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Battle of Tolentino The Battle of Tolentino was the decisive battle in the Neapolitan War, fought by the King of Naples Joachim Murat to keep the throne after the Congress of Vienna. It is also considered the first battle of Italian Unification, since Murat issued a proclamation calling for Italian patriots help to unify Italy.
Battle of Tololing The Battle of Tololing was one of the pivotal battles in the Kargil War between India's armed forces and troops from the Northern Light Infantry who were aided by other Pakistan backed irregulars in 1999. The Tololing is a dominant position overlooking the Srinagar - Leh Highway (NH 1) and was a vital link.
Battle of Tom's Brook The Battle of Tom's Brook was fought on October 9, 1864, in Shenandoah County, Virginia during Philip Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign of the American Civil War. It resulted in a significant Union victory, one that was mockingly dubbed The Woodstock Races for the speed of the Confederate withdrawal.
Battle of TomaszĂłw Lubelski Battle of TomaszĂłw Lubelski took place from 17th September to 26th September 1939 near the town of TomaszĂłw Lubelski. It was the second largest battle of the Invasion of Poland (Battle of Bzura was the largest).
Battle of Tondibi The Battle of Tondibi was the decisive confrontation in Morocco's sixteenth-century invasion of the Songhai Empire. Though vastly outnumbered, the Moroccan forces under Judar Pasha defeated the Songhai Askia Ishaq II, guaranteeing the Empire's downfall.
Battle of Tonegawa Battle of Tonegawa the Battle of Tonegawa was a battle during the final years of the Sengoku period (16th century) of Japan. During the year of 1571, the famed Uesugi Kenshin had advanced to the province of Kozuke and had attacked the satellite castle of Takeda Shingen --Ishikura castle--.
Battle of Tong Pass The Battle of Tong Pass (潼關之戰) was a battle between Cao Cao and the forces of Guanxi (west of Hangu Pass) during the Three Kingdoms period in China. This battle was initiated by Cao Cao's western expansion, which triggered uprisings from Guanxi.
Battle of Torroella The Battle of Torroella, also known as Battle of the river Ter, was a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance, fought on 27 May 1694 along the banks and fords of the Ter River near the Puente Mayor in the vicinity of the important town of Girona, Catalonia, Spain.
Battle of Totopotomoy Creek The Battle of Totopotomoy Creek (also called the Battle of Bethesda Church, Crumps Creek, Shady Grove Road, and Hanovertown) was a battle in Union Lieutenant General Ulysses Grant's Overland Campaign against Confederate Gen. Robert E.
Battle of Toulouse (1814) The Battle of Toulouse (April 10 1814) was one of the final battles of the Napoleonic Wars, four days after Napoleon's surrender of the French Empire to the nations of the Sixth Coalition. The hundreds of soldiers killed in the battle died unnecessarily, as the war was already over, though news had yet to reach the south of France.
Battle of Toulouse (721) The Battle of Toulouse (721) was a victory of a Frankish army led by Duke Odo of Aquitaine over an Umayyad army besieging the city of Toulouse, and led by the governor of Al-Andalus, Al-Samh ibn Malik al-Khawlani. The victory hindered the spread of Umayyad control westward from Narbonne into Aquitaine.
Battle of Tourcoing (1794) The Battle of Tourcoing was fought near the town of Tourcoing in northeastern France on May 18, 1794 and resulted the victory of the French under General Joseph Souham and General Moreau against the British under the Duke of York and the Austrians under General Coburg.
Battle of Tournay The Battle of Tournay, was fought on 22 May 1794 in the Belgian province of Hainaut on the Schelde River (about 80 km southwest of Brussels) between French forces under General Pichegru and Allied forces (Austrian, English, and Hanoverian troops) under Prince Josias of Coburg, in which the Allies won a victory.
Battle of Tours The Battle of Tours (October 10, 732), often called Battle of Poitiers and also called in Arabic The Court of MartyrsHenry Coppée writes, "The same name (see ante) was given to the battle of Toulouse and is applied to many other fields on which the Moslemah were defeated: they were always martyrs for the faith" (Coppée, 1881/2002, p. 13.
Battle of Towton The Battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses was the largest and bloodiest ever fought on British soil, with casualties believed to have been in excess of 20,000 (perhaps as many as 30,000) men. The battle took place on a snowy 29 March 1461 (Palm Sunday) on a plateau between the villages of Towton and Saxton in Yorkshire (about 12 miles southwest of York and about 2 miles south of Tadcaster).
Battle of Trafalgar The Battle of Trafalgar (/trə'fælɡər/, formerly /træfəl'ɡɑr/), fought on 21 October 1805, was part of the War of the Third Coalition assembled by Britain against France. It was the most significant naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars and a pivotal naval battle of the 19th century.
Battle of Trayanovi Vrata The battle of Trayanovi Vrata (Bulgarian: Битка при Траянови Врата) was a battle between Byzantine and Bulgarian forces in the year 986. It took place in the pass of the same name, modern Sofia Province, Bulgaria.
Battle of Trembowla The Battle of Trembowla, more popularly know as the Defense of Trembowla, was glorified and immortalized in the paintings of Franciszek Smuglewicz, JĂłzef Peszka and Aleksander Lesser. In 1675 the Turkish army destroyed the town of Trembowla, in the Podole Voivodship, and laid siege to the castle for an entire week.
Battle of Tribruit The Battle of Tribruit was one of the twelve battles won by King Arthur recorded in the Historia Britonum. The exact location of the conflict is unknown, as the river's name, Tribruit (in Welsh Tryfrwyd) has no exact contemporary equal.
Battle of Trincomalee The Battle of Trincomalee was the fourth 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 September 31782.
Battle of Trocadero The Battle of Trocadero August 31, 1823, established the victory of the Ultra-Catholic reaction to the right in the post-Napoleonic period. The European powers monitored three years of factional struggles in Spain, where Ferdinand VII refused to restore the liberal Spanish Constitution of 1812 and had faced a revolution since 1820, led by the constitutionalist and patriot Rafael del Riego y Nunez (1785-1823).
Battle of Trois-Rivières The Battle of Trois-Rivières was fought on June 8, 1776, in the American Revolutionary War. A British army under Quebec Governor Sir Guy Carleton, in pursuit of an American force, defeated a counterattack led by John Sullivan.
Battle of Truillas The Battle of Truillas was fought on 22 September 1793 during the French Revolutionary War, between French Forces under General Dagobert and Spanish Forces under General Don Ricardo. The battle was fought near the village of Truillas in southern France, 10 km southwest of Perpignan, the battle ended in a Spanish victory over France.
Battle of Tuberneering The Battle of Tuberneering was fought on June 4, 1798, during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. it was fought between British troops and insurgents mobilised by the revolutionary organisation named the United Irishmen.
Battle of Tucapel The Battle of Tucapel (also known as the Disaster of Tucapel) is the name given to a battle fought between Spanish conquistador forces led by Pedro de Valdivia and Mapuche (Araucanian) Indians that took place on Tucapel, Chile on December 25, 1553. This battle happened in the context of the first stage of the Arauco War, named the offensive war within a larger uprising by Araucanians against the Spanish conquest of Chile.
Battle of Tudela The Battle of Tudela was a battle of the Peninsular War fought on November 23, 1808 near Tudela, Spain. The battle resulted in the victory of the French under Marshal Lannes against the Spanish under General Castaños.
Battle of Tukaroi The Battle of Tukaroi was a battle in March 3, 1575 between the forces of Indian Mughal emperor Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar led by Munim Khan and the forces of Daud Khan Karrani, the sultan of Bengal. The battle led to the Treaty of Katak.
Battle of Turckeim The battle of Turckeim was fought on January 5, 1675 and resulted in the victory of the French forces under the Vicomte of Turenne over the Brandenburgian and Austrian armies under Elector of Brandenburg Frederick William
Battle of Turin The Battle of Turin took place on 7 September 1706 west of the city of Turin during the War of the Spanish Succession. In a decisive victory for the Allied forces under Prince Eugene of Savoy and Duke Victor Amadeus II of Savoy (proclaimed King by the Treaty of Utrecht after the end of the war), the French siege of Turin was broken and the withdrawal of French forces from northern Italy began.
Battle of Turin (312) The Battle of Turin was fought in 312 between Constantine and the troops his rival for the purple, Maxentius. Constantine won this battle near Turin, and went on to win his more famous victory at Milvian Bridge.
Battle of Turnhout (1597) Battle of Turnhout, 1597 occurred during the Eighty Years' War where Turnhout was in the border area between the Northern and Southern Netherlands. Though the town had not been walled, Turnhout was an important strategic town.
Battle of Turnhout (1789) The Battle of Turnhout (1789) was a revolt against Austrian rule of the Southern Netherlands began in the Kempen region. On October 27, 1789, this led to a battle near Turnhout against the Austrian army, in which the latter was defeated.
Battle of Turtucaia The Battle of Turtucaia or Battle of Tutrakan, also referred to as the Tutrakan Epopee in Bulgaria, was a battle during which an overwhelmingly Bulgarian Central Powers force captured the fortress of Tutrakan (Turtucaia in Romanian) from the Romanian defenders.
Battle of TuyutĂ­ The Battle of TuyutĂ­ was a Paraguayan offensive in the War of the Triple Alliance. The allied victory added to the Paraguayan troubles that began with a failed offensive and continued with the loss of its fleet in the Battle of Riachuelo.
Battle of Tyndaris The Battle of Tyndaris is a naval battle of the First Punic War, which took place off Tyndaris (modern Tindari) in 257 BC. Tyndaris was a Sicilian town founded as a Greek colony in 396 BC located on the high ground overlooking the Tyrrhenian Sea in the Gulf of Patti.
Battle of Ueno The Battle of Ueno (Japanese:上野戦争) was a battle of the Boshin War, which occurred on July 4th 1868 (May 15th by the lunar calendar), between the troops of the Shōgitai under Shibusawa Seiichirō and Amano Hachirō. Though the Shōgitai was mostly made up of former Tokugawa retainers and residents of the surrounding provinces, some domains supported the Shōgitai, such as Takada han (Echigo Province, 150,000 koku), Obama han (Wakasa Province, 103,000 koku), Takasaki han (Kōzuke Province, 52,000 koku), and Yūki han (Shimosa Province, 18,000 koku).
Battle of Uhud The Battle of Uhud was fought on 23 March, 625, between a force from the small Muslim community of Medina, in what is now north-western Arabia, and a force from Mecca, the town from which many of the Muslims had emigrated (see Hijra). Uhud is near Medina.
Battle of Uji (1180) The first battle of Uji is famous and important for having opened the Genpei War. In early 1180, Prince Mochihito, the Minamoto Clan's favored claimant to the Imperial Throne, was chased by Taira forces to the Mii-dera, a temple just outside Kyoto.
Battle of Uji (1184) Minamoto no Yoshinaka tried to wrest power from his cousins Yoritomo and Yoshitsune, seeking to take command of the Clan. To that end, he sacked Kyoto, burning the Hōjūji Palace, kidnapping Emperor Go-Shirakawa and having himself named shogun.
Battle of Uji (1221) The third battle at the Uji River was the primary battle of the Jōkyū War in Japan. Bakufu forces led by Imperial regent Hōjō Yoshitoki sought to enter Kyoto and overthrow Emperor Go-Toba, using Uji and Seta as their gateways.
Battle of Uman The Battle of Uman (July 1941-August 8, 1941) was a battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in the summer of 1941, fought in Western Ukraine between the German Army Group South commanded by General Gerd von Rundstedt and the Soviet Forces in the Southwestern Direction, Commander-in-Chief Marshal Semyon Budyonny, which included Soviet Southwestern Front commanded by Colonel General Mikhail Kirponos) and Soviet Southern Front commanded by Army General Ivan Tyulenev.
Battle of Umm Diwaykarat The Battle of Umm Diwaykarat on November 24, 1899 marked the final obliteration of Muhammad Ahmad's short-lived Sudanese empire, when Anglo-Egyptian forces under the command of Lord Kitchener wiped out what was left of the Mahdist armies under the command of the Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, known as the Khalifa, after the equally disastrous Battle of Omdurman a year earlier.
Battle of Ushant Several naval battles between the British and French navies have been named after the island of Ushant (or Ouessant in French) off the western tip Brittany, partly because it is close to the French naval base of Brest and partly because, like Finisterre and Cape St. Vincent, it is simply the nearest piece of land to many hundred miles of ocean.
Battle of Usti nad Labem The Battle of Usti nad Labem, or the Battle of ĂšstĂ­ nad Labem in Czech, was fought on June 16, 1426, between the Catholic Crusaders and the Hussites during the Fourth Crusade of the Hussite Wars. The Crusade was called because the Pope believed that after the death of Jan Zizka the Hussite armies would be easily defeated.
Battle of Utapau The Battle of Utapau is a fictional conflict that took place in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The battle was fought on Utapau towards the end of the Clone Wars, with Republic forces led by Obi-Wan Kenobi clashing with the Separatist army of General Grievous.
Battle of Utica The Battle of Utica (c.238 BC) was the first major engagement in the Mercenary War between Carthaginian forces and the combined forces of Carthage's former mercenary armies (which it has used to conduct the First Punic War) and those of rebelling Libyan cities.
Battle of Utica (49 BC) The Battle of Utica (49 BC) was fought between Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio and Numidian cavalry and foot soldiers sent by King Juba I of Numidia to aid Attius Varus. Curio defeated the Numidians and prevented reinforcements from reaching the army of Attius.
Battle of Utsunomiya Castle The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle (Japanese:宇都宮城の戦い) was a battle of the Japanese Boshin War which occurred in May of 1868. It occurred as the troops of the Bakufu were heading north towards Nikkō and Aizu.
Battle of Val-ès-Dunes The Battle of Val-ès-Dunes was fought in 1047 by the combined forces of William, Duke of Normandy and King Henry I of France against the forces of several rebel Norman barons, led by Guy of Burgundy. As a result of winning the battle, William (later to be William the Conqueror) was able to retain his title and maintain control over the western half of his duchy.
Battle of Valcour Island The naval Battle of Valcour Island, also known as the Battle of Valcour Bay, took place on 11 October 1776, on Lake Champlain in a narrow strait between the New York mainland and Valcour Island during the American Revolutionary War. It is generally regarded as the first naval battle fought by the United States Navy.
Battle of Valea Albă The Battle of Valea Albă was an important event in the medieval history of Moldavia. It took place at Războieni, also known as Valea Albă, on July 26 1476, between the rather small Moldavian army of Ştefan cel Mare and the invading Ottoman army which was commanded personally by the Sultan Mehmed II.
Battle of Valmaseda The Battle of Valmaseda took place on November 5, 1808, during Lieutenant-General Blake's retreat from superior French armies in Cantabria. Reinforced by veteran regular infantry from General La Romana's Division of the North (Spanish: Division del Norte), Blake suddenly turned on his pursuers and defeated a division of General Victor's army at Valmaseda.
Battle of Valutino The Battle of Valutino took place on August 18, 1812, between Marshal Ney's corps, about 30,000 strong, and a strong rear-guard of General Barclay de Tolly's army of about 40,000, commanded by the General himself. The Russians were strongly posted in marshy ground, protected by a small stream.
Battle of Valverde The Battle of Valverde (February 20–21, 1862), fought in and around the town of Valverde in the New Mexico Territory, was a major Confederate success in the New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War, despite having to retreat later after the Battle of Glorieta Pass, which was a major Union victory. The opposing forces were Confederate cavalry from Texas and several companies of "Arizona" (actually southern New Mexico) Confederate volunteers versus U.
Battle of Varese The Battle of Varese was fought on May 26th, 1859 at Varese (Lombardy). It was an engagement of the Austro-Sardinian War, fought between the Italian volunteers formation of the Hunters of the Alps, led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, against Austrian troops.
Battle of Varna The Battle of Varna took place on November 10, 1444 near Varna in eastern Bulgaria. In this battle the Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and Janos Hunyadi.
Battle of Varnakert Battle of Varnakert (697-705) Smbat Bagratouni defeated the 8,000 strong Arab army from the garrison in Nakhichevan. Smbat, with the aid of Byzantine, managed to re-conquer the majority of Armenia and drive the Arabs out of the country.
Battle of Vasai The Battle of Vasai was fought between the Marathas and the Portuguese rulers of Vasai, a village lying near Bombay in the present-day state of Maharashtra, India. The Marathas were led by Chimaji Appa, a brother of Peshwa Baji Rao I.
Battle of Vaslui The Battle of Vaslui (also referred to as the Battle of Podul Înalt or the Battle of Racova) (January 10 1475) was fought between the Moldavian (Romanian) Prince, Stephen the Great and the Ottoman Beylerbeyi of Rumelia, Hadân Suleiman Pasha. The battle took place at Podul Înalt (the High Bridge), near the town of Vaslui, in Moldavia (now part of eastern Romania) between Barnaba and Racovica.
Battle of Vauchamps The Battle of Vauchamps, the final major engagement of the Six Days Campaign, was fought on February 14, 1814 and resulted in 18,000 French under Napoleon defeating 30,000 Prussian troops. The Prussians lost 9,000 men, including 5,000 prisoners, against 800 French casualties.
Battle of VĂĄgen The Battle of VĂĄgen was a naval battle between a Dutch merchant and treasure fleet and an English flotilla of warships in August 1665 as part of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The battle took place in VĂĄgen bay, the main port area of neutral Bergen, Norway.
Battle of Vézeronce The Battle of Vézeronce took place on June 25, 524 close to Vézeronce-Curtin (then Veseruntia) in Isère. It was part of the Burgundian War initiated by the four successors of the Frankish king Clovis I: Childebert I, Chlodomir, Clotaire I, and Theuderic I.
Battle of Vedrosha Battle of Vedrosha was one of the greatest battles in the medieval history of Russia. It was fought as part of the Russo-Lithuanian Wars on July 14, 1500, some 50 km to the west of Kaluga, between joint forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland under command of Prince Konstantin Ostrozhsky and the Muscovite army under Prince Daniil Shchenya.
Battle of VelbuĹľd The Battle of VelbuĹľd is a battle which took between Bulgarian and Serbian armies on 28 July 1330, near the town of VelbuĹľd (present day Kyustendil). Serbian victory shaped the balance of power in Balkans in the next decades.
Battle of Vella Gulf The Battle of Vella Gulf (Japanese: ベラ湾夜戦) was a naval battle] of the [[Pacific War|Pacific campaign of World War II fought on the night of August 6, 1943 – August 7, 1943, in Vella Gulf between the islands of Vella Lavella and Kolombangara in the Solomon Islands.
Battle of Ventersdorp The Battle of Ventersdorp on 9 August 1991 was a violent confrontation in the South African town of Ventersdorp between right wing supporters of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and the police and security forces.
Battle of Verdun The Battle of Verdun was one of the most important battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from 21 February to 19 December 1916 around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France.
Battle of Vermillion Bayou The Battle of Vermillion Bayou was fought on April 17, 1863, the third battle in a series of running battles between Union Major General Nathaniel Prentice Banks and Confederate Major General Richard Taylor. The battle was fought after both the Battle of Fort Bisland and the Battle of Irish Bend.
Battle of Vertières The Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Second War of Haitian Independence, the final part of the Haitian Revolution. It was fought between Haitian rebels and French expeditionary forces on November 18, 1803 at Vertières.
Battle of Vesuvius The Battle of Vesuvius was fought in 339 BC, during the Latin War between the Roman Republic and the Latin peoples of ancient Italy. It took place near Mount Vesuvius, and saw the victory of the Roman army, commanded by consuls Publius Decius Mus and Titus Manlius Imperiosus, over the Latins.
Battle of Vienna The Battle of Vienna (Polish: Odsiecz Wiedeńska, German: Schlacht am Kahlenberg, Ukrainian: Віденська відсіч (Viděns'ka Vidsič), Turkish: İkinci Viyana Kuşatması) took place on September 11 and September 12 1683 after Vienna had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months.
Battle of Vigo Bay The naval Battle of Vigo Bay (or Battle of Rande) was fought on 23 October 1702 (12 October in the Julian calendar then in use in England) during the War of the Spanish Succession at Vigo Bay in Galicia (Spain) between an Anglo-Dutch fleet commanded by Admiral Sir George Rooke (with Lieutenant-Admiral Philips van Almonde commanding the Dutch squadron), and a combined French and Spanish fleet commanded by Admirals François Louis Rousselet de Chateau-Renault and Manuel de Velasco.
Battle of Villafranca The Battle of Villafranca unfolded on April 20, 1744, during the War of the Austrian Succession. The armies of France and Spain, advancing into Sardinia, famously forced the pass of Villafranca, defeating its Anglo-Sardinian defenders.
Battle of Villafranca del Bierzo The Battle of Villafranca del Bierzo took place on March 17, 1809, during the French occupation of León in the Peninsular War. After a bloody four-hour siege the small and isolated French garrison at Villafranca surrendered to Spanish militia under Brigadier Mendizábal.
Battle of Vilnius (1944) The Battle of Vilnius occurred as part of Operation Bagration, the great summer offensive by the Red Army against the Wehrmacht, in June, and July, 1944. It lasted from the 7th to the 13th of July, 1944, and ended with a Soviet victory.
Battle of Vimeiro In the Battle of Vimeiro (August 20 1808) the British under General Wellesley defeated the French under General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro (pron. ), near Lisbon, Portugal during the Peninsular war.
Battle of Vincy The Battle of Vincy was fought at Vincy, near Cambrai, in the modern département of Aisne. It was a contest between Charles Martel and the Austrasians on one side and the king of the Franks, Chilperic II, and his mayor of the palace, Ragenfrid, on the other.
Battle of Vindonissa The Battle of Vindonissa was fought in 298 between the Roman Empire army, led by Emperor Constantius Chlorus, and the Alemanni. The Romans won the battle, fought in Vindonissa, strengthening Rome's defenses along the Rhine.
Battle of Vinegar Hill The Battle of Vinegar Hill was an engagement on 21 June 1798 between forces of the British Crown and Irish rebels when over 10,000 British soldiers launched an attack on Vinegar Hill outside Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, then the largest rebel camp and headquarters of the Wexford rebels.
Battle of Vinh Yen The Battle of Vinh Yen, occurring from January 13, 1951 to January 17, 1951, was a major engagement in the First Indochina War between France and the Viet Minh. The French forces, led by World War II hero Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, inflicted a decisive defeat on Vietnamese forces, which were commanded by Vo Nguyen Giap.
Battle of Vinjesvingen The Battle of Vinjesvingen took place in May of 1940 in Telemark county, Norway. It became one of the two last strongholds of Norwegian resistance in southern Norway during World War II, alongside the struggle of Hegra Fortress.
Battle of Vitoria In the Battle of Vitoria (June 21 1813) Wellington and his Portuguese and Spanish allies finally broke the French army, leading to eventual victory in the Peninsular War. The Marquess of Wellington's 78,000 British, Portuguese and Spanish troops, with 96 guns, defeated 58,000 French with 153 guns under King Joseph Bonaparte and Marshal Jourdan near Vitoria in Spain.
Battle of Vlaardingen The Battle of Vlaardingen was fought in 1018 between the forces of Dirk III, Count of Holland, and an army sent by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. The battle was fought north of Vlaardingen, which is now the Zouteveense Polder.
Battle of Vlaardingen (1351) There was a civil war in Holland and Hainaut (which was in a personal union with Holland) in 1350 between the Hooks and the Cods. The Hooks were fighting for the Countess Margaret of Hainault, supported by England, while the Cods were fighting for Margaret's son William, who was ruling Holland in name of Margaret.
Battle of Volo The Battle of Volo was the first major victory of Philip II of Macedon, who defeated the forces of the Phocian general Onomarchus, who was killed. This was the decisive battle of the Third Sacred War, which saw Macedon, the Amphictyonic League, and Thebes fighting against Phocis, Athens, Sparta, and Pherae.
Battle of Voronezh (1942) The Battle of Voronezh was a battle of the Eastern Front of World War II, fought in and around the city of Voronezh on the Don river in June and July 1942. The Axis forces were the German 4th Panzer Army commanded by General Hermann Hoth and the Hungarian 2nd Army commanded by Colonel-General Gusztav Jany.
Battle of Vosges (58 BC) The Battle of Vosges was fought between the Germanic tribe of the Suebi under the leadership of Ariovistus against six Roman legions under the command of Gaius Julius Caesar in 58 BC. This encounter is the third major battle of the Gallic Wars.
Battle of Vouillé The Battle of Vouillé or Campus Vogladensis was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at a small place near Poitiers, (Gaul) in the spring of 507 between the Franks commanded by Clovis and the Visigoths of Alaric II, the conqueror of Spain.
Battle of Vuelta de Obligado The naval Battle of Vuelta de Obligado took place between the Argentine Confederacy, under the leadership of Juan Manuel de Rosas, and an Anglo-French fleet, on November 20th, 1845, on the waters of the Paraná river.
Battle of Vukovar The Battle of Vukovar was an 87-day siege of the Croatian city of Vukovar by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), supported by various Serbian paramilitary forces, between August-November 1991 during the Croatian War of Independence. It ended with the defeat of the local Croatian National Guard, the near-total destruction of Vukovar and the massacre or expulsion of its defenders and non-Serb population.
Battle of Vuosalmi The Battle of Vuosalmi (also known as the Battle of Äyräpää-Vuosalmi) – the main bulk of it – lasted from July 4 to July 11, 1944. It was a battle during the World War II, a part of the Continuation War (1941–1944) between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Battle of Vyazma At the Battle of Vyazma (November 3, 1812), the hindmost corps of Napoleon’s retreating Grande Armee were defeated by the Russians commanded by General Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich. Although the French succeeded in thwarting Miloradovich’s initial attempt to isolate and destroy the I Corps of Marshal Louis Nicolas Davout, they remained under pressure from the Russians for the rest of the battle, retiring under fire in a partial state of disorganization and suffering heavy casualties.
Battle of Vyborg Bay The Battle of Vyborg Bay (or Gauntlet at Vyborg Bay) was a naval battle fought between Russia and Sweden on July 4, 1790 during the Russo-Swedish War (1788-1790). The Swedish Navy was suffered heavy losses, losing six battleships and four frigates, but Gustav III of Sweden eventually ensured a Swedish naval escape through a Russian naval blockade composed of units of the Baltic Fleet, commanded by Admiral Vasily Chichagov.
Battle of Vyšehrad The Battle of Vyšehrad was a series of engagements at the start of the Hussite War between Hussite forces and Catholic crusaders sent by Emperor Sigismund. The battle took place at the castle of Vyšehrad from August 16 1419, to c.
Battle of Wakefield The Battle of Wakefield took place at Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, on December 30, 1460, and was one of the major actions of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing factions were a royal army, nominally commanded by Margaret of Anjou, and the supporters of Richard, Duke of York, rival claimant to the throne.
Battle of Walcourt The Battle of Walcourt was fought during the War of the Grand Alliance on August 25, 1689. The action took place near the walled town of Walcourt near Charleroi in the Spanish Netherlands, and brought to a close a summer of uneventful marching, manoeuvring, and foraging.
Battle of Wandiwash The Battle of Wandiwash was a decisive battle in India during the Seven Years' War. The Count de Lally's army, burdened by a lack of naval support and funds, attempted to regain the fort at Vandavasi near Pondicherry.
Battle of Wanjialing Battle of Wanjialing, well known in Chinese text as the Victory of Wanjialing () refers to the Chinese Army's successful engagement during the Wuhan theatre of the Second Sino-Japanese War against the Japanese 106th Division around the Wanjialing region in 1938.
Battle of Warbonnet Creek The Battle of Warbonnet Creek was a skirmish characterized by a duel between legendary scout and showman "Buffalo Bill" Cody and a lone warrior he mistook for Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hand. The engagement is often referred to as the First Scalp for Custer because of this incident.
Battle of Ware Bottom Church The Battle of Ware Bottom Church was fought on May 20, 1864, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The Union troops were led by Benjamin Butler, while the Confederates were led by P.

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