LIST OF BATTLES (ALPHABETICAL)

Alphabetical list of historical battles (see also Military history, List of battles):
NOTE: Where a year has been used to disambiguate battles it is the year when the battle started. In some cases these may still have gone on for several years.

A

Battle of Aachen - 1944 - World War II
Battle of Abensberg - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Abukir - twoo battles - 1798 and 1801 - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Abukir (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Abrittus - 251 - Gothic invasion of the Roman Empire
Battle of Actium - 31 BC - Wars of the Second Triumvirate
Battle of Ad Decimum - 533 - Wars of the Byzantine Empire - Campaign against the Vandals
Battle of Adrianople (323) - Civil Wars of the Roman Empire
Battle of Adrianople (378) - Gothic Invasions of the Roman Empire
Battle of Adrianople (972) - Wars of the Byzantine Empire - against the Russians
Battle of Adrianople (1205) - Fourth Crusade
Battle of Adrianople (1254) - Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars
Battle of Adrianople (1365) - Capture by Ottoman Turks
Battle of Adrianople (1913) - First Balkan War
Battle of Adowa - 1896 - First Italian-Ethiopian War
Battle of Adwalton Moor - 1643 - English Civil War
Battle of Aegospotami - 405 BC - Great Peloponnesian War
Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1915) - World War I - Turkish Assimilation of Armenians
Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1921) - Second Greek-Turkish War
Battle of Agincourt - 1415 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - 1509 - French Wars in Italy
Battle of Akraba (632) (a.k.a. Battle of Yemama) - Recovery of Arabia - Campaign of Khalid
Battle of Akraba (1972) - Israeli defoliation of Arab wheat crops
Battle of Alalia - 535 BC - Greek-Carthaginian Wars
Battle of Aldenhoven (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battles of El Alamein - both 1942 - World War II
- First Battle of El Alamein
- Second Battle of El Alamein
Battle of Alesia - 52 BC - Gallic Wars
Battle of Alfarrobeira - 1449 - Portuguese War of rebellion
Battle of Algeciras - 1344 - Spanish-Moslem Wars
Battle of Alma - 1854 - Crimean War
Battle of Almonacid - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Amberg (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Ankara (a.k.a. Battle of Angora) - 1402 - Timur's Invasion of Turkey
Battle of Antioch (1097) - First Crusade
Battle of Antioch (1119) - Crusader-Turkish Wars
Battle of Antioch (1268) - Crusader-Turkish Wars
Battle of Antwerp (1584) - Netherlands War of Independence
Battle of Antwerp (1914) - World War I
Battle of Arcole (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Ardennes (1914) - World War I
Battle of Ardennes (1944) (a.k.a. Battle of the Bulge) - World War II
Battle of Arnhem - 1944 - World War II (Operation Market Garden)
Battle of Arras (1654) - Thirty Years' War (Spanish-French extension)
Battle of Arras (1917) - World War I
Battle of Arsuf - 1191 - Third Crusade
Battle of Artois-Loos - 1915 - World War I
Battle of Auerstaedt - 1806 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Austerlitz - 1805 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of the Atlantic (1915) - World War I
Battle of the Atlantic (1940) - World War II
Battle of Audenaarde - 1708 - War of the Spanish Succession

B

Battle of Bannockburn - 1314 - English-Scottish Wars
Operation Barbarossa - 1941 - World War II
Battle of Barletta - 1502 - French-Spanish Wars in Italy
Battle of Barnet - 1471 - Wars of the Roses
Battle of Basra (a.k.a. Battle of the Camel) - 656 - Moslem Civil Wars
Battle of Bautzen - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Benevento - 1266 - French Invasion of Italy
Battle of Beneventum - 275 BC - Rise of Rome
Battle of Beresteczko - 1651 - Polish-Cosack Wars
Battle of Bergen (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Bitonto - 1734 - War of Polish Succession
Battle of Blenheim - 1704 - War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Böhmisch-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)
Battle of Borodino - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Bosworth Field - 1485 - Wars of the Roses
Battle of Boulou (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Bouvines - 1214 - English-French Wars
Battle of the Boyne River - 1690 - First Jacobite Insurrection
Battle of Breisach - 1638 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Breitenfeld (1642) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Brienne - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Britain - 1940 - World War II
Battle of Brandywine (1777) - American Revolutionary War
Battle of Brunkeberg - 1471 - Danish-Swedish Wars
Brusilov offensive - 1916 - World War I
Battle of the Bulge (see Battle of Ardennes (1944))
Battle of Bunker Hill - 1775 - American Revolutionary War
Battle of Burgos - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Burkersdorf - 1762 - Seven Years' War

C

Battle of Cambrai - 1917 - World War I
Battle of the Camel (see Battle of Basra)
Battle of Cannae - 216 BC - Second Punic War
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) - American Revolutionary War
Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Caporetto (a.k.a. Twelfth Battle of Isonzo) - 1917 - World War I
Battle of Capua (212 BC) - Second Punic War
Battle of Capua (1734) - War of Polish Succession
Battle of Carchemish - 605 BC - Babylonian-Egyptian War
Battle of Carillon (1758) - Seven Years' War
Battle of Carthage (149 BC) - Third Punic War
Battle of Carthage (533) (see Battle of Ad Decimum)
Battle of Carthage (698) - Moslem Conquest of North Africa
Battle of Castle Turjak - 1943 - World War II
Battle of Cassel - 1677 - Franco-Dutch War
Battle of Castillon - 1453 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (see Battle of Chalons)
Battle of Cedynia - 972 - First Polish-German War
Battle of Cesky´-Brod (see Battle of Lipany)
Battle of Ceuta - 1415 - Portuguese Invasion of Africa
Battle of Châlons-sur-Marne (366) - Germanic Invasions of the Roman Empire
Battle of Châlons (451) - Wars of the Western Roman Empire
Battle of Champaubert - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Chancellorsville - 1863 - American Civil War
Battle of Changsha (3rd century) - Wars of the three kingdoms
Battle of Changsha (1930) - Gunboat Diplomacy - basis for movie, The Sand Pebbles
Battle of Changsha (1939) - Second Chinese-Japanese War
Battle of Changsha (1941) - Second Chinese-Japanese War
Battle of Changsha (1942) - Second Chinese-Japanese War as merged into World War II
Battle of Changsha (1944) (a.k.a. Changsha-Hengyang) - Second Chinese-Japanese War as merged into World War II
Battle of Changping - 206 BC - Consolidation of Qin dynasty
Battle of Chernaya River - 1855 - Crimean War
Battle of the Chesapeake - 1781 - American Revolutionary War
Battle of Chojnice (a.k.a. Battle of Conitz) - 1454 - Thirteen Years' War
Battle of Chosin Reservoir - 1951 - Korean War
Battle of Ciudad-real - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Cold Harbor - 1864 - American Civil War
Battle of Copenhagen (1801) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Copenhagen (1807) - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of the Coral Sea - 1942 - World War II
Battle of Coronel - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
Battle of Cracow - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Craonne - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of the Crater - 1864 - American Civil War
Battle of Crecy - 1346 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of Crete - 1941 - World War II
Battle of Culloden (a.k.a. Culloden Moor) - 1746 - Jacobite Rebellions
Battle of Cunaxa - 401 BC - Persian-Greek Wars

D

Battle of Dairen - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Denain - 1712 - War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Deorham (a.k.a. Dyrham) - 577 - Teutonic conquest of Britain
Battle of Dessau Bridge - (1626) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Detroit - 1812 - War of 1812
Battle of Dien Bien Phu - 1954 - Indochina
Battle of Diersheim (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Dogger Bank = 1915 - World War I
Battle of Dražgoše - 1942 - World War II
Battle of Dresden - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of the Dunes (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths
Battle of the Dunes (1658) - Spanish French Wars
Battle of Dunkirk (a.k.a. Dunkerque) - 1940 - World War II
Battle of Dunbar (1296) - Wars of Scottish Independence
Battle of Dunbar (1650) - English Civil Wars

E

Battle of Eckmülh - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Edgehill - 1642 - English Civil War
Battle of Elvina - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Engen (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Espinosa - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Essling-Aspern - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Evesham - 1265 - Second Barons' War of England
Battle of Eylau - 1807 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

F

Battle of Falkirk (1298) - Wars of Scottish Independence
Battle of Falkirk (1746) - Jacobite Rebellions
Battle of the Falkland Islands - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Feishui - 383 - Wars of the Eastern Jin Dynasty
Battle of Flandres - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Fleurus (1622) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Fleurus (1690) - War of the Grand Alliance
Battle of Fleurus (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Fontenay (841) (Latin Fontanetum, near Auxerre, and now Fontenoy-en-Puisaye) - Division of Charlemagne's Empire
Battle of Fontenay (1944) (Fontenay-le-Pesnel near Caen) - World War II
Battle of Fontenoy (1745) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Formigny - 1450 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of Frankfort on the Oder - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Freiburg - 1644 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Friedland - 1807 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of the Frontiers - 1914
Battle of Fuentes de Onoro - 1811 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Fürth - 1632 - Thirty Years' War

G

Battle of Gallipoli - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Geisberg (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Germantown(1777) - American Revolutionary War
Battle of Gettysburg - 1863 - American Civil War
Battle of Gilboa - 1000 BC - Israeli Philistine Wars
Battle of Grathe Heath - 1157 - Dispute over Danish Throne
Battle of Grandson - 1476
Battle of Grotnik - 1439 - Polish rebellion
Battle of Grunwald - 1410
Battle of Guadalcanal - 1942 - World War II
Battle of Guadalete - 711 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
Battle of Guan Du - 200 - Conquest of Northern China
Battle of Gumbinnen - 1914

H

Battle of Halys (547 BC) - Persian Wars
Battle of Halys (430) - Byzantine War against the Goths
Battle of Halys (1101) - First Crusade
- Because the Halys is a river the above battles sometimes use the terms "on the" or "at the"
Battle of Hampton Roads (see Battle of the Ironclads)
Battle of Hastings - 1066 - Norman conquest of Britain
Battle of Hattin - 1187
Battle of Heligoland (1864) - Second Schleswig War
Battle of Heligoland (1914) (a.k.a. Heligoland Bight) - World War I
Battle of Helsingborg - 1362 - Danish-German War
Battle of Hemmingstedt - 1500 - Danish invasion in Dithmarschen, Germany
Battle of Höchst - 1622 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Hochstadt - 1703 - War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Hochstadt (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Hohenlinden (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Hondshoote (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Hundred Regiments (a.k.a. Hundred Regiments Offensive) - 1940 - Second Chinese-Japanese War

I

Battle of Iena - 1806 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Inkerman - 1854 - Crimean War
Battle of Issus - 333 BC - Macedonian conquests
Battle of Ituzaingo - 1827 - Uruguayan War of Independence
Battle of Iwo Jima - 1945 - World War II
Battle of the Ironclads (a.k.a. Monitor vs. Merrimack, Battle of Hampton Roads) - 1862 - American Civil War
Battle of Isandhlwana - Anglo-Zulu War
Battle of Isonzo (489) - Ostrogoth invasion of Italy
Battle of Isonzo (1915 - World War I - really a series of eleven related battles.

J

Battle of Jankau - 1645 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Java Sea - 1942 - World War II
Battle of Jutland - 1916 - World War I

K

Battle of Kabul (709) - Moslem Conquest of the East
Battle of Kabul (1842) - First Afghan-British War
Battle of Kadesh - 1472 BC - Egyptian-Canaanite War
Battle of Kalcicrum (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Karkar - 854 BC or 853 BC - Assyrian Wars of Conquest
Battle of Kepaniwai - 1790 - Unification of Hawaiian Islands
Battle of Kolubara - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Kunyang - 24 - Rise of the Eastern Han
Battle of Kursk - 1943 - World War II
Battle of Kyushu - 1281 - Mongol Invasions of Japan

L

Battle of La Bicoca - 1522 - French Wars in Italy
Battle of Laon - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Largs - 1263 - Norse invasion of Scotland
Battle of Lawfeld (1747) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Lechfeld - 955 - German states stop the Magyars
Battle of Leipzig - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Lens - 1648 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Lepanto (1499) - Turkish-Venetian Wars
Battle of Lepanto (1571) - Defeat of the Turkish fleet
Battle of Lesnaya 1708 - Great Northern War
Battle of Leuven - 891
Battle of Lewes - 1264 - Second Barons' War of England
Battle of Leyte (land battle) - 1944 - World War II
Battle of Leyte Gulf (sea battle) - 1944 - World War II
Battle of Liaoyang - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Ligny - 1815 - Napoleon's Hundred Days
Battle of Lipany (a.k.a. Cesky´-Brod or Böhmisch-Brod) - 1434 - Hussite Wars
Battle of Lissa - 1866 - Seven Weeks' War
Battle of the Little Bighorn - 1876 - Second Sioux War
Battle of Lodz - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Long Island 1776 The U.S. Revolutionary War
Battle of the Long Orchard - 432 - Byzantine War against the Goths
Battle of Loos (see Battle of Artois-Loos)
Battle of Lostwithiel (two connected battles) - 1642 and 1644 - English Civil War
Battle of Lowicz - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Lugou Bridge (a.k.a. Incident at Marco Polo Bridge) - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War
Battle of Lumphanan - 1057 - Scottish dispute over the throne; Macbeth died here.
Battle of Lutter am Barenberge - 1626 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Lützen (1632) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Lützen (1813) - Napoleonic Empire Wars

M

Battle of Magdeburg - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Magenta - 1859 - Italian Independence War
Battle of Magh Tuiredh (three battles) - Irish mythology - see also Tuatha de Danaan, Lugh
Battle of Malakoff - 1855 - Crimean War
Battle of Maldon - 991 - Rise of England
Battle of Malplaquet - 1709 - War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Manners Street - 1943 World War II
Battle of Mantinea - 362 BC - Greek City-States War
Battle of Manzikert - 1071 - Byzantine-Turkish Wars
Battle of Marakesh - 1908
Battle of Marathon - 490 BC - Persian-Greek Wars
Battle of Marengo - 1800 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Marignani - 1515 - French Wars in Italy
First Battle of Marne - 1914 - World War I
Second Battle of Marne - 1918 - World War I
Battle of Marston Moor - 1644 - English Civil War
Battle of Masurian Lakes - 1914 - World War I
Battle of Medelin - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Megiddo - 1469 BC - Egyptian-Canaanite War
Battle of Mergentheim - 1645 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Midway - 1942 - World War II
Battle of Milan (1522) - French Wars in Italy
Battle of Milan (1535) - French Wars in Italy
Battle of Milan (1741) - War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Milvian Bridge - 312 - Civil Wars of the Roman Empire
Battle of Möerskirch (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
Battle of Mons Badonicus - abount 500 - Teutonic Conquest of Britain
Battle of Mons Graupius - 84 - Roman Invasion of Britain
Battle of Montereau - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Montmirail - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Mormans - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Mouquet Farm - 1916
Battle of Muhlberg - 1547 - German Reformation Wars

N

Battle of Naissus - 269 - Gothic Invasion of the Roman Empire
Battle of Nanjing - 1937 - Second Chinese-Japanese War
Battle of Nanos - 1942 - World War II
Battle of Naseby - 1645 - English Civil War
Battle of Nashville - 1864 - American Civil War
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa - 1212 - Spanish-Moslem Wars
Battle of Neaje - 1016- Saint Olav Haraldsson
Battle of Neerwinden (1693) - War of the Grand Alliance
Battle of Neresheim (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of New Orleans - 1815 - War of 1812
Battle of Neuwied (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) - Fall of Assyria
Battle of Nineveh (627) - Byzantine-Persian Wars
Battle of the Nile - 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Nördlingen (1634) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Nördlingen (1645) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Normandy - 1944 - World War II
Battle of Novi (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution

O

Battle of Ocana - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Okinawa - 1945 - World War II
Battle of Orleans - 1429 - Hundred Years' War - Joan of Arc participated
Battle of Osankarica - 1943 - World War II

P

Battle of Passchendaele - World War I
Battle of Pakozd - 1848 - Hungarian-Croatian War
Battle of Pampeluna (778) - Charlemagne's War against the Moors
Battle of Pampeluna (1521) - French-Spanish Wars
Battle of Pampeluna (1813) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Panipat (1526) - Mogul-Afghan Wars
Battle of Panipat (1556) - Mogul-Afghan Wars
Battle of Panipat (1761) - Afghan-Maratha Wars
Battle of Passchendaele - 1917 - World War I
Battle of Patay - 1429 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of Pavia (271) - Alamanni Invasion of the Roman Empire
Battle of Pavia (476) - Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Battle of Pavia (569) - Lombard Invasion of Italy
Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
Battle of Pavia (1525) - French Wars in Italy
Battle of Peleliu - 1944 - World War II
Battle of Pearl Harbor - 1941 - World War II
Battle of Pharsalus - 48 BC - Wars of the First Triumvirate
Battle of Philippi (42 BC) (in Macedonia) - Wars of the Second Triumvirate
Battle of Philippi (1861) (in West Virginia) - American Civil War
Battle of Philippine Sea - 1944 - World War II
Battle of the Plains of Abraham see Battle of Quebec (1759) of which it was a part.
Battle of Pilsen - 1618 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Platzberg (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Poitiers - 1356 - Hundred Years' War
Battle of Poljana - 1945 - World War II
Battle of Polentia - 402 - Goth Invasion of the Western Roman Empire
Battle of Port Arthur - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Pozzolo (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Prague (1420) - Hussite Wars
Battle of Prague (1648) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Prague (1744) - War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Prague (1757) - Seven Years' War
Battle of Puebla (1847) - Mexican-American War
Battle of Puebla (1862) - French-Mexican War
Battle of Pydna - 168 BC - Third Macedonian War

Q

Battle of Quatre Bras - 1815 - Napoleon's Hundred Days
Battle of Quebec (1759) - Seven Years' War, includes the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.
Battle of Quebec (1760) - Seven Years' War
Battle of Quebec (1775) - American Revolutionary War

R

Battle of Rain - 1632 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Ramillies - 1706 - War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Ramoth-Gilead - 953 BC - Israeli-Syrian War
Battle of Rastadt (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Raucoux (1746) (in Belgium) - War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Red Cliff - 208 - Rise of the Three Kingdoms
Battle of Rheinfelden - 1638 - Thirty Years' War
The Battle of the River Plate - 1939 - World War II
Battle of Rivoli - 1796 - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Rocroi - 1643 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Romani - 1916 - World War I
Battle of Rosbach - 1757 - Seven Years' War
Battle of Ruvo - 1503 - French-Spanish Wars in Italy

S

Battle of St-Laurent-de-la-Muga (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Sablat - 1619 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Sair Bair - 1915 - World War I
Battle of Salamanca - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Salamis - 480 BC - Persian-Greek Wars
Battle of San Jacinto - 1836 - Texan War of Independence
Battle of Sarhū - 1619
Battle of Sarmada - 1119 - Crusader-Turkish Wars
Battle of Schwechat - 1848 - Hungarian Revolt
Battle of Schwetz - see Battle of Swiecin
Battle of Sedgemoor - 1685 - Monmouth's Revolt
Battle of Sekigahara - 1600 - Unification of Japan
Battle of Seneffe - 1674 - Franco-Dutch War
Battle of Shiloh - 1862 - American Civil War
Battle of Shrewsbury - 1403 - Percy Revolt against Henry IV
Battle of Solférino - 1859 - Italian Independence War
Battle of the Somme (1916) - World War I
Battle of the Somme (1918) - World War I
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House - 1864 - American Civil War
Battle of Stadtlohn - 1623 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Stalingrad - 1942 - World War II
Battle of St-Dizier - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Steinkeerke ( 1692) - War of the Grand Alliance
Battle of Stiklestad - 1030 - Christianization of Norway
Battle of Stirling Bridge - 1297 - English-Scottish Wars
Battle of Stoke Field - 1487 - Wars of the Roses
Battle of Stockash (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Stralsund (1628) - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Stralsund (1715) - Great Northern War
Battle of Suiyang - 757
Battle of Swiecin (a.k.a. Schwetz, Zarnowiec) - 1462 - Thirteen Years' War
Battle of Syracuse (415 BC) - Great Peloponnesian War
Battle of Syracuse (387 BC) - Carthaginian Invasion of Sicily
Battle of Syracuse (214 BC) - Second Punic War
Battle of Syracuse (1734) - War of the Polish Succession
Battle of Syria - 431 - Byzantine War against the Goths

T

Battle of Taglicozzo - 1268 - French Invasion of Italy
Battle of Tai er zhuang - 1938 - Second Chinese-Japanese War
Battle of Talavera - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Tannenberg (1410) - Rise of Poland
Battle of Tannenberg (1914) - World War I
Battle of Tarawa (a.k.a. Tarawa-Makin) - 1943 - World War II
Battle of Tarifa - 1811 - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Tassafaronga - 1942 - World War II
Battle of Te Tumo - 1835 - Maori Wars
Battle of Tchernaïa - 1855 - Crimean War
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest - 9 - Germanic Wars of the Roman Empire
Battle of Tewkesbury - 1491 - Wars of the Roses
Battle of Tippecanoe - 1811 - War against Tecumseh
Battle of Tolentino - 1815 - Napoleon's Hundred Days
Battle of Toulouse - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Tourcoing (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Tours - 732 - Moslem Invasion of France
Battle of Towton - 1461 - Wars of the Roses
Battle of Trafalgar - 1805 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Trebia (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Trepani - 1735 - War of the Polish Succession
Battle of Trieste - 1945 - World War II
Battle of Trippstadt (1794) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Troy - 1194 BC - Trojan War
Battle of Tsushima - 1905 - Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Tudela - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Turckeim - 1675 - Franco-Dutch War
Battle of Tumu Fortress - 1449 - Ming Wars against the Mongols
- NOTE: This was previously listed as Tumu Castle, but the distinction may simply be a by-product of translation from Chinese.
Battle of Tuttlingen - 1643 - Thirty Years' War

U

Battle of Ucles (1108) - Spanish-Moslem Wars
Battle of Ucles (1809) - Peninsular War in the Napoleonic Empire Wars

V

Battle of Vauchamps - 1814 - Napoleonic Empire Wars]]
Battle of Vaila - see Battle of Agnadello
Battle of Valenciennes - 1656 - Thirty Years' War (Spanish-French Extension)
Battle of Vera Cruz - 1914
Battle of Verdun - 1916 - World War I
Battle of Vimeiro - 1808 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Vimy Ridge - 1917
Battle of Vitoria - 1813 - Napoleonic Empire Wars

W

Battle of Wagram - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
Battle of Wakefield - 1460 - Wars of the Roses
Battle of Waterloo - 1815 - Napoleon's Hundred Days
Battle of Wattignies (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Wavre - 1815 - Napoleon's Hundred Days
Battle of Wayna Daga - 1543 - Moslem Wars in Ethiopia
Battle of Werben - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
Defence of Westerplatte - 1939 - World War II
Battle of White Mountain - 1620 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Wiesloch - 1622 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of the Wilderness - 1864 - American Civil War
Battle of Wimpfen - 1622 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Wittstock - 1636 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Woerth (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Wolgast - 1628 - Thirty Years' War
Battle of Worringen - 1288 - Cologne's revolt against church rule

X

Battle of Xiangyang (209) (year uncertain) - Rise of the Three Kingdoms
Battle of Xiangyang (360) (year uncertain) - Expansion of the Early Qin
Battle of Xiangyang (1273) - Yuan conquest of Southern Sung
Battle of Xiangyang (1944) - World War II

Y

Battle of Yalu River (1894) - First Sino-Japanese War
Battle of Yalu River (1904) - Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Yavin - fictitious from Star Wars
Battle of Yorktown (1781) - American Revolutionary War
First Battle of Ypres - 1914 - World War I
Second Battle of Ypres - 1915 - World War I

Z

Battle of Zalgiris (see Battle of Grunwald (1410))
Battle of Zama - 202 BC - Second Punic War
Battle of Zarnowiec - see Battle of Swiecin
Battle of Zürich (1799) - Wars of the French Revolution
Battle of Zusmarshausen - 1648 - Thirty Years' War
Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem) - 1944 - World War II

LIST OF BATTLES (ALPHABETICAL)

Specialty Definition: List of battles (alphabetical)

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z