Words in english starting with B

• Battle of Fontenoy — Noun – English ～ a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland
• battle of Jutland — Noun – English ～ an indecisive naval battle in World War I (1916); fought between the British and German fleets off the northwestern coast of Denmark
• Battle of Britain — Noun – English ～ the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it
• battle of Lutzen — Noun – English ～ a battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632); Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Holy Roman Empire under Wallenstein; Gustavus Adolphus was killed
• Battle of Monmouth Court House — Noun – English ～ a pitched battle in New Jersey during the American Revolution (1778) that ended with the withdrawal of British forces
• battle of Chickamauga — Noun – English ～ a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces
• battle of Minden — Noun – English ～ a battle in the Seven Years' War (1759) in which the English forces and their allies defeated the French
• Battle of Magenta — Noun – English ～ a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
• battle of Ivry — Noun – English ～ a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne
• battle of Hohenlinden — Noun – English ～ a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians
• Battle of Gettysburg — Noun – English ～ a battle of the American Civil War (1863); the defeat of Robert E. Lee's invading Confederate Army was a major victory for the Union
• battle of Boyne — Noun – English ～ a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in 1690; William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts
• Battle of Lepanto — Noun – English ～ Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope
• battle of Issus — Noun – English ～ a battle (333 BC) in which Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III
• battle of Ipsus — Noun – English ～ a battle between the successors of Alexander the Great (301 BC); Lysimachus and Seleucus defeated Antigonus and Demetrius
• Battle of Naseby — Noun – English ～ a battle in 1645 that settled the outcome of the first English Civil War as the Parliamentarians won a major victory over the Royalists
• Bay of Naples — Noun – English ～ an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples
• battle of Langside — Noun – English ～ (1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants
• Battle of Kerbala — Noun – English ～ a battle in 680 in which the grandson of Mohammed and his followers were killed; "the Battle of Kerbala is the basis for the Ta'ziyehs that are performed annually"
• battle of Cunaxa — Noun – English ～ battle in 401 BC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne

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