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Battle of the Little Bighorn
Definition by Joshua J. Mark

Battle of the Little Bighorn

_et('6'); The Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) is the most famous engagement of the Great Sioux War (1876-1877). Five companies of the 7th Cavalry under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer (l. 1839-1876) were wiped out in one day by the...
Second Anglo-Sikh War
Definition by Mark Cartwright

Second Anglo-Sikh War

_et('6'); The Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9) once again saw the British East India Company defeat the Sikh Empire in northern India. The war, which started off as a rebellion against British colonial rule, included the high-casualty Battle of Chillianwala...
Battle of Passchendaele
Article by Mark Cartwright

Battle of Passchendaele - Haig's Folly in the Mud of Flanders

_et('6'); The Battle of Passchendaele (October-November 1917), the final stage of the Third Battle of Ypres, took place in Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War (1914-18). The aim of the Allied commander in this part of the Western Front, Field...
Battle of Wattignies
Article by Harrison W. Mark

Battle of Wattignies

_et('6'); The Battle of Wattignies was a significant battle in the War of the First Coalition, part of the wider French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802). It was fought on 15-16 October 1793 between a ragtag army of the First French Republic and a professional...
Battle of Teutoburg Forest
Article by Karen Schousboe

Battle of Teutoburg Forest

_et('6'); At the Battle of Teutoburg Forest (aka Battle of Varus), c. 9 CE, a combined force of Germans annihilated a Roman army consisting of three legions including three squadrons of cavalry and six cohorts of auxiliary troops. As some soldiers...
Battle of Leipzig
Article by Harrison W. Mark

Battle of Leipzig

_et('6'); The Battle of Leipzig (16-19 October 1813), or the Battle of the Nations, was the largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815), featuring over half a million soldiers and resulting in over 100,000 total casualties. The climax of the...
Battle of Chillianwala
Article by Mark Cartwright

Battle of Chillianwala

_et('6'); The Battle of Chillianwala on 13 January 1849 was a bloody and indecisive clash between the British East India Company (EIC) and the Sikh Empire during the Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-9). The EIC commander, General Gough, employed the dated...
Battle of the Granicus
Definition by Donald L. Wasson

Battle of the Granicus

_et('6'); The Battle of the Granicus in May 334 BCE was Alexander the Great's (356-323 BCE) first major victory against the forces of the Achaemenid Empire. Alexander had crossed the Hellespont with his combined Macedonian and Greek forces and stepped...
Battle of Cannae
Definition by Joshua J. Mark

Battle of Cannae

_et('6'); The Battle of Cannae (2 August 216 BCE) was the decisive victory of the Carthaginian army over Roman forces at Cannae, southeast Italy, during the Second Punic War (218-202 BCE). The Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca (l. 247-183 BCE), who...
Second Battle of El Alamein
Article by Mark Cartwright

Second Battle of El Alamein

_et('6'); The Second Battle of El Alamein (Oct-Nov 1942) was a major battle in North Africa during the Western Desert Campaigns of the Second World War (1939-45). The British Eighth Army led by General Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976) won a decisive...
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