Battles of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries

Antiquity

Marathon, Salamis, Arbeles, Cannae, Alesia, Actium

Middle Ages

Poitiers, Hastings, Bouvines, Crecy, Grunwald, Agincourt, Orleans, Constantinople

1501 -1800

Marignano, Lepanto, Spanish Armada, Rocroi, Vienna, Fontenoy, Plassey, Quebec

Napoléon Bonaparte

Pyramids, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Jena, Leipzig, Waterloo

End of 19th Century

Gettysburg, Civil War, Sadowa, Koniggratz, Sedan, Spanish-American War

1901-1914 and WWI

Tsushima, Tannenberg, Marne, Verdun, Passchendaele

World War II

Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Midway, El Alamein, Dieppe, Stalingrad, Normandy

1950 - 2000

Korean War, Dien Bien Phu, Sinai, Khe Sanh, Saigon, Gulf War, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Post 9/11

War against terrorism, War in Iraq, Operations Telic, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom

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Battles of the Early Modern Era (1501 - 1800)

DATE	Location / Name	Attackers	Defenders	Victory
1515	Battle of Marignano	22 000 Swiss soldiers and Milanese Allies	Francis I of France and Venetian allies (39 000 French soldiers and allies)	Francis I and Bayard
Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (circa 1780-1850), Francis I at Marignano (Public Domain)
1571	Battle of Lepanto	Don John of Austria, papal forces, Spain, Venice, Genoa, Malta and other allies (208 ships flotilla)	Ali Pacha (approx. 300 ships, of which about 40 were able to sail away)	Don John of Austria and Allies
Fleet formation at the Battle of Lepanto Source: William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott, A History of Sea Power, 1920 (Public Domain)
1588	The Spanish Armada	Duke of Medina Sidonia 130 Spanish ships	Charles Howard / Francis Drake 197 English and Dutch ships	Kingdom of England and Dutch Republic
Map Courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy
1643	Battle of Rocroi	Louis II Condé, Duke of Enghien (France) 15 000 soldiers and 7 000 cavalry units	Armies of Flanders and Spain Commander : Francisco de Melo 18 000 soldiers and 9 000 cavalry units	France
Map Courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy
1683	Battle of Vienna	Jan III Sobieski (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) 30 000-man Polish relief army + 40 000 troops from the Habsburg army + 60 000 allies = 130 000 troops	Ottoman army, commanded by Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha 138 000 men	Jan III Sobieski
Jozef Brandt (1863), Battle of Vienna, Museum Wojska Polskiego (Public Domain)
1690	Battle of the Boyne	James II of Ireland 6 000 French and 19 000 Irish Catholics	William III of Orange 36 000 English and Protestant soldiers	William III of Orange
Jan Wyck (circa 1693), Battle of the Boyne (Public Domain)
1704	Battle of Blenheim	Duke of Marlborough (England) and Austrian Commander Eugene de Savoy	Count Camille de Tallard (France) and Elector of Bavaria Maximilian II Emmanuel	England and Austria
Maps Courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy
1709	Battle of Poltava	Charles XII of Sweden 25 000 soldiers	Peter the Great (Russia) 40 000 soldiers	Russia
Denis Marten the Younger (1726), Battle of Poltava (Public Domain)
1745	Battle of Fontenoy	Marshall Maurice de Saxe accompanied by Louis XV and 56 000 soldiers (France)	Duke of Cumberland (British), Marshall Konigseck (Austria), Holland and 50 000 English, Hanoverians, Austrian and Dutch soldiers	France
Plan of the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) [Public Domain]
1757	Battle of Plassey	Robert Clive (British East India Company) 3 000 English and Indian soldiers	Siraj-ud-daulah (Bengal) and French East India Company 50 000 soldiers	British East India Company
Francis Hayman (circa 1762), Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey (Public Domain)
1759	Siege of Quebec (Battle of the Plains of Abraham)	James Wolfe (Great Britain), including English, Irish and German soldiers	Marquis de Montcalm (France), including French, Canadian and Native soldiers	Great Britain
Hervey Smith (1797), View of the taking of Quebec on 13th September 1759 (Public Domain)
1760	Battle of Ste Foy (Sillery)	Chevalier de Lévis (France), including 6900 French, Canadian and Native soldiers	General James Murray (England), including 3500 English soldiers	France
George B. Campion (circa 1850), The Battle of Sainte-Foy (Public Domain)
1760 (September 8th)	Capitulation of Montreal	General Jeffery Amherst (Great Britain), including three British armies and 17 000 soldiers	Chevalier de Lévis and Pierre de Rigaud, marquis of Vaudreuil and governor of New France (Kingdom of France)	Great Britain, British America and Iroquois Confederacy (P.S.: the Franco-Canadian army decided to burn their flags instead of giving them to Amherst)
Reddition des Français à Montréal en 1760 (circa 1800) [Public Domain]
1777	Battles of Saratoga	General John Burgoyne (England) 7 200 soldiers (1st battle) 6 600 soldiers (2nd battle)	Horatio Gates (American Colonial Forces) with the support of Comte de Vergennes (France), Spain and Holland circa 9 000 - 15 000 soldiers	United States of America
Source: United States Army Center of Military History (1989). [Public Domain]
1781	Siege of Yorktown	George Washington, Comte de Rochambeau, Comte de Grasse France (12 000 soldiers) United States (9 000 soldiers)	Charles Cornwallis Great Britain Hesse-Kassel 9 000 soldiers	France / United States
Source: S.G. Goodrich, A Pictorial History of the United States, Philadelphia: J. H. Butler & Co., 1875, p. 277.
1792	Battle of Valmy	Duke of Brunswick (Prussia) 35 000 soldiers	France General Kellerman (Middle army) and General Dumouriez (Northern army) 47 000 soldiers	French Republic
Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (1835), Bataille de Valmy le 20 septembre 1792, Musée national du château de Versailles (Public Domain)