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Battle of MolodiBattle · 1572The Battle of Molodi was fought in late July and early August 1572 near the village of Molodi, south of Moscow.- Battle of MonguaBattle · 1915The Battle of Mongua was fought on 18–20 August 1915 in southern Angola between a Portuguese army under General António Pereira de Eça and the forces of the Kwanyama…
Battle of Mons GraupiusBattle · 83 or 84The Battle of Mons Graupius was fought in 83 or 84 CE in north-eastern Scotland between a Roman army under Gnaeus Julius Agricola and the Caledonians, whose leader…
Battle of Mons LactariusBattle · 552 or 553The Battle of Mons Lactarius was fought near Mount Vesuvius in Campania in 552 or 553 between the Byzantine army of Narses and the last Ostrogothic king, Teia.
Battle of Mons-en-PévèleBattle · 18 August 1304The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle was fought on 18 August 1304 south of Lille between the army of Philip IV of France and the Flemish militias that had defeated the French…
Battle of MontapertiBattle · 1260The Battle of Montaperti was fought on 4 September 1260 near Siena between the Guelph army of Florence and a Ghibelline force of Siena, Florentine exiles under Farinata…
Battle of Monte PorzioBattle · 1167The Battle of Monte Porzio was fought on 29 May 1167 near Tusculum, south-east of Rome, between the army of the Roman commune and imperial forces of Frederick…
Battle of MontemurloBattle · 1537The Battle of Montemurlo was fought on 1 August 1537 near Prato, where the forces of the new Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de' Medici, defeated republican exiles led by…
Battle of Montes ClarosBattle · 1665The Battle of Montes Claros was fought on 17 June 1665 near Vila Viçosa in the Alentejo, the last major battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
Battle of MontgisardBattle · 1177The Battle of Montgisard was fought on 25 November 1177 near Ramla, in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Battle of MontielBattle · 1369The Battle of Montiel was fought on 14 March 1369 in La Mancha, where Henry of Trastámara and Bertrand du Guesclin defeated Peter I of Castile.
Battle of Montjuïc (1641)Battle · 1641The Battle of Montjuïc was fought on 26 January 1641 on the hill of Montjuïc above Barcelona.
Battle of MoratBattle · 1476The Battle of Morat was fought on 22 June 1476 at Murten, west of Bern, during the Burgundian Wars.
Battle of MorgartenBattle · 1315The Battle of Morgarten was fought on 15 November 1315 near Lake Ägeri, where men of Schwyz and Uri ambushed a Habsburg army under Duke Leopold I of Austria on a narrow…
Battle of MortemerBattle · 1054The Battle of Mortemer was fought in February 1054 in upper Normandy, when forces of Duke William of Normandy surprised and destroyed one of two French armies that King…- Battle of MosegaBattle · 1837The Battle of Mosega was fought in January 1837 near present-day Zeerust in South Africa, when Voortrekkers under Hendrik Potgieter and Gert Maritz, with Griqua and…
Battle of Mount GilboaBattleThe Battle of Mount Gilboa was the battle in which, according to the Hebrew Bible, the Philistines defeated the Israelites under King Saul on Mount Gilboa, above the…
Battle of MühlbergBattle · 1547The Battle of Mühlberg was fought on 24 April 1547 near Mühlberg on the Elbe and decided the Schmalkaldic War.
Battle of MühldorfBattle · 1322The Battle of Mühldorf was fought on 28 September 1322 near Mühldorf am Inn in Bavaria between the rival German kings Louis IV of Bavaria and Frederick the Fair of…
Battle of MuizenbergBattle · 1795The Battle of Muizenberg was fought near Cape Town from August to September 1795, when a British expedition attacked the Dutch Cape Colony to keep the sea route to…
Battle of MulaydaBattle · 1891The Battle of Mulayda was fought in January 1891 in the Qassim region of central Arabia.
Battle of MundaBattle · 45 BCEThe Battle of Munda was fought on 17 March 45 BCE in southern Spain between Julius Caesar and the Pompeian army of Gnaeus and Sextus Pompeius and Titus Labienus.
Battle of Murche-KhortBattle · 1729The Battle of Murche-Khort was fought in November 1729 north of Isfahan, when Nader, then general of the Safavid claimant Tahmasp II, defeated the Afghan army of the…
Battle of MuretBattle · 1213The Battle of Muret was fought on 12 September 1213 south of Toulouse, during the Albigensian Crusade.- Battle of MurjakhetiBattle · 1535The Battle of Murjakheti was fought in 1535 in south-western Georgia between King Bagrat III of Imereti and Qvarqvare III, atabeg of Samtskhe.
- Battle of MusaraBattle · 756The Battle of Musara was fought in May 756 on the banks of the Guadalquivir near Córdoba.
Battle of MuyeBattle · c. 1046 BCEThe Battle of Muye was fought around 1046 BCE between King Wu of Zhou and his allies and Di Xin, the last king of the Shang dynasty.
Battle of MycaleBattle · 479 BCEThe Battle of Mycale was fought in 479 BCE at Mount Mycale on the coast of Ionia, opposite Samos.
Battle of MyeongnyangBattle · 1597The Battle of Myeongnyang was fought on 26 October 1597 in the Myeongnyang Strait off the south-western tip of Korea during the second Japanese invasion.- Battle of Mynydd CarnBattle · 1081The Battle of Mynydd Carn was fought in 1081 at an unidentified site in south-west Wales.
Battle of MyonessusBattle · 190 BCEThe Battle of Myonessus was a naval battle fought off the coast of Ionia in 190 BCE, in which a Roman and Rhodian fleet under Lucius Aemilius Regillus defeated the…
Battle of MyriokephalonBattle · 1176The Battle of Myriokephalon was fought on 17 September 1176 in the mountains of western Anatolia, near Lake Eğirdir.
Battle of NäfelsBattle · 1388The Battle of Näfels was fought on 9 April 1388 in the canton of Glarus, where the men of Glarus, with help from Schwyz, defeated a much larger Habsburg army.
Battle of NagashinoBattle · 1575The Battle of Nagashino was fought on 28 June 1575 in Mikawa Province, Japan.
Battle of NájeraBattle · 1367The Battle of Nájera was fought on 3 April 1367 in La Rioja during the Castilian civil war.
Battle of NalapaniBattle · Siege · 1814The Battle of Nalapani was the first major engagement of the Anglo-Nepalese War, fought in October and November 1814 at the hill fort of Khalanga (Kalunga) near Dehradun.
Battle of NancyBattle · 1477The Battle of Nancy, fought on 5 January 1477 outside Nancy in Lorraine, was the final battle of the Burgundian Wars.- Battle of Narva (1700)Battle · 1700The Battle of Narva was fought in 1700 at the start of the Great Northern War, when about 8,000 Swedish troops under Charles XII routed a much larger Russian army…
Battle of NasebyBattle · 1645The Battle of Naseby was fought on 14 June 1645 in Northamptonshire between the main Royalist army of Charles I and Parliament's New Model Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax…
Battle of NavarinoBattleThe Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought in 1827 in the bay of Navarino in the Peloponnese during the Greek War of Independence.- Battle of NdondakusukaBattle · 1856The Battle of Ndondakusuka was fought on 2 December 1856 near the Thukela River between two sons of the Zulu king Mpande competing for the succession.
Battle of NedaoBattle · 454The Battle of Nedao was fought in 454 in Pannonia between the sons of Attila and a coalition of their former subject peoples led by the Gepid king Ardaric.
Battle of NesjarBattle · 1016The Battle of Nesjar was a naval battle fought in 1016 near the mouth of the Oslofjord.
Battle of Neville's CrossBattle · 1346The Battle of Neville's Cross was fought on 17 October 1346 near Durham, when David II of Scotland invaded England in support of France after the English victory at…
Battle of NewburnBattle · 1640The Battle of Newburn was fought on 28 August 1640 at a ford over the River Tyne west of Newcastle, where the Covenanter army under Alexander Leslie defeated an English…- Battle of NgasaunggyanBattle · 1277The Battle of Ngasaunggyan was fought in 1277 near the frontier between the Pagan Kingdom and Yunnan, after King Narathihapate refused the tribute demanded by the…
- Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống ĐaBattle · 1789The Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống Đa was fought around Thăng Long (Hanoi) in early 1789, when Nguyen Hue, who had just proclaimed himself Emperor Quang Trung, launched a…
- Battle of Như Nguyệt RiverBattle · 1077The Battle of Như Nguyệt River was fought in 1077 on the Cầu river, then called Như Nguyệt, north of the Vietnamese capital Thăng Long.
Battle of NicopolisBattle · 1396The Battle of Nicopolis was fought on 25 September 1396 at Nicopolis on the lower Danube, in modern Bulgaria.
Battle of NieuwpoortBattle · 1600The Battle of Nieuwpoort was fought on 2 July 1600 on the beach and dunes near Nieuwpoort in Flanders, during the Eighty Years' War.
Battle of NihawandBattle · 642 CEThe Battle of Nihawand was fought in 642 CE in western Iran between the armies of the Rashidun Caliphate and the forces of the Sasanian Empire.- Battle of Nineveh (627)Battle · 627 CEThe Battle of Nineveh was fought in 627 CE near the ruins of ancient Nineveh in northern Mesopotamia, where the Byzantine emperor Heraclius defeated a Sasanian army.
- Battle of NingjiangBattle · 1114The Battle of Ningjiang was fought in 1114 when the Jurchen chieftain Wanyan Aguda rebelled against the Liao dynasty and attacked its fortress of Ningjiang in Manchuria.
Battle of NingyuanBattle · 1626The Battle of Ningyuan was fought in 1626 at Ningyuan, in modern Xingcheng in Liaoning, China, when the Ming commander Yuan Chonghuan defended the walled town against…
Battle of NoáinBattle · 1521The Battle of Noáin was fought on 30 June 1521 near Pamplona.
Battle of Nong SaraiBattle · 1593The Battle of Nong Sarai was fought in early 1593 near Suphan Buri, where King Naresuan of Ayutthaya defeated a Burmese invasion army.
Battle of Nördlingen (1634)Battle · 1634The Battle of Nördlingen, fought on 6 September 1634 in Swabia, was a crushing victory of the imperial and Spanish armies under the future Emperor Ferdinand III and the…
Battle of NoryangBattle · 1598The Battle of Noryang was the last major battle of the Japanese invasions of Korea, fought on 16 December 1598 in the Noryang Strait off the south coast.- Battle of NotiumBattle · 406 BCEThe Battle of Notium was a naval battle of 406 BCE near Notium, the port of Colophon, close to Ephesus, in the Peloponnesian War.
- Battle of NoukoumaBattle · 1818The Battle of Noukouma was fought in 1818 in the inner Niger delta of present-day Mali.
Battle of Novara (1513)Battle · 1513The Battle of Novara was fought on 6 June 1513 near Novara in northern Italy, when a Swiss army defending Duke Massimiliano Sforza of Milan made a surprise attack on…- Battle of NowsheraBattle · 1823The Battle of Nowshera was fought in 1823 near the Kabul River in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent between the Sikh Empire under Ranjit Singh and Afghan forces.
Battle of NsamankowBattle · 1824The Battle of Nsamankow was fought on 22 January 1824 in the Gold Coast, where an army of the Ashanti Empire annihilated a British expeditionary force under Governor…
Battle of NuʻuanuBattle · 1795The Battle of Nuʻuanu was fought on Oʻahu in May 1795, when Kamehameha I, armed with Western guns and advisers, defeated Kalanikūpule, ruler of Oʻahu and Maui.- Battle of OenophytaBattle · 457 BCEThe Battle of Oenophyta was fought in Boeotia in 457 BCE, about two months after the Spartan victory at Tanagra.
Battle of OkehazamaBattle · 1560The Battle of Okehazama was fought in June 1560 in Owari Province, Japan, when Oda Nobunaga with a small force made a surprise attack on the much larger army of Imagawa…
Battle of OkinawaBattle · 1945The Battle of Okinawa was fought from April to June 1945 between American and Japanese forces on Okinawa, the largest battle of the Pacific War on Japanese territory.- Battle of OkitanawateBattle · 1584The Battle of Okitanawate was fought in 1584 near Shimabara in Hizen province, Kyushu.
- Battle of OncativoBattle · 1830The Battle of Oncativo, also called Laguna Larga, was fought on 25 February 1830 in Córdoba Province, Argentina, where José María Paz's Unitarian army again defeated…
- Battle of OpisBattle · 539 BCEThe Battle of Opis was fought in 539 BCE near the Tigris in Mesopotamia, where the Persian forces of Cyrus the Great defeated the Babylonian army.
Battle of ŌrākauBattle · 1864The Battle of Ōrākau was fought from 31 March to 2 April 1864 in the Waikato, New Zealand, the last major battle of the British invasion of the Waikato.- Battle of OrbulaqBattle · 1643The Battle of Orbulaq was fought in 1643 in the mountains of Zhetysu in south-eastern Kazakhstan between the Kazakhs under Jahangir Khan and the Dzungars under Erdeni…
Battle of OrdashuBattle · 1874The Battle of Ordashu was fought on 4 February 1874 a few miles south of Kumasi, the last engagement of Sir Garnet Wolseley's expedition against the Asante.
Battle of OriskanyBattle · 1777The Battle of Oriskany was fought on 6 August 1777 near Oriskany in central New York during the American Revolutionary War.
Battle of OrshaBattle · 1514The Battle of Orsha was fought on 8 September 1514 on the Dnieper near Orsha in modern Belarus.
Battle of OstiaBattle · 849The Battle of Ostia was fought in 849 off Ostia, the port of Rome, between Muslim raiders from North Africa and an allied fleet from Naples, Amalfi, Gaeta and Sorrento.
Battle of OthéeBattle · 1408The Battle of Othée was fought on 23 September 1408 near Othée, north-west of Liège.
Battle of OtlukbeliBattle · 1473The Battle of Otlukbeli was fought on 11 August 1473 near Erzincan in eastern Anatolia between the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II and Uzun Hasan of the Aq Qoyunlu.
Battle of OudenardeBattle · 1708The Battle of Oudenarde was fought on 11 July 1708 on the Scheldt in the Spanish Netherlands, where an allied army under the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of…
Battle of OuriqueBattle · 1139The Battle of Ourique was fought in 1139 in the south of present-day Portugal, where Afonso Henriques defeated Muslim forces.
Battle of PaardebergBattle · 1900The Battle of Paardeberg was fought from 18 to 27 February 1900 on the Modder River, in the Second Boer War.- Battle of PalkhedBattle · 1728The Battle of Palkhed was fought in February 1728 near Aurangabad between the Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao I and Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad.
- Battle of PalleneBattle · c. 546 BCEThe Battle of Pallene was fought in Attica around 546 BCE, when Peisistratus, returning from exile with mercenaries and allies, surprised and routed the Athenian forces…
- Battle of PalnaduBattle · c. 1182The Battle of Palnadu was fought around 1182 at Karempudi in the Palnadu region of Andhra Pradesh, India, between two branches of the Haihaya chiefs of Palnadu and…
Battle of Palo HincadoBattle · 1808The Battle of Palo Hincado was fought on 7 November 1808 near El Seibo in the east of the colony of Santo Domingo.- Battle of PandosiaBattle · 331 BCEThe Battle of Pandosia was fought in 331 BCE near the town of Pandosia in Bruttium, southern Italy.
Battle of PaniumBattleThe Battle of Panium was fought around 200 BCE near the sources of the Jordan River during the Fifth Syrian War, between the Seleucid Empire under Antiochus III and the…
Battle of PasschendaeleBattle · 1917The Battle of Passchendaele, or Third Battle of Ypres, was a British-led offensive on the Western Front in Belgium from July to November 1917.
Battle of PaviaBattle · 1525The Battle of Pavia was fought in 1525 in northern Italy during the Italian Wars, between the forces of Charles V and the French army of Francis I.
Battle of PavónBattle · 1861The Battle of Pavón was fought on 17 September 1861 in Santa Fe province between the forces of the State of Buenos Aires under Bartolomé Mitre and those of the…
Battle of PelagoniaBattle · 1259The Battle of Pelagonia was fought in 1259 in the Pelagonia plain of Macedonia between the Empire of Nicaea and an alliance of the Despotate of Epirus, the Principality…
Battle of PelusiumBattle · 525 BCEThe Battle of Pelusium was fought in 525 BCE at the eastern edge of the Nile Delta, where the Persian king Cambyses II defeated Pharaoh Psamtik III.- Battle of PeregonovkaBattle · 1919The Battle of Peregonovka was fought in September 1919 near the village of Peregonovka (Perehonivka), near Uman in central Ukraine, during the Russian Civil War.
Battle of PetrovaradinBattle · 1716The Battle of Petrovaradin was fought on 5 August 1716 at the fortress of Peterwardein, now part of Novi Sad in Serbia, at the start of the Austro-Turkish War of…
Battle of PharsalusBattle · 48 BCEThe Battle of Pharsalus was fought on 9 August 48 BCE near Pharsalus in Thessaly between Julius Caesar and the larger army of Pompey and the Senate.
Battle of PhilippiBattle · 42 BCEThe Battle of Philippi was fought in October 42 BCE near the city of Philippi in eastern Macedonia.- Battle of PichinchaBattle · 1822The Battle of Pichincha was fought on 24 May 1822 on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano above Quito.
Battle of PlasseyBattle · 1757The Battle of Plassey was fought on 23 June 1757 near Palashi in Bengal, where a British East India Company force under Robert Clive defeated the much larger army of…
Battle of PlataeaBattle · 479 BCEThe Battle of Plataea was fought in 479 BCE in Boeotia, where an allied Greek army led by Sparta defeated the Persian land forces under Mardonius.
Battle of Poitiers (1356)Battle · 1356The Battle of Poitiers was fought on 19 September 1356 near Poitiers in western France during the Hundred Years' War.