Medieval
24 battles
Battle of Hastings
William the Conqueror defeated King Harold II, who allegedly took an arrow to the eye. The Norman co...
Battle of Agincourt
English longbowmen destroyed French knights in mud and rain. Henry Vs army of 6,000 defeated 30,000 ...
Battle of Tours
Charles Martel halted the Muslim advance into Western Europe. Whether it truly saved Christendom is ...
Siege of Constantinople 1453
Ended the Byzantine Empire after 1,123 years. Sultan Mehmed II used enormous cannons, including one ...
Battle of Manzikert
The Seljuk Turks defeated the Byzantines and captured Emperor Romanos IV. The battle opened Anatolia...
Battle of Hattin
Saladin destroyed the Crusader army, capturing the King of Jerusalem and the True Cross relic. The b...
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
The decisive battle of the Spanish Reconquista. Combined Christian kingdoms crushed the Almohad Cali...
Battle of Kosovo
Both leaders died: Prince Lazar was captured and executed, Sultan Murat was assassinated. Serbia bec...
Battle of Maldon
An English defeat by Norse raiders. Byrhtnoth, the English leader, was killed standing his ground. T...
Battle of Grunwald
The combined Polish-Lithuanian army destroyed the Teutonic Knights, ending their power in the Baltic...
Battle of Bannockburn
Robert the Bruce defeated Edward IIs much larger English army. The English cavalry bogged down in ma...
Battle of Yarmouk
A decisive Arab victory that opened Syria and the Levant to Islamic conquest. Khalid ibn al-Walid co...
Battle of Talas
The only direct clash between the Arab Abbasid and Chinese Tang empires. The Karluks defected mid-ba...
Battle of Stamford Bridge
Harold Godwinson marched his army 185 miles north in four days and annihilated the invading Norwegia...
Battle of Legnano
The cities of the Lombard League defeated Frederick Barbarossa, halting imperial control of northern...
Battle of Bouvines
Philip II Augustus defeated a coalition of England, the Holy Roman Empire, and Flanders. Emperor Ott...
Battle of Mohi
Batu Khan and Subutai destroyed the Hungarian army in a single day. King Bela IV fled to the Adriati...
Battle of Liegnitz
A Mongol detachment crushed a Polish and German army including the Teutonic Knights. Henry the Pious...
Battle of Ain Jalut
The first major defeat of a Mongol army in the field. The Mamluk sultan Qutuz and commander Baybars ...
Battle of Falkirk
Edward I defeated William Wallace. The Scottish schiltrons of massed spears held off cavalry but wer...
Battle of Crecy
The first great triumph of the English longbow. Edward III and the Black Prince defeated a French ar...
Battle of Poitiers
The Black Prince captured King John II of France. English and Gascon forces hid behind hedges and sm...
Battle of Nicopolis
The last great crusade of the Middle Ages ended in disaster. French knights refused to wait for the ...
Battle of Bosworth Field
Richard III became the last English king to die in battle. Leading his household knights in a desper...