List of battles 1601–1800

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Early 17th century (1601–50)[]

  • 1601
    • Capture of Portobello (1601) 17 January – English expedition assaulted and took Portobello from the Spanish, acquired some booty and then sacked the place.
    • Battle of Wenden (1601) 7 January – The battle is significant as the first encounter between Swedish reiters and Polish hussars.
    • Battle of Kokenhausen 23 June – Was the battle opening the Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)
    • Siege of Rheinberg 12 June – 2 August – Was the siege of the towns of Rheinberg and Meurs, Rheinberg eventually capitulated on 28 July after a Spanish relief force failed to relieve the city. The town of Meurs surrendered 2 August
    • Siege of Ostend 5 July – 20 September 1604 was a three-year siege of the city of Ostend during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War.
    • Battle of Guruslău 3 August – Between the Wallachia, Habsburg Monarchy, & Cossacks against Principality of Transylvania & Moldavia. Wallachian-Austrian victory, Transylvania is taken out from the Ottoman suzerainty
    • Siege of Nagykanizsa Ottoman Turks 9 September – 18 November – of Nagykanizsa (Kanije) fort defeat an invading army of Habsburg Monarchy.
    • Battle of Carinish – Scottish clan battle between Clan MacLeod of Dunvegan and the Clan MacDonald of Sleat, that ended with a MacDonald victory.
    • – Near modern Arkansas City, Kansas between Escanxaque and New Spain
    • Battle of Coire Na Creiche Scottish clan battle Between Clan MacLeod of Dunvegan and the Clan MacDonald of Sleat, that ended with a MacDonald victory. It was the last clan battle in Skye.
    • Siege of Donegal – Between Ireland & Gaelic Allies and Tyrone's rebels. Having suffered several repulses rebels abandoned the siege and moved his army southwards to Munster to take part in the Battle of Kinsale.
    • Siege of Wolmar 18 October – 18 December – The Swedish artillery managed to hold back the Poles, but on 8 December Polish siege cannons arrived and an intense bombardment of Wolmar continued for ten days when Swedes asked for conditions of surrender.
    • Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch 1–27 November – Unsuccessful Dutch attempt to capture the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Spanish Netherlands
    • Naval Battle of Castlehaven 6 December – Between a Spanish naval convoy of six ships and an English fleet consisting of four warships. Five out of six Spanish ships were either sunk, captured, or run aground in the battle, while the English fleet lost no ships.
    • Naval Battle of Bantam 27 December – In Bantam Bay, Indonesia. Between a fleet of 5 Dutch ships and a Portuguese fleet of 8 galleons and several fustas. The Portuguese were forced to retreat.
    • Siege of Kinsale 2 October 1601 – 3 January 1602 – Ultimate battle in England's conquest of Gaelic Ireland.
  • 1602
    • Battle of Morar – Scottish clan battle between the Clan MacDonell of Glengarry against the Clan Mackenzie who were supported by the Clan Ross. Near Loch Morar, in the Scottish Highlands.
    • Battle of Kinsale 3 January – At the climax of the Nine Years' War a campaign by Hugh O'Neill, Hugh Roe O'Donnell and other Irish lords against English rule.
    • Siege of Fellin 25 March – 17 May – Polish and Lithuanian forces led by Grand Crown Hetman Jan Zamoyski besieged the Swedish-held town of Fellin (present-day Viljandi in Estonia).
    • Siege of Weissenstein 31 May – 30 September – Polish-Lithuanian army of 2,000 troops besiege Weissenstein (now known as Paide in Estonia). The Swedes capitulated on 30 September.
    • Burning of Dungannon June – Marked the beginning of the final stage of Tyrone's Rebellion
    • Naval Battle of Sesimbra Bay 3 June – Between an English naval expeditionary force of 5 Galleons and a Spanish fleet of 11 galleys a large Carrack and help from a fort and shore batteries.
    • Battle of Reval 30 June – The Polish forces had been sent against Swedish forces gathering outside Tallinn. The Swedish lines broke as a result.
    • Siege of Dunboy 5–18 June – Dunboy was a stronghold of Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare, After the loss at Kinsale. O'Sullivan resolved to continue the fight and rallied his forces at Dunboy. The English crown sent an army of between 4000 and 5000
    • Naval Battle of the Narrow Seas 3–4 October – An English and Dutch fleet of 9 Galleons, Carracks & Galiots intercepted and attacked 6 Spanish galleys in the Dover Straits and was fought off the coast of England and finally off the Spanish Netherlands.
    • L'Escalade 11–12 December – Notable and failed attempt by Catholic Savoy to conquer Protestant Geneva. After the defeat the Duke of Savoy accepted a lasting peace, sealed by the Treaty of St. Julien of 12 July 1603
  • 1603
    • Battle of Glen Fruin 7 February – Scottish clan battle between the Clan Gregor and its allies on one side, and the Clan Colquhoun and its allies on the other.
    • Naval Battle of Puerto Caballos 17 February – Military campaign to capture the Spanish town and port of Puerto Caballos (present day Puerto Cortés) by an English fleet that were able to achieve victory.
    • 5 March – The siege of Dorpat commenced. On 5 March 1603 at Rakvere with 1,000 men Jan Chodkiewicz defeated the Swedish relief force of 2,000
    • Raid on Santiago de Cuba 12 May – Minor military campaign that took place towards the end of the Anglo–Spanish War in May 1603. Santiago de Cuba was attacked and sacked by English privateers led by Christopher Cleeve
    • Naval Battle of Sluis 26 May – Spanish fleet of 8 Galleys defeated by the Dutch fleet of 3 men of war, 2 galleys and several smaller vessels. The Spanish commander Federico Spinola died.
    • Battle of Brașov 17 July – Fought between the troops of Wallachia led by Radu Șerban and the Habsburg Empire on one side and the Transylvanian troops led by Mózes Székely on the other side
    • Capture of Tabriz 1 – 21 October – The capture of Tabriz from the Ottoman Turks by the Safavid army of Shah Abbas I. After twenty days fighting during the Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–1618)
  • 1604
    • Battle of Urmia – Between the Safavid and Ottoman empires and resulted in a decisive Safavid victory.
    • – Ali-beg Mimibegović led an army from Podgorica and clashed with 400 Montenegrins in Lješanska nahija. The battle lasted through the night, at dawn Montenegrins launched a sudden charge surprising the enemy. Ali-beg was wounded and retreated
    • Siege of Sluis 19 May – 19 August – A States and English army crossed the Scheldt estuary and advanced on land taking Cadzand, Aardenburg and IJzendijke in the Spanish Netherlands. This led to the siege of the Spanish held inland port of Sluis.
    • Naval Battle of the Gulf of Cadiz 7 August – The battle took place when a flotilla of two galleons engaged two English privateers who were plundering shipping lanes and villages around the Gulf of Cádiz.
    • Battle of Weissenstein 25 September – Between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The battle ended with the total defeat of the Swedish army.
    • Battle of Novhorod-Siverskyi 31 December – First major battle of False Dmitry I against Boris Godunov.
  • 1605
    • Battle of Dobrynichi 21 January – Pretender to the Russian throne defeated, but escapes.
    • Battle of Kircholm 27 September – Polish hussars cavalry defeated numerically superior Swedes.
    • Siege of Kandahar – When Emperor Akbar died on 27 October 1605, the Safavid governor of Herat, moved to recapture Kandahar on behalf of the Safavids while the Mughals were distracted.
  • 1606
    • Battle of Udycz 28 – January between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces and the horde of Crimean Tatars. Polish forces defeated Crimean Tatars, near Udych River.
    • Siege of Malacca – Portuguese garrison managed to hold out and stop any Dutch direct attacks on the city until additional reinforcements could arrive, which made the Dutch retreat from the siege.
    • Naval Battle of Cape Rachado – Dutch East India Company and Portuguese fleets. Portuguese victory.
    • 10 March – Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna , making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
    • Siege of Groenlo – Forces led by Ambrosio Spinola take the city, which remained in Spanish hands until 1627.
  • 1607
    • Battle of Gibraltar 25 April – Dutch fleet destroys anchored Spanish fleet.
    • Battle of Guzów 6 July – Between the forces of the Zebrzydowski Rebellion against the Polish Royalists supporting King Sigismund III Vasa under the command of Polish Grand Crown Hetman
    • Battle of Kozelsk 8 October – The first victory of False Dmitry II against the government of Tsar Vasili IV Shiusk
    • Raid on Bone Raid by the Tuscan Order of St. Stephen against the Ottoman town of Bone (Annaba, Algeria)
  • 1608
    • 17 January – Emperor Susenyos surprises an Oromo army, killing 12,000 Oromo at a cost of 400 soldiers.
    • Battle of Bolkhov 10–11 May – Between troops of False Dmitry II and the army of Tsar Vasily Shuisky.
    • Battle of Kilmacrennan 5 July – Skirmish fought near Kilmacrennan, County Donegal during O'Doherty's Rebellion
    • Siege of Troitsky monastery 23 September – 12 January 1610 – An attempt of the Polish–Lithuanian irregular army that acted in support of False Dmitry II to capture the Trinity Monastery (the modern Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius) north of Moscow. The siege lasted for 16 months
  • 1609
    • Siege of Pärnu 28 February – 2 March – The Polish–Lithuanian miners blew up three of the main gates of the city and Lithuanian troops fought their way to the city's center and captures the city
    • 15 May
    • Battle of Torzhok 17 June
    • Battle of Tver 13 July
    • Battle of Tver 15 July
    • Iroquois War (1609) 30 July – Two Frenchmen and 60 natives Huron's encountered a group of 200 Iroquois. Near Ticonderoga and Crown Point, New York. The Hurons and the French routed the enemy, killing fifty and taking twelve prisoners, whom they tortured until death
    • 18 August
    • Battle of Daugavgrīva (1609) 6 October – Swedes managed to avoid battle for four days, finally Lithuanian's abandoned camp, leaving a small force and hid in the nearby woods. Swedes couldn't resist and attacked the weakly defended Lithuanian camp and were surprised by Lithuanian counterattack from the woods.
    • 28 October
  • 1610
    • April
    • Battle of Sorel 19 June – Between the Kingdom of France and its allies, the Wyandot people, Algonquin people and Innu people that fought against the Mohawk people in New France at present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec.
    • 24 June
    • Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra 23 September 1608 – 12 January – Sixteen-month siege of Trinity Monastery fails.
    • Battle of Kluszyn 4 July – During Time of Troubles in Russia. Polish army defeated Russians and Swedes.
  • 1611
    • Siege of Kalmar 3 May – 3 August – Occurred during the Kalmar War and constituted the major part of an intensive conflict between Denmark-Norway and Sweden.
    • Storming of Kristianopel 26 June – The Swedes managed to siege the fortified city and went in by bombing the fortress port, which was badly defended.
    • Siege of Smolensk – Ended in June, Poland captures city after two-year siege.
    • 15 July
  • 1612
    • Battle of Vittsjö 11 February
    • Battle of Kringen 26 August – Norwegian peasant militia ambush Scottish mercenary soldiers on their way to enlist in the Swedish army.
    • Battle of Moscow (1612) 1 & 3 September – A series of two battles, which took place in Moscow, during the Polish–Muscovite War (1605–18). The battles ended in tactical Russian victory.
    • Naval 29 August – Portuguese fleet was defeated by the English, off the coast of Surat, India.
    • Naval Battle of Swally 9–10 December – Took place off the coast of Suvali a village near the Surat city (now in Gujarat, India) and was a victory for four English East India Company galleons over four Portuguese galleons and 26 barks
  • 1613
    • Battle of Port Royal October – Captain Samuel Argall leads a force from Virginia to attack Acadia destroying Port Royal and other French outposts in eastern Canada.
    • Siege of Tikhvin 4 June – 25 September – Local Streltsy and noblemen rose up against the Swedish garrison and destroyed it. The Swedes undertook a punitive expedition to Tikhvin and burned the town, but could not take the Assumption Monastery.
    • Siege of Smolensk (1613–1617) – Russian troops led a protracted and unsuccessful siege of the city. During the siege, no attempt was made to assault. In the beginning of 1617 the siege was lifted.
    • Naval Battle of Cape Corvo August – A naval engagement of the Ottoman–Habsburg wars. fought as part of the struggle for the control of the Mediterranean, near the island of Samos. Spanish squadron from Sicily, engaged an Ottoman fleet.
  • 1614
    • Raid on Żejtun 6–12 July – The last major attack made by the Ottoman Empire against the island of Malta, which was then ruled by the Order of St. John.
    • Battle of Bronnitsy 14 July
    • Siege of Aachen Late August 1614 – Spanish Army of Flanders, marched from Maastricht to Germany to support Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg, during the War of the Jülich Succession.
    • Battle of Imafuku November – Tokugawa Ieyasu attacks and captures the village of Imafuku by defeating Toyotomi clan forces.
    • Siege of Osaka 8 November – 22 January 1615 – A series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction.
    • Battle of Imafuku Late November – The village of Imafuku stood on the northeast approach to Osaka, and so Tokugawa Ieyasu sent 1500 men to secure the site for a fort. They faced 600 men loyal to the Toyotomi "Western Army,"
    • Battle of Shigino 26 November – Five thousand Tokugawa troops, led by Uesugi Kagekatsu, engaged 2000 troops loyal to the Toyotomi at a place called Shigino, across the Yamato River (now called the Neyagawa) from the site of the Battle of Imafuku
  • 1615
    • – Duke Friedrich Ulrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel laid siege to the city of Braunschweig (the second siege after 1605/1606). Hanseatic & Dutch relief forces broke the siege.
    • Cossack raid on Istanbul (1615) – A campaign of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, The attack successfully penetrated the capital of the Ottoman Empire, entered its harbor, and burned ships before returning to their base.
    • Battle of Kashii 26 May – Tokugawa forces defeat Toyotomi forces during the conflict over Osaka.
    • Battle of Yao 2 June – The battle occurred in 1615 during the Siege of Osaka, in which Tokugawa Ieyasu planned to destroy the Toyotomi clan. It was fought between the Tōdō clan and the Chōsokabe clan. Tõdõ clan won the battle
    • Battle of Dōmyōji 2 June – The Eastern Army of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Osaka Army of Toyotomi Hideyori clashed in battle at Dōmyōji. This battle was one of Japan's major historical battles between samurai forces.
    • Battle of Tennōji 3 June – Final defeat of Toyotomi Hideyori, son of Hideyoshi
    • Naval – Venetians With a galley and several smaller ships occupied the Zaule salt pan and began to destroy it.
    • Siege of Pskov (1615) 9 August – 27 October – Approaching Pskov, the Swedes tried to take it immediately, but were repelled by the Pskov garrison with heavy losses. After two and a half months, the Swedes withdrew from Pskov to Narva
    • 16 October – Champlain Battle where Samuel Dechamplain aided by 10 Frenchmen and 300 Hurons attacked the stockaded Oneida Indian village.
    • Naval Action off La Goulette December – A victory for a Spanish privateer squadron under Francisco de Ribera over a Tunisian fleet.
  • 1616
    • Naval Battle of Cape Celidonia 14 July – A small Spanish fleet of 5 Galleons and a patache, cruising off Cyprus was attacked by an Ottoman fleet of 55 Galleys. The Spanish ships, managed to repel the Ottomans, inflicting heavy losses.
    • Battle of Toppur – One of the largest battles in the history of South Asia. It causes complete destruction of already declining Vijaya Nagara Empire.
    • – Was captured by the Spaniards
  • 1617
    • – Walter Raleigh's second El Dorado expeditions sacked the second settlement of Saint Thomas of Guyana in 1617
    • Second Battle of Playa Honda – Spanish victory in the Philippines during Eighty Years' War
    • The Spanish-Dutch Naval Battle of 1617 Outside Manila Bay – Naval battle which decided the future of the Philippines for centuries to come was fought outside Manila Bay
  • 1618
    • Battle of Orynin 28 September – Polish forces faced Crimean Tatars from Budjak, The battle took place near Orynin in Podolia.
    • Siege of Moscow (1618) 2–11 October – The last major military action of Wladyslaw IV's campaign of 1617–1618 and the entire Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618). An assault was unsuccessful. The Polish-Lithuanian government went to the conclusion of the Truce of Deulino.
    • Battle of Lomnice 9 November – Between the Roman Catholic army of Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, and the Protestant army of Heinrich Matthias von Thurn. Ends in Bohemian victory.
    • Siege of Pilsen 19 September – 21 November – The first major battle of the Thirty Years' War. The Protestant victory and subsequent capture of the city enlarged the Bohemian Revolt.
  • 1619
    • Battle of Sablat 10 June – Called Battle of Záblatí in Czech, during the Thirty Years' War
    • Battle of Sarhū 14–18 April – The Manchus defeat the Ming.
    • Battle of Wisternitz 5 August – Battle of the Thirty Years' War, Bohemians defeat Austrians.
    • 30 May – JP Coen decided that Jakatra (later Batavia) would be a better base for the VOC on Java than Bantam and set out to capture the city. The sultan or Mataram, under whose influence Jakatra fell, was opposed to this and resisted strongly.
  • 1620
    • Cossack raid on Istanbul (1620) – A campaign of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, to the capital Ottoman Empire.
    • Battle of White Mountain 8 November – Battle deciding fate of Prague in Thirty Years' War
    • Battle of Cecora (1620) 17 September – 7 October – (Tutora) Ottoman Turks defeat Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army
  • 1621
    • Blockade of La Rochelle 1621-1622 – The repression of the Huguenot rebellion by the French king Louis XIII.
    • Siege of Saint-Jean-d'Angély (1621) 30 May – 24 June – Siege accomplished by French king Louis XIII, against the Protestant stronghold of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.
    • 23 July – 4 August – During the Huguenot uprisings, after taking the city of Saint-Jean-d'Angély, Louis XIII made the decision to go south to subdue Guyenne, and to besiege Clairac which was a bastion of Protestantism.
    • Battle of Gibraltar (1621) 10 August – During the Eighty Years' War. A Dutch VOC fleet, escorted by Haultain's squadron was intercepted and defeated by nine ships of Spain's Atlantic fleet Armada del Mar Océano, while crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.
    • Battle of Khotyn 2 September – 9 October – Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth army stops great Turkish invasion.
    • Siege of Jülich (1621–22) 5 September 1621 – 3 February 1622 – A siege during the Palatinate campaign of the Thirty Years' War. After five months of siege the Spanish army took the Dutch-occupied fortress of Jülich, compelling its garrison to surrender.
    • Siege of Montauban August – November – A siege accomplished by the young French king Louis XIII, against the Protestant stronghold of Montauban. Despite a strength of about 25,000 men, Louis XIII was unable to capture the city of Montauban
  • 1622
    • Indian massacre of 1622 1 April – Powhatan braves came unarmed into our houses with deer, turkeys, fish, fruits, and other provisions to sell and the warriors grabbed any tools or weapons they saw and killed all the English settlers they found.
    • Battle of Wiesloch 25 April – Protestants under Count Mansfield defeat Catholics under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly in Thirty Years' War.
    • Siege of Royan May – Siege accomplished by the French king Louis XIII against the Protestant stronghold of Royan
    • Battle of Wimpfen 6 May – A battle in the Bohemian Revolt period of the Thirty Years' War near Wimpfen.
    • Siege of Nègrepelisse 10–11 June – Siege accomplished by the French king Louis XIII against the Protestant stronghold of Nègrepelisse in France
    • Battle of Höchst 20 June – The joint Spanish-Bavarian army under Cordoba and Tilly was attempting to stop the junction of Christian of Brunswick and Mansfeld. They were able to intercept Christian before he could cross the River Main at Hochst.
    • Battle of Macau 22–24 June – A conflict of the Dutch–Portuguese War fought in the Portuguese settlement of Macau, in southeastern China.
    • Siege of Bergen-op-Zoom (1622) 18 July – 2 October – The Spanish laid siege to the Dutch city of Bergen op Zoom. The population was divided between Protestants, who favored resistance and Catholics, who favored a Spanish conquest. The Spanish, had to lift the siege on
    • Siege of Heidelberg (1622) 23 July – 19 September – Between the Imperial-Spanish army against the Anglo-Protestant forces during the Palatinate campaign.
    • Siege of Montpellier August – October – A siege of the Huguenot city of Montpellier by the Catholic forces of Louis XIII of France, It was part of the Huguenot rebellions.
    • Battle of Fleurus 29 August – Protestant victory during Thirty Years' War
    • Naval battle of Saint-Martin-de-Ré 27 October – Between the Huguenot fleet of La Rochelle under Jean Guiton, and a Royal fleet under Charles de Guise.
    • Battle of Mbumbi 18 December – A military engagement between forces of Portuguese Angola and the Kingdom of Kongo.
    • Capture of Hurmuz – Persian capture Hurmuz with the aid of the English East Indian Company's ships
  • 1623
    • Battle of Mbanda Kasi January
    • Battle of Stadtlohn 6 August – The Count of Tilly leads Catholic forces to victory over the Protestants.
    • Battle of Anjar 1 November
    • Capture of Bahia 22 December – Dutch victory in the Dutch–Portuguese War
  • 1624
    • Capture of Baghdad 14 January – Persians attack and capture Baghdad
    • Battle of Playa Honda – The Netherlands defeats Spain
    • Cossack raids on Istanbul (1624) 9 July – 20 August – Campaigns of Zaporozhian Cossacks to the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
    • Siege of Breda 28 August – 5 June 1625 – Dutch fortress falls into Spanish hands in 1625.
    • Battle of Martynów 20 June – Between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces and the horde of Crimean Tatars.
  • 1625
    • Recapture of Bahia – Decisive Spanish–Portuguese victory
    • Battle of Blavet 17 January – Between the Huguenot forces and a French fleet in Blavet harbour (Port de Blavet, modern Port-Louis), Brittany, triggering the Second Huguenot rebellion against the Crown of France.
    • Action of 1 February 1625 Part of the Dutch–Portuguese War
    • Battle of Marabda 1 July – A battle between troops of Iran and the kingdoms of Kartli and Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) near the village of Marabda (lower Kartli, 20 km from Tbilisi).
    • Battle of Elmina (1625) 25 October – Failed Dutch attempt to take a Portuguese fortress
    • Battle of San Juan (1625) 24 September – 2 November – A Dutch expedition attacked the island of Puerto Rico, but despite besieging San Juan for two months, was unable to capture it from Spain.
    • Recovery of Ré island 12–15 September – Accomplished by the army of Louis XIII, against the troops of the Protestant admiral Soubise and the Huguenot forces of La Rochelle, who had been occupying the Island of Ré since February 1625 as part of the Huguenot rebellions.
    • Naval Cádiz expedition (1625) 1–7 November – Naval expedition against Spain by English and Dutch forces.
  • 1626
    • Battle of Wallhof 7 January – Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden defeats a Polish force during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–29).
    • Battle of Ningyuan 2–10 February – A battle between the Ming dynasty and the Jurchen Later Jin (later known as the Qing dynasty)
    • Battle of Dessau Bridge 25 April – Between Danish Protestants and the Imperial German Catholic forces on the Elbe River outside Dessau, Germany
    • 5 July – Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
    • Siege of Oldenzaal (1626) 23 July – 1 August – Took place in the Spanish held town of Oldenzaal in the Twente region. After an eight-day siege the city surrendered.
    • Battle of Gniew 22 September – 1 October – Between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The battle ended with a victory for Sweden.
    • Battle of Selburg 30 September – Between Sweden and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish forces managed to recapture Selburg from the Swedes earlier in 1626 in response the Swedish capture the town.
    • Battle of Lutter am Berenberge – Danish defeated during Thirty Years' War
    • Battle of Wenden (1626) 3 December – A battle fought during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629), between Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on 3 December 1626 at Wenden (Cēsis, Kiesia) in present-day Latvia.
  • 1627
    • Battle of Czarne 12–17 April – The battle ended with a Swedish surrender mainly due to low morale of the German mercenaries in Swedish service.
    • Siege of Saint-Martin-de-Ré 12 July – 27 October – Was an attempt by English forces to capture the French fortress-city of Saint-Martin-de-Ré, on the isle of Ré (near La Rochelle)
    • Battle of Dirschau 7–8 August – Indecisive battle during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–29)
    • Siege of Groenlo – A Dutch army led by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange liberates the city from Spanish rule.
    • Battle of Oliwa 28 November – Battle in the Polish–Swedish War (1626–29). It was the biggest and the last naval battle of the .
    • Siege of La Rochelle September 1627 – October 1628 – Between the French royal forces and the Huguenots of La Rochelle. The siege marked the apex of the tensions between the Catholics and the Protestants in France, and ended with a complete 'victory' for King Louis XIII and the Catholics.
  • 1628
    • – A tartar raid into Ukraine as far as Belaya Terkov provoked Cossack reprisals
    • Battle of Treiden (1628) 1 February – During the Polish–Swedish War between Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Swedish Empire. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces defeated the Swedish forces
    • Siege of Stralsund (1628) May – 4 August – A siege laid on Stralsund by Imperial Army during the Thirty Years' War, Stralsund was aided by Denmark and Sweden, with considerable Scottish participation. The battle marked the de facto entrance of Sweden into the war
    • 16 June
    • 6 July – Finnish troops in king Gustavus's field army in Prussia launched a special operation attack on the Polish and Danzig fleets that had been hiding from the blockaging Swedish navy in the Weichselmünde harbour.
    • Action of 17 July 1628 17 July – The largest incident of the North American phase of the Beaver Wars. The English force succeeded in capturing a supply convoy bound for New France, severely impairing that colony's ability to resist attack.
    • Siege of Batavia 22 August – 3 December – First siege of Batavia A military campaign led by Sultan Agung of Mataram to capture the Dutch port-settlement of Batavia in Java.
    • Battle of Wolgast 2 September – Danish forces of Denmark-Norway had made landfall on Usedom, and expelled the imperial occupation forces. An Imperial army left besieged Stralsund to confront the Danes. Ultimately, the Danish forces were defeated.
    • 14 October
    • Battle in the Bay of Matanzas – Dutch fleet led by Admiral Piet Hein was able to defeat and capture the Spanish treasure fleet.
  • 1629
    • Battle of Treiden (1628) 1 February – Between Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Swedish Empire Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces defeated the Swedish forces.
    • Naval Battle of Duyon River – Naval engagement between the Portuguese forces commanded by the last great commander of Portuguese India, and the forces of the Sultanate of Aceh.
    • Battle of Górzno 12 February – Swedish victory during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–29)
    • Siege of Privas 14–28 May – Was undertaken by Louis XIII of France the city of Privas was captured on 28 May 1629. It was one of the last events of the Huguenot rebellions
    • Siege of Batavia May–September – Second Siege of Batavia, A military campaign led by Sultan Agung of Mataram to capture the Dutch port-settlement of Batavia in Java; both were unsuccessful
    • Battle of Trzciana 25 June – Polish victory during the Polish–Swedish War (1626–29)
    • Battle of St. Kitts (1629) 17 June – 7 September – Successful Spanish expedition that seized the islands of Saint Kitts and Nevis from the English and French during the Anglo-Spanish War (1625–30).
    • Siege of Alès ? – 17 June – Undertaken by Louis XIII of France, and the city captured on 17 June 1629.
    • Siege of 's-Hertogenbosch – Dutch army takes a city loyal to the Spanish king.
  • 1630
    • Battle of Veillane 10 July – Between a French army and a Spanish army. The result was a French victory.
    • Battle of Randeniwela 25 August – Battle fought in the Sinhalese–Portuguese War. Between Senarat against the Portuguese
    • Siege of Recife (1630) – The Dutch captured Recife, in Portuguese Brazil. This began a war over Brazil, which would see the Dutch establish a colony called New Holland.
  • 1631
    • Battle of Frankfurt an der Oder 13 April – Between the Swedish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire for the strategically important, fortified Oder crossing Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg, Germany
    • Sack of Baltimore 20 June – The only recorded instance of a slaving raid by corsairs in Ireland
    • Battle of Magdeburg (ended 20 May) – Imperial Soldiers capture and pillage town.
    • Battle of Werben 1 August – Between the Swedish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. The Swedes forced them to retreat.
    • Battle of Albrolhos 10 August – Spanish Admiral Oquendo defeated the Dutch after a six-hour naval battle.
    • Battle of Breitenfeld 17 September – Saxons and Swedes defeat Catholics under Tilly.
    • Battle of the Slaak – Crushing Dutch victory over the Spanish fleet
  • 1632
    • Battle of Rain 5 April – Count of Tilly killed in battle with the Swedes.
    • Capture of Maastricht 9 June – 22 August – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange eventually captured the city from Spanish forces.
    • Siege of Nuremberg – Battle campaign that took place in 1632 about the Imperial City of Nuremberg during the Thirty Years' War.
    • Battle of Wiesloch (1632) 16 August – During the Thirty Years' War near the German city of Wiesloch, south of Heidelberg. A Swedish army fought an army of the Holy Roman Empire. The battle resulted in a Swedish victory.
    • Battle of the Alte Veste 25 August – Swedish attempt to break the Siege of Nuremberg, inconclusive
    • Battle of Castelnaudary 1 September – Between the rebel forces of Henri II de Montmorency (loyal to Gaston, Duke of Orléans) and the royalist forces of Marshal Henri de Schomberg (loyal to King Louis XIII).
    • Battle of Fürth 3 September – Between the Catholic forces of Holy Roman Emperor and the Protestant forces of Sweden in the Thirty Years' War. A tactical victory by the Catholic forces
    • Siege of Smolensk (1632–33) 28 October 1632 – 4 October 1633 – When the Muscovite army besieged the Polish–Lithuanian city of Smolensk during the Smolensk War
    • Battle of Lützen 16 November – Protestant Swedish forces defeat Catholics but King Gustavus Adolphus is killed.
  • 1633
    • Battle of Liaoluo Bay 7 July – 22 October – The Dutch East India Company were decisively defeated by the Ming China.
    • Battle of Oldendorf 8 July – The Swedish Empire defeat the Holy Roman Empire near Hessisch Oldendorf.
  • 1634
    • Battle of Amritsar 5 June – Between Guru Hargobind Ji and the forces of the Mughal army. Shah Jahan worried over the growing influence of the Sikhs and angered by the loss of a valued hawk seeks to teach a lesson to Guru Hargobind
    • Battle of Nördlingen 6–7 September – The Imperial armies number 33,000 troops, the Protestant forces with 25,000. At the end of the day, 12,000 Protestants are dead, another 4,000 captured, including Swedish army leader Gustaf Horn.
    • Battle of Willstätt 28 September
  • 1635
    • Battle of Kartarpur 25 April
    • Battle of Les Avins 20 May
  • 1636
    • Battle of Tornavento 22 June
    • Battle of Wittstock 4 October – Sweden defeats an army of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire
  • 1637
    • Battle off Lizard Point – Spanish fleet defeats an Anglo-Dutch merchant convoy off Lizard Point, Cornwall, England
    • Battle of Elmina (1637) – The Dutch captured Fort Elmina from the Portuguese
    • – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy defeats a Spanish army
    • Siege of Breda – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange retook the city
  • 1638
    • Battle of Gannoruwa 28 March
    • Battle of Zhovnyn 13 June – 7 August
    • Battle of Kallo 20 June – William of Nassau tried to surround the city of Antwerp.
    • Battle of Breisach 18 August – 17 December
    • Battle of Vlotho 17 October
  • 1639
    • Battle of the Brig of Dee 18–19 June
    • Action of 30 September 1639 – Naval battle in the Dutch–Portuguese War. Dutch ships captured and destroyed 3 Portuguese galleons.
    • Battle of the Downs – 21 October – Spanish navy defeated by Dutch in the English Channel.
  • 1640
  • 1641
    • Battle of Malacca – Dutch efforts effectively destroyed the last bastion of Portuguese power.
    • Capture of Luanda – The Dutch captured Luanda from the Portuguese
  • 1642
    • Battle of Kilrush 15 April
    • Battle of Rocroi 19 May
    • Battle of Honnecourt 26 May – Spanish victory against a French army.
    • Battle of Lostwithiel 21 August – 2 September
    • Battle of Liscarroll 3 September
    • Battle of Powick Bridge 21 September
    • Battle of Kings Norton 17 October
    • Battle of Edgehill 23 October – First battle of English Civil War, a draw.
    • Second Battle of Breitenfeld 23 October – Swedish victory over Holy Roman Empire.
    • Battle of Aylesbury 1 November
    • Battle of Brentford 12 November – Royalist cavalry defeats Roundheads, but has to retreat later.
    • Battle of Turnham Green 13 November
    • Battle of Tadcaster 7 December
  • 1643
    • Battle of Braddock Down 19 January
    • Battle of Leeds 23 January
    • First Battle of Middlewich 13 March
    • Battle of Hopton Heath 19 March
    • Battle of Seacroft Moor 30 March
    • Battle of Camp Hill 3 April
    • Battle of Ripple Field 13 April
    • Battle of Sourton Down 25 April
    • Battle of Rocroi 19 May – French under Duc d'Enghien destroy Spanish military supremacy in Europe.
    • Battle of Clones 13 June
    • Battle of Chalgrove Field 18 June
    • Battle of Adwalton Moor 30 June – Royalists beat Roundheads near York.
    • Battle of Burton Bridge 4 July – Royalists capture Burton from the Roundheads.
    • Battle of Lansdowne 5 July – Royalists and Roundheads tie near Bath.
    • Battle of Roundway Down 13 July – Royalists crush Roundheads in West Country.
    • Battle of Gainsborough 28 July
    • Battle of Portlester 7 August
    • Battle of Aldbourne Chase 18 September
    • First Battle of Newbury 20 September – Saved London from Royalists.
    • Battle of Winceby 11 October
    • Battle of Klingenthal 11 November
    • Battle of Tuttlingen 24 November
    • Battle of Alton 13 December
  • 1644
    • Battle of Kolding 9 January
    • Battle of Nantwich 25 January
    • Battle of Ochmatów 30 January – Polish–Lithuanian army defeat Crimean Tatars.
    • Battle of Boldon Hill 24 March
    • Battle of Cheriton 29 March
    • Battle of Selby 11 April
    • Battle of Tipton Green 12 June
    • Battle of Oswestry 22–23 June
    • Battle of Cropredy Bridge 29 June – Charles defeats Roundheads under William Waller.
    • Battle of Marston Moor 2 July – Oliver Cromwell Roundheads defeat King Charles I of England's Cavaliers securing the North for the Puritans.
    • Battle of Freiburg (August) – Indecisive battle between French forces and an Austrian-Bavarian army.
    • Battle of Tippermuir 1 September – Montrose's Royalists defeat Elcho's Covenanters.
    • Battle of Lostwithiel 2 September – Royalists surround Roundheads west of Plymouth.
    • Battle of Aberdeen (1644) 13 September – Royalist victory during Scottish Civil War
    • Second Battle of Newbury 27 October – Blocks Charles' return to London
    • Battle of Jüterbog – Sweden defeats Holy Roman Empire.
    • Battle of Lagoscuro – Allied Castro, Republic of Venice, Modena, and Tuscany forces defeat the papal army.
  • 1645
    • Battle of Inverlochy 2 February – Highlanders defeat Covenanters
    • Battle of Jankau 23 February
    • Siege of Hulst – The heavily fortified town was conquered by Dutch troops commanded by Frederick Henry after only 28 days.
    • Battle of Auldearn 9 May – Royalist victory during Scottish Civil War
    • Battle of Naseby 14 June ��� Cromwell's Ironsides defeat Charles' Cavaliers.
    • Battle of Alford 2 July – defeated by Royalists under Montrose.
    • Second Battle of Nördlingen 3 August – French victory during Thirty Years' War
    • Battle of Tabocas 3 August – aka Battle of Mount Tabocas, battle between the Dutch and the Portuguese army
    • Battle of Kilsyth 15 August – James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose defeats Covenanters in decisive battle.
    • Battle of Philiphaugh 13 September – Under General David Leslie surprise Montrose in camp, Montrose runs away.
  • 1646
    • Battle of Bovey Heath 9 January
    • Battle of Torrington 16 February
    • Battles of La Naval de Manila 15 – 4 March October – Two quickly fitted out Spanish-Filipino crewed Manila galleons repel a Dutch invasion fleet in 5 separate battles.
    • Battle of Stow-on-the-Wold 21 March
    • Battle of Benburb 5 June – Irish Ulster army under Owen Roe O'Neill defeat Scots.
  • 1647
  • 1648
    • First Battle of Guararapes 18 April – Dutch and Portuguese forces in Pernambuco, in a dispute for the dominion of that part of Brazil
    • Battle of St Fagans 8 May
    • Battle of Zusmarshausen 17 May – French and Swedish defeat Holy Roman Empire.
    • Siege of Pembroke 31 May – 11 July
    • Battle of Maidstone 1 June
    • Battle of Prague 25 July – 1 November
    • Battle of Preston 17 August – Cromwell defeats William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton.
    • Battle of Lens 20 August
  • 1649
    • Second Battle of Guararapes – Portuguese forces defeat the Netherlands and conquer Pernambuco.
    • Battle of Rathmines – An army composed of Irish and Royalist soldiers is destroyed, paving the way for the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.
    • – Force of 1200 armed Iroquois destroy Huron villages of St. Louis and St. Ignace near southern Georgian Bay, Canada, initiating Huron dispersal.
    • Battle of Focchies – Venetians defeat Ottomans.
  • 1650
    • Battle of Macroom 10 May
    • Battle of Carbisdale 27 April
    • Battle of Tecroghan 19 June
    • Battle of Scarrifholis 21 June
    • Battle of Dunbar 3 September
    • Battle of Meelick Island 25 October
    • Battle of Hieton 1 December

Late 17th century (1651–1700)[]

  • 1651 –
    • Battle of Krasne 20–23 February
    • Battle of Knocknaclashy June
    • Battle of Berestechko 28–30 June – Ukrainian rebels clash with the Polish army, in the largest battle of the 17th century.
    • Battle of Worcester 3 September – Cromwell defeats Royalists, Charles King of Scots escapes disguised as a servant.
    • Battle of Bila Tserkva 24–25 September
  • 1652 –
    • Dover 29 May – Clash between Blake's English and Tromp's Dutch fleets initiates First Anglo-Dutch War.
    • Battle of Plymouth First Anglo-Dutch War 26 August – De Ruyter's 36 men-of-war hold off Ayscue's 45 men-of-war, driving them away.
    • Battle of Elba – Dutch victory over the English fleet
    • Battle of the Kentish Knock (or Dover) 8 October – Blake beats back de With.
    • Battle of Dungeness 10 December – Tromp defeats Blake during the First Anglo-Dutch War.
    • Battle of Bléneau (La Fronde) 7 April – Condé commands Fronds against French under Marshall Turenne, but the outcome is inconclusive.
  • 1653 –
    • Battle of Portland 28 February – 2 March – Dutch admiral Tromp, outnumbered, loses a dozen men-of-war and 50 merchantmen to Blake.
    • Battle of Livorno 13 March – Johan van Galen's ships defeat Bodley.
    • Battle of Leghorn 14 March – Dutch naval victory over the English
    • Battle of the Gabbard (or North Foreland) 12–13 June – English victory during the First Anglo-Dutch War
    • Battle of Scheveningen (or Texel) 8–10 August – English victory during the First Anglo-Dutch War, Tromp killed
    • Battle of Arronches 8 November
  • 1654 –
  • 1655 –
  • 1656 –
    • Battle of Częstochowa Winter, continued from 1655 – Failed Swedish attack on Jasna Góra monastery
    • Battle of the Dardanelles Venice and Malta defeat Ottomans.
    • First Battle of Warsaw 30 June – Poland retakes capital from Sweden.
    • Second Battle of Warsaw 18–20 July – Charles X Gustavus of Sweden defeats Poland and is declared war upon by every country of significance in the Northern War.
    • Battle of Cádiz 9 September
    • Battle of Prostken 8 October – Prince Bogusław Radziwiłł defeated by loyal Polish.
  • 1657 –
  • 1658 –
    • Battle of the Dunes 14 June – English and French defeat Spanish at Dunkirk.
    • Battle of Rio Nuevo 25–27 June
    • Battle of Kolding 25 December – Poland and Denmark defeat Sweden.
  • 1659 –
    • Battle at Elvas 14 January – Portuguese defeat Spain
    • Battle of Pratapgarh 10 November – Marathas defeat Adilshahis and make major territorial gains.
    • Battle of Kohlapur 28 December – Maratha warriors defeat Adilshahi forces.
  • 1660 –
    • Battle of Polonka 29 June – Polish–Lithuanian army defeat Russians.
    • Battle of Chudnov 14 October – 2 November – Polish–Lithuanian and Crimean Khanate army defeat Russian and Cossacks army.
  • 1661 –
    • Siege of Fort Zeelandia – Ended the Dutch East India Company's rule over Taiwan
  • 1664 –
  • 1665 –
    • Battle of Lowestoft – Battle during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Biggest naval defeat in Dutch history.
    • Battle of Vågen – English fleet defeated by the Dutch without losing any ships.
    • Battle of Ambuila (or Mbwila) – Portuguese forces defeat and kill king António I of Kongo, ending native rule of that kingdom.
    • Battle of Montes Claros – Portuguese forces decisively defeat Spain in the last major battle of the Portuguese Restoration War
  • 1666 –
    • Four Days' Battle – One of the longest naval engagements in history ended up in a Dutch (led by Admiral Michiel de Ruyter) victory against the English.
    • St. James's Day Battle aka – Another huge naval clash between England and the Netherlands. Close victory for England.
  • 1667 –
    • Raid on the Medway aka Battle of Chatham – England's largest naval defeat in history. A successful Dutch attack on English ships, in their main naval base Chatham, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The Dutch under command of Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter.
  • 1671 –
    • Battle of Saraighat – Ahoms, led by Lachit Borphukan, defeat Mughals, led by rajput Raja Ramsingh I, successfully defending Guwahati in the last major Mughal invasion of Assam in its history.
  • 1672 –
    • Battle of Solebay 7 June – Naval battle between Dutch and English, England forced to abandon plans for a blockade.
    • Siege of Groningen (1672) 9 July – Dutch victory that ended all hope to push deeper into the Netherlands
    • Siege of Groenlo (1672) – 10-day siege of the Dutch town of Groenlo by forces of France during the Franco-Dutch War. It ended in the town's surrender.
  • 1673 –
    • Siege of Bonn (1673)
    • Battle of Khotyn – Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth forces defeat Ottoman Empire.
    • First Battle of Schooneveld 7 June – Dutch naval victory
    • Siege of Maastricht (1673) 11 June – Key element in King Louis XIV's plans to attack the Netherlands
    • Second Battle of Schooneveld 14–15 June – Dutch win naval battle, poor fighting on both sides.
    • Battle of Texel 21 August – Dutch defeat English and French attempt at naval invasion.
  • 1674 –
    • Battle of Ronas Voe 14 March – English defeat Dutch East India Company
    • Battle of Seneffe 11 August – French defeat the Dutch
  • 1675 –
    • Battle of Lwów – Jan Sobieski defeats Turkish and Crimean Tatar forces.
    • Battle of Fehrbellin 28 June – Swedes invade Brandenburg and lose.
    • Battle of Turckheim – France defeats Austrian-Prussian coalition and conquers Alsace.
    • Great Swamp Fight 16 December – English colonial forces in New England destroy the headquarters of the Narragansett during Metacom's or King Philip's War.
  • 1676 –
    • Battle of Agosta – Draw between the French and Dutch navy. Dutch genius Admiral and naval hero Michiel de Ruyter gets wounded and dies a week later. The French retreat out of respect for the wounded Admiral.
    • Battle of Bornholm – Naval battle between the fleet of Charles XI of Sweden, and a combined Danish and Dutch fleet. Allied victory.
    • Battle of Öland 1 June – Danish-Dutch fleet defeats Swedish fleet in the Baltic Sea during the Scanian War.
    • Battle of Gegodog 13 October – Trunajaya rebellion defeats forces loyal to the Mataram Sultanate
    • Battle of Lund 4 December – Swedish troops defeat the Danish ones in the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history with over 9,000 dead (about 50% losses on both sides).
  • 1677 –
  • 1678 –
    • Battle of Saint Denis 15 August – Last battle of the Franco-Dutch War
    • Capture of Kediri 25 November – After weeks of marching, an allied Mataram–Dutch force took Kediri, the stronghold of Trunajaya rebellion by assault
  • 1679 –
    • Battle of Drumclog 1 June – Part of the Scottish Covenanter Wars
    • Battle of Bothwell Bridge 22 June – Part of the Scottish Covenanter Wars
  • 1680
  • 1683
  • 1684
  • 1685
    • Battle of Sedgemoor – James II of England's forces defeat those of the Duke of Monmouth, ending the Monmouth Rebellion.
  • 1686
    • Battle of Buda – The forces of the Holy League of 1684 liberate Buda from Ottoman Turkish rule.
  • 1687
    • Second Battle of Mohács 12 August – Charles of Lorraine defeats Ottomans.
    • Siege of Athens – Venetians temporarily take city from Ottomans before being forced to retreat. Major damage to the Parthenon.
  • 1688 –
    • Battle of Reading – William III of England's forces defeat those of James II in the only battle of the Glorious Revolution.
    • Battle of Bhangani – Guru Gobind Singh defeats Hari Chand's forces.
    • Battle of Fort Albany – French forces engage and defeat British relief forces in Hudson Bay.
    • Siege of Negroponte (1688) -Venice fails to capture Negroponte from Ottomans.
  • 1689
    • Battle of Bantry Bay 11 May – France defeats the English fleet near the Irish southern coast.
    • Battle of Newtownbutler 31 July
    • Battle of Batočina 29–30 August
  • 1690 –
    • Battle of Cavan 11 February
    • Battle of Chedabucto 3 June
    • Battle of Fleurus 1 July – The French troops, under the command of Louis XIV's marshal Montmorency, defeat a coalition formed by England, Spain, the Dutch Republic and the Holy Roman Empire.
    • Battle of the Boyne 1 July – William of Orange defeats James II of England.
    • Battle of Beachy Head 10 July – French defeat the English fleet under command of Admiral Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington in the War of the League of Augsburg.
    • Battle of Quebec 16–24 October – British attack during King William's War.
  • 1691 –
    • Battle of Aughrim 22 July – The bloodiest battle in Irish history and a Jacobite defeat.
    • Battle of La Prairie 11 August – French repulse British and First Nations' attack on this settlement.
    • Battle of Slankamen 19 August – Louis of Baden defeats Ottoman Turks.
    • Battle of Leuze 18 September – Famous French cavalry victory in the Nine Years' War against a superior Anglo-Dutch force.
  • 1692 –
    • Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue 29 May – French lose 15 ships to England.
    • Siege of Namur 25 May – 1 July – Louis XIV takes Namur from a coalition of Spaniards, Dutch and Imperial troops.
    • Battle of Steenkerque 3 August – French victory against England, Scotland, Denmark and the United Provinces.
    • Battle of Placentia 16–21 September
  • 1693 –
    • Battle of Lagos 27 June – Near Portugal Comte de Tourville avenges La Hougue by defeating the Anglo-Dutch fleet.
    • Battle of Neerwinden 29 July – duc de Luxembourg defeats English.
    • Battle of Marsaglia 4 October
  • 1694 –
    • Battle of Torroella 27 May – The French Navy defeats Spain
    • Battle of Hodów 11 July
    • Battle of Camaret 18 July – Failed Anglo-Dutch attack to seize the French port of Brest and to destroy part of the French fleet stationed there
    • Battle of Slankamen 19 August
    • Battle of Ustechko 6 October
  • 1695
  • 1696
  • 1697
    • Battle of Zenta – Prince Eugene of Savoy defeats Ottoman Turkish forces
    • Siege of Nojpetén Spanish take Itza city.
  • 1698
  • 1700 –
    • Siege of Riga On 22 February and on 15 June
    • Battle of Valkininkai 18 November – Sapieha clan is defeated by the opposing noble coalition during the Lithuanian Civil War.
    • Battle of Narva 30 November – Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russians during the Great Northern War.

Early 18th century (1701–50)[]

  • 1701 Crossing of the Düna 19 July – Charles XII crosses the Düna during the Great Northern War.
  • 1702 –
    • Battle of Cremona 1 February – Indecisive action between Austria and France
    • Battle of Klissow 19 July – Sweden defeats a combined Saxon and Polish army during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Hummelshof 30 July – Russia defeats Sweden during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Friedlingen – France defeats Holy Roman Empire during War of the Spanish Succession.
    • Battle of Vigo Bay 23 October – English and Dutch forces capture a defended harbor and part of the silver from a treasure fleet.
  • 1704 –
    • Battle of Schellenberg 2 July – Duke of Marlborough defeats French and Bavarian forces during War of the Spanish Succession.
    • Battle of Blenheim 14 August – Duke of Marlborough defeats French and Bavarian forces during War of the Spanish Succession.
    • Battle of Lemberg – 6 September Swedish Empire defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • 1705 –
    • Battle of Gemauerthof 26 July – Sweden defeats Russia during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Warsaw (1705) 31 July – Sweden defeats Saxon and Polish troops near Warsaw during the Great Northern War.
  • 1706 –
    • Battle of Fraustadt 13 February – Sweden defeats Saxony during the Great Northern War.
    • Siege of Barcelona – Battle during the War of the Spanish Succession. Allied victory.
    • Battle of Ramilles or Battle of Ramillies 23 May – Duke of Marlborough defeats the French in the War of Spanish Succession.
    • Battle of Turin 7 September – French siege fails during War of the Spanish Succession.
    • Battle of El Albujón 21 September Spanish loyal to Philip V of Spain defeat forces loyal to Charles VI.
    • Battle of Kalisz 29 October Warsaw Confederation defeats Saxony and Russia.
    • Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife 6 November – Spain defeats small British fleet.
  • 1707 Battle of Almansa 25 April – French forces defeat Portuguese.
  • 1708 –
    • Battle of Holowczyn 4 July – Swedish defeat two Russian forces during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Oudenarde 11 July – Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat French and besiege Lille.
    • Battle of Malatitze – 10 September Russian Empire defeats Sweden.
    • Battle of Rajovka – 20 September
    • Battle of Lesnaya – 28 September – Swedish routed after snowstorm starts during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Wijnendale 28 September – General Webb defeats the French near Torhout who wanted to stop the siege of Rijsel.
  • 1709 –
    • Battle of Fort Albany 26 June
    • Battle of Poltava 28 June – Peter I of Russia of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Malplaquet 11 September – Prince of Savoy and Duke of Marlborough defeat the French in the largest battle of the 18th century, though at a terrible cost.
  • 1710 –
    • Battle of Helsingborg 10 March – Sweden defeats invading Danish force during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Almenar 27 July – Austrian-British-Dutch allies defeat the Spanish in the War of Spanish Succession.
    • Battle of Saragossa 20 August – Important allied victory in the War of Spanish Succession
    • Battle of Brihuega 9 December – The duke of Vendôme surprises and defeats a British force.
    • Battle of Villaviciosa 10 December – Indecisive battle between retreating Austrian-Dutch forces and a Franco-Spanish army
    • Battle of Prut – Ottoman Turks defeat Peter I of Russia.
  • 1711 –
    • Quebec Expedition – British failed attack during Queen Anne's War
    • First Battle of Bloody Creek – French-allied Indians successfully ambush British troops.
    • Second Battle of Bloody Creek – British soldiers defeated by Acadians and Mi'kmaq natives.
    • Battle of Ain Dara – battle between the Qaysi and Yamani tribes of Ottoman Druze.
  • 1712 –
    • Cassard expedition – French voyage to raid the Dutch South American colonial outposts, and British colonies
    • Battle of Denain 24 July – French defeat Austrians and Dutch.
    • Battle of Gadebusch 9 December – Sweden defeats Denmark and Saxony during the Great Northern War.
  • 1714 –
    • Battle of Storkyro 2 March – Swedish army defeated by Russia during the Great Northern War.
    • Battle of Gangut 7 August – Swedish fleet defeated by much larger Russian fleet during the Great Northern War.
  • 1715 –
    • Battle of Preston 9–14 November – Rebel victory during First Jacobite rising
    • Battle of Sheriffmuir 13 November – Duke of Argyll defeated, but manages to withdraw.
  • 1716 –
    • Battle of Dynekilen 8 July – Swedish fleet defeated by Dano-Norwegian naval forces.
    • Battle of Petrovaradin 5 August – Austria defeats the Ottomans.
  • 1717 –
    • Siege of Belgrade – Month long siege during the Austro-Venetian-Ottoman war. Austrian victory.
    • April – Montenegrin victory over much larger Ottoman forces commanded by Durmish Pasha attempting breakthrough to Montenegro.
  • 1718 –
    • Siege of Charlestown May – The pirate Blackbeard holds Charleston's harbor hostage until his ransoms are met.
    • Battle of Cape Passaro 11 August – The British fleet under Admiral George Byng defeat the Spanish near Cape Passero, Sicily.
    • Battle of the Salween River September – Zunghar forces defeat a Chinese expeditionary force sent to capture Lhasa.
    • Battle of Milazzo 15 October Spain defeats Holy Roman Empire.
    • Siege of Fredriksten 12 December – Swedish king is killed in Norway during the Great Northern War.
  • 1719
    • Battle of Glen Shiel – 10 June Great Britain defeats Jacobite rebellion aided by Spain.
    • Battle of Cape St. Vincent – 20 December Spain defeats Great Britain.
  • 1720 Battle of Nassau – Spanish forces assault the British settlement of Nassau during the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
  • 1721 Battle of Glen Affric – Government backed forces of the Clan Ross fight against rebel the forces of the Clan Mackenzie.
  • 1722 Battle of Gulnabad – The military forces from Hotaki dynasty fight the army of the Safavid Empire.
  • 1728 Battle of Palkhed 28 February – Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao I defeats Mughal Governor of Deccan, Nizam-ul-Mulk.
  • 1729 Battle of Damghan – Nader Shah defeats the Afghans.
  • 1733 Battle of Kirkuk – Persian ruler Nader Shah's defeats the Ottoman army, killing general Topal Osman Pasha.
  • 1734
    • Battle of Bitonto 25 May Spain defeats Austria.
    • Battle of Guastalla 19 September – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia defeats the Spanish.
  • 1737 Battle of Delhi 28 March – Between Maratha Empire and the Mughals.
  • 1739 –
    • Battle of Grocka 22–23 July – Ottoman Empire defeats Austria.
    • Battle of Stavuchany – Russians defeat Ottoman Empire.
    • Battle of Karnal – Nader Shah decisively defeats the Mughal empire, capturing and sacking Delhi.
  • 1741 –
    • Battle of Cartagena de Indias March–May – Spanish decisive victory. One of the biggest British naval defeats.
    • Battle of Mollwitz 10 April – Prussia under Frederick the Great fights and beats the Austrians under FM Neipperg in Silesian War.
    • Battle of Colachel 10 August – Hindu ruler of Travancore, Marathanda Raja defeats Dutch East India Company at Colachel, off the southern coast of India.
  • 1742 Battle of Chotusitz 17 May – Frederick the Great of Prussia beats the Austrians for a second time under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
  • 1743
    • Battle of Puerto Cabello 16 April
    • Battle of Dettingen 27 June – French defeat during War of the Austrian Succession.
  • 1744 –
    • Battle of Toulon (1744) 22 February – Draw between British and Franco-Spanish fleets
    • Battle of Villafranca 20 April – France and Spain defeat Britain and Sardinia.
    • Battle of Casteldelfino 18 July – French troops victorious against Sardinians at bayonet-point despite several orders to retreat.
    • Battle of Nuwakot 26 September – Gorkhali forces defeat Nuwakot.
    • Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo 30 September – Franco-Spanish victory over Sardinian forces, Prince of Conti wounded twice.
  • 1745 –
    • Battle of Fontenoy 11 May – French victory, during the War of the Austrian Succession, against a coalition made of Great Britain, Hanover, the Dutch Republic and Austria
    • Battle of Hohenfriedberg 4 June – Frederick the Great of Prussia beats an Austro-Saxon army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
    • Battle of Kars (1745) 19 August – Last major engagement of the Ottoman–Persian War
    • Battle of Prestonpans 21 September – Jacobite Stuarts under Charles Edward Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) defeat English.
    • Battle of Soor 30 September – Frederick the Great of Prussia defeats a superior Austro-Saxon force under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
    • Battle of Kesselsdorf 14 December – Prussians defeat Austro-Saxon force.
  • 1746 –
    • Battle of Falkirk (1746) 17 January – Jacobites defeat English dragoons.
    • Battle of Culloden Moor (or Battle of Culloden) 16 April – Jacobites lose to government forces.
    • Battle of Piacenza 16 June – Austrian victory during War of the Austrian Succession, Montcalm present on French side.
    • Battle of Rottofreddo 12 August – French army defeats small Austrian force during French retreat to Genoa.
    • Battle of Rocoux – French victory over an allied Austrian, British, Hanoverian and Dutch army outside Liège
  • 1747
    • Battle of Lauffeld 2 July – French victory over British, Austrian, Dutch and Hanoverian armies
    • Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1747) July – French defeat the United Provinces supported by Great Britain.
    • Battle of Assietta – Savoy defeats a French army.
  • 1748 –
    • Battle of Havana – British minor naval victory during War of the Austrian Succession
    • Siege of Maastricht (1748) – Final few months of the campaign in the Low Countries
  • 1750 Battle of Kathio – Chippewas defeat Sioux and gain control of Minnesota.

Late 18th century (1751–1800)[]

  • 1754 –
    • Battle of Jumonville Glen 28 May – British victory
    • Battle of Fort Necessity 3 July – French take the fort
  • 1755 –
    • Battle of Fort Beauséjour – British capture fort
    • Battle of the Monongahela Valley – also called the Braddock Expedition, British expedition to capture Fort Duquesne is slaughtered by French and Indian allies.
    • November – 3 December – Ahmad Pasha with 20 000 Ottoman soldiers has been repulsed from Montenegro by 5000 Montenegrin fighters after initial success and conquering Čevo.
  • 1756 –
    • Battle of Minorca (1756) – The French fleet gains a strategic victory
    • Battle of Fort Bull – French capture British fort
    • Battle of Fort Oswego (1756) – French and Indian allies take and raze the only British trading post on Lake Ontario, thus re-establishing French sovereignty.
    • Battle of Lobositz 1 October – Opening battle of the Seven Years' War
  • 1757 –
    • Battle of Reichenberg 21 April – Prussian victory over Austria in the Seven Years' War
    • Siege of Fort William Henry 4–9 August – British defeated by French then Indians slaughter prisoners.
    • Battle of Prague 6 May – Prussians beat the Austrians, though at a terrible cost during the Seven Years' War.
    • Battle of Kolín 18 June – Frederick the Great of Prussia loses, for the first time, to Austria in Seven Years' War.
    • Battle of Plassey 23 June – Robert Clive consolidates English rule over India.
    • Battle of Hastenbeck 26 July – French army defeats Hanover, Great Britain, Hesse-Kassel and Brunswick.
    • Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf 30 August – Russians under Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin defeat the Prussians.
    • Battle of Moys 7 September – Prussian-Austrian battle during the Seven Years' War
    • Battle of Rossbach 5 November – Frederick crushes French, Louis XV says "After me, the Deluge".
    • Battle of Breslau 22 November – Battle fought during the Seven Years' War, Austrians briefly re-conquer Silesia.
    • Battle of Leuthen 5 December – Frederick the Great crushes Austrians under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine; considered Frederick's greatest victory.
  • 1758 –
    • Battle of Cartagena 28 February
    • Battle of Cuddalore 29 April – Indecisive naval battle of Seven Years' War
    • Battle of Luisbourg 8 June – 26 July – also Louisburg, British capture fort controlling entrance to St. Lawrence River.
    • Battle of Krefeld 23 June – Ferdinand son of duke of Brunswick drives French across the Rhine.
    • Battle of Domstadtl 30 June – Seven Years' War: Ernst Gideon von Laudon and Joseph von Siskovits routed a convoy with supplies for the Prussians besieging Olomouc, protected by forces of Hans Joachim von Zieten.
    • Battle of Bernetz Brook 6 July – A sharp engagement in the Carillon campaign between the British and an isolated party of Frenchmen
    • Battle of Carillon 8 July – Also called Battle of Ticonderoga. A far superior British force badly mauled after foolishly attacking entrenched French head on.
    • Battle of Negapatam 3 August – Britain and France fight indecisive naval battle off the coast of India.
    • Battle of Zorndorf 25 August – Frederick battles Russians under Fermor in Prussia to a bloody draw.
    • Battle of Fort Duquesne 14 September – French repel British attack, but realize they can't hold fort. Fort abandoned by French in November.
    • Battle of Fort Ligonier 12 October – French attack on fort fails
    • Battle of Hochkirch 14 October – Austrians mildly defeat Prussians
  • 1759 –
    • Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) – British capture French fort
    • Battle of Bergen (1759) 13 April – French repulse Ferdinand's drive on Frankfurt-am-Main
    • Battle of Kay 23 July – Battle fought during the Seven Years' War
    • Battle of Fort Niagara 6–26 July – British take fort, but Brigadier General John Prideaux is killed.
    • Battle of Beauport 31 July – French stop British attempt to land near Quebec city; notable naval bombardment with British ships and batteries firing 4000 rounds in 8 hours on French shoreline entrenchments.
    • Battle of Minden 1 August – Ferdinand defeats French.
    • Battle of Lagos 18–19 August – British naval victory near Portugal
    • Battle of Kunersdorf August – Russia and Austria smash Frederick's Prussian army.
    • Battle of Pondicherry 10 September – Indecisive naval battle near India
    • Battle of the Plains of Abraham 13 September – English defeat French outside Quebec City.
    • Battle of Quiberon Bay 20 November
    • Battle of Maxen 21 November – Battle during the Seven Years' War
    • Battle of Meissen 4 December – Battle during the Seven Years' War
  • 1760 –
    • Battle of Sainte-Foy 28 April – French defeat British but fail to re-take Quebec city; entrenched French forced to retreat when British naval re-enforcements arrive in May.
    • Battle of Landeshut 23 June – In Bavaria, Austria captures a Prussian army
    • Battle of Warburg 1 August – Battle during the Seven Years' War
    • Battle of Liegnitz 15 August – Frederick defeats Austrians
    • Battle of the Thousand Islands 16–24 August
    • Battle of Torgau 3 November – Prussian pyrrhic victory over Austria during the Seven Years' War
    • Battle of Montreal – Three British armies converge on Montreal forcing general capitulation of Canada, New France.
    • Battle of Wandiwash
  • 1761 –
    • Third Battle of Panipat 14 January – Afghans defeat The Marathas.
    • Battle of Villinghausen – Large French force defeated during Seven Years' War
  • 1762 –
  • 1763
    • Battle of Point Pelee 28 May
    • Battle of Bloody Run 31 July
    • Battle of Bushy Run 4–5 August – British defeat Indians in Pennsylvania backcountry.
  • 1764 Battle of Buxar – Mughal emperor with his combined forces attacks British to drive British out of Bengal, British successful.
  • 1767 Battle of Bang Rajan
  • 1768 –
  • 1769 Battle of Faggeta 9 December – Ras Mikael Sehul and Emperor Tekle Haymanot, with the help of and Wand Bewossen, defeat .
    • Battle of Ponte Novu
  • 1770 –
    • Battle of Golden Hill 19 January – In New York, the first bloodshed between the rebels and their colonial masters
    • Battle of Chesme 6 July – Russian fleet defeats Ottoman fleet.
    • Battle of Larga 7 July – Russian army defeats Crimean Tatars and Ottoman janissaries.
    • Battle of Kagul 21 July – Russian army under Rumyantsev attacks and puts to flight 150,000 Turks.
  • 1771 –
  • 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant 10 October – Frontiersmen defeat Shawnees.
  • 1775 –
    • Battle of Lexington and Concord 19 April – Patriot militia repel British in confrontation at Concord, drive them back to Boston.
    • Capture of Fort Ticonderoga – Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold capture fort.
    • Battle of Machias – First naval engagement of American Revolution; British sloop captured.
    • Battle of Bunker Hill 17 June – British win, Patriot morale boost
    • Battle of Longue Pointe 25 September – American attack on Montreal led by Ethan Allen fails; Allen is captured.
    • Siege of Fort St. Jean 21 August – 3 November – Americans under Richard Montgomery capture fort near Montreal.
    • Battle of Great Bridge 9 December – American victory seals the fate of the British colonial government in Virginia.
    • Battle of Great Cane Break 22 December
    • Battle of Quebec 31 December – Arnold and Richard Montgomery defeated before Quebec City; Montgomery killed.
  • 1776 –
    • Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge 27 February – NC patriots defeat Scottish Loyalists.
    • Battle of the Rice Boats 2–3 March – British ships set on fire.
    • Battle of The Cedars 15–16 May – British capture American forces near Montreal during American Revolutionary War.
    • Battle of Trois-Rivières 8 June – American counterattack during retreat from Quebec fails.
    • Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet 29 June – American naval battle with British.
    • Battle of Long Island 27 August – William Howe crushes George Washington.
    • Battle of Harlem Heights 16 September – Washington repels Howe.
    • Battle of Valcour Island 11 October – Benedict Arnold escapes the British fleet under Guy Carleton.
    • Battle of Pell's Point 18 October – British forces defeat Colonel John Glover's forces.
    • Battle of Mamaroneck 22 October
    • Battle of White Plains 28 October – Howe inflicts casualties on George Washington's army.
    • Battle of Trenton 26 December – Washington surprises Hessian force.
    • Battle of Fort Cumberland 22 November – 28 December – American attack on fort in Nova Scotia fails.
  • 1777 –
    • Battle of the Assunpink Creek 2 January – Also known as the Second Battle of Trenton. After repulsing the British during the day, Washington marches by night to Princeton.
    • Battle of Princeton 3 January – Washington defeats the British force.
    • Battle of Bound Brook 13 April – Successful British attack during American Revolution.
    • Battle of Ridgefield 27 April
    • Battle of Thomas Creek 17 May
    • Battle of Short Hills 26 June
    • Siege of Fort Ticonderoga 2–6 July – Americans abandon fort to avoid British artillery.
    • Battle of Oriskany 6 August – General Herkimer killed in British ambush.
    • Battle of Bennington 16 August – John Stark eradicates detachment sent by Burgoyne.
    • Battle of Brandywine 11 September – Howe drives George Washington's troops to Philadelphia.
    • Battle of 1st Saratoga 19 September – Freeman's Farm, Morgan defeats Burgoyne.
    • Battle of Germantown 4 October – Howe kills 700 patriots while losing 534.
    • Battle of 2nd Saratoga 7 October – Gates (Benedict Arnold) defeats Burgoyne.
    • Battle of Stillwater
  • 1778 –
    • Battle of Quinton's Bridge 18 March
    • Battle of Crooked Billet 1 May – American contingent forced to abandon their supplies.
    • Battle of Barren Hill 20 May
    • Battle of Monmouth 28 June – George Washington stands off Clinton, Clinton continues retreat to NY, Charles Lee order of retreat leads to court-martial.
    • Battle of Alligator Bridge 30 June – American attack thwarted because of terrain, including ditch dug by British.
    • First Battle of Ushant 27 July – Indecisive naval battle
    • Battle of Chestnut Neck 6 October
    • Battle of St. Lucia 15 December – British naval victory
  • 1779 –
    • Battle of Beaufort 3 February
    • Battle of Van Creek 11 February
    • Battle of Kettle Creek 14 February – Pickens defeats loyalist brigade.
    • Battle of Vincennes 23–25 February – Americans capture fort.
    • Battle of Brier Creek 3 March – Ashe loses 350 men near Augusta to British.
    • Battle of Stono Ferry 20 June
    • Battle of Grenada 6 July – French naval victory
    • Battle of Stony Point 16 July – Wayne takes 700 prisoners in bayonet attack with only 15 patriot casualties.
    • Battle of Paulus Hook 19 August – Henry Lee drives British from New Jersey.
    • Battle of Newtown 29 August – Americans defeat Iroquois.
    • Battle of Fort Bute 7 September – Spanish victory over British forces
    • Battle of Lake Pontchartrain 10 September – Americans led by William Pickles capture West Florida.
    • Battle of Baton Rouge (1779) 20–21 September – Spanish capture city.
    • Siege of Savannah 16 September 18 October – American siege fails.
    • First Battle of Tucson 9 December – Spanish victory over Apache warriors
  • 1780 –
    • Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780) 16 January – British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney destroys a smaller Spanish fleet under Don Juan de Lángara.
    • Battle of Fort Charlotte 2–14 March – Spanish victory near Mobile, Alabama
    • Battle of Martinique 17 April – Indecisive naval battle between British and French
    • Battle of Pollilur – Tipu Sultan routs British.
    • Siege of Charleston 12 May – British take South Carolina city.
    • Battle of Saint Louis 26 May – British unable to take town from Spanish.
    • Battle of Springfield 23 June – Greene defeats British.
    • Battle of Hanging Rock 6 August
    • Battle of Camden 16 August – Cornwallis crushes Gates, 900 patriots killed.
    • Battle of Fishing Creek 18 August – Tarleton defeats Sumter.
    • Battle of King's Mountain 7 October – Patriots capture loyalists.
    • Battle of Fishdam Ford 9 November
    • Battle of Fort St. George 23 November
  • 1781 –
    • Battle of Mobile – British unable to retake city.
    • Battle of Cowpens 17 January – Morgan defeats Tarleton.
    • Battle of Guilford Court House 15 March – Cornwallis achieves a Pyrrhic victory over Greene and Morgan.
    • Battle of Porto Praya 16 April – French admiral Suffren damages English naval squadron.
    • Battle of Hobkirk's Hill 25 April – Greene defeats Lord Rawdon.
    • Battle of Fort Royal 29–30 April – Indecisive naval battle
    • Battle of Pensacola 9 March – 8 May – Spanish victory in Florida
    • Shirley's Gold Coast expedition – Start of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
    • Battle of Dogger Bank – Indecisive naval battle between Britain and the Netherlands
    • Battle of the Chesapeake 5 September – French fleet, under Admiral Comte de Grasse, defeat British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves, seals Cornwallis' fate. This French victory is a strategic victory that leads Cornwallis to surrender in Yorktown.
    • Battle of Groton Heights 6 September – British seize fort, Benedict Arnold triggers a gunpowder explosion.
    • Battle of Eutaw Springs 8 September – Greene is defeated.
    • Battle of Sholinghur 27 September
    • Battle of Yorktown 28 September – 19 October – French and Americans begin siege of Cornwallis.
    • Battle of Fort Slongo 3 October
    • Siege of Negapatam 21 October – First British major offensive military action on the Indian subcontinent
    • Second Battle of Ushant 12 December – French convoy destroyed by British before escort ships can react.
  • 1782 –
    • Battle of Videau's Bridge 3 January – British victory.
    • Battle of Fort Elmina (1782) 18 February – British expedition against Dutch colonial outposts on the Gold Coast of Africa
    • Battle of Roatán 16 March
    • Second Battle of Tucson 1 May – Spanish victory over Apache warriors
    • Battle of St. Kitts 25–26 January – British outmaneuver French but unable to save island.
    • Battle of Sadras 17 February – French admiral Suffren (12 ships) meets a British squadron of 9 ships under Admiral Sir Edward Hughes.
    • Battle of Wuchale 14 March – Emperor Tekle Giyorgis pacifies a group of Oromo near Wuchale.
    • Battle of the Saintes 12 April – Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats the Comte de Grasse by breaking through the French line.
    • Battle of Providien 12 April – French and English squadrons clash in an indecisive engagement.
    • Battle of Negapatam 6 July – Indecisive engagement between British and French fleets
    • Battle of Blue Licks 19 August – British victory
    • Battle of the Combahee River 27 August
    • Battle of Trincomalee 3 September – British fleet under Hughes damages French fleet under Suffren but withdraws.
    • Battle of Chillicothe 10 November – George Rogers Clark defeats Shawnees in last battle of war.
    • Muharram Rebellion 16 December – First anti-British rebellion to take place in the British Raj, failed independence attempt
  • 1783
    • Battle of Grand Turk 9 March
    • Battle of Arkansas Post 17 April
    • Battle of Cuddalore 20 June – French fleet drives British fleet off shore of Cuddalore. Last of the five battles between Suffren and Hughes
  • 1784 Fourth Battle of Tucson 21 March – Apache/Navaho victory over Spanish forces
  • 1785
  • 1786
  • 1788 Battle of Madab – Ras Ali, Dejazmach , and the Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I defeat the allied forces of Ras , Dejazmach Gebre, and ; Dejazmach Wolde Gabriel is killed in battle and the pretender Baeda Maryam was captured.
  • 1789
  • 1790 –
    • Battle of Kepaniwai – King Kamehameha I unites Hawaii.
    • Battle of Reval 13 May
    • Battle of Fredrikshamn 15 May
    • Battle of Andros 17–18 May – Lambros Katsonis defeated by Ottomans.
    • Battle of Savitaipal 3 June
    • Battle of Björkösund 2–3 July
    • Battle of Sittimungulum 13–15 September
    • Battle of Falmagne 22 September
    • Battle of Fort Wayne 18 October – Little Turtle and Miamis defeat federal generals Joseph Harmar and Saint-Clair.
    • Battle of Calicut 7–12 December
  • 1791
  • 1792 –
    • Battle of Croix-des-Bouquets 22 March
    • Battle of Opsa 25–26 May
    • Battle of Boruszkowce 14 June
    • Battle of Zieleńce 18 June – Josef Poniatowski wins a battle against a Russian army group under command of General .
    • Battle of Cap-Français 20–22 June
    • Battle of Dubienka 18 July
    • Battle of Verdun (1792) 20 August – Prussians defeat French Revolutionaries.
    • Battle of Valmy 20 September – French win and proceed to declare war on Europe.
    • Battle of Jemappes 6 November – French army, under General Dumouriez, defeats Austrians under General Saxe-Tenchen.
  • 1793 –
    • Battle of Neerwinden 18 March – Austrians defeat French army.
    • Battle of Nantes 29 June
    • Battle of Vihiers 18 July
    • Siege of Toulon 29 August – 19 December – Napoleon's first battle – the French Republicans defeat a combined Allied force in a crucial siege.
    • Battle of Hondschoote (1793) 6–8 September – French army, under General Houchard, defeats British, Hanoverians and Hessians under General Walmoden.
    • Battle of Avesnes-le-Sec 12 September
    • Battle of Méribel 13 September – Combined Savoy, Piedmont and forces fought the French occupying Savoy.
    • Battle of Epierre 15 September
    • Battle of Wattignies 15–16 October – French army, under Generals Jourdan and Carnot, defeats Austrians under General Saxe-Coburg.
    • Battle of Laval 22 October
    • Battle of Entrames 27 October
    • Battle of Fougères 3 November
    • Battle of Granville 14 November
    • Battle of Biesingen 17 November
    • Battle of Kaiserslautern 28–30 November – Prussian army under Brunswick defeats French Army under Hoche.
    • – French army, under General Dugommier, defeats Austrians, Piedmontese and Sardinian army.
    • 22 December – French army, under General Hoche, defeats Austrians under General Hotze.
    • Battle of Savenay 23 December
    • 26 December – French army, under General Hoche, defeats Austrians under Wumrser and Prussians under Brunswick.
  • 1794 –
    • Battle of the Acul 19 February
    • Battle of Saint-Raphaël 20–21 March
    • Battle of La Cateau (1794) 29 March
    • Battle of Racławice 4 April – Polish forces under Tadeusz Kościuszko defeat larger Russian force but are unable to give chase.
    • Warsaw Uprising of 1794 17–19 April – Polish drive Russians out of city.
    • Wilno Uprising of 1794 22 April – Russians expelled from city.
    • Battle of Villers-en-Cauchies 24 April
    • Battle of Mouscron 26–30 April – French army, under General Moreau and General Souham, defeats Austrians and Hanoverians under General Saxe-Coburg.
    • Battle of Boulou 30 April – French army, under General Dugommier, defeats Spanish army.
    • Battle of Tourcoing 18 May – French army, under General Souham, defeats Austrians, British and Hanoverians under General Saxe-Coburg.
    • Glorious First of June 28 May – 1 June – British Admiral Lord Howe defeats a French squadron under Villaret.
    • Battle of Port-Républicain 30 May – 5 June
    • Battle of Szczekociny 6 June – Tadeusz Kościuszko defeated by Russo-Prussian army.
    • Battle of Fleurus (1794) 26 June – French army, under General Jourdan, defeats Austrian army under General Saxe-Coburg.
    • Battle of Sprimont September – French army, under General Jourdan, defeats Austrians under General Clairfayt.
    • Battle of Aldenhoven 2 October – French army, under General Jourdan, defeats Austrians under General Clairfayt.
    • Battle of Fallen Timbers 20 August – Wayne defeats Indians, ends menace.
    • Battle of Maciejowice 10 October – Koscuiszko defeated by two Russian forces, wounded, and captured.
    • Battle of Praga 4 November – Russian forces retake Warsaw, massacring civilians and devastating the city.
    • Battle of San Lorenzo de la Muga 20 November – French army, under General Perignon, defeats Spanish army.
  • 1795 –
    • Battle of Richmond Hill – Major battle of the Hawkesbury and Nepean Wars
    • Capture of Trincomalee – The taking by force of the port of Trincomalee in the island of Ceylon
    • Battle of Muizenberg 7 August – British gain control of Cape Colony over the Dutch.
    • Battle of Krtsanisi – Persians annihilate the Georgian army and proceed to massacre Tbilisi.
    • Battle of Loano November – French army, under General Andre Massena, defeats Austrians, Piedmontese and Sardinian army.
  • 1796 –
    • Battle of Montenotte 12 April – Napoleon's first victory in the Italian Campaign, French army defeat Austrians.
    • Battle of Dego April – French army, under General Napoleon Bonaparte, defeats Austrians under General Beaulieu.
    • Battle of Voltri 10 April
    • Battle of Montenotte 11–12 April
    • Battle of Ceva 16 April
    • Battle of Lodi 10 May – French army, under Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte, defeats Austrians under General Beaulieu.
    • Battle of Derbent 10 May – Russians storm the Persian citadel of Derbent.
    • Battle of Altenkirchen 4 June
    • Battle of Wetzlar (1796) 15 June
    • Battle of Martinići (1796) 2–11 July – Convincing Montenegrin victory against much larger Turkish Army of Kara Mahmud Pasha
    • Battle of Rastatt (1796) 5 July
    • Battle of Castiglione 5 August – French army, under Napoleon Bonaparte, defeats Austrians under General Wurmser.
    • Battle of Neresheim 11 August
    • Battle of Amberg 24 August
    • Battle of Würzburg 3 September – Karl Habsburg defeats French under Gen. Jourdan.
    • Battle of Bassano 8 September – French army, under Bonaparte, defeats Austrian army.
    • Battle of Biberach (1796) 2 October
    • Battle of Krusi 3 October – Montenegrins defeated much larger Turkish Army of Kara Mahmud Pasha who was killed in the battle.
    • Battle of the Bridge of Arcole 17 November – French army, under Bonaparte, defeats Austrian army.
    • Battle of Millesimo – French army, under Bonaparte, wins a victory in Italy against Austrians and Piedmontese.
    • Battle of Mondovì – French army, under Bonaparte, wins a victory in Italy against Austrians and Piedmontese.
  • 1797 –
    • Battle of Rivoli 14 January – Napoleon's first decisive victory, French army wins a great victory against Austrians under General Alvinzy.
    • Battle of Fishguard 22–24 February
    • Battle of Tagliamento 16 March – French army, under General Napoleon Bonaparte, defeats Austrians under Archduke Charles.
    • Battle of Tarvis (1797) 21–23 March
    • Battle of Jean-Rabel 15–21 April
    • Battle of Neuwied (1797) 18 April – French army, under General Hoche, defeats Austrians under General Wenecek.
    • Battle of Diersheim (1797) 20 April – French army, under General Moreau, Desaix and Davout, defeats Austrians under Kray.
    • Battle of Cape St Vincent 14 February – British admiral Jervis defeats Spanish fleet.
    • Battle of Camperdown – British fleet under Admiral Duncan defeats a Dutch fleet.
  • 1798 –
    • Battle of Grauholz 5 March
    • Battle of Ballymore-Eustace 24 May – Rebels unable to take stronghold during Irish Rebellion of 1798.
    • Battle of Naas 24 May – Rebel attack barely thwarted during Irish Rebellion of 1798.
    • Battle of Kilcullen 24 May – Government cavalry charge defeats rebels.
    • Battle of Carlow 25 May – Rebels defeated by two ambushes after believing they had won.
    • Battle of Tara Hill 26 May – British victory, spread of rebellion halted.
    • Battle of Oulart Hill 27 May – Wexford militia annihilated by Rebels.
    • Battle of Enniscorthy 28 May
    • Gibbet Rath massacre 29 May – Unprovoked British attack
    • Battle of Three Rocks 30 May – Rebel victory during Irish Rebellion of 1798
    • Battle of Bunclody 1 June – British surprise counterattack after apparent Irish victory routs rebels.
    • Battle of Tuberneering 4 June – Rebel victory in Ireland
    • Battle of New Ross 5 June – British victory, spread of rebellion into two counties halted.
    • Battle of Antrim 7 June – British victory, Lord O'Neill mortally wounded.
    • Battle of Arklow 9 June – British victory, Wexford rebels forced onto the defensive.
    • Battle of Prosperous 23 May – 19 June – Settlement changes hands twice, ultimately controlled by Government forces.
    • Battle of Foulksmills 20 June – British victory during Irish Rebellion of 1798
    • Battle of Vinegar Hill 21 June – British retake Wexford.
    • Battle of Ballyellis 30 June – British charge into a disaster, thinking they were attacking the rearguard of fleeing forces.
    • Battle of the Pyramids 21 July – Napoleon defeats Mameluks in Egypt.
    • Battle of the Nile 1 August – French fleet in Abukir Bay destroyed by Horatio Nelson.
    • Battle of Castlebar 27 August – Franco-Irish army defeats British forces.
    • Battle of Ballinamuck 8 September – British forces defeat Ireland and France.
    • Battle of Killala 23 September – British defeat Irish rebels helped by Franks
    • Battle of Tory Island 12 October – British defeat Franks
    • Battle of Nicopolis (1798) 12 October – Turks defeat Franks
    • 4 December – French and Poles under Gen. Macdonald defeat Neapolitans under Gen. Mack.
  • 1799 –
    • Siege of El Arish 19 February – French capture Ottoman fort.
    • Siege of Jaffa 7 March – Napoleon captures city.
    • Siege of Acre 20 March – 21 May – Unsuccessful attempt by Napoleon to capture city
    • Battle of Feldkirch 24 March
    • Battle of Verona (1799) 26 March
    • Battle of Mallavelly 27 March
    • Battle of Magnano 5 April
    • Battle of Sultanpet Tope 5–6 April
    • Battle of Bassignana (1799) 12 May
    • Battle of Frauenfeld 25 May
    • Battle of Winterthur 27 May
    • First Battle of Zürich 4–7 June – Austrians defeat French, later driven out.
    • Battle of Modena (1799) 12 June
    • Battle of Trebia 17–19 June – Russians and Austrians defeat French during War of the Second Coalition.
    • Battle of Abukir (1799) 25 July – Napoleon and Joachim Murat defeat Turks.
    • Battle of Oberwald 13–14 August
    • Battle of Schwyz 14–15 August
    • Battle of Novi (1799) 15 August – Austrian and Russians beat French, Joubert is defeated and killed.
    • Battle of Callantsoog 27 August – Amphibious landing by a British invasion force, Dutch were forced to retreat.
    • Battle of Krabbendam 10 September – British division had established a bridgehead in the extreme north of Holland.
    • Battle of Mannheim (1799) 18 September
    • Battle of Bergen 19 September – French beat English and Russians.
    • 25 September – French army, under General Soult, defeats Austrians under General Hotze.
    • Second Battle of Zurich 25 September – French under General Massena defeat Russians under Alexander Korsakov.
    • Battle of Alkmaar 2 October – Dutch-French coalition prevents a Russian-English invasion in Holland.
    • Battle of Castricum 6 October – Franco-Dutch force defeats an Anglo-Russian force.
    • Battle of Genola 4 November
  • 1800 –
    • Battle of Heliopolis (1800) 20 March
    • Battle of Engen 3 May – French army, under General Moreau, defeats Austrians under General Kray.
    • Battle of Stokach 3 May – French army, under General Lecourbe, defeats Austrians.
    • Battle of Möerskirch 15 May – French army, under General Moreau, defeats Austrians under General Kray.
    • Battle of Montebello 9 June – French army, under General Lannes, defeats Austrians under General Ott.
    • Battle of Marengo 14 June – French army, under Bonaparte, defeats Austrians under .
    • Battle of Höchstädt (1800) 19 June – French army, under General Moreau, defeats Austrians under General Kray.
    • Battle of Neuburg (1800) 27 June
    • Battle of Ampfing (1800) 1 December
    • Battle of Hohenlinden 3 December – French army, under General Moreau, defeats Austrians and Bavarians under Archduke John.
    • Battle of Pozzolo 25 December – French army, under General Brune, defeats Austrians under General Bellegarde.

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