Name The Battle - Difficult #2

Year

Description

Battle

1945 CE

American attack on Japanese-held Pacific islands, as part of island-hopping; notable for there being more American casualties than Japanese casualties (not the norm in American-Japanese battle), for the fierceness of the fighting, and the assured defeat of the Japanese from the start

1941 CE

Huge German victory in WWII over the USSR, possibly largest encirclement by number of troops in the history of warfare, fought in Ukraine

1917 CE

British Commonwealth victory over Central Powers forces in the Middle East in WWI; notable for an Australian mounted bayonet charge

1854 CE

Battle about which "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was written, part of the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War

1846 CE

First major battle of Mexican-American War, fought in Texas; American victory

1794 CE

French revolutionary regime victory over the First Coalition, resulting in French ascendancy in the war and the fall of the Low Countries to France

1683 CE

Christian victory against the Ottomans, seen as a turning point in Habsburg-Ottoman conflict, even in Muslim-Christian conflict; came at the end of a siege

1504 CE

Portuguese victory in India against overwhelming odds, through gunnery and naval superiority

1485 CE

Last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, with Richard III killed by Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII

1314 CE

Notable Scottish victory over the English under the leadership of Robert the Bruce, part of the First War of Scottish Independence

627 CE

Failed attack by confederates on outnumbered Muslims led by Muhammad, fortified in Medina, the result of which was to make Islam more influential in the region

60 CE or 61 CE

Roman victory against overwhelming numbers of British rebels led by Boudica

53 BCE

Parthians use cavalry to decisively defeat Romans and kill their leader, Crassus

217 BCE

A victory of Carthage's under Hannibal's leadership against the Romans in the Second Punic War, fought near a lake

1274 BCE

Indecisive battle between Egypt and Hittites, possibly largest chariot battle in history