History’s Biggest Battles

The American Civil War turned the tide at which 1863 battle, where 46,000 were killed in a Union victory which President Lincoln commemorated with an address?

The first day of this World War I battle became known as the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army, and the battle would continue for months without changing the course of the war.

Which showdown between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union destroyed the German eastern front in the bitter winter of 1942-43, and resulted in nearly two million deaths?

After returning from exile, Napoleon’s last battle took place in 1815 where, in a place that is now an idiom for “crushing defeat”?

Which offensive was the last major gasp of Nazi Germany’s western front in World War II, costing the Americans 75,000 casualties and making it the bloodiest American battle in the war?

This American Civil War battle, fought in 1862, is considered the bloodiest single-day battle ever fought in North America, resulting in 23,000 casualties?

After over six years of war during the American Revolution, the British Army was finally defeated at which battle, which led to British surrender and the independence of the United States?

In the battle of Cannae, fought between Rome and Carthage, the world’s greatest superpowers in 216 BCE, which general marched his army across the Alps, surprising the Romans and slaughtering 50,000 soldiers in one day?