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| | |  | Conflicts in 1945, 1945 in Indonesia, Battles involving the United Kingdom, Battles involving the Netherlands, Indonesian National Revolution, Military history of Indonesia, Hidden categories:, Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from August 2012, All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from August 2012, All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2010, Use dmy dates from March 2014, Use British English fr... | | The Battle of Surabaya was fought between pro-independence Indonesian soldiers and militia against British and British Indian Troops as a part of the Indonesian National Revolution. The peak of the battle was in November 1945. The battle was the heaviest single battle of the revolution and became a national symbol of Indonesian resistance. Considered a heroic effort by Indonesians, the battle helped galvanise Indonesian and international support for Indonesian independence. 10 November is celebr... |
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| | | | | | Battle of Nanpéng Island (�����) was a battle fought between the nationalists and the communists during the Chinese Civil War and resulted in the communist victory. After Guangdong fell into communist hands, a detachment of the nationalist troops held out on Nanpéng Island (���) of Yangjiang. This remnant of the nationalist force proved to be a major headache the communists because the island is strategically located between the Pearl River mouth and the Qiongzhou Strait, contr... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Nanp�ng Archipelago was a battle fought between the Chinese nationalists and the communists over the islands of the Nanp�ng Archipelago (���島, Nanpeng Liedao) off the Cantonese coast during the Chinese Civil War that resulted in communist victory. The Nanp�ng Archipelago is a small island chain in Nanao County off the coast of Shantou, and is named after the largest island, Nanp�ng island (Nanp�ng Dao, ���), home to a fishing community of more than 400 peopl... |
| | | | | | The Battle of Nanao island (Nanao Dao, �澳�) was a battle fought between the nationalists (Kuomintang) and the communists during the Chinese Civil War and communists emerged as the victors. Nanao Island (Nanao Dao, �澳�) of Swatow (now known as Shantou) remained in the nationalist hands after Guangdong fell into communist hands. On March 3, 1950, the 121st division of the 41st Army of the Peoples Liberation Army attacked the island. Faced with such overwhelming enemy, the defenders sto... |
| | | | | | The Battle of the Philippine Sea (June 19�20, 1944) was a decisive naval battle of World War II which eliminated the Imperial Japanese Navys ability to conduct large-scale carrier actions. It took place during the United States amphibious invasion of the Mariana Islands during the Pacific War. The battle was the last of five major carrier-versus-carrier engagements between American and Japanese naval forces, and involved elements of the United States Navys Fifth Fleet as well as ships and land... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Baekgang, also known as Battle of Baekgang-gu or by the Japanese name Battle of Hakusukinoe (������ Hakusuki-no-e no Tatakai or Hakusonk� no Tatakai), was a battle between Baekje restoration forces and their ally, Yamato Japan, against the allied forces of Silla and the Tang Dynasty of ancient China. The battle took place in the lower reaches of the Geum River in Jeollabuk-do province, Korea. The Silla-Tang forces won a decisive victory, forced Yamato Japan to withdra... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of the Yalu River (simplified Chinese: �海海�; traditional Chinese: �海海�; pinyin: Huáng H�i H�izh� n; Japanese:K�kai-kaisen (�海海�, lit. Naval Battle of the Yellow Sea^?)), was the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War, and took place on September 17, 1894, the day after the Japanese victory at the land Battle of Pyongyang. It involved ships from the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Chinese Beiyang Fleet. The battle is also known by a vari... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of the Camel, sometimes called the Battle of Jamal or the Battle of Bassorah, took place at Basra, Iraq on 7 November 656. Aisha heard about the killing of Uthman (644-656), the third Caliph. At the time she was on a pilgrimage to Mecca. It was on this journey that she became so angered by his unavenged death, and the naming of Ali as the fourth caliph, that she took up arms against those supporting Ali. She gained support of the big city of Basra and, for the first time, Muslims took... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Syracuse was a naval engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession fought on 9 November 1710, outside the Sicilian port of Syracuse. A French fleet of four ships under the command of Jacques Cassard came to relieve a heavily laden French merchant fleet that had been blockaded in the Syracuse harbour by a British fleet. Cassard arrived off Syracuse when most of the blockading fleet had left to resupply at Port Mahon; he successfully captured Falcon and Pembroke, the two ships left... |
| | | | Conflicts in 1918, Battles involving Armenia, Battles of the Caucasus Campaign, Battles of World War I involving the Ottoman Empire, 1918 in Armenia, 1918 in the Ottoman Empire, Hidden categories:, Articles with Armenian-language external links, Articles with Turkish-language external links, Articles with French-language external links, CS1 Armenian-language sources (hy), CS1 Russian-language sources (ru), Pages with citations lacking titles, Coordinates on Wikidata, All articles with unsourced ... | | The Battle of Sardarabad (Armenian: �ա�դա�ապատի ճակատամա�տ, Sardarapati �̣akatamart; Turkish: Serdarabad Muharebesi) was a battle of the Caucasus Campaign of World War I that took place near Sardarabad (modern-day Armavir), Armenia from May 21�29, 1918. Sardarabad was only 40 kilometers west of the city of Yerevan. The battle is currently seen as not only stopping the Ottoman advance into the rest of Armenia but also preventing the complete destruction of the Armeni... |
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| | | | Conflicts in 1881, Battles of the First Boer War, 1881 in South Africa, History of KwaZulu-Natal, History of South Africa, Hidden categories:, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, Articles lacking in-text citations from October 2014, All articles lacking in-text citations, Use dmy dates from March 2013, Use South African English from March 2013, All Wikipedia articles written in South African English, Coordinates on Wikidata, Commons category with local link same as on Wikidata, All... | | The Battle of Majuba Hill (near Volksrust, South Africa) on 27 February 1881 was the main and decisive battle of the First Boer War. It was a resounding victory for the Boers. Major-General Sir George Pomeroy Colley occupied the summit of the hill on the night of 26�27 February 1881. His motive for occupying the hill remains unclear. The Boers believed that he may have been attempting to outflank their positions at Laings Nek. The hill was not considered scale-able by the Boers for military pu... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Kalach[nb 1] took place between the German Sixth Army and elements of the Soviet Stalingrad Front between July 25 and August 11, 1942. The Soviets deployed the 62nd and 64th Armies in a Don River bridgehead west of Kalach with the intent of impeding the German advance on Stalingrad. In the initial period of the battle, the Germans attacked and managed to surround part of the 62nd Army. In reaction, the Soviets counter-attacked and temporarily forced the Germans onto the defense. Fo... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Apros occurred between the forces of the Byzantine Empire, under co-emperor Michael IX Palaiologos, and the forces of the Catalan Company, at Apros on July 1305. The Catalan Company had been hired by the Byzantines as mercenaries against the Turks, but despite the Catalans successes against the Turks, the two sides distrusted each other, and their relationship was strained by the Catalans financial demands. Eventually, Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos and his son and co-ruler Mich... |
| | | | | | The Battle of the Willows (377) took place at a place called ad Salices (town by the willows), or according to Ammianus, a road way-station called Ad Salices (by the Willows); probably located within 15 kilometres of Marcianople (modern day Dobrudja, Bulgaria), although its exact location is unknown. Forces from the Western Roman Empire under the command of Richomeres advanced westward, while forces of the Eastern Roman Empire under Traianus and Profuturus advanced northward where they joined fo... |
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| | | | | | The Second Battle of Polotsk (18�20 October 1812) took place during Napoleons invasion of Russia. In this encounter the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein attacked and defeated a Franco-Bavarian force under Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr. In the aftermath of this success, the Russians took Polotsk and dismantled Napoleons operations in Belarus. Wittgensteins victory set the stage for the Battle of Berezina in November, in which three Russian armies converged on Napoleon from separate directi... |
| | | | | | The Battle of Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus), and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chichagov. The battle ended with a mixed outcome. The French suffered very heavy losses but managed to cross the river and avoid being trapped. Since then Bérézina has been used in French as a synonym for disas... |
| | | | | | The Battle of Klyastitsy, also called battle of Yakubovo, was a series of military engagements which took place in 1812 near the village of Klyastitsy (Russian: �����) (Drissa uyezd, Vitebsk guberniya) on the road between Polotsk and Sebezh. In this battle the Russian corps under the command of Peter Wittgenstein, stood up to the French corps under the command of Marshal Nicolas Oudinot. The result was inconclusive, with both sides suffering heavy losses and retreating along ... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Demetritzes in 1185 was fought between the Byzantine army and the Normans of the Kingdom of Sicily, who had recently sacked the Byzantine Empires second city, Thessalonica. The Norman army advanced east and met the Byzantine field army under Alexios Branas near Demetritzes (modern Sidirokastro). A period of confrontation and virtual truce between the two armies followed, but on 7 November Branas launched a sudden attack on the Norman army and routed it. Pursued by the Byzantines, t... |
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| | | | | | The battle of GrOdek Jagiello�ski or battle of Horodok took place during the Russo-Polish War (1654�67) on 29 September 1655. Russian and Ukrainian Cossack forces under Vasily Borisovich Sheremetev and Bohdan Khmelnytsky engaged a Polish�Lithuanian army under Stanis�aw Rewera Potocki near GrOdek Jagiello�ski, which at that time was part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth�s Ruthenian Voivodeship (now Horodok, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine). Polish forces were defeated and forced to retreat, los... |
| | | | | | The Battle of Callinicus (Greek: μά�η �ο� �αλλίνικο�) was fought in 171 BC between Macedon and Rome at the city Callinicus, near Larissa. The Macedonians were led by their king, Perseus of Macedon, while the Roman force was led by consul Publius Licinius Crassus. The Macedonians were victorious. The battle is notable for the prevalent role of cavalry and light infantry as a combined task force. Livy describes this battle at 42.58-60, and according to his account, the heavy ... |
| | | | | | The Battle of Che�m was fought on June 8, 1794 between Poland and the combined forces of the Russian Empire and Prussia. The Polish were led by JOzef Zaj�czek, the Russo-Prussian forces by Petrowicz Zagriażski and Wilhelm Derfelden. The Russo-Prussian forces consisted of 16,500 soldiers, and 24 cannons, while the Polish general only had about 6,000 soldiers, 14 cannons, and 2,000 peasant soldiers armed with war scythes. Zaj�czek took in the forested hills 1.5 km away from the city. In the... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Osuchy (less often referred to as the Battle at Sopot River) was one of the largest battles between the Polish resistance and Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II, a part of the Zamo�� Uprising. It took place near the village of Osuchy in the Solska Wilderness (Puszcza Solska) on 25-26 June 1944 during the German anti-partisan operation Sturmwind II (Operation Hurricane II). The battle ended with the defeat of the local resistance forces that suffered heavy casua... |
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| | | | Battles involving Serbia, Battles of the Ottoman–Serbian Wars, 19th century in Serbia, 19th century in the Ottoman Empire, Nišava District, 1876 in Europe, Ottoman battle stubs, Serbian history stubs, Hidden categories:, All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2015, Articles containing Serbian-language text, Articles containing Turkish-language text, Pages with citations lacking titles, Pages with citations having bare URLs, Coordinates on Wikidata... | | The Battle of � umatovac (Serbian: Bitka na � umatovcu) or Battle of Aleksinac (Turkish: Aleksinaç Muharebesi) happened in 1876, in central Serbia, near the town of Aleksinac. The outnumbered Serbian army, led by colonel Kosta Proti�, won a tactical victory in this defensive battle against the Ottoman forces. In a major tactical blunder the Ottomans spent a whole day frontally attacking a well-entrenched pentagonal redoubt defended by two Serbian battalions armed with muzzle-loading rifle... |
| | | | | | The Battle of Hanko (also known as the Hanko Front or the Siege of Hanko) was a lengthy series of small battles fought on Hanko Peninsula during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union in the second half of 1941. As both sides were eager to avoid a major, costly ground battle, fighting took the form of trench warfare, with artillery exchanges, sniping, patrol clashes, and small amphibious operations performed in the surrounding archipelago. A volunteer Swedish battalion served ... |
| | | | Ottoman Kruševo, Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, 1903 in the Ottoman Empire, Battles involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles involving Bulgaria, Hidden categories:, Articles needing additional references from August 2013, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing cleanup from August 2009, All articles needing cleanup, Cleanup tagged articles without a reason field from August 2009, Wikipedia pages needing cleanup from August 2009, Articles lacking in-text citati... | | The Battle of Me�kin Kamen occurred on the hill of Me�kin Kamen (Bear Stone), a few kilometres from the town of Kruševo in present-day Macedonia, on 1�2 August 1903. It was part of the Ilinden-Preobraženie uprising led by the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organisation (IMARO or VMARO) against the Ottoman empire. The leading revolutionary commanders of the local Kruševo Republic were Nikola Karev and Pitu Guli. A monument exists today on Me�kin Kamen where Pitu Guli was ... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Go��b was fought on either February 18 or 19, 1656 between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth commanded by Stefan Czarniecki on one side, and on the other Swedish Empires army commanded by Charles X Gustav. This battle was essentially a meeting engagement with Swedish troops arriving on the battlefield at different times. It is uncertain how many actually participated, and its actual date is disputed. Some sources, such as Polish-language Military Encyclopedia, claim ... |
| | | | 1389 in Europe, Conflicts in 1389, Battles of the Ottoman–Serbian Wars, Battles involving the Ottoman Empire, Battles involving Serbia, History of Kosovo, Warfare of the Middle Ages, 14th century in the Ottoman Empire, 14th century in Serbia, 1389 in the Ottoman Empire, Hidden categories:, Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from July 2014, Wikipedia pending changes protected pages (level 1), Articles needing additional references from January 2012, All articles needing additional... | | The Battle of Kosovo (Serbian: Kosovska bitka- �о�ов�ка би�ка, Turkish: Kosova Meydan Muharebesi) took place on 15 June 1389^ between the army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanovi�, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Murad Hüdavendigâr. The army under Prince Lazar consisted of his own troops, a contingent led by Serbian nobleman Vuk Brankovi�, and a contingent sent from Bosnia by King Tvrtko I, commanded by Vlatko Vukovi�. Pri... |
| | | | | | The Second Battle of Opatow, one of many clashes of the January Uprising, took place on February 21, 1864, near the town of Opatow, which at that time belonged to Russian-controlled Congress Poland. A party of some 1,000 Polish insurgents, commanded by Ludwik Zwierzdowski and Apolinary Kurowski, tried to capture the town, which was defended by an 800-strong garrison of the Imperial Russian Army. The battle ended in Russian victory; Russian losses were estimated at app. 50 killed, while Poles los... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of ROżan, otherwise known as defence of ROżan bridgehead, took place between September 4 and September 6, 1939, in the fields before the town of ROżan on the Narew River. A small Polish garrison of three World War I forts (consisting of two infantry battalions) successfully defended the bridgehead against the entire German panzer division for the entire day and night. However, as a result of a misunderstanding of the commander in chiefs orders, the Polish forces were then withdrawn... |
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| | | | Conflicts in 1807, Battles of the Napoleonic Wars, Battles involving Russia, Battles involving France, Battles involving Prussia, Battles of the War of the Fourth Coalition, East Prussia, 1807 in France, 1807 in Prussia, Hidden categories:, Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from March 2013, All articles with unsourced statements, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2008, All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases, Articles with specifically marked wea... | | The Battle of Eylau or Battle of Preussisch-Eylau, 7 and 8 February 1807, was a bloody and inconclusive battle between Napoléons Grande Armée and a Russian Empire army under Levin August, Count von Bennigsen near the town of Preu�isch Eylau in East Prussia. Late in the battle, the Russians received a timely reinforcement from a Prussian division. The town is now called Bagrationovsk and it is a part of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. The engagement was fought during the War of the Fourth Coaliti... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Quifangondo occurred on 10 November 1975, the day before the Peoples Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) declared Angolas independence from Portugal. It can be considered as the decisive battle in the Angolan decolonisation conflict 1974- 75^ and as the first battle in the Angolan Civil War (1975�2002). By that time, the MPLA under Agostinho Neto had gained control of the Angolan capital Luanda while the two rival liberation movements, the National Liberation Front of An... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Kupres (Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: Bitka za Kupres) was a battle of the Bosnian War, fought between the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ARBiH) and the Croatian Defence Council (HVO) on one side and the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) on the other from 20 October to 3 November 1994. It marks the first tangible evidence of the Bosniak�Croat alliance set out in the Washington Agreement of March 1994, brokered by the United States to end the Croat�Bosniak War fought... |
| | | | 1278 in Europe, 13th century in Austria, 13th century in Hungary, 13th century in Bohemia, Lower Austria, Battles involving Bohemia, Battles involving Hungary, Battles of the Middle Ages, Battles involving Austria, Conflicts in 1278, Hidden categories:, Articles lacking in-text citations from August 2011, All articles lacking in-text citations, Commons category with local link same as on Wikidata, CS1 German-language sources (de), CS1 Czech-language sources (cs), CS1 Polish-language sources (pl)... | | The Battle on the Marchfeld (i.e. Morava Field; Czech: Bitva na Moravském poli; Hungarian: Morvamezei csata) at Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen took place on 26 August 1278 and was a decisive event for the history of Central Europe for the following centuries. The opponents were a Bohemian (Czech) army led by the P�emyslid king Ottokar II of Bohemia and the Imperial army under the German king Rudolph I of Habsburg in alliance with King Ladislaus IV of Hungary. Although both sides had in their unit... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Ho�ice (German name: Horschitz) was fought on April 27, 1423 between the Taborite and Utraquist factions of the Hussites. The Hussites were led by Jan Žižka, while the Utraquists were led by �en�k of Wartenberg. The Taborites eventually won this battle, which ended the Hussite Civil War. Throughout the Hussite Wars, there were many different factions of Hussites. The only thing keeping them allied against the Crusaders was a common and more threatening enemy to fight. Once ... |
| | | | | | The Battle of Mariazell or Battle of Grossraming (8 November 1805) saw the advance guard of the French III Corps attack a retreating Austrian force led by Maximilian, Count of Merveldt. The advance guard, led by �tienne Heudelet de Bierre overwhelmed their demoralized enemies, capturing about half of them. Marshal Louis Davout commanded the III Corps. The action occurred during the War of the Third Coalition, which is part of the Napoleonic Wars. Mariazell is located in the Austrian province o... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Amstetten was a minor engagement during the War of the Third Coalition between the First French Empire and the alliance of Austria and Russia. It occurred on 5 November 1805, when the retreating Russo-Austrian troops, led by Mikhail Kutuzov, were intercepted by Marshal Joachim Murats cavalry and a portion of Marshal Jean Lannes corps. Pyotr Bagration defended against the advancing French troops and allowed the Russian troops to retreat. This was the first fight in which a major par... |
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