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 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

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
- 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 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 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 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 - 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 B�hmisch-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 Chalcis - 429 BC - Peloponnesian War
Battle of Ch�lons-sur-Marne (366) - Germanic Invasions of the Roman Empire
Battle of Ch�lons (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 Chrysler's Farm - 1813 - War of 1812
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 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 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 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 Eckm�lh - 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 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 F�rth - 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 - 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 - 1915 - World War I - Battle of Gallipoli
Battle of H�chst - 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 Kluszyn - 1610, Poles defeat Russians during Times of Troubles in Russia.
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 Kleidion - 1014 - Byzantine-Bulgar Wars
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