Battles of the Middle Ages

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 Middle Ages

DATE	Location / Name	Attackers	Defenders	Victory
732	Battle of Tours	Charles Martel / Eudes d'Aquitaine (15 000 - 30 000 Franks)	Abd el Rahman (Abd-er-rahman) (20 000 - 60 000 Muslims)	Franks
Charles de Steuben, Bataille de Poitiers, oil on canvas painted circa 1834 -1837 (Musée du Château de Versailles, France / Public Domain).
1066	Battle of Hastings	William of Normandy 8 000 Normans supported by Bretons, Flemings and French	Harold Godwinson Circa 8 000 Anglo-Saxons	Normandy
Fragment of the tapestry of Bayeux, which shows the death of King Harold / La mort du roi Harold (Public Domain).
1214	Battle of Bouvines	Philip Augustus (25 000 men)	John Lackland (England) Otto IV (Germany) Ferrand de Flandre (Flandre) = 40 000 men	Philip Augustus
Horace Vernet (1789-1863), Bataille de Bouvines gagnée par Philippe Auguste (Public Domain).
1346	Battle of Crécy	Edward III (England) 12 000 soldiers including 7 000 archers	France 36 000 soldiers	England
Source: History Department at the United States Military Academy (Public Domain).
1356	Battle of Poitiers	Edward, the Black Prince (England)	John II (France)	England
Source: History Department at the United States Military Academy (Public Domain).
1410	Battle of Grunwald	Wladyslaw Jagiello and Vytautas the Great (Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania) 39 000 men	Ulrich von Jungingen (Teutonic Order) 27 000 men	Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Jan Matejko (1838-1893), Battle of Grunwald (Public Domain).
1415	Battle of Agincourt	Henry V of England 10 000 soldiers	Charles VI of France 30 000 soldiers	England
Source: Released in the Public Domain by its author, Andrei Nacu (Wikipedia Project).
1428 - 1429	Siege of Orléans	England starts the Siege in October 1428	Saint Joan of Arc allows the English to withdraw from Orléans and retreat to Meung on the 8th of May 1429	France
Jules Eugène Lenepveu (painted circa 1886-1890), Jeanne d'Arc au siège d'Orléans (Public Domain).
1453	The Siege of Constantinople	Mehmet II 100 000 - 200 000 Ottomans 126 ships	Emperor Constantine XI 10 000 Byzantines and 26 ships	Ottoman Sultanate
Fausto Zonaro(1854-1929), Mehmet II conquering Constantinople (Public Domain).