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- Battle of Lake SmolinoBattle · 1502The Battle of Lake Smolino was fought on 13 September 1502 near Pskov, when the Livonian Order under Master Wolter von Plettenberg defeated a much larger Muscovite army.
Battle of Lake TrasimeneBattle · 217 BCEThe Battle of Lake Trasimene was fought in 217 BCE in central Italy during the Second Punic War.
Battle of LalakaonBattle · 863The Battle of Lalakaon was fought on 3 September 863 in Paphlagonia, in northern Asia Minor, between a Byzantine army under Petronas and the forces of Umar al-Aqta…
Battle of Langensalza (1075)Battle · 1075The Battle of Langensalza, also called the Battle of Homburg on the Unstrut, was fought on 9 June 1075 in Thuringia during the Saxon rebellion against the Salian king…
Battle of Langensalza (1866)Battle · 1866The Battle of Langensalza was fought on 27 June 1866 in Thuringia during the Austro-Prussian War.
Battle of LargsBattle · 1263The Battle of Largs was fought on 2 October 1263 on the Ayrshire coast between Scots and part of the Norwegian fleet of King Haakon IV, which had been battered by storms.
Battle of Las CarrerasBattle · 1849The Battle of Las Carreras was fought in April 1849 near Baní in the Dominican Republic, where Dominican forces under Pedro Santana defeated the invading Haitian army…
Battle of Las Navas de TolosaBattle · 1212The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa was fought in 1212 in southern Spain between the Almohad Caliphate and a coalition of the Christian kingdoms of Castile, Aragon…
Battle of Las SalinasBattle · 1538The Battle of Las Salinas was fought in April 1538 near Cusco between the forces of Francisco Pizarro, led by his brother Hernando, and those of Diego de Almagro, in…
Battle of LaufachBattle · 1866The Battle of Laufach was fought on 13 July 1866 at Laufach and Frohnhofen in the Spessart hills of Lower Franconia during the Main campaign of the Austro-Prussian War.
Battle of LaupenBattle · 1339The Battle of Laupen was fought on 21 June 1339 near Laupen, west of Bern, between Bern, supported by troops from the Forest Cantons, and a coalition of regional nobles…- Battle of LauronBattle · 76 BCEThe Battle of Lauron was fought in 76 BCE in eastern Spain during the Sertorian War.
Battle of LechfeldBattle · 955 CEThe Battle of Lechfeld was fought in 955 CE near Augsburg, where Otto I of Saxony decisively defeated the invading Magyars.
Battle of LegnanoBattle · 1176The Battle of Legnano was fought in 1176 in northern Italy, where the forces of the Lombard League defeated the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa.
Battle of LegnicaBattle · 1241The Battle of Legnica was fought on 9 April 1241 near Legnica in Silesia, where a Mongol army defeated the forces of Duke Henry II the Pious of Silesia, who was killed.
Battle of LeipzigBattle · 1813The Battle of Leipzig, or Battle of the Nations, was fought on 16–19 October 1813 around Leipzig in Saxony.
Battle of LepantoBattle · 1571The Battle of Lepanto was a naval battle fought on 7 October 1571 in the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, between the fleet of the Holy League, led by Don John of…
Battle of LerosBattle · 1943The Battle of Leros was fought in November 1943 on the Aegean island of Leros, which British and Italian troops had held since Italy's armistice in September.- Battle of Les FormiguesBattle · 1285The Battle of Les Formigues was a naval battle fought in 1285 near the Formigues islets off the coast of Catalonia, during the War of the Sicilian Vespers.
- Battle of LeucimmeBattle · 435 BCEThe Battle of Leucimme was a naval battle fought in 435 BCE off the promontory of Leucimme on Corfu, in which the fleet of Corcyra defeated a Corinthian fleet.
Battle of LeuctraBattle · 371 BCEThe Battle of Leuctra was fought in Boeotia in 371 BCE between Thebes and its Boeotian allies under Epaminondas and a Spartan army under King Cleombrotus I.
Battle of LeuthenBattle · 1757The Battle of Leuthen was fought on 5 December 1757 west of Breslau in Silesia during the Seven Years' War.
Battle of LevounionBattle · 1091The Battle of Levounion was fought on 29 April 1091 in Thrace, near the mouth of the Maritsa, between the Byzantine Empire and the Pechenegs.
Battle of LeyteBattle · 1944–1945The Battle of Leyte began with the American landing on the island of Leyte in the central Philippines on 20 October 1944, when Douglas MacArthur returned accompanied by…
Battle of Lincoln (1141)Battle · 1141The Battle of Lincoln was fought on 2 February 1141 during the Anarchy, the English civil war between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda.
Battle of LindaniseBattle · 1219The Battle of Lindanise was fought on 15 June 1219 at the site of present-day Tallinn, when the crusading army of King Valdemar II of Denmark defeated the Estonians of…
Battle of LipanyBattle · 1434The Battle of Lipany was fought east of Prague on 30 May 1434 near the end of the Hussite Wars.- Battle of LipitsaBattle · 1216The Battle of Lipitsa was fought in April 1216 near Yuryev-Polsky between the sons of Vsevolod the Big Nest.
- Battle of LircayBattle · 1830The Battle of Lircay was fought on 17 April 1830 near Talca and ended the Chilean civil war of 1829–1830.
Battle of Lissa (1866)Battle · 1866The Battle of Lissa was fought on 20 July 1866 off the island of Vis (Lissa) in the Adriatic during the Third Italian War of Independence.- Battle of ListvenBattle · 1024The Battle of Listven was fought in 1024 near Chernigov between Mstislav of Tmutarakan and his brother Yaroslav the Wise, prince of Kiev, who had hired Varangian troops.
- Battle of LlantadaBattle · 1068The Battle of Llantada was fought in July 1068 on the border between Castile and León, between Sancho II of Castile and his brother Alfonso VI of León.
Battle of LlucmajorBattle · 25 October 1349The Battle of Llucmajor was fought on 25 October 1349 near Llucmajor in southern Majorca.
Battle of LodiBattle · 1796The Battle of Lodi was fought on 10 May 1796 at the bridge over the Adda at Lodi in Lombardy, when Napoleon Bonaparte's French army stormed the crossing against the…
Battle of LucenaBattle · 1483The Battle of Lucena was fought in April 1483 near Lucena in the kingdom of Córdoba, during the Granada War.- Battle of LucocisternaBattle · 1324The Battle of Lucocisterna was fought on 29 February 1324 near Cagliari in Sardinia during the Aragonese conquest of the island.
- Battle of LugaloBattle · 1891The Battle of Lugalo was fought on 17 August 1891 near Iringa in present-day Tanzania, when Hehe warriors of Mkwawa ambushed a German column under Emil von Zelewski.
Battle of LutosBattle · 794The Battle of Lutos was fought in 794 in Asturias, when Alfonso II ambushed a Muslim army of the emir Hisham I returning from a campaign that had sacked Oviedo.
Battle of LutterBattle · 1626The Battle of Lutter was fought on 27 August 1626 near Lutter am Barenberge in Brunswick, during the Thirty Years' War.- Battle of Lützen (1632)Battle · 1632The Battle of Lützen was fought in 1632 in Saxony during the Thirty Years' War between the Swedish army and imperial forces under Wallenstein.
Battle of MaclodioBattle · 1427The Battle of Maclodio was fought in October 1427 near Brescia between the Venetian army under Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola and the forces of Filippo Maria Visconti…- Battle of MacomerBattle · 1478The Battle of Macomer was fought on 19 May 1478 in central Sardinia between Leonardo Alagon, Marquis of Oristano, and the forces of the Aragonese viceroy.
Battle of MadagascarBattle · 1942The Battle of Madagascar was the Allied campaign of 1942 to take Vichy French Madagascar and deny its harbours to Japan.- Battle of Maeso FortressBattle · 675The Battle of Maeso Fortress was fought in 675 at Maesoseong, a fortress north of present-day Seoul, between Silla and a Tang Chinese army.
Battle of MagentaBattle · 1859The Battle of Magenta was fought on 4 June 1859 near Magenta in Lombardy, in the Second Italian War of Independence.
Battle of MagersfonteinBattle · 1899The Battle of Magersfontein was fought on 11 December 1899 near Kimberley, in the Second Boer War, when Boer forces under Piet Cronjé and Koos de la Rey, dug into…
Battle of MagnesiaBattle · 190 BCEThe Battle of Magnesia was fought in 190 BCE in western Anatolia between the Roman Republic, supported by Pergamene allies, and the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus III.- Battle of MaharajpurBattle · 1843The Battle of Maharajpur was fought on 29 December 1843 near Gwalior between a British army under Sir Hugh Gough and the forces of the Gwalior State.
Battle of MahidpurBattle · 1817The Battle of Mahidpur was fought on 21 December 1817 near Mahidpur in Malwa, central India, between the army of the Holkar state of Indore and British forces under Sir…
Battle of MaipúBattle · 1818The Battle of Maipú was fought on 5 April 1818 near Santiago, Chile.
Battle of Majuba HillBattle · 1881The Battle of Majuba Hill, fought on 27 February 1881, was the decisive engagement of the First Boer War.- Battle of MakryplagiBattle · 1264The Battle of Makryplagi was fought in 1264 in a mountain pass of the central Peloponnese between the Principality of Achaea and the Byzantine army.
Battle of MalingBattle · 342 BCEThe Battle of Maling was fought in 342 BCE between the State of Qi and the State of Wei, which had attacked Han.
Battle of MalplaquetBattle · 11 September 1709The Battle of Malplaquet was fought on 11 September 1709 near Mons, in Hainaut, during the War of the Spanish Succession.- Battle of ManawashiBattle · 1874The Battle of Manawashi was fought in 1874 in Darfur, where the forces of the Sudanese slave-trading warlord al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, operating with tacit Egyptian…
Battle of Manila BayBattle · 1898The Battle of Manila Bay was fought on 1 May 1898, at the start of the Spanish–American War, when the US Asiatic Squadron under Commodore George Dewey destroyed the…- Battle of ManoladaBattle · 1316The Battle of Manolada was fought on 5 July 1316 in Elis, in the north-western Peloponnese, between rival claimants to the Principality of Achaea.
- Battle of Mantinea (207 BCE)Battle · 207 BCEThe Battle of Mantinea of 207 BCE was fought in Arcadia between the Achaean League under Philopoemen and the Spartans under Machanidas.
- Battle of Mantinea (362 BCE)Battle · 362 BCEThe Battle of Mantinea was fought in Arcadia in 362 BCE between Thebes under Epaminondas, with its Arcadian and other allies, and a coalition of Sparta, Athens…
- Battle of Mantinea (418 BCE)Battle · 418 BCEThe Battle of Mantinea of 418 BCE was the largest land battle of the Peloponnesian War, fought in Arcadia.
- Battle of ManzikertBattle · 1071The Battle of Manzikert was fought in 1071 in eastern Anatolia between the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes and the Seljuk Turks under Sultan Alp…
Battle of MarathonBattle · 490 BCEThe Battle of Marathon was fought in 490 BCE on the plain of Marathon in Attica, where an Athenian army, aided by Plataea, defeated a Persian expeditionary force sent…
Battle of MarcianoBattle · 1554The Battle of Marciano, also called Scannagallo, was fought on 2 August 1554 in the Valdichiana between the forces of Cosimo I de' Medici and the Emperor Charles V and…
Battle of MarengoBattle · 1800The Battle of Marengo was fought on 14 June 1800 near Alessandria in Piedmont between the French army of the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte and an Austrian army under…
Battle of MarignanoBattle · 1515The Battle of Marignano was fought on 13–14 September 1515 near Melegnano, south-east of Milan, between the French army of Francis I and Swiss forces defending the…
Battle of MaritsaBattle · 1371The Battle of the Maritsa was fought on 26 September 1371 at Chernomen on the Maritsa river, in modern Greece, where an Ottoman force under Lala Şahin Pasha destroyed…
Battle of Marj ArdabilBattle · 730The Battle of Marj Ardabil was fought in December 730 near Ardabil, in north-western Iran, between a Khazar army and the forces of the Umayyad Caliphate.
Battle of Marj DabiqBattle · 1516The Battle of Marj Dabiq was fought in 1516 near Aleppo in northern Syria between the Ottoman Empire under Selim I and the Mamluk Sultanate.- Battle of Marj Rahit (684)Battle · 684The Battle of Marj Rahit was fought in August 684 north of Damascus between the Umayyad Marwan I, backed by the Kalb tribes, and the Qays tribes under al-Dahhak ibn…
Battle of MarkellaiBattle · 792The Battle of Markellai was fought in 792 near the fortress of Markellai, close to present-day Karnobat in Bulgaria.
Battle of MarsagliaBattle · 1693The Battle of Marsaglia was fought on 4 October 1693 in Piedmont, south-west of Turin, during the Nine Years' War.
Battle of MaserfieldBattle · 5 August 642The Battle of Maserfield was fought on 5 August 642 between Penda of Mercia and Oswald of Northumbria, probably at Oswestry in Shropshire.- Battle of MaskiBattle · c. 1020The Battle of Maski was fought around 1019–1020 at Maski, in present-day Raichur district of Karnataka, between the Chola king Rajendra I and the Western Chalukya king…
- Battle of MaungweBattle · 1684The Battle of Maungwe was fought in 1684 in the Zimbabwe plateau, where Changamire Dombo defeated a combined punitive force of Mutapa troops and their Portuguese allies.
- Battle of MaymyoBattle · 1768The Battle of Maymyo was fought in early 1768 near Maymyo, now Pyin Oo Lwin, in Upper Burma during the third Qing invasion of the Sino-Burmese War.
Battle of MaysalunBattle · 1920The Battle of Maysalun was fought on 24 July 1920 at the Maysalun pass west of Damascus between French forces under General Mariano Goybet and a small Syrian army led…
Battle of MbwilaBattle · 1665The Battle of Mbwila was fought in 1665 between the Kingdom of Kongo and Portuguese forces from Angola with their African allies.- Battle of MegiddoBattle · 1457 BCEThe Battle of Megiddo, dated by the site to 1457 BCE, was fought in northern Canaan between Egypt under Thutmose III and a coalition of Canaanite rulers led by the king…
Battle of Meloria (1284)Battle · 1284The Battle of Meloria was a naval battle fought on 6 August 1284 near the islet of Meloria off Livorno between Genoa and Pisa.
Battle of MénfőBattle · 1044The Battle of Ménfő was fought on 5 July 1044 near Győr, where Emperor Henry III defeated King Samuel Aba of Hungary.- Battle of MengoBattle · 1892The Battle of Mengo was fought in Kampala on 24 January 1892 between the Protestant and Catholic factions of Buganda.
Battle of MentanaBattle · 1867The Battle of Mentana was fought on 3 November 1867 near Mentana, north-east of Rome, between the volunteers of Giuseppe Garibaldi, who were trying to seize Rome, and…
Battle of MianiBattle · 1843The Battle of Miani was fought on 17 February 1843 near Hyderabad in Sindh, where a small British-Indian army under General Sir Charles Napier defeated the much larger…
Battle of MidwayBattle · 1942The Battle of Midway was a naval and air battle fought in June 1942 near Midway Atoll in the central Pacific during the Second World War.
Battle of MikatagaharaBattle · 1573The Battle of Mikatagahara was fought on 25 January 1573 near Hamamatsu in Tōtōmi Province, Japan.- Battle of MimikawaBattle · 1578The Battle of Mimikawa was fought in 1578 on the Mimi River in Hyūga Province, Kyushu, between the Ōtomo and the Shimazu. Ōtomo Sōrin's army, advancing to restore an…
Battle of MinatogawaBattle · 1336The Battle of Minatogawa was fought in 1336 near modern Kobe, Japan, between the forces of Ashikaga Takauji and the loyalists of Emperor Go-Daigo.
Battle of MindenBattle · 1759The Battle of Minden was fought on 1 August 1759 near Minden in Westphalia during the Seven Years' War.- Battle of Ming ShaBattleThe Battle of Ming Sha was an engagement of the Second Göktürk Khaganate in which a Tang army reported at 80,000 was defeated by a significantly smaller Göktürk force.
Battle of MingtiaoBattle · c. 1600 BCEThe Battle of Mingtiao is the battle in which, according to traditional Chinese history, Tang, founder of the Shang dynasty, defeated Jie, the last king of the Xia…
Battle of MišarBattle · 1806The Battle of Mišar was fought in August 1806 near Šabac in western Serbia, where Serbian rebels under Karađorđe defeated a larger Ottoman army from Bosnia.
Battle of MiyajimaBattle · 1555The Battle of Miyajima was fought in 1555 on the island of Itsukushima in the Inland Sea of Japan.
Battle of MobeiBattle · 119 BCEThe Battle of Mobei was fought in 119 BCE north of the Gobi Desert between the armies of Han China under Wei Qing and Huo Qubing and the Xiongnu.- Battle of Moel-y-donBattle · 1282The Battle of Moel-y-don was fought on 6 November 1282 on the Menai Strait, during Edward I's final war against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.
Battle of Mogadishu (1993)Battle · 1993The Battle of Mogadishu was fought on 3–4 October 1993 in the Somali capital, when US special forces trying to capture lieutenants of the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid…
Battle of MohácsBattle · 1526The Battle of Mohács was fought in 1526 in southern Hungary between the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent and the Kingdom of Hungary.
Battle of MohiBattle · 1241The Battle of Mohi was fought on 11 April 1241 at the Sajó River in north-eastern Hungary.- Battle of MoiraBattle · 637The Battle of Moira, Mag Rath in Irish, was fought in 637 near Moira in County Down.
Battle of MokuʻōhaiBattle · 1782The Battle of Mokuʻōhai was fought in July 1782 near Keʻei in South Kona on the island of Hawaiʻi, between the forces of Kiwalaʻō, heir of Kalaniʻōpuʻu, and his cousin…- Battle of MollwitzBattle · 1741The Battle of Mollwitz was fought on 10 April 1741 in Silesia, the first major battle of the First Silesian War.