List of battles 1401-1800

Table of contents

1 Fifteenth Century 2 Sixteenth Century 3 Seventeenth Century 4 Eighteenth Century

Fifteenth Century

• 1402 July 28 Battle of Angora or Battle of Ankara Timur Lenk defeats and captures Ottoman sultan Bayezid I in Anatolia
• 1403 Battle of Shrewsbury
• 1410 Battle of Tannenberg (1410) or (a.k.a. Battle of Grunwald or Battle of Zalgiris) July 15 Poles and Lithuanians defeat Teutonic Knights
• 1415 Battle of Agincourt October 25 English longbowmen under Henry V defeat French under Charles d'Albert
• 1415 Battle of Ceuta captured by the Portuguese on August 14
• 1418 Siege of Rouen July 31 ? January 19 1419 Henry V of England gains a foothold in Normandy.
• 1420 Battle of Vitkov Hill
• 1420 Battle of Vysehrad
• 1421 Battle of Bauge. The French and Scottish forces of Charles VII commanded by the Earl of Buchan defeat the forces of Henry V commanded by the Duke of Clarence.
• 1421 Battle of Kutna Hora
• 1422 Battle of Nebovidy
• 1423 Siege of Salonika (Thessaloniki) Venice vs. the Ottoman Empire
• 1426 Battle of Usti nad Labem
• 1428 Battle of Orleans English forces commanded by the Earl of Salisbury with duke of Bedford besiege French city and are driven off with the loss of their siege engines by Joan.
• 1428 Battle of Patay The English flush a stag and Joan runs down all the English archers capturing the leaders; Earl of Shrewsbury (Talbot) and Fastolff
• 1431 Battle of Domazlice
• 1434 Battle of Lipany May 30
• 1439 Battle of Grotniki, Poland
• 1440 Battle of Anghiari Niccolo Piccinino overlord of Bologna defeats Milans Filipo Maria Visconti and is then opposed by Cosimo de Medici
• 1444 Battle of Varna November 10 Ottoman Murad II defeats Hungarians and Wallachians
• 1449 Battle of Alfarrobeira May 20, Afonso V of Portugal defeats rebels of Pedro, Duke of Coimbra
• 1449 Battle of Tumu Fortress
• 1450 Battle of Formigny The Count of Clermont and the Earl of Richmond use cannon to break up archers and defeat the English under Kyriell
• 1453 Battle of Castillone The Valois use cannon to defeat the Lancastrians to end the Hundred Years War
• 1453 May 29 Battle of Constantinople Ottomans destroy Byzantine Empire
• 1454 Battle of Chojnice
• 1455 Battle of St Albans May 22 first battle of the Wars of the Roses
• 1461 Battle of Towton March 29 Edward IV of England defeats Lancastrian forces
• 1462 Battle of Swiecin a.k.a. Battle of Zarnowiec or Battle of Schwetz. September 7 during the Thirteen Years' War between the Poles and the Teutons (Poles won battle)
• 1470 Battle of Negropont Venetian fleet fails to relieve colony of Negropont under Turkish attack
• 1471 Battle of Brunkeberg
• 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury May 4 Edward IV of England final victory over Lancastrians
• 1476 Battle of Grandson March 2 A Swiss army defeats the Burgundians under Charles the Bold
• 1476 Battle of Morat June 2 The Swiss defeat Charles the Bold again.
• 1477 Battle of Nancy January 5 Swiss pikemen defeat cavalry of Burgundy's Charles the Bold, who was killed
• 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field Ends Wars of Roses fought since 1460, Henry VII becomes King.
• 1487 Battle of Stoke -- Henry VII of England finally defeats internal opposition
• 1499 Battle of Sapienza
• 1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt February 17

• 1507 Battle of Vouilile
• 1509 Battle of Dui February 2 Portugal's India viceroy destroys Moslem fleet, controls spice trade
• 1509 Battle of Agnadello (a.k.a. Battle of Vaila) - [French Wars in Italy]
• 1513 Battle of Flodden Field September 9 Henry VIII's army under Earl of Surrey killed James IV of Scotland
• 1513 Battle of Guingate (of the Spurs) Henry VIII and HRE Maximillian crush French
• 1513 Battle of Novara June 6 Holy League defeats France
• 1515 Battle of Marignan September 13 Francis I defeats the Swiss.
• 1521 Battle of Villalar April 23 HRE Charles V ends Spanish resistances to Absolutism
• 1525 Battle of Pavia Spain and Germany defeat France, Francis I of France is captured
• 1526 First battle of Panipat April 21 Mongols under Babur defeat sultan Ibrahim Lodhi
• 1526 Battle of Mohacs August 29
• 1529 Battle of Vienna Ottoman reach limit of empire, can't capture Vienna and settle in Buda
• 1538 Battle of Preveza Ottoman fleet defeats Spanish-Venetian fleet
• 1543 Battle of Wayna Daga - February 11 Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
• 1547 Battle of Mühlberg April 24 HRE Charles V captures elector of Saxony and lays siege to Wittenberg in the Schmalkaldic War.
• 1547 Battle of Pinkie September 10 Earl of Hertford guardian of Edward VI crushes Scottish resistance
• 1556 Second battle of Panipat
• 1560 Battle of Djerba
• 1562 Battle of Dreux ? Catholics versus Huguenots in France.
• 1568 Battle of Langside Scotland
• 1568 Battle of Heiligerlee May 23 Dutch army defeats Spanish army
• 1568 Battle of Jemmingen July 21 Spanish army under the Duke of Alva defeats the Dutch army
• 1568 Battle of Jodoigne Spain defeats Dutch army
• 1571 Battle of Lepanto Spain and Venice's fleets defeat Ottoman fleet
• 1580 Battle of Alcantara. Spain defeats Portugal.
• 1588 Battle of Spanish Armada's Destruction
• 1590 Battle of Ivry March 14 Henri IV of Navarre defeats Catholic League in War of the Three Henries
• 1596 Battle of Kerestes
• 1597 Battle of Turnhout January 24 Dutch troops defeat Spanish cavalry
• 1598 - Battle of Yellow Ford - Irish under Hugh O'Neill, earl of Tyrone, destroy English force
• 1600 Battle of Sekigahara or Battle of Sekugahara - Japanese General Ieyasu defeats three regents of son of Hideyoshi - he later establishes Tokugawa Shogunate
• 1600 Battle of Nieuwpoort June 2 Battle between Dutch (led by Prince Maurits) and Spanish army, led by Albrecht, archduke of Austria.

• 1619 Battle of Sablat June 10, called Battle of Záblatí in Czech, during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1619 Battle of Sarhū the Manchus defeat Ming
• 1619 Battle of Wisternitz
• 1620 Battle of the White Mountain November 8 Battle deciding fate of Prague in Thirty Years' War
• 1622 Battle of Wiesloch April 25 Protestants under Count Mansfield defeat Catholics under Count von Tilly in Thirty Years' War
• 1622 Battle of Wimpfen (May 6)
• 1622 Battle of Höchst (June 20)
• 1627 Battle of La Rochelle
• 1631 Battle of Breitenfeld Leipzig September 17 Saxons and Swedes defeat Catholics under Tilly
• 1632 Battle of Lützen Swedes defeat Catholics but Gustavus II Adolphus is killed
• 1634 Battle of Nordlingen
• 1642 Battle of Edgehill October 23 first battle of English Civil War, a draw
• 1642 Battle of Brentford November 12 Royalist cavalry defeats Roundheads, but have to retreat later
• 1642 Battle of Lostwithiel (1642)
• 1643 Battle of Rocroi May 19 French under Duc d'Enghien destroy Spanish army and its military supremacy in Europe.
• 1643 Battle of Adwalton Moor June 30 Royalists beat Roundheads near York
• 1643 Battle of Lansdowne July 5 Royalists and Roundheads tie near Bath
• 1643 Battle of Roundway Down July 13 Royalists crush Roundheads in West country
• 1643 Battle of Newbury September 20 Roundheads save London from Royalists
• 1644 Battle of Marston Moor July 2 Oliver Cromwell Roundheads defeat king Charles I of England's Cavaliers securing the North for the Puritans
• 1644 Battle of Lostwithiel (1644) September 22 Royalists surround Roundheads west of Plymouth
• 1644 Battle of Newbury October 27 Roundheads block Charles' return to London
• 1645 Battle of Naseby June 14 Cromwell's Ironsides defeat Charles' Cavaliers
• 1645 Battle of Alford July 2 Covenanters defeated by Royalists under Montrose
• 1645 Battle of Kilsyth August 15 Montrose destroys Covenanters in decisive battle
• 1645 Battle of Philiphaugh September 13 Covenanters under General David Leslie surprise Montrose in camp, Montrose runs away
• 1647 Battle of Dangan Hill, Irish forces are defeated by British Parliamentary forces
• 1648 Battle of Preston August 17 Cromwell defeats William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
• 1650 Battle of Dunbar
• 1651 Battle of Worcester September 3 Cromwell defeats Royalists, Charles King of Scots escapes disguised as a servant
• 1651 Battle of Beresteczko
• 1652 Battle of Goodwin Sands (or Dover) First Anglo-Dutch War May 29 Blake's fire without DoW on Tromp's fleet initiates first Anglo-Dutch war
• 1652 Battle of Plymouth First Anglo-Dutch War August 26 De Ruyter's 36 MoW hold of Ayscue's 45 MoW, driving them away.
• 1652 Battle of the Kentish Knock (or Dover) First Anglo-Dutch War October 8 Blake beats back de Witt
• 1652 Battle of Dungeness First Anglo-Dutch War December 10 Tromp defeats Blake
• 1652 Battle of Blenau April 7 Great Conde commands Fronds against French under Marshall Turenne
• 1653 The Battle of Portland First Anglo-Dutch War February 28-March 2 Dutch admiral Tromp, outnumbered, loses a dozen man of war and 50 merchant man to Blake
• 1653 Battle of Livorno First Anglo-Dutch War March 13 Johan van Galen's ships defeat Bodley
• 1653 Battle of the Gabbard (or North Foreland) First Anglo-Dutch War June 12-June 13, English victory
• 1653 Battle of Scheveningen (or Texel) First Anglo-Dutch War August 8-August 10 English victory, Tromp killed
• 1656 Battle of Warsaw Charles X Gustavus of Sweden defeats Poland and is declared war upon by every country of significance in the Northern War
• 1658 Battle of the Dunes June 4 English and French defeat Spanish at Dunkirk
• 1673 Battle of Texel Dutch defeat English and French attempt at naval invasion
• 1675 Battle of Fehrbellin June 28 Swedes invade Brandenburg and lose
• 1676 Battle of Oland June 1 Danish-Dutch fleet defeats Swedish fleet in Baltic Sea.
• 1683 Battle of Vienna September 12 Jan Sobieski defeats Ottomans, lifts siege of Vienna
• 1685 Battle of Sedgemoor - the last battle on English soil.
• 1687 Second Battle of Mohacs August 12 Charles of Lorraine defeats Ottomans
• 1690 Battle of Beachy Head June 30 French defeat the English fleet under command of Admiral Arthur Herbert in War of League of Augsburg
• 1690 Battle of Fleurus Louis XIV's marshal Montmorency
• 1690 Battle of the Boyne William III of Orange defeats James II of England
• 1691 Battle of Szcelankeman August 19 Louis of Baden defeats Ottoman Turks
• 1692 Battle of La Hougue May 29 French lose 15 ships to England
• 1693 Battle of Lagos June 30 near Portugal Compte de Tourville avenges La Hougue
• 1693 Battle of Neerwinden July 29 duc de Luxembourg defeats English
• 1700 Battle of Narva Nov. 30 Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russians

• 1704 Battle of Blenheim August 14 - Duke of Marlborough defeats French and Bavaria and Prussia (War of the Spanish Succession)
• 1706 Battle of Fraustadt February 3 - Sweden defeats Saxony
• 1706 Battle of Ramilles or Battle of Ramillies May 23 - Duke of Marlborough defeats the French in the War of Spanish Succession
• 1707 Battle of Almanza April 25 French forces defeat Portuguese
• 1708 Battle of Oudenarde July 11 Duke of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy defeat French and besiege Lille
• 1708 Battle of Lesnaya September 28
• 1709 Battle of Poltava June 28 - Peter the Great of Russia defeats Swedish army
• 1709 Battle of Malplaquet September 11 - Prince of Savoy and duke of Marlborough defeat French
• 1734 Battle of Bitonto May 25
• 1741 Battle of Milan April 20
• 1741 Battle of Mollwitz April 10 - Prussia under Frederick II fights Austria in Silesian War
• 1744 Battle of Toulon (1744) February 22 - draw between British and Franco-Spanish fleets
• 1745 Battle of Prestonpans September 21 - Jacobite Stuarts under Bonnie Prince Charlie defeat English
• 1746 Battle of Falkirk (1746) January 17 - Jacobites defeat English dragoons
• 1746 Battle of Culloden Moor (or Battle of Culloden) April 16 - Jacobites lose to English
• 1746 Battle of Rocoux - France liberates Netherlands from Austria
• 1750 Battle of Kathio - Chippewas defeat Sioux and gain control of Minnesota
• 1755 Battle of the Wilderness (1755) - also called Braddock's defeat, British lose two thirds of their force to French and Indian allies in Virginia backcountry
• 1757 Battle of Fort William Henry August 4-9 - British defeated by French then Indians slaughter prisoners
• 1757 Battle of Kolin June 18 - Frederick the Great of Prussia loses to Austria in Seven Years' War
• 1757 Battle of Plassey June 23 - Robert Clive consolidates English rule over India
• 1757 Battle of Hastenbeck July 26 - French army defeats Hanoverian Army of Observation
• 1757 Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf 30 August - Russians under Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin defeat the Prussians
• 1757 Battle of Rossbach November 5 - Frederick crushes French, Louis XV says "After me, the Deluge"
• 1757 Battle of Leuthen December 5 - Frederick the Great crushes Austrians under Prince Charles of Lorraine
• 1758 Battle of Luisbourg June 8-July 26 - also Louisburg, British capture fort controlling entrance to St. Lawrence River
• 1758 Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) July 8 - also called Carillon, British badly routed after attacking French fort
• 1758 Battle of Crefield June 23 - Ferdinand son of duke of Brunswick drives French across the Rhine
• 1758 Battle of Zornsdorff August 25 - Frederick defeats Russians in Prussia
• 1758 Battle of Hochkirk October 14 - Austrians mildly defeat Prussians
• 1759 Battle of Ticonderoga (1759) - British capture French fort
• 1759 Battle of Brunswick April 13 - French defeat Ferdinand
• 1759 Battle of Minden August 1 - Ferdinand defeats French
• 1759 Battle of Kunersdorf August - Austria and Russia defeat Prussia
• 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham, part of the Battle of Quebec (1759)September 13 - English defeat French outside Quebec
• 1760 Battle of Landshut June 23 - in Bavaria, Austria captures a Prussian army
• 1760 Battle of LiegnitzAugust 15 - Frederick defeats Austrians
• 1760 Battle of Wandewash
• 1761 Third Battle of Panipat January 14 - Afghans defeat Marathas helping English
• 1763 Battle of Bushy Run August 5-6 British defeat Indians in Pennsylvania backcountry
• 1770 Battle of Golden Hill January 19 - in New York the first bloodshed between the patriots Sons of Liberty and their colonial oppressors
• 1770 Battle of Chesme July 6 - Russian fleet with British officers defeats Ottoman fleet
• 1771 Battle of Alamance May 16 - Colonial oppressors crush North Carolina patriots Regulators
• 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant October 10- Frontiersmen defeat Shawnees
• 1775 Battle of Lexington and Concord April 19 - Patriots lose 8 and with guerrilla action kill British
• 1775 Battle of Fort Ticonderoga (1775) May 10 - Allen and Arnold capture fort
• 1775 Battle of Crown Point May 12 - Seth Warren captures garrison
• 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill June 17 - British win a pyrrhic victory, their casualties double patriots
• 1775 Battle of Quebec December 31 - Arnold and Richard Montgomery driven from city
• 1776 Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge NC February 27 - NC patriots defeat Scottish Loyalists
• 1776 Battle of Long Island August 27 - William Howe crushes George Washington
• 1776 Battle of Harlem Heights September 16 - Washington repels Howe
• 1776 Battle of Valcour Island October 11 - Benedict Arnold escapes the British fleet under Guy Carleton
• 1776 Battle of White Plains October 28 - Howe inflicts casualties on George Washington's army
• 1776 Battle of Fort Lee November 19 - Cornwallis forces Greene to evacuate
• 1776 Battle of Trenton December 26 - Washington surprises Hessian force
• 1777 Battle of Ticonderoga (1777) -Americans abandon fort to avoid British artillery
• 1777 Battle of Bennington August 16 - Stark eradicates detachment sent by Burgoyne
• 1777 Battle of Brandywine September 9 - Howe drives George Washington's troops to Philadelphia
• 1777 Battle of 1st Saratoga Freeman's Farm September 19 - Morgan defeats Burgoyne
• 1777 Battle of Germantown October 4 - Howe kills 700 patriots while losing 534
• 1777 Battle of 2nd Saratoga October 7 - Gates (Benedict Arnold) defeats Burgoyne
• 1777 Battle of Stillwater
• 1778 Battle of Monmouth June 27 - GW stands off Clinton, Clinton continues retreat to NY, Charles Lee order of retreat leads to court-martial
• 1779 Battle of Kettle Creek February 14 - Pickens defeats loyalist brigade
• 1779 Battle of Briar Creek March 3 - Ashe loses 350 men near Augusta to British
• 1779 Battle of Stony Point July 15 - Wayne takes 700 prisoners in bayonet attack with only 15 patriot casualties
• 1779 Battle of Paulus Hook August 19 - Henry Lee drives British from New Jersey
• 1780 Battle of Charleston May 12 - Lincoln surrenders Charleston to Clinton
• 1780 Battle of Springfield June 23 - Greene defeats British
• 1780 Battle of Camden August 16 - Cornwallis crushes Gates, 900 patriots killed
• 1780 Battle of Fishing Creek August 18 - Tarleton defeats Sumter
• 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain October 7 - Patriots capture loyalists
• 1781 Battle of Cowpens January 17 - Morgan defeats Tarleton
• 1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse March 15 - Cornwallis achieves a Pyrrhic victory over Greene and Morgan
• 1781 Battle of the Chesapeake September 5 - French Admiral de Grasse blocks British fleet, seals Cornwallis' fate
• 1781 Battle of Yorktown September 28 - American siege of Cornwallis begins
• 1781 Battle at Cape Verde Islands April 16 - French admiral Bailli of Suffren damages English naval squadron
• 1782 Battle of Sadras February 17 - French admiral Suffren (12 ships)) meets English squadron of 9 ships under Admiral Edward Hughes
• 1782 Iles des Saintes April 12 - Rodney defeats de Grasse by breaking through the French line
• 1782 Battle of Providion April 12 - French and English squadrons clash in an indecisive engagement
• 1782 Battle of Negapatam July 6 - Indecisive engagment between English and French fleets
• 1782 Battle of Trincomalee September 3 - English fleet damages French fleet but withdraws
• 1782 Battle of Chillicothe November 10 - George Rogers Clark defeats Shawnees in last battle of war
• 1783 Battle of Cuddalore June 20 - French fleet drives English fleet of shore of Cuddalore
• 1789 Battle of Turnhout October 27 - Belgian rebels defeat Austrian army
• 1790 Battle of Kepaniwai - King Kamehameha I unites Hawaii
• 1790 Battle of Fort Wayne October 18 - Little Turtle and Miamis defeat federal generals Joseph Harmar and Saint-Clair
• 1791 Battle of Wabash River - Arthur St clair defeated by Indians.
• 1792 Battle of Verdun August 20 - Prussians defeat French Revolutionaries
• 1792 Battle of Valmy - September French win and proceed to declare war on Europe
• 1793 Battle of Toulon - Napoleon gains fame as the French defeat the English
• 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers August 20 - Wayne defeats Indians, ends menace
• 1794 The Glorious First of June May 28-June 1 - British Admiral Howe defeats a French squadron under Villaret
• 1794 Battle of Fleurus June 26 - Austro-German army under Saxe-Coburg relieves Charleoi ? French Revolutionary Wars
• 1796 Battle of Millesimo - Napoleon defeats Austrians in Italy
• 1796 Battle of Modovi - Napoleon defeats Piedmontese
• 1797 Battle of Rivoli January 14 - Napoleon's first decisive victory over Austria
• 1797 Battle of Cape St. Vincent February 14 - British admiral Jervis defeats Spanish fleet
• 1798 Battle of the Pyramids July 21 - Napoleon defeats Mameluks in Egypt
• 1798 Battle of the Nile August 1 - French fleet in Abukir Bay destroyed by Horatio Nelson
• 1799 Battle of Abukir July 25 - Napoleon and Joachim Murat defeat Turks
• 1799 Battle of Novi August 15 - Joubert is defeated and killed
• 1799 Battle of Zurich June 4 - Russian defeat French, later driven out
• 1799 Battle of Bergen September 19 - French beat English and Russians
• 1800 Battle of Stockash May 3 - French victory over Austrians
• 1800 Battle of Möerskirch May 15 - General Moreau beats Austrians
• 1800 Battle of Marengo June 14 - Napoleon defeats Austrians under Baron von Melas
• 1800 Battle of Hochstadt June 19 - French victory under General Moreau against the Austrians
• 1800 Battle of Hohenlinden December 3 - General Moreau defeats archduke John
• 1800 Battle of Pozolo December 25 - French victory over Austrians