Early Modern
19 battles
Battle of Lepanto
The last great naval battle fought primarily with oar-powered galleys. The Holy League destroyed the...
Battle of Yorktown
The decisive battle that won American independence. Washington trapped Cornwallis with French naval ...
Battle of Saratoga
Called the turning point of the American Revolution. The American victory convinced France to ally w...
Battle of Mohacs
The Ottoman victory destroyed the Hungarian kingdom in 2 hours. King Louis II drowned in a creek fle...
Battle of Lutzen
The Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus was killed while leading a cavalry charge. His body was found str...
Battle of Poltava
Peter the Great destroyed the Swedish army, ending Swedens status as a great power. Charles XII had ...
Battle of Plassey
Robert Clive defeated the Nawab of Bengal with only 3,000 men against 50,000. Treachery within the B...
Battle of Leuthen
Frederick the Greats masterpiece, defeating an Austrian army twice his size. Used the oblique order ...
Battle of Rossbach
Frederick defeated a combined Franco-Austrian army with only half the troops. Used deceptive movemen...
Battle of Sekigahara
The battle that unified Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate for 268 years. Defections during the batt...
Battle of Nagashino
The first major use of massed firearms in Japanese warfare. 3,000 matchlock guns fired in rotating v...
Battle of Vienna 1683
Polish winged hussars led the largest cavalry charge in history, 18,000 horsemen, breaking the Ottom...
Battle of Cajamarca
Pizarro captured the Inca emperor Atahualpa by ambush, killing thousands with horses, steel, and gun...
Battle of Pavia
The first decisive battlefield victory of handheld firearms at scale. Spanish arquebusiers and Germa...
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
Philip II sent 130 ships to escort an invasion army from Flanders. English ships harassed the cresce...
Battle of Breitenfeld
Gustavus Adolphus won the greatest Protestant victory of the Thirty Years War. Flexible Swedish brig...
Battle of Rocroi
The 21-year-old Duc dEnghien crushed the famous Spanish tercios of Flanders. French cavalry swept th...
Battle of Blenheim
Marlborough and Prince Eugene marched from the Rhine to the Danube and struck the French before they...
Battle of Quebec
Wolfe scaled the cliffs at night to the Plains of Abraham above the city. Both commanders were morta...