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