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Famous Battles


Battle of Quatre Bras

Date 16th June 1815 Location Quatre Bras, Belgium War Napoleonic Wars Combatants France VS England, Netherlands Outcome Inconclusive

Battle of Poitiers

Date 19th September 1356 Location Poitiers, France War Hundred Years' War Combatants England VS France Outcome English victory

Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres)

Date 31st July - 10th November 1917 Location Ypres, Belgium War World War One Combatants Germany VS United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa Outcome Stalemate

Siege of Orléans

Date 12th October 1428 - 8th May 1429 Location Orléans, France War Hundred Years' War Combatants England VS France Outcome French victory

Battle of Okinawa

Date 1st April 1945 - 21st June 1945 Location Okinawa, Japan War World War Two Combatants Japan VS United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand Outcome Japanese defeat

Battle of Nashville

Date 15th - 16th December 1864 Location Davidson County, Tennessee War American Civil War Combatants Unionists VS Confederates Outcome Union victory

Battle of Naseby

Date 14th June 1645 Location Naseby, Market Harborough, Northamptonshire, England War English Civil War Combatants Royalists VS Parliamentarians Outcome Parliamentarian victory

Battle of Mount Tumbledown

Date 13th - 14th June 1982 Location Mount Tumbledown, Falklands Islands War Falklands War Combatants Britain VS Argentina Outcome British victory

Battle of Moscow

Date 2nd October 1941 - 7th January 1942 Location Moscow, USSR War World War Two Combatants Germany VS USSR Outcome Soviet Victory

Battle of Monte Cassino (Battle for Rome)

Date 17th January - 19th May 1944 Location Monte Cassino, Italy War World War Two Combatants Germany VS United Kingdom, United States, Poland, New Zealand, Canada Outcome German defeat

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