Military
Articles about armed forces, warfare and military history.
Battle of Prairie Grove
Battle of Princeton
Battle of Rhandeia
Battle of Route Coloniale 4
Battle of Route Coloniale 4 (1950 campaign)
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Salamis (480 BC)
A decisive naval engagement in September 480 BC in the Straits of Salamis where an allied Greek fleet defeated the Persian navy, marking a turning point in the Greco-Persian Wars.
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh (April 6–7, 1862): Overview and Significance
Battle of Sluys
Battle of South Mountain
Battle of South Mountain (Maryland, 1862) — Crampton's, Turner's and Fox's Gaps
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (May 8–21, 1864)
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
Decisive 1914 Eastern Front encounter in East Prussia in which Germany’s Eighth Army encircled and shattered much of the Russian Second Army, affecting early World War I operations
Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge (Ardennes Counteroffensive, December 1944–January 1945)
A major German offensive in the Ardennes that surprised Allied forces, inflicted heavy American casualties, and marked the last large German attempt to split the Western Allies in
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
Battle of the Coral Sea
Battle of the Dnieper
Battle of the Dnieper (1943)
A major Second World War Soviet offensive (Aug–Dec 1943) to cross the Dnieper, defeat German forces, and liberate occupied Ukraine; one of the largest operations of the Eastern Fro
Battle of the Mediterranean
Battle of the Mediterranean (World War II)
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of the Wilderness (May 5–7, 1864)
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Valverde
Battle of Valverde (February 1862) — New Mexico Campaign
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Verdun (February–December 1916)
A prolonged and attritional First World War engagement near Verdun, France, notable for immense casualties, intense artillery warfare, and its symbolic place in French and German m
Battle of Vimy Ridge
Battle of Vimy Ridge (1917)
Battle of White Mountain
Battle of Wilson's Creek
Battle of Wilson's Creek (August 1861)
Battle-axe
Battledress
Battledress: Military Combat Uniform
Battlefield 2
Battleship
Battleship Yamato
Bavarian army
Bayonet
Bayonet: blade attachment for firearms and its history
Bazooka
Bell AH-1 Cobra
Bell AH-1 Cobra: Overview, Design, Service, and Variants
Bell P-39 Airacobra
Bell P-63 Kingcobra
Bell UH-1 Iroquois
Bell UH-1 Iroquois (Huey) — utility military helicopter
Bełżec extermination camp
Beretta 92
Big Bertha
Big Bertha — German 42 cm siege howitzer (Dicke Bertha)
Biological warfare
Biological weapon
Bioterrorism
Bioterrorism: definitions, agent categories, history, and biodefense
Bismarck (ship)
Black and Tans
Black and Tans — British paramilitary recruits in Ireland, 1920–1921
Black Hawk War
Black Hawk War (1832)
An 1832 conflict between Sauk leader Black Hawk's band and United States frontier militias in Illinois and Wisconsin, notable for several skirmishes, the Bad Axe defeat, and its ef
Black operation
Blackburn B-103
Blackburn Buccaneer B-103 — British carrier-capable strike aircraft
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas: the violent struggle over slavery in the 1850s