* 1944 – Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in history, takes place in and around the Philippines between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the U. S. Third and U. S. Seventh Fleets.

* 1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Leyte Gulf ends with an overwhelming American victory.

* 1944 – World War II: Battle of Leyte Gulf – The largest naval battle in history begins in the Philippines.

Arguments that the plans for the Battle of Leyte Gulf, involving all Japanese ships, would expose Japan to serious danger if they failed, were countered with the plea that the Navy be permitted to " bloom as flowers of death.

In 1944 the Liberation of the Philippines began with the Battle of Leyte Gulf and succeeded in driving the Japanese from the islands.

The 11th Airborne Division would not be used as paratroopers, however, but as light infantry after the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

His grandson died in combat during the Pacific War on the heavy cruiser Maya at the Battle of Leyte.

The Battle of Leyte in the Pacific campaign of World War II was the invasion and conquest of the island of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, who fought against the Imperial Japanese Army in the Philippines led by General Tomoyuki Yamashita from 20 October-31 December 1944.

* Battle of Leyte

* Battle of Leyte Gulf

In the Battle of Leyte, he commanded the Army Support Command ( ASCOM ), which was responsible for all construction and logistics activities in the forward area.

For the Battle of Leyte Casey's ASCOM had 43, 000 men, of whom 21, 000 were engineers.

In the resultant Battle of the Philippine Sea and the Battle of Leyte Gulf the Japanese fleet was decimated.

Subsequently Pacific Fleet engagements during World War II included the Battle of Guam, the Marshalls-Gilberts raids, the Doolittle Raid, the Solomon Islands campaign, the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, and the Battle of Okinawa.

* Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

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

* 1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, captures Charles of Salermo.

* Battle of the Gulf of Riga ( Vice Admiral Erhard Schmidt )

* 1991 – Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.

While commanding the Carl Vinson Battle Group, he deployed to the Persian Gulf and later served as the Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force Southwest Asia.

* July 6 – WWII: Americans and Japanese fight the Battle of Kula Gulf off Kolombangara.

* August 6 – WWII – Battle of Vella Gulf: Americans defeat a Japanese convoy off Kolombangara, as the U. S. Army drives the Japanese out of Munda airfield on New Georgia.

* 5 June -- King Charles II of Naples is captured in the Battle of the Gulf of Naples by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon.

During the Second World War, the Battle of the St. Lawrence involved a number of submarine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Strait of Belle Isle and Cabot Strait from May to October 1942, September 1943, and again in October and November 1944.

The Battle of Salamis (, Naumachia tēs Salaminos ) was fought between an Alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire in September 480 B. C. E., in the straits between the mainland and Salamis, an island in the Saronic Gulf near Athens.

The British Army performed bayonet charges during the Falklands War ( see Battle of Mount Tumbledown ), the Second Gulf War, and the war in Afghanistan.

Coverage of the first Gulf War and other crises of the early 1990s ( particularly the infamous Battle of Mogadishu ) led officials at the Pentagon to coin the term " the CNN effect " to describe the perceived impact of real time, 24-hour news coverage on the decision-making processes of the American government.

* The Athenian admiral Phormio has two naval victories, the Naupactus and the Battle of Chalcis at the mouth of the Corinthian Gulf.

She answered her accusers that she received tuition from Thomas Reid, a former barony officer who had died at the Battle of Pinkie some 30 years before and also from the Queen of the Elfhame which lay nearby.

A second invasion also ended in defeat at the Battle of Verona, though Alaric forced the Roman Senate to pay a large subsidy to the Visigoths.

On May 28, 585 BC, during the Battle of Halys fought against Cyaxares, king of Media, a solar eclipse took place ( see also Thales ); hostilities were suspended, peace concluded, and the Halys fixed as the boundary between the two kingdoms.

Daniel Jackson also comments that it would mean that Ambrosius was 74 at the Battle of Mount Badon.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Bull Run, also known as the Battle of Second Manassas.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

The Battle of Mogadishu also occurred in Somalia in 1993.

Battle of Adrianople may also refer to:

This does not only concern people ( e. g., Healfdene, Hroðgar, Halga, Hroðulf, Eadgils and Ohthere ), but also clans ( e. g., Scyldings, Scylfings and Wulfings ) and some of the events ( e. g., the Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern ).

It was also the capital of an independent state under Edward, the Black Prince ( 1362 – 1372 ), but in the end, after the Battle of Castillon ( 1453 ) it was annexed by France which extended its territory.

Italian submarines participated in the Battle of the Atlantic from this base which was also a major base for German U-boats as headquarters of 12th U-boat Flotilla.

Battles also affect the commitment of one side or the other to the continuance of a war, for example the Battle of Incheon and the Battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive.

Sir Thomas Felton fought not only at Poitiers but also the Battle of Crécy.

The Battle of the Nile ( also known as the Battle of Aboukir Bay, in French as the Bataille d ' Aboukir or in Egyptian Arabic as معركة أبي قير البحرية ) was a major naval battle fought between British and French fleets at Aboukir Bay on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt from 1 – 3 August 1798.

The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.

The Battle of Abritus, also known as the Battle of Forum Terebronii, occurred in the Roman province of Moesia Inferior ( modern Razgrad, Bulgaria ) probably in July, 251, between the Roman Empire and a federation of Scythian tribesmen under the Goth king Cniva.

At the Battle of Vercellae, at the confluence of the Sesia River with the Po River, in 101 BC, the long voyage of the Cimbri also came to an end.

In some occasions it also proved its ability to strike a decisive tactical blow against a weakened or unprepared enemy, such as the final charge at the Battle of Aquilonia.

A series of coordinated attacks by these Egyptian Expeditionary Force infantry and mounted troops were also successful at the Battle of Mughar Ridge, during which the British infantry divisions and the Desert Mounted Corps drove two Ottoman armies back to the Jaffa — Jerusalem line.