Year | Description | Battle | % Correct |
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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 | Battle of Iwo Jima | 78%
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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 | Battle of Vienna | 63%
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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 | Battle of Kiev | 59%
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1854 CE | Battle about which "The Charge of the Light Brigade" was written, part of the Siege of Sevastopol in the Crimean War | Battle of Balaclava | 56%
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1485 CE | Last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses, with Richard III killed by Henry Tudor, who became Henry VII | Battle of Bosworth Field | 56%
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1314 CE | Notable Scottish victory over the English under the leadership of Robert the Bruce, part of the First War of Scottish Independence | Battle of Bannockburn | 48%
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53 BCE | Parthians use cavalry to decisively defeat Romans and kill their leader, Crassus | Battle of Carrhae | 33%
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217 BCE | A victory of Carthage's under Hannibal's leadership against the Romans in the Second Punic War, fought near a lake | Battle of Lake Trasimene | 33%
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1274 BCE | Indecisive battle between Egypt and Hittites, possibly largest chariot battle in history | Battle of Kadesh | 26%
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60 CE or 61 CE | Roman victory against overwhelming numbers of British rebels led by Boudica | Battle of Watling Street | 26%
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1917 CE | British Commonwealth victory over Central Powers forces in the Middle East in WWI; notable for an Australian mounted bayonet charge | Battle of Beersheba | 15%
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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 | Battle of Fleurus | 11%
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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 | Battle of the Trench | 7%
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1504 CE | Portuguese victory in India against overwhelming odds, through gunnery and naval superiority | Battle of Cochin | 4%
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1846 CE | First major battle of Mexican-American War, fought in Texas; American victory | Battle of Palo Alto | 4%
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