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This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval warfare with the Hittites in the 12th century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century. If a battle has no commonly used name it is referred to as "Action of (date)" within ...
This was the largest aircraft carrier battle in history, involving fifteen American fleet and light carriers, nine Japanese carriers, 170 other warships, and some 1,700 aircraft. In terms of displacement, the U.S. Fifth Fleet's Fast Carrier Task Force (TF 58) is the largest single naval formation ever to give battle.
Imperial Russian Navy: Indecisive 10 August 1904: Battle of the Yellow Sea: Russo-Japanese War: Imperial Japanese Navy: Imperial Russian Navy: Japanese victory 27–28 May 1905: Battle of Tsushima: Russo-Japanese War: Imperial Japanese Navy: Imperial Russian Navy: Japanese victory 16 December 1912: Battle of Elli: First Balkan War: Royal ...
The Battle of Leyte Gulf [5] (Japanese: レイテ沖海戦, romanized: Reite oki Kaisen, lit. 'Leyte Open Sea Naval Battle') 23–26 October 1944, was the largest naval battle of World War II and by some criteria the largest naval battle in history, with over 200,000 naval personnel involved. [6] [7] [8] [9]
List of battles of the Eighty Years' War (1566–1648) Lists of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815) List of American Civil War battles (1861–1865) List of costliest American Civil War land battles; List of naval battles of the American Civil War; List of military engagements of World War I (1914–1918)
The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. ... Naval Battle of Casablanca: 1942 World War II: 636 Battle of the ...
Battle of Aachen: October 2, 1944 October 21, 1944 Aachen, Germany: Siegfried Line campaign 5,000 [3] American victory Germany One of largest urban battles fought by the U.S. Army during the war; Resulted in American occupation of Aachen and destruction of much of the city; First German city captured by the Western Allies
Naval Battles of the First World War (Pen and Sword, 2014) Halpern, Paul. A naval history of World War I (Naval Institute Press, 2012). Hough, Richard. The Great War at Sea, 1914–1918 (Oxford UP, 1987) Marder, Arthur Jacob. From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow (4 vol. 1961–70), covers Britain's Royal Navy 1904–1919