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The British victory destroyed the French fleet, stranding Napoleon's forces in Egypt.

The French defeat at Trafalgar forced Napoleon to abandon hopes of invading Britain.

Known as Battle of the Skagerrak in Germany. The largest naval battle of World War I and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. Fought May 31st to June 1st, 1916 off the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark in the North Sea. Considered a victory by each side. Germany sank more British ships than they lost. Germany never again challenged the Allies on the open seas with their surface fleet during the war.

Although outnumbered 3:1 Alexander defeated the Persian armies.

August 26th 1914 near Le Cateau, France. German forces use indirect artillery fire with howitzers to overcome the II Corps of the British Expeditionary Force's mobile artillery in The Royal Horse Artillery using direct fire to set the pattern for the rest of WWI of indirect shelling by each side causing trench warfare to dominate and prevent a mobile type of warfare.

The battle was a significant Allied victory and led to the closing of the African front.

Japan lost four fleet carriers during the battle.

Took place in 279 BC between the Romans and the combined Tarantine, Oscan, Samnite, and Epirote army forces. This battle was set within the Romano-Tarantine conflict, to control Magna Graecia.

The battle lasted four months and took over a million casualties.

"Bonnie Prince Charlie" was defeated and fled Britain.

The bloodiest battle of the 18th century with over 35,000 casualties.

The largest battle fought on English soil and probably the bloodiest.

The largest tank battle of all time.

The battle is known to the Cheyenne as the Battle of the Greasy Grass.

Tadamichi Kuribayashi was a haiku poet, diplomat and General of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff.

General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadian military under Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm

General James Wolfe successfully resisted the column advance of French troops and Canadian military under Louis-Joseph, Marquis de Montcalm

9 AD conflict in which Arminius betrayed his Roman commander of the XVII, XVIII AND XIX Legions and led a coalition of Germanic tribes (the Cherusci, Marsi, Chatti, Bructeri, Chauci and Sicambri) in stopping the Roman conquest of Germania. final battle was fought at Kalkriese Hill (near Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany)

Gettysburg ended Lee's invasion of the North.

Cornwallis' surrender lead to the American victory in the War of Independence.

Around 70,000 men were killed in a single day.

Harold was victorious over the forces led by Harald III and Tostig, Harold's brother.

Immortalised by Shakespeare as the focal point of Henry V.

Fought in the county of Northumberland in northern England on 9 September 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey. It ended in a victory for the English and a bloody defeat for the Scots and was the largest battle (in terms of numbers) fought between the two nations.

Joan of Arc's first major military victory.

The Roman victory at Alesia signalled the completion of their conquest of Gaul.

139 British soldiers held out for over 10 hours against more than 4000 Zulu warriors.

The scene of the famous and tragic "Charge of the Light Brigade".

Aka the Second Battle of Höchstädt), fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. referred to in some countries as the Second Battle of Höchstädt, fought on 13 August 1704, was a major battle of the War of the Spanish Succession. Louis XIV of France sought to knock Emperor Leopold out of the war by seizing Vienna, the Habsburg capital, and gain a favourable peace settlement. out of the war by seizing Vienna, the Habsburg capital, and gain a favourable peace settlement.

An eight day struggle at the outset of WWII in the Far East for "The Gibraltar of The East" between British, Indian and Australian forces and The Japanese forces sweeping down the Maylayan Peninsula in February 1942. The fall of Singapore led to the largest surrender of British-led forces, (80,000 troops) in history.

One of the early engagements of the Second Boer War. A large British force which had concentrated at the garrison town of Ladysmith launched a sortie on 30 October, 1899, against Boer armies which were slowly surrounding the town. The result was a disaster for the British.

Pheidippides, an Athenian herald, is said to have run from Marathon to Athens to announce the Greek victory.

Also known as the Battle of Three Emperors, the battle is a major event in Tolstoy's "War and Peace".

The arrival of Blucher's Prussian army turned the tide against Napoleon in what Wellington described as a "Damn near-run thing".

Fought on 26-27 August 1813 around Dresden, Germany, resulting in a French victory under Napoleon I against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg. However, Napoleon's victory was not as complete as it could have been. Substantial pursuit was not undertaken after the battle, and the flanking corps was surrounded and forced to surrender a few days later at the Battle of Kulm.

Josiah, King of Judah, was killed in the battle and the Egyptian forces prevailed.

Spartan general Pausanias led a coalition of forces from Greek city states against Persian General Mardonius and his army of 200,000 troops in August 479 BC near the city of Plataea on the Aspopus River in Boetia. The Greeks sought to route the Persians and drive them from Greece and avenge the loss of King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans at Thermopylae the year before in 480 BC. The outcome of this battle is said to have preserved Greek and Western culture.

The decisive battle in the Second Baron's War saw the death of De Montfort.

The Battle of Lewes was one of two main battles of the conflict known as the Second Barons' War. It took place at Lewes in Sussex, on 14 May 1264. It marked the high point of the career of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and made him the "uncrowned King of England". The battle occurred because of the vacillation of King Henry III, who was refusing to honour the terms of the Provisions of Oxford, an agreement he had signed with his barons, led by Montfort, in 1258. Prince Edward (later King Edward I) commanded the cavalry.

The final major battle of the Wars of the Roses.

The siege lasted for 217 days and turned Baden-Powell into a national hero.

The decisive battle in the First War of Scottish Independence.

Davie Crockett and Jim Bowie served under Travis at the Alamo.

Cromwell's cavalry, under Fairfax, routed the royalists.

This signalled the end of Saxon rule in England.

Wallace trapped the English at the bridge crossing and defeated their superior forces.

Welsh archers, armed with the longbow, brought victory for Edward I where his knights had failed.