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World War II: 280,120 Soviet casualties; German casualties unknown Battle of Aachen: 1944: World War II: 21,000: Gothic Line offensive 1944-1945 World War II: 92,000: Battle of Hürtgen Forest: 1944 –1945 World War II: 63,000 [143] Courland Pocket: 1944 –1945 World War II: 278,819: Battle of Leyte Gulf: 1944: World War II: 12,000 killed ...
[78] – Part of World War II: World War II: 80,000,000 1939–1945 Allied powers vs. Axis Powers: Worldwide [24] – Largest and deadliest war in history Winter War: 153,736–194,837 1939–1940 Finland vs. Soviet Union Finland – Part of World War II: Greco-Italian War: 27,000+ 1940–1941 Greece vs. Italy Southeast Europe – Part of World ...
Roman–Sasanian War of 421–422 - The Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius II declared war against the Persians and obtained some victories, but in the end, the two powers agreed to sign a peace on the status quo ante. 422 – Battle of Tarraco – The Vandal king Gunderic defeat the Western Romans, making the Vandals the undisputed masters of ...
The Battle of Cannae (/ ˈ k æ n i,-eɪ,-aɪ /; [c] Latin: [ˈkanːae̯]) was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy.
• Battle of Leyte Gulf: The largest air-sea battle in history. • Operation Queen: was a joint British-American operation during World War II at the Western Front between Aachen and the Rur river. • Battle of Mindoro • Battle of Vianden: The only major open battle fought between the Luxembourgish Resistance against German forces ...
World War II deaths by country World War II deaths by theater. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history.An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. [1]
Battle of Stalingrad [46] [28] [page needed] [10] (winter of 1942–43). One of the turning points of World War II (European Theater). German General Friedrich Paulus failed to keep a mobile strategic reserve and the Sixth Army was surrounded by a rapid Soviet flanking attack. Rubble caused by German bombing and artillery fire left their tanks ...
[137] [246] [247] Despite the loss of a large army almost to the man of Varus' famous defeat at the hands of the Germanic leader Arminius in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD, [248] [249] [250] Rome recovered and continued its expansion up to and beyond the borders of the known world. Roman armies under Germanicus pursued several more ...