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- Battle of ShelaBattle · c. 1812The Battle of Shela was fought around 1812 or 1813 on the beach at Shela on Lamu Island, off the coast of present-day Kenya.
Battle of ShelonBattle · 1471The Battle of Shelon was fought on 14 July 1471 on the Shelon river, west of Lake Ilmen, between the army of the Novgorod Republic and the forces of Ivan III of Moscow.
Battle of SheriffmuirBattle · 1715The Battle of Sheriffmuir was fought on 13 November 1715 near Dunblane in Scotland between the Jacobite army of the Earl of Mar and a smaller government army under the…
Battle of Shimbra KureBattle · 1529The Battle of Shimbra Kure was fought in March 1529 in the Ethiopian highlands, where the forces of the Adal Sultanate under Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi routed a much…
Battle of ShizugatakeBattle · 1583The Battle of Shizugatake was fought in 1583 near Lake Biwa in Omi province, Japan, between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie, rival successors to Oda Nobunaga.
Battle of SievershausenBattle · 1553The Battle of Sievershausen was fought on 9 July 1553 near Lehrte in Lower Saxony between Elector Maurice of Saxony and Margrave Albert Alcibiades of…
Battle of SiffinBattle · 657 CEThe Battle of Siffin was fought in 657 CE on the Euphrates in Syria between the caliph Ali and Mu'awiya, the governor of Syria, during the First Fitna.
Battle of SimancasBattle · 939The Battle of Simancas was fought in August 939 near Simancas on the Pisuerga, close to the Douro, between Ramiro II of León and the army of Abd al-Rahman III, caliph…
Battle of SirmiumBattle · 1167The Battle of Sirmium was fought on 8 July 1167 near Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica) in Syrmia, where the Byzantine army of Manuel I Komnenos under Andronikos…- Battle of ŠirvintosBattle · 1920The Battle of Širvintos was fought on 17–21 November 1920 near the town of Širvintos, north-west of Vilnius, between Lithuanian forces and the Polish troops of Lucjan…
Battle of SitabuldiBattle · 1817The Battle of Sitabuldi was fought on 26–27 November 1817 at Nagpur, when the forces of the Bhonsle ruler Appa Sahib attacked the British Residency and its small…
Battle of SlivnitsaBattle · 1885The Battle of Slivnitsa was fought from 17 to 19 November 1885 near the town of Slivnitsa, west of Sofia, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War.
Battle of SluysBattle · 24 June 1340The Battle of Sluys was a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 in the Zwin estuary off Sluis in Flanders, early in the Hundred Years' War.
Battle of SobraonBattleThe Battle of Sobraon was fought in 1846 on the Sutlej River and was the decisive engagement of the First Anglo-Sikh War.- Battle of SokhoistaBattle · 1545The Battle of Sokhoista was fought in 1545 in Samtskhe, south-western Georgia, where an Ottoman army defeated a coalition of Georgian rulers led by King Bagrat III of…
Battle of SolferinoBattle · 1859The Battle of Solferino was fought on 24 June 1859 in Lombardy between the French and Sardinian armies under Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II and the Austrian army…
Battle of SoliciniumBattle · 368The Battle of Solicinium was fought in 368 between the Roman army of Valentinian I and his young son Gratian and the Alemanni, at a hill site in south-west Germany…
Battle of Solway MossBattle · 1542The Battle of Solway Moss was fought on 24 November 1542 near the River Esk on the English border, where a small English force routed a larger Scottish army sent by…
Battle of SphacteriaBattle · 425 BCEThe Battle of Sphacteria was fought in 425 BCE on the island of Sphacteria, which closes the bay of Pylos in Messenia, during the Peloponnesian War.- Battle of SripurambiyamBattle · c. 885The Battle of Sripurambiyam was fought around 885 near Kumbakonam in the Kaveri delta, when the Pallava king Aparajita and his ally Prithvipati I of the Western Gangas…
- Battle of St George's CayeBattle · 1798The Battle of St George's Caye was a series of engagements on 3–10 September 1798 off the coast of Belize, in which British settlers, freed and enslaved people and the…
- Battle of St Matthew's DayBattle · 1217The Battle of St Matthew's Day was fought on 21 September 1217 near Viljandi in southern Estonia during the Livonian Crusade.
Battle of St. Jakob an der BirsBattle · 1444The Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs was fought on 26 August 1444 outside Basel, when about 1,500 Swiss Confederates attacked a far larger French army of Armagnac…
Battle of St. Jakob an der SihlBattle · 1443The Battle of St. Jakob an der Sihl was fought on 22 July 1443 at the gates of Zürich during the Old Zürich War.
Battle of StaffardaBattle · 1690The Battle of Staffarda was fought on 18 August 1690 near the abbey of Staffarda, south of Turin, during the Nine Years' War.- Battle of StalingradBattle · 1942–1943The Battle of Stalingrad was fought from August 1942 to February 1943 for the city of Stalingrad, now Volgograd, on the Volga.
Battle of Stamford BridgeBattle · 1066The Battle of Stamford Bridge was fought on 25 September 1066 near York, where King Harold II of England defeated an invading Norwegian army.
Battle of SteppesBattle · 1213The Battle of Steppes was fought on 13 October 1213 near Montenaken, in present-day Belgium, between the forces of the prince-bishop of Liège and Duke Henry I of Brabant.
Battle of StiklestadBattle · 1030The Battle of Stiklestad was fought on 29 July 1030 in Trøndelag, Norway, where King Olaf Haraldsson, returning from exile to reclaim his throne, was killed by an army…
Battle of Stirling BridgeBattle · 1297The Battle of Stirling Bridge was fought on 11 September 1297, when Scottish forces under William Wallace and Andrew Moray destroyed an English army under the Earl of…- Battle of StossBattle · 1405The Battle of Stoss was fought on 17 June 1405 at the Stoss pass between Altstätten and Gais, Switzerland, in the Appenzell Wars.
- Battle of StracathroBattle · 1130The Battle of Stracathro was fought in 1130 near Brechin in Angus, Scotland, where royal forces led by Edward, the constable of King David I, defeated an army from Moray.
- Battle of StrasbourgBattle · 357The Battle of Strasbourg, or Argentoratum, was fought in August 357 near Strasbourg between a Roman army under the Caesar Julian and a coalition of Alemannic kings led…
- Battle of StrathcarronBattle · 642The Battle of Strathcarron was fought in 642 in the valley of the River Carron near Falkirk, Scotland.
- Battle of SulcoitBattle · 967The Battle of Sulcoit was fought in 967 near the town of Tipperary in Munster, Ireland.
Battle of Sullivan's IslandBattle · 28 June 1776The Battle of Sullivan's Island was fought on 28 June 1776, when a British fleet under Sir Peter Parker attacked the unfinished palmetto-log fort on Sullivan's Island…
Battle of SuomussalmiBattle · 1939–1940The Battle of Suomussalmi was fought in the forests of north-eastern Finland from December 1939 to January 1940, during the Winter War.
Battle of SurabayaBattle · 1945The Battle of Surabaya was fought in October and November 1945 in the East Javanese port of Surabaya between Indonesian nationalist fighters and British and British…- Battle of SurajgarhBattle · 1534The Battle of Surajgarh was fought in 1534 near Surajgarha on the Kiul river in Bihar, India, between the Afghan leader Sher Khan Sur and the army of Ghiyasuddin Mahmud…
- Battle of SuriageharaBattle · 1589The Battle of Suriagehara was fought in 1589 near Mount Bandai in northern Japan between Date Masamune and Ashina Yoshihiro.
Battle of SvolderBattle · 1000The Battle of Svolder was a naval battle fought in September 1000 in the western Baltic.- Battle of SybotaBattle · 433 BCEThe Battle of Sybota was a naval battle fought in 433 BCE near the Sybota islands, off the coast of Epirus, between Corinth and its allies and Corcyra, supported by an…
- Battle of Tabkin KwottoBattle · 1804The Battle of Tabkin Kwotto, fought in June 1804, was the first major victory of the followers of Usman dan Fodio over the army of Yunfa, ruler of Gobir.
- Battle of TabladaBattle · 844The Battle of Tablada was fought in November 844 near Seville, where the army of the Umayyad emir Abd al-Rahman II defeated Viking raiders who had sacked the city.
Battle of TacnaBattle · 1880The Battle of Tacna, or of the Alto de la Alianza, was fought on 26 May 1880 near Tacna in southern Peru during the War of the Pacific.- Battle of TacuarembóBattle · 1820The Battle of Tacuarembó was fought on 22 January 1820 in the north of the Eastern Province, now Uruguay, when Portuguese forces under the Count of Figueira routed the…
- Battle of TadlaBattle · 1554The Battle of Tadla was fought in September 1554 near Tadla in central Morocco between the Saadi sultan Muhammad al-Shaykh and the Wattasid Ali Abu Hassun, who had…
Battle of TaginaeBattle · 552The Battle of Taginae, also called Busta Gallorum, was fought in the Apennines of central Italy in the summer of 552.
Battle of TagliacozzoBattle · 1268The Battle of Tagliacozzo was fought on 23 August 1268 in the Abruzzi.
Battle of TaillebourgBattle · 21–22 July 1242The Battle of Taillebourg was fought on 21–22 July 1242 at the bridge over the Charente at Taillebourg in Saintonge.- Battle of TakkolamBattle · 949The Battle of Takkolam was fought in 949 near Takkolam, north-west of Kanchipuram in present-day Tamil Nadu, between the Rashtrakuta emperor Krishna III, allied with…
- Battle of TalaiyalanganamBattleThe Battle of Talaiyalanganam was fought in the Sangam age in southern India, when the young Pandya king Nedunjeliyan II defeated an alliance of the Chera and Chola…
Battle of TalasBattle · 751The Battle of Talas was fought in 751 near the Talas River in Central Asia, where a Tang army was defeated by an Abbasid-allied force.
Battle of Tali-IhantalaBattle · 1944The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, fought from 25 June to 9 July 1944 north-east of Viipuri, was the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries.- Battle of TalikotaBattle · 1565The Battle of Talikota was fought in January 1565 in the northern Deccan between the Vijayanagara Empire and an alliance of the Deccan sultanates of Bijapur…
Battle of TamarónBattle · 1037The Battle of Tamarón was fought on 4 September 1037 near Tamarón, west of Burgos, between Bermudo III of León and his brother-in-law Ferdinand, count of Castile, aided…
Battle of TampereBattle · 1918The Battle of Tampere was the decisive battle of the Finnish Civil War, fought in March and April 1918.- Battle of TanagraBattle · 457 BCEThe Battle of Tanagra was fought in 457 BCE near Tanagra in Boeotia, Greece, between Athens with its allies and a Spartan-led army returning from central Greece.
- Battle of TangdaoBattle · 1161The Battle of Tangdao was a naval battle fought off the Shandong peninsula in late 1161, in which a small Southern Song fleet under Li Bao surprised and destroyed a…
Battle of Tannenberg LineBattle · 1944The Battle of Tannenberg Line was fought in July and August 1944 at the Sinimäed hills near Narva in north-eastern Estonia.- Battle of Tarain (1215)Battle · 1215The Battle of Tarain of 1215 was fought in northern India, where Sultan Iltutmish defeated rival claimants to power, notably Taj al-Din Yildiz.
Battle of TarawaBattle · 1943The Battle of Tarawa was fought from 20 to 23 November 1943 on Betio, an islet of Tarawa atoll in the Gilbert Islands, when United States Marines stormed a strongly…
Battle of TarquiBattle · 1829The Battle of Tarqui was fought on 27 February 1829 at Portete de Tarqui near Cuenca in modern Ecuador.
Battle of TauberbischofsheimBattle · 1866The Battle of Tauberbischofsheim was fought on 24 July 1866 during the Austro-Prussian War, when Prussian troops of the Army of the Main defeated the Württemberg…
Battle of TedorigawaBattle · 1577The Battle of Tedorigawa was fought in 1577 at the Tedori River in Kaga Province, Japan, between the forces of Uesugi Kenshin and an army sent by Oda Nobunaga under…- Battle of TegyraBattle · 375 BCEThe Battle of Tegyra was fought in 375 BCE near Orchomenus in Boeotia, when the Theban commander Pelopidas, leading the Sacred Band and a small force of cavalry, met a…
Battle of TelamonBattle · 225 BCEThe Battle of Telamon was fought in 225 BCE near Telamon on the coast of Etruria between the Roman Republic and an invading army of Gauls from northern Italy, led by…- Battle of TellaruBattle · 9th centuryThe Battle of Tellaru was fought in the mid-ninth century at Tellaru, near Vandavasi in northern Tamil Nadu, where the Pallava king Nandivarman III defeated the Pandyas…
Battle of TenmokuzanBattle · 1582The Battle of Tenmokuzan was fought in April 1582 in Kai Province, Japan, when the forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu invaded the Takeda lands.
Battle of TertryBattle · 687The Battle of Tertry was fought in 687 near Péronne in northern France between Pippin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, and the Neustrian mayor Berchar with…
Battle of ThapsusBattle · 46 BCEThe Battle of Thapsus was fought on 6 April 46 BCE near Thapsus, on the coast of present-day Tunisia, between Julius Caesar and the Pompeian forces of Metellus Scipio…- Battle of the AegatesBattle · 241 BCEThe Battle of the Aegates was a naval battle fought in 241 BCE off the western coast of Sicily, in which the Roman fleet defeated the Carthaginian navy.
- Battle of the AlliaBattle · c. 390 BCEThe Battle of the Allia was fought around 390 BCE, or 387 BCE by Greek reckoning, near the River Allia north of Rome, where a Gallic army under Brennus routed the Romans.
- Battle of the Alta River (1068)Battle · 1068The Battle of the Alta River was fought in 1068 near Pereyaslavl, where the Cumans (Polovtsians) defeated the combined forces of three sons of Yaroslav the Wise…
Battle of the Angrivarian WallBattle · 16 CEThe Battle of the Angrivarian Wall was fought in 16 CE between Roman legions under Germanicus and Germanic tribes led by Arminius of the Cherusci.
Battle of the AtlanticCampaign · 1939–1945The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest continuous campaign of the Second World War, fought between Allied navies and air forces and German U-boats and surface…- Battle of the Bagradas River (49 BCE)Battle · 49 BCEThe Battle of the Bagradas River was fought in August 49 BCE in the province of Africa, near the river now called the Medjerda in Tunisia.
Battle of the BerezinaBattle · 1812The Battle of the Berezina, fought from 26 to 29 November 1812, was the crossing of the Berezina River in present-day Belarus by Napoleon's retreating Grande Armée…- Battle of the BoarnBattle · 734The Battle of the Boarn was fought in 734 on the river Boarn (Boorne) in present-day Friesland, Netherlands.
Battle of the BoyneBattle · 1690The Battle of the Boyne was fought on 1 July 1690 (Old Style) on the River Boyne near Drogheda, Ireland, between the Protestant William III and the deposed Catholic…
Battle of the BulgeBattle · 1944–1945The Battle of the Bulge was the last major German offensive on the Western Front in the Second World War, launched on 16 December 1944 through the Ardennes in Belgium…
Battle of the CamelBattle · 656 CEThe Battle of the Camel was fought in 656 CE near Basra between the caliph Ali and forces led by Aisha, Talha and al-Zubayr, who demanded vengeance for the murdered…
Battle of the Catalaunian PlainsBattle · 451The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains was fought in 451 in north-eastern Gaul between the Hunnic army of Attila and a coalition led by the Roman general Aetius and the…
Battle of the Caudine ForksBattle · 321 BCEThe Battle of the Caudine Forks in 321 BCE was a Roman disaster of the Second Samnite War.- Battle of the ChampionsBattle · c. 546 BCEThe Battle of the Champions was fought about 546 BCE between Sparta and Argos for the border district of Thyreatis.
Battle of the ChernayaBattle · 1855The Battle of the Chernaya was fought on 16 August 1855 on the Chernaya river near Sevastopol during the Crimean War.
Battle of the Colline GateBattle · 82 BCEThe Battle of the Colline Gate was fought on 1 November 82 BCE outside the walls of Rome.
Battle of the Cosmin ForestBattle · 1497The Battle of the Cosmin Forest was fought on 26 October 1497 in northern Moldavia, in present-day Ukraine.
Battle of the Crocus FieldBattle · 352 BCEThe Battle of the Crocus Field was fought in Thessaly in 352 BCE during the Third Sacred War.
Battle of the DefileBattle · 731The Battle of the Defile was fought in 731 at the Takhtakaracha pass between Kesh and Samarkand in Central Asia.
Battle of the DownsBattle · 1639The Battle of the Downs was a naval battle fought on 21 October 1639 off the coast of Kent, during the Eighty Years' War.- Battle of the ElleporusBattle · 389 BCEThe Battle of the Elleporus was fought in 389 BCE in southern Italy between Dionysius I of Syracuse and the Italiote League of Greek cities led by Croton.
Battle of the EurymedonBattle · c. 466 BCEThe Battle of the Eurymedon was a double victory won around 466 BCE by the Delian League under Cimon over the Persian Empire at the mouth of the Eurymedon river in…
Battle of the FettersBattle · c. 560 BCEThe Battle of the Fetters was fought in the 6th century BCE between Sparta and the Arcadian city of Tegea.
Battle of the FrigidusBattle · 394The Battle of the Frigidus was fought on 5–6 September 394 by the river Frigidus, probably the Vipava in present-day Slovenia.
Battle of the Garigliano (1503)Battle · 1503The Battle of the Garigliano was fought on 29 December 1503 on the river Garigliano between Lazio and Campania, during the Italian Wars.
Battle of the Golden SpursBattle · 1302The Battle of the Golden Spurs was fought on 11 July 1302 at Courtrai (Kortrijk) in Flanders, where an army of Flemish town militias fighting on foot destroyed a French…
Battle of the GranicusBattle · 334 BCEThe Battle of the Granicus was fought in 334 BCE at the Granicus River in northwestern Anatolia, the first major victory of Alexander the Great over the Persian satraps.
Battle of the Great PlainsBattle · 203 BCEThe Battle of the Great Plains was fought in 203 BCE in the Bagradas valley of North Africa, in present-day Tunisia.- Battle of the Great ZabBattle · 750The Battle of the Great Zab was fought in January 750 on the Great Zab River in northern Iraq, where the forces of the Abbasid Revolution defeated the last Umayyad…