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Battle of Mandali (1822)

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The Battle of Mandali took place on November 22, 1822. In this battle, the Qajar forces were forced to retreat due to their failed military operation and the impact of the cholera epidemic. Background The Battle of Mandali (1822) was one of the power struggles between the Ottoman...

Battle of Manila (1258)

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The legendary Battle of Manila in 1258 (Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila) is recounted in oral histories of the Tagalog people, as documented by Filipino historians Mariano Henson in the 1950s and Cesar Adib Majul in the 1950s. It is notable for marking one of the earliest proposed d...

Battle of Manila (1500)

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The Battle of Manilla (1500s) (Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila) was fought in Manila between forces of the Kingdom of Tondo led by their Senapati, Lakan Sukwo, and the soldiers of the Sultanate of Brunei led by Sultan Bolkiah, the singing captain. The aftermath of the battle was the...

Battle of Mars

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The Battle of Mars is a fictional battle depicted in the episode 7 of the Robotech animated series. In the Robotech timeline, it took place after the Battle of Saturn's Rings and before the Battle of Ontario Quadrant.PreludeAfter the Battle of Saturn's Rings, the Zentraedi fleet ...

Battle of Merta (1754)

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In 1754, the Marathas and Rajputs Clashed resulting in the Battle of Merta, Maharaja Vijay Singh with all his artillery carts supported by Raja of Bikaner and the Nawab of Fatehpur attacked on Maratha ruler Jayappaji Rao Scindia, who in return, charged back with his own artillery...

Battle of Misurata

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The Battle of Misurata is a battle of the 2011 Libyan uprising. It is a clash between pro-Gaddafi militia and Anti-Gaddafi forces, which hold the airport in Misurata, the third largest city in Libya.Gaddafi loyalists armed with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars fired at a gro...

Battle of Mount Hyjal

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The Battle of Mount Hyjal is a fictional battle that took place in Blizzard Entertainment's video game, Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos The Battle of Mount Hyjal is re-enacted in Blizzard's massively multiplayer role playing game the World of Warcraft. The Battle of Mount Hyjal was ...

Battle of Nad

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On 17 June, in the midst of Operation Panther's Claw, Estonian Jagu Estcoy-8 "Scoutspatalijon" platoon company was ordered in clearing a heavily mined region of Helmand Province known as the Nad e-Ali locality road juncture with the stated objective of clearing path for advancing...

Battle of Nadaun (1752)

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</noinclude>The Battle of Nadaun was fought in August 1752 by the Mandi and Guler state led by the Rajas of the states and the Mughal Empire led by Aziz Khan, the steward of Mir Mannu. The Hill States were supported by the Sikhs led by Jassa Singh Ahluwalia.BackgroundDuring the r...

Battle of Pasargadae

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The Battle of Pasargadae, is the last of a series of battles, which occurred between 552 BC to 550 BC, that resulted in the conquest of Media by Cyrus the Great of Persia. This battle was one of Cyrus's first struggles in the formation of the Achaemenid Empire. There is a dispute...

Battle of Pharwala

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The Battle of Pharwala, which took place between Mughal Empire and Delhi Sultanate, Gakhars in 1518, ended with the victory of the Mughals.On 13 march, Babur left Bhira, and moved north towards to the &ldquo;Gokhar&rdquo; lands. His small army rode all day on 14 march, then after...

Battle of Qaf&euml; Prush

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The Battle of Qafë Prush was a significant armed confrontation that occurred on May 6, 1997, near the border village of Qafë Prush involving the Kosovo Liberation Army and Yugoslav army and police forces. Background As tensions escalated in Kosovo during the 1990s, the Kosovo Lib...

Battle of Qurna (Iraq War)

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Battle of Qurna was a battle during the Iraq War between the Multinational force in Iraq and Iraqi insurgents. The battle took part in Al-Qurna. In the battle, the insurgents tried to take the control of the city from the allies, mainly Danish, Lithuanian and British soldiers. Th...

Battle of Rajasthan

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BackgroundIn 711 the Umayyad Caliphate conquered Sindh and the caliphate didn't stop here and wanted to expand till Ganges and expand Islam in India for this day started to invade India and hence the Indian kingdoms formed the Hindu Triple Alliance and fought a major battle of Ra...

Battle of Rajasthan (738 CE)

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The Battle of Rajasthan was a major conflict fought between the invading Arab army of the Umayyad Caliphate and an alliance of Hindu kings. It was a decisive Indian victory, which forced the Arabs to retreat back to Sindh.BackgroundThe rapidly expanding Umayyad Caliphate attempte...

Battle of Ranakpur

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</noinclude> The Battle of Ranakpur (Ranpur) was fought between the Mewar Kingdom and the Mughal Empire.BackgroundSoon after his accession, Jahangir initiated numerous campaigns to subdue Mewar. In 1606, a Mughal army of 20,000 cavalry was dispatched to attack Mewar. Rana Amar Si...

Battle of Ruusan

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The Battle of Ruusan is an event in the fictional Star Wars Expanded Universe. It is the final major engagement of the bloody Light and Darkness War (also known as the War of Light and Dark and, less commonly, the Great Sith War), the culmination of the conflict known as the New ...

Battle of Sangrana

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The Battle of Sangrana (first Sikh battle against Mughals) was fought in 1628 by the Sikh forces led by Guru Hargobind and the Mughal forces commanded by Hakim Alim-ud-din. The location of the battlefield is now commemorated as the Gurudwara Sangrana Sahib, 6.4 km south of Golden...

Battle of Sebiba

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The Battle of Sebiba is a battle that took place near the Tunisian town of Sebiba in 1065 AD between the tribes of Riah, Zughba, and Banu Sulaym on the one hand and the tribes of Zenata, Sanhaja, and Athbaj on the other hand The result of the battle was a victory for the Arab Tri...

Battle of Shapur (1919)

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The Battle of Shapur, during Simko Shikak's first rebellion, was a battle in which 7,700 irregular militiamen, only 340 of which were armed, massacred the people.BackgroundTwo critical incidents following the First World War clearly demonstrated the political ineptitude of Qajar ...

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