Name The Battle - Difficult #4

Year

Description

Battle

1942 CE

Major naval battle between Allied and Japanese forces in the Pacific; strategically prevented Japanese advance, was first engagement between aircraft carriers, and first naval battle where no ships from either side sighted or fired directly on each other

1942 CE

British base in Southeast Asia, nicknamed "Gibraltar of the East" is taken by the Japanese in WWII; the event was also called a "Fall" and is regarded as a military disaster for the Allies

1940 CE

Nazi German conquest of France in WWII

1936 CE

One of first major Nationalist victories in Spanish Civil War; linked southern and northern Nationalist zones, and cut the Republicans off from the Portuguese border

1917 CE

Major Allied offensive against German forces in WWI on the Western Front in West Flanders, Belgium; of debated impact and result on both sides

1916 CE

Successful French defence against German attack on fortified area of national significance to France in WWI

1898 CE

British and Egyptians under Kitchener decisively defeat Khalifa Mahdi claimant's forces in Sudan, part of the Mahdist War

1866 CE

Battle between Spanish ships and Peruvian ships and port in the Chincha Islands War; was the final Spanish-Peruvian battle of the war

1620 CE

Major battle between Bohemians and Holy Roman Empire, Spanish and Catholic League forces in Thirty Years' War; victory for Catholics with relatively little fighting, considered the end of the Bohemian period of the war

1363 CE

Ming rebels' victory over Han rebels in the fall of the Yuan dynasty; decisive naval battle fought on large Chinese lake, part of Red Turban Rebellion

1356 CE

The second of the three great English victories in the Hundred Years' War; Black Prince's victory and capture of the French king

1297 CE

Victory won by William Wallace and Andrew de Moray against the English in the First War of Scottish Independence at a bridge

52 BCE

Also known as a siege; a Roman victory under Julius Caesar against Gallic tribes led by Vercingetorix, ending organised resistance to Roman rule by the Gauls

279 BCE

Battle that resulted in the coining of the term "Pyrrhic victory"; King Pyrrhus of Epirus' victory over the Roman Republic in the Pyrrhic War

326 BCE

Major victory of Alexander the Great of Macedon over King Porus of Paurava in the Punjab in India