Types of Battles

Category:Battles of the American Civil War Some battles have more than one name; e.g., the battles known in the North as Battle of Antietam and Second Battle of Bull Run were referred to as the Battle of Sharpsburg and the Battle of Manassas, respectively, by the South.

This is a list of military actions in the American Revolutionary War.Actions marked with an asterisk involved no casualties. Major campaigns, theaters, and expeditions of the war

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led to the United States' entry into World War II.

The Battle of Antietam, also called the Battle of Sharpsburg, occurred September 22, 1862, at Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. It pitted Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia against Union General George McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and was the culmination of Lee’s attempt to invade the north.

The battle in Berlin was an end phase of the Battle of Berlin. While the Battle of Berlin encompassed the attack by three Soviet Army Groups to capture not only Berlin but the territory of Germany east of the River Elbe still under German control, the battle in Berlin details the fighting and German capitulation that took place within the city.

The Battle of Gettysburg (locally / ˈ ɡ ɛ t ɪ s b ɜːr ɡ / ( listen), with an / s / sound) was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman conquest of England.

The Battle of Midway, along with the Guadalcanal Campaign, is widely considered a turning point in the Pacific War.

The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943) was the largest confrontation of World War II in which Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia.

Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. As the Germans drove deeper into the Ardennes in an attempt to secure vital bridgeheads, the Allied line took on the appearance of a large bulge, giving rise to the battle’s name.

The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme, German: Schlacht an der Somme), also known as the Somme Offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and France against the German Empire.

The Battle of Thermopylae (/ θ ər ˈ m ɒ p ɪ l iː / thər-MOP-i-lee; Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Machē tōn Thermopylōn) was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.

List of every major Cold War battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous Cold War battles when available. While it is not a comprehensive list of all skirmishes, conflicts, or battles that took place in the Cold War, we have tried to include as many military events and actions as possible.

List of every major Crimean War battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous Crimean War battles when available. While it is not a comprehensive list of all skirmishes, conflicts, or battles that took place in the Crimean War, we have tried to include as many military events and actions as possible.

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List of every major Gulf War battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous Gulf War battles when available. While it is not a comprehensive list of all skirmishes, conflicts, or battles that took place in the Gulf War, we have tried to include as many military events and actions as possible.

Battle of Castillon France A French army, under Jean Bureau, defeats an English army under John Talbot to end the Hundred Years' War. This was also the first battle in European history where the use of cannon was a major factor in determining the victor. John Talbot was killed in action. 4,000 English killed in this battle.

List of every major Iraq War battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous Iraq War battles when available. While it is not a comprehensive list of all skirmishes, conflicts, or battles that took place in the Iraq War, we have tried to include as many military events and actions as possible.

List of every major Korean War battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous Korean War battles when available. While it is not a comprehensive list of all skirmishes, conflicts, or battles that took place in the Korean War, we have tried to include as many military events and actions as possible.

Pages in category "Battles of the Napoleonic Wars" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 228 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

The Second Battle of Fallujah—code-named Operation Al-Fajr (Arabic: الفجر "the dawn") and Operation Phantom Fury—was a joint American, Iraqi, and British offensive in November and December 2004, considered the highest point of conflict in Fallujah during the Iraq War.

List of every major Seven Years' War battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous Seven Years' War battles when available. While it is not a comprehensive list of all skirmishes, conflicts, or battles that took place in the Seven Years' War, we have tried to include as many military events and actions as possible.

The Siege of Yorktown, also known as the Battle of Yorktown, the Surrender at Yorktown, German Battle or the Siege of Little York, ending on October 19, 1781, at Yorktown, Virginia, was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis.

During the Spanish–American War, the United States Army, United States Marines and United States Navy fought 30 significant battles against the Spanish Army and Spanish Navy. Of these, 27 occurred in the Caribbean theater and 3 in the Pacific theater.

Battles of the Vietnam War involving the United States‎ (36 P) Pages in category "Battles and operations of the Vietnam War" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 221 total.

List of every major 2001 war in Afghanistan battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous 2001 war in Afghanistan battles when available. While it is... List of every major 2001 war in Afghanistan battle, including photos, images, or maps of the most famous 2001 war in Afghanistan battles when available.

The War of 1812 was fought in four major theaters on the North American continent: the Atlantic Coast, the Canada–US border, the Gulf Coast and the American West. In addition to these continental theaters of action, there were also numerous ship-to-ship battles at sea, almost all of them in the Atlantic.

List of military engagements of World War I encompasses land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period of time.

List of World War II battles. Jump to navigation Jump to search. This is a list of World War II battles. African and Middle Eastern Front. North African ...