Trending Battles this year
The 100 most-viewed battles this year on Wikipedia. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Normandy landings.
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2,005,188
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Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
99,200
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2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
71,009
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3
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
63,361
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4
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
60,442
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5
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
53,815
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6
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
48,913
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7
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
47,795
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8
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
44,783
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9
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
37,141
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10
Battle of the Alamo
1836 major battle of the Texas Revolution
36,450
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11
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
34,997
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12
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
33,061
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13
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
32,885
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14
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
31,394
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15
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
30,908
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16
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
29,279
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17
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
28,646
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18
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
28,628
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19
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
27,088
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20
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
26,420
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21
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
26,083
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22
Battle of Vienna
battle near Vienna on 12 September 1683, between the Christian European states and the Ottomans, won by Christians commanded by Polish king
25,524
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23
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
24,918
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24
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
23,599
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25
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
23,236
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26
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
22,822
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27
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
21,226
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28
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
21,180
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29
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
20,931
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30
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
20,165
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31
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
19,392
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32
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
19,186
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33
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
18,687
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34
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
18,280
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35
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
17,588
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36
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
17,078
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37
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Egyptian forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
16,997
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38
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
16,745
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39
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
16,352
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40
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
16,229
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41
Battle of Karbala
battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
16,158
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42
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
16,126
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43
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
15,376
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44
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
15,240
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45
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
15,118
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46
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
15,043
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47
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
14,954
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48
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
14,665
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49
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
14,535
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50
Battle of Shiloh
1862 battle of the American Civil War
14,523
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51
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle of the First Indochina War
14,301
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52
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
14,273
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53
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
14,240
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54
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
13,899
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55
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
13,659
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56
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
13,559
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57
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
13,435
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58
Battle of Los Angeles
anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
13,405
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59
First Battle of Bull Run
1861 first major land battle of the American Civil War
13,374
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60
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
13,034
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61
Attack of the Dead Men
1915 battle of World War I
12,932
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62
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
12,918
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63
Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet
naval battle of American Revolutionary War near Cape May, New Jersey
12,633
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64
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
12,613
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65
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
12,581
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66
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
12,350
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67
Battle of Anegawa
1570 battle
12,328
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68
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
12,236
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69
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
12,182
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70
Battle of Goose Green
1982 engagement of the Falklands War
12,000
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71
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
11,945
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72
Battle of Leipzig
huge and heavy battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
11,936
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73
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
11,924
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74
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
11,671
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75
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
11,593
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76
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
11,542
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views
77
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
11,481
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78
Battle of Kostiantynivka
2025-2026 battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war
11,448
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79
Battle of the Atlantic
1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
11,230
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80
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
11,192
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81
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
10,978
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82
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
10,975
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views
83
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
10,915
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views
84
Battle of Changjin Reservoir
1950 battle in the Korean War
10,639
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views
85
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
10,551
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views
86
Battle of the Boyne
1690 battle
10,546
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views
87
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
10,354
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views
88
Battle of Crete
1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete
10,303
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views
89
Battle of Kadesh
battle between Egyptians and Hittites fought in 1274 BCE
10,205
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views
90
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
10,172
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views
91
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
9,971
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views
92
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
9,927
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views
93
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
9,909
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views
94
Battle of the Samichon River
1953 Korean War battle
9,879
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views
95
Battle of Saipan
1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
9,749
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views
96
Battle of New Orleans
battle of the War of 1812
9,654
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views
97
Battle of the Wilderness
1864 battle of the American Civil War
9,616
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views
98
Operation Cowboy
battle of World War II, year 1945
9,612
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views
99
First Battle of Fallujah
Early 2004 battle of the Iraq War
9,603
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views
100
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
9,545
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