part of the Polish January Uprising of 1863. When the uprising erupted StaszĂłw became a gathering place for Russian infantry and artillery in the area, on the belief that Commander Marian Langiewicz was headquartered in the town.
Battle of Staunton River Bridge The Battle of Staunton River Bridge was an engagement on June 25 1864 between Union and Confederate forces. The battle took place around the Staunton River Bridge, over the Staunton River, in Halifax and Charlotte counties, Virginia, during the American Civil War.
Battle of Stångebro The Battle of Stångebro took place at Linköping, Sweden on September 25, 1598, and effectively ended the personal union between Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, that had only existed since 1592. In the battle, an army of 12,000 commanded by Duke Charles defeated an army of 8,000 commanded by King Sigismund.
Battle of Steenkerque The Battle of Steenkerque (Steenkerque also spelled Steenkerke or Steenkirk) was fought on August 3 1692, as a part of the Nine Years War. It resulted in the victory of the French under marshall François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg against a joint British-Dutch-German army under Prince William of Orange.
Battle of Stillman's Run The Battle of Stillman's Run was the first armed confrontation between the forces of the Illinois Militia, and Black Hawk's Sauk Indian Band. The battle would end in an unexpected victory for Black Hawk, but it would seal the fate of his followers.
Battle of Stockach (1799) The Second Battle of Stockach was a battle of the War of the Second Coalition, fought between the French Consulate and the Austrian Empire. The French force of 40,000 was led by Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, while the Austrian force of 60,000 was led by Archduke Charles.

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