Epic Battle Rankings
Fifty of the most significant battles in world history with year and associated war or conflict.
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Battle of Marathon (490, Greco-Persian Wars)—
Battle of Thermopylae (480, Greco-Persian Wars)—
Battle of Salamis (480, Greco-Persian Wars)—
Battle of Gaugamela (331, Wars of Alexander the Great)—
Battle of Cannae (216, Second Punic War)—
Battle of Actium (31, Final War of the Roman Republic)—
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9, Roman-Germanic Wars)—
Battle of Tours (732, Umayyad Expansion into Europe)—
Battle of Hastings (1066, Norman Conquest of England)—
Battle of Agincourt (1415, Hundred Years’ War)—
Fall of Constantinople (1453, Ottoman-Byzantine Wars)—
Battle of Lepanto (1571, Ottoman-Habsburg Wars)—
Battle of Vienna (1683, Great Turkish War)—
Battle of Blenheim (1704, War of the Spanish Succession)—
Battle of Saratoga (1777, American Revolutionary War)—
Battle of Yorktown (1781, American Revolutionary War)—
Battle of Austerlitz (1805, Napoleonic Wars)—
Battle of Trafalgar (1805, Napoleonic Wars)—
Battle of Waterloo (1815, Napoleonic Wars)—
Battle of Gettysburg (1863, American Civil War)—
Battle of Antietam (1862, American Civil War)—
Battle of Sedan (1870, Franco-Prussian War)—
Battle of Tsushima (1905, Russo-Japanese War)—
Battle of Tannenberg (1914, World War I)—
First Battle of the Marne (1914, World War I)—
Battle of Verdun (1916, World War I)—
Battle of the Somme (1916, World War I)—
Gallipoli Campaign (1915, World War I)—
Battle of Midway (1942, World War II)—
Battle of Stalingrad (1942, World War II)—
Battle of Kursk (1943, World War II)—
Second Battle of El Alamein (1942, World War II)—
Normandy Landings (1944, World War II)—
Battle of the Bulge (1944, World War II)—
Battle of Berlin (1945, World War II)—
Battle of Iwo Jima (1945, World War II)—
Battle of Okinawa (1945, World War II)—
Battle of Inchon (1950, Korean War)—
Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954, First Indochina War)—
Tet Offensive (1968, Vietnam War)—
Yom Kippur War Battles (1973, Arab-Israeli Conflict)—
Falklands War Battles (1982, Falklands War)—
Battle of Mogadishu (1993, Somali Civil War)—
First Battle of Fallujah (2004, Iraq War)—
Battle of Baghdad (2003, Iraq War)—
Battle of Kabul (2001, War in Afghanistan)—
Battle of Kosovo (1389, Ottoman Expansion in Balkans)—
Battle of Bannockburn (1314, First War of Scottish Independence)—
Battle of Poitiers (1356, Hundred Years’ War)—
Battle of Crécy (1346, Hundred Years’ War)—