• Thumbnail for Battle of Mons
    Battle of Mons was the first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World War. It was a subsidiary action of the Battle of...
    57 KB (7,714 words) - 06:20, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Mons Graupius
    The Battle of Mons Graupius was, according to Tacitus, a Roman military victory in what is now Scotland, taking place in AD 83 or, less probably, 84. The...
    12 KB (1,444 words) - 08:55, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Second Battle of Mons
    Second Battle of Mons was a First World War military engagement fought between 9–11 November 1918, in which Canadian forces captured the Belgian town of Mons...
    10 KB (1,140 words) - 06:20, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Mons Lactarius
    The Battle of Mons Lactarius (also known as Battle of the Vesuvius) took place in 552 or 553 AD during the Gothic War waged on behalf of Justinian I against...
    3 KB (196 words) - 08:04, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Mons Seleucus
    The Battle of Mons Seleucus was fought in 353 between the armies of the Roman emperor Constantius II and the usurper Magnentius. Constantius' forces were...
    4 KB (453 words) - 00:57, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Angels of Mons
    from defeat by the invading forces of the German Empire at the beginning of World War I during the Battle of Mons in Belgium on 23 August 1914. On 22–23...
    20 KB (2,711 words) - 06:19, 30 September 2024
  • up Mons, mons, or Mons. in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mons commonly refers to: Mons, Belgium, a city in Belgium Mons pubis (mons Venus or mons veneris)...
    2 KB (305 words) - 17:47, 6 March 2024
  • The battle of the Mons pocket was an engagement fought between Allied and German forces during late August and early September 1944. It formed part of the...
    18 KB (2,233 words) - 06:20, 30 September 2024
  • The Battle of Badon, also known as the Battle of Mons Badonicus, was purportedly fought between Britons and Anglo-Saxons in Post-Roman Britain during...
    22 KB (2,812 words) - 20:02, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mons, Belgium
    upper hand in the Battle of Malplaquet and the Siege of Mons in 1709. In 1715, Mons returned to Austria under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713)....
    46 KB (5,245 words) - 06:24, 30 September 2024
  • The Battle of Mons Colubrarius was a battle in the Gothic War from 436 to 439. It was one of the many armed conflicts between the Gothic people and the...
    5 KB (684 words) - 14:16, 16 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle
    The Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle (or Pevelenberg) was fought on 18 August 1304 between the French and the Flemish. The French were led by their king, Philip...
    6 KB (609 words) - 11:02, 2 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Møn
    The Battle of Møn, also known as the Battle of Fehmarn, took place 31 May–1 June 1677, as part of the Scanian War. A smaller Swedish squadron under Admiral...
    10 KB (1,288 words) - 12:50, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Narses
    Narses (category Byzantine people of Armenian descent)
    nearly two months, Teias retreated into the mountains. They maneuvered onto Mons Lactarius, where they soon faced death from starvation. The Goths suddenly...
    28 KB (4,180 words) - 18:58, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Mount Algidus
    The Battle of Mount Algidus was fought in 458 BC, between the Roman Republic and the Aequi, near Mount Algidus in Latium. The Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius...
    6 KB (724 words) - 10:34, 7 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Le Cateau
    pursuit. Most of the BEF was able to continue its retreat to Saint-Quentin. Having retreated from Mons two days earlier, Le Cateau and Mons being 24.8 mi...
    17 KB (1,940 words) - 14:40, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Calgacus
    Calgacus (category Year of birth unknown)
    Galgacus) was a chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland...
    5 KB (639 words) - 12:27, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Retreat
    War had been defeated by the armies of the German Empire at the Battle of Charleroi (21 August) and the Battle of Mons (23 August). A counter-offensive by...
    35 KB (4,790 words) - 01:14, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roman conquest of Britain
    AD 84, Agricola defeated a Caledonian army, led by Calgacus, at the Battle of Mons Graupius. However, the Romans soon withdrew from northern Britain. After...
    41 KB (4,917 words) - 13:10, 4 September 2024
  • The following units of the German First Army and British Expeditionary Force fought in the Battle of Mons in World War I. First Army, commanded by Generaloberst...
    13 KB (1,187 words) - 18:51, 18 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Roman Britain
    the armies of the Caledonians, led by Calgacus, at the Battle of Mons Graupius. Battle casualties were estimated by Tacitus to be upwards of 10,000 on...
    117 KB (13,409 words) - 10:55, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Frontiers
    ordered an enveloping attack on the British east of Mons, who were pushed back after a stand on the Mons-Givry road. By 11:00 a.m. reports to Kluck revealed...
    60 KB (8,815 words) - 19:17, 15 September 2024
  • British Expeditionary Force (World War I) (category Commands of the British Army)
    in France prior to the end of the First Battle of Ypres on 22 November 1914. By the end of 1914—after the battles of Mons, Le Cateau, the Aisne and Ypres—the...
    43 KB (4,684 words) - 21:13, 17 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Teia
    Teia (category 6th-century kings of Italy)
    slaughtered in its aftermath. In late 552/early 553, he was killed during the Battle of Mons Lactarius. Archaeological records attesting to his rule show up in coinage...
    6 KB (634 words) - 14:29, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wessex
    Wessex (redirect from Kingdom of Wessex)
    likely due to losses suffered during the battle and an apparent peace agreement with the Britons. The battle of Mons Badonicus is believed to have been fought...
    47 KB (6,021 words) - 05:18, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Taginae
    Stanford Press. Norwich, John J. (1989). Byzantium: The Early Centuries. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Locations of this battle and battle of Mons Lactarius...
    9 KB (982 words) - 11:47, 10 August 2024
  • The indecisive naval battle of Møn was a battle during the Dano-Swedish War (1657–1658). A large number of ships was involved, but the fight was not very...
    1 KB (36 words) - 14:30, 21 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scotland during the Roman Empire
    biography of the Roman governor of Britannia by his son-in-law Tacitus mentions a Roman victory at "Mons Graupius" which became the namesake of the Grampian...
    69 KB (8,904 words) - 22:43, 8 September 2024
  • Mons is a 1926 British silent war film directed by Walter Summers. It reconstructs the 1914 Battle of Mons during the First World War. Such reconstruction...
    1 KB (65 words) - 20:52, 7 May 2024
  • the Britons' victory against the Saxons at the Battle of Mons Badonicus. Part II is a condemnation of five kings for their various sins, including both...
    20 KB (2,760 words) - 08:33, 20 July 2024