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Eighty Years' War: 166 Battle of Solebay: 1672 Third Anglo-Dutch War: 3,100 Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue: 1692 Nine Years' War: 10,000 Battle of Pondicherry: 1759 Seven Years' War: 1,589 Battle of Chesma: 1770 Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) 12,000 Battle of Dogger Bank: 1781 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War: 988 Battle of Vyborg Bay: 1790 Russo ...
Lists of battles fought in the Americas Lists of battles fought in U.S. states (see also Category:Battles by U.S. state): Lists of battles fought in Europe (see also List of conflicts in Europe) Last battle on British soil; List of wars in the Low Countries until 1560; List of wars in the southern Low Countries (1560–1829) List of conflicts ...
The Battle of Grunwald [a] was fought on 15 July 1410 during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War.The alliance of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila), and Grand Duke Vytautas, decisively defeated the German Teutonic Order, led by Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen.
Europe and the Middle East Thirty Years' War: 4.5–8 million [23] [24] 1618–1648 Anti-Imperial Alliance vs. Imperial Alliance Europe Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: 7.7 million [25] 1533–1572 Spanish Empire vs. Inca Empire: South America Reconquista: 7 million [26] [27] [28] 718–1492 Christian peninsular kingdoms vs. Muslim ...
Involving 610,000 combat participants and 164,000 combatant casualties, it was the largest modern-era battle fought prior to World War I, and possibly the largest battle in world history at that point. [8] The scale of the battle, particularly in the amount of ordnance being expended, was unprecedented in world history.
The battle is generally dated to May 1274 BC, as accounted by Egyptian chronology, [14] and is the earliest pitched battle in recorded history for which details of tactics and formations are known. It is believed to be the largest battle ever fought involving chariots, numbering at a total of 5,000 to 6,000. [15] [16] [17]
The Battle of Kursk was a major World War II Eastern Front battle between the forces of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union near Kursk in southwestern Russia during the summer of 1943, resulting in a Soviet victory. The Battle of Kursk is the single largest battle in the history of warfare.
The Battle of Megiddo (fought 15th century BC) was fought between Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III and a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the king of Kadesh. [4] It is the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. [5]