Below are the words that matched your query...
Lake Trasimenus
- a battle in 217 BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius
Langside
- (1568) Catholic forces supporting Mary Queen of Scots were routed by Protestants
Lepanto
- Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope
Leuctra
- Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC; the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece
Lexington
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
- a city in eastern Kentucky; noted for raising thoroughbred horses
- town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
Lexington And Concord
- the first battle of the American Revolution (April 19, 1775)
Leyte
- a battle in World War II; the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese
Leyte Island
- a battle in World War II; the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese
Leyte Invasion
- a battle in World War II; the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October 1944; the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese
Little Bighorn
- a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
- a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand