Decisive Battles in History - Statistics

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Description	Battle	% Correct
1942 - 1943, Turning point of WWII on the Russian Front, the most hard-fought city in the war	Battle of Stalingrad	94%
1815, Napoleon I's final defeat, 100 days after he returns from Elba. Napoleon's army collapses after Prussian reinforcements arrive.	Battle of Waterloo	92%
1453, the Byzantine walls are finally penetrated by Ottoman Turks, after a thousand years of resistance	Siege of Constantinople	86%
circa 13th century BCE, in mythology, this city's destruction is believed to have been caused by the kidnapping of Helen of Sparta	Siege of Troy	83%
1805, Napoleon I smashes the combined Austrian and Russian army near Vienna, in a show of extreme military prowess	Battle of Austerlitz	81%
1863, the decisive battle of the American Civil War, where Robert E. Lee failed to win a victory on Union soil.	Battle of Gettysburg	78%
1529, Turks besiege Austria capital, threatening Europe from the east	Siege of Vienna	78%
1961, Cuban immigrants from the U.S. are trained and sent to land in Cuba and oust Fidel Castro, in this failed invasion.	Bay of Pigs Invasion	75%
1945, the Red Army fought street by street through the capital of the defeated Third Reich	Battle of Berlin	69%
1812, Napoleon attempts to destroy the Russian army and force a surrender, but Alexander I did not surrender, and Napoleon had to retreat	Battle of Borodino	69%
480 BCE, 300 Spartans die defending a mountain pass from the invading Persians	Battle of Thermopylae	69%
31 BCE, the final battle of the Wars of the Roman Republic, where Octavian defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at sea.	Battle of Actium	67%
1571, Christian combined fleet defeats Turkish fleet, temporarily stopping Ottoman ambitions	Battle of Lepanto	67%
1914, the thundering German advance onto Paris is halted for the first time at this river.	First Battle of the Marne	67%
1854, British and French cavalry charge at Russian artillery in Crimea, only to be promptly shot down.	Battle of Balaclava	64%
1916, British commander Douglas Haig attempts to soften the German attack on Verdun by mounting an offensive of his own. Armored vehicles were first used in combat in this battle.	Battle of the Somme	64%
1968, Ho Chi Minh decides to begin an all-out offensive against the US forces in Vietnam, during this event's namesake holiday	The Tet Offensive	64%
1187, the dehydrated Crusader army is lured to the Sea of Galilee, where they are promptly destroyed by Saladin's army	Battle of Hattin	61%
1916, only major naval battle in WWI, last one to not use aircraft	Battle of Jutland	61%
1943, the greatest tank battle in WWII is fought near this Russian town	Battle of Kursk	61%
1775, A British army captures the French colonial capital, ousting the French from North America	Siege of Quebec	61%
1485, the War of the Roses is concluded with Henry VII's victory over Richard III	Battle of Bosworth Field	58%
331 BCE, Alexander III outflanks Darius III's army, ending the Achaemenid Empire	Battle of Gaugamela	58%
333 BCE, Alexander III's second great victory over Persia, in southern Anatolia	Battle of Issus	58%
1632, the Swedish victory in Germany has Gustaphus Adophus II killed, in the Thirty Years War	Battle of Lutzen	58%
1813, After his return from Russia, Napoleon's fresh army attempts to fight the Sixth Coalition, before he is forced to abdicate for the first time	Battle of Leipzig	56%
1704, Marlborough saves Austria, and defeats the Franco-Bavarian army in the War of the Spanish Succession	Battle of Blenheim	53%
1066, Harold Godwinson, king of the Saxons defeats Norwegian invasion led by Harald Hardrada	Battle of Stamford Bridge	53%
378, Eastern Roman Emperor Valens is outflanked by the Visigothic cavalry, thus ending the domination of heavy infantry in battle	Battle of Adrianople	50%
1071, The Byzantine army is smashed by the Seljuk Turks, ending Byzantine rule in Asia Minor	Battle of Manzikert	50%
1950, UN forces land at a strategic North Korea port, forcing North Koreans to retreat	Landing at Inchon	50%
53 BCE, Crassus is killed and his legions are defeated by Parthian horse archers	Battle of Carrhae	47%
1798, Napoleon's defining victory in Egypt over the Mamluks, before he is forced to flee	Battle of the Pyramids	44%
1627, Cardinal de Richelieu captures the key Huguenot stronghold in Western France	Siege of La Rochelle	39%
1274 BCE, one of the first recorded battle in history, between Egypt and the Hittites	Battle of Kadesh	36%
326 BCE, Alexander's final great battle in his conquests before his army rebels	Battle of Hydaspes River	31%
1815, the last of Napoleon Bonaparte's victories, in Belgium	Battle of Ligny	28%
1396, the final crusade in the Middle Ages resulted in an easy victory for the Ottomans at this battle	Battle of Nicopolis	28%
1757, Frederick the Great of Prussia crushes the Hapsburgs and French in Saxony during the middle of the Seven Years' War	Battle of Rossbach	19%
102 BCE, Gaius Marius demostrates the power of a professional army drawn from the lower class, by defeating a Teutonic army in southern Gaul.	Battle of Aquae Sextiae	3%
1592, the Korean fleet led by Admiral Yi defeated the Japanese fleet, thus obligating the Japanes to retreat from Korea	Battle of Sacheon	0%

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