Famous Battles in History #2

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The Normans under William the Conqueror defeated the Anglo - Saxon army in this battle to secure the English throne ( 1066 )

Seljuk Turks defeat Crusader and Turcopole forces under King Guy in this battle ( 1187 )

Crusader army under Richard the Lionheart captured this vital seaport after a brief siege ( 1091 )

German troops under General Walter Model surrounded smaller US forces at this small Belgian village and attacked it but were repulsed , in one the key battles of the Ardennes Offensive ( 1944 )

This Belgian village was the furthest advance in the 3rd Battle of Ypres , and the scene of massive bloodshed ( 1917 )

Finnish and German forces besieged this Russian city for 859 days , with staggering military and civilian casualties in total ( 1941 - 44 )

The fearless charge of a British light regiment in this Crimean War battle inspired Alfred Tennyson's famous poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" ( 1854 )

In this battle in Pennsylvania , the Confederate army under Robert E. Lee was strategically defeated by a larger opposing Union army ( 1863 )

The Ottoman army crushed a Hungarian , German and Austrian army at this famous battle , in which the Hungarian king was also killed ( 1526 )

Hannibal and his Carthaginians obliterated a Roman army , but this devasting defeat did not give any significant advantage to the victors ( 216 BC )

In this disastrous battle which directly resulted in Winston Churchill's sacking , Australian , New Zealand and British troops attempting to invade Turkey via the sea were repulsed with heavy casualties by the Ottoman Turks ( 1915 - 16 )

An army of Polish - Lithuanian and Tartar Russian men defeated a much more experienced and well - equipped Teutonic army ( 1410 )

In this battle , a Swedish - Saxon army edged an Imperial army under renowned commander Prince Albricht Von Wallenstein , but the Swedish king , Gustav Adolph was killed while leading the charge ( 1632 )

In one of the bloodiest battles of World War I , German forces failed to capture this fortified French city , with massive casualties on both sides ( 1916 )

In the largest naval battle of WWI , the British Royal Navy and German Navy clashed but the result proved indecisive ( 1916 )