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.
... de Soto, (died 1542), explorer
Bartolomeu Dias, (1450-1500), Portuguese explorer who first rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
Sir Francis Drake, (c. ...