Name The Battle - Difficult #4 - Statistics

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Year Description Battle % Correct
1942 CE British base in Southeast Asia, nicknamed "Gibraltar of the East" is taken by the Japanese in WWII; the event was also called a "Fall" and is regarded as a military disaster for the Allies Battle of Singapore
79%
1942 CE Major naval battle between Allied and Japanese forces in the Pacific; strategically prevented Japanese advance, was first engagement between aircraft carriers, and first naval battle where no ships from either side sighted or fired directly on each other Battle of the Coral Sea
71%
52 BCE Also known as a siege; a Roman victory under Julius Caesar against Gallic tribes led by Vercingetorix, ending organised resistance to Roman rule by the Gauls Battle of Alesia
64%
1940 CE Nazi German conquest of France in WWII Battle of France
64%
1916 CE Successful French defence against German attack on fortified area of national significance to France in WWI Battle of Verdun
64%
1356 CE The second of the three great English victories in the Hundred Years' War; Black Prince's victory and capture of the French king Battle of Poitiers
57%
1297 CE Victory won by William Wallace and Andrew de Moray against the English in the First War of Scottish Independence at a bridge Battle of Stirling Bridge
57%
1917 CE Major Allied offensive against German forces in WWI on the Western Front in West Flanders, Belgium; of debated impact and result on both sides Battle of Passchendaele
50%
1898 CE British and Egyptians under Kitchener decisively defeat Khalifa Mahdi claimant's forces in Sudan, part of the Mahdist War Battle of Omdurman
43%
1620 CE Major battle between Bohemians and Holy Roman Empire, Spanish and Catholic League forces in Thirty Years' War; victory for Catholics with relatively little fighting, considered the end of the Bohemian period of the war Battle of White Mountain
43%
326 BCE Major victory of Alexander the Great of Macedon over King Porus of Paurava in the Punjab in India Battle of the Hydaspes
36%
279 BCE Battle that resulted in the coining of the term "Pyrrhic victory"; King Pyrrhus of Epirus' victory over the Roman Republic in the Pyrrhic War Battle of Asculum
21%
1936 CE One of first major Nationalist victories in Spanish Civil War; linked southern and northern Nationalist zones, and cut the Republicans off from the Portuguese border Battle of Badajoz
14%
1866 CE Battle between Spanish ships and Peruvian ships and port in the Chincha Islands War; was the final Spanish-Peruvian battle of the war Battle of Callao
14%
1363 CE Ming rebels' victory over Han rebels in the fall of the Yuan dynasty; decisive naval battle fought on large Chinese lake, part of Red Turban Rebellion Battle of Lake Poyang
14%
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