Year | Description | Battle | % Correct |
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1937 CE | Battle between Chinese and Japanese, ending in Japanese victory and preceding massacre of Chinese, including civilians; often given the title "Rape" | Battle of Nanking | 95%
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1943 CE | Last strategic offensive Nazi Germany was able to mount against the Soviet Union in WWII | Battle of Kursk | 74%
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1945 CE | Allied attacks on Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands in WWII, including the largest amphibious assault in the War in the Pacific | Battle of Okinawa | 68%
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1861 CE | First major battle of the American Civil War, won by Confederates | First Battle of Bull Run | 58%
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1775 CE | Pyrrhic British victory against fortified American revolutionaries during Siege of Boston | Battle of Bunker Hill | 53%
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9 CE | Romans ambushed and massacred by Germanic tribes in modern day Germany | Battle of the Teutoburg Forest | 53%
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1914 CE | Known as a "Miracle", an Allied victory against the Central Powers on the Western Front during WWI; is generally perceived to have prevented success of Schlieffen Plan and therefore Germany's attempt to knock France out before Russia could mobilise and open a two-front war against them | First Battle of the Marne | 47%
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1801 CE | Close-run British naval victory over Danish during Napoleonic Wars; involved Horatio Nelson though not as the main commander | Battle of Copenhagen | 42%
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1870 CE | German victory over French in Franco-Prussian War; capture of Emperor Napoleon III resulted in end of Second French Empire, effective German victory in Franco-Prussian War and start of the French Third Republic | Battle of Sedan | 42%
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378 CE | Goths defeat the Eastern Roman Empire and kill their emperor, Valens; the battle is considered by some to have led to the fall of the Western Roman Empire | Battle of Adrianople | 37%
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1879 CE | Decisive Zulu victory over British in Anglo-Zulu War, despite British technological superiority | Battle of Isandlwana | 37%
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1187 CE | Major battle won by Ayyubids under Saladin against Crusaders; resulted in Guy of Lusignan, the King of Jerusalem's capture, though he was spared | Battle of Hattin | 26%
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405 BCE | Spartan naval victory led by Lysander against Athens which ended the Peloponnesian War | Battle of Aegospotami | 21%
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1759 CE | British and German allied troops beat French and Saxon troops; notable for a misunderstanding resulting in British infantry advancing in lines to attack French cavalry, only for the British infantry to destroy the French cavalry; part of Britain's Annus Mirabilis of 1759 | Battle of Minden | 16%
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1643 CE | French victory over Spanish in Thirty Years' War; considered to mark the downfall of the idea of the "invincible" tercio | Battle of Rocroi | 11%
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