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Belarus

1018 – 2022

Country in Eastern Europe

  1. Battle of Holowczyn

    14 July 1708

    The Battle of Holowczyn (also spelled Holofzin or Golovchin) was fought in July 1708 between the Russian army and the Swedish army, led by Charles XII of Sweden, who was only 26 years of age at the time. Despite difficult natural obstacles and superior enemy artillery, the Swedes were able to achieve surprise and defeat the numerically superior Russian forces, who were separated from each other, had no overall command and could not coordinate their actions, disallowing them an engagement in full force.

  2. Battle of Lesnaya

    28 September 1708

    The Battle of Lesnaya was fought on 9 October 1708 during the Swedish invasion of Russia in the Great Northern War. Russia was the sole remaining enemy of Sweden following the dissolution of the anti-Swedish coalition in 1706.

  3. Battle of Stołowicze

    23 September 1771

    The battle of Stołowicze (the battle of Stolovichi or Stalovichy) was a clash of the War of the Bar Confederation. It took place on the 24 September 1771 and ended with the defeat of Bar Confederates by Russian general Alexander Suvorov.

  4. Battle of Opsa

    26 May 1792

    The Battle of Opsa took place on 26 May 1792, during the Polish-Russian War of 1792. The battle was fought near the tiny village of Opsa, near Brasław, Grand Duchy of Lithuania (present-day Belarus), between the Russian corps of Prince Yuri Dolgorukov and the Tatar regiment of the Grand Duchy, commanded by Michał Kirkor.

  5. Battle of Mir

    11 June 1792

    The Battle of Mir was a battle between Poland–Lithuania and the Russian Empire during the War of 1792. It took place in the town of Mir, now in Belarus, on June 11, 1792.

  6. Battle of Brest (1792)

    23 July 1792

    The Battle of Brest (Russian: Битва под Брестом; Polish: Bitwa pod Brześciem) was defensive battle of 5,000 Polish-Lithuanian troops tried to cover the way to Warsaw from the Russians. An equally strong Russian detachment was acting against them.

  7. Battle of Mir

    9 July 1812 – 10 July 1812

    The Battle of Mir took place on 9 and 10 July 1812 during Napoleon's invasion of Russia. Three Polish Lancers divisions battled against Russian cavalry, ending in the first major Russian victory in the war.

  8. Battle of Saltanovka

    23 July 1812

    The Battle of Saltanovka, also known as the Battle of Mogilev (French: Bataille de Mogilev), took place on 23 July 1812 during the early stages of the 1812 French invasion of Russia.

  9. Battle of Vitebsk

    26 July 1812 – 27 July 1812

    The battle of Vitebsk, sometimes spelled Witepsk (Russian: Сражение при реке Лучосе, romanized: Battle of the Luchosa River), was a military engagement that took place on 26 and 27 July 1812 during the French invasion of Russia. The battle put a French force, under the command of Emperor Napoleon I, in combat with Russian rearguard forces under General Pyotr Konovnitsyn (on 26 July) and Peter von der Pahlen (on 27 July) and ended with the Russian forces making a strategic retreat from the battlefield.

  10. Battle of Kobrin

    27 July 1812

    The Battle of Kobrin, or the Battle of Kobryn, took place on 27 July 1812 between the Russian and Saxon forces – under the command of Alexander Tormasov and Jean Reynier respectively – in the city of Kobrin (Kobryn) at the initial stage of the French invasion of Russia. The battle was a clear victory of the Russian forces.

  11. First Battle of Polotsk

    17 August 1812 – 18 August 1812

    In the First Battle of Polotsk, which took place on 17–18 August 1812, Russian troops under the command of Peter Wittgenstein fought French and Bavarian troops led by Nicolas Oudinot near the city of Polotsk, halting Oudinot's advance toward Saint Petersburg once more as at the Battle of Klyastitsy. It was a strategic Russian success, but tactically the battle ended in a draw.

  12. Battle of Czasniki

    31 October 1812

    The Battle of Chashniki (Russian: Бой под Чашниками; Belarusian: Бой пад Чашнікамі; Lithuanian: Čašnikų mūšis), sometimes also called the Battle of Czasniki (from the Polish spelling – Polish: Czaśniki), was fought during Napoleon's invasion of Russia, on 31 October 1812, between Russian forces under General Wittgenstein, and the French Army, commanded by Marshal Victor. This battle was a failed effort by the French to reestablish their northern "Dvina Line", which had crumbled as a result of Wittgenstein's victory at the second battle of Polotsk just two weeks earlier.

  13. Battle of Smoliani

    13 November 1812 – 14 November 1812

    At the Battle of Smoliani or Smolyany (N.S. November 13–14, 1812), the Russians under General Peter Wittgenstein defeated the French forces of Marshal Claude Victor and Marshal Nicholas Oudinot. This battle was the last effort of the French to reestablish their northern flank in Russia, known as the "Dvina Line".

  14. Battle of Berezina

    26 November 1812 – 29 November 1812

    The Battle of (the) Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between Napoleon's Grande Armée and the Imperial Russian Army under Field Marshal Wittgenstein and Admiral Chichagov. Napoleon was retreating toward Poland in chaos after the aborted occupation of Moscow and trying to cross the Berezina River at Borisov.

  15. Baranovichi Offensive

    25 July 1916

    The Baranovichi offensive was a battle fought on the Eastern Front during World War I between an army of Russia and the forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary in July 1916.

  16. Slutsk Uprising

    31 December 1920

    The Slutsk uprising (Belarusian: Слуцкае паўстанне, romanized: Sluckaje paŭstannie) or the Slutsk defence, or Slitsk military action (Belarusian: Слуцкі збройны чын, romanized: Slucki zbrojny čyn) was an unsuccessful armed attempt to establish an independent Belarus. It took place in late 1920, near the end of the Polish-Soviet War, in the region of the town of Slutsk.

  17. Battle of Brześć Litewski

    14 September 1939 – 17 September 1939

    The Battle of Brześć Litewski (also known as the siege of Brześć, the battle of Brest-Litovsk or simply the battle of Brześć) was a World War II battle involving German and Polish forces that took place between 14 and 17 September 1939, near the town of Brześć Litewski, Poland (now Brest, Belarus). After three days of heavy fights for the stronghold in the town of Brześć, the Germans captured the fortress and the Poles withdrew.

  18. Battle of Grodno

    20 September 1939 – 24 September 1939

    The Battle of Grodno took place between 20 September and 22 September 1939, during the Soviet invasion of Poland. It was fought between improvised Polish units under General Wacław Przeździecki and Soviet Red Army troops of Komkor Ivan Boldin's Dzerzhinsky Cavalry Mechanized Group, at the time in a non-aggression agreement with Nazi Germany under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.

  19. Defense of Brest Fortress

    June 1941 – 29 June 1941

    The defense of Brest Fortress was the first battle of Operation Barbarossa, the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union launched on 22 June 1941. The German Army attacked without warning, expecting to take Brest on the first day, using only infantry and artillery, but it took them a week, and only after two bombardments by the Luftwaffe.

  20. Chervyen massacre

    June 1941

    The Chervyen massacre (Lithuanian: Červenės žudynės; Belarusian: Чэрвеньскія расстрэлы, romanized: Červieńskija rasstrely), also called the Minsk–Chervyen Death March (Polish: Droga śmierci Mińsk–Czerwień) was a NKVD prisoner massacre on 25–27 June 1941. Political prisoners from Lithuania, Poland and Belarus were forced by the NKVD into a death march eastwards from Minsk to Chervyen (present-day Belarus) after Operation Barbarossa began and many were executed.