Trending Battles in France this month
The 100 most-viewed battles this month on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Kolwezi.
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Battle of Kolwezi
1978 battle of Kolwezi
1,887
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Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
599
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Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
582
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4
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
565
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5
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
556
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6
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
523
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7
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
505
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8
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
499
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9
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle of the First Indochina War
483
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10
Battle of Kings Mountain
1780 battle of the American Revolutionary War
450
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11
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
445
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12
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
389
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13
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
386
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14
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
380
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15
Battle of Bouvines
battle which ended the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War
380
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16
Battle of Marignano
1515 battle between Switzerland and France
374
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17
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
358
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18
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
346
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19
Battle of Rocroi
1643 French victory against Spanish forces
340
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20
Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
1995 Bosnian War confrontation
333
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21
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
325
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22
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
312
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23
Battle of the Alamo
1836 major battle of the Texas Revolution
286
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24
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
283
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25
Battle of Pamplona
battle of the Italian War of 1521–1526
281
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26
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
278
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27
Battle of Camarón
1863 battle
276
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28
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
241
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29
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
234
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30
Second Battle of the Aisne
1917 battle on the Western Front of World War I
233
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31
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
209
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32
Battle of Valmy
1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition
203
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33
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
202
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34
Battle of Berezina
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
200
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35
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 battle between Russia and Germany
199
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36
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
183
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37
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
182
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38
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
182
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39
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
181
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40
Battle of Solferino
1859 major battle of the Second Italian War of Independence
179
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41
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
177
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42
Battle of Algiers
1956 urban guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities
175
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43
Battle of the Seven
1402 battle
171
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44
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
169
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45
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
161
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46
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
160
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47
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
159
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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 occup
157
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49
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
156
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50
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
155
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51
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
152
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52
Battle of Beachy Head
naval engagement fought on 10 July 1690
152
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53
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
151
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54
Battle of Marengo
1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
148
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55
Battle of Eylau
1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
147
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56
Battle of Rossignol
1914 battle of the First World War
144
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57
Battle of Leipzig
huge and heavy battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
142
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58
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
140
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59
Battle of Carrhae
ancient battle between Roman Republic and Parthian Empire in 53 BCE near modern Harran, Turkey
137
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60
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
137
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61
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
137
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62
Liberation of Paris
1944 military action that took place during World War II
135
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63
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
134
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64
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
134
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65
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
131
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66
Battle of Patay
1429 battle
131
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67
Siege of Orléans
siege in 1428-29
130
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68
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
130
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69
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
126
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70
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
125
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71
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
118
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72
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
118
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73
Battle of Fontenoy
battle in 1745
117
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74
Battle of Wagram
1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
115
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75
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
115
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76
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
113
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77
Uzbin Valley ambush
2008 military Skirmish Between Taliban and French ISAF Forces in Afghanistan
113
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78
Battle of Castillon
1453 battle during the Hundred Years' War
110
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79
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
109
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80
Battle of the Caudine Forks
battle
107
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81
Battle of the Chesapeake
1781 naval battle of the American Revolutionary War
107
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82
Battles of Narvik
battles fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940
103
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83
Battle of Stonne
1940 battle
102
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84
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
95
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85
Battle of Montcornet
engagement of the Battle of France on 17 May 1940
95
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86
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
93
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87
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
92
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88
Siege of Paris
1870 siege during the Franco-Prussian War
92
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89
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
1212 battle between Iberian Christian armies and an Almohad Muslim army
91
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90
Battle of Malakoff
1855 battle
90
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91
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1759 battle between British and French near Quebec City, Canada
89
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92
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
89
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93
Battle of Hannut
1940 WWII battle in Belgium
88
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94
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Egyptian forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
88
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95
Battle of Kufra
1941 World War II battle between an Anglo-French force and the Italians
86
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96
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
778 battle between Charlemagne and Basques
86
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97
Battle of Saint-Eustache
1837 decisive battle in Canadian history
83
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98
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
82
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99
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
81
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100
Battle of Philippeville
81
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