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The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, all time. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Attack on Pearl Harbor. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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3,258,830
Total Views (all time)
Country
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1
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
129,501
views
views
2
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
109,991
views
views
3
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
101,445
views
views
4
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
100,308
views
views
5
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
92,762
views
views
6
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
84,155
views
views
7
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
78,205
views
views
8
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
71,254
views
views
9
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
70,659
views
views
10
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
59,258
views
views
11
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
57,924
views
views
12
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
55,621
views
views
13
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
54,208
views
views
14
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
52,138
views
views
15
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
50,185
views
views
16
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
49,451
views
views
17
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
49,009
views
views
18
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
48,870
views
views
19
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
48,425
views
views
20
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
48,406
views
views
21
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
47,668
views
views
22
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
44,920
views
views
23
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
44,708
views
views
24
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
43,205
views
views
25
Battle of Karánsebes
friendly fire incident during the Austro–Turkish War of 1787–1791
42,559
views
views
26
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
41,708
views
views
27
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
41,293
views
views
28
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
40,273
views
views
29
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
37,931
views
views
30
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
37,618
views
views
31
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
36,981
views
views
32
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
34,337
views
views
33
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
32,222
views
views
34
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
32,094
views
views
35
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
31,844
views
views
36
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
29,379
views
views
37
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
29,030
views
views
38
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
28,294
views
views
39
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
27,094
views
views
40
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
27,052
views
views
41
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
25,704
views
views
42
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
23,653
views
views
43
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
23,107
views
views
44
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
23,067
views
views
45
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
22,981
views
views
46
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
22,830
views
views
47
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
22,720
views
views
48
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
22,394
views
views
49
Battle of Karbala
battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
21,589
views
views
50
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
21,249
views
views
51
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
21,215
views
views
52
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
21,181
views
views
53
Siege of Mariupol
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
20,466
views
views
54
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
20,452
views
views
55
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
20,444
views
views
56
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
20,339
views
views
57
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
20,052
views
views
58
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
19,832
views
views
59
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
19,750
views
views
60
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
19,464
views
views
61
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
19,427
views
views
62
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
19,110
views
views
63
Battle of Queenston Heights
war of 1812 battle
19,050
views
views
64
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
18,974
views
views
65
Battle of Kulikovo
1380 battle between Russian principalities and Golden Horde
18,857
views
views
66
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
18,849
views
views
67
Battle of Nagashino
1575 battle in Japan
18,796
views
views
68
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
18,648
views
views
69
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
18,280
views
views
70
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
18,155
views
views
71
Battle of Komaki and Nagakute
1584 battle
18,139
views
views
72
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
18,088
views
views
73
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
18,052
views
views
74
Battle of Kings Mountain
1780 battle of the American Revolutionary War
17,908
views
views
75
Vyazemsky operation
series of encirclement battles during Operation Typhoon
17,361
views
views
76
Battle of Carrhae
ancient battle between Roman Republic and Parthian Empire in 53 BCE near modern Harran, Turkey
17,137
views
views
77
Battle of Cedar Creek
battle of the American Civil War in northern Virginia, 19 October 1864
17,065
views
views
78
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
17,060
views
views
79
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
17,038
views
views
80
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
16,952
views
views
81
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
16,876
views
views
82
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
16,766
views
views
83
Battle of Königgrätz
1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
16,758
views
views
84
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
16,715
views
views
85
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
16,668
views
views
86
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
16,499
views
views
87
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
16,358
views
views
88
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
16,147
views
views
89
Siege of Jerusalem
Palestine municipality of Jerusalem
16,141
views
views
90
Battle of Perryville
1862 battle of the American Civil War
16,087
views
views
91
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
16,087
views
views
92
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
15,876
views
views
93
Battle of Manzikert
1071 battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks
15,754
views
views
94
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
15,624
views
views
95
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
15,616
views
views
96
Battle of Navarino
1827 naval battle during the Greek War of Independence
15,605
views
views
97
Battle of Tarawa
battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands
15,596
views
views
98
Battle of Angamos
1879 naval encounter of the War of the Pacific
15,510
views
views
99
Battle of Poltava
decisive battle in the Great Northern War between Tsardom Russia and the Swedish Empire in 1709
15,392
views
views
100
Battle of Los Angeles
anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
15,335
views
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