1 Fall of Troy (c.1200 BC?) 2 Sardis (546 BC) 3 Marathon (490 BC) 4 Salamis (480 BC) 5 Thermopylae (480 BC) 6 Gaugamela (331 BC) 7 Cannae (216 BC) 8 Zama (202 BC) 9 Mount Vesuvius (Spartacus) (73 BC) 10 Zela (47 BC) 11 Actium (31 BC) 12 Milvian Bridge (312) 13 Adrianople (378) 14 Catalaunian Fields (Field of Chalons) (451) 15 Airikina (c.510) 16 Poitiers (732) 17 Talas River (751) 18 Roncevalles (778) 19 Edington (878) 20 Lechfeld (955) 21 Strumitsa (1014) 22 Clontarf (1014) 23 Capture of Baghdad (1055) 24 Hastings (1066) 25 Legnano (1176) 26 Hattin (1187) 27 Arsuf (1191) 28 Siege of Beijing (1215) 29 Legnica/Liegnitz (1241) 30 Lake Peipus (1242) 31 Ain Jalut (1260) 32 Bannockburn (1314) 33 Siege of Algeciras (1342) 34 Crécy (1346) 35 Defence of Moscow (1382) 36 Agincourt (1415) 37 Fall of Constantinople (1453) 38 Belgrade (1456) 39 Fall of Tenochtitlan (1521) 40 Mohacs (1526) 41 Lepanto (1571) 42 Spanish Armada (1588) 43 Sekigahara (1600) 44 Breitenfeld (1631) 45 Naseby (1645) 46 Siege of Vienna (1683) 47 Narva (1700) 48 Blenheim (1704) 49 Poltava (1709) 50 Hohenfriedberg (1745) 51 Plassey (1757) 52 Leuthen (1757) 53 Quebec (1759) 54 Yorktown (1781) 55 Valmy (1792) 56 Marengo (1800) 57 Austerlitz (1805) 58 Trafalgar (1805) 59 Leipzig (1813) 60 Waterloo (1815) 61 Maipû (1818) 62 Navarino Bay (1827) 63 Solferino (1859) 64 Volturno River (1860) 65 Bull Run (1861) 66 Gettysburg (1863) 67 Königgrätz (1866) 68 Little Big Horn (1876) 69 Rorke's Drift (1879) 70 Tacna (1880) 71 Shangani (1894) 72 Omdurman (1898) 73 Tsushima (1905) 74 Siege of Edirne (1913) 75 Tannenberg (1914) 76 First Battle of the Marne (1914) 77 Verdun (1916) 78 Cambrai (1917) 79 Caporetto (1917) 80 Tsaritsyn (1918) 81 Warsaw (1920) 82 Battle of France (1940) 83 Battle of Britain (1940) 84 Sinking the Bismarck (1941) 85 Fall of Singapore (1942) 86 Second Battle of Kharkov (1942) 87 Midway (1942) 88 Guadalcanal (1942-3) 89 Stalingrad (1942-3) 90 Kursk (1943) 91 Bagration (1944) 92 Operation 'Cobra' (1944) 93 Leyte Gulf (1944) 94 Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945) 95 Dien Bien Phu (1954) 96 Santa Clara (1958) 97 Six-Day War (1967) 98 Falklands (1982) 99 Desert Storm (1991) 100 Baghdad (2003).
A History of War in 100 Battles