Learn History's Greatest Battles
Learn about history's greatest battles in this course!
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What you'll learn in History's Greatest Battles
- Final defeat of Napoleon by British/Dutch/Prussian coalition — Battle of Waterloo
- Ended Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania; inspired address by A. Lincoln — Battle of Gettysburg
- Japan's infamous surprise attack on U.S. naval base in Oahu, Hawaii — Attack on Pearl Harbor
- William the Conqueror killed Harold II, took over Anglo-Saxon England — Battle of Hastings
- Richard III died at this final battle of the Wars of the Roses — Battle of Bosworth Field
- Cornwallis's army trapped at Virginia port by Americans, French — Battle of Yorktown
- Union victory in Maryland led to the Emancipation Proclamation — Battle of Antietam
- Stonewall Jackson killed during Lee's victory over Joseph Hooker — Battle of Chancellorsville
- Sitting Bull's Sioux beat the 7th Cavalry in Custer's Last Stand — Battle of the Little Bighorn
- French knights routed by Henry V, outnumbered army of English archers — Battle of Agincourt
- Athenian phalanx turned back Darius's Persian invasion of Greece — Battle of Marathon
- Octavian's naval victory over combined fleets of Antony and Cleopatra — Battle of Actium
- Lord Nelson destroyed Napoleon's navy off the coast of Spain — Battle of Trafalgar
- Leonidas and 300 Spartans died delaying Xerxes' Persian invasion — Battle of Thermopylae
- Inexperienced Union forces routed at first major Civil War battle — First Battle of Bull Run
- Greek triremes crushed Persian fleet at island near Athens — Battle of Salamis
- Allied amphibious invasion of five Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944 — D-Day
- Andrew Jackson's victory over British invaders after signing of treaty — Battle of New Orleans
- Napoleon's triumph over Russia, Austria in "Battle of Three Emperors" — Battle of Austerlitz
- Grant's army barely survived surprise attack near the Tennessee River — Battle of Shiloh
- The final defeat of Hannibal in Africa by Romans under Scipio — Battle of Zama
- Wolfe and Montcalm were killed in this British victory at Quebec City — Battle of the Plains of Abraham
- Mexican victory over French intervention forces on "Cinco de Mayo" — Battle of Puebla
- Charles Martel's repulse of Muslim raiders into medieval France — Battle of Tours
- Surrender of John Burgoyne's army led to 1778 U.S.-French alliance — Battle of Saratoga
- German winter offensive in Ardennes Forest repelled by U.S. Army — Battle of the Bulge
- Chariot battle between Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II and Hittites — Battle of Kadesh
- Germany's attempt to "bleed France white" for control of WWI forts — Battle of Verdun
- Napoleon III was captured in this Franco-Prussian battle — Battle of Sedan
- Bloody clash between Russians, French, on Napoleon's road to Moscow — Battle of Borodino
- Bloody British attempt to break colonial siege of Boston — Battle of Bunker Hill
- The Light Brigade charged during this Crimean War battle — Battle of Balaclava
- Sam Houston captured Santa Anna here, confirming Texas independence — Battle of San Jacinto
- Ambrose Burnside's futile frontal assault on entrenched Confederates — Battle of Fredericksburg
- Hannibal destroyed a Roman army in this double envelopment battle — Battle of Cannae
- U.S. Marines raised flag over this Japanese island's Mt. Suribachi — Battle of Iwo Jima
- Japan lost four aircraft carriers in this struggle for a Pacific atoll — Battle of Midway
- George Dewey's victory over the Spanish fleet in the Philippines — Battle of Manila Bay
- British victory in 3-part battle that ended Rommel's invasion of Egypt — Battle Of El Alamein
- John of Austria and the Holy League smashed an Ottoman galley fleet — Battle of Lepanto
- Edward Ill's longbowmen victorious over French knights, crossbowmen — Battle of Crecy
- Philip of Macedon destroyed the Sacred Band of Thebes — Battle of Chaeronea
- Tecumseh was killed at this Ontario battle of the War of 1812 — Battle of the Thames
- French paratroops lost this battle ending French rule in Vietnam — Battle of Dien Bien Phu
- Oliver Hazard Perry destroyed a British squadron during War of 1812 — Battle of Lake Erie
- Zachary Taylor's last Mexican War battle was this defensive victory — Battle of Buena Vista
- Jean II of France was captured by the Black Prince's army — Battle of Poitiers
- Roman/Visigoth alliance ended Attila the Hun's invasion of Gaul — Battle of Châlons
- Darius III was killed after losing this battle to Alexander the Great — Battle of Gaugamela
- Cassius and Brutus committed suicide after losing to the 2nd triumvirate — Battle of Philippi
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