Great land Battles

Marathon, Greece, Battle of Marathon

September

The Athenian defeat an indian Persian army during the Hastings, England 14 October 1066

in the last successful invasion of England, the Roman and French

y under William, Duke of Normandy, dlated the Salon

under king Harold Harold was killed and william whe became

known as William the Conqueror was crowne King of England

Crecy, France, 26 August 1346 Dung the Hundred years War, R000 English soldiers under Edward defeated a Trench army of 30.000 de the command

ung Phi IV of France

Agincourt, France, 25 October 1415 Despite being heavily outnumbered (5.00 against 25.000), the English army under King Henry V defeated the French derisively This is the control of much of France

Naseby, England, 14 June 1645 In the English Civil War Oliver Cromwell's New Model Army defeated the way thy of King Charles The king was later taken prisoner and executed

Blenheim, bavaria, 13 August 1704 The battle took place in the War of the Spanish Succession English and Dutch topics Germany and defeated the

Fianco-Bavaria army the English and Dutch were led by

John Churchill later die of Marlborough

Yorktown, America, 6-19 October 1781 in the American War of independence, the British were forced to surrender by the American army. The Americans were led by General George Washington. after the first president of the uSA.

Waterloo, Belgium, 18 june 1815

During the Napoleonic Wars the Emperor Napoleon's army fought against the British and allies under the le of Wellington Britain and the allies won and Napoleon was sent into

Gettysburg, USA, 1-3 July 1863

During this important American Civil War battle the Confederacy

Southern) army under General Robert E Lee was defeated by the Union army

Somme, France, 1 July-18 November 1916 During World War the British army under General Sir Douglas Haig attempted to end the stalemate of trench warfare gainu the German army. This led to the list of two batteries of the Somme river. Neither side and any advantage and buth suffered massive casualties.

Aluminum, Egypt, 1-27 July and 23 October November 1942 These two World War Ii battles were fought in the desert when the British th Army under Lieutenant General Montgomery eventually crushed the German and Italian armies under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Stalingrad. USSR 19 August 1942-2 February 1943 During World War ii the German Oth Army was surrounded by the Soviet army in Stalingrad (now Volgograd) and suffered huge casualties in an extended eeg Desert Shield/Storm/Sabre, Iraq/Kuwait,

16 january-27 February 1991 These Gulf War campaigns were a response to iraqs invasion of Kuwait Coalition forces led by the USA drove the Tragus out through a combination of air and land attack