A to Z of Battlefields and Wars

[ChrisGeorge]

Antietam

[Ernie]

:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Battle of the Bulge.

[ChrisGeorge]

Chancellorsville

[Ernie]

:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Dardenelles.

[ChrisGeorge]

Ezra Church / Battle of the Poor House, Georgia, July 28, 1864

[Mark R]

Great thread Chris!

Flodden

[ChrisGeorge]

Great thread Chris!

Flodden

Thanks, Mark! :)

Gettysburg

[Mark R]

Hamburger Hill

[ChrisGeorge]

Inchon (Korean War)

[Mark R]

Jutland (1916)

[ChrisGeorge]

King's Mountain - American Revolutionary War battlefield, October 7, 1780

[Mark R]

Little Bighorn (25 June 1876)

[ChrisGeorge]

King's Mountain, South Carolina - American Revolutionary War battlefield, October 7, 1780

http://www.nps.gov/kimo/

[jimmy]

Messines - Belgium 7th June 1917

[bluesareus]

Nile - 1st-2nd August 1798

[ChrisGeorge]

Okinawa, March 18 to June 23, 1945

[SteH]

Pretoria - Boer War

[jimmy]

Quennenmont Farm - France 27th September 1918

[ChrisGeorge]

Richmond, Kentucky, August 29 – August 30, 1862

[SteH]

Somme - 1st World War

[Mark R]

Trafalgar (1805)

[jimmy]

U-Boat War at Sea

[Mark R]

Vimy Ridge

[ChrisGeorge]

Waterloo

[Mark R]

Xiangyang (191)

[ChrisGeorge]

Yorktown, October 1781

[Mark R]

Zhuxianzhen (1642)

[bluesareus]

Assaye - Second Mahratta War 23 Sep 1803

[Mark R]

Bunker Hill

[SteH]

Culloden - Jacobite Rising

[ChrisGeorge]

Dardanelles (1915-1916)

[Mark R]

Edgehill (English Civil War)

[ChrisGeorge]

Falkirk (1298)

[Mark R]

Gallipoli 1915-16

[ChrisGeorge]

Hampton Roads, Virginia, aka Battle of the Ironclads, March 8-9, 1862

[jimmy]

Iraq

[ChrisGeorge]

The War of Jenkins' Ear (1739-1742)

[Mark R]

Korean War

[ChrisGeorge]

Lynchburg, Virginia, June 17-18, 1864

[Mark R]

Midway

[bluesareus]

Normandy Beaches

[Mark R]

Okinawa

[ChrisGeorge]

Siege of Petersburg, Virginia, June 15, 1864 to March 25, 1865

[Mark R]

Quebec - 1759

[ChrisGeorge]

Ramillies, May 23, 1706

[Mark R]

Stalingrad

[ChrisGeorge]

The Battle of the Thames, also known as the Battle of Moraviantown, October 5, 1813 (War of 1812 battle)

[Mark R]

Ulm (1805)

[ChrisGeorge]

Vittoria, June 21st 1813.

This battle is the subject of the musical piece Wellington's Victory by Beethoven.

'With the success of Wellington's Victory, Beethoven was solvent for the first time. However, he soon came to realize that he had paid a high price. "Wellington's Victory was a piece of folly," he admitted.'

-- From Christopher T. George, 'The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven's "Hero?"' (http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/scholarship98/c_eroica.html)

[Mark R]

Vittoria, June 21st 1813.

This battle is the subject of the musical piece Wellington's Victory by Beethoven.

'With the success of Wellington's Victory, Beethoven was solvent for the first time. However, he soon came to realize that he had paid a high price. "Wellington's Victory was a piece of folly," he admitted.'

-- From Christopher T. George, 'The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven's "Hero?" (http://www.napoleon-series.org/ins/scholarship98/c_eroica.html)


He scratched the dedication to Napoleon from his Eroica (3rd) Symphony after Napoleon's invasion and subsequent wars with Austria (if I'm correct!!).

Wavre (18-19 June 1815)

[ChrisGeorge]

He scratched the dedication to Napoleon from his Eroica (3rd) Symphony after Napoleon's invasion and subsequent wars with Austria (if I'm correct!!).

Wavre (18-19 June 1815)

Read the article. The situation was not as clearcut as usually depicted.

Xiangyang, China - 192 AD

[Mark R]

Ypres

[ChrisGeorge]

Zealand Point, March 22, 1808

[Mark R]

Austerlitz - 1805

[ChrisGeorge]

Balaclava, October 25, 1854

[Mark R]

Crécy - 26 August 1346

[jimmy]

Delville Woods WW1

[ChrisGeorge]

Eupatoria - February 17, 1855

[Mark R]

Flodden Field - 9 September 1513

[ChrisGeorge]

Siege of Gaeta, November 5, 1860 - February 13, 1861 (Piedmontese seige of Francis II of the Two Sicilies)

[Mark R]

Hundred Years' War (1337 - 1453)

[ChrisGeorge]

First Battle of Inonu (January 9 - January 11, 1921) - Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922).

[Mark R]

Jena (October 14, 1806)

[ChrisGeorge]

Seige of Khorramshahr, November 1980 to May 24, 1982 (Iran-Iraq War)

[Mark R]

Leipzig (16 -19 October 1813)

[ChrisGeorge]

Malplaquet, September 11, 1709

[Mark R]

Naseby

[ChrisGeorge]

Olustee, Florida, February 20, 1864 (American Civil War)

[bluesareus]

Passchendaele - July -Nov 1917

[jimmy]

Queant- France WW1

[Mark R]

Rorke's Drift - 1879

[ChrisGeorge]

Spion Kop, 23-24 January 1900 :PDT11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Spion_Kop

[Mark R]

Siege of Tobruk

[jimmy]

UPPERVILLE - American Civil War 21st June 1863

[Mark R]

Verdun - 1916

[jimmy]

Western front WW1

[bluesareus]

Ypres Oct 1914 - 2nd Battle April - May 1915

[Mark R]

Zulu Wars

[bluesareus]

Arnhem - Autumn 1944

[ChrisGeorge]

Blenheim, 13 August 1704

[Mark R]

Carthage - c.149 BC

[bluesareus]

Dardanelles - WW I

[Mark R]

El Alamein

[ChrisGeorge]

Fairfax Court-House or Fairfax Station, September 3, 1862

[Mark R]

Glencoe Massacre

[ChrisGeorge]

Heligoland Bight, August 28, 1914 - first major naval battle of World War I

[Mark R]

Isandlwana - 1879

[ChrisGeorge]

Jassin, German East Africa, January 18-19, 1915

[Mark R]

Kursk - July 4 – July 20, 1943 (Largest armoured engagement in history)

[ChrisGeorge]

Ludford Bridge - 12 October, 1459 - Wars of the Roses (Lancastrian victory) :handclap:

[Mark R]

Mafeking

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Nanking, Taiping Rebellion, 1864

[jimmy]

Ovillers - WW1

[Mark R]

Pyrenees - 25 July 1813

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Quebec, 1711, during Queen Anne's war


This one's interesting--

Battle of Rafa, 9 January 1917


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rafa

Sounds like what is going on daily at Anfield!!!! :PDT_Xtremez_42:

[bluesareus]

Battle for Starlingrad

[Mark R]

Thirty Years War - 1618-48

[jimmy]

Utoy Creek- American Civil War - Georgia- August 5th-7th 1864.

[Mark R]

Battle of Vitoria - June 21, 1813 (Peninsular Wars)

[bluesareus]

Wounded Knee 1890

[jimmy]

Xiangyang - six year war 1267-1273

[bluesareus]

Yorktown April 5 - May 4 1862 - American Civil War

[jimmy]

Zeebrugge - Belgium 1918

[Mark R]

Agincourt - 25 October 1415

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of the Boyne, July 1, 1690

[Mark R]

Chickamauga - 18-20 September 1863

[ChrisGeorge]

Detroit, August 15, 1812

[Mark R]

Eylau 7-8 Feb 1807

[ChrisGeorge]

Flodden, September 9, 1513

[jimmy]

Gallipoli - WW1

[Mark R]

Hastings - 1066

[bluesareus]

Iwo Jima - Feb - Mar 1945

[Mark R]

Battle of Jena (1806)

[jimmy]

Kernstown - Virginia March 23rd 1862 - American civil war

[bluesareus]

Relief of Ladysmith -Boer War

[ChrisGeorge]

Monmouth, New Jersey, June 28, 1778

[jimmy]

Battle of the NILE - 1798

[bluesareus]

Opequon Creek - 19 Sep 1864 - American Civil War

[ChrisGeorge]

Plattsburgh, New York, September 11, 1814 (War of 1812)

[jimmy]

Quennenmont Farm WW1

[bluesareus]

Ravenna 1512 - The Italian Wars

[ChrisGeorge]

Sedan - Franco-Prussian War, 1 September 1870

[bluesareus]

Tobruk - 1941-42

[ChrisGeorge]

Ulm, October 16-19, 1805

[jimmy]

Verdun - WW1

[bluesareus]

Battle of Wittstock - Thirty Years War

[jimmy]

Xiangyang

[bluesareus]

Yorktown - 1781

[jimmy]

Zeebruggen

[bluesareus]

Agincourt

[Mark R]

Borodino (September 7, 1812)

[jimmy]

Chesapeake Bay battle -American Revolutionary War-5th September 1781

[bluesareus]

Dardaneles - April 1915

[jimmy]

Estairs - WW1

[bluesareus]

Falklands War

[jimmy]

Gallipoli - WW1

[bluesareus]

Hills Plantation - July 7 1862 - American Civil War

[jimmy]

Iwo Jima -WW2

[ChrisGeorge]

The War of Jenkins Ear

[bluesareus]

The battle of Kernstown - American Civil War -23 march 1862

[jimmy]

Lucknow - India 30th June 1857

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle for Manhattan, August to November, 1776

[bluesareus]

Normandy Landings -June 1944

[jimmy]

Okinawa - WW2

[bluesareus]

Pearl Harbour

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Queenston Heights, Canada, October 13, 1813.

[bluesareus]

Battle of Rosebud River -June 16th 1876

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Santiago de Cuba, July 3, 1898 - largest naval engagement of the Spanish-American War

[bluesareus]

Rork's Drift Jan 1879 - Zulu Wars

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Salamanca, July 22, 1812

[jimmy]

Tobruk

[ChrisGeorge]

Ulm, 1805

[jimmy]

Vietnam

[ChrisGeorge]

Walcheren Campaign, unsuccessful British expedition to the Netherlands in 1809

[jimmy]

Xiangyang - China

[ChrisGeorge]

Yorktown, Virginia, October 1781

[bluesareus]

Zulu - Wars

[jimmy]

Alamo

[bluesareus]

Battle of the Bulge

[wsteve55]

Caporetto 1917

[jimmy]

Dunkirk - WW2

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Evesham, August 4, 1265.

[jimmy]

Falklands War

[bluesareus]

Gettysburgh - 1-4th July 1863

[jimmy]

Hamel Wood - WW1

[bluesareus]

Battle for Iwo Jima Feb - Mar 1945

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Jamestown Ford, Virginia, July 6, 1781

[bluesareus]

Battle of Killiecrankie - Jacobite Rebellion 27 July 1689

[jimmy]

Longueval - WW1

[ChrisGeorge]

First Battle of the Marne, September 1914

[jimmy]

Napoleonic Wars - 1799-1815

[wsteve55]

Battle of Otranto - 1481.

[jimmy]

Pashendale - WW1

[wsteve55]

The battle of Qarqar, Syria.853 b.c.

[bluesareus]

Rorkes Drift - 1879

[wsteve55]

Battle of Saratoga.1777.

[jimmy]

Tobruk

[bluesareus]

Utoy Creek - Georgia Aug 5-7 1864

[jimmy]

Vimy Ridge - WW1

[wsteve55]

Waterloo 1815

[wsteve55]

The battle of Zorndorf(Prussia) 1758

[jimmy]

Agincourt - Friday 25th October 1415 France

[wsteve55]

Balaclava - 1854.

[jimmy]

Culloden - 16th April 1746

[wsteve55]

D-Day 1944.

[GNASHER]

Edge Hill

[ChrisGeorge]

Edge Hill

Woz that also known as the Battle of Williamson's Tunnels? Just kidding. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

The Battle of Flodden Field.

[dazza]

The Battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863

[wsteve55]

The battle of Hurtgen forest. (Germany 1944/5)

[bluesareus]

Iuka Mississippi - American Cival War- Sept 19-1862

[wsteve55]

The Battle of Jutland 1916

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of King's Mountain, South Carolina, October 17, 1780

[wsteve55]

The battle of Loos 1915. (France)

[dazza]

Battle of Marathon, Greece, 490 BC

[wsteve55]

The battle of North Point. 1814 U.S.A.

[jimmy]

Ovillers - 1st July 1916 WW1

[wsteve55]

The battle(s)of Passchendaele 1917. WW1

[jimmy]

Battle of Quebec - 13th September 1759

[wsteve55]

The Battle of Ramillies. 1706.

[jimmy]

Battle of Sebastopolis 692-Byzantine Empire and the Umayyads

[wsteve55]

The battle of Tobruk. 1941.

[jimmy]

U-Boat battle

[wsteve55]

The battle of Verdun. 1916.

[jimmy]

Wilsons Wharf - 24th May 1864 American Civil War

[wsteve55]

The battle of Xingkou - China 1937

[jimmy]

The battle of the Yangtze River - HMS. Amethyst 20th April 1949

[wsteve55]

The Zulu uprising. 1888.

[GNASHER]

Arnham

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Bladensburg, August 24, 1814 -- between the British and the Americans that led to the British burning of the White House and the U.S. Capitol.

See http://www.themanwhocapturedwashington.com

[wsteve55]

The battle of Cannae. 216 b.c.

[ChrisGeorge]

Dunkirk

[wsteve55]

The battle of Edgehill.1642.

[jimmy]

The battle of Fleurus 26th June 1794 - French Revolutionary Wars

[wsteve55]

The battle of Gettysburg 1863. American civil war.

[jimmy]

Battle of Hamel - 4th July 1918 WW1

[wsteve55]

The battle of Inchon 1950.Korean war.

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Jutland, 1916

[wsteve55]

The battle of Konya 1832.(Turkey.)

[jimmy]

The battle of Long Tan -Vietnam 1966

[wsteve55]

The battle of Mons 1914. W.W.1.

[jimmy]

battle of Narvik -WW2

[wsteve55]

The battle of Oriskany 1777. U.S.A.

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Plattsburgh, New York, September 11, 1814

[wsteve55]

The battle of Queenston heights Canada.1812.

[jimmy]

The battle of Rorke's Drift - Anglo Zulu War 22nd January 1879.

[bluesareus]

The Battle for Starlingrad ww11

[wsteve55]

The battle of Trifanum 340 B.C. Roman/Latin war.

[jimmy]

The battle of Ulm - Napoleonic Wars 1805

[Diane Louise]

Battle of Verdun, France

[wsteve55]

The battle of Waterloo Belgium 1815.

[ChrisGeorge]

Battle of Xiangshuikou, September 18, 1945 (Chinese Civil War)

[wsteve55]

The battles of Ypres Belgium. 1914,1915,1917.

[jimmy]

Zulu War - 1879

[wsteve55]

The battle of Antietam 1862. U.S. Civil war.

[jimmy]

Battle of Bunker Hill - American Revolution War of Independence-17th June 1775

[wsteve55]

The battle of Crecy 1346. Franco/English war.

[jimmy]

Dunkirk - WW2

[wsteve55]

The (2nd) battle of El Alamein October 1942

[ChrisGeorge]

Flodden Field, Northumberland, 9 September 1513

[wsteve55]

The battle of Guilford courthouse.15th march 1781. American revolutionary war.

[jimmy]

Hamburger Hill - Vietnam May 1969

[wsteve55]

Battle of Inchon Korea 1950.

[jimmy]

Battle of Jutland - 31st May 1916

[wsteve55]

The battle of Kentish Knock 1652. Anglo-Dutch war.