After severe computer troubles at the end of March and having to rediscover seven missing battles, here is the updated list:
1. Adrianople
2. Agincourt
3. Ain Jalut
4. Ankara
5. Antietam
6. Antioch
7. Artemisium
8. Austerlitz
9. Bannockburn
10. Bull Run (Manassas - First Battle)
11. Cannae
12. Carrhae
13. Catalaunian Plains
14. Chaeronea
15. Changping
16. Chittor Fort
17. Corinth
18. Eupatoria
19. Fredericksburg
20. Gaixia
21. Gallipoli
22. Gaugamela
23. Gettysburg
24. Granicus River
25. Hastings
26. Hydaspes River
27. Indus
28. Issus
29. Iwo Jima
30 & 31. Mongol Invasions of Japan
32. Julu
33. Jutland
34. Kadesh
35. Kalinga
36. Kazan
37. Kulikovo
38. Kursk
39 & 40. Lexington and Concord
41. Leyte Gulf
42. Malta
43. Marathon
44. Midway
45. Mobei
46. Mohi
47. Multan
48. Nahāvand
49. Normandy
50. Panipat
51. Passchendaele
52. Persian Gates
53. Pharsalus
54. Plataea
55. Pollilur
56. Poltava
57. Al-Qādisiyyah
58. Red Cliffs
59. Sakarya
60. Salamis
61. Salsu
62. Seringapatam
63. Sevastopol
64. Shiloh
65. Six-Day War
66. Somme
67. Talas
68. Tarain (Second Battle)
69. Telamon
70. Tenochtitlán
71. Teutoburg Forest
72. Tours (Poitiers)
73. Trafalgar
74. Ugra River
75. Verdun
76. Vienna
77. Waterloo
78. Watling Street
79. Yom Kippur War
80. Yorktown
81. Zama
In addition there are two additional battles that are not officially part of the list but deserve special mention:
A. Tyre (subject of the video "Alexander's Siege of Tyre, which inspired The 100 Greatest Battles)
B. Gulf War
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The siege of Tenochtitlan 1521, modern Mexico..Hernan Cortez Konkistador and only handfull of men captured and killed Atztec emperor Montezuma 2 and then with firepower and myth of Quetzalcoatl killed rest of the citys popula...+ the Smallpox what killed 40% of Atztecs....sorry my bad English...
ReplyDeleteAnd other is Francisco Pizarros destruction of Incas , finally in 1536 , Cusco, North-Peru....+++ stories , details. etc etc .. BUT The siege of Tenochtitlan 1521, modern Mexico.... belongs to the 100 greatest battle so you have one in south-America... Handfull of men destroyed hundreds of thousend men with sheer arrogance, bold, firepower and myth of Quetzalcoatl .. __ mynthon11
70. Tenochtitlán
ReplyDeleteAlready on the list, but thanks for the thought.
ok, But Pizarros doings happened in South , Peru etc etc... 1536 in Cusco , Peru, the Incans got "wiped out" ,Whole Culture, "Kingdom", people , traditions destroyed...
ReplyDelete__GENOSIDE ON INCAS__
__mynthon11
thanks SenorDee for comment , i should check the list and concentrste more.... , list was updated several times... Im not 100% sure if i even read the latest... :-()