* 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople – A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens is defeated by the Visigoths in present-day Turkey.

Valens died in the Battle of Adrianople in 378 and was succeeded by Theodosius I, who adhered to the Nicene creed.

At Rome, he wrote in Latin a history of the Roman empire from the accession of Nerva ( 96 ) to the death of Valens at the Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ), in effect writing a continuation of the history of Tacitus.

* 1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.

Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ) was the main battle of the Gothic War ( 376-382 ).

Battle of Adrianople may also refer to:

* Battle of Adrianople ( 313 ), 30 April 313, Licinius defeats Maximinus Daia

* Battle of Adrianople ( 324 )-Constantine the Great defeats Licinius in a Roman civil war

* Battle of Adrianople ( 718 )-Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

* Battle of Adrianople ( 914 )-Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

* Battle of Adrianople ( 972 )-Part of the war of the Byzantine Empire against the Russians

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1003 )-Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1094 )-Between the Byzantine throne and a usurper

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1205 )-Fourth Crusade, the Bulgarians defeat the Crusaders

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1254 )-Byzantine-Bulgarian Wars

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1355 )-Byzantine victory over the Serbs

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1365 )-Capture by Ottoman Turks

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1829 )-The Russians seize the city from the Ottoman Empire

* Battle of Adrianople ( 1913 )-First Balkan War

Ammianus Marcellinus rated this reverse with the most serious military disasters of the Roman Empire to his time: Varus ' defeat at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, the incursions of the Marcomanni during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, and the Battle of Adrianople.

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After the shock of the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the emperor Valens with the flower of the Roman armies was destroyed by the Visigoths within a few days ' march, the city looked to its defences, and in 413 – 414, Theodosius II built the 18-meter ( 60-foot )- tall triple-wall fortifications, which were never to be breached until the coming of gunpowder.

After Frederick's death, the struggle against Thomas II of Savoy became fierce: the Astigiani defeated him on February 23, 1255, at the Battle of Montebruno, but Thomas ( who had been taken prisoner ) replied ordering all traders from Asti to be arrested in Savoy and France.

This led to the Battle of Bryn Derwin in June 1255.

* Warhammer Fantasy Battle ( Games Workshop, 1983 )-An internationally successful fantasy miniature wargame.

* Battle of Alcantara ( 1809 )-An inconclusive battle during the Napoleonic Wars ( the Peninsular War ).

* 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The naval engagement ends, ending the Spanish Armada's attempt to invade England.

* 1499 – First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets.

* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.

The islands were the scene of the Battle of the Aegates Islands of 241 BC, in which the Carthaginian fleet was defeated by C. Lutatius Catulus ; the engagement ended the First Punic War.

The Battle of Ramillies (), fought on 23 May 1706, was a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession.

The Battle of the Nile has been called " arguably, the most decisive naval engagement of the great age of sail ", and " the most splendid and glorious success which the British Navy gained.

The only real engagement on Delaware soil was the Battle of Cooch's Bridge, fought on September 3, 1777, at Cooch's Bridge in New Castle County.

Achieving career success at an early age, he commanded the British battlecruisers at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Jellicoe.

He forced a crossing of the Weser River near modern Minden, and then met Arminius ' army at Idistaviso, further up the Weser, near modern Rinteln, in an engagement often called the Battle of the Weser River.

The Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) was regarded as the last engagement of this " war ", yet Calais and the Channel Islands remained ruled by the Plantagenets.

Vehicles and crews suffered considerable damage and losses during the Battle of Mogadishu due to the nature of the urban engagement ; however, the chassis survivability allowed the majority of those crews to return to safety, though the HMMWV was never designed to offer protection against intense small arms fire, much less machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

* 1775 – The American Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias, results in the capture of a small British naval vessel.

* 1991 – Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.

* 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field, the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses.

* 1943 – World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka – German and Soviet forces engage in the largest tank engagement of all time.

In one such engagement on 26 June 363, the indecisive Battle of Samarra near Maranga, Julian was wounded when the Sassanid army raided his column.

The German surface navy proved ineffective during World War I ; its only major engagement, the Battle of Jutland, was indecisive.

Following a frenetic shipbuilding race through the Spring and Summer of 1776 by the British at the north end of the lake and the Americans at the south end, they fought a significant naval engagement on October 11 at the Battle of Valcour Island.

So long as everyone was using the same tactics these weaknesses were not immediately apparent, but with the advent of the Roman legion they proved fatal in every major engagement, the most famous being the Battle of Pydna, as the Romans were able to advance through gaps in the line and easily defeat the phalangites once in close.

* 1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.

* 1573 – The Battle of Haarlemmermeer, a naval engagement in the Dutch War of Independence.

* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

* 1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal – U. S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.