This list includes sieges, as well as modern battles fought primarily in urban areas. Major military operations that included city fighting are listed below. It is sorted by year.
Siege | data-sort-type="number" rowspan=2 | Year | Conflict | Casualties |
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data-sort-type="number" | (High est.) | data-sort-type="number" | (Low est.) |
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Siege of Tyre | 332 BC | | 39,000 (including 13,000 enslaved civilians and 2,000 executed Persian soldiers) | 34,000 |
Siege of Gaza | 332 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 14,000 | 11,000 |
Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) | 213-212 BC | Second Punic War | 40,000 (including Archimedes) | 9,000 |
Siege of Carthage | 149-146 BC | Third Punic War | 450,000 (including 50,000 civilians enslaved) | 200,000 |
Siege of Athens and Piraeus | 87–86 BC | Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War) | 400,000 (including prisoners) | 200,000[1] |
Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) | 63 BC | Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War) | 12,000+ | 5,000 |
Siege of Alesia | 52 BC | Gallic Wars | 200,000 | 100,000 |
Siege of Constantinople | data-sort-value="717" | 626 | Sasanian–Byzantine wars | 95,000 | 70,000 |
Siege of Constantinople | data-sort-value="717" | 717–718 | Arab–Byzantine wars | 170,000 | 130,000 |
Siege of Chandax | data-sort-value="717" | 960-961 | Arab–Byzantine wars | 74,000 | 50,000 |
Siege of Yongzhou | data-sort-value="717" | 1076 | Lý-Song War | 140,000 | 78,000[2] |
Siege of Nicaea | 1097 | First Crusade | 11,000 | 4,000 |
Siege of Ma'arra | 1098 | First Crusade | 45,000 (including civilians and soldiers executed and cannibalized) | 25,000 |
Siege of Antioch | 1097-1099 | First Crusade | 74,000 | 50,000 |
Siege of Jerusalem | 1099 | First Crusade | 90,000 | 70,000 |
Siege of Tripoli | 1099-1102 | First Crusade | 90,000 | 105,000 |
Siege of Bukhara | 1220 | Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire | 30,000 | 15,000 |
Siege of Gurganj | 1221 | Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire | 1,200,000 | 90,000 |
Siege of Baghdad | 1258 | Mongol invasions and conquests | 2,000,000 | 90,000[3] [4] |
Siege of Acre | 1291 | Fall of Outremer | 20,000 | 10,000 |
Siege of Caffa | data-sort-value="717" | 1345-1347 | Genoese–Mongol Wars | 60,000 | 15,000 |
Siege of Golubac | 1428 | Ottoman–Hungarian wars | 20,000 | 10,000 |
Siege of Constantinople | 1453 | Byzantine–Ottoman wars | 54,000+ | 34,000+ |
Siege of Vijaya | 1471 | Champa–Đại Việt War (1471) | 300,000+ | 130,000+ |
Siege of Tenochtitlan | 1521 | Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire | 240,000 | 100,000[5] [6] |
Siege of Szigetvár | 1566 | Ottoman wars in Europe | 33,000 | 23,000 |
Siege of Chittorgarh | 1567–1568 | Mughal-Rajput Wars (1558–1576) | 40,000 | 35,000 |
Siege of Ulsan | 1598 | Imjin War | 30,000 | 13,000 |
Siege of Nagykanizsa | 1601 | Long Turkish War | 37,000 | 25,000 |
Siege of Ostend | 1601–1604 | Eighty Years' War | 115,000 | 90,000 |
Siege of Osaka | 1614-1615 | Edo Period | 500,000 | 110,000 |
Siege of La Rochelle | 1627-1628 | Huguenot rebellions | 35,000 | 27,000 |
Capture of Maastricht | 1632 | Eighty Years' War | 14,000 | 9,500 |
Siege of Candia | 1648–1669 | Cretan War | 149,739 | 149,739 |
First siege of Anandpur | 1700 | Hill States-Sikh Wars | 150,000+ | 150,000+ |
Siege of Toulon | 1793 | War of the First Coalition | 21,400 | 7,400 |
Siege of Mantua | 1796–1797 | War of the First Coalition | 51,000 | 51,000 |
Siege of Genoa | 1800 | War of the Second Coalition | 28,000 | 28,000 |
Siege of Danzig | 1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition | 17,900 | 17,900 |
Second Siege of Zaragoza | data-sort-value="1808" | 1808–1809 | Peninsular War | 64,000[7] | 64,000 |
First Siege of Sevastopol | 1854–1855 | Crimean War | 230,000[8] | 230,000 |
Third Battle of Nanking | 1864 | Taiping Rebellion | 100,000[9] | 100,000 |
Siege of Petersburg | data-sort-value="1864" | 1864–1865 | American Civil War | 70,000[10] | 70,000 |
Siege of Vicksburg | data-sort-value="1863" | 1863 | American Civil War | 36,000 | 20,000 |
Battle of Gettysburg | data-sort-value="1863" | 1863 | American Civil War | 50,000 | 50,000 |
Siege of Paris | data-sort-value="1870" | 1871 | Franco-Prussian War | 332,142 | 229,000 |
Siege of Plevna | data-sort-value="1877" | 1877 | Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) | 75,000[11] | 75,000 |
Siege of Port Arthur | data-sort-value="1904" | 1904–1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 100,000[12] | 100,000 |
Siege of Adrianople | data-sort-value="1912" | 1912–1913 | First Balkan War | 93,282[13] | 93,282 |
Siege of Liege | 1914 | World War I | 25,300 | 6,000 |
Siege of Przemyśl | 1914 | World War I | 253,000 | 253,000 |
Siege of Maubeuge | 1914 | World War I | 94,000 | 51,000 |
Siege of Antwerp | 1914 | World War I | 58,000 | 36,000 |
Siege of Kut | 1915-1916 | World War I | 50,000 | 36,000 |
Battle of Taiyuan | 1937 | World War II | 130,000[14] | 130,000 |
Battle of Xinkou | 1937 | World War II | 200,000 | 200,000 |
Battle of Shanghai | 1937 | World War II | 426,140[15] | 363,700[16] |
First Battle of Changsha | 1939 | World War II | 80,000+ | 80,000+[17] |
Battle of Nanchang | 1939 | World War II | 75,328[18] | 75,328 |
Battle of Dunkirk | 1940 | World War II | 88,000[19] | 88,000 |
Battle of South Shanxi | 1941 | World War II | 120,000+ | 120,000+[20] |
Siege of Tobruk | 1941 | World War II | 18,600 | 16,500 |
Siege of Odessa | 1941 | World War II | 133,813[21] | 133,813 |
Battle of Kiev | 1941 | World War II | 761,783 | 761,783 |
Second Siege of Sevastopol | 1941–1942 | World War II | 236,437 | 236,437 |
Third Battle of Changsha | 1942 | World War II | 84,862[22] | 84,862 |
First Battle of Voronezh | 1942 | World War II | 662,847 | 662,847 |
Battle of Stalingrad | data-sort-value="1942" | 1942–1943 | World War II | 4,172,000[23] [24] | 1,250,000[25] |
Battle of Changde | 1943 | World War II | 100,000 | 100,000[26] |
Battle of West Hubei | 1943 | World War II | 115,830 | 115,830[27] |
Siege of Leningrad | data-sort-value="1941" | 1941–1944 | World War II | 5,500,000[28] | 1,117,000[29] [30] |
Warsaw Uprising | 1944 | World War II | 200,000+ | 200,000+[31] |
Siege of Budapest | data-sort-value="1944" | 1944–1945 | World War II | 422,000 | 422,000[32] |
Battle of Berlin | 1945 | World War II | 1,286,367 (including civilians) | 1,286,367 (including civilians) |
Battle of Okinawa | 1945 | World War II | 240,000 | 130,000 |
Battle of Manila | 1945 | World War II | 500,000[33] [34] | 100,000[35] [36] |
Battle of the Bulge | data-sort-value="1944" | 1944–1945 | World War II | 218,900 | 161,370 |
Siege of Changchun | 1948[37] | Chinese Civil War | 425,000[38] | 78,808[39] [40] [41] |
Siege of Basra | data-sort-value="1987" | 1987 | Iran–Iraq War | 85,000 | 85,000 |
First Battle of Grozny | 1994–1995 | First Chechen War | 33,192 | 32,000 |
Battle of Aleppo | 2012–2016 | Syrian Civil War | 45,000[42] | 31,273[43] |
Battle of Mosul | 2016–2017 | War in Iraq (2013–2017) | 71,355[44] [45] [46] | 18,200[47] |
Siege of Mariupol | 2022 | Russian Invasion of Ukraine | 85,200[48] [49] [50] | 8,034[51] [52] [53] |
Battle of Bakhmut | 2022–2023 | Russian Invasion of Ukraine | 165,600[54] | 146,050 |
Battle of Avdiivka | 2023–2024 | Russian Invasion of Ukraine | 54,000[55] [56] | 21,000 | |
This list includes major operations and prolonged battles or operations fought over a large area or for a long time. The durations of some operations, like the Battle of Moscow, are disputed; so numbers found in various sources may differ for that reason alone.
Operation | Year | Conflict | date-sort-type=number | Casualties |
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Flanders and Rhine campaign | | War of the Spanish Succession | |
Montenotte Campaign | | War of the First Coalition | 8,000+ |
Ulm Campaign | | War of the Third Coalition | 62,000 |
French invasion of Russia | | Napoleonic Wars | 920,000–1,040,000[57] |
German Campaign | | War of the Sixth Coalition | 745,000 |
Six Days' Campaign | | War of the Sixth Coalition | 80,000 |
Hundred Days | | War of the Seventh Coalition | 241,525 |
Peninsula Campaign | | American Civil War | 36,463[58] |
Battle of Chancellorsville | | American Civil War | 30,000[59] –30,500 |
Overland Campaign | | American Civil War | 87,000[60] –92,000 |
Appomattox Campaign | | American Civil War | 16,500 |
Battle of Liaoyang | | Russo-Japanese War | 33,100 |
Battle of Shaho | | Russo-Japanese War | 62,500 |
Battle of Mukden | | Russo-Japanese War | 160,000[61] |
Battle of Sandepu | | Russo-Japanese War | 22,400 |
Battle of Lule Burgas | | First Balkan War | 42,162+[62] |
First Battle of Çatalca | | First Balkan War | 22,000[63] |
Battle of Bregalnica | | Second Balkan War | 36,620 |
Battle of Kilkis-Lachanas | | Second Balkan War | 15,700 |
Serbian campaign | –1915 | World War I | -1,587,000+ |
Battle of the Frontiers | | World War I | |
Battle of Tannenberg | | World War I | 145,000[64] –160,000[65] |
Battle of Galicia | | World War I | –700,000 |
Battle of Cer | | World War I | 58,500-65,500 |
First Battle of the Marne | | World War I | 513,000[66] |
First Battle of the Aisne | | World War I | + |
Battle of the Yser | | World War I | 18,500+ |
First Battle of Ypres | | World War I | 210,000[67] |
Battle of Łódź | | World War I | 270,000 – 390,000 |
Battle of the Drina | | World War I | 70,000 |
Battle of the Vistula River | | World War I | 214,480 |
Battle of Limanowa | | World War I | 251,120 |
First Battle of Champagne | –1915 | World War I | 139,532 |
Battle of Sarikamish | –1915 | World War I | 60,000—85,000[68] |
Carpathian Front | | World War I | 930,751 |
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes | | World War I | 216,200 |
Second Battle of Ypres | | World War I | 104,208[69] –107,000[70] |
Gallipoli Campaign | | World War I | 503,000–552,000[71] |
Second Battle of Artois | | World War I | 186,000 |
Second Battle of Champagne–Third Battle of Artois | | World War I | 75,000–440,000 |
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive | | World War I | 300,000–1,087,000 |
Great Retreat (Russian) | | World War I | 1,943,800+ |
Serbian Campaign | | World War I | including prisoners[72] |
Erzurum offensive | | World War I | 80,000—85,000 |
Battle of Erzincan | | World War I | 63,000 |
Battle of Mont Sorrel | | World War I | 14,000 |
Battle of Verdun | | World War I | 755,000[73] –976,000 |
Battle of Asiago | | World War I | 250,000 |
Brusilov offensive | | World War I | 1,500,000–2,500,000[74] |
Battle of the Somme | | World War I | 1,120,000[75] –1,215,000 |
Monastir Offensive | | World War I | 111,000[76] |
Romanian Campaign | –1917 | World War I | 240,000–933,000, including prisoners |
Nivelle Offensive | | World War I | 354,000[77] |
Second Battle of the Aisne | | World War I | 350,000–463,000 |
Battle of Arras | | World War I | 278,000–288,000 |
Battle of Messines | | World War I | 42,000[78] [79] |
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo | | World War I | 200,000[80] |
Third Battle of Ypres | | World War I | 585,000+[81] |
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo | | World War I | 273,000 |
Battle of Caporetto | | World War I | 60,000[82] |
Battle of Cambrai | | World War I | 95,000 |
German spring offensive | | World War I | 1,539,000[83] |
Operation Michael | | World War I | 494,616 |
Battle of the Lys | | World War I | 204,300–228,340 |
Third Battle of the Aisne | | World War I | 257,000 |
Second Battle of the Piave River | | World War I | killed and wounded, 73,729 prisoners |
Second Battle of the Marne | | World War I | 288,000 |
Battle of Soissons | | World War I | 287,259 |
Hundred Days Offensive | | World War I | 2,240,000 |
Meuse–Argonne offensive | | World War I | 318,000 |
Battle of Warsaw | | Polish–Soviet War | About 130,000, not including prisoners[84] |
Invasion of Manchuria | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 35,000 |
Asturias Offensive | | Spanish Civil War | 50,000 |
Battle of Jarama | | Spanish Civil War | 40,000 |
Battle of Guadalajara | | Spanish Civil War | 12,000[85] |
Aragon Offensive | –1938 | Spanish Civil War | 205,000, including prisoners |
Battle of Teruel | –1938 | Spanish Civil War | 110,000 |
Levante Offensive | | Spanish Civil War | 25,000 |
Battle of the Ebro | | Spanish Civil War | 106,500[86] |
Battle of Xuzhou | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 130,000[87] |
1938 Yellow River Flood | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 800,000[88] |
Battle of Wuhan | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 550,000–700,000[89] [90] |
Battles of Khalkhin Gol | | Soviet–Japanese border conflicts | 42,000–75,000[91] [92] |
Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 49,000 |
Invasion of Poland | | World War II | 310,000[93] –914,000[94] |
Battle of the Bzura | 1939 | World War II | 232,000[95] –234,000 |
Winter Offensive | –1940 | World War II | 100,000+[96] |
Operation Weserübung | | World War II | 12,800 |
Battle of France | | World War II | 469,000[97] |
Battle of Britain | 1940 | World War II | 38,800 [98] |
Hundred Regiments Offensive | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 62,900[99] |
Battle of Keren | | World War II | + killed |
Battle of Greece | | World War II | [100] |
Battle of Shanggao | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 42,000 |
Battle of Crete | | World War II | 16,007[101] |
Operation Barbarossa | | World War II | 5,318,000[102] –8,050,000[103] |
Battle of Białystok–Minsk | | World War II | 429,886 including prisoners[104] |
Battle of Smolensk | | World War II | 595,606 killed, captured, and missing 300,000 Soviet prisoners |
Battle of Uman | | World War II | 223,853 |
Battle of Kiev (included in Barbarossa) | | World War II | 761,783 killed, captured, and missing |
Battle of Bryansk | | World War II | 700,000 Soviet killed, captured and missing German casualties unknown. |
Battle of Moscow (included in Barbarossa) | | World War II | 1,000,000[105] |
Battle of Hong Kong | | World War II | 18,000 including prisoners[106] |
Battle of Malaya/Battle of Singapore | –1942 | World War II | 143,800, and 60,000 prisoners[107] |
Battle of Bataan/Battle of Corregidor | | World War II | 30,000 killed[108] |
Battle of Lyuban | | World War II | 365,135 |
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula | | World War II | 176,000+ |
Demyansk Pocket | | World War II | 300,000 |
Second Battle of Kharkov | | World War II | 300,000[109] |
Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 356,000[110] |
Battle of Gazala | | World War II | 148,000[111] |
First Battle of El Alamein | | World War II | 30,000 |
Kokoda Track campaign | | World War II | 13,000 |
Case Blue | | World War II | 1,400,000 |
Battle of the Caucasus | –1942 | World War II | 625,000 |
Guadalcanal Campaign | –1943 | World War II | 29,100[112] –31,100[113] |
Battles of Rzhev | –1943 | World War II | 2,900,000–3,080,000 |
Second Battle of El Alamein | | World War II | 39,400–82,500[114] |
Operation Iskra | | World War II | 129,332[115] |
Battle of Kursk | | World War II | 1,028,617[116] [117] –2,037,000[118] |
Operation Kutuzov | | World War II | 516,344 |
Allied invasion of Sicily | | World War II | 36,000+ killed, and over 100,000 Italian POWs[119] |
Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation | | World War II | 202,654–280,634 |
Battle of Smolensk | | World War II | 522,059 |
Dnieper Campaign | | World War II | 1,582,000 (lowest est.) – 2,480,000 (highest est.) |
Operation Husky | | World War II | 16,000 |
Allied invasion of Italy | | World War II | 17,092[120] |
Bougainville Campaign | –1945 | World War II | 21,929 killed, and 23,571 Japanese prisoners[121] |
Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive | –1944 | World War II | 1,442,956 |
Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive | | World War II | 385,604 |
Battle of Monte Cassino | | World War II | 185,000[122] |
Battle of Narva | | World War II | 550,000 all causes[123] |
Battle of Anzio | | World War II | 52,200 killed[124] |
First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive | | World War II | 195,000[125] |
Operation Ichi-Go | | Second Sino-Japanese War | 1,300,000+[126] |
Battle of Normandy | | World War II | 650,600–795,400 |
Operation Dragoon | | World War II | 169,600 |
Battle of Saipan | | World War II | 43,500 killed, including mass suicides[127] |
Operation Bagration | | World War II | 1,430,000[128] |
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive | | World War II | 463,129 |
Falaise Pocket | | World War II | 140,000[129] |
Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive | | World War II | 485,424, including prisoners[130] |
Operation Market Garden | | World War II | 27,200[131] |
Moro River Campaign | | World War II | 20,000 |
Baltic offensive | | World War II | 280,120 Soviet casualties; German casualties unknown |
Battle of Aachen | | World War II | 21,000 |
Gothic Line offensive | -1945 | World War II | 92,000 |
Battle of Hürtgen Forest | –1945 | World War II | 63,000[132] |
Courland Pocket | –1945 | World War II | 278,819 |
Battle of Leyte Gulf | | World War II | 12,000 killed[133] |
Battle of the Bulge | –1945 | World War II | 161,370[134] –218,900 |
Vistula–Oder Offensive | | World War II | 636,191 including prisoners |
Battle of Luzon | | World War II | 332,330–345,330, including sick[135] |
Battle of the Rhineland | | World War II | 82,000 and 250,000 prisoners[136] |
Battle of Iwo Jima | | World War II | 44,821[137] –48,700[138] |
East Prussian Offensive | | World War II | 806,778 including prisoners |
Battle of Okinawa | | World War II | 113,920[139] –158,400[140] |
Burma campaigns | –1945 | World War II | 700,000[141] |
Battle of West Hunan | | World War II | 50,000 |
Second Guangxi campaign | | World War II | 1,000,000 |
Liaoshen campaign | | Chinese Civil War | 542,000, including captured[142] |
Huaihai campaign | | Chinese Civil War | 689,000, including captured[143] |
Pingjin campaign | –1949 | Chinese Civil War | 560,000, including captured[144] |
Shanghai Campaign | | Chinese Civil War | 213,073[145] |
Battle of Inchon | | Korean War | 17,429[146] |
UN offensive into North Korea | | Korean War | 51,700[147] |
Battle of Chosin Reservoir | | Korean War | 66,000 |
Battle of Dien Bien Phu | | First Indochina War | 31,500, not including prisoners[148] |
Tet Offensive | | Vietnam War | 65,000[149] |
Operation OAU | | Nigerian Civil War | |
Easter Offensive | | Vietnam War | 150,000 |
Operation Dawn 5 | | Iran–Iraq War | 75,000 |
Battle of the Marshes | | Iran–Iraq War | 55,000 |
Russian invasion of Ukraine | –pres. | Russo-Ukrainian War | [150] –500,000[151] | |
These refer to battles in which armies met on a single field of battle and fought each other for anywhere from one to several days. This type of battle died out in favor of grander military operations.
Battle | Year | Conflict | Casualties |
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Battle of Megiddo | ! 1457 BC | Thutmose III's first campaign in the Levant | 16,000+ |
Battle of Kadesh | ! 1274 BC | Second Syrian campaign of Ramesses II | 30,000+ |
Battle of Qarqar | ! 853 BC | Assyrian conquest of Aram | 24,000+ |
Battle of Thymbra | ! 547 BC | Lydian–Persian War | 100,000[152] |
Battle of Marathon | ! 490 BC | Greco-Persian Wars | 5,000–8,000[153] |
Battle of Thermopylae | ! 480 BC | Greco-Persian Wars | 22,500[154] |
Battle of Plataea | ! 479 BC | Greco-Persian War | 51,500–257,000[155] |
Battle of Mycale | ! 479 BC | Greco-Persian War | 70,000 |
Battle of Leuctra | ! 371 BC | Theban–Spartan War | 4,300 |
Battle of Mantinea | ! 362 BC | Theban–Spartan War | 18,000 |
Battle of the Granicus | ! 334 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | Around 7,000[156] |
Battle of Issus | ! 333 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 20,000-40,000 |
Battle of Gaugamela | ! 331 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 53,500[157] |
Battle of the Persian Gate | ! 330 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 48,500 |
Battle of the Hydaspes | ! 326 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 23,310 |
Battle of Sentinum | ! 295 BC | Third Samnite War | 33,700[158] |
Battle of Heraclea | ! 280 BC | Pyrrhic War | 11,000–26,000 |
Battle of Asculum | ! 279 BC | Pyrrhic War | 9,500+ |
Battle of Beneventum | ! 275 BC | Pyrrhic War | 20,000 |
Battle of Messana | ! 264 BC | First Punic War | 7,400+ |
Battle of Kalinga | ! 262 BC | Kalinga-Maurya Empire | 250,000+ (including civilians) [159] |
Battle of Changping | ! 260 BC | Warring States period | 700,000 (ancient source & includes prisoners)[160] |
Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC) | ! 240 BC | Mercenary War | 8,000+ |
Battle of Telamon | ! 225 BC | Roman–Gallic wars | 56,000+ |
Battle of Ticinus | ! 218 BC | Second Punic War | 9,500+ |
Battle of the Trebia | ! 218 BC | Second Punic War | 35,000[161] |
Battle of Lake Trasimene | ! 217 BC | Second Punic War | 30,000 |
Battle of Cannae | ! 216 BC | Second Punic War | 50,000+[162] |
Battle of the Metaurus | ! 207 BC | Second Punic War | 12,000[163] |
Battle of Julu | ! 207 BC | Chu–Han Contention | 400,000+ (including prisoners) |
Battle of Utica | ! 203 BC | Second Punic War | +45,000 |
Battle of Zama | ! 202 BC | Second Punic War | 21,500 |
Battle of the Arius | ! 200 BC | Antiochus's Bactrian Campaign | 3,750 |
Battle of Cynoscephalae | ! 197 BC | Second Macedonian War | 23,700 |
Battle of Thermopylae (191 BC) | ! 191 BC | Roman–Seleucid War | 14,000 |
Battle of Magnesia | ! 190 BC | Roman–Seleucid War | 53,350[164] |
Battle of Pydna | ! 168 BC | Third Macedonian War | 21,000 |
Battle of Noreia | ! 115 BC | Germanic Wars (Cimbrian War) | 24,000 |
Battle of the Muthul | ! 109 BC | Jugurthine War | 25,000 |
Battle of Arausio | ! 105 BC | Germanic Wars (Cimbrian War) | 85,000[165] [166] [167] |
Battle of Aquae Sextiae | ! 102 BC | Germanic Wars (Cimbrian War) | 90,000[168] |
Battle of Chaeronea | ! 86 BC | Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War) | 50,000[169] |
Battle of the Colline Gate | ! 82 BC | Sulla's civil war | 50,000[170] |
Battle of the Silarius River | ! 71 BC | Third Servile War | 11,000 |
Battle of Chalcedon | ! 74 BC | Mithridatic Wars (Third Mithridatic War) | 19,000+ |
Battle of Tigranocerta | ! 69 BC | Mithridatic Wars (Third Mithridatic War) | 10,000+[171] |
Battle of Bibracte | ! 58 BC | Gallic Wars | 12,000+[172] |
Battle of Axona | ! 57 BC | Gallic Wars | 11,000+ |
Battle of Carrhae | ! 53 BC | Roman–Persian Wars | 24,000[173] |
Battle of Pharsalus | ! 48 BC | Caesar's Civil War | 17,000[174] |
Battle of Philippi | ! 42 BC | Liberators' civil war | 24,000 |
Battle of Actium | ! 31 BC | Final War of the Roman Republic | 7,500+[175] |
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest | ! #000AD 9 | Roman–Germanic wars | 20,000[176] |
Battle of Idistaviso | ! #000AD 16 | Roman–Germanic wars | 20,000+[177] |
Battle of Watling Street | ! #00AD 61 | Iceni Revolt | 80,400[178] |
Battle of Mons Graupius | ! #00AD 84 | Roman conquest of Britain | 10,360[179] |
Battle of Adamclisi | ! #00AD 102 | Dacian Wars | 18,000+ |
Battle of Sarmizegetusa | ! #00AD 106 | Dacian Wars | 21,000+ |
Battle of Carnuntum | ! #00AD 170 | Marcomannic Wars | 20,000+ |
Battle of Issus (194) | - 0
194 | Year of the Five Emperors | 20,000 |
Battle of Lugdunum | - 0
197 | Year of the Five Emperors | 90,000 |
Battle of Guandu | - 0
200 | Three Kingdoms | 78,000[180] |
Battle of Red Cliffs | - 0
208 | Three Kingdoms | 100,000 |
Battle of Barbalissos | - 0
252 | Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 | 60,000+[181] |
Battle of Edessa | - 0
260 | Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 | 65,000+[182] |
Battle of Emesa | - 0
272 | Crisis of the Third Century | 61,000+ |
Battle of Châlons (274) | - 0
274 | Crisis of the Third Century | 56,000+ |
Battle of Adrianople | - 0
378 | Gothic War | 40,000+[183] |
Battle of the Fei River | - 0
383 | Sixteen Kingdoms period | 700,000+[184] |
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains | - 0
451 | Hunnic Invasion | 165,000 (ancient source)[185] |
Battle of Dara | - 0
530 | Iberian War | 8,000+[186] |
Battle of Callinicum | - 0
531 | Iberian War | 28,000+ |
Battle of Taginae | - 0
552 | Gothic War | 8,000+ |
Battle of the Volturnus | - 0
554 | Gothic War | 18,000+ |
Battle of the Salsu | - 0
612 | Goguryeo–Sui War | 302,300 (ancient source)[187] |
Battle of Nineveh | - 0
627 | Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 | 9,000+ |
Battle of al-Qadisiyyah | - 0
636 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 31,000[188] |
Battle of Muzayyah | - 0
633 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 10,000 |
Battle of Ullais | - 0
633 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 35,000[189] |
Battle of River | - 0
633 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 15,000+[190] |
Battle of Ajnadayn | - 0
634 | Muslim conquest of the Levant | 55,000 |
Battle of Yarmouk | - 0
636 | Muslim conquest of the Levant | 70,000[191] |
Battle of Walaja | - 0
636 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 22,000[192] |
Battle of Nahavand | - 0
642 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 28,500[193] |
Battle of Marj Ardabil | - 0
730 | Second Arab-Khazar War | 25,000+ |
Battle of Tours | - 0
732 | Umayyad invasion of Gaul | 13,000[194] |
Battle of Akroinon | - 0
740 | Arab–Byzantine Wars | 13,200+ |
Battle of Talas | - 0
751 | Muslim conquest of Transoxiana | 50,000+ |
Battle of Xiangji Temple | - 0
757 | An Lushan Rebellion | 110,000+ |
Battle of Pliska | - 0
811 | Byzantine–Bulgarian wars | 29,000 |
Battle of Ashdown | - 0
871 | Viking activity in the British Isles | 9,000 |
Battle of Brenta | - 0
899 | Hungarian invasions of Europe | 14,000+ |
Battle of Lechfeld | - 0
955 | Hungarian invasions of Europe | 15,000 |
Battle of Arcadiopolis | - 0
970 | Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria | 27,000 |
Battle of the Gates of Trajan | - 0
986 | Byzantine–Bulgarian wars | 27,000 |
Battle of Kleidion | - 0
1014 | Byzantine–Bulgarian wars | 45,000 |
Battle of Gwiju | 1019 | Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War | 90,000+ |
Battle of Dandanaqan | 1040 | Seljuk-Ghaznavid Wars | 35,000+ |
Battle of Fulford | 1066 | Viking invasions of England | 5,000 |
Battle of Stamford Bridge | 1066 | Viking invasions of England | 13,000 |
Battle of Hastings | 1066 | Norman Conquest | Around 6,000 [195] |
Battle of Manzikert | - 0
1071 | Byzantine-Seljuk Wars | 25,000 |
Battle of Langensalza (1075) | 1075 | Saxon Revolt of 1073-1075 | Around 8,600 |
Battle of Nhu Nguyet river | - 0
1077 | Lý–Song War | 150,000[196] |
Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) | 1081 | First Norman invasion of the Balkans | 5,000+ |
Battle of Civetot | 1096 | People's Crusade | 50,000+ |
Battle of Dorylaeum | 1097 | First Crusade | 7,000+ |
| 1099 | First Crusade | 13,000+ |
Battle of Nakło (1109) | 1109 | ??? | 30,000+ |
Battle of Ager Sanguinis | 1119 | Crusades | 12,000 |
Battle of Azaz | 1125 | Crusades | 6,000+ |
Battle of Crug Mawr | 1135 | Norman invasion of Wales | 13,000 |
Battle of Legnano | 1177 | Guelphs and Ghibellines | +9,000 |
Battle of Montgisard | 1177 | Ayyubid–Crusader War | Around 25,850 |
Battle of Hattin | 1187 | Ayyubid–Crusader War | 17,000–20,000[197] |
Battle of Philomelion (1190) | 1190 | Third Crusade | 5,100 |
Battle of Arsuf | 1191 | Third Crusade | 8,000+ |
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa | 1212 | Reconquista | 60,000[198] |
Battle of Yehuling | 1212 | Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty | Around 150,000 |
Battle of Muret | 1213 | | Around 16,500 |
Battle of Bouvines | 1214 | | 9,000 |
Battle of Parwan | 1221 | Mongol invasion of Central Asia | 65,000+ |
Battle of the Kalka River | 1223 | Mongol invasion of Rus' | Around 50,000[199] |
Battle of Sanfengshan | 1232 | Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty | 125,000 |
Battle of Legnica | 1241 | Mongol invasion of Poland | 30,000[200] |
Battle of Mohi | 1241 | Mongol invasion of Europe | 15,000[201] |
Battle of Mansurah | 1250 | Seventh Crusade | 21,000 |
Battle of Ain Jalut | 1260 | Mongol invasions of the Levant | 21,000 |
Battle of Kōan | 1281 | Mongol invasions of Japan | 150,000+ |
Third battle of Bach Dang river | 1288 | Mongol invasion of Vietnam | 85,000 |
Battle of Jaran Manjur | 1298 | Mongol invasions of India | 20,000+ |
Battle of Yamen | 1279 | Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty | 100,000 |
Battle of Kili | 1299 | Mongol invasion of India | 130,000 |
Battle of Bapheus | 1302 | Byzantine–Ottoman wars | 3,000 |
Battle of Amroha | 1305 | Mongol invasion of India | 34,000 |
Battle of Bannockburn | 1314 | First War of Scottish Independence | 19,000[202] |
Battle of Demotika | 1352 | Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357 | 8,000 |
Battle of Vijaya | 1377 | Champa–Đại Việt War (1367–1390) | 95,000 |
Battle of Kulikovo | 1380 | List of Mongol and Tatar raids against Rus' | 136,000 |
Battle of Roosebeke | 1382 | Hundred Years' War | 27,600 |
Battle of Maritsa | 1389 | Serbian-Ottoman wars | 57,000 |
Battle of Kosovo | 1389 | Serbian-Ottoman wars | 60,000 |
Battle of the Terek River | 1395 | Tokhtamysh–Timur war | 100,000[203] |
Battle of Nicopolis | 1396 | Ottoman wars in Europe | 30,000 |
Conquest of Delhi | 1398 | Timur's Indian campaign | 100,000[204] [205] |
Battle of Ankara | 1402 | Ottoman–Timur War | 15,000+[206] |
Battle of Grunwald | 1410 | Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War | 13,000[207] |
Battle of Agincourt | 1415 | Hundred Years' War | 14,000 |
Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động | 1426 | Lam Sơn uprising | 30,000[208] |
Battle of Hermannstadt | 1442 | Crusade of Varna | 24,000 |
Battle of Zlatitsa | 1443 | Crusade of Varna | 22,000+ |
Battle of Varna | 1444 | Crusade of Varna | 60,000+ |
Battle of Kosovo (1448) | 1448 | Ottoman–Wallachian wars / Ottoman–Hungarian wars | +27,000 |
Tumu Crisis | 1449 | Ming–Mongol War | 200,000+ |
Battle of Castillon | 1453 | Hundred Years' War | 4,000[209] |
Battle of Chojnice | 1454 | Thirteen Years' War | 9,000 |
Battle of Towton | 1461 | Wars of the Roses | 28,000[210] |
Second Battle of St Albans | 1461 | Wars of the Roses | 2,000 |
Night Attack at Târgoviște | 1462 | Wallachian-Ottoman Wars | 20,000[211] |
Battle of Vaslui | 1475 | Moldavian-Ottoman Wars | 40,000+ |
Battle of Valea Albă | 1476 | Moldavian–Ottoman Wars | 30,000+ |
Battle of Breadfield | 1479 | Habsburg–Ottoman wars | 13,000+ |
Battle of Kabul | 1504 | Campaigns of Babur | 20,000+[212] |
Battle of Ravenna | 1512 | War of the League of Cambrai | 13,500[213] |
Battle of Flodden | 1513 | War of the League of Cambrai | 15,500 |
Battle of Chaldiran | 1514 | Ottoman–Persian Wars | 7,000 |
Battle of Orsha | 1514 | Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1512-1522) | 21,000–45,000 |
Battle of Marignano | 1515 | War of the League of Cambrai | 11,000–15,000[214] |
Battle of Ridaniya | 1517 | Ottoman wars in the Near East | 13,000[215] |
La Noche Triste | 1520 | Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire | +4,800 |
Battle of Pavia | 1525 | Italian War of 1521–1526 | 13,000 |
First Battle of Panipat | 1526 | Mughal Conquest | 20,000–50,000[216] |
Battle of Mohács | 1526 | Ottoman–Hungarian wars | Probably 30,000[217] |
Battle of Sződfalva | 1527 | Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528 | 21,000 |
Battle of Ghaghra | 1529 | Mughal Conquest | 13,000[218] |
Battle of Gorjani | 1537 | Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568) | 22,000 |
Battle of Mühlberg | 1547 | Schmalkaldic War | 9,500 |
Battle of Molodi | 1572 | Russo-Crimean Wars | 29,000–33,000 or 100,000[219] |
Battle of Nagashino | 1575 | Sengoku period | 18,000[220] |
Battle of Alcácer Quibir | 1578 | Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts | 19,000 |
Battle of Gembloux | 1578 | Eighty Years' War | 6,000 |
Battle of Chungju | 1592 | Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) | 8,000–16,000[221] 100,000[222] [223] |
Battle of Călugăreni | 1595 | Long War (Ottoman War) | 11,000–16,000 |
Battle of Keresztes | 1596 | Long Turkish War | 30,000 |
Battle of Sacheon | 1598 | Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) | 30,000[224] |
Battle of Sekigahara | 1600 | Sengoku period | 30,000+[225] |
Battle of Nieuwpoort | 1600 | Eighty Years' War | 6,700+ |
Battle of Kircholm | 1605 | Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611) | 8,400 |
Battle of Klushino | 1610 | Polish–Muscovite War | 5,400 |
Battle of Wisternitz | 1619 | Thirty Years' War | 6,700 |
Battle of White Mountain | 1620 | Thirty Years' War | 3,450 |
Battle of Shen-Liao | 1620 | Qing conquest of the Ming | 75,000 |
Battle of Rohilla | 1621 | Early Mughal-Sikh Wars | 14,000 |
Battle of Lutter | 1626 | Thirty Years' War | 9,700 |
Battle of Wolgast | 1628 | Thirty Years' War | 3,100 |
First Battle of Breitenfeld | 1631 | Thirty Years' War | 31,900 |
Battle of Lahira | 1631 | Early Mughal-Sikh Wars | 36,773[226] |
Battle of Fürth | 1632 | Thirty Years' War | 5,000 |
Battle of Lützen | 1632 | Thirty Years' War | 11,160[227] |
Battle of Amritsar | 1634 | Early Mughal-Sikh Wars | 7,000 |
Battle of Nördlingen | 1634 | Thirty Years' War | 17,000[228] |
Battle of Kartarpur | 1635 | Early Mughal-Sikh Wars | 50,700-97,000[229] [230] |
Battle of the Downs | 1639 | Eighty Years' War | 15,000+[231] |
Battle of Song-Jin | 1641 | Qing conquest of the Ming | 60,000 |
Second Battle of Breitenfeld | 1642 | Thirty Years' War | 14,000[232] |
Battle of Rocroi | 1643 | Thirty Years' War | 19,000[233] |
Battle of Freiburg | 1644 | Thirty Years' War | 12,000 |
Battle of Jankau | 1645 | Thirty Years' War | 15,500[234] |
Battle of Lens | 1648 | Thirty Years' War | 9,500 |
Battle of Zusmarshausen | 1648 | Thirty Years' War | 5,000 |
Battle of Berestechko | 1651 | Khmelnytsky Uprising | 30,000–40,000[235] |
Battle of the Dunes | 1658 | Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) | 9,600 |
Battle of Samugarh | 1658 | Mughal Conquest | 32,000 |
Battle of Khajwa | 1659 | Mughal Conquest | 20,000 |
Battle of Saint Gotthard | 1664 | Battle of Saint Gotthard | 12,000 |
Battle of Khotyn (1673) | 1673 | Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) | 32,000 |
Battle of Lund | 1676 | Scanian War | 14,000[236] |
Battle of Vienna | 1683 | Ottoman–Habsburg wars | 19,500[237] |
Battle of Mohács (1687) | 1687 | Ottoman–Habsburg wars | 12,500 |
Battle of Fleurus | 1690 | War of the Grand Alliance | 10,600−28,000[238] [239] |
Battle of Landen | 1693 | War of the Grand Alliance | 28,000[240] |
Battle of Zenta | 1697 | Ottoman–Habsburg wars | 30,300[241] |
Battle of Jinji | 1698 | Mughal Conquest | 16,000 |
Battle of Narva | 1700 | Great Northern War | 19,900[242] [243] |
Battle of Schellenberg | 1704 | War of the Spanish Succession | 11,000 |
Battle of Blenheim | 1704 | War of the Spanish Succession | 32,000 |
Battle of Chamkaur | 1705 | Mughal-Sikh Wars | 112,500 |
Battle of Fraustadt | 1706 | Great Northern War | 16,500[244] |
Battle of Ramillies | 1706 | War of the Spanish Succession | 15,600[245] |
Battle of Almansa | 1707 | War of the Spanish Succession | 22,000 |
Battle of Lesnaya | 1708 | Great Northern War | 11,000[246] [247] |
Battle of Poltava | 1709 | Great Northern War | 14,300[248] |
Battle of Malplaquet | 1709 | War of the Spanish Succession | 95,000 |
Battle of Helsingborg | 1710 | Great Northern War | 10,700[249] |
Battle of Villaviciosa | 1710 | War of the Spanish Succession | 12,000 |
Battle of Gulnabad | 1722 | Hotaki-Safavid War | 17,000 |
Battle of Hohenfriedberg | 1745 | War of the Austrian Succession | 18,530 |
Battle of Fontenoy | 1745 | War of the Austrian Succession | 14,000[250] |
Battle of Lobositz | 1756 | Seven Years' War | 7,000+ |
Battle of Leuthen | 1757 | Seven Years' War | 11,800[251] |
Battle of Prague | 1757 | Seven Years' War | +27,570 |
Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf | 1757 | Seven Years' War | +10,000 |
Battle of Rossbach | 1757 | Seven Years' War | 10,000 |
Battle of Breslau (1757) | 1757 | Seven Years' War | 12,000 |
Battle of Zorndorf | 1758 | Seven Years' War | 30,000 |
Battle of Krefeld | 1758 | Seven Years' War | 5,200 |
Battle of Kunersdorf | 1759 | Seven Years' War | 35,000[252] |
Battle of Minden | 1759 | Seven Years' War | 12,700 |
Battle of Torgau | 1760 | Seven Years' War | +32560 |
Third Battle of Panipat | 1761 | Marathas and Afghans | 65,000[253] [254] |
Battle of Kup | 1762 | Afghan-Sikh Wars | Around 20,000[255] |
Battle of Villinghausen | 1761 | Seven Years' War | +13,000 |
Battle of Freiberg | 1762 | Seven Years' War | 10,500 |
Battle of Kagul | 1770 | Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) | 21,000[256] |
Battle of Porto Novo | 1781 | Second Anglo-Mysore War | 9306 |
Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút | 1785 | Siamese-Vietnamese Wars | 50,000[257] |
Battle of Rymnik | 1789 | Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) | 21,000[258] |
Battle of Jemappes | 1792 | War of the Second Coalition | 3,500 |
Battle of Praga | 1794 | Kościuszko Uprising | 26,000 |
Battle of Mardanpur | 1794 | Maratha and Patiala | 8,333-52,333[259] |
Battle of Loano | 1795 | War of the First Coalition | 10,000 |
Battle of Arcole | 1796 | War of the First Coalition | 11,000[260] |
Battle of Rivoli | 1797 | War of the First Coalition | 17,500 |
Battle of Trebbia | 1799 | War of the Second Coalition | 17,000–23,000[261] |
Battle of Novi | 1799 | War of the Second Coalition | 19,500[262] |
Battle of the Pyramids | 1798 | War of the Second Coalition | 10,000+ |
Battle of Stockach | 1800 | War of the Second Coalition | 9,800 |
Battle of Marengo | 1800 | War of the Second Coalition | 16,400[263] |
Battle of Montebello | 1800 | War of the Second Coalition | 7,275 |
Battle of Pozzolo | 1800 | War of the Second Coalition | +13,000 |
Battle of Höchstädt | 1800 | War of the Second Coalition | 7,000 |
Battle of Hohenlinden | 1800 | War of the Second Coalition | 16,000+ |
Ulm campaign | 1805 | War of the Third Coalition | 62,000 |
Battle of Dürenstein | 1805 | War of the Third Coalition | 10,000 |
Battle of Austerlitz | 1805 | War of the Third Coalition | 45,300[264] |
Battle of Schöngrabern | 1805 | War of the Third Coalition | 5,000 |
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt | 1806 | War of the Fourth Coalition | 52,000, including prisoners later killed[265] |
Battle of Lübeck | 1806 | War of the Fourth Coalition | 18,800 |
Battle of Eylau | 1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition | 40,000 |
Battle of Friedland | 1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition | 28,000–50,000[266] |
Battle of Bailen | 1808 | Peninsular war | 21,000 |
Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros | 1808 | Peninsular war | 6,600 |
Battle of Gamonal | 1808 | Peninsular war | 3,600 |
Battle of Aspern-Essling | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 42,900[267] |
Battle of Landshut | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 9,000 |
Battle of Eckmühl | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 13,700 |
Battle of Abensberg | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 8,200 |
Battle of Ebelsberg | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 15,340 |
Battle of Piave River | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 7,000 |
Battle of Wagram | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 77,000–79,000[268] |
Battle of Znaim | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 9,000 |
Battle of Raab | 1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 14,300 |
Battle of Talavera | 1809 | Peninsular War | 13,900[269] |
Battle of Somosierra | 1808 | Peninsular War | 2,500 |
Battle of Bussaco | 1810 | Peninsular War | 5,900 |
Battle of Slobozia | 1811 | Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) | 20,000[270] |
Battle of Salamanca | 1812 | Peninsular War | 18,800[271] |
Battle of Smolensk | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 24,000[272] |
Battle of Shevardino | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 10,000 |
Battle of Borodino | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 74,000[273] |
Second Battle of Polotsk | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 22,000 |
Battle of Maloyaroslavets | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 16,000 |
Battle of Vyazma | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 9,500 |
Battle of Wolkowisk | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 6,000 |
Battle of Krasnoi | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 28,000 |
Battle of Berezina | 1812 | French invasion of Russia | 60,000 |
Battle of Vitoria | 1813 | Peninsular War | 13,000 |
Battle of Lützen | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 31,155–52,000[274] [275] |
Battle of Bautzen | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 45,000 |
Battle of Hanau | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 15,000 |
Battle of Dresden | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 48,000 |
Battle of Wartenburg | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 4,000 |
Battle of Großbeeren | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 5,000 |
Battle of Dennewitz | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 33,000[276] |
Battle of Leipzig | 1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 124,000[277] |
Battle of Orthez | 1814 | Peninsular War | 5,100 |
Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube | 1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 8,000 |
Battle of Wavre | 1815 | Hundred Days | 5,000 |
Battle of Quatre Bras | 1815 | Hundred Days | 10,000 |
Battle of Ligny | 1815 | Hundred Days | 28,000[278] |
Battle of Waterloo | 1815 | Hundred Days | 47,000+ (not including prisoners and missing)[279] [280] |
Battle of Tolentino | 1815 | Neapolitan War | 5,000 |
Battle of Ayacucho | 1824 | Peruvian War of Independence | +3,400 |
Battle of Jamrud | 1837 | Afghan-Sikh Wars | 11,000+ |
Battle of Inkerman | 1854 | Crimean War | 15,857[281] |
Battle of Choloki | 1854 | Crimean War | 5,500 |
Battle of Kurekdere | 1854 | Crimean War | 3,409 |
Battle of Alma | 1854 | Crimean War | +9,100 |
Battle of Magenta | 1859 | Second Italian War of Independence | +14,900 |
Battle of Solferino | 1859 | Second Italian War of Independence | +39,500 |
Battle of Jiangnan | 1860 | Taiping Rebellion | +140,000 |
First Battle of Bull Run | 1861 | American Civil War | 4,690 |
Battle of Shiloh | 1862 | American Civil War | 24,000[282] |
Battle of Antietam | 1862 | American Civil War | 23,000[283] –26,193[284] |
Battle of Fredericksburg | 1862 | American Civil War | 17,300–17,962[285] |
Battle of Richmond | 1862 | American Civil War | +5,900 |
Battle of Gaines' Mill | 1863 | American Civil War | 15,000+ |
Battle of Gettysburg | 1863 | American Civil War | 51,000[286] [287] |
| 1863 | American Civil War | +9,500 |
Battle of Chickamauga | 1863 | American Civil War | 34,624[288] |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House | 1864 | American Civil War | 30,000[289] |
Battle of Stones River | 1862–1863 | American Civil War | 24,000[290] |
Battle of the Wilderness | 1864 | American Civil War | 28,700 |
Battle of Cold Harbor | 1864 | American Civil War | 18,000 |
Battle of Changzhou | 1864 | Taiping Rebellion | 35,000 |
Battle of Hubei | 1864 | Taiping Rebellion | +60,000 |
Battle of Königgrätz | 1866 | Austro-Prussian War | 47,500[291] |
Battle of Münchengrätz | 1866 | Austro-Prussian War | 3,000 |
Battle of Tuyutí | 1866 | Paraguayan War | 7,000–16,000[292] |
Battle of Curupayty | 1866 | Paraguayan War | 4,300 |
Battle of Ytororó | 1868 | Paraguayan War | 3,300+ |
Battle of Acosta Ñu | 1869 | Paraguayan War | 5,102 |
Battle of Piribebuy | 1869 | Paraguayan War | 2,210 |
Battle of Mars-la-Tour/Battle of Gravelotte | 1870 | Franco-Prussian War | 34,000 |
Battle of Sedan | 1870 | Franco-Prussian War | 26,000[293] |
Second Battle of Orleans | 1870 | Franco-Prussian War | 8,740 |
Battle of Le Mans | 1871 | Franco-Prussian War | 30,000 |
Battle of Tabaruzaka | 1877 | Satsasuma Rebelion | 8,400 |
Battle of Isandlwana | 1879 | Anglo-Zulu War | 6,300 |
Battle of Kambula | 1879 | Anglo-Zulu War | 2,134 |
Battle of Arica | 1880 | War of the Pacific | 3,600+ |
Battle of Adwa | 1896 | First Italo-Ethiopian War | 17,300[294] |
Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican | 1896 | Philippine Revolutionary War | 2,000–15,000[295] |
Battle of Omdurman | 1898 | Mahdist War | 20,430[296] |
Battle of Sakarya | 1921 | Greco–Turkish War of 1919–22 | 61,000[297] [298] | |