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List of battles 1901-2000
List of battles - List of battles 1400 BC-600 AD - List of battles 601-1400 - List of battles 1401-1800 - List of battles 1801-1900 - List of battles 1901-2000 - List of battles 2001-2100 Twentieth Century * 1900 Battle of Paardeberg February 17 - 27 - British capture forces of Boer general Piet Cronje * 1900 Battle of Spion Kop January 24 in Second Boer War * 1904 Battle of Port Arthur February 8 - Japanese defeat Russians; start of Russo-Japanese War * 1904 Battle of Mukden * 1904 Battle of Yalu River May - Japanese defeat Russians (Russo-Japanese War) * 1904 Battle of Dairen May 30 - Japanese defeat Russians (Russo-Japanese War) * 1904 Battle of Liaoyang October - Japanese defeat Russians (Russo-Japanese War) * 1905 Battle of Tsushima May 27 - 28 - Japanese win a decisive victory over Russian fleet in the Straits of Tshushima (Russo-Japanese War) * 1908 Battle of Marakesh August 23 - Mulay Hafid successfully revolts against Morocco Sultan * 1913 Adrianople - First Balkan War * 1913 Battle of Dul Madoba * 1914 Battle of Vera Cruz April 21 - US occupies Mexican town * 1914 Lige August 4 - 17 - Germans invade of Belgium; start of World War I * 1914 Battle of the Frontiers August 7 - September 4 - Germans invade France: o Battle of Mulhouse August 7 o Battle of Lorraine August 14 o Battle of the Ardennes August 21 o Battle of Charleroi August 21 o Battle of Mons August 23 * 1914 Battle of Stalluponen August 17 - First battle on the Eastern Front in World War I * 1914 Battle of Gumbinnen August 19 - 20 - Russians defeat German Eighth Army, advance to river Vistula * 1914 Tannenberg August 26 - Samsonov's Russian Second Army encircled and destroyed by the German Eighth Army * 1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight August 28 - First major naval engagement of World War I - heavy German losses * 1914 Battle of First Marne September 5 - German invasion of France halted by Allies * 1914 First Battle of the Masurian Lakes September 9 - 14 - German Eighth Army defeats Rennenkampf's Russian First Army * 1914 Battle of Antwerp September 28 * 1914 First Ypres October 31 - November 22 - Early trench warfare; "Kindermord bei Ypern" * 1914 Battle of Coronel November 1 - Admiral Graf Spee defeats Admiral Cradock * 1914 Battle of Lodz November 11 - Russians take city, lose it on December 6 * 1914 Battle of Cracow November 16 - heavy casualties to Austria and Russia * 1914 Battle of Lowicz November 30 - December 17 - Russians take city * 1914 Battle of Kolubara December 3 - 6 - Serbians drive out Austrians * 1914 Battle of Falkland Islands December 8 - British defeat Admiral Graf Spee * 1915 Battle of Dogger Bank January 24 - Admiral Beatty drives off Vice-Admiral Hipper's raiding force, sinks Blucher * 1915 Battle of Gallipoli - Fisher proposes, Churchill takes blame, Kemal says to Turkish troops, "I do not order you to attack, I order you to die" * 1915 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar - Turkish assimilation of Armenians * 1915 Second Ypres April 22 - May 25 Germans use poison gas * 1915 Battle of Loos September 25 - 28 * 1915 Battle of Sair Bair * 1916 Battle of Verdun February 21 - December Five-month battle kills 700,000 * 1916 Battle of Jutland May 31 - last engagement of the German High Seas Fleet * 1916 Brusilov offensive June - Russia nearly collapses Austria but losses are staggering * 1916 Battle of Mouquet Farm * 1916 Somme July - Four month battle, bloodiest in history * 1916 Battle of Romani August 3 - in Egypt * 1917 Vimy Ridge April 9 - Canada's finest hour * 1917 Passchendaele July 31 - also known as Third battle of Ypres. Three-month battle costs Britain 400,000 * 1917 Battle of Caporetto October 24 - Also known as the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo - Italians defeated by Central Powers, driven back to Venice * 1917 Battle of Cambrai November 20 - December 7 - First successful use of tanks * 1918 Battle of Tampere March 8 - April 6 in Finnish Civil War * 1918 Battle of Cantigny May 28 - US First Division wins in first independent action * 1918 Battle of Bellau Wood June 25 - US Second Division Marines capture woods * 1918 Battle of Second Marne July 17 - Allies halt four month German drive * 1918 Battle of Amiens August - British force Germans to Hindenburg line * 1918 Megiddo September 19 - Allenby's British crush Ottoman army * 1918 Battle of Meuse Argonne Forest October 8 - Private Alvin York attacks German machine gun nest * 1918 Battle of Vittoria Veneto * 1918 Battle of Chateau Thierry * 1920 Battle of Warsaw - Poles defeat Red Army * 1921 Afiun-Kara-Hissar - Second Greek-Turkish War * 1921 Battle of Anual July 21 in Morocco, Spanish army loses to Rifi berbers of Abd el Krim. * 1936 Battle of Guernica in the Spanish Civil War * 1937 Battle of Guadalajara in the Spanish Civil War * 1937 Battle of Lugou Bridge July 7 - Japanese victory triggered outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War * 1937 Battle of Nanjing early November to December 13 - Japanese victory after 2 months siege of the capital of Republic of China. * 1938 Battle of Tai er zhuang March 27 - Chinese claim strategic and moral victory over Japanese * 1939 Battle of Halhin Gol * 1939 Poland September 1 - October 5 - Start of World War II in Europe * 1939 Battle of the River Plate December 13 - Graf Spee chased into Montevideo harbour and scuttled * 1939 Battle of Suomussalmi December 8 - January 7, 1940 - Winter War * 1939 Battle of Tolvajrvi December 12 - Winter War * 1940 Battle of Dunkirk May 27 - June 5 - Evacuation of defeated British Expeditonary Force * 1940 Battle of Britain July 9 - October 31 Germans try to bomb Britain into submission - RAF answers with fighters * 1940 Battle of Taranto November 11-November 12 - British carrier based planes destroy Italian fleet in Taranto Harbor. * 1940 Battle of Hundred Regiments August - September * 1941 - 1945 Atlantic * 1941 Battle of Denmark Strait May 23 - Bismarck sinks HMS Hood * 1941 Battle of Crete May 20 - June 1 - Paratroops capture Crete, suffer many casualties * 1941 Operation Barbarossa June 22 - German invasion of Russia * 1941 Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 - Japanese destroy US Fleet in surprise attack * 1942 Battle of Macassar Strait January - US and Dutch forces attack Japanese convoy * 1942 Dra?go?e January 9 - First frontal engagement on Slovenian soil with the German occupier * 1942 Battle of Java Sea February - Japanese wipe out Allied naval squadron * 1942 Battle of Corregidor April 9 - General Wainwright's troops surrender, forced on Bataan Death March * 1942 Battle of Nanos April 18 - 800 Italian soldiers lay siege to 50 Slovene partisans. Partisans break through, nine were killed and eleven were captured * 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea May 4 - US loses USS Lexington; Japanese lose big * 1942 Battle of Midway June 3 - US loses USS Yorktown; Japanese lose four aircraft carriers * 1942 Convoy PQ-17 - 27 ships leave Iceland on June 17 for Murmansk ? on July 5 10 ships reach Murmansk * 1942 First Battle of El Alamein July 1 - British Eighth Army stops Rommel's Axis forces invading Egypt * 1942 Battle of Sevastapol July 2 - Captured by Germans after eight month siege * 1942 Battle of Changsha - Chinese claim victory over Japanese * 1942 Battle of Guadalcanal August 8 - Beginning of Allied action in Solomon Islands * 1942 Battle of Savo Island August 9 - Japanese sink four US cruisers * 1942 Battle of Dieppe August 19 * 1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 - February 2, 1943 - City beseiged by Paulus' German Sixth Army; from November 23 the Sixth Army is surrounded and destroyed by Russians * 1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 24 - Japanese aircraft carrier Ryuho sunk * 1942 Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea August 25 * 1942 Battle of Bloody Ridge September 12 * 1942 Battle of Cape Esperance October 11 - near Guadalcanal * 1942 Second Battle of El Alamein October 23 - November 4 - Montgomery's Eighth Army forces Rommel out of Egypt * 1942 Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands October 25 - near Guadalcanal, USS Hornet sunk, but Japanese withdraw * 1942 Operation Torch November 17 - Allied landings in North Africa * 1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal November 12 - US defeats Japan * 1942 Battle of Tassafaronga November 30 - off Guadalcanal * 1943 Battle of Osankarica January 8 - Over 200 Germans massacred all 69 men and women of the Pohorje battalion. Germans lost 19 men and had 31 wounded * 1943 Battle of Guadalcanal February 8 - Allies take the island * 1943 Battle of the Kasserine Pass February 14 - 25 - Battle between US and German armored forces in Tunisia * 1943 Battle of Bismarck Sea March 2 - US sinks Japanese transports * 1943 Battle of Warsaw Ghetto April 18 - 5000 Jews and 5000 Germans die, Jews confined * 1943 Battle of Castle Turjak September 19 - Slovene partisans took the castle guarded by the Slovene village sentries * 1943 Battle of Kursk July - Germans attack Kursk salient at Orel and Belgorod; Russians drive them back; arguably the largest battle ever fought * 1944 Battle of Cisterna January 29 * 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino May 11 - 18 * 1944 Battle of Aachen * 1944 Battle of Normandy June 6 - August 25 - Allies invade northern France across the Normandy beaches (Operation Overlord); hard fighting from Cherbourg to Caen; Germans surrounded and destroyed at Falaise * 1944 Battle of Philippine Sea June 19 - Major carrier battle; US lose 27 planes and destroy 402 Japanese planes * 1944 Marianas Campaign - US invasions of Saipan, June 15, Guam July 21, and Tinian July 24 * 1944 Battle of Fontenay June 25 * 1944 Battles of Tali-Ihantala June 25 - July 10 - Finnish stop Soviet offensive * 1944 Operation Dragoon August 15 - Allied invasion of Southern France * 1944 Operation Anvil August 16 - Second Allied invasion of Southern France * 1944 Battle of Peleliu September 17 * 1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 - 26 - The major battle of Operation Market Garden; Allies reach but fail to cross the Rhine; British First Airborne Division destroyed * 1944 Hrtgen Forest October 6 - Stubborn German defence * 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf October 23 - 26 - Largest naval battle ever fought? * 1944 Operation Queen November 16 * 1944 Battle of Monte Castello November 25 - February 12, 1945 - Brazilian troops fight Germans in Italy * 1944 Battle of the Bulge December 16 - January 27, 1945 - German counterattack in Ardennes; General McAuliffe says "NUTS" at Bastogne * 1945 Operation Elephant January 26 - Allied offensive in Netherlands * 1945 Battle of Mindanao March 10 - US invasion of Philippines * 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima March 26 - After a month, US takes the island * 1945 Operation Varsity March 17 - 134 Allied gliders land troops in Weisel * 1945 Battle of Berlin April 26 - May 2 - Hitler commits suicide * 1945 Battle of Poljana - Last battle of World War II in Europe * 1945 Battle of Okinawa June 21 - US takes Japanese Island in the Ryukyus; many casualties * 1948 Israeli War of Independence - State of Israel established on May 14; war with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, Egypt and Iraq; many Arab refugees * 1950 Battle of Inchon September 14 - UN retakes South Korea, reaches Seoul in 12 days * 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir November 27 * 1951 Battle of Heartbreak Ridge September 23 - After 37 days, heights fall to UN * 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu - France loses Indochina when besieged here, from 1953 (First Indochina War) * 1956 Battle of Suez - Britain, France, Israel attempt to retake canal, Ike says No * 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion - US-backed attempt to capture Cuba * 1962 Battle of Namka Chan - Chinese-Indian War * 1967 Six Day War June 5 - 10 - Israel defeats Egypt, Jordan and Syria, occupies Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula * 1968 Tet Offensive January 30 - North Vietnam loses militarily but turns the tide of US opinion against the war * 1969 Football War July 14 - Between El Salvador and Honduras * 1973 Yom Kippur War October 6 - Israel, taken by surprise on Holy Day, defeats Egypt and Syria. See also Battle of Latakia * 1975 December 7 Indonesia invades East Timor * 1982 Falklands War April 2 - June 14 - Britain recaptures Falkland Islands from Argentina * 1983 Battle of Grenada October 25 - US invasion * 1991 Operation Desert Storm February - Coalition forces eject Iraq from Kuwait * 1993 Battle of Mogadishu October 3 - Policing mission gone wrong, US soldiers trapped against militia in a populated city
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