In 1264, Nivkh people reported to the Yuan Dynasty of the Mongol Empire that Ainu invaded the land of Nivkh, resulting in battles between Ainu and the Yuan Dynasty.

The two unidentified battles may have occurred in between.

The monotony between battles, the constant threat of artillery fire and bombardments, the struggle to find food, the lack of training of young recruits ( meaning lower chances of survival ), and the overarching role of random chance in the lives and deaths of the soldiers are described in detail.

The battles that took place in the period between the departure of Napoleon from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo are not included.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

While the British military historian Sir John Keegan suggested an ideal definition of battle as " something which happens between two armies leading to the moral then physical disintegration of one or the other of them ", the origins and outcomes of battles can rarely be summarized so neatly.

Early battles were probably fought between rival hunting bands as disorganized mobs.

Reinforcements had to come from Asia mainly by sea, which depended on the result of battles between the Turkish and Greek navies in the Aegean.

In addition the Battle of Alam el Halfa ( 30 August-5 September 1942 ), was fought between both battles and in the same location.

Although the Bogotá junta called itself a " Supreme Junta of the New Kingdom of Granada ," it failed to provide political unity, and battles broke out between cities and towns as each tried to defend its sovereignty.

The ensuing Battle of Mursa Major was one of the largest and most bloody battles between two Roman armies in Roman history.

The Chronicle records several battles of Ceawlin's between the years 556 and 592, including the first record of a battle between different groups of Anglo-Saxons, and indicates that under Ceawlin Wessex acquired significant territory, some of which was later to be lost to other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

This battle is notable as the first recorded conflict between the invading peoples: previous battles recorded in the Chronicle are between the Anglo-Saxons and the native Britons.

Supplements such as Battlesystem ( 1985 & 1989 ) and a new edition of Chainmail ( 2001 ) provided rule systems to handle battles between armies by using miniatures.

Many similar battles were fought between the succeeding Sultanate of Adal and the Solomonids, with both sides achieving victory and suffering defeat.

Minor battles were fought, sometimes at night, between gangs of smugglers, such as the Hawkhurst Gang and the Revenue, supported by the army and local militias in the South, Kent and the West, Sussex.

With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.

During his three-year reign, King James II became directly involved in the political battles in England between Catholicism and Protestantism, on the one hand, and on the other, between the Divine Right of Kings and the political rights of the Parliament of England.

This conflict is often popularly conceived of in terms of the well known battles between Zulu King Dingane and the Boers, most notably at the Battle of Blood River.

* 1918 – Finnish Civil War: The first serious battles take place between the Red Guards and the White Guard.

This includes his reluctance to resolve a dispute between Leonidas Polk, a personal friend, and Braxton Bragg, who was defeated in important battles and distrusted by his subordinates.

Social conditions deteriorated for ordinary Kenyans, who faced a growing wave of routine crime in urban areas ; pitched battles between ethnic groups fighting for land ; and a feud between the police and the Mungiki sect, which left over 120 people dead in May – November 2007 alone.

Regions covered by the operation became the site of some of the largest battles, deadliest atrocities, highest casualties, and most horrific conditions for Soviets and Germans alike — all of which influenced the course of both World War II and 20th century history.

Following bloody encirclement battles, all of the present-day Belarus territory was occupied by the Germans by the end of August 1941.

The AK also fought several full-scale battles against the Germans, particularly in 1943 and 1944 during Operation Tempest.

In Africa, the staffs and officers at the head of Belgian colonial troops, after their rescue of struggling French with the Germans Togo, would win several battles during the East African Campaign against German forces in German East Africa.

This proved counterproductive, since the forces pulled from the Western Front were still in transit during the Battle of Tannenberg, in which the Germans would emerge victorious, while the battles on the Western front were being lost for Germany.

The Battle of Cēsis in June 1919 when Estonian and Latvian forces defeated the Germans was one of the decisive battles in the Latvian War of Independence.

The Germans had undergone phenomenal suffering during Soviet operations on their soil, beginning with the first battles in East Prussia in the autumn of 1944.

With regard to the Serbs, Žerjavić's calculation ended with a total of 197, 000 Serbian civilian victims on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia: 50, 000 in the Jasenovac concentration camp, 25, 000 died of typhoid, 45, 000 killed by the Germans, 15, 000 killed by Italians, 34, 000 civilians killed in battles between Ustaše, Chetniks and Partisans, 28, 000 killed in prisons, pits and other camps, etc.

As a result of their presence, Yorkville in this period was the scene of fierce street battles between pro-and anti-Nazi Germans and German-Americans.

This meant that the Germans had a short window of time where they could fight a defensive battle, holding off what forces the Russians could move forward, while they waited for the battles in the west to be decided.

Following bloody encirclement battles, all of the present-day Belarus territory was occupied by the Germans by the end of August 1941.

There it repulsed the advancing Germans in hard fought battles at Hebuterne and Dernancourt.

A series of running battles between the French, the Germans and Dutch Nazi collaborators were conducted near the bridge. The civilian population of Appelscha, after a relatively calm five years of German occupation, were drawn into five days of heavy fighting leaving no civilian casualties but plenty of German dead.

1916 was when most squadrons were grouped around the sector of Verdun, the scene of one of the bloodiest battles in military history when more than one million soldiers from the French and German armies were killed, as the Germans attempted to take the fortress, considered strategically important.

Large air battles raged overhead as the Germans tried to break the vital supply line.

They were referred to by the Germans as " the Channel battles ".

Because of its late arrival, the Comet did not participate in any major battles, though it did see combat against the Germans.

In the fight against Germans, KOP units took part among other battles in the battle of Węgierska Górka.

By that time, the reinforced Germans forces were at the " Panther Line ", stretching from Narva to Pskov using Lake Pskov as a barrier, where the offensive was stopped in several heavy battles around Narva.

The AK also fought several full-scale battles against the Germans, particularly in 1943 and 1944 during Operation Tempest.

One of several massive cycloramas depicting Civil War battles painted during the 1880s, the Battle of Atlanta painting was created by the American Panorama Company in Milwaukee by a team led by Germans Friedrich Wilhelm Heine and August Lohr.

In a series of battles with Norwegian and British forces over the next weeks the Germans pushed northwards from Oslo, their main effort through the Gudbrandsdal valley.

After several major battles against German units ( the most notable being the battles of Wojda, Róża and Zaboreczno ), the Germans had to halt the expulsions and in the end very few German settlers were brought to the area ( see Zamość Uprising ).