battle, engagement, conflict, fight - a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement"

Agincourt - a battle in northern France in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415

battle of Austerlitz, Austerlitz - a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II

Bannockburn - a battle in which the Scots under Robert the Bruce defeated the English and assured the independence of Scotland

Battle of Kerbala - a battle in 680 in which the grandson of Mohammed and his followers were killed; "the Battle of Kerbala is the basis for the Ta'ziyehs that are performed annually"

Ardennes counteroffensive, Battle of the Ardennes Bulge, Battle of the Bulge - a battle during World War II; in December 1944 von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise

Battle of the Marne, Belleau Wood, Chateau-Thierry, Marne River - a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918

Blenheim - the First Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the French in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession

Borodino - Napoleon defeated the Russians in a pitched battle at Borodino in 1812, but irreparably weakened his army

Bosworth Field - the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (1485); Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII

Bouvines - in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages

battle of Boyne, Boyne - a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts

battle of Brunanburh, Brunanburh - a battle in 937 when Athelstan defeated the Scots

Buena Vista - in 1847 United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated Mexican forces under Santa Anna in the Mexican War

Battle of Bull Run, Bull Run - either of two battles during the American Civil War (1861 and 1862); Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles

battle of Bunker Hill, Bunker Hill - the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775); the British defeated the colonial forces

Cannae - ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC

battle of Caporetto, Caporetto - battle of World War I (1917); Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces

Caudine Forks - a battle in the Apennines in 321 BC in which the Samnites defeated the Romans

Chaeronea - a battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC)

Chalons, Chalons-sur-Marne - the battle in which Attila the Hun was defeated by the Romans and Visigoths in 451

Chancellorsville - a major battle in the American Civil War (1863); the Confederates under Robert E. Lee defeated the Union forces under Joseph Hooker

Chapultepec - a victory by American over Mexican forces in the Mexican War (1847)

battle of Chattanooga, Chattanooga - in the American Civil War (1863) the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg

battle of Chickamauga, Chickamauga - a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces

battle of Cowpens, Cowpens - battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British

battle of Crecy, Crecy - the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War; in 1346 the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois

battle of Cunaxa, Cunaxa - battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne

battle of Cynoscephalae, Cynoscephalae - the battle that ended the second Macedonian War (197 BC); the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece

Al Alamayn, Battle of El Alamein, El Alamein - in World War II (1942); a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel