List of battles

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This is a list of the 600 best-known battles, ranked by reach: how many Wikipedia languages and sister sites have a page about each one.

#	Name	Year
1	Battle of Stalingrad1942 major battle of World War II
2	Battle of Waterloo1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition	1815
3	Attack on Pearl Harbor1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S	1941
4	Battle of ThermopylaeBattle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece	480 BC
5	Battle of Badr624 battle between the Muslims and the Quraysh near Badr (present-day Saudi Arabia)	624
6	Battle of HastingsBattle which occurred on 14 October 1066	1066
7	Fall of Constantinople1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
8	Battle of Marathon490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars	490 BC
9	Battle of Austerlitz1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition	1805
10	Battle of FranceNazi German invasion of France in 1940
11	Battle of Berlin1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
12	Battle of KurskWorld War II battle that took place in 1943	1943
13	Normandy landings1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
14	Battle of Grunwald1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania	1410
15	Battle of Verdun1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
16	Battle of the SommeBattle of the Western Front, World War I
17	Battle of ToursBattle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate	732
18	Battle of CannaeMajor battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)	216 BC
19	Battle of Mohács1526 major battle in 16th-century Central Europe	1526
20	Battle of Iwo Jima1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
21	Battle of LeipzigMajor battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
22	Battle of Manzikert1071 battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks	1071
23	Battle of Moscow1941 World War II campaign in Russia	1941
24	Battle of the Teutoburg ForestBattle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE	9
25	Battle of Vienna1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans	1683
26	Battle of Borodino1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia	1812
27	Battle of GaugamelaDecisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire	331 BC
28	Battle of UhudEarly Islamic battle	625
29	Battle of Agincourt1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War	1415
30	Battle of HattinVictory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
31	Battle of KarbalaBattle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali	680
32	Battle of PoltavaDecisive battle in the Great Northern War between Tsardom Russia and the Swedish Empire in 1709	1709
33	Battle of KosovoBattle on 28th June 1389	1389
34	Battle of YarmoukBattle of the Arab–Byzantine wars
35	Battle of Dien Bien PhuThe decisive battle of the First Indochina War
36	Battle of the Maureaco FieldsBattle between Romans and Huns in 451	451
37	First Battle of the Marne1914 First World War battle
38	Battle of Gettysburg1863 battle of the American Civil War
39	Battle of Okinawa1945 major battle of the Pacific War	1945
40	Battle of Plassey1757 battle which established the British Raj in India	1757
41	Battle of ZamaFinal battle of the Second Punic War	202 BC
42	Battle of KadeshBattle between Egyptians and Hittites fought in 1274 BCE	1274 BC
43	Siege of Baghdad1258 Mongol conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate
44	Battle of AnkaraBattle near Ankara on 20 July 1402, between the Timurid Empire and the Ottoman Sultanate	1402
45	Battle of Stamford Bridge1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK	1066
46	Battle of the TrenchFailed besieging of early Muslims by Arab and Jewish forces in 627 CE	627
47	Siege of MaltaOttoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
48	Battle of IssusSecond great battle of Alexander's conquest of Asia	333 BC
49	Battle of Kulikovo1380 battle between Russian principalities and Golden Horde	1380
50	Battle of Adrianople378 battle between Roman Empire and Goths	378
51	Battle of Plataea479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece	479 BC
52	Battle of Poitiers1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War	1356
53	Battle of the Alamo9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
54	Battle of Ain Jalut1260 battle between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Mongol Empire	1260
55	Battle of Bannockburn1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
56	Battle of Chaeronea338 BCE battle during the expansion of Macedonia under Philip II	338 BC
57	Battle of Crécy1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War	1346
58	Battle of Dunkirk1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
59	Battle of Tannenberg1914 battle between Russia and Germany
60	Battle of White MountainBattle ending Bohemian phase of Thirty Years' War (1620)	1620
61	Black January1990 massacre in Baku	1990
62	Fall of KabulTaliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021	2021
63	Siege of MariupolBattle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
64	Battle of AlesiaDecisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
65	Battle of the HydaspesBattle fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BCE against King Porus of the Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River (Jhelum River) in the Punjab near Bhera	326 BC
66	Marco Polo Bridge incident1937 initial battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War
67	Battle of CarrhaeAncient battle between Roman Republic and Parthian Empire in 53 BCE near modern Harran, Turkey	53 BC
68	Battle of Jena–Auerstedt1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition	1806
69	Battle of Monte Cassino1944 assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II
70	Battle of Sedan1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
71	Battle of the Kalka River1223 middle ages battle	1223
72	Battle of the Little BighornJune 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War	1876
73	Battles of Khalkhin Gol1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
74	Siege of Jerusalem1099 battle during which the Crusaders captured Jerusalem from the Fatimid Caliphate
75	Battle of NicopolisOttoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396	1396
76	Battle of the Granicus334 BCE battle between Macedonians and Persians	334 BC
77	Battle of the Ice1242 battle during Northern Crusades	1242
78	Battle of Varna1444 battle	1444
79	Liberation of Paris1944 military action that took place during World War II
80	Battle of Caporetto1917 battle of World War I
81	Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa1212 battle between Iberian Christian armies and an Almohad Muslim army	1212
82	Battle of Marengo1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition	1800
83	Battle of Panipat1526 battle.	1526
84	Battle of Sekigahara1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan	1600
85	Battle of Talas751 battle between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang dynasty
86	Battle of WarsawBattle of the 1920 Polish–Soviet War	1920
87	Second Battle of El Alamein1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
88	Siege of Constantinople717-718 combined land and sea offensive by the Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople
89	Third Battle of YpresBattle in the First World War
90	Battle of Bosworth Field1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses	1485
91	Battle of Pharsalus48 BCE decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War	48 BC
92	Battle of the Milvian Bridge4th-century battle for control of Rome	312
93	Battle of AdwaBattle between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy near the town of Adwa, the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War, securing Ethiopian sovereignty	1896
94	Battle of Crete1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete
95	Battle of Lake Trasimene217 BCE battle of the Second Punic War	217 BC
96	Battle of Sagrajas1086 battle of the Reconquista	1086
97	Battle of Singapore1942 World War II battle
98	Battle of the Pyramids1798 battle during the French invasion of Egypt	1798
99	First Battle of El Alamein1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
100	Iraqi invasion of Kuwait1990 major conflict between the Ba'athist Iraq and the state of Kuwait