Trending Battles — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Attack on Pearl Harbor. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
8,159,898
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
318,987
views
views
2
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
309,687
views
views
3
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
264,454
views
views
4
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
245,235
views
views
5
Battle of Komaki and Nagakute
1584 battle
228,009
views
views
6
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
197,385
views
views
7
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
171,241
views
views
8
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
165,975
views
views
9
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
161,432
views
views
10
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
141,866
views
views
11
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
140,148
views
views
12
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
139,750
views
views
13
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
129,151
views
views
14
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
124,681
views
views
15
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
121,530
views
views
16
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
119,725
views
views
17
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
119,481
views
views
18
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
117,970
views
views
19
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
112,825
views
views
20
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
112,601
views
views
21
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
108,787
views
views
22
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
108,220
views
views
23
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
107,390
views
views
24
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
105,084
views
views
25
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
103,941
views
views
26
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
102,057
views
views
27
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
94,389
views
views
28
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
90,531
views
views
29
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
86,805
views
views
30
Battle of Kulikovo
1380 battle between Russian principalities and Golden Horde
85,701
views
views
31
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
83,797
views
views
32
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
81,683
views
views
33
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
77,195
views
views
34
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
73,355
views
views
35
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
72,811
views
views
36
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
72,383
views
views
37
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
71,637
views
views
38
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
71,091
views
views
39
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
70,404
views
views
40
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
69,649
views
views
41
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
69,391
views
views
42
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
67,954
views
views
43
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
66,776
views
views
44
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
65,656
views
views
45
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
64,704
views
views
46
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
64,088
views
views
47
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
61,922
views
views
48
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
61,755
views
views
49
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
61,138
views
views
50
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
60,250
views
views
51
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
59,838
views
views
52
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
58,579
views
views
53
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
57,173
views
views
54
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
56,641
views
views
55
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
56,620
views
views
56
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
55,020
views
views
57
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
54,097
views
views
58
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
53,834
views
views
59
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
53,114
views
views
60
Battle of Chapultepec
1847 battle of the Mexican–American War
52,070
views
views
61
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
50,769
views
views
62
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
50,718
views
views
63
Noemvriana
1916 political dispute and conflict in Greece
50,515
views
views
64
Battle of Manzikert
1071 battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks
50,320
views
views
65
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
49,663
views
views
66
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
49,620
views
views
67
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
49,584
views
views
68
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
49,460
views
views
69
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
48,499
views
views
70
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
48,164
views
views
71
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
47,447
views
views
72
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
47,431
views
views
73
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
47,387
views
views
74
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
47,346
views
views
75
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
47,070
views
views
76
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
46,330
views
views
77
Battle of Shiloh
1862 battle of the American Civil War
45,344
views
views
78
Battle of the Boyne
1690 battle
45,115
views
views
79
Battle of Wake Island
1941 battle of World War II
44,809
views
views
80
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
43,540
views
views
81
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
43,461
views
views
82
Battle of Los Angeles
anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
43,282
views
views
83
Battle of Mohács
1526 major battle in 16th-century Central Europe
42,909
views
views
84
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
42,828
views
views
85
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
42,307
views
views
86
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
42,295
views
views
87
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
42,074
views
views
88
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
41,857
views
views
89
First Battle of Bull Run
1861 first major land battle of the American Civil War
41,777
views
views
90
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
41,389
views
views
91
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
41,158
views
views
92
Battle of Karbala
battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
40,830
views
views
93
Battle of Crete
1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete
40,534
views
views
94
Battle of the Atlantic
1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
40,383
views
views
95
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
39,674
views
views
96
Battle of Kostiantynivka
2025-2026 battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war
39,196
views
views
97
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
39,097
views
views
98
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
38,995
views
views
99
Siege of Mariupol
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
38,578
views
views
100
Battle of Saipan
1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
38,480
views
views