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![Battle of Dunbar in 1650](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14943.png?v=1723856114)
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Battle of Dunbar in 1650
The battle of Dunbar on 3 September 1650 between the English Parliament's New Model Army led by Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) and Scotland's army led by David Leslie (c. 1600-1682) was one of the last major battles of the English Civil Wars...
![Battle of Tourcoing](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17235.jpg?v=1680487563-1679986892)
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Battle of Tourcoing
The Battle of Tourcoing (17-18 May 1794) was a major engagement in the War of the First Coalition, the first phase of the French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). It saw an army of the French Republic successfully fend off a six-pronged attack...
![Battle of Jena-Auerstedt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17637.jpg?v=1717693023-1689242802)
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Battle of Jena-Auerstedt
The twin battles of Jena and Auerstedt, both fought on 14 October 1806, marked a major turning point in the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It saw the French Grande Armée, led by Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) soundly defeat the Prussian...
![Battle of Hydaspes](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/2322.gif?v=1641901507)
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Battle of Hydaspes
For almost a decade, Alexander the Great and his army swept across Western Asia and into Egypt, defeating King Darius III and the Persians at the battles of River Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela. Next, despite the objections of the loyal army...
![Battle of Monmouth](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18465.jpg?v=1711704483-1707469861)
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Battle of Monmouth
The Battle of Monmouth (28 June 1778), or the Battle of Monmouth Court House, was the last battle of the Philadelphia Campaign during the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). After abandoning control of Philadelphia, the British army under...
![Battle of Lodi](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17334.jpg?v=1717069923-1682586450)
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Battle of Lodi
The Battle of Lodi (10 May 1796) was a minor, yet important, engagement during Napoleon's Italian Campaign of 1796-97. Although the battle itself held little military significance, victory at Lodi gave General Napoleon Bonaparte the respect...
![The Battle of Chaeronea in Diodorus Siculus](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/349.jpg?v=1736620631)
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The Battle of Chaeronea in Diodorus Siculus
Chaeronea is the site of the famous Battle of Chaeronea (338 BCE) Phillip II of Macedon's decisive defeat of the Greek city-states. At Chaeronea in Boeotia (north of Corinth) Phillip and his allies from Thessaly, Epirus, Aetolia, Northern...
![Battle of Borodino](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/17797.png?v=1704914823-1692702541)
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Battle of Borodino
The Battle of Borodino (7 September 1812) was a major battle fought during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. It saw the French Grande Armée of Emperor Napoleon I (r. 1804-1814; 1815) narrowly defeat an imperial Russian army under Mikhail Kutuzov...
![Battle of Kings Mountain](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/18840.jpg?v=1720717204-1713428957)
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Battle of Kings Mountain
The Battle of Kings Mountain (7 October 1780) was a significant battle of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), fought in the backcountry of South Carolina between large parties of Patriot and Loyalist militias. The battle exemplified...
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Red Horse's Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Red Horse (Tasunka Luta, l. c. 1822-1907) was a chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux best known for his firsthand account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) and his 42 ledger book drawings depicting the engagement. The...