Trending Battles in USA — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Normandy landings. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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6,101,938
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
246,436
views
views
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
223,861
views
views
3
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
185,631
views
views
4
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
184,572
views
views
5
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
142,725
views
views
6
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
132,633
views
views
7
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
132,492
views
views
8
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
123,876
views
views
9
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
115,734
views
views
10
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
113,739
views
views
11
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
111,342
views
views
12
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
108,165
views
views
13
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
105,880
views
views
14
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
95,353
views
views
15
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
91,673
views
views
16
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
91,673
views
views
17
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
91,667
views
views
18
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
83,608
views
views
19
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
83,121
views
views
20
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
82,786
views
views
21
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
79,757
views
views
22
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
78,945
views
views
23
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
69,390
views
views
24
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
68,678
views
views
25
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
68,589
views
views
26
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
67,684
views
views
27
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
66,341
views
views
28
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
65,859
views
views
29
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
65,393
views
views
30
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
64,283
views
views
31
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
63,557
views
views
32
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
63,011
views
views
33
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
60,393
views
views
34
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
58,821
views
views
35
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
56,748
views
views
36
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
56,297
views
views
37
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
53,900
views
views
38
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
53,872
views
views
39
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
53,119
views
views
40
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
52,926
views
views
41
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
52,423
views
views
42
Noemvriana
1916 political dispute and conflict in Greece
50,111
views
views
43
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
47,660
views
views
44
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
46,681
views
views
45
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
46,531
views
views
46
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
46,482
views
views
47
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
46,404
views
views
48
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
45,226
views
views
49
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
44,915
views
views
50
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
43,508
views
views
51
Battle of Manzikert
1071 battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks
43,300
views
views
52
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
43,066
views
views
53
Battle of Shiloh
1862 battle of the American Civil War
42,990
views
views
54
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
42,889
views
views
55
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
42,748
views
views
56
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
42,721
views
views
57
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
42,663
views
views
58
Battle of the Boyne
1690 battle
42,216
views
views
59
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
41,846
views
views
60
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
41,275
views
views
61
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
41,176
views
views
62
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
40,716
views
views
63
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
39,949
views
views
64
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
39,666
views
views
65
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
39,339
views
views
66
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
38,554
views
views
67
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
38,471
views
views
68
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
37,903
views
views
69
Battle of Los Angeles
anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
37,486
views
views
70
First Battle of Bull Run
1861 first major land battle of the American Civil War
37,301
views
views
71
Battle of Karbala
battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
37,236
views
views
72
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
36,953
views
views
73
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
36,900
views
views
74
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
36,776
views
views
75
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
36,734
views
views
76
Battle of Wake Island
1941 battle of World War II
36,605
views
views
77
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
36,343
views
views
78
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
35,906
views
views
79
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
35,216
views
views
80
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
34,707
views
views
81
Battle of Mohács
1526 major battle in 16th-century Central Europe
34,653
views
views
82
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
33,986
views
views
83
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
33,459
views
views
84
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
33,278
views
views
85
Battle of the Atlantic
1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
33,144
views
views
86
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
33,059
views
views
87
Battle of Takur Ghar
battle of the War in Afghanistan
32,497
views
views
88
Operation Storm
last major battle of the Croatian War of Independence, and a victory for the Croatian Army over the Republic of Serbian Krajina
32,496
views
views
89
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
32,301
views
views
90
Siege of Marawi
2017 battle in the Philippines
32,012
views
views
91
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
31,937
views
views
92
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
31,134
views
views
93
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
31,032
views
views
94
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
30,951
views
views
95
Battle of Changjin Reservoir
1950 battle in the Korean War
30,640
views
views
96
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
30,636
views
views
97
Dieppe Raid
1942 landing operation in World War II
30,512
views
views
98
Battle of New Orleans
battle of the War of 1812
30,235
views
views
99
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944 World War II Pacific naval battle
30,038
views
views
100
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
29,816
views
views