Obscure battles/engagements thread

>>2514950
the entire Norwegian campaign of WW2

Battle of Wesserplate

Prelude to the invasion of the Netherlands (Dutch found plans for the invasion after a German plane crash)

>>2514950
siege of petropavlovsk (1854-55)

caucaus campaign in WWI

battle of myriokephalon

more or less the entire norman conquest of southern italy

japanese campaign in burma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iconium_(1190)

It gets overshadowed by the Richard-Saladin brawl in the Levant, but this might have been the largest battle of the Third Crusade. It also featured the Crusaders sacking the capital of a powerful Muslim caliphate. Which to my knowledge never happened before or after.

>>2514950
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Bucket

2,000 men died because they wouldn't give back a bucket they stole.

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>>2514950
ah yes yes pope i see

HOWEVER....

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>>2514950
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_in_Berlin#Inner_suburbs

Second Battle of Waterloo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasions_of_Japan
The two mongol invasions of Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekemvriana
Battle between Government/British forces and guerilla groups in Athens, Greece

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>>2514950
KOSOVO
JE

>>2515347
Why were the Knights of that period, pound for pound, such good soldiers?

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>>2514950

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The capture of Belgrade is hands down my favorite battle in history.

7 men and a drunk tourist captured a city of 200,000+ people. You couldn't make this shit up.

>>2516422
It's funny because the Yugoslav front quickly turned into a gigantic guerrilla war quagmire for the Germans. That "cakewalk" sure turned into a mess quick.

cool, I never knew we got to actually shoot russian commies

>>2516749
The Allied expeditions to Russia during the RUssian Civil War were pretty much a giant clusterfuck. They got there, had no real orders on what to do, sat around, periodically got shot at, then eventually were ordered to leave, having accomplished nothing besides giving the Bolsheviks a huge propaganda boost by letting them claim that they drove off the Western invaders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins

Fuck Byz*ntines.

>>2516794

I already knew about this

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Nader Shah was quite underrated.

https://youtu.be/iImVCNS5IxE [Embed]

The brave Estonian SS defending against the vermin russians.

The first battle might seem ridiculous but that's literally how it went for a few weeks: Russians zerg rushing hills and running into Estonian gun fire. 170 000 casualties on Russian side and 10 000 on Estonian.

Just how incredible is that?

Hey Croats, Hitler is dead, the war is over.

Croats;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Od%C5%BEak

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Never forget

>>2517266
Wtf, theyre all beasts

The ULTIMATE obscure engagement. Guess why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuadorian%E2%80%93Peruvian_War

>>2516354
I'm proud of them.

Fighting commies and destroying 62 of their tanks...noice

t. frog

>>2516395

The single biggest factor is that they had considerably better armor (mail, but heavier and better designed mail) than you'd see just about anywhere else.

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>Ethiopia
>Thailand
>Colombia

The Football War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_War

>>2518841
Yeah thats a UN police action for ya

>>2518835
>more POWs than strength
Are they not including the ship crews or were there hundreds of irregulars that got captured as well?

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Albanians win somehow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bita_Paka

Australian of capture German New Guinea

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>>2519861

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a personal favorite

>>2519887
That must have been a hell of a story

>>2519887
That's a neat one, yeah.

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