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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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