Trending Battles in France — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Bir Hakeim. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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Ranked
457,140
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
38,810
views
views
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
19,030
views
views
3
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
14,526
views
views
4
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
13,377
views
views
5
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
12,232
views
views
6
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
12,202
views
views
7
Battle of Marignano
1515 battle between Switzerland and France
10,480
views
views
8
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
9,555
views
views
9
Battle of Valmy
1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition
9,174
views
views
10
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
8,583
views
views
11
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
8,483
views
views
12
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
7,941
views
views
13
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
7,715
views
views
14
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
7,572
views
views
15
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
7,385
views
views
16
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
6,941
views
views
17
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
6,670
views
views
18
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
6,305
views
views
19
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
6,115
views
views
20
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
6,022
views
views
21
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
5,857
views
views
22
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
5,809
views
views
23
Second Battle of the Aisne
1917 battle on the Western Front of World War I
5,756
views
views
24
Battle of Bouvines
battle which ended the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War
5,511
views
views
25
Battle of Kufra
1941 World War II battle between an Anglo-French force and the Italians
5,492
views
views
26
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
5,386
views
views
27
Battle of Ksar Ghilane
1943 battle in Tunisia
5,105
views
views
28
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
4,658
views
views
29
Battle of Camarón
1863 battle
4,511
views
views
30
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
4,306
views
views
31
Liberation of Paris
1944 military action that took place during World War II
4,295
views
views
32
Battle of the Chesapeake
1781 naval battle of the American Revolutionary War
4,192
views
views
33
Battle of Kolwezi
1978 battle of Kolwezi
4,146
views
views
34
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
4,127
views
views
35
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
4,006
views
views
36
Battle of Berezina
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
3,959
views
views
37
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
3,937
views
views
38
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
3,773
views
views
39
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
3,530
views
views
40
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
3,445
views
views
41
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
3,429
views
views
42
Uzbin Valley ambush
2008 military Skirmish Between Taliban and French ISAF Forces in Afghanistan
3,418
views
views
43
Battle of Solferino
1859 major battle of the Second Italian War of Independence
3,330
views
views
44
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1759 battle between British and French near Quebec City, Canada
3,193
views
views
45
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
3,120
views
views
46
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
3,117
views
views
47
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
3,091
views
views
48
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
3,071
views
views
49
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
3,068
views
views
50
Battle of Rocroi
1643 French victory against Spanish forces
3,067
views
views
51
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
3,026
views
views
52
Battle of Eylau
1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
3,009
views
views
53
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
2,994
views
views
54
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
2,989
views
views
55
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
2,889
views
views
56
Battle of Castillon
1453 battle during the Hundred Years' War
2,843
views
views
57
Battle of Marengo
1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
2,826
views
views
58
Battle of Königgrätz
1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
2,823
views
views
59
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
2,813
views
views
60
Battle of Wagram
1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
2,709
views
views
61
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
2,674
views
views
62
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
2,637
views
views
63
Battle of Stirling Bridge
1297 battle of the First War of Scottish Independence
2,552
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
2,505
views
views
65
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
2,505
views
views
66
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
2,494
views
views
67
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
2,421
views
views
68
Battle of Marseille
systematic deportation of the Jews of Marseille in the Old Port
2,417
views
views
69
Battle of Patay
1429 battle
2,409
views
views
70
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
2,384
views
views
71
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
2,351
views
views
72
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
2,283
views
views
73
Battle of Dakar
1940 WWII battle
2,269
views
views
74
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
2,255
views
views
75
Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
1995 Bosnian War confrontation
2,222
views
views
76
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
2,193
views
views
77
Siege of Jerusalem
Palestine municipality of Jerusalem
2,193
views
views
78
Battle of Sidi-Brahim
1845 battle
2,172
views
views
79
Battle of Algiers
1956 urban guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities
2,157
views
views
80
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
2,148
views
views
81
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
2,122
views
views
82
Dieppe Raid
1942 landing operation in World War II
2,070
views
views
83
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
2,041
views
views
84
Battle of Montcornet
engagement of the Battle of France on 17 May 1940
2,033
views
views
85
Battle of Fontenoy
battle in 1745
2,016
views
views
86
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
1,997
views
views
87
Battle of Tolbiac
refers to Franco-alamannic battles in the years 496 & 503 (Clovis) at what is now Zülpich, near Cologne
1,994
views
views
88
Battle of Malplaquet
1709 battle
1,982
views
views
89
Battle of Aspern-Essling
1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
1,978
views
views
90
Siege of Orléans
siege in 1428-29
1,967
views
views
91
Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
1796 battle during the War of the First Coalition
1,952
views
views
92
First Battle of El Alamein
1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
1,909
views
views
93
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
1,840
views
views
94
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
1,813
views
views
95
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 battle between Russia and Germany
1,795
views
views
96
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
1,776
views
views
97
Battle of Poitiers
1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War
1,768
views
views
98
Battle of Route Coloniale 4
battle of the First Indochina War along Route Coloniale 4 (RC4, aka. Highway 4)
1,711
views
views
99
Siege of Paris
1870 siege during the Franco-Prussian War
1,710
views
views
100
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
778 battle between Charlemagne and Basques
1,681
views
views