Name The Battle - Difficult #3

Year

Description

Battle

1945 CE

Allied attacks on Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands in WWII, including the largest amphibious assault in the War in the Pacific

1943 CE

Last strategic offensive Nazi Germany was able to mount against the Soviet Union in WWII

1937 CE

Battle between Chinese and Japanese, ending in Japanese victory and preceding massacre of Chinese, including civilians; often given the title "Rape"

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

1879 CE

Decisive Zulu victory over British in Anglo-Zulu War, despite British technological superiority

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

1861 CE

First major battle of the American Civil War, won by Confederates

1801 CE

Close-run British naval victory over Danish during Napoleonic Wars; involved Horatio Nelson though not as the main commander

1775 CE

Pyrrhic British victory against fortified American revolutionaries during Siege of Boston

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

1643 CE

French victory over Spanish in Thirty Years' War; considered to mark the downfall of the idea of the "invincible" tercio

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

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

9 CE

Romans ambushed and massacred by Germanic tribes in modern day Germany

405 BCE

Spartan naval victory led by Lysander against Athens which ended the Peloponnesian War