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Qarqaar

Israel and Damascus defeated King Shalmaneser III of Assyria.

Raphia

Sargon II of New Assyrian Empire defeated Babylon.

Babylon battle

Sennacherib of New Assyrian Empire destroyed Babylon.

Marathon battle

Greece defeated Persia.

Salamis battle

Greece defeated Persia.

Thermopylae battle

Leonidas, king of Sparta, held pass against much larger Persian army but eventually was overcome.

Aegospotami

Sparta eliminated Athens' ships.

Leuctra

Other Greek city-states defeated Sparta.

Chaeronea -338

Philip II of Macedon defeated Athens and Thebes.

Granicus -334

Alexander the Great of Macedonia crossed Dardanelles Strait and defeated Darius III of Persia. He then went to Bythnia and Cilicia.

Issus

Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated Darius III of Persia. He then went to the Levant and Syria. He seized Tyre [-332]. Then he took Egypt and founded Alexandria.

Arbela

Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeated Darius III of Persia.

Gaugamela

Alexander the Great went to Mesopotamia and won at Gaugamela to take Persia from Darius III.

Ipsus

Seleucus I of Seleucid Dynasty in Persia defeated Antigonus I of Macedon.

Greek-Persia Battle

Seleucus I of Seleucid Dynasty in Persia defeated Lysimachus of Macedon.

Roman Battle

Roman Republic under Pyrrhus defeated Gauls.

Telamon

In north Italy, Roman Republic defeated Gauls.

Cannae battle

Carthage under Hannibal defeated Roman Republic.

Metaurus

Roman Republic defeated relief forces aiding Hannibal.

Zama

Roman Republic under Scipio Africanus Major defeated Carthage under Hannibal to end Second Punic War. Rome gained south Spain and north Africa.

Cynoscephalae

In north Greece, Roman Republic defeated Philip V of Macedon.

Arausio

Cimbri German tribe defeated Roman Republic under Quintus Caepio.

Acqua Sextiae

Roman Republic under Gaius Marius defeated Teutons.

Vercellac

Roman Republic under Gaius Marius defeated Cimbri.

Chaeronea -86

Roman Republic under Sulla defeated Greece.

Granicus -73

Roman Republic defeated Pontus.

Pharsala

Pompey, for Senate, lost to Julius Caesar, for the people, in Roman Republic civil war, ending republic and starting Roman Empire.

Philippi battle

Octavian (later Augustus), his general Agrippa, and Roman general and Second Triumvirate member Marcus Antonius (Marc Anthony) defeated republican forces representing Senate and ruled Middle East.

Actium battle

Octavian (Augustus) defeated Marc Anthony and Cleopatra.

Teutoburg Forest

German tribes stopped Rome, eliminating three legions, at Rhine River in Germany. Romans put boundary across Europe {limes} at Rhine and Danube Rivers, with roads, camps for legions, and towers. At that time, Rome had 28 infantry legions with 160,000 men and as many men in cavalry and other units.

Jerusalem battle 73

Roman Empire destroyed Maccabees, who had fled to Masada.

Edessa battle

Persia defeated Rome and took Emperor Valerian prisoner.

Rome battle 410

Rome fell to Visigoths under Alaric I. Stilicho, a Vandal, led Roman Visigoth, Alan, and Hun army, but someone murdered him before battle.

Troyes battle

Attila the Hun lost to Rome under Aetius, a Visigoth who commanded Visigoths, Franks, Celts, and Burgundians.

Rome battle 455

Odoacer, king of Vandals, came from Carthage and sacked Rome.

Rome battle 476

Western Roman Empire ended as Vandals under Odoacer sacked Rome second time and killed the western emperor, Romulus Augustus.

Qadesiyya

Moslem Empire defeated Persia under Yazdegard.

Nahavand

Moslem Empire defeated Persia under Yazdegard, ending Sassanian Dynasty. Zoroastrians fled Moslems, went to Gujerat Province in India, and became Parsees.

Bukhara battle

Omayyad Caliphs took Bukhara.

Tours battle

Charles Martel, king of Franks, defeated Moorish Kingdom.

Talas

Arabian Empire defeated Tang Dynasty, in Pamir Mountains.

Roncesvalles

Basques of north Spain defeated Charlemagne.

Fontenoy

Eastern Frankish kingdom and Charles the Bold defeated Lothair I.

Hafrs Fjord

Harold I won and united small kingdoms, driving losers overseas.

Ethandune

Alfred, king of Wessex [871], defeated Vikings. Guthrum, Viking lord, kept England north half {Danelaw}.

Kiev battle

Varangians took Kiev from Khazars.

Baghdad battle 947

All-e Buyeh of Persian Buyides took Baghdad.

Lechfeld

Otto I of Saxony took Austria from Magyars near Augsburg. Bavaria added Austria as Eastern March. Slovakia became part of Hungary [955 to 1918].

Rechnitz

Otto defeated Slavs.

Balkh

Seljuk Turks under Toghrol or Tughril defeated Mas'ud of Ghaznavid Dynasty of Persia.

Coimbra

Ferdinand I, king of Castile, captured Coimbra from Moors.

Hastings battle

Edward the Confessor died with no heir. He had promised throne to William, Duke of Normandy, but English nobles wanted Harold, Earl of Wessex. William the Conqueror of Normandy defeated Harold of England.

Stamford Bridge

Normans and English defeated Norwegian invasion.

Manzikert

Seljuk Turks from Baghdad, under Toghrol, defeated Byzantine Empire and captured emperor.

Rome battle 1083

Henry IV of Holy Roman Empire took Rome, forcing Pope Gregory VII to flee.

Jerusalem battle 1096

Peter the Hermit and Crusaders passed through Constantinople and Sultanate of Rum and took Jerusalem from Seljuk Turks.

Jerusalem battle 1099

Seljuk Turks lost Jerusalem to Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, Tancred, and Godfrey of Bouillon. Christians set up Kingdom of Jerusalem and founded County of Tripoli around Tripoli, Lebanon, and Principality of Antioch and County of Edessa around Maras, east of Tarsus. Sultanate of Rum still ruled Asia Minor and Turkey. Fatimids ruled undisturbed in Egypt.

Legnano

Lombard League, for Pope Alexander I, defeated Frederick I of Holy Roman Empire.

Hattim

Saladin of Saracens defeated Christians and captured Jerusalem, as Second Crusade failed.

Jerusalem battle 1192

Saladin of Saracens defended Jerusalem against Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Third Crusade.

Las Navas de Tolosa

Spain and Portugal defeated the Berber Almohades. Only Granada remained Berber.

Beijing battle

Genghis Khan captured Beijing.

Cortenuova

Frederick II of Holy Roman Empire defeated Lombard League. This created Guelph cities and Ghibelline cities, which fought each other. Guelph cities were Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Naples. Ghibelline cities were Rome, Verona, Milan, Pisa, and Arezzo. Papacy, supported by Guelphs, was against Holy Roman Empire, supported by Ghibellines.

Neva River battle

Alexander Nevsky of Russia defeated Sweden.

Algarve

Alfonso III of Portugal drove Moors from Spain.

Baghdad battle 1258

Holuga Khan of Mongol Empire took Baghdad, and Maragheh became capital.

Ayn Jalut

Mamelukes stopped Mongol attack on Syria, near Nazareth.

Battle of the Spurs

The count of Hainaut in Flanders defeated Duke of Burgundy.

Bannockburn

Robert Bruce of Scotland defeated England under Edward II.

Sluys

England defeated France at sea.

Crecy

England, using longbows, defeated France.

Calais battle 1347

England defeated France.

Poitiers

Edward the Black Prince, Duke of Cornwall, captured John II of France and gained Bordeaux.

Adrianople battle

Murad I or Amaruth I of Ottoman Turks took Adrianople from Byzantine Empire.

La Rochelle

France defeated England at sea, and England lost Aquitaine.

Roosebeke

Arteveldes, counts of Hainaut in Flanders, lost to duke of Burgundy.

Kossovo battle 1389

Christian Serbia lost to Ottoman Turks.

Nikopol

Ottoman Empire, which was Moslem, defeated Bulgaria, which was Christian.

Ankara battle

Tamerlane, Mongol from central Asia, and Timurids defeated Ottoman Empire.

Baghdad battle 1410

Turkomans took Baghdad and western lands from Timurids.

Agincourt battle

England, under Henry V, and Burgundian allies defeated France under Louis, Duke of Orleans in Azincourt, north France. English used longbows. Professional soldiers began.

Bursa battle

Tamerlane sacked Bursa, capital of Ottoman Turks.

Orleans battle

France, led by Joan of Arc, defeated England.

Patay

France, led by Joan of Arc, defeated England.

Kossovo battle 1448

Byzantine Empire defeated Serbia.

Normandy battle

France defeated England.

Chatillon

France defeated England to end 100 Years War [1453]. Calais was still English.

Constantinople battle

Ottoman Turks under Mohammed II or Muhammed II or Mehmet II conquered Constantinople, ending Byzantine Empire by defeating Constantine XI. Knowledge of Greek philosophers reached Europe.

Belgrade battle 1456

John Hunyadi and John Capistran of Hungary defeated Ottoman Empire. John Capistran became a Catholic saint.

Tannenberg 1460

Lithuania defeated Teutonic Knights.

Bosworth Field

Henry VII defeated last Plantagenet king, Richard III, and started Tudor line.

Granada battle

King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella I of Spain defeated last Moors.

Taro battle

Francesco Gonzaga of Italy fought France in Italian Wars.

Goa battle

Portugal took Goa.

Marignano

Switzerland lost at Marignano and began neutrality policy.

Belgrade battle 1521

Ottoman Empire took Belgrade from Hungary.

Mohacs

Louis II of Hungary lost to Suleiman I the Magnificent of Ottoman Empire.

Shimbra Kure

Muslim Ethiopians defeated Christian Ethiopians until 1543, when Portuguese troops defeated Muslim Ethiopians.

Calais battle 1558

England lost Calais.

Lepanto

Venice and Spain stopped Ottoman Empire in Mediterranean off west Greece.

Vienna battle

Ottoman Empire besieged Vienna and Austria. John III of Poland relieved Vienna but did not take Moldavia or Walachia from Ottoman Empire.

Cadiz battle

Francis Drake of England destroyed Spain's fleet.

Spanish Armada

Spanish Armada lost to England under Francis Drake.

Sekigahara

Hideyoshi, Ieyasu, or Iyeyasu, of Toyotomi clan, defeated other barons and unified nation.

White Mountain battle

Frederick the Winter King and Protestant Bohemian princes lost to Spain and Hapsburgs of Holy Roman Empire.

Blenheim battle

John Churchill of England defeated Holy Roman Empire. Blenheim is in west Germany.

Drogheda

Oliver Cromwell of England ended ten-year rebellion in Ireland.

Czestochowa

Poland defeated Sweden at Czestochowa monastery.

Boyne

England defeated Ireland. England enacted more Penal Laws against Ireland.

Port Royal

Britain took Port Royal from France and settled in Acadia (Nova Scotia).

Pondichery

France defeated England.

Plassey

Robert Clive of British East India Company defeated France, ending French influence in India. As governor of Bengal, he also got Behar, Calcutta, and Crissa for Britain.

Plains of Abraham

Britain under Wolfe defeated France under Montcalm in French and Indian War.

Bunker Hill battle

Britain defeated USA.

Concord battle

Britain and USA fought second battle.

Fort Ticonderoga

Britain lost to USA.

Lexington battle

Battle between Britain and USA was first Revolutionary-War fighting {shot heard round the world}. When he looked at Old North Church to see the lights, "one if by land, two if by sea", Paul Revere saw one lantern and rode to get colonists ready {Paul Revere's ride}.

Boston battle

Britain failed to stop siege of Boston by USA under Washington and had to leave Boston.

Long Island battle

USA under Washington failed in defense of New York City against British.

Brandywine

USA under Washington failed to save Philadelphia from British.

Germantown

USA under Washington failed to save Philadelphia from British.

Princeton battle

USA under Washington crossed Delaware River on Christmas to route Hessian (German) mercenaries at night.

Trenton battle

USA under Washington crossed Delaware River on Christmas to route Hessian (German) mercenaries at night.

Bennington battle

Ethan Allen successfully led Green Mountain Boys of USA against British.

Saratoga Springs

Saratoga Campaign of Britain ended when General Burgoyne surrendered to General Gates of USA at Saratoga Springs.

Vincennes

General Clark defeated British who allied with American natives.

Camden battle

In Carolina campaign, General Cornwallis of Britain took Camden from USA.

Charleston battle

Carolina campaign of Britain started with General Cornwallis of Britain taking Charleston from USA.

King's Mountain

USA defeated Britain.

Yorktown battle

Yorktown campaign began when Cornwallis of Britain retreated to Yorktown, waiting for more soldiers. France blockaded Chesapeake Bay. USA under Washington marched to Yorktown, where Cornwallis surrendered.

Aboukir

France lost to Horatio Nelson and Britain, when French ships tried to go to India.

Battle of the Pyramids

France occupied Egypt, but Britain and Ottoman Empire forced France out.

Copenhagen battle

Horatio Nelson of England defeated Denmark.

Marengo

France under Napoleon defeated Austria.

Austerlitz battle

France defeated Austria in Napoleonic Wars.

Trafalgar battle

Horatio Nelson of England defeated France.

Friedland

France defeated Russia in north Germany.

Jena battle

France defeated Prussia in Napoleonic Wars.

Wagram

France defeated Austria.

Tippecanoe

William Henry Harrison opened Ohio and Indiana to settlers by beating American natives.

Leipzig battle

Allies defeated Napoleon and sent him into exile on island of Elba.

New Orleans battle 1815

USA, under Andrew Jackson, defeated Britain in War of 1812.

Waterloo battle

Napoleon escaped from Elba and rallied France. England under Duke of Wellington defeated Napoleon. Napoleon went into exile on St. Helena Island.

Navarino 1821

Mohammed Ali of Egypt allied with Ottoman Empire and fought Greece and Wahabis of Arabia but lost.

Ayacucho

Simon Bolivar led South America to victory over Spain.

Navarino 1827

Greece under president Capo d'Istrai defeated Ottoman Empire in Greek War of Independence and became independent.

Cracow battle

Austria took free city of Cracow.

Harpers Ferry battle

Abolitionist John Brown captured Harpers Ferry arsenal.

Antietam

North defeated South.

New Orleans battle 1862

David Farragut defeated Confederate ships to take New Orleans for Union. He then closed off Mobile Bay.

Little Bighorn

George Custer lost to Lakota and its allies under Chief Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa Lakota.

Rosebud

General Crook lost to Teton Sioux.

Aduwa

Italy invaded Ethiopia but lost.

Crete battle

Greece fought Ottoman Empire to get Crete but failed.

Marne battle

Marshal Foch of France held back Germany.

Tannenberg 1914

Marshall Hindenburg of Germany defeated Russia and occupied Poland. He became commander of all Central Powers forces.

Mexico City battle

Pancho Villa took Mexico City from Diaz.

Verdun battle

Henri Petain, marshal of France, stopped Germany.

Crimea battle

Civil war in Russia ended as Reds or Bolsheviks and Red Army under Leon Trotsky defeated Whites or Mensheviks and government.

Fiume

Italy took Fiume.

Smyrna battle

Kemal Ataturk stopped attacking Greece, captured Smyrna, and deposed Sultan of Ottoman Empire.

Battle of the Atlantic

USA protected Allied ships from submarines.

Pearl Harbor battle

Japan attacked without declaring war. USA declared war on Japan.

El Alamein

Rommel of Germany lost to Field Marshal Montgomery of Britain. Montgomery later commanded in north France.

Singapore battle

British, French, and Indian soldiers surrendered to Japan.

Coral Sea battle

USA defeated Japan.

Midway battle

USA decisively defeated Japan, as air power crippled Japanese fleet.

Solomon Islands battle

USA defeated Japan.

Volvograd battle

Germany reached Volvograd and Caucasia.

Marshall Islands battle

USA defeated Japan.

Iwo Jima battle

USA defeated Japan.

Berlin battle

World War II ended in Europe as Allies entered Berlin from east and west. Germany had four zones.

Hiroshima battle

USA dropped atomic bomb.

Nagasaki battle

USA dropped atomic bomb.

Dien Bien Phu battle

Vietnam defeated France, and Vietnam divided into North Vietnam, which was Communist, and South Vietnam, which was republic.

Saigon battle

North Vietnam took over South Vietnam.

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