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| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} d'Azincourt [1415] | Battle of Agincourt [in 1415 English forces under King Henry V defeated numerically superior French forces in this important battle in the 100 Years' War] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Auerstaedt [1806] | Battle of Auerstedt [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Austerlitz [1805] | Battle of Austerlitz [1805] [also: Battle of the Three Emperors] [Napoleon defeated the larger combined Russian/Austrian Armies, bringing the War of the 3rd Coalition to an end] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Bibracte [58 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Bibracte [58 BC] [Roman army defeated the Helvetii] | |
| hist. mil. Bataille {f} de Bouvines [1214] | Battle of Bouvines [the concluding battle of the Anglo-French War of 1213–1214.A French army under King Philip Augustus defeated an Allied army under Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Cannes [216 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Cannae [216 BC] [Hannibal's Carthaginian army heavily defeated the Roman army] | |
| hist. mil. relig. bataille {f} de Civetot [1096] | Battle of Civetot [1096] [Seljuk Turks of Anatolia defeated the forces of the People's Crusade] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Crécy [1346] | Battle of Crécy [1346, important battle in 100 years' war. French army commanded by King Philip VI was defeated by an English army led by King Edward III ] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille d'Edington {noun} [878] | Battle of Edington [878] [also: Battle of Ethandun] [Saxon army under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Gaugamèles [331 av. J.-C.] [aussi : bataille d'Arbèles] | Battle of Gaugamela [331 BC] [Alexander the Great defeated King Darius III] [also: Battle of Arbela] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} d'Inkerman [1854] | Battle of Inkerman [1854] [the Allies decisively defeated the Imperial Russian Army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Issos [333 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Issus [333 BC] [also: Battle of Issos] [Macedonian troops, under Alexander the Great, defeated the Persian forces] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Iéna [1806] | Battle of Jena [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Sadowa [1866] [aussi : bataille de Königgrätz] | Battle of Königgrätz [1866] [also: Battle of Sadowa] [Kingdom of Prussia defeated the Austrian Empire] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} du Chant de Merles [1389] [bataille de Kosovo Polje] | Battle of Kosovo [1389] [Ottoman army defeated Christian army led by the Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović led by ] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {m} de Leipzig [1813] [aussi : bataille de Leipsick ou bataille des Nations] | Battle of Leipzig [1813] [also: Battle of the Nations] [Coalition armies of Austria, Prussia, Sweden, and Russia decisively defeated the Grande Armée of Napoleon] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Marengo [1800] | Battle of Marengo [1800] [French forces under First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte defeated and drove the Austrian forces out of Italy, consolidating Napoleon's political position] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Marignan [1515] | Battle of Marignano [1515] [Francis I, King of France defeated the Old Swiss Confederacy ending the War of the League of Cambrai] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Megiddo [609 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Megiddo [609 BC] [Pharaoh of Egypt defeated Kingdom of Judah] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} de Morgarten [1315] | Battle of Morgarten [in 1315, the Confederates of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden defeated a Habsburg army, laying foundation for future independence of the Swiss Confederacy] | |
| hist. mil. relig. bataille {f} de Muhlberg [1547] | Battle of Mühlberg [1547] [Holy Roman Empire defeated the Lutheran Schmalkaldic League] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Morat [1476] | Battle of Murten [in 1476, the Duke of Burgundy was defeated twice, at Grandson and Murten, by the Swiss Confederation] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Naissus [268] | Battle of Naissus [268] [Roman army defeated Gothic coalition army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Nancy [1477] | Battle of Nancy [in 1477, the final and decisive battle in the Burgundian Wars. The Duke of Burgundy was defeated and killed by Lorraine and Swiss forces (funded by France)] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Poltava [1709] [aussi : bataille de Pultawa] | Battle of Poltava [1709] [decisive battle of the Great Northern War ; Russian army defeated Swedish army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille de Ramillies {noun} [1706] | Battle of Ramillies [1706] [in War of the Spanish Succession, the Grand Alliance defeated France] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Rossbach [1757] | Battle of Rossbach [1757] [decisive battle in 7 Years' War in which the Frederick the Great's Prussian Army defeated a much larger combined French & Austrian Army] | |
| géogr. hist. mil. bataille {f} des Arapiles [1812] | Battle of Salamanca [1812] [Anglo-Portuguese army defeated French forces at Arapiles, near Salamanca, resulting in French loss of Andulasia & Madrid] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Samarra [363] | Battle of Samarra [363] [Sasanian Empire defeated Roman Empire] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de (la rivière) Talas [751] [aussi : bataille d'Artlakh] | Battle of Talas [751] [the Abbasid Caliphate and the Tibetan Empire defeated the Tang dynasty ending its westward expansion] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} de Talavera [1809] | Battle of Talavera [1809] [major battle in the Peninsular War where British & Spanish forces defeated the Napoleonic Army outside Madrid] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Vienne [1683] | Battle of Vienna [1683] [the Holy Roman Empire defeated the Ottoman Empire] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {m} de Vimeiro [1808] | Battle of Vimeiro [1808] [the British under General Wellesley defeated the French under General Junot, putting an end to the first French invasion of Portugal] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Waterloo [1815] [aussi : bataille de Mont-Saint-Jean ou Victoire de la Belle-Alliance] | Battle of Waterloo [1815] [Napoleon's French army was decisively defeated by the combined Anglo-Allied and Prussian armies, marking the final end of the Napoleonic Wars] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {m} de Zama [202 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Zama [202 BC] [Roman army heavily defeated Hannibal's Carthaginian army, ending the 2nd Punic War] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Zenta [1697] | Battle of Zenta [1697] [also: Battle of Senta] [Holy League army decisively defeated the Ottoman army] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Bagdad [1258] | siege of Baghdad [1258] [Mongol Empire defeated the Abbasid Caliphate and annexed Mesopotamia] | |
4 Words: Nouns |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Aïn Djalout [1260] | Battle of Ain Jalut [1260] [also: Battle of Ayn Jalut] [Mamluks of Egypt defeated the Mongol Empire] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} du lac Trasimène [217 av. J.-C.] | Battle of Lake Trasimene [217 BC] [Hannibal's Carthaginian army heavily defeated the Roman army] | |
| hist. mil. bataille {f} des Quatre Bras [1815] | Battle of Quatre Bras [1815] [although the Anglo-Allied army defeated the left wing of Napoleon's French army, it was not decisive] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Stamford Bridge [1066] | Battle of Stamford Bridge [1066] [English army defeated invading Norwegian army] | |
| hist. mil. journée {f} des Harengs [1429] [bataille des harengs] [bataille de Rouvray] | Battle of the Herrings [Battle of Rouvray] [in 1429, part of the siege of Orléans in the 100 Years' War. English forces decisively defeated French forces attempting to intercept a supply convoy.] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {m} de Marchfeld [1278] | Battle on the Marchfeld [1278] [decisive event for the history of Central Europe for the following centuries when the German king Rudolph I of Habsburg defeated king Ottokar II of Bohemia] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} de Saint-James de Beuvron [1426] | Siege of St. James [in 1426, as part of the 100 Years' War, England defeated France at Avranches. ] | |
5+ Words: Nouns |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} des champs Catalauniques [451] [aussi: bataille de Campus Mauriacus] | Battle of the Catalaunian Plains [451] [Western Roman Empire defeated the Hunnic Empire] [also: Battle of the Campus Mauriacus] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} du pont Milvius [312] | Battle of the Milvian Bridge [312] [Roman Emperor Constantine I defeated Roman Emperor Maxentius] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} (de la forêt) de Teutobourg [9] | Battle of the Teutoburg Forest [9] [Germanic tribes defeated the Roman Empire] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de la Cinquième Coalition [1809] | War of the Fifth Coalition [1809] [conflicts of France, supported by its client states, against Austria in central Europe and UK in Spain. Prussia remained neutral. Austria was heavily defeated] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de la Quatrième Coalition [1806-1807] | War of the Fourth Coalition [1806-1807] [conflicts of France against Prussia and Russia, and both were heavily defeated] | |
| hist. mil. pol. guerre {f} de la Sixième Coalition [1813-1814] | War of the Sixth Coalition [1813-1814] [coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, UK, Portugal, Sweden, Spain and some German States defeated France and drove Napoleon into exile on Elba] | |