| | 479 B.C. | Battle of Plataea. Greeks deal major defeat to Persian army three times their size. Few Persains survived. |
| | 1758 | British capture Fort Frontenac. French destroy Fort Duquesne and retreat into Canada. |
| | 1776 | Americans overwhelmed and defeated in the Battle of Brooklyn. |
| | 1781 | Battle of Pollicore. 11,000 British defeat 80,000 Mysore in 8-hour action. |
| | 1810 | French powder magazine exploded mysteriously in Almeida destroying the Cathedral, the castle, 500 homes and part of the fortifications. One of the largest explosions in the pre-nuclear world. |
| | 1813 | Battle of Dresden. Napoleon once again defeated a numerically larger Allied force. |
| | 1813 | Battle of Leitskau. Prussians utterly destroy French General Girard's 5,000 man force. |
| | 1914 | Battle of Heligoland Bight. First naval battle of World War I resulted in British victory over Germans. |