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napoleon_wagram The Great Battles

Actium in Waterloo, Bouvines at Stalingrad, the great battles have sealed the fate of men and nations.

This is the story of the most famous battles and men more or less inspired which have led them, putting their fate to that of arms.

 
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The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)

After an initial phase that culminated in the capture of Toledo in 1085, had to stop the Reconquista against counter-offensive at the Battle of Almoravids Zallaqa in 1086. It should ...
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The Battle of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805)

Austerlitz: The most famous battle of Napoleon Bonaparte, perhaps the most celebrated, too - at least in his time. Landslide victory won on the anniversary of his coronation as ...
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The Battle of Actium (31 BC)

The height of the crisis in the Roman Republic culminates on the coast of Epirus, at the Battle of Actium (31 BC.) Who sees the opposing armies of the West Roman ...
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The Battle of Agincourt (1415)

In the middle of the Hundred Years War, but also by civil war between Armagnacs and Burgundians, French chivalry knows its greatest defeat the English army of Henry V, 25 ...
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The Battle of Britain, 1940 (2 / 2)

Hitler finally agreed to attempt a major operation against England, first by a massive air attack, followed by an invasion with Operation Sea Lion, despite the doubts of his ...

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Antiquity

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bataille_actium Marathon, Salamis, Arbela, Cannes, Alesia, Actium: the biggest games of antiquity.
# Articles published Author
1. The Battle of Actium (31 BC)
Pedro
2. The battle of Cannae (Italy, 216 BC)
JPerrin
3. The Battle of Strasbourg (357)
Pedro

Middle Ages

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bataille_poitiers The greatest battles of the Middle Ages: Poitiers, Hastings, Bouvines, Crecy, Grunwald, Agincourt, Orleans, Constantinople.
# Articles published Author
1. The Battle of Agincourt (1415)
Cnaudin
2. The Battle of Bouvines (July 27, 1214)
Cnaudin
3. The Battle of Castillon (1453)
M. de Castelnau
4. The Battle of Crecy (1346)
Pedro
5. The Battle of Hattin (4 July 1187)
Cnaudin
6. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)
Cnaudin
7. The Battle of Manzikert (26 August 1071)
Cnaudin
8. The Battle of Poitiers (732)
Cnaudin

Age of Powder

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Lepanto battle- Marignan, Lepanto, Armada, Rocroi, Vienna, Boyne, Blenheim, Poltava, Fontenoy, Plassey, Quebec, Yorktown ...
# Articles published Author
1. The Battle of Lepanto (1571)
Roman Borgna
2. The Battle of Marignan (13-14 September 1515)
Cnaudin
3. The Battle of Valmy (September 20, 1792)
Lucretia
4. The Battle of the Dunes (1658)
Kara Iskandar

Napoleonic Wars

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bataille_pyramides The Battle of the Pyramids, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Jena-Auerstedt, Leipzig, Waterloo: the Napoleonic era.
# Articles published Author
1. The Battle of Austerlitz (December 2, 1805)
Einhard
2. The Battle of Eylau (February 8, 1807)
Lucretia
3. The Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Lucretia
4. The Battle of Wagram (6 July 1809)
Lucretia
5. The Battle of Waterloo (June 18, 1815)
Lucretia
6. The Battle of the Pyramids (July 21, 1798)
Desaix

Late nineteenth century

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bataille_sedan Gettysburg, Sadowa, Sedan, the Spanish-American War: the great battles of the nineteenth century.
# Articles published Author
1. The Battle of Gettysburg (1863)
Lucretia
2. The Battle of Reichshoffen (1870)
MVerchot

World War I

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jutland The greatest battles of World War I: Jutland, Tannenberg, Marne, Verdun, Somme ...
# Articles published Author
1. The Battle of the Marne (1914)
Lucretia
2. The Battle of Verdun (1916)
Lucretia
3. The Battle of Jutland, May-June 1916 (1 / 2)
Cnaudin
4. The Battle of Jutland, May-June 1916 (2 / 2)
Cnaudin

World War II

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bataille_normandie The decisive battles of World War II: Battle of Britain, Pearl Harbor, Coral Sea, Midway, El Alamein, Dieppe, Stalingrad, Normandy, Ardennes, Berlin ...
# Articles published Author
1. The attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941)
Dallas
2. Operation Barbarossa (June 1941)
Kara Iskandar
3. The Battle of Britain, 1940 (2 / 2)
Cnaudin
4. The Battle of Britain, 1940 (1 / 2)
Cnaudin
5. The Battle of Kursk (July-August 1943)
Kara Iskandar
6. The Battle of the Coral Sea (May 1942)
Cnaudin
7. The Battle of Midway (3-7 June 1942)
Cnaudin
8. Battle of Normandy (June-septembre1944)
Lucretia
9. The Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942-janvier1943)
Kara Iskandar
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