The Actions along the Matanikau—sometimes referred to as the Second and Third Battles of the Matanikau—were two separate but related Cause_to_be_included engagements Hostile_encounter , which took place Process_start in the months of September and October 1942 , among a series of engagements between the United States and Imperial Japanese naval and ground forces Causation around the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal ( island in the southwestern Pacific , northeast of Australia ) during the Guadalcanal Campaign .

The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux ( also Actions of Villers-Bretonneux , after the First Battles of the Somme , 1918 ) took place Process_start from 24 to 27 April 1918 , during the German Spring Offensive to the east of Amiens .

The Actions in Nordland were part of the Norwegian Campaign Military_operation of World War II .