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Mongol Empire: 48,000 [2] The Mongols under Batu Khan cross the frozen Dnieper River and lay siege to the city of Kiev. On December 6, the walls are rendered rubble by Chinese catapults and the Mongols pour into the city. Brutal hand-to-hand street fighting occurs, the Kievans are eventually forced to fall back to the central parts of the city.
Ended with the invasion by the Red Army. Third Soviet invasion of Ukraine Russian SFSR: 1919–1920 Red Army captures Kharkiv, Kyiv, Donbas and Odesa. World War II (1939–1945) Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine Hungary: 1939 The Kingdom of Hungary occupied and annexed the just-proclaimed Carpatho-Ukraine.
First Mongol invasion of Burma: Yuan dynasty: Pagan Empire: Victory 1282–1284 The Mongol invasion of Champa Yuan dynasty: Champa: Defeat 1285 Dai Viet-Mongol War: Yuan dynasty: Tran dynasty: Defeat 1285–1286 Second Mongol invasion of Hungary: Golden Horde: Kingdom of Hungary: Defeat 1287–1288 Third Mongol invasion of Poland: Golden Horde ...
Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine Carpatho-Ukraine Hungary: Defeat 1939–1947 World War II – Polish-Ukrainian conflict Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army: Home Army People's Army Polish People's Republic: Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine Home Army units in Galicia and Volhynia were dissolved under Soviet ...
Ultimately a failure, the invasion attempts are of macro-historical importance because they set a limit on Mongol expansion and rank as nation-defining events in the history of Japan. The invasions are referred to in many works of fiction and are the earliest events for which the word kamikaze (神風 "divine wind") is widely used, originating ...
Russia vs. Ukraine: Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Philippine–American War: 0.21–0.78 million [175] [176] 1899–1913 United States vs. Philippine Republic, later Tagalog Republic, Sultanate of Sulu and Sultanate of Maguindanao Philippines Kalinga War: 0.25 million [177] 262 BC–261 BC Maurya Empire vs. Kalinga: Indian subcontinent First ...
On 1 September 1939, World War II began with Nazi Germany’s invasion of western Poland. Sixteen days later, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland under the terms of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , dividing Eastern Europe into spheres of influence between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.
The Battle of Tsushima (Russian: Цусимское сражение, Tsusimskoye srazheniye), also known in Japan as the Battle of the Sea of Japan (Japanese: 日本海海戦, Hepburn: Nihonkai kaisen), was the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 27–28 May 1905 in the Tsushima Strait.