Trending Battles in France this year
The 100 most-viewed battles this year on Wikipedia (France). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Kolwezi.
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Battle of Kolwezi
1978 battle of Kolwezi
1,956
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Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
948
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3
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
937
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4
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
856
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5
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
794
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6
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
773
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7
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
731
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8
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle of the First Indochina War
725
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9
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
682
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10
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
642
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11
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
639
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12
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
621
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13
Battle of Kings Mountain
1780 battle of the American Revolutionary War
580
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14
Battle of Marignano
1515 battle between Switzerland and France
577
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15
Battle of Bouvines
battle which ended the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War
552
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16
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
544
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17
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
513
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18
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
506
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19
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
496
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20
Battle of Camarón
1863 battle
479
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21
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
442
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22
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
437
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23
Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
1995 Bosnian War confrontation
422
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24
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
420
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25
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
393
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26
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
389
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27
Battle of Rocroi
1643 French victory against Spanish forces
384
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28
Battle of the Alamo
1836 major battle of the Texas Revolution
376
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29
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
334
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30
Battle of Valmy
1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition
333
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31
Second Battle of the Aisne
1917 battle on the Western Front of World War I
330
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32
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
318
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33
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
291
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34
Battle of Berezina
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
290
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35
Battle of Pamplona
battle of the Italian War of 1521–1526
281
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36
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
276
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37
Battle of Solferino
1859 major battle of the Second Italian War of Independence
274
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38
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
269
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39
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
257
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40
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
256
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41
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
256
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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
255
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43
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
253
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44
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
250
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45
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
245
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46
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
243
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47
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
240
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48
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
236
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49
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 battle between Russia and Germany
233
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50
Battle of Eylau
1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
232
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51
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
230
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52
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
228
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53
Battle of Marengo
1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
227
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54
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
223
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55
Uzbin Valley ambush
2008 military Skirmish Between Taliban and French ISAF Forces in Afghanistan
217
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56
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
216
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57
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
215
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58
Liberation of Paris
1944 military action that took place during World War II
215
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59
Battle of Leipzig
huge and heavy battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
208
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60
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
206
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61
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
204
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62
Battle of Beachy Head
naval engagement fought on 10 July 1690
203
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63
Battle of Patay
1429 battle
202
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64
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
197
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65
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
196
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66
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
194
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67
Battle of Carrhae
ancient battle between Roman Republic and Parthian Empire in 53 BCE near modern Harran, Turkey
189
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68
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
187
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69
Battle of Castillon
1453 battle during the Hundred Years' War
184
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70
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
180
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71
Battle of the Seven
1402 battle
178
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72
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
178
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73
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
177
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74
Battle of Wagram
1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
175
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75
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
169
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76
Siege of Orléans
siege in 1428-29
165
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77
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
164
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78
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
164
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79
Battle of Rossignol
1914 battle of the First World War
153
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80
Battle of Fontenoy
battle in 1745
150
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81
Battle of St. Quentin
1557 battle of the Italian wars
145
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82
Battle of Philippeville
143
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83
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Egyptian forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
143
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84
Battle of the Chesapeake
1781 naval battle of the American Revolutionary War
142
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85
Battle of the Caudine Forks
battle
138
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86
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa
1212 battle between Iberian Christian armies and an Almohad Muslim army
137
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87
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
134
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88
Siege of Paris
1870 siege during the Franco-Prussian War
133
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89
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
133
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90
Dieppe Raid
1942 landing operation in World War II
133
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91
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
132
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92
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1759 battle between British and French near Quebec City, Canada
131
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93
Battles of Narvik
battles fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940
131
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94
Battle of Roncevaux Pass
778 battle between Charlemagne and Basques
130
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95
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
126
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96
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
125
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97
Siege of Sevastopol
siege during the Crimean War which lasted from September 1854 until September 1855
121
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98
Battle of Kufra
1941 World War II battle between an Anglo-French force and the Italians
121
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99
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
121
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100
Battle of Tolbiac
refers to Franco-alamannic battles in the years 496 & 503 (Clovis) at what is now Zülpich, near Cologne
120
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