Important Battles

Important Battles

Battle Period/Year Countries Involved Battle of Megiddo 608 BC Necho of Egypt and Josiah of Judah; Egyptians victorious Battle of Marathon 490 BC Athenians and Persians; King Darius of Persia defeated. Battle of Thermoplyae 480 BC Spartans led by Leonidas and Persians by Xerxes; Spartans were defeated. Battle of Salamis 480 BC Athenian and Persian fleet in the Bay of Salamis; Persian fleet defeated Battle of Platae 479 BC Greek and Persian forces; Persian forces defeated Battle of Mycale 479 BC Greek and Persian forces; Persian fleet defeated Spartan War I I 459 BC Sparta and Athens, also called 'Pelponesian War'; it lasted for 30 years Spartan War II 431–421 BC Sparta and Athens; Spartans victorious Battle of Arabia 331 BC Greek and Persian forces; Greeks victorious Battle of Magnesia 190 BC Syrian and Roman forces; Syrian forces defeated (north-west Lydia) Hundred Year War 1338–1453 France and England War of Roses 1455–1485 Civil War in England between the two rival royal houses of Lancaster and York; White and red rose were their respective symbols Anglo-Spanish War 1588 Spanish and English fleets fought in the English Channel; Defeat of the Spanish fleet Thirty Year War 1618–1648 Started as religious-cum-political war between (Conto) the Lutherans and Catholics in Germany and developed into an international war Civil War of England 1642–1649 Between Cavaliers (King Charles supporters) and forces of the Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I executed Battle of Gibraltar Bay 1607 The Dutch defeated the Spaniards and the Portuguese Seven Year War 1756–1763 Britain and France against Austria and Prussia; British alliance won Battle of Nile 1798 British and French fleets; Britain victorious Battle of Trafalgar 1805 British fleet defeated fleets of France and Spain; British fleets commanded by Admiral Nelson, who was killed in the battle Battle of Austerlitz 1805 Britain, Austria, Russia and Prussia on one side and France on the other; French on the other; French forces victorious Battle of  Borodino 1812 France and Russia; the French forces were commanded by Napoleon who was defeated Battle of Leipzig 1813 Germany and combined forces of Austria, Prussia and Russia defeated Napoleon (French forces) Battle of Waterloo 1815 British forces led by Duke of Wellington defeated French forces led by Napoleon Bonaparte; it was Napoleon's last battle; Napoleon was abdicated and was exiled to the island of St Helena in South Atlantic where he died in 182l. First China War 1840 China and Britain; Chinese forces yielded. It was a trade war and also known as the 'Opium War' American Civil War 1861–1865 Northern Vs. Southern states of America for the abolition of slavery; Abraham Lincoln defeated the Southern states Russo–Japan War 1905 Russia and Japan in the Sea of Japan; Russia defeated; also called the 'Battle of Port Arthur' or 'Battle of Yalu' Balkan War I 1912 Turkey and Balkan countries (Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece); Turkey defeated Balkan War II 1913 Invasion of Serbia and Greece by Bulgaria; Bulgaria defeated by combined forces of Serbia, Greece, Romania, Montenegro, which stripped Turkey of most of its European territories World War I 1914–1919 Germany (with Austria, Hungary and Turkey) against Britain (with France, US, Russia, Japan, Canada, Austria and Belgium); Germany and its allies were defeated Battle of Jutland 1916 During World War I–naval battle between Germany and England in which Germany was defeated World War I 1939–45 Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) against the Allies (Britain, USSR, US, France and several other countries); Axis powers were defeated Desert War 1942 Italian Army from Libya invaded Egypt in order to attack British forces Korean War 1954 South Korea invaded by North Korea; North Korea was forced back by UN forces Israel-Arab War 1967 Six-day war, shortest war in history; Arab forces led by Egypt, Syria and Jordan were defeated Pakistan-Bangladesh War 1971 Mukti Bahini forces aided by India against the Pakistani forces stationed in Bangladesh (former East Pakistan); Pakistani forces surrendered and Bangladesh came into being Gulf War 1991 US led multinational forces attacked Iraq to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait Kargil War 1999 India defeated Pakistani forces at Kargil US-Afghanistan War 2001 US led coalition forces attack Afghanistan to bring down the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in retaliation to the September 11 terrorist attack in the USA Gulf War II 2003 US led coalition forces dethroned the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

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