Famous Battles

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The battle in 1071 is featured on Age of Empires

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Hint		Answer
1274 BC	Egyptians and Hittites sign the first recorded peace treaty	Battle of Qadesh
480 BC	300 Spartans (and some 6000 other Greeks) hold the Achaemenid invasion	Battle of Thermopylae
331 BC	Alexander's greatest victory	Battle of Gaugamela
31 BC	Rome becomes an Empire	Battle of Actium
9	Germanic tribes under Ariminius smash three Roman legions	Battle of Teutoburg Forest
486	France wouldn't exist if Clovis had lost this one against Syagrius	Battle of Soissons
732	Franks under Charles Martel halt the Umayyad advance	Battle of Tours
1066	Everyone knows this one: Normans defeat Anglo-Saxons	Battle of Hastings
1071	Seljuks defeat the Byzantines and capture their emperor	Battle of Mazinkert
1291	Crusaders are expelled from the Holy Land for good	Fall of Acre
1415	A great English victory against the French, immortalized by Shakespeare	Battle of Agincourt
1453	Ottomans conquer their capital	Fall of Constantinople
1565	Jean Parisot de Valette holds this island against the Ottomans, which earns him having the capital named after him	Great Siege of Malta
1683	Ottomans' advance is halted	Second Siege of Vienna
1805	Napoleon's greatest victory	Battle of Austerlitz
1815	Napoleon's final defeat	Battle of Waterloo
1915-6	England and France fail to invade the Ottomans through this peninsula	Battle of Gallipoli
1920	Poland avoids conquest at their last stand	Battle of Warsaw
1942-3	Bloodiest battle in history, over 2 million deaths	Battle of Stalingrad
1992-6	This city is under siege from the first day of the war to the last	Siege of Sarajevo

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Mar 22, 2022

Interesting selection of battles. FYI, Manzikert is misspelled.

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