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14 battles

Battle of Waterloo

1815Napoleonic Wars

Napoleons final defeat, ending 23 years of war. The Duke of Wellington called it a near-run thing. N...

Battle of Trafalgar

1805Napoleonic Wars

Lord Nelson destroyed the combined French-Spanish fleet, ensuring British naval supremacy for a cent...

Battle of Austerlitz

1805Napoleonic Wars

Napoleons masterpiece, called the Battle of the Three Emperors. He deliberately weakened his right f...

Battle of Gettysburg

1863American Civil War

The turning point of the American Civil War and the bloodiest battle on American soil with 51,000 ca...

Battle of Isandlwana

1879Anglo-Zulu War

Zulu warriors destroyed a British camp, killing over 1,300 soldiers. The worst defeat of a modern ar...

Battle of Omdurman

1898British Colonial Sudan

A young Winston Churchill charged with the 21st Lancers. British Maxim guns killed 11,000 Sudanese w...

Battle of Puebla

1862French Intervention in Mexico

A outnumbered Mexican force defeated the French army on May 5, celebrated as Cinco de Mayo. The vict...

Battle of Friedland

1807Napoleonic Wars

Napoleon destroyed the Russian army of Bennigsen as it stood with its back to a river. Attacking lat...

Battle of Borodino

1812Napoleonic Wars

The bloodiest single day of the Napoleonic Wars, with around 70,000 total casualties. Kutuzov blocke...

Battle of Leipzig

1813Napoleonic Wars

The Battle of Nations, the largest battle in European history before World War I. Over half a millio...

Battle of New Orleans

1815War of 1812

Andrew Jacksons ragtag army of regulars, pirates, militia, and free men of color entrenched behind e...

Battle of Antietam

1862American Civil War

The bloodiest single day in American military history, with over 22,000 casualties. Lees divided arm...

Battle of Sedan

1870Franco-Prussian War

The decisive encirclement of the French army under Emperor Napoleon III. Prussian artillery dominate...

Battle of Tsushima

1905Russo-Japanese War

Admiral Togo annihilated the Russian Baltic Fleet, which had sailed 18,000 miles around the world to...