Trending Battles in USA this year
The 100 most-viewed battles this year on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Normandy landings.
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1,876,196
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Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
95,615
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2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
64,023
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3
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
60,499
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4
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
53,567
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5
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
48,957
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6
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
47,660
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7
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
45,428
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8
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
43,503
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9
Battle of the Alamo
1836 major battle of the Texas Revolution
35,273
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10
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
34,416
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11
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
32,359
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12
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
31,263
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13
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
30,326
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14
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
30,191
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15
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
29,444
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16
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
27,642
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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
26,503
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18
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
26,365
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19
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
25,861
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20
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
24,447
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21
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
23,894
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22
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
23,651
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23
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
23,164
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24
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
22,086
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25
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
20,755
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26
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
20,704
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27
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
20,666
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28
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
20,043
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29
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
19,535
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views
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
19,329
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31
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
17,889
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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
17,498
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33
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
17,372
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34
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
16,824
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35
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Egyptian forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
16,231
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36
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
15,885
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37
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
15,843
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38
Battle of Karbala
battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
15,806
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39
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
15,727
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40
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
15,722
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41
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
15,616
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42
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
14,843
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43
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
14,758
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44
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
14,692
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45
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
14,570
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46
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
14,560
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47
Battle of Shiloh
1862 battle of the American Civil War
14,322
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48
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
14,000
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49
First Battle of Bull Run
1861 first major land battle of the American Civil War
13,097
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50
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
13,067
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views
51
Battle of Los Angeles
anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
12,951
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52
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
12,944
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53
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
12,804
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54
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
12,759
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55
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
12,748
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56
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
12,712
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views
57
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
12,685
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views
58
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle of the First Indochina War
12,662
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59
Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet
naval battle of American Revolutionary War near Cape May, New Jersey
12,631
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60
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
12,401
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61
Attack of the Dead Men
1915 battle of World War I
12,119
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62
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
11,990
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63
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
11,924
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views
64
Battle of Goose Green
1982 engagement of the Falklands War
11,881
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views
65
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
11,862
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66
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
11,677
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views
67
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
11,465
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views
68
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
11,464
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views
69
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
11,088
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views
70
Battle of Kostiantynivka
2025-2026 battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war
10,908
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views
71
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
10,881
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views
72
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
10,852
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views
73
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
10,802
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74
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
10,684
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75
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
10,675
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views
76
Battle of the Atlantic
1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
10,662
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views
77
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
10,604
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views
78
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
10,374
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views
79
Battle of the Boyne
1690 battle
10,367
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views
80
Battle of Leipzig
huge and heavy battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
10,194
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views
81
Battle of Changjin Reservoir
1950 battle in the Korean War
10,192
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views
82
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
10,027
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views
83
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
9,952
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views
84
Battle of the Samichon River
1953 Korean War battle
9,868
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views
85
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
9,845
views
views
86
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
9,812
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views
87
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
9,810
views
views
88
Battle of Kadesh
battle between Egyptians and Hittites fought in 1274 BCE
9,633
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views
89
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
9,623
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views
90
Battle of the Wilderness
1864 battle of the American Civil War
9,547
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views
91
Battle of New Orleans
battle of the War of 1812
9,498
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views
92
First Battle of Fallujah
Early 2004 battle of the Iraq War
9,495
views
views
93
Operation Cowboy
battle of World War II, year 1945
9,411
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views
94
Battle of Chancellorsville
1863 major battle of the American Civil War
9,379
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views
95
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
9,358
views
views
96
Battle of Crete
1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete
9,232
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views
97
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
9,083
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views
98
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
9,068
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views
99
Battle of Saipan
1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
9,052
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views
100
Battle of Dhi Qar
pre-Islamic battle fought between Arabs from bani wael (anaza tribe now) and a Sassanid Persian army
9,050
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