List of battles (alphabetical)
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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.
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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 Ager Sanguinis - 1119 - Crusades
- Battle of Agincourt - 1415 - Hundred Years' War
- Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - 1509 - French Wars in Italy
- Battle of Ain Jalut - 1260 - Mameluk-Mongol Wars
- 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
- 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 Amphipolis - 422 BC - Peloponnesian War
- 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 Aong - 1857 - Indian Mutiny
- Battle of Araure - 1813 - Venezuelan War of Independence
- 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 Artemisium - 480 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Artois-Loos - 1915 - World War I
- Battle of Ascalon - 1099 - First Crusade
- 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 Beersheba - 1917 - World War I
- Battle of Benevento - 1266 - French Invasion of Italy
- Battle of Beneventum - 275 BC - Rise of Rome
- Battle of Beresteczko - 1651 - The Deluge
- 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 Brooklyn (a.k.a. Battle of Long Island) - 1776 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Brunkeberg - 1471 - Danish-Swedish Wars
- Battle of Brċvalla - ca 750 - 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 Camlann - 573, the only mentioning of king Arthur
- 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 Carabobo - 1821 - Venezuelan War of Independence
- 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 Chalcis - 429 BC - Peloponnesian War
- 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 Chateauguay - 1813 - War of 1812
- 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 Coronea - 447 BC - pre-Peloponnesian War
- 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 Crysler's Farm - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Culloden (a.k.a. Culloden Moor) - 1746 - Jacobite Rebellions
- Battle of Cunaxa - 401 BC - Persian-Greek Wars
- Battle of Cut Knife - 1885 - North-West Rebellion
D
- Battle of Dairen - 1904 - Russo-Japanese War
- Battle of Delium - 424 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Denain - 1712 - War of the Spanish Succession
- Battle of Deorham (a.k.a. Dyrham) - 577 - Teutonic conquest of England
- Battle of Dessau Bridge - (1626) - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Detroit - 1812 - War of 1812
- Battle of Dien Bien Phu - 1954 - French 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 the Eurymedon - c. 466 BC - Persian 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 Fornovo - 1495 - Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII
- Battle of Frankfort on the Oder - 1631 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Freiburg - 1644 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Freiberg - 1762 - Seven 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 - 1915 - World War I
- First Battle of Gaza - 1917 - World War I
- Second Battle of Gaza - 1917 - 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 Gully Ravine - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- 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 Harlaw - 1411 - Aberdeenshire Scotland
- Battle of Hastings - 1066 - Norman conquest of England
- Battle of Hattin - 1187 - Crusades
- 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 Hill 60 (Gallipoli) - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Hill 60 (Western Front) - 1915 - World War I - Western Front
- 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 Inverlochy - 1431
- Battle of Inverlochy - 1645 - English Civil 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 Kapyong 1951 - Korean War
- Battle of Karkar - 854 BC or 853 BC - Assyrian Wars of Conquest
- Battle of Kepaniwai - 1790 - Unification of Hawaiian Islands
- Battle of Kircholm - 1605 - War between Sweden and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for the Inflants
- Battle of Kleidion - 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgar Wars
- Battle of Kłuszyn - 1610, Poles defeat Russians during Times of Troubles in Russia.
- Battle of Kolubara - 1914 - World War I
- Battles of Krithia - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- 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 Lade - 494 BC - Ionian Revolt
- Battle of Lake Erie - 1813 - War of 1812
- 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 (1500) - second battle there during the 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 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- 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 Lone Pine - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Long Island (a.k.a. Battle of Brooklyn) - 1776 - American 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 Lundy's Lane - 1814 - War of 1812
- 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 Magdhaba - 1916 - World War I
- Battle of Magenta - 1859 - Italian Independence War
- Battle of Magh Tuiredh (two battles) - Irish mythology - see also Tuatha Dé Danann, Lug
- 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 (418 BC) - 418 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Mantinea (362 BC) - 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
- Operation Market Garden (Battle of Arnhem) - 1944 - World War II
- First Battle of Marne - 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of Marne - 1918 - World War I
- Battle of Marston Moor - 1644 - English Civil War
- First Battle of Masurian Lakes - September 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of Masurian Lakes - February 1915 - World War I
- Battle of Medelin - 1809 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC) - Egyptian-Canaanite War
- Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) - 609 BC
- Battle of Megiddo (1918) - 1918 - World War I
- 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 Mirbat - 1972 - [Oman Coup]
- Battle of Möerskirch (1800) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Mohács - 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 Moscow - 1941 - World War II
- Battle of Mouquet Farm - 1916
- Battle of Mühlberg - 1547 - German Reformation Wars
- Battle of Mycale - 479 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Myriokephalon - 1176 - Byzantine-Turkish 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 Naupactus - 429 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa - 1212 - Spanish-Moslem Wars
- Battle of Neaje - 1016- Saint Olav Haraldsson
- Battle of Nechtansmere - 685 - Northumbrian-Pictish Wars
- Battle of Neerwinden (1693) - War of the Grand Alliance
- Battle of the Nek - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Neresheim (1796) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Neuwied (1797) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of New Orleans - 1815 - War of 1812
- Battle of New Ross (1798) - Irish Rebellion of 1798
- Battle of the Nile - 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Nineveh (612 BC) - Fall of Assyria
- Battle of Nineveh (627) - Byzantine-Persian Wars
- Battle of Niquitao - 1813 - Venezuelan War of Independence
- 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 Oenophyta - 457 BC - First Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Okinawa - 1945 - World War II
- Battle of Olpae - 426 BC - Peloponnesian War
- Battle of Orléans - 1429 - Hundred Years' War - Joan of Arc participated
- Battle of Osankarica - 1943 - World War II
- Battle of Otterburn - 1388 - Scottish/English border dispute
- Battle of Oudenarde - 1708 - War of the Spanish Succession
P
- Battle of Pakozd - 1848 - Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- 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 - 1759 - Seven Years' War
- Battle of Pilsen - 1618 - Thirty Years' War
- Battle of Plataea - 479 BC - Persian Wars
- 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 Princeton - 1777 - American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Puebla (1847) - Mexican-American War
- Battle of Puebla (1862) - French-Mexican War
- Battle of Pydna - 168 BC - Third Macedonian War
- Battle of Pylos - 425 BC - Peloponnesian War
Q
- Battle of Quatre Bras - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Quebec (1691) - British attack during King William's War
- Battle of Quebec (1711) - British attack during Queen Anne's War
- 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
- Battle of Queenston Heights - 1812 - War of 1812
R
- Battle of Rafa - 1917 - World War I
- 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 Raszyn - 1809- Napoleonic Wars
- 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 Sainte-Foy - 1760
- Battle of Salamanca - 1812 - Napoleonic Empire Wars
- Battle of Salamis - 480 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Salamis (in Cyprus) - 450 BC - pre-Peloponnesian War
- Battle of San Jacinto - 1836 - Texan War of Independence
- Battle of Sarhū - 1619
- Battle of Sari Bair - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- Battle of Sarmada - 1119 - Crusader-Turkish Wars
- Battle of Schwechat - 1848 - Hungarian Revolution of 1848
- Battle of Schwetz - see Battle of Swiecin
- Battle of Scimitar Hill - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
- 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 Sphacteria - 425 BC - Peloponnesian War
- 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
- First Battle of the Stronghold - 1873 - Modoc War
- Battle of Stċngebro - 1598
- Battle of Suiyang - 757
- Battle of Swiecin (a.k.a. Schwetz, Zarnowiec) - 1462 - Thirteen Years' War
- Battle of Syllaeum - 677 - Byzantine-Arab Wars
- 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 Tanagra (457 BC) - Peloponnesian War
- 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 the Thames - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Thermopylae - 480 BC - Persian Wars
- Battle of Ticonderoga - 1758, 1759, 1775, 1777 - French and Indian War, American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Tippecanoe - 1811 - War against Tecumseh
- Battle of Tippermuir - 1644 Scottish Civil War
- Battle of Tolentino - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Toulouse - 721 - Moslem Invasion of Europe
- 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 - World War I
- 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 Warsaw (1656), during the Northern Wars
- Battle of Warsaw (1831), during the Polish revolt against Russia
- Battle of Vistula River-Warsaw, during World War I
- Battle of Warsaw (1920), during the Polish-Soviet War
- Battle of Warsaw (1939), at the outset of World War II
- Battle of Warsaw (1944), near the end of World War II
- Battle of Waterloo - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- Battle of Wattignies (1793) - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Wavre - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
- 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 Yarmuk - 636 - Byzantine-Arab Wars
- Battle of Yavin - fictitious from Star Wars
- Battle of York - 1813 - War of 1812
- Battle of Yorktown (1781) - American Revolutionary War
- First Battle of Ypres - 1914 - World War I
- Second Battle of Ypres - 1915 - World War I
- Third Battle of Ypres - 1917 - 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
- First Battle of Zurich 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Second Battle of Zurich 1799 - Wars of the French Revolution
- Battle of Zusmarshausen - 1648 - Thirty Years' War
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