Battle of Pelargir

The Battle of Pelargir was the battle in which Aragorn and the Grey Company, with the aid of the Army of the Dead, drove away the Corsairs from Gondor's coastal city of Pelargir.
== History ==
=== Prelude ===
After Aragorn had summoned the Army of the Dead at the Stone of Erech with Gimli, Legolas, the sons of Elrond, and the Grey Company, they planned their next move. Aragorn had discovered when using the palantír that a fleet of Haradrim Corsairs of Umbar was making its way up the Anduin to reinforce the Enemy, who had overrun the Pelennor and besieged Minas Tirith. Thus, Aragorn and company decided to intercept this fleet before it reached Minas Tirith, and then hopefully use the enemy vessels to swiftly move up the Anduin and break the siege. As they made their way through Gondor's southern provinces, they gradually gathered more and more reinforcements.
=== The battle ===
On March 13, 3019, Aragorn along with the Grey Company, and their new reinforcements including archers from the Blackroot Vale near Erech and infantry from Lebennin and Lamedon, finally intercepted the enemy fleet at Pelargir, a famous port city on the lower Anduin known for its skilled mariners. The Corsairs had foolishly delayed their arrival at the Pelennor by stopping at port towns along their way to loot and pillage them. While they were just about to do the same at Pelargir, Aragorn's forces arrived just in time to give them battle in the streets and harbour of the city. The moderately sized force of Aragorn was able to triumph over the much greater Corsair force by systematically defeating small units of men who were spread throughout the city. The Army of the Dead's chief weapon was fear, which drove the Corsairs manning the ships to flee their vessels and jump overboard, without giving battle. In just a short time, Aragorn's forces had freed Pelargir from the Corsair threat and had wrested control of their vessels, opening the way to a speedy relief of the Siege of Minas Tirith.
=== Afterward ===
Aragorn's army, now reinforced with mariners from Pelargir, could now sail up the Anduin unopposed, but first Aragorn had to disband the very useful Army of the Dead. Instead of taking them to fight at the Pelennor Fields, Aragorn decided to hold their oath fulfilled and thus freed them of their living death, much to their King's satisfaction. With the Corsair force defeated, Aragorn's army quickly loaded the vessels at Pelargir and set off up the Anduin to relieve the siege of Minas Tirith.﻿The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Five, Ch. II: "The Passing of the Grey Company"
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Slag van Pelargir
Alemannisch 	Schlacht am Pelargir
Albanian 	Beteja e Pelargir
Amharic 	ጰላርጊር የጦርነት
Arabic 	معركة پيلارعير
Aragonese 	Batalla de Pelargir
Armenian 	Պելարգիր Ճակատամարտ
Asturian 	Batalla de Pelargir
Azerbaijani 	Pelargir Döyüşü
Basque 	Pelargir Gudua
Belarusian Cyrillic	Пеларгір бітва
Bengali 	পেলার্গির যুদ্ধ
Bosnian 	Bitka kod Pelargir
Breton 	Emgann Pelargir
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Битка при Пеларгир
Catalan 	Batalla de Pelargir
Cebuano 	Sangka sa Pelargir
Chichewa 	Nkhondo ya Pelargir
Chinese 	佩拉格 之役
Cornish 	Batel Pelargir
Corsican 	Battaglia di e Pelargir
Croatian 	Bitka za Pelargir
Czech 	Bitva o Pelargir
Danish 	Slaget om Pelargir
Dutch 	Slag om Pelargir
Esperanto 	Batalo ĉe Pelargir
Estonian 	Pelargir lahing
Faroese 	Bardagi av Pelargir
Filipino 	Labanan ng Pelargir
Finnish 	Pelargirin taistelu
French 	Bataille de Pelargir
Frisian 	Slach om Pelargir (Western)
Galician 	Batalla de Pelargir
Georgian 	ფელარგირ ბრძოლა
German 	Schlacht von Pelargir
Greek 	Μάχη της Πελαργιρ
Gujarati 	પેલર્ગિર યુદ્ધ
Hebrew 	קרב פּילארגיר
Hindi 	पेलर्गिर का युद्ध
Hungarian 	Pelargir csata
Icelandic 	Orrustan um Pelargir
Indonesian 	Pertempuran Pelargir
Irish Gaelic 	Cath na Pelargir
Italian 	Battaglia di Pelargir
Japanese 	? 戦い
Javanese 	Perang Pelargir
Kannada 	ಪೆಲರ್ಗಿರ್ ಸಮರ
Kazakh 	Пеларгір шайқасы (Cyrillic) Pelargir şayqası (Latin)
Korean 	? 전투
Kurdish 	Şerê Pelargir (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Пэларгир салгылашы
Latin 	Pugna ad Pelargir
Latvian 	Pelargir Kauja
Lithuanian 	Pelargir Mūšis
Lombard 	Batàia de Pelargir
Luxembourgish 	Schluecht vu Pelargir
Macedonian Cyrillic	Битка кај Пеларгир
Malagasy 	Ady amin' ny Pelargir
Malaysian 	Peperangan Pelargir
Maltese 	Battalja ta' Pelargir
Manx 	Cah Pelargir
Maori 	Pakanga o Pelargir
Marathi 	पेल्अर्गिर युद्ध
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Пеларгир тулалдаан
Nepalese 	पेलर्गिर युद्ध
Norwegian 	Slaget om Pelargir
Occitan 	Batalha de Pelargir
Old English 	Beadu Pelargir
Pashto 	د جګړې پېلارګیر
Persian 	نبرد پهلارگیر
Polish 	Bitwa o Pelargir
Portuguese 	Batalha de Pelargir
Punjabi 	ਪੇਲਰ੍ਗਿਰ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ
Romanian 	Bătălia de la Pelargir
Romansh 	Pelargir Battaglia
Russian 	Битва при Пеларгире
Sardinian 	Batalla de Pelargir
Scots 	Battle o Pelargir
Scottish Gaelic 	Blàr Pelargir
Serbian 	Битка код Пеларгир (Cyrillic) Bitka kod Pelargir (Latin)
Sicilian 	Battagghia di li Pelargir
Sinhalese 	පෙලර්ගිර් සටන
Slovak 	Bitka o Pelargir
Slovenian 	Bitka za Pelargir
Somalian 	Dagaalka ee Pelargir
Sundanese 	Patempuran Pelargir
Spanish 	Batalla de Pelargir
Swahili 	Mapigano ya Pelargir
Swedish 	Slaget om Pelargir
Tagalog 	Labanan ng Pelargir
Tahitian 	Aroraa o te Pelargir
Tajik Cyrillic 	Ҷанг Пеларгир
Tamil 	பெலர்கிர் சமர்
Telugu 	పెలర్గిర యుద్ధము
Thai 	ยุทธการที่ ปเละริร ?
Tongan 	Tau 'o e Pelargir
Turkish 	Pelargir Muharebesi
Turkmen 	Pelargir Söwe
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Битва за Пеларґір
Urdu 	جنگ پےلارگیر
Uzbek 	Пеларгир Жанги (Cyrillic) Pelargir Jangi (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Trận Pelargir
Welsh 	Brwydr Pelargir
Yiddish 	שלאַכט פון פּעלאַרגיר
Yoruba 	Ogun ti Pelargir
Zulu 	Impi yase-Pelargir
== References ==
it:Battaglia di Pelargir
ru:Битва при Пеларгире
Category:Battles
Category:War of the Ring