Year | Description | Battle | % Correct |
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1942 CE | British base in Southeast Asia, nicknamed "Gibraltar of the East" is taken by the Japanese in WWII; the event was also called a "Fall" and is regarded as a military disaster for the Allies | Battle of Singapore | 79%
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1942 CE | Major naval battle between Allied and Japanese forces in the Pacific; strategically prevented Japanese advance, was first engagement between aircraft carriers, and first naval battle where no ships from either side sighted or fired directly on each other | Battle of the Coral Sea | 71%
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52 BCE | Also known as a siege; a Roman victory under Julius Caesar against Gallic tribes led by Vercingetorix, ending organised resistance to Roman rule by the Gauls | Battle of Alesia | 64%
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1940 CE | Nazi German conquest of France in WWII | Battle of France | 64%
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1916 CE | Successful French defence against German attack on fortified area of national significance to France in WWI | Battle of Verdun | 64%
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1356 CE | The second of the three great English victories in the Hundred Years' War; Black Prince's victory and capture of the French king | Battle of Poitiers | 57%
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1297 CE | Victory won by William Wallace and Andrew de Moray against the English in the First War of Scottish Independence at a bridge | Battle of Stirling Bridge | 57%
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1917 CE | Major Allied offensive against German forces in WWI on the Western Front in West Flanders, Belgium; of debated impact and result on both sides | Battle of Passchendaele | 50%
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1898 CE | British and Egyptians under Kitchener decisively defeat Khalifa Mahdi claimant's forces in Sudan, part of the Mahdist War | Battle of Omdurman | 43%
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1620 CE | Major battle between Bohemians and Holy Roman Empire, Spanish and Catholic League forces in Thirty Years' War; victory for Catholics with relatively little fighting, considered the end of the Bohemian period of the war | Battle of White Mountain | 43%
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326 BCE | Major victory of Alexander the Great of Macedon over King Porus of Paurava in the Punjab in India | Battle of the Hydaspes | 36%
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279 BCE | Battle that resulted in the coining of the term "Pyrrhic victory"; King Pyrrhus of Epirus' victory over the Roman Republic in the Pyrrhic War | Battle of Asculum | 21%
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1936 CE | One of first major Nationalist victories in Spanish Civil War; linked southern and northern Nationalist zones, and cut the Republicans off from the Portuguese border | Battle of Badajoz | 14%
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1866 CE | Battle between Spanish ships and Peruvian ships and port in the Chincha Islands War; was the final Spanish-Peruvian battle of the war | Battle of Callao | 14%
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1363 CE | Ming rebels' victory over Han rebels in the fall of the Yuan dynasty; decisive naval battle fought on large Chinese lake, part of Red Turban Rebellion | Battle of Lake Poyang | 14%
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