Trending Battles in France — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, September 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Bir Hakeim. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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426,894
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
38,266
views
views
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
18,093
views
views
3
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
13,753
views
views
4
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
12,652
views
views
5
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
11,346
views
views
6
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
11,284
views
views
7
Battle of Marignano
1515 battle between Switzerland and France
9,903
views
views
8
Battle of Valmy
1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition
8,841
views
views
9
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
8,761
views
views
10
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
8,094
views
views
11
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
7,941
views
views
12
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
7,210
views
views
13
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
7,094
views
views
14
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
7,059
views
views
15
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
6,703
views
views
16
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
6,302
views
views
17
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
6,228
views
views
18
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
5,868
views
views
19
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
5,859
views
views
20
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
5,777
views
views
21
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
5,569
views
views
22
Second Battle of the Aisne
1917 battle on the Western Front of World War I
5,426
views
views
23
Battle of Kufra
1941 World War II battle between an Anglo-French force and the Italians
5,371
views
views
24
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
5,361
views
views
25
Battle of Ksar Ghilane
1943 battle in Tunisia
5,097
views
views
26
Battle of Bouvines
battle which ended the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War
4,959
views
views
27
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
4,880
views
views
28
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
4,340
views
views
29
Liberation of Paris
1944 military action that took place during World War II
4,080
views
views
30
Battle of the Chesapeake
1781 naval battle of the American Revolutionary War
4,050
views
views
31
Battle of Camarón
1863 battle
4,032
views
views
32
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
4,030
views
views
33
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
3,891
views
views
34
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
3,790
views
views
35
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
3,681
views
views
36
Battle of Berezina
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
3,669
views
views
37
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
3,558
views
views
38
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
3,361
views
views
39
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
3,239
views
views
40
Uzbin Valley ambush
2008 military Skirmish Between Taliban and French ISAF Forces in Afghanistan
3,201
views
views
41
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
3,199
views
views
42
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1759 battle between British and French near Quebec City, Canada
3,062
views
views
43
Battle of Solferino
1859 major battle of the Second Italian War of Independence
3,056
views
views
44
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
3,011
views
views
45
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
2,894
views
views
46
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
2,883
views
views
47
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
2,864
views
views
48
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
2,780
views
views
49
Battle of Eylau
1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
2,777
views
views
50
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
2,776
views
views
51
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
2,725
views
views
52
Battle of Königgrätz
1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
2,716
views
views
53
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
2,710
views
views
54
Battle of Rocroi
1643 French victory against Spanish forces
2,683
views
views
55
Battle of Castillon
1453 battle during the Hundred Years' War
2,659
views
views
56
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
2,632
views
views
57
Battle of Marengo
1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
2,599
views
views
58
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
2,596
views
views
59
Battle of Wagram
1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
2,534
views
views
60
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
2,478
views
views
61
Battle of Stirling Bridge
1297 battle of the First War of Scottish Independence
2,451
views
views
62
Battle of Marseille
systematic deportation of the Jews of Marseille in the Old Port
2,369
views
views
63
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
2,311
views
views
64
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
2,277
views
views
65
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
2,261
views
views
66
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
2,244
views
views
67
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
2,241
views
views
68
Battle of Patay
1429 battle
2,207
views
views
69
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
2,197
views
views
70
Battle of Kolwezi
1978 battle of Kolwezi
2,190
views
views
71
Battle of Dakar
1940 WWII battle
2,187
views
views
72
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
2,119
views
views
73
Siege of Jerusalem
Palestine municipality of Jerusalem
2,110
views
views
74
Battle of Sidi-Brahim
1845 battle
2,106
views
views
75
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
2,077
views
views
76
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
2,059
views
views
77
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
2,001
views
views
78
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
1,996
views
views
79
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
1,971
views
views
80
Dieppe Raid
1942 landing operation in World War II
1,937
views
views
81
Battle of Montcornet
engagement of the Battle of France on 17 May 1940
1,918
views
views
82
Battle of Algiers
1956 urban guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities
1,902
views
views
83
Battle of Aspern-Essling
1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
1,900
views
views
84
Battle of Malplaquet
1709 battle
1,900
views
views
85
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
1,898
views
views
86
Battle of Tolbiac
refers to Franco-alamannic battles in the years 496 & 503 (Clovis) at what is now Zülpich, near Cologne
1,874
views
views
87
Battle of Fontenoy
battle in 1745
1,866
views
views
88
First Battle of El Alamein
1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
1,858
views
views
89
Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
1796 battle during the War of the First Coalition
1,835
views
views
90
Siege of Orléans
siege in 1428-29
1,802
views
views
91
Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
1995 Bosnian War confrontation
1,800
views
views
92
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
1,754
views
views
93
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
1,708
views
views
94
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
1,688
views
views
95
Battle of Poitiers
1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War
1,653
views
views
96
Battle of Grand Couronné
1914 early battle between French and German forces in World War I
1,613
views
views
97
Battle of Bazeilles
1870 battle
1,595
views
views
98
Battle of Vimy Ridge
1917 World War I battle
1,594
views
views
99
Battle of Route Coloniale 4
battle of the First Indochina War along Route Coloniale 4 (RC4, aka. Highway 4)
1,593
views
views
100
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
1,579
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views