Trending Battles in Germany — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (German-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Midway. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
547,680
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
22,676
views
views
2
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
20,609
views
views
3
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
18,186
views
views
4
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
17,244
views
views
5
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
16,990
views
views
6
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
16,789
views
views
7
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
15,780
views
views
8
Battle of Harlem Heights
1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War
13,461
views
views
9
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
12,456
views
views
10
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
11,601
views
views
11
Battle of Mursa Major
351 battle
11,036
views
views
12
Battle of Königgrätz
1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
10,549
views
views
13
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
9,721
views
views
14
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
9,512
views
views
15
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
9,454
views
views
16
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
8,893
views
views
17
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
8,865
views
views
18
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
7,952
views
views
19
Battle of Lechfeld
German war victory over Hungary in August, 955
6,531
views
views
20
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 battle between Russia and Germany
6,051
views
views
21
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
5,918
views
views
22
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
5,833
views
views
23
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
5,769
views
views
24
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
5,764
views
views
25
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
5,731
views
views
26
Battle of Annual
1921 battle during the Rif War
5,618
views
views
27
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
5,581
views
views
28
Battle of Crete
1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete
5,550
views
views
29
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
5,498
views
views
30
Battle of Detern
1426 battle
5,471
views
views
31
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
5,460
views
views
32
Battle of the Seelow Heights
1945 engagement between German and Soviet forces during World War Two
5,384
views
views
33
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
5,321
views
views
34
Battle of the Frigidus
battle of the Frigidus, also called the Battle of the Frigid River, was fought on 5 and 6 September 394
5,207
views
views
35
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
5,084
views
views
36
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
4,912
views
views
37
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
4,858
views
views
38
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
4,720
views
views
39
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
4,601
views
views
40
Battles of the Isonzo
1910 series of battles between Italy and Austria-Hungary during the First World War
4,500
views
views
41
Brusilov Offensive
1916 battle on the Eastern Front during World War I
4,377
views
views
42
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
4,349
views
views
43
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
4,265
views
views
44
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
4,244
views
views
45
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
4,220
views
views
46
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
4,055
views
views
47
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
4,001
views
views
48
Battle of Castle Itter
battle year 1945 in which U.S. infantry and armour, Wehrmacht Heer, French prisoners and Austrian partisans took Castle Itter from the occupying Waffen SS
3,975
views
views
49
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
3,947
views
views
50
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
3,918
views
views
51
Good Friday Battle
2010 battle in Afganistan
3,911
views
views
52
Battle of Leuthen
1757 battle of the Seven Years' War
3,871
views
views
53
Battle of Monte Cassino
1944 assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II
3,831
views
views
54
Battle of Kosovo
battle on 28th June 1389
3,717
views
views
55
Battle of Solferino
1859 major battle of the Second Italian War of Independence
3,556
views
views
56
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
3,517
views
views
57
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
3,507
views
views
58
Vyazemsky operation
series of encirclement battles during Operation Typhoon
3,478
views
views
59
Battle of Kiev
1941 battle resulting in a large encirclement of Soviet troops in the vicinity of Kiev during World War II
3,455
views
views
60
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
3,379
views
views
61
Lawrence Massacre
1863 raid in the American Civil War
3,371
views
views
62
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
3,368
views
views
63
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
3,364
views
views
64
Battle of Smolensk
1941 battle during the second phase of Operation Barbarossa
3,347
views
views
65
Battles of Rzhev
1942 series of Soviet Operations in World War II
3,254
views
views
66
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
3,250
views
views
67
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
3,230
views
views
68
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
3,201
views
views
69
Battle of Long Tan
1966 battle of the Vietnam War
3,198
views
views
70
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
3,167
views
views
71
Battle of Caporetto
1917 battle of World War I
3,095
views
views
72
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
3,042
views
views
73
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
2,977
views
views
74
Siege of Przemyśl
1914, 2nd siege
2,891
views
views
75
Courland Pocket
1944 battle
2,870
views
views
76
Battle of Marignano
1515 battle between Switzerland and France
2,848
views
views
77
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
2,840
views
views
78
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
2,819
views
views
79
Battle of Issus
second great battle of Alexander's conquest of Asia
2,806
views
views
80
Battle at the Harzhorn
235 battle between Roman and Germanic troops (c.235)
2,746
views
views
81
Battles of Narvik
battles fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940
2,574
views
views
82
Battle of Mohács
1526 major battle in 16th-century Central Europe
2,529
views
views
83
Battle of Pharsalus
48 BCE decisive battle of Caesar's Civil War
2,507
views
views
84
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
2,500
views
views
85
Battle of Mons Seleucus
353 battle won by Constantius II
2,495
views
views
86
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
2,477
views
views
87
Third Battle of Kharkov
1943 series of battles on the Eastern Front of World War II
2,432
views
views
88
Battle of Sempach
1386 battle between old Switzerland confederation and Habsburg
2,361
views
views
89
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
2,359
views
views
90
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
2,354
views
views
91
Falaise Pocket
1944 engagement of the Battle of Normandy in the Second World War
2,340
views
views
92
Battle of Morgarten
1315 battle during the creation of the Swiss Confederacy
2,331
views
views
93
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
2,318
views
views
94
Battle of Nördlingen
1634 battle of the Thirty Years' War
2,285
views
views
95
Operation Nordwind
1944 German offensive in WW2
2,265
views
views
96
Battle of the Bzura
battle in the opening campaign of World War II during the 1939 German invasion of Poland
2,252
views
views
97
Second Battle of the Aisne
1917 battle on the Western Front of World War I
2,244
views
views
98
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
2,225
views
views
99
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
2,222
views
views
100
Battle of Stirling Bridge
1297 battle of the First War of Scottish Independence
2,217
views
views