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Hint	Answer	% Correct
On this city on the Volga, the German 6th Army was surrounded and captured	Stalingrad	93%
The turning point of the Pacific, four Jap carriers sunk	Midway	87%
Nelson's greatest victory, the English fleet destroyed the French one off Spain	Trafalgar	86%
The fate of Europe hung on five French beaches, mid-1944	D-Day	85%
The "Little Corporal" was defeated here for the last time, in 1815	Waterloo	85%
Meade smashed Lee in this town, the Confederacy's high mark	Gettysburg	83%
A suprise attack here forced America into another world war	Pearl Harbor	83%
William smashed Harold and took over all of England	Hastings	80%
Greek victory over Persia that became a long foot race	Marathon	80%
This well-remembered battle led to Texan independence	Alamo	79%
The Germans failed to take this Russian city after two-year siege	Leningrad	77%
The BEF was evacutated from this Northern French beachhead	Dunkirk	75%
A botched ANZAC attempt to capture Constantinople, 1915-16	Gallipoli	73%
The US Marines raised the Stars and Stripes on this rocky island	Iwo Jima	73%
Henry V miraculously beat off the French in the Hundred Year's War	Agincourt	70%
Where Cornwallis surrendered, ending the American Revolution	Yorktown	67%
Called the "Meat Grinder", the Germans failed to take this WW1 city	Verdun	66%
Napoleon's finest victory (1805), defeating the Austrians and Russians	Austerlitz	64%
After three charges, the Americans were forced off of this Boston hill	Bunker Hill	61%
Rommel was defeated by Monty at this crossroads near Alexandria	El Alamein	60%
In 1588, this large fleet was crushed by English ships and storms	Spanish Armada	60%
The large fleet battle of WW1, in the central North Sea	Jutland	59%
This Chinese town was pillaged by the Japs in an act of cruelty, 1937	Nanking	59%
Hitler's attempt to surround this Russian salient led to tank battles and defeat	Kursk	58%
The Spartan 300 sacrificed themselves to buy Athens time	Thermopylae	58%
This fort was bombarded, beginning the American Civil War	Fort Sumter	57%
Vain Custer was killed at his last stand by the Sioux	Little Bighorn	56%
The turning point of the Revolution, got France to come to US's aid	Saratoga	55%
The Muslims were halted from advancing by the Frankish army	Tours	52%
Small, jungle-filled island in the Solomons, 1942-3	Guadalcanal	50%
Lee's first invasion of the North was bloodily repulsed here	Antietam	47%
Hannibal defeated a Roman Legion using nimble tactics in the Punic Wars	Cannae	42%
The first naval battle fought long-distance, south of New Guinea, 1942	Coral Sea	40%
The Gettysburg of the West, Grant took this town after a long seige	Vicksburg	40%
The definitive sea battle of the Greeks, ended the Greco-Persian Wars	Salamis	38%
The largest navy battle in history, just off the Philippine Islands, 1944	Leyte Gulf	31%
Washington led his tiny army to victory over a Hessian garrison	Trenton	31%
Cleopatra and Mark Antony's navy was defeated by Octavian	Actium	30%
The Ottoman main fleet was smashed by Venetians and Genoans	Lepanto	30%
The Japanese defeated the Russian fleet during the Russo-Japanese War	Tsushima	25%
Alexander smashed Darius's larger force north of Babylon	Gaugamela	24%
Francis Key noticed the resolute American flag on this fort's wall	Fort McHenry	23%
The thirsty crusaders were defeated by Saladin's cavalry, 1187	Hattin	21%
The first, bloody battle of the Western Civil War, Grant vs. Johnston	Shiloh	21%
This decisive victory of the Thirty Year's War saw the Swedish king killed	Lutzen	18%

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