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Battles in History
ANCIENT TIMES - 1499
1500 - 1699
1700 - 1799
1800 - 1899
1900 - TODAY
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BATTLE |
WAR |
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1457 BC |
Battle of
Megiddo |
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1275 BC |
Battle of
Kadesh |
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609 BC |
Battle of
Megiddo |
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495 BC |
Battle of
Lade |
Ionian
Revolt |
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September 490 B.C. |
Battle of Marathon |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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August 480 B.C. |
Battle of Thermopylae |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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August
480 B.C. |
Battle of Artemisium |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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September 21,
480 B.C. |
Raid on Athens |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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September 29,
480 B.C. |
Battle of Salamis |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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August 27,
479 B.C. |
Battle of Plataea |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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479 B.C. |
Battle of Mycale |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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466 B.C. |
Battle of
Eurymedon |
Greco-Persian Wars |
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418 B.C. |
First
Battle of Mantineia |
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415 B.C. - 413 B.C. |
Siege of Syracuse |
Peloponnesian
War |
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401 B.C. |
Battle of Cunaxa |
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394 B.C. |
Battle of Nemea |
Corinthian War |
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376 B.C. |
Battle of
Naxos |
Boeotian-Spartan
War |
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375 B.C. |
Battle of Tegyra |
Boeotian-Spartan
War |
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371 B.C. |
Battle of Leuctra |
Boeotian-Spartan
War |
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362 B.C. |
Second
Battle of Mantineia |
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338 B.C. |
Battle of Chaeronea |
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334 B.C. |
Battle of the Granicus |
Alexander's
Conquest |
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333 B.C. |
Battle of Issus |
Alexander's
Conquest |
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331 B.C. |
Battle of Gaugamela |
Alexander's
Conquest |
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331 B.C. |
Battle of Megalopolis |
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326 B.C. |
Battle of the Hydaspes |
Alexander's
Conquest |
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321 B.C. |
Battle of Caudine Forks |
Great
Samnite War |
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301 B.C. |
Battle of Ipsus |
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295 B.C. |
Battle of Sentinum |
Third
Samnite War |
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281 B.C. |
Battle of Corupedium |
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280 B.C. |
Battle of Heraclea |
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279 B.C. |
Battle of Asculum |
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217 B.C. |
Naval
Battle of Tarraco |
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217 B.C. |
Battle of Trasimene |
Second Punic War |
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216 B.C. |
Battle of Cannae |
Second Punic War |
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208 B.C. |
Battle of Baecula
(Battle of Bailen) |
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207 B.C. |
Battle of the Metaurus |
Second Punic War |
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206 B.C. |
Battle of Ilipa |
Second Punic War |
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202 B.C. |
Battle of Zama |
Second Punic War |
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190 B.C. |
Battle of
Magnesia |
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168 B.C. |
Battle of
Pydna |
Third Macedonian War |
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86 B.C. |
Battle of Chaeronea |
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82 B.C. |
Battle of Colline Gate |
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57 BC |
Battle of the Sambre |
Gallic Wars |
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56 BC |
Battle of Quiberon Bay |
Gallic Wars |
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53 B.C. |
Battle of Carrhae |
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52 BC |
Battle of Gergovia |
Gallic Wars |
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52 BC |
Siege of Alesia |
Gallic Wars |
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48 B.C. |
Battle of Pharsalus |
Roman Civil War |
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47 B.C. |
Battle of Zela |
Roman Civil War |
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46 B.C. |
Battle of
Thapsus |
Roman Civil War |
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45 B.C. |
Battle of Munda |
Roman Civil War |
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42 B.C. |
Battle of Philippi |
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September 2, 31 B.C. |
Battle of Actium |
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AD 9 |
Battle of
the Teutoburg Forest |
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AD 312 |
Battle of
the Milvian Bridge |
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September 28, 351 |
Battle of Mursa |
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August 9, 378 |
Battle of Adrianople |
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451 |
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains |
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680 |
Battle of Lucofao |
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687 |
Battle of Tertry |
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October 732 |
Battle of Tours
(also called Battle of Poitiers) |
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841 |
Battle of Fontenoy |
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August 881 |
Battle of Saucourt |
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937 |
Battle of Brunanburgh |
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939 |
Battle
of Andernach |
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August 955 |
Battle of the Lechfeld |
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991 |
Battle of Maldon |
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1047 |
Battle of Val-ès-Dunes |
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1054 |
Battle of Mortemer |
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1058 |
Battle of Varaville |
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September 25, 1066 |
Battle of Stamford Bridge |
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October 14, 1066 |
Battle of Hastings |
Norman Conquest |
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1176 |
Battle of Legnano |
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September 7, 1191 |
Battle of Arsuf |
Third Crusade |
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July 18, 1195 |
Battle of
Alarcos |
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July 16, 1212 |
Battle of
Navas de Tolosa |
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July 27, 1214 |
Battle of
Bouvines |
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May 20, 1217 |
Battle of Lincoln |
First Barons' War |
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1237 |
Battle of Cortenuova |
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April 9, 1241 |
Battle of Liegnitz
(also called Battle of Legnica) |
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May 1241 |
First Battle of Meloria |
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1277 |
Battle of
Desio |
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1282 |
Sicilian Vespers |
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August 1284 |
Second Battle of Meloria |
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1298 |
Battle of Falkirk |
Scottish Wars of Independence |
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July 11, 1302 |
Battle of
the Golden Spurs |
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June 23-24, 1314 |
Battle of
Bannockburn |
Scottish Wars of Independence |
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November 15, 1315 |
Battle of
Morgarten |
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1340 |
Battle of
Sluys |
Hundred Years' War |
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1346 |
Battle of
Crécy |
Hundred Years' War |
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September 19, 1356 |
Battle of Poitiers |
Hundred Years' War |
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1372 |
Battle of
La Rochelle |
Hundred
Years' War
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September 8,
1380 |
Battle of
Kulikovo |
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July 20, 1402 |
Battle of
Ankara |
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July 15, 1410 |
Battle of Grunwald
(also called Battle of Tannenberg) |
Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War |
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October 25,
1415 |
Battle of
Agincourt |
Hundred Years' War |
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1424 |
Battle of Verneuil |
Hundred Years' War |
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October 12,
1428 -
May 8, 1429 |
Siege of Orleans |
Hundred Years' War |
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February 12,
1429 |
Battle of the Herrings
(Battle of Rouvay) |
Hundred Years' War |
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1450 |
Battle of
Formigny |
Hundred Years' War |
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July 17,
1453 |
Battle of
Castillon |
Hundred Years' War |
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April 14, 1471 |
Battle of Barnet |
Wars of the Roses |
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May 4, 1471 |
Battle of Tewkesbury |
Wars of the Roses |
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June 22, 1476 |
Battle of Morat |
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