List of battles 1901-forward

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Twentieth Century

• 1900 Battle of Paardeberg[?] February 17-27 British eventuall 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
• 1904 Battle of Mukden[?]
• 1904 Battle of Yalu River May Japanese defeat Russians
• 1904 Battle of Dairen May 30 Japanese defeat Russians
• 1904 Battle of Liaoyang[?] October. Japanese defeat Russians
• 1905 Battle of Tsushima May 27-28 Japanese win a decisive victory over Russian fleet in the Straits of Tshushima
• 1908 Battle of Marakesh[?] August 23 Mulay Hafid successfully revolts against Morocco Sultan
• 1913 Battle of Adrianople (1913)[?] - First Balkan War[?]
• 1913 Battle of Dul Madoba[?]
• 1914 Battle of Vera Cruz[?] April 21 US occupies Mexican town
• 1914 Battle of Gumbinnen[?]
• 1914 Battle of the Frontiers[?] August 14 French lose badly, news of this censored, consisting of:
  • Battle of Mulhouse[?] 7 August
  • Battle of Lorraine[?] 14 August
  • Battle of the Ardennes 21 August
  • Battle of Charleroi[?] 21 August
  • Battle of Mons[?] 23 August
• 1914 Battle of Tannenberg (1914) August 26 Samsonov's Russians lose badly to Hindenburg and Ludendorf
• 1914 Battle of Heligoland Bight August 28 First naval engagement - heavy German losses
• 1914 Battle of First Marne[?] September 5 German advance ended by French
• 1914 Battle of Masurian Lakes[?] September 6 Germans under Maclenson defeat Russians
• 1914 Battle of Antwerp[?] September 28
• 1914 Battle of First Ypres[?] October 30 Trench warfare lasting over a month
• 1914 Battle of Coronel Nov. 1 Admiral Graf Spee defeats Admiral Cradock
• 1914 Battle of Falkland Islands Dec. 8 British defeat Admiral Graf Spee
• 1914 Battle of Cracow[?] Nov. 16 heavy casualties to Austria and Russia
• 1914 Battle of Lodz[?] Nov. Russians take city, lose it Dec. 6
• 1914 Battle of Lowicz[?] Nov. Russians take city
• 1914 Battle of Kolubara[?] Dec. Serbs drive out Austrians
• 1915 Battle of Dogger Bank Jan. 24 Adm. Beatty drives off Hipper's raiding force with loss of SMS 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 (1915)[?] - World War I - Turkish Assimilation of Armenians
• 1915 Battle of Loos[?] September 25-September 28
• 1915 Battle of Second Ypres[?] Apr. 22 Germans use poison chlorine gas
• 1915 Battle of Sair Bair[?]
• 1916 Battle of Verdun Feb. 21 - December Five-month battle kills 700,000
• 1916 Battle of Jutland in Skagerrak May 31 German fleet escapes British fleet
• 1916 Brusilov offensive[?] June 1916 Russia nearly collapses Austria but losses are staggering.
• 1916 Battle of Romani[?], Egypt August 3, 1916
• 1916 Battle of Mouquet Farm[?]
• 1916 Battle of the Somme (1916) July Four month battle, bloodiest in history
• 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge Apr. 9 Canada's finest hour.
• 1917 Passchendaele also known as Third battle of Ypres Beginning July 31 Three-month battle costs Britain 400,000
• 1917 Battle of Caporetto[?] or Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo[?] Italians fight Austrians
• 1917 Battle of Cambrai November 20 - December 7 Begins as the first tank battle
• 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[?] Aug. British force Germans to Hindenburg line
• 1918 Battle of Megiddo (WW1)[?] September 19 Allenby's British crush Ottoman army
• 1918 Battle of Meuse[?] Argonne Forest Oct. 8 Private Alvin York attacks German machine gun nest
• 1918 Battle of Passchendaele
• 1918 Battle of Vittoria Veneto[?]
• 1918 Battle of Chateau Thierry[?]
• 1920 Battle of Warsaw Poles defeat Red Army
• 1921 Battle of Afiun-Kara-Hissar (1921)[?] - 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[?]
• 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 World War II Chinese claim strategic and moral victory over Japanese
• 1939 Battle of Halhin Gol[?]
• 1939 Battle of the River Plate Dec. 13
• 1939 Battle of Suomussalmi December 8 - January 7 - Winter War.
• 1940 Battle of Dunkirk May 27 - June 5 World War II
• 1940 Battle of Britain July 9 - October 31 Germans try to bomb Britain into submission – RAF answers with fighters
• 1940 Battle of Hundred Regiments August - September
• 1941 - 1945 Battle of the Atlantic - World War II
• 1941 Battle of Denmark Strait[?] May 23 – Bismarck sinks Hood
• 1941 Battle of Crete May 20 – June 1 World War II
• 1941 Operation Barbarossa German invasion of Russia, June 22
• 1941 Battle of Pearl Harbor December 7 Japanese temporarily destroy US Fleet
• 1942 Battle of Macasser Strait[?] Jan. US and Dutch forces attack Japanese convoy
• 1942 Battle of Dražgoše[?] January 9 First frontal engagement on Slovene soil with the German occupier
• 1942 Battle of Java Sea[?] Feb. Japanese wipe out allied squadron
• 1942 Battle of Corregidor[?] April 9 Wainwright's troops surrender, forced on Bataan Death March
• 1942 Battle of Nanos[?] April 18 800 Italian soldiers lay siege 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 superiority
• 1942 Battle of El Alamein Field Marshall Montgomery stops axis at Egypt (First Battle of El Alamein, Second Battle of El Alamein)
• 1942 June 17 Convoy PQ-17 leaves Iceland for Murmansk – massive casualties from German onslaught during the trip. July 5 10 out of 27 ships reach Murmansk.
• 1942 Battle of Sevastapol[?] July 2 After eight month siege, city captured
• 1942 Battle of Changsha - World War II 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 cruisers
• 1942 Battle of Dieppe[?] August 19
• 1942 Battle of Stalingrad August 22 siege begins
• 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 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 from Passover 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 Russians defeat Germans in battle with 6000 tanks, 4000 planes
• 1944 Battle of Cisterna January 29
• 1944 Battle of Monte Cassino May 11-18
• 1944 Marianas Campaign American invasions of Saipan, June 15, Guam July 21, and Tinian July 24
• 1944 Battle of Peleliu September 17
• 1944 Battle of Aachen[?] World War II
• 1944 Battle of Normandy June 6 - 176,000 allies land on 5 beaches Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword, Gold, see Operation Overlord
• 1944 Battle of Villers-Bocage June 13 - one German tank surprises British tanks in French village.
• 1944 Battle of Philippine Sea[?] June 19 - 402 Japanese planes lost, 27 US planes downed
• 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 in Southern France
• 1944 Operation Anvil[?] August 16 - second Allied landing in Southern France.
• 1944 Battle of Arnhem September 17 - see Operation Market Garden
• 1944 Battle of the Hurtgen Forest[?] Begins in October 6 – Volksturm[?] and German tank unit repulses 8 US infantry regiments and two armored divisions in a 6-month battle. Private Eddie Slovik executed for cowardice.
• 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf October 23-October 26 - largest naval battle in history
• 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 German counterattack in Ardennes: McAuliffe "NUTS"
• 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 for Berlin[?] April 27-May 2 - Hitler commits suicide
• 1945 Battle of Poljana[?] - last battle of World War II in Europe
• 1945 Battle of Okinawa June 21 Island in Ryukyus taken
• 1948 Israel War of Independence War of independence drives many Arabs from country
• 1950 Battle of Inchon[?] September 14 UN retakes S. 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
• 1956 Battle of Suez[?] Britain, France, Israel attempt to retake canal, Ike says No
• 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
• 1962 Battle of Namka Chan[?] in Chinese-Indian War
• 1967 Six Day War June 5 Israel defeats combined Arab forces
• 1968 Tet Offensive January 30 N. Vietnam loses militarily but turns the tide of American opinion against the war
• 1968 My Lai Massacre[?] March 16 Lt. Calley killed innocents
• 1969 Football War July 14 - El Salvador, Honduras
• 1973 Yom Kippur War October 6 Israel, taken by surprise on Holy Day, defeats combined forces, Kissinger prevents their capturing of three Arab capitals
• 1982 Battle of Goose Green[?] May 26 during Falklands War
• 1983 Battle of Grenada[?] October 25 US invades island