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Year Answer Region Notes % Correct
1863 AD Gettysburg North America Deadliest battle in United States history; Lincoln gave an address after it.
63%
1944 AD Normandy France The largest amphibious assault in history.
63%
480 BC Thermopylae Balkans Leonidas holds the Persians off, but doesn't survive.
63%
31 BC Actium Balkans (Sea) Decisive battle between the fleets of Octavian and Mark Anthony; Mark Anthony and Cleopatra died soon after.
50%
1274 BC Kadesh Levant The first battle documented by both sides. The first peace treaty followed it.
50%
1942 AD Midway Pacific Ocean Turning point in the Pacific War.
50%
312 AD Milvian Bridge Italy A decisive victory that Constantine credited the Christian god for.
50%
c. 1046 BC Muye China The Zhou Dynasty overthrows the Shang.
50%
1942-1943 AD Stalingrad Russia Soviets hold off the Nazis in a grueling 6-month battle in this city.
50%
1805 AD Trafalgar Iberia (Sea) British admiral Nelson loses his life despite victory over the French.
50%
1415 AD Agincourt France English longbowmen win a decisive battle against the French.
38%
331 BC Gaugamela Mesopotamia The final nail in the coffin for the Achaemenid Empire; Alexander the Great's masterpiece.
38%
2021 AD Kabul Central Asia It's fall marked the end of US involvement in Afghanistan.
38%
701 BC Lachish Levant Assyrian siege of an Israelite city.
38%
1457 BC Megiddo Levant Egypt crushes a coalition of Canaanite cities.
38%
48 BC Pharsalus Balkans Caesar triumphs over Pompey, making him the most powerful man in Rome.
38%
1777 AD Saratoga North America Considered the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.
38%
1444 AD Varna Balkans Murad II defeats another crusader army; slaying the king of Poland, Hungary & Lithuania.
38%
202 BC Zama Maghreb Scipio decisively defeats Hannibal, winning the 2nd Punic War for Rome.
38%
256 BC Ecnomus Italy (Sea) Considered one of the largest naval battles in history.
25%
2022 AD Kyiv Ukraine Three-month battle that denied Russia an immediate victory in Ukraine.
25%
1071 AD Manzikert Anatolia Seljuk victory leads to conquest of Anatolia; the First Crusade would be called to reverse this.
25%
1864 AD Nanjing China This Southern Capital's fall sealed the fate of the Taiping Rebellion.
25%
1950 AD Pusan Korea UN forces repel North Korean forces, going on to reconquer much of South Korea.
25%
1402 AD Ankara Anatolia Tamerlane crushes the Ottoman army and captures Sultan Bayezid.
13%
605 BC Carchemish Levant Battle between Egypt and Babylon over the remnants of the Assyrian Empire.
13%
338 BC Chaeronea Balkans Philip II establishes hegemony over Greece.
13%
530 AD Dara Mesopotamia Major battle as part of the Byzantine-Sasanian wars.
13%
1495 AD Fornovo Italy First battle of the roughly half-century Italian Wars.
13%
203 BC Gaixia China Decisive victory that unified China under the Han Dynasty.
13%
224 AD Hormozdgan Persia Shapur I overthrows the Parthian Arsacid Dynasty of Persia, restoring native rule to the country.
13%
301 BC Ipsus Anatolia A coalition of Diadochi defeats Antigonus.
13%
1389 AD Kosovo Balkans Decisive Ottoman victory over a crusader host; won at the cost of Sultan Murad's life.
13%
1571 AD Leponto Balkans (Sea) Catholic coalition defeats an Ottoman fleet off the coast of Greece.
13%
1632 AD Lützen Germany Climax of the 30 Years' War; King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden loses his life in battle against the Catholics.
13%
190/189 BC Magnesia Anatolia Decisive Roman victory over the Seleucids; Scipio also fought here.
13%
86 BC Orchomenus Balkans Pontic invasion of Roman Greece is defeated by Sulla.
13%
1556 AD Panipat India Akbar reconquers northern India for the Mughals.
13%
525 BC Pelusium Egypt The first battle in an Achaemenid invasion of Egypt.
13%
1709 AD Poltava Ukraine Another Swedish king falls in a climactic battle, against Russia, going into exile in the Ottoman Empire.
13%
1862 AD Puebla Mexico Ended the 2nd French invasion of Mexico; celebrated annually to this day.
13%
853 BC Qarqar Levant Aššur crushes a coalition of Canaanite states, including Israel & Aram-Damascus.
13%
c. 1175 BC The Delta Egypt Sea Peoples attempt to invade Egypt.
13%
547 BC Thymbra Anatolia A decisive battle that led to Persia's conquest of Lydia.
13%
636 AD Yarmuk Levant Rashidun forces decisively defeat a Byzantine host, solidifying control of the Levant.
13%
1922 AD Dumlupinar Anatolia Turkish forces expell the Greeks from Anatolia; the largest battle in the Turkish War of Independence.
0%
1870 AD Gravelotte France Largest battle of the Franco-Prussian War; paved the way for German unification.
0%
701/702/703 AD Tabarka Maghreb Saw the Muslim conquest of North Africa.
0%
910 AD Tettenhall Britain Anglo-Saxon victory over the Vikings that paved the way for the unification of England.
0%
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