Question: Which battle was longer, the Battle of Fredericksburg, or the Battle of Manila?
Context: The Battle of Manilla (1574) was a battle in the Manila area mainly in the location of what is now Parañaque between Chinese pirates, led by Limahong and the Spanish colonial forces and their native allies.  The battle occurred on November 29, 1574 when Limahong's fleet landed in the town of Parañaque and from there, began to assault the fortifications of Intramuros.  Initially, the inhabitants where disorganized and Limahong's forces routed them.  Furthermore, the Chinese killed the Master-of-Camp of the Spanish, Martin De Goiti.  This caused them to delay their assault on Manila as Martin de Goiti's house was an obstacle in their march.  However, upon the arrival of a certain Filipino hero called, Galo, resistance started to organize.  Under Galo's command, they were able to resist China-born Limahong until Mexico-born Juan de Salcedo arrived from Ilocos with 300 Ilocano Warriors and Limahong was defeated and eventually forced to retreat.  Thereafter Limahong abandoned his plans to invade Manila and instead, set up a temporary kingdom in Pangasinan. The Battle of Manila (February 3, 1945 – March 3, 1945) was a major battle of the Philippine campaign of 1944-45, during the Second World War.  It was fought by American and Filipino forces against Japanese troops in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.  The month-long battle, which resulted in the death of over 100,000 civilians and the complete devastation of the city, was the scene of the worst urban fighting in the Pacific theater.  Japanese forces committed mass murder against Filipino civilians during the battle.  Along with massive loss of life, the battle also destroyed architectural and cultural heritage dating back to the city's foundation.  The battle ended the almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines (1942–1945).  The city's capture was marked as General Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign of reconquest. The Battle of Stones River or Second Battle of Murfreesboro, was fought from December 31, 1862, to January 2, 1863, in Middle Tennessee, as the culmination of the Stones River Campaign in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.  Of the major battles of the Civil War, Stones River had the highest percentage of casualties on both sides.  Although the battle itself was inconclusive, the Union Army's repulse of two Confederate attacks and the subsequent Confederate withdrawal were a much-needed boost to Union morale after the defeat at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and it dashed Confederate aspirations for control of Middle Tennessee. The Battle of Zapote River, also known as the Battle of Zapote Bridge, was fought on June 13, 1899 between 1,200 Americans and between 4,000~5,000 Filipinos.  It was the second largest battle of the Philippine–American War after the Battle of Manila five months before in February 1899.  Zapote River separates the town of Las Piñas in what was then Manila province from Bacoor in the province of Cavite.  The ruins of Zapote Bridge still stands next to its replacement bridge on Aguinaldo Highway. The Second Battle of Fredericksburg, also known as the Second Battle of Marye's Heights, took place on May 3, 1863, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as part of the Chancellorsville Campaign of the American Civil War. The Second Battle of Caloocan, alternately called the Second Battle of Manila, was fought from February 22 to 24, 1899, in Caloocan during the Philippine–American War.  The battle featured a Filipino counterattack aimed at gaining Manila from the Americans.  This counterattack failed to regain Manila mainly because of lack of coordination among Filipino units and lack of artillery support. Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburg is a historic Presbyterian church located southwest of Princess Anne and George Streets in Fredericksburg, Virginia.  It was built in 1833, and restored in 1866 after being badly damaged during the American Civil War.  It is a rectangular brick church building of Jeffersonian Roman Revival design.  The church has a triangular, gable-end pediment surmounting a wide entabulature which surrounds the entire building.  The front facade features four wide, wooden Doric order pilaster, and two round Doric order columns each set at the frontt edge of the recessed portico.  During the American Civil War the church served both Union and Confederate soldiers and it was in this building that Clara Barton came to nurse the wounded after the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. The Manila massacre involved atrocities committed against Filipino civilians in the City of Manila, the capital of the Philippines by Japanese troops during World War II at the Battle of Manila in 1945.  The Manila massacre was one of several major war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army, as judged by the postwar military tribunal.  The Japanese commanding general, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and his chief of staff Akira Mutō, were held responsible for the massacre and other war crimes in a trial in late 1945 in Manila.  Yamashita was executed on 23 February 1946 and Mutō on 23 December 1948. The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside, as part of the American Civil War.  The Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city are remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the war, with Union casualties more than three times as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates.  A visitor to the battlefield described the battle to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln as a "butchery." The Battle of Manila, sometimes called the Mock Battle of Manila, was a land engagement which took place in Manila on August 13, 1898, at the end of the Spanish–American War, four months after the decisive victory by Commodore Dewey's Asiatic Squadron at the Battle of Manila Bay.  The belligerents were Spanish forces led by Governor-General of the Philippines Fermín Jáudenes, and American forces led by United States Army Brigadier General Wesley Merritt and United States Navy Commodore George Dewey.  American forces were supported by units of the Philippine Revolutionary Army, led by Emilio Aguinaldo.
Answer: The Battle of Manila (February 3, 1945 – March 3, 1945)