Year | Description | Battle | % Correct |
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1942 CE to 1943 CE | Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, a turning point for the Eastern Front in WWII | Battle of Stalingrad | 96%
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1805 CE | One of Napoleon's greatest victories, ended the War of the Third Coalition, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors | Battle of Austerlitz | 70%
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1950 CE | Amphibious battle during the Korean War, a decisive victory for UN forces against North Korea | Battle of Inchon | 63%
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1759 CE | Battle that saw Wolfe, leading British forces, and Montcalm, leading French forces, die in battle, with the British victory deciding the fate of Canada | Battle of the Plains of Abraham | 56%
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2003 CE | Battle during Coalition Invasion of Iraq that resulted in the toppling of Saddam Hussein and his statue | Battle of Baghdad | 52%
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1346 CE | The first of the three great English victories in the Hundred Years War, won like the following two victories with the longbow | Battle of Crécy | 48%
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1571 CE | Naval battle fought between the Ottoman Empire and much of Christian Europe under the Holy League, ending in Holy League victory | Battle of Lepanto | 48%
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1709 CE | Russians defeat Swedish, paving the way for Swedish fall from great power status and the Russian rise to it; part of the Great Northern War | Battle of Poltava | 48%
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216 BCE | Carthaginian army led by Hannibal decisively defeats Romans in the Second Punic War through double encirclement, resulting in defection of Capua | Battle of Cannae | 44%
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1631 CE | Major battle during Thirty Years War between Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and the Count of Tilly, ending in Swedish Protestant victory | Battle of Breitenfeld | 41%
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333 BCE | Alexander the Great decisively defeats Darius III of Persia and captures much of his family; the second of Alexander's three great victories in his conquest of Persia | Battle of Issus | 33%
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751 CE | Major battle between Chinese Tang dynasty and Islamic Abbasid Caliphate over control of an area in Central Asia; resulted in Abbasid victory | Battle of Talas | 33%
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1866 CE | Decisive Prussian victory over Austria, ending the Austro-Prussian War and precipitating the formation of the North German Confederation | Battle of Königgrätz | 22%
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1942 CE | Rioting between American soldiers stationed in Australia, and Australian soldiers also stationed there as well as Australian civilians | Battle of Brisbane | 19%
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1444 CE | Crusade of various Christian states defeated by Ottoman Empire, Władysław III the King of Poland, Hungary and Croatia killed | Battle of Varna | 19%
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