Numerous actions have been termed the Battle of Brest, Brest being the name of two important fortress towns in France and Belarus, respectively, and a small town in Croatia.
Brest, Croatia
*The
Battle of Brest (1592), part of the Hundred Years' Croatian–Ottoman War
*The
Battle of Brest (1596)
The Battle of Brest (1596) ( hr, Bitka kod Bresta) was fought on September 19, 1596 between the Ottoman forces of Achmed Hafis Pasha, Beylerbey of Vidin, and the Germanic and Croatian forces led by Ivan Drašković, Ban of Croatia. The batt ...
, part of the
and the
Long War (1591–1606)
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Brest, France
*The
Battle of Brest (1342)
The battle of Brest, sometimes called the battle of the River Penfeld, was an action in 1342 between an English squadron of converted merchant ships and that of a mercenary galley force from Genoa fighting for the Franco-Breton faction of Charl ...
- a naval battle off the port during the Hundred Years' War.
*The
Siege of Brest (1386) - a siege of the Hundred Years' War.
*The
Battle of Saint-Mathieu - a naval battle off the port during the War of the League of Cambrai in 1512, often called the ''battle of Brest''.
*The
Attack on Brest - a failed attack in 1694 by the English to destroy the harbor of Brest during the War of the Grand Alliance
*Various naval actions of the eighteenth century, including those sometimes termed the
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Battles of Ushant are occasionally termed the ''battle of Brest''.
*The
Battle for Brest - A land battle between American and German forces over possession of the strategic port in 1944.
Brest, Belarus
*The
Battle of Brest (1655) during the
Russo-Polish War (1654–67)
*The
Battle of Brest (1794), also known as the Battle of Terespol, during the Kosciuszko Uprising.
*The
Battle of Brześć Litewski also called the ''Battle of Brest-Litovsk'' was an action between the Poles and the Germans in September 1939.
*The Battle of Brest (1941) or
Defense of Brest Fortress
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took place on 22 June - 30 June 1941
*In July 1944 the town was taken by the Soviets during the
Lublin–Brest Offensive.
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