After the defensive battles at Slivnitsa and Vidin, Bulgaria began an offensive which took the city of Pirot.

Occasionally battles are named after the date on which they took place, such as The Glorious First of June.

Some place names have become synonymous with the battles that took place there, such as the Passchendaele, Pearl Harbor, the Alamo, Thermopylae, or Waterloo.

At Aquae Sextiae, the Romans won two battles and took the Teuton king Teutobod prisoner.

They took a prominent part in the battles by which the Prussians forced the line of the Jizera and in the Battle of Jičín.

In February 1944, Operation Hailstone, one of the most important naval battles of the war, took place at Truk, in which many Japanese support vessels and aircraft were destroyed.

In January 1885 the Foreign Legion's 4th Battalion ( chef de bataillon Vitalis ) was deployed to the French bridgehead at Keelung ( Jilong ) in Formosa ( Taiwan ), where it took part in the later battles of the Keelung Campaign.

In addition to the Swedish officers, a 800-1, 000-strong " Swedish Brigade ", led by Hjalmar Frisell, took part in the battles of Tampere and those fought in the area to the south of the town.

Greeks, Romans, and Persians took the form to a greater depth during their years of world domination, using scale replicas of enemy fortifications, coastal defense lines, and other geographic fixtures to plan battles.

Under Alexander the Great, this force turned east, and in a series of three decisive battles, routed the Persian forces and took their empire, which included Egypt and the Phoenician lands.

In that time, fierce battles between the Lombards and the Slavic people took place.

During the three years a number of battles took place in different parts of Afghanistan.

He took command of the Syracusan troops, and in a series of battles defeated the Athenian forces, and prevented them from invading the city.

Occasional ancient battles took place along the Persian Gulf coastlines, between the Sassanid Persian empire and the Lakhmid Kingdom, the most prominent of which was the invasion led by Shapur II against the Lakhmids, leading to Lakhmids ' defeat, and advancement into Arabia, along the southern shore lines.

Consequently, several gun battles took place in Mogadishu between local gunmen and peacekeepers.

The city of Troy itself stood on a hill, across the plain of Scamander, where the battles of the Trojan War took place.

Fierce battles between Lanna and Ayutthaya also constantly took place and Chiang Mai was eventually subjugated, becoming Ayutthaya's ' vassal '.

No battles were fought between Ieyasu's forces and the large Hōjō army and, after some negotiation, Ieyasu and the Hōjō agreed to a settlement which left Ieyasu in control of both Kai and Shinano provinces, while the Hōjō took control of Kazusa province ( as well as bits of both Kai and Shinano province ).

* The Battle of Lake Poyang, a naval conflict between Chinese rebel groups led by Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, took place in August to October of 1363, and was one of the largest naval battles in history.

Southern Europe remained Roman Catholic, while fierce battles which turned into warfare took place in central Europe.

His cavalry background served him well when he took up writing ; his descriptions of cavalry battles are full of minute detail and his works generally were meticulously researched.

Not only did he win battles and dominate Southern England but also he took an active hand in administering the affairs of his kingdom by founding market towns and overseeing the first major issues of gold coins in Britain ; he assumed a role in the administration of the Catholic Church in England ( sponsoring the short-lived archbishopric of Lichfield ), and even negotiated with Charlemagne as an equal.

The battles took place from 19 September 1944 to 10 February 1945, over barely, east of the Belgian – German border.

On August 5, 1772, the occupation manifesto was issued, much to the consternation of a country too exhausted by the endeavors of the Confederation of Bar to offer successful resistance ; nonetheless several battles and sieges took place, as Polish troops refused to lay down their arms ( most notably, in Tyniec, Częstochowa and Kraków ).

Nine engagements were fought with varying outcomes, though the place and date of two of these battles have not been recorded.

Among these was a raid taking place in Kent, an allied country in Southeast England, during the year 885, which was quite possibly the largest raid since the battles with Guthrum.

Wars and military campaigns are guided by strategy, whereas battles take place on a level of planning and execution known as operational mobility.

Indirect combat through the use of aircraft and missiles now comprise of a large portion of wars in place of battles, where battles are now mostly reserved for capturing cities.

Many battles were prearranged, with the clan warriors meeting at an assigned place and time, while women and children of the clan watched the festivities from some distance away.

* 1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.

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

* 1844 – One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.

The United Kingdom and its Commonwealth remained the only major force continuing the fight against the Axis, with battles taking place in North Africa as well as the long-running Battle of the Atlantic.

In Western Europe, since the late 18th century, more than 150 conflicts and about 600 battles have taken place.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

Some of the more notable aerial battles in this period include the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Midway.

Later in the inscription, Darius provides a lengthy sequence of events following the deaths of Cyrus the Great and Cambyses II in which he fought nineteen battles in a period of one year ( ending in December of 521 BC ) to put down multiple rebellions throughout the Persian Empire.

Darius the Great proclaimed himself victorious in all battles during the period of upheaval, attributing his success to the " grace of Ahura Mazda ".

* 248 BC: Beginning of a period of low intensity fighting in Sicily, without naval battles.

The Soviet Union joined the Allies and despite heavy human and territorial losses in the initial period of war, it stopped the Axis advance in the decisive battles of Moscow and Stalingrad.

Phalanxes remained dominant on battlefields throughout the Hellenistic period, although wars had developed into more protracted operations generally involving sieges and naval combat as much as field battles, until they were finally displaced by the Roman legions.

Later many identified this as a particularly low period in Kinnock's leadership — as he appeared mired in internal battles after five years of leadership and the Conservatives still dominating the scene and ahead in the opinion polls.

He developed, implemented, and expanded the use of long pikes, firearms and castle fortifications in accordance with the expanded mass battles of the period.

Most battles in this period were between besieging armies and relief columns sent to rescue the besieged.

Stephen the Great ruled between 1457 and 1504, a period of nearly 50 years during which he won 32 battles defending his country against virtually all his neighbours ( mainly the Ottomans and the Tatars, but also the Hungarians and the Poles ), while losing only two.

After Sultan Hassan, Brunei entered a period of decline, due to internal battles over royal succession as well as the rising influences of European colonial powers in the region, that, among other things, disrupted traditional trading patterns, destroying the economic base of Brunei and many other Southeast Asian sultanates.

It was a brief period of largely internal peace between the English Reformation and the battles between Protestants and Catholics and the battles between parliament and the monarchy that engulfed the seventeenth century.

In the Achaemenid period, there are no representations of Ahura Mazda other than the custom for every emperor to have an empty chariot drawn by white horses, to invite Ahura Mazda to accompany the Persian army on battles.

After a period of peace, Vortimer ( son of king Vortigern ), defeat the Saxons in four battles in Kent ( according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).

Throughout the period of its existence AK units carried out thousands of armed raids and intelligence operations, sabotaging hundreds of railway shipments and participating in many partisan clashes and battles with German police and Wehrmacht units.

The Rock Drawings in Valcamonica date to this period .. A few details have come down to us of the conquest of many of the Alpine tribes by Augustus, as well as Hannibal's battles across the Alps.

As a result of this, Osawatomie, as well as the surrounding countryside and communities became the center for several battles and acts of violence during this period.

He reigned for seven years, the whole of which period was marked by his continuous campaigns and his many battles.

The crusade, for a brief period, united the diverging forces of the Balkans, and the victories gained in battles managed to secure the Kingdom of Hungary from Ottoman occupation for over a century.

In 1975 it was acquired by Data Processing Financial and General Corporation, known as DPF, a computer leasing company, that ran into difficulties with IBM during the period of the IBM antitrust battles.

The case was settled when Ginn and SST agreed to fully release most of Negativland's masters ( mainly their Over The Edge series of cassettes ) in exchange for completing work on a live album that had been planned long before their legal battles began, as well as keeping Negativland's three SST releases on the label for a short period ( the copyright in those has since reverted to Negativland ).

This period is marked by the departure from tournament-like battles, and a move to massive clashes of clans for the control of Japan.