Alphabetical list of historical battles (see also Military history, List of battles):
NOTE: Where a year has been used to disambiguate battles it is the year when the battle started. In some cases these may still have gone on for several years.
... to reach the South Pole and came further south than anyone before him
John Hanning Speke, (1827-1864), discovered Lake Victoria
Henry Morton Stanley, (1841-1904), ...