Famous battles in history

Definitely welcome back Friedrich!

Bagration? Tali-Ihantala 1944?

 

Thank you, Kai! Glad to see you as well!

I thought of 'Bagration' but it is nowhere famous outside WWII buff circles... and I just knew that, if you posted, you were going to suggest Tali-Ihantala!

 

There shouldn't be an p in port, right?

 

You only missed out one in my view...but one that shaped a lot of lives...mine included..

The battle of the windmills....Cervantes...

 

A dreadful battle, inevitably fought every day...

But no one can deny its pictorial value, right?

 

Now thats a version I havent seen before...

Great book, second only to the other one before Carl corrects me.

 

Hadn't you seen Gustav Doré's illustrations? They're supperb! And he has sets about every book: the Bible, Dante's Comedy, the Crusades...

 

Excellent list the only one that comes to mind i would have added would have been the battle of first bull run/manassas in 1861 though its famous for the sole reason the union lost and we misjudged the south and their will to fight.

 

Well I have now, thanks for that. I like Charon...Divine Comedy...one of my favourite music bands too...But we're off topic. We'll get em all thinking one of us is crazy...Not me, I've been checked...Well only by the forces.

 

Here is a list that I came up with off the top of my head, I know there's others but here are a few I can think of:

Kadesh, 1274 BC
Marathon, 490 BC
Thermopylae, Salamis, 480 BC
Granicus, 333 BC
Issus, 333 BC
Gaugamela, 331 BC
Hydapses River, 320's (cant remember the exact date) BC
Cannae, 216 BC
Raphia, 216 BC
Zama, 202 BC
Cynoscephalae, 197 BC
Pydna, 168 BC
Siege of Alesia, 52 BC
Pharsalus, 48 BC
Actium, 31 BC
Teutoburger Wald, 9 AD
Adrianople, 378
Chalons, 451
Tours, 732
Stamford Bridge and Hastings, 1066
Jerusalem, 1099
Stirling bridge, 1200's (cant remembe the date on tis one either)
Bannockburn, 1314
The Boyne, 1690
Poltava, 1709
Culloden Moor, 1745
Saratoga, 1777
Yorktown, 1781
Austerlitz, 1805
Borodino, 1812
Liepzig, 1813
Waterloo, 1815
New Orleans, 1812
The Alamo, 1836
The Seven Days', 1862
Antietam, 1862
Gettysburg, 1863
Grant's Wilderness Campaign, 1864
Atlanta Campaign, 1864
Rorke's Drift, 1879
The Little Bighorn, 1876
The Marne, 1914
Tannenberg, 1914
The Somme, 1916
Cambrai, 1917
Argonne Forest, 1918
Easter Rebellion, 1916
Poland, 1939
Dunkirk, 1940
Britian, 1940-41
Barbarossa, 1941
Moscow, 1941
Leningrad, 1941-44
Stalingrad, 1942-43
Kursk, 1943
El Alamein, 1942
Imphal, 1944
Guadalcanal, 1942
Phillipines, 1944
Normandy, 1944
Bagration, 1944
Berlin, 1945
Okinawa, 1945
Inch'on, 1950
Dien Bein Phu, 1954
Ia Drang, 1965
The Six-Day War, 1967
The Tet Offensive, 1968
The Yom Kippur War, 1973
Operation Gothic Serpent (Somalia), 1993
Operation Desert Storm, 1991
Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003

 

Ive noticed there is a 376 year gap between Bannockburn, 1314
The Boyne, 1690... Man must have been a peaceful time to live in!

 

Not sure but any how, important for the Irish.

The Irish Civil War 1922–23 was mainly small battles.

 

The Arab-Israeli Conflict 1948

Got to be the most important one for Israel.

 

I forgot the Hundred year's war, a few battles from that were really important:

Crecy
Poiters
Agincourt
Orleans

 

Fat chance!
In deference to you, here's a few from that period-

Kosovo 1389-Serbia forced to become a vassal of the Ottomans
Grunwald 1410-End of the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic war and downfall of the Teutonic Knights.
Sauchieburn 1488- James III of Scotland flees early from a battle his forces are losing to a rebel army, and is murdered by a priest.
Constantinople 1453- end of the Eastern Holy Roman Empire.
Bosworth Field 1485- End of Yorkists hopes for the English crown.
Flodden 1513- James IV and the cream of Scottish nobility are massacred in the largest battle ever fought against the English.
Zusmarshausen and Lens 1647-The Habsburg's final defeat of the Thirty Years War which left their power severely curtailed.
Worcester 1651- Charles I's final defeat and the end of the English Civil War.

 

I see this list too inclined towards the northern edge of the British isles...

And since when Bizantium was a 'Holy' empire?

 

Talavera 1809...One of the least famous battles of the Peninsular war, but none the less important. Napoleon had all the advantages and was still given a bloody nose by the "The Iron Men of the Peninsular". It highlighted to the French, that even their elite guards regiments were susceptible to superior hardened soldiers under Wellingtons command. Also, the British Artillery proved Napoleons own rule, that Artillery is the "King of the Battlefield" and decimated many of his troops through their accuracy and rate of fire. This allowed for the retreat and subsequent regroup of the British forces to take place, and victory to be gained, from the jaws of defeat. It was here that the French were forced onto the backfoot, and it changed the course of the Peninsular campaigns of both the British and the French.