Battle or campaign | Order of battle | Date |
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Crusades |
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Battle of Lepanto | Holy League and Ottoman fleets | October 7, 1571 |
Thirty Years' War |
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First Battle of Breitenfeld | Holy Roman Empire, Catholic League, Sweden, and Saxony | September 17, 1631 |
Battle of Rain | Sweden and the Catholic League | April 15, 1632 |
Second Battle of Breitenfeld | Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, and Sweden | October 23, 1642 |
Battle of Rocroi | French and Spanish armies | May 19, 1643 |
English Civil War |
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Battle of Marston Moor | Covenanter, Parliamentarians, and Royalists | July 2, 1644 |
Battle of Naseby | Parliamentarians and Royalists | June 14, 1645 |
Second Anglo-Dutch War |
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Battle of Lowestoft | British and Dutch fleets | June 13, 1665 |
Great Turkish War |
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Battle of Vienna | Christian Coalition and Ottoman armies | September 12, 1683 |
War of the Spanish Succession |
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Battle of Schellenberg | Allied and Franco-Bavarian armies | July 2, 1704 |
Battle of Blenheim | Allied and Franco-Bavarian armies | August 13, 1704 |
Great Northern War |
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Battle of Lesnaya | Russian and Swedish armies | October 9, 1708 |
Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18 |
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Jacobite uprisings |
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| | April 16, 1746 |
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| | July 9, 1755 |
American Revolutionary War |
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Battle of Long Island | American and British armies | August 27, 1776 |
Battle of Trenton | American and British armies | December 26, 1776 |
Battle of Brandywine | American and British armies | September 11, 1777 |
Battle of Paoli | American and British armies | September 21, 1777 |
Battle of Germantown | American and British armies | October 4, 1777 |
Battle of Bemis Heights | American and British armies | October 7, 1777 |
Battle of Monmouth | American and British armies | June 28, 1778 |
Battle of Camden | American and British armies | August 16, 1780 |
Battle of Cowpens | American and British armies | January 17, 1781 |
Battle of Guilford Court House | American and British armies | March 15, 1781 |
Battle of the Chesapeake | British and French fleets | September 5, 1781 |
Siege of Yorktown | American, French, and British armies | September 28 – October 17, 1781 |
Battle of the Saintes | British and French fleets | April 12, 1782 |
Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) |
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Battle of Reval | Russian and Swedish fleets | May 13, 1790 | |
Battle or campaign | Order of battle | Date |
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French Revolutionary Wars |
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Battle of Jemappes | French and Austrian armies | November 6, 1792 |
Siege of Toulon | French fleet | August 29 – December 19, 1793 |
Battle of Tourcoing | French and Coalition armies | May 17–18, 1794 |
Glorious First of June | British and French fleets | June 1, 1794 |
Martin's cruise | British and French fleets | June 1794 |
Battle of Fleurus | French and Austrian-Dutch armies | June 26, 1794 |
Campaign of the Great Winter | British and French fleets | December 24, 1794 – February 3, 1795 |
Battle of Genoa (1795) | British and French fleets | March 13–14, 1795 |
Biscay campaign of June 1795 | British and French fleets | June, 1795 |
Battle of Quiberon | French Republican and Anglo-Royalist forces | June 23 – July 21, 1795 |
Battle of Monte Settepani | French and Austro-Sardinian armies | June 24 – July 7, 1795 |
Battle of the Hyères Islands | British and French fleets | July 13, 1795 |
Battle of Loano | French and Austrian-Sardinian armies | November 23–24, 1795 |
Montenotte campaign | French and Austrian-Sardinian armies | April 12, 1796 |
Battle of Castiglione | French and Austrian armies | August 5, 1796 |
Battle of Bassano | French and Austrian armies | September 8, 1796 |
Battle of Arcola | French and Austrian armies | November 15–17, 1796 |
French expedition to Ireland (1796) | French fleet | December 1796 |
Battle of Rivoli | French and Austrian armies | January 14–15, 1797 |
Battle of Cape St. Vincent | British and Spanish fleets | February 14, 1797 |
Battle of Camperdown | British and Dutch fleets | October 11, 1797 |
Battle of the Nile | British and French fleets | August 1 – 3, 1798 |
Battle of Tory Island | British and French fleets | October 12, 1798 |
Egyptian campaign | French Army | 1798–1799 |
Army of the Danube | French order of battle | March 1, 1799 |
Battle of Stockach | French and Austrian armies | March 25, 1799 |
Bruix' Expedition of 1799 | British and Franco-Spanish fleets | April – August 1799 |
Siege of Genoa | French and Coalition forces | April – June 4, 1800 |
Battle of Messkirch | French Army | May 4–5, 1800 |
Battle of Marengo | French and Austrian armies | June 14, 1800 |
Battle of Hohenlinden | French and Austrian armies | December 3, 1800 |
Algeciras campaign | British and Franco-Spanish fleets | June 13, 1801 – July 14, 1801 |
Napoleonic Wars |
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Battle of Cape Finisterre | British and Franco-Spanish fleets | July 22, 1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar | British and Franco-Spanish fleets | October 21, 1805 |
Battle of Caldiero (1805) | French and Austrian armies | October 30, 1805 |
Battle of Dürenstein | French, Austrian, and Russian | November 11, 1805 |
Battle of Wischau | French and Russian armies | November 25, 1805 |
Battle of Austerlitz | French, Austrian, and Russian | December 2, 1805 |
Atlantic campaign of 1806 | French and British fleets | December 1805 – September 1806 |
Battle of San Domingo | British and French fleets | February 6, 1806 |
Battle of Maida | British and French armies | July 4, 1806 |
Battle of Saalfeld | French and Prussian-Saxon armies | October 10, 1806 |
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt | French and Prussian-Saxon armies | October 14, 1806 |
Battle of Eylau | France, Russia, and Prussia | February 7–8, 1807 |
Gunboat War | Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy in Norway | 1808 |
Battle of Vimeiro | British-Portuguese and French | August 20, 1808 |
Cardedeu campaign | French and Spanish armies | June – December, 1808 |
Tyrolean Rebellion | Austrian and Bavarian armies | 1809 |
Battle of Corunna | British and French armies | January 16, 1809 |
Battle of the Basque Roads | British and French fleets | April 11–25, 1809 |
Battle of Sacile | Austrian and Franco-Italian armies | April 15–16, 1809 |
Battle of Abensberg | Austrian and French armies | April 20, 1809 |
Battle of Piave River | Austrian and French-Italian armies | May 8, 1809 |
Battle of Wagram | Austrian and Franco-Allied armies | July 5–6, 1809 |
Battle of Talavera | British, French and Spanish armies | July 27–28, 1809 |
Battle of Bussaco | French and Anglo-Portuguese armies | September 27, 1810 |
Battle of Barrosa | French and Anglo-Allied armies | March 5, 1811 |
Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro | French and Anglo-Allied armies | May 3–5, 1811 |
Battle of Albuera | French and Anglo-Allied armies | May 16, 1811 |
Battle of Saguntum Siege of Valencia (1812) | French and Spanish armies | October 25, 1811 December 26, 1811 - January 9, 1812 |
Imperial Russian Army | Russian Army order of battle | 1812 |
French invasion of Russia | French and Russian armies | June 24 – December 14, 1812 |
Battle of Salamanca | French and Anglo-Portuguese armies | July 22, 1812 |
Battle of Vitoria | French and Anglo-Allied armies | June 21, 1813 |
Battle of Wartenburg | French and Prussian armies | October 3, 1813 |
Battle of Hanau | French, Austrian, and Bavarian armies | October 30–31, 1813 |
Six Days' Campaign | French, Prussian, and Russian armies | February 10–15, 1814 |
Battle of Orthez | French and Anglo-Allied armies | February 27, 1814 |
Battle of Toulouse | France and Anglo-Allied | April 10, 1814 |
Battle of Tolentino | Austrian and Neapolitan armies | May 2–3, 1815 |
Hundred Days | First French Empire and the Seventh Coalition | March 10 – July 8, 1815 |
Battle of Quatre Bras | France and Anglo-Allied | June 16, 1815 |
Battle of Ligny | French and Prussians | June 16, 1815 |
Waterloo campaign | French, Anglo-Allied, and Prussian | June 16–18, 1815 |
Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) |
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Battle of Athos | Russian and Ottoman navies | July 1, 1807 |
War of 1812 |
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Battle of Tippecanoe | US Army, State Militias and Tecumseh's Confederacy | November 7, 1811 |
Siege of Fort Meigs | American and British forces and Tecumseh's Confederacy | April 28 - May 9, 1813 |
Battle of Fort George | American and British forces | May 25, 1813 |
Second Battle of Sacket's Harbor | American and British forces | May 28–29, 1813 |
Battle of Lake Erie | American and British naval squadrons | September 10, 1813 |
Battle of the Chateauguay | American and British armies | October 26, 1813 |
Battle of Crysler's Farm | American and British armies | November 11, 1813 |
Battle of Lundy's Lane | American and British Armies | July 25, 1814 |
Battle of Plattsburgh | American and British naval squadrons | September 11, 1814 |
Battle of New Orleans | American forces and British forces | January 8, 1815 |
Bolivian War of Independence |
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Battle of Sipe-Sipe | Independist and Spanish Royalist forces | November 28, 1815 |
Barbary Wars |
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Bombardment of Algiers | British, Dutch, and Algerian Navies | August 27, 1816 |
Chilean War of Independence |
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Battle of Maipú | Independist and Spanish Royalist forces | April 5, 1818 |
Venezuelan War of Independence |
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Battle of La Hogaza | Patriot and Spanish Royalist forces | December 2, 1817 |
Battle of Carabobo | Patriot and Spanish Royalist forces | June 24, 1821 |
Peruvian War of Independence |
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Battle of Junín | Independist and Spanish Royalist forces | August 6, 1824 |
Battle of Ayacucho | Independist and Spanish Royalist forces | December 9, 1824 |
War of the Confederation |
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Battle of Yungay | Confederation army and Chilean-Peruvian army | January 20, 1839 |
Mexican–American War |
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Battle of Palo Alto | American and Mexican armies | May 8, 1846 |
Siege of Veracruz | American and Mexican armies | March 9–29, 1847 |
Battle of Cerro Gordo | American and Mexican armies | April 17–18, 1847 |
Battle for Mexico City | American and Mexican armies | September 8–15, 1847 |
Crimean War |
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Battle of Balaclava | British, French, and Russian armies | October 25, 1854 |
Second War of Italian Independence |
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Battle of Solferino | French, Sardinian, and Austrian armies | June 24, 1859 | |
Battle or campaign | Order of battle | Date |
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1861 |
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Battle of Big Bethel | Confederate Hampton Division and Union Department of Virginia | June 10, 1861 |
Battle of Hoke's Run | Union Army of the Shenandoah | July 2, 1861 |
Battle of Carthage (1861) | Confederate Missouri State Guard and Union Department of Missouri | July 5, 1861 |
Battle of Rich Mountain | Confederate Army of the Northwest and Union Department of the Ohio | July 11, 1861 |
First Battle of Bull Run | Confederate Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah and Union Department of Northeast Virginia | July 21, 1861 |
Battle of Wilson's Creek | Confederate Western Army and Missouri State Guard and Union Army of the West | August 10, 1861 |
Battle of Carnifex Ferry | Confederate Forces and Union Army of West Virginia | September 10, 1861 |
Battle of Cheat Mountain | Confederate Army of the Northwest and Union Cheat Mountain District | September 12–15, 1861 |
Battle of Ball's Bluff | Confederate Army of the Potomac and Union Army of the Potomac | October 20–24, 1861 |
Battle of Camp Wildcat | Confederate brigade, Army of the Northwest and Union Department of the Ohio | October 21, 1861 |
Battle of Belmont | Confederate First Division, Western Department & Units in reserve or near Columbus and US Grant's Expeditionary Command, Union District of Southeast Missouri & Units subject to Grant's command | November 7, 1861 |
1862 |
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Battle of Mill Springs | Confederate District of East Tennessee and Union Department of the Ohio | January 19, 1862 |
Battle of Roanoke Island | Confederate Dist. of Roanoke & "Mosquito Fleet" and Union Coast Division & North Atlantic Blockading Squadron | February 7–8, 1862 |
Battle of Fort Donelson | Confederate Department No. 2 and Union Army of West Tennessee | February 11–16, 1862 |
Battle of Island Number Ten | Confederate Department No. 2 and Union Army of the Mississippi & Western Flotilla | February 28, 1862 – April 8, 1862 |
Battle of Pea Ridge | Confederate Army of the West and Union Army of the Southwest | March 7–8, 1862 |
Battle of Hampton Roads | Confederate CSS Virginia & James River Squadron and Union North Atlantic Blockading Squadron | March 8–9, 1862 |
Battle of New Bern | Confederate Pamlico District and Coast Division of the US Army | March 14, 1862 |
Battle of Kernstown I | Confederate Valley District and Union 1st Division, V Corps, Army of the Potomac | March 23, 1862 |
Battle of Glorieta Pass | Confederate Army of New Mexico and Union Department of New Mexico | March 26–28, 1862 |
Beginning of the Peninsula campaign | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia & Other Troops in the Department of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac, Other Troops from the Department of the Potomac & Union Department of Virginia | April 4–30, 1862 |
Battle of Shiloh | Confederate Army of Mississippi and Union Army of the Tennessee and Army of the Ohio | April 6–7, 1862 |
Siege of Corinth | Confederate Army of Mississippi and Union Department of the Mississippi | April 29 – May 30, 1862 |
Battle of Williamsburg | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | May 5, 1862 |
Battle of McDowell | Confederate District of the Valley Army and Army of the Northwest and Union Mountain Department | May 8–9, 1862 |
First Battle of Winchester | Confederate District of the Valley and Union Department of the Shenandoah | May 25, 1862 |
Battle of Hanover Court House | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | May 27, 1862 |
Battle of Seven Pines | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | May 31 – June 1, 1862 |
Battle of Cross Keys | Confederate District of the Valley and Union Mountain Department and Department of the Rappahannock | June 8, 1862 |
Battle of Port Republic | Confederate District of the Valley and Union Department of the Rappahannock | June 9, 1862 |
Seven Days Battles | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | June 25 – July 1, 1862 |
Battle of Cotton Plant | Confederate forces and Union Army of the Southwest | July 7, 1862 |
Battle of Baton Rouge | Confederate and Union forces | August 5, 1862 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain | Confederate Left wing, Army of Northern Virginia and Union I Corps, Army of Virginia | August 9, 1862 |
Battle of Richmond | Confederate Army of Kentucky and Union Provisional Army of Kentucky | August 29–30, 1862 |
Second Battle of Bull Run | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of Virginia and detachments, Army of the Potomac | August 29–30, 1862 |
Battle of Chantilly | Confederate Left wing, Army of Northern Virginia and Union III and IV Corps, Army of the Potomac | September 1, 1862 |
Battle of Antietam | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | September 17, 1862 |
Battle of Iuka | Confederate Army of the West and Union Army of the Mississippi | September 19, 1862 |
Second Battle of Corinth | Confederate Army of West Tennessee and Union Army of the Mississippi | October 3–4, 1862 |
Battle of Perryville | Confederate Army of the Mississippi and Union Army of the Ohio | October 8, 1862 |
Battle of Prairie Grove | Confederate I Corps, Trans-Mississippi Army and Union Army of the Frontier | December 7, 1862 |
Battle of Fredericksburg | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | December 13, 1862 |
Battle of Chickasaw Bayou | Confederate Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and Union Army of the Tennessee | December 26–29, 1862 |
Battle of Stones River | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland | December 31, 1862 – January 2, 1863 |
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Battle of Fort Hindman | Confederate Department of the Trans-Mississippi and Union Army of the Mississippi | January 9–11, 1863 |
Battle of Franklin (1863) | Union Army of Kentucky and Confederate Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee | April 10, 1863 |
Siege of Suffolk | | April 11 – May 4, 1863 |
Battle of Chancellorsville | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | May 1–4, 1863 |
Battle of Raymond | Confederate Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and Union Army of the Tennessee | May 12, 1863 |
Battle of Champion Hill | Confederate Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana and Union Army of the Tennessee | May 16, 1863 |
Battle of Vicksburg | Confederate Army of Mississippi and Union Army of the Tennessee | May 18 – July 4, 1863 |
Siege of Port Hudson | Confederate Department of Mississippi & East Louisiana and Union Army of the Gulf & West Gulf Blockading Squadron | May 22, 1863 – July 9, 1863 |
Battle of Brandy Station | Confederate Cavalry Division, Army of Northern Virginia and Union Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac | June 9, 1863 |
Battle of Winchester II | Confederate Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia and Union 2nd Division, VIII Corps | June 13–15, 1863 |
Battle of Gettysburg | Confederate Army of North Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | July 1–3, 1863 |
Battle of Helena | Confederate District of Arkansas and Union District of East Arkansas | July 4, 1863 |
Second Battle of Charleston Harbor | Confederate Dept. of South Carolina, Georgia & Florida and Union Department of the South & South Atlantic Blockading Squadron | July 19, 1863 – September 7, 1863 |
Little Rock campaign | Confederate District of Arkansas and Union Department of Arkansas | August 25 – September 10, 1863 |
Battle of White Sulphur Springs | Confederate and Union forces | August 26–27, 1863 |
Battle of the Cumberland Gap | Confederate and Union forces | September 7–9, 1863 |
Battle of Bayou Fourche | Confederate and Union forces | September 10, 1863 |
Battle of Chickamauga | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland | September 19–20, 1863 |
Bristoe campaign | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | October – November, 1863 |
Chattanooga campaign | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland | October – November, 1863 |
Battle of Wauhatchie | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland | October 28–29, 1863 |
Battle of Droop Mountain | Confederate and Union forces | November 6, 1863 |
Battle of Mine Run | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | November 27 – December 2, 1863 |
Knoxville campaign | Confederate First Corps, Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Ohio | November 16 – December 13, 1863 |
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Meridian campaign | Confederate and Union forces | February 3 – March 6, 1864 |
Battle of Olustee | Confederate District of East Florida and Union District of Florida | February 20, 1864 |
Red River campaign | Confederate Trans-Mississippi Department and Union forces | March 10, 1864 – May 22, 1864 |
Camden Expedition | Confederate District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department and Union Department of Arkansas | March 23 – May 2, 1864 |
Battle of Plymouth | Confederate and Union forces | April 17–20, 1864 |
Battle of the Wilderness | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac and IX Corps | May 5–7, 1864 |
Atlanta campaign | Phase 1 - Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Armies of the Cumberland, of the Ohio and of the Tennessee | May 7 – July 17, 1864 |
Battle of Atlanta - Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Tennessee | July 22, 1864 |
Phase 2 - Confederate Army of Tennessee (second phase) and Union Armies of the Cumberland, of the Ohio and of the Tennessee (second phase) | July 17 - September 8, 1864 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac and IX Corps | May 8–21, 1864 |
Battle of Chester Station | Confederate and Union forces | May 10, 1864 |
Battle of New Market | Confederate Department of Western Virginia and Union Department of West Virginia | May 15, 1864 |
Battle of Dallas | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Tennessee | May 26 – June 1, 1864 |
Battle of Cold Harbor | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | May 31 – June 12, 1864 |
Battle of Piedmont | Confederate Department of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee and Union Department of West Virginia | June 5, 1864 |
Siege of Petersburg | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Department of Richmond and Union Army of the Potomac and Army of the James | June 9, 1864 – March 25, 1865 |
Battle of Trevilian Station | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia Cavalry Corps and Union Army of the Potomac Cavalry Corps | June 11, 1864 – June 12, 1864 |
Second Battle of Petersburg | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Armies of the Potomac and the James | June 15–18, 1864 |
Battle of Monocacy Junction | Confederate Army of the Valley District and Union Middle Department | July 9, 1864 |
Battle of Fort Stevens | Confederate Army of the Valley District and Union Department of Washington | July 11–12, 1864 |
Battle of Peachtree Creek | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland | July 20, 1864 |
Battle of Kernstown II | Confederate Army of the Valley District and Union Army of West Virginia | July 24, 1864 |
First Battle of Deep Bottom | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Armies of the Potomac and the James | July 27–29, 1864 |
Battle of the Crater | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Armies of the Potomac and the James | July 30, 1864 |
Battle of Moorefield | Confederate and Union armies | August 7, 1864 |
Second Battle of Deep Bottom | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | August 14–20, 1864 |
Battle of Globe Tavern | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | August 18–21, 1864 |
Battle of Mobile Bay | Confederate District of the Gulf & CSS Tennessee with gunboats and Union Military Division of West Mississippi & West Gulf Blocking Squadron | August 22–23, 1864 |
Second Battle of Ream's Station | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | August 25, 1864 |
Battle of Jonesborough | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Military Division of the Mississippi | August 30 – September 1, 1864 |
Battle of Opequon | Confederate Army of the Valley and Union Army of the Shenandoah | September 19, 1864 |
Battle of Chaffin's Farm | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the James | September 29–30, 1864 |
Battle of Peebles's Farm | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | September 30 – October 2, 1864 |
Battle of Darbytown and New Market Roads | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the James | October 7, 1864 |
Battle of Darbytown Road | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the James | October 13, 1864 |
Battle of Cedar Creek | Confederate Army of the Valley and Union Army of the Shenandoah | October 19, 1864 |
Battle of Westport | Confederate Army of Missouri and Union Army of the Border, Army of the Department of Missouri, and XVI Corps | October 23, 1864 |
Battle of Mine Creek | Confederate Army of Missouri and Union Army of the Border | October 25, 1864 |
Battle of Boydton Plank Road | Confederate Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | October 27–28, 1864 |
Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the James | October 27–28, 1864 |
Savannah campaign | Confederate Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and Union Armies of the Tennessee and of Georgia | November 15 – December 21, 1864 |
Battle of Franklin II | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union IV and XXIII Corps | November 30, 1864 |
Battle of Nashville | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Cumberland | December 15–16, 1864 |
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Carolinas campaign | Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Military Division of the Mississippi | January – April 1865 |
Second Battle of Fort Fisher | Confederate forces and Union Department of Virginia and North Carolina | January 13–15, 1865 |
Battle of Hatcher's Run | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | February 5–7, 1865 |
Battle of Wilmington | Confederate Department of North Carolina and Union Department of North Carolina, Wilmington Expeditionary Force | February 11–12, 1865 |
Battle of Wyse Fork | Confederate Department of North Carolina and Union Department of North Carolina | March 7–10, 1865 |
Battle of Bentonville | Confederate Army of the South and Union Grand Army of the West | March 19–21, 1865 |
Battle of Fort Stedman | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac | March 25, 1865 |
Mobile campaign | Confederate District of the Gulf and Union Army of West Mississippi | March – April 1865 |
Appomattox campaign | Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac, Army of the James, and Army of the Shenandoah | March 29 – April 9, 1865 |
Battle of Five Forks | Confederate forces and Union Army of the Shenandoah | April 1, 1865 |
Battle of Fort Blakeley | Confederate Department of Mississippi, Alabama, and East Louisiana and Union Army of West Mississippi | April 2–9, 1865 | |
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Allies of World War I | Army of Belgium, British Expeditionary Force, British Cavalry Corps, 1914, Indian Army, 1914, Australian Army, French Army, Serbian Army, American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front | August 1914 |
Central Powers of World War I | Army of the German Empire, 1914, Imperial German Navy, 1914 German Army, Western Front, 1918 | August 1914 |
Battle of Tannenberg | German Eighth Army and Russian Northwest Front | August 17 – September 1, 1914 |
Battle of Mons | British Expeditionary Force and German First Army | August 23, 1914 |
First Battle of the Marne | British Expeditionary Force, French Army, and German Army | September 5–12, 1914 |
Australian occupation of German New Guinea | Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force and German Polizeitruppe | September – November, 1914 |
First Battle of Ypres | British Expeditionary Force, French Eighth Army, and German Fourth and Sixth Armies | October 19 – November 22, 1914 |
Battle of Łódź | German and Russian armies | November 11 – December 6, 1914 |
Battle of Dogger Bank | British and German Fleets | January 24, 1915 |
Gallipoli campaign | Allied and Ottoman forces | April 25, 1915 – 9 January 9, 1916 |
Egyptian Expeditionary Force | British, French, and Italian forces | March 10, 1916 – 1918 |
Battle of Jutland | British and German fleets | May 1916 |
Battle of the Somme | British, French and German forces | July 1 – November 18, 1916 |
Battle of Delville Wood | British and German forces | July 14 – 3 September 3, 1916 |
Desert Column | British forces | December 1916 – August, 1917 |
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Battle of Caporetto | Italian Second Army and German/Austro-Hungarian Fourteenth Army | October 24 – November 19, 1917 |
Spring Offensive | British, French, and German armies | March 21 – July 18, 1918 |
Battle of Amiens | British Fourth, French First, and German Second and Eighteenth Armies | August 8, 1918 |
Battle of Megiddo (1918) | Allied and Ottoman armies | September 19 – October 1, 1918 |
Meuse-Argonne Offensive | American Expeditionary Force | September 26 – November 11, 1918 |
US air forces | American Expeditionary Force air service | November 1918 | |
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Polish-Soviet War |
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Polish-Soviet War | Polish Armed Forces and Soviet Armed Forces | February 1919 – March 1921 |
Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) |
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Battle of Sakarya | Greek Army of Asia Minor and Turkish Western Front | August 23 – September 13, 1921 |
Battle of Dumlupınar | Greek Army of Asia Minor and Turkish Western Front | August 26–30, 1922 |
Second Italo-Abyssinian War |
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Second Italo-Abyssinian War | Italian Army and Ethiopian Army | October 1935 – May 1937 |
Spanish Civil War |
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Battle of Guadalajara | Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie and Republican IV Corps | March 8–23, 1937 |
International Brigades | International Brigades | September 18, 1936 – September 23, 1938 |
Second Sino-Japanese War |
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January 28 Incident | Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army and Chinese Shanghai Front | January 28 – March 3, 1932 |
Operation Nekka / Defense of the Great Wall | Japanese and Manchukuoan Forces and Chinese Forces | January 1 – May 31, 1933 |
Actions in Inner Mongolia | Chinese, Japanese, and Manchurian forces | April 1933 – December 1936 |
Suiyuan campaign (1936) | Japanese Inner Mongolian Army and Chinese Suiyuan Provincial Forces | October – November, 1936 |
Battle of Beiping-Tianjin | Japanese First Army and Second Fleet and Chinese 29th Route Army | Early July – early August, 1937 |
Operation Chahar | Japanese Peiping Railway Garrison Force, Kwantung Army, and Chahar Expeditionary Force | August 1937 |
Beiping–Suiyuan Railway Operation | Chinese Taiyuan Pacification Headquarters | August 1937 |
Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation | Japanese 2nd Army and Chinese 1st Army Group | August – November 1937 |
Beiping–Hankou Railway Operation | Chinese and Japanese forces | August – December 1937 |
Battle of Shanghai | Japanese and Chinese forces | August 13 – November 26, 1937 |
Battle of Taiyuan | Japanese North China Front Army and Chinese 2nd War Area | September 1 – November 9, 1937 |
Battle of Pingxingguan | Japanese Army and Chinese 1st Route Army | September 24 – 25, 1937 |
Battle of Xuzhou | Chinese and Japanese forces | December 1937 – May 1938 |
Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan | Japanese North China Front Army and Chinese 1st War Area | January – June, 1938 |
Battle of Lanfeng | Japanese First Army and Chinese First War Area | May 1938 |
Amoy Operation | Japanese Fifth Fleet and Chinese Amoy Area | May 10–12, 1938 |
Battle of Wuhan | Chinese and Japanese forces | June 11 – October 27, 1938 |
Canton Operation | Japanese 21st Army and Chinese 12th Army Group | October – December, 1938 |
Hainan Island Operation | Japanese Hainan Conquest Forces and Chinese forces | February 10, 1939 |
Battle of Nanchang | Chinese and Japanese forces | March 17 – May 9, 1939 |
Swatow Operation | Japanese Fifth Fleet and Chinese forces | June 21 – 27, 1939 |
First Battle of Changsha | Chinese 9th War Area and Japanese 11th Army | September – October, 1939 |
Battle of South Guangxi | Japanese and Chinese forces | November 15–30, 1939 |
Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang | Japanese 11th Army and Chinese 5th War Area | May 1 – June 18, 1940 |
Hundred Regiments Offensive | Japanese North China Area Army and Chinese 8th Route Army | August 20 – December 5, 1940 |
Central Hubei Operation | Japanese 11th Army and Chinese 5th War Area | November 25–30, 1940 |
Battle of South Henan | Chinese and Japanese forces | January 30 – March 1, 1941 |
China Burma India Theater | Chinese Expeditionary Force (Burma) | Late February 1942 |
Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign | Chinese and Japanese forces | May – September, 1942 |
Battle of Changde | Japanese 11th Army and Chinese 6th and 9th War Areas | November 2 – December 20, 1943 |
Battle of West Henan–North Hubei | Japanese Northern and Western Honan Command and Chinese 1st and 5th War Areas | March 21 – May 11, 1945 |
Second Guangxi campaign | Chinese and Japanese forces | April – August, 1945 |
Slovak–Hungarian War |
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Slovak–Hungarian War | Slovak and Hungarian forces | March 23, 1939 – March 31, 1939 |
Winter War |
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Winter War | Finnish Army | November 30, 1939 – March 13, 1940 | |
Battle or campaign | Order of battle | Date |
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European Theater of Operations |
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Polish campaign | German Army, Polish Army, and Soviet Army | September 1939 |
Norwegian campaign | Allies and German | April 1940 |
Battle of Belgium | French First Army Group, Belgian Army, and German Army Group B | May 10 – 28, 1940 |
Battle of France | Allies and Axis | May 10, 1940 |
Operation Sea Lion | German | September 1940 (planned) |
Balkans campaign | German forces Axis order of battle for the invasion of Yugoslavia Yugoslav order of battle prior to the invasion of Yugoslavia | April 6 – May 3, 1941 |
Battle of Crete | Commonwealth, Greek and Axis forces | May 20 – June 1, 1941 |
Operation Barbarossa | Axis and Soviet Forces | June 22, 1941 |
Leningrad Strategic Defensive | Order of battle for the Leningrad Strategic Defensive Operation | July 10, 1941 – September 30, 1941 |
Convoy PQ 17 | Allied and German Navies | July, 1942 |
Dieppe Raid | Allied and German | August 1942 |
Convoy PQ 18 | Allied and German forces | September 2–21, 1942 |
Battle of Stalingrad | Axis and Soviet | September 1942 – February 2, 1943 |
Battle of Kursk | German and Soviet | July 4–20, 1943 |
Battle of the Korsun–Cherkassy Pocket | German and Soviet forces | January 24, 1944 – February 16, 1944 |
Odessa Offensive | German and Soviet forces | March 26, 1944 – April 14, 1944 |
Operation Tungsten | Allied | April 3, 1944 |
First Battle of Târgu Frumos | Axis and Soviet forces | April 9–12, 1944 |
Battle of Anzio | Allied and German Forces | January 22 – June 5, 1944 |
American airborne landings in Normandy | US VII Corps and IX Troop Carrier Command and German Seventh Army | June 6, 1944 |
Juno Beach | British-Canadian Second Army and German detachments | June 6, 1944 |
Normandy landings | US and UK naval forces, British Second Army and US First Army | June 6, 1944 |
Operation Perch | British and German | June 6–19, 1944 |
Battle of Villers-Bocage | British and German | June 13, 1944 |
Operation Epsom | British and German | June 26–30, 1944 |
Operation Mascot | Allied | July 17, 1944 |
Operation Goodwood | British and German | July 18–20, 1944 |
Operation Cobra | US and German | July 25–31, 1944 |
Lorraine campaign | US Third Army and German Army Group G | September 1 – December 1, 1944 |
Operation Market Garden | Allied and German | September 17–25, 1944 |
Battle of the Scheldt | Allied and German | October 2–November 8, 1944 |
Battle of Debrecen | Axis and Soviet | October 1944 |
Battle of the Bulge | Allied and German | December 16, 1944 – January 25, 1945 |
Operation Northwind | Allied and German | December 31, 1944– January 25, 1945 |
Battle of Berlin - operations in and around the city | German and Soviet | April 16 – May 2, 1945 |
Battle in Berlin - fighting within the city | German and Soviet | April 23 – May 2, 1945 |
Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre |
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East African campaign | British (and Commonwealth) and Italian ground and naval forces | June 1940 – November 1941 |
Battle of Keren | British and French forces, Italian forces | February 5 – April 1, 1941 |
Iraq, Northern Syria and Iran | British (and Commonwealth) forces (Iraqforce, Paiforce, Persia and Iraq Command) | April 1941 – March 1943 |
Operation Brevity | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | May 15–16, 1941 |
Battle of Crete | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground and naval forces | May 20 – June 1, 1941 |
Syria–Lebanon campaign | British, Commonwealth and Free French ground forces, Vichy French ground forces | June 8 – July 14, 1941 |
Operation Battleaxe | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | June 15–17, 1941 |
Operation Crusader | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | November 18 – December 30, 1941 |
Battle of Alam el Halfa | British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces | August 30 – September 5, 1942 |
Second Battle of El Alamein | British Eighth Army, Panzerarmee Afrika, Italian Army Africa | October 24 – November 4, 1942 |
Sicily campaign | Allies and Axis | July – August, 1943 |
Allied invasion of Italy | Allied 15th Army Group and German Tenth Army | September 3–16, 1943 |
Operation Avalanche | Allied naval forces and Italo-German forces | September 9, 1943 |
Moro River campaign | Allied Eighth Army and German LXXVI Panzer Corps | December 6–31, 1943 |
First Battle of Monte Cassino | Allied 5th Army and German Tenth Army | January 17 – February 11, 1944 |
Battle of Anzio | Allied 5th Army and German Fourteenth Army | January 22 – June 5, 1944 |
Second Battle of Monte Cassino | New Zealand Corps and German XIV Panzer Corps | February 13–18, 1944 |
Fourth battle of Monte Cassino and the battle for Rome (Operation Diadem) | Allied 15th Army Group and German Army Group C | May – June 1944 |
Allied invasion of southern France (Operation Dragoon) | Allied and German | August 1944 |
Gothic Line | Allied Armies in Italy and German Army Group C | August 1944 – April 1945 |
Allied final offensive in Italy (Operation Grapeshot) | Allied 15th Army Group and German Army Group C | April – May 1945 |
Pacific Theater of Operations |
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Japanese invasion of French Indochina | Japanese and Vichy French forces | September 22–26, 1940 |
Battle of Malaya | Allied and Japanese | December 7, 1941 – February 14, 1942 |
Attack on Pearl Harbor | Japanese and US Navies | December 7, 1941 |
Malayan campaign | Japanese 25th Army | December 8, 1941 – January 31, 1942 |
Battle of Hong Kong | Japanese and British | December 8–25, 1941 |
Battle of the Coral Sea | Japanese and US Navies | May 1942 |
Battle of Midway | Japanese and US Navies | June 4–6, 1942 |
Battle of the Aleutian Islands | Imperial Japanese Navy Alaskan Strike Group | June 6, 1942 – August 15, 1943 |
Kokoda Track campaign | Australian and Japanese | July 21 – November 16, 1942 |
Battle of Savo Island | Allied and Japanese | August 8–9, 1942 |
Battle of the Eastern Solomons | Japanese and US | August 24–25, 1942 |
Guadalcanal campaign | Japanese and US land forces Japanese and US naval forces | August 1942 – February 1943 |
Battle of Milne Bay | Allied and Japanese | August 25 – September 7, 1942 |
Battle of Goodenough Island | Allied and Japanese | October 24–27, 1942 |
Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands | Japanese and US | October 25–27, 1942 |
Battle of Buna–Gona | Allied and Japanese | November 16, 1942 – January 22, 1943 |
Battle of the Bismarck Sea | Allied and Japanese | March 2–4, 1943 |
Battle of Tarawa | Japanese and US | November 20–23, 1943 |
Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign | Allied and Japanese | November 1943 – February 1944 |
Battle of Arawe | Allied and Japanese | December 1943 – February 1944 |
Landing at Saidor | Allied and Japanese | January 2 – February 16, 1944 |
Admiralty Islands campaign | Allied and Japanese | February 29 – May 18, 1944 |
Battle of Saipan | Japanese and US | June 15 – July 9, 1944 |
Battle of the Philippine Sea | Japanese and US | June 19–20, 1944 |
Central Marianas campaign | US naval forces | June – November 1944 |
Second Battle of Guam | Japanese and US | July 21 – August 10, 1944 |
Battle of Tinian | Japanese and US | July 24 – August 1, 1944 |
Battle of Peleliu | Japanese and US | September 15 – November 27, 1944 |
Battle of Leyte | US naval invasion component | October 17, 1944 |
Battle of Leyte Gulf | Japanese and US | October 23–26, 1944 |
Battle of Central Burma | Japanese Burma Area Army and British Fourteenth Army | November 29, 1944 – March 28, 1945 |
Battle of Iwo Jima | Japanese and US | February 19 – March 26, 1945 |
Battle of Okinawa | Allied and Japanese naval forces Japanese and US ground forces | April 1 – June 22, 1945 |
Borneo campaign | Allied and Japanese | May 1 – August 15, 1945 |
Operation Downfall | Allied and Japanese | August 1945 (planned) |
American Theater of Operations |
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Battle of the St. Lawrence | Canadian and German Navies | May 1942 – November 1944 | |
Battle or campaign | Order of battle | Date |
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First Indochina War |
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Battle of Dien Bien Phu | French Operational Group North-West and Viet Minh | March 13 – May 7, 1954 |
Korean War |
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Korean War | United Nations, North Korea, and People's Republic of China and People's Republic of China | June 1950 |
Korean War | U.S. Eighth Army, U.S. Seventh Fleet, and U.S. Air Force | June 1950 |
Korean War | Elements of the Australian army, navy, and air force | 1950–1953 |
Battle of the Pusan Perimeter | UN and North Korean forces | August – September 1950 |
Battle of Chosin Reservoir | Chinese and United Nations forces | November – December 1950 |
Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation |
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Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation | Commonwealth forces | 1963–1966 |
Vietnam War |
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Vietnam War | Elements of the Australian Army, Navy, and Air Force | 1962–1972 |
Battle of Long Tan | Australian and Viet Cong forces | August 18, 1966 |
Algerian War |
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Algerian War | French Army | November 1, 1954 – March 19, 1962 |
Six-Day War |
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Six-Day War | Israeli and Arab Forces | June 5, 1967 – June 10, 1967 |
Bangladesh Liberation War |
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Operation Searchlight | Pakistani Army | March 26 – May 25, 1971 |
Yom Kippur War |
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Operation Badr | Egyptian Army and Israel Defense Force | October 6–8, 1973 |
Iran–Iraq War |
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Iran–Iraq War | Iranian and Iraqi armies | 1980 |
Falklands War |
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Military of the United Kingdom | British Land Forces Falkland Islands, Royal Air Force, and Royal Navy | April 2 – June 14, 1982 |
Military of Argentina | Argentine Army, Argentine Air Force, and Argentine Navy | April 2 – June 14, 1982 |
Gulf War |
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Gulf War | Organization of United States Air Force Units in the Gulf War, Organization of United States Naval Aviation Units in the Gulf War | November 1990 – March 1991 |
Operation Granby | British forces | 1990 – 1991 |
Liberation of Kuwait campaign | Coalition and Iraqi armies | February 24–28, 1991 |
Croatian War of Independence |
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Croatian War of Independence | Croatian Special Police | 1991–95 |
Kargil War |
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Kargil War | Indian and Pakistani forces | 1999 |
War on Terrorism |
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Operation Enduring Freedom | US and coalition forces | October 7, 2001 onward |
British operations in Afghanistan | British land and air forces | 2002 onward |
War in Afghanistan | NATO-led International Security Assistance Force | 2001 onward |
British operations in Iraq | British land, naval, and air forces | 2003–2009 |
Invasion of Iraq | Coalition and Iraqi armies | March 19, 2003 – May 1, 2003 |
U.S. and Allies' operations in Iraq | Multi-National Force – Iraq and U.S. Central Command | May 2003 – December 2011 |
Battle of Mosul | Iraqi and Multi-National forces, ISIL | October 16, 2016 – July 20, 2017 |
Raqqa campaign (2016–17) | Syrian and Multi-National forces, ISIL | November 6, 2016 – October 20, 2017 |
2008 South Ossetia War |
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2008 South Ossetia War | Russian Army, Air Force, and Navy | August 7–16, 2008 |
Syrian Civil War |
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Operation Olive Branch | Turkish-Syrian and Kurdish-Syrian forces | January 20, 2018 – August 9, 2019 |
Sino-Indian border dispute |
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Border skirmishes | Chinese and Indian forces | May 5, 2020 onward |
Russo-Ukrainian War |
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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | Russian and Ukrainian forces | February 24, 2022 onward |
2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive | Russian and Ukrainian forces | June 4 – December, 2023 |
2024 Kharkiv offensive | Russian and Ukrainian forces | May 10, 2024 onward |
Israel-Hamas War |
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Israel-Hamas War | Hamas and allied forces and Israeli Defence Forces | October 7, 2023 onward | |