| Description | Battle | Year |
|---|
| Ottoman sultan Mehmed II captures the capital of the Byzantine Empire | |
| A spanish naval fleet is annihilated by a smaller english fleet commanded by Sir Francis Drake | |
| Early World War I battle where French and British stopped the German invasion just short of Paris | |
| The Turks lay siege to a Greek island defended by Knights Hospitaller | |
| Charles the Hammer repulses a Muslim invasion of France | |
| German colonial forces in East Africa defeat British forces during World War I | |
| The crumbling Roman Empire and its allies repulse an invasion by Attila the Hun | |
| Reconquista battle which saw Spanish forces under Alfonso VIII destroy a Moorish army | |
| Wang Khan betrays Genghis Khan and leads a Kerait army against him. Genghis repulses their attack | |
| Braxton Bragg defeats Union forces under William S. Rosecrans in the western theatre of the US Civil War | |
| Naval battle in which a coalition of European nations defeated the Ottoman Empire | |
| War of 1812 battle which saw Americans under Andrew Jackson defeat an invading British army two weeks after the war ended | |
| Russian mobs revolt, overthrow the Czar, and install a short-lived provisional government | |
| Final desperate offensive by the Germans to win World War I | |
| A Republic of Texas garrison is annihilated by Mexicans under Santa Anna | |
| The 'Ever victorious army' defeats Taipang rebels | |
| The Duke of Wellington defeats Napoleon | |
| Arab Muslims under Umar defeat Sassanid Persians, allowing Islam to spread to Persia | |
| Ivan the Terrible destroys a regional rival, razing their capital to the ground and massacring the inhabitants | |
| Decisive battle in the 30 years war, in which Gustavus Adolphus was killed | |
| An American naval fleet annihilates a Spanish fleet in the Philippines | |
| A surprise offensive by the Vietcong against the Americans and South Vietnamese | |
| A Roman army under Marcus Furius Camillus ejects Gaulic invaders from the Roman capital | |
| Helmuth von Moltke defeats French forces attempting to relieve the Siege of Metz, effectively winning the Franco-Prussian War | |
| Peter the Great defeats Sweden's Charles XII in the Ukraine during the Great Northern War | |
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