Battle of Gloucester

The Battle of Gloucester may refer to:

  • Siege of Gloucester, a siege in England in 1643 during the First English Civil War
  • Battle of Gloucester (1775), a land-sea engagement in the harbor of Gloucester, Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War
  • Battle of Gloucester (1777), a minor engagement in Gloucester, New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War
  • Siege of Yorktown, which included a minor engagement near Gloucester Point, Virginia late in the American Revolutionary War
  • Battle of Gloucester Point (1861), a minor engagement between a Union gunboat and a Virginia (Confederate) shore battery at the beginning of the American Civil War
  • Battle of Cape Gloucester, fought in and around Cape Gloucester on the New Guinean island of New Britain in the Pacific theater of the Second World War

Famous quotes containing the word battle:

    the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither
    yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet
    favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
    Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. IX, 11)