* 1810 – Battle of Grand Port – the French accept the surrender of a British Navy fleet.

* 1904 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.

* 1904 – Russo – Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.

* 1862 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic ; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.

Despite the only French naval victory ( during the Napoleonic Wars ) of Battle of Grand Port on 19 and 20 August 1810 by a fleet commanded by Pierre Bouvet, Mauritius was captured on 3 December 1810 by the British under Commodore Josias Rowley.

Having had their initial effort to capture Port Moresby by a seaborne invasion disrupted by the U. S. Navy in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese attempted a landward invasion from the north via the Kokoda Trail.

* 1810: The Battle of Vieux Grand Port ( Great Old Port ) in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of the Island of Mauritius, was the only naval victory won by Napoleon.

During King William's War ( 1689 to 1697 ) military conflicts in Acadia included: Battle of Port Royal ( 1690 ); a naval battle in the Bay of Fundy ( Action of July 14, 1696 ); and the Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 ).

( The others were Russian Admirals Oskar Victorovich Stark, who had been relieved of command following his humiliating loss in the Battle of Port Arthur, and Wilgelm Vitgeft, who had been killed in the Battle of the Yellow Sea.

** Battle of Port Arthur, a sea battle in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904

General George Kenney's outnumbered and out classed old fighters, when staged forward from new bases about Port Moresby, would affect Japanese decisions to withdraw from their beachhead on Milne Bay because the allied fighters were only minutes away and enjoyed a rapid turn around time to resume sweeps against long ranged Japanese air during the Battle of Milne Bay — and that earned Kenney a promotion for it was the first time Japanese aggression had been repulsed in any landing.

* Battle for Port Lyautey

Following the outbreak of the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army as a general and commander of Confederate forces prior to the 1863 Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana, and of the young Virginia Military Institute cadets, at the 1864 Battle of New Market in New Market, Virginia.

* Battle of Bladensburg, War of 1812 Bicentennial preparations top Port Towns ' priorities

* The Battle of Port Gibson

During the American Revolutionary War, Galloway was the site of the Battle of Chestnut Neck, in what is now a part of Port Republic.

The New Englanders were successful with the Siege of Port Royal ( 1710 ), while the Wabanaki Conferacy were successful in the near-by Battle of Bloody Creek in 1711 and continued raids along the Maine frontier.

Several months after hostilities began between the states, Beaufort was occupied by Union forces following the Battle of Port Royal.

Port Royal was the site of the Naval Battle of Port Royal during the Civil War.

* 1980 The Battle of Port Arthur aka 203 Koichi

After the capture of the area by Union forces, the mansion was used as a hospital following the Battle of Port Gibson and as an observation station.

Gibson eventually photographed Gen. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Seven Days Battles, Battle of Gaines ' Mill, and Battle of Malvern Hill.

Gibson fought at the Battle of Shiloh and subsequent actions.

In September 2005, PWG ran the first annual Battle of Los Angeles tournament, featuring AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, James Gibson, Super Dragon, Kevin Steen, El Generico, and several others.

The Battle of Port Gibson was fought by the XIII Corps, with the aid of a portion of the XVII Corps.

These included, among many others, Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC DSO DFC of 617 Squadron, who led ' The Dambusters ' and Group Captain Sir Douglas Bader DSO DFC, the legendary ( and legless ) Battle of Britain fighter ace and strategic leader.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

* Battle of Abensberg occurred April 20, 1809.

* Battle of Landshut occurred April 21, 1809.

* Battle of Eckmühl occurred 21 – 22 April 1809.

Independence finally occurred on May 24, 1822 at the Battle of Pichincha.

The Battle of Mogadishu also occurred in Somalia in 1993.

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.

China and South Vietnam both occupied portions of the Paracel Islands until 1974, when the Battle of the Paracel Islands occurred ; China took over and has controlled all of the Paracel Islands since then.

The Gauls destroyed much of Rome's historical records when they sacked the city after the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC ( Varronian, according to Polybius the battle occurred in 387 / 6 ) and what was left was eventually lost to time or theft.

One highly publicized legal battle occurred in 1960 involving the opening of a new theatre that was to be open to all races ; the proposed unsegregated restrooms at the newly-built Reps Theatre in 1959 caused an argument called " The Battle of the Toilets ".

The Siege of Apia, or the Battle of Apia, occurred during the Second Samoan Civil War in March 1899 at Apia.

From 1919-1921 three Silesian Uprisings occurred among the Polish-speaking populace of Upper Silesia ; the Battle of Annaberg was fought in the region in 1921.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

* 1205 — The Battle of Adrianople occurred on April 14, 1205 between Bulgarians under Tsar Kaloyan of Bulgaria, and Crusaders under Baldwin I, ( July 1172 – 1205 ), the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.

* In 919, the first use of gunpowder in battle occurred with the Chinese Battle of Lang-shan Jiang ( Wolf Mountain River ), where the naval fleet of the Wen-Mu-King defeated Chien Yuan Kuan because Wen had used ' fire oil ' ( huo yóu, 火油 ) of gunpowder-fuse ignited flamethrowers to burn Chien's fleet.

The Battle of Fort Dearborn ( also known as the Fort Dearborn Massacre ) was an engagement between United States troops and Potawatomi Indians that occurred on August 15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, Illinois, but was then part of the Illinois Territory.

The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II.

Two major military battles occurred near the city: in 732, the Battle of Poitiers ( also known as the Battle of Tours ), in which the Franks commanded by Charles Martel halted the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate, and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for English forces during the Hundred Years ' War.

During Queen Anne's War ( 1702 to 1713 ), the British Conquest of Acadia occurred in 1710, resulting in Nova Scotia, other than Cape Breton, being officially ceded to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht including Rupert's Land, that had been conquered by France in the late 17th century ( Battle of Hudson's Bay ).

A short period of resurgence occurred under the local noble Leonardo Alagon, marquess of Oristano, who managed to defeat the viceroyal army in the 1470s but was later crushed at the Battle of Macomer ( 1478 ), ending any further hope of independence for the island.

The Battle of the Boyne, 1690, occurred some west of the town, on the banks of the River Boyne, at Oldbridge.