Home›Modern›All ModernBrowse ByAll ModernReference and ClassificationDevelopingBattles fought from 1775 through 1944, before this atlas own Contemporary split begins: the Battles of Saratoga, the Battle of Waterloo, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Battle of the Somme and the Battle of Stalingrad. Belongs here: an engagement fought by a mass national or federal army from the American Revolutionary War through 1944. Does not belong here: an engagement fought in 1945 or later, which belongs to Contemporary instead, and the war it was fought inside, which is a war entity this battle carries a fought-in edge to.FactsAll ModernSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEraWell-attested1775 to 1944 1All ModernFilter Results34 entriesBattle TypeAllAmphibious and airborne invasion (D-Day landings) (1)Amphibious campaign and siege (failed invasion) (1)battle (1)Defensive engagement (fortified outpost defence) (1)Defensive wagon-laager battle (1)Large-scale offensive and defensive battle (1)Naval battle (carrier-based air action) (1)Naval fleet battle (1)Naval fleet battle (dreadnought battleship action) (1)Naval fleet battle (line of battle action) (1)Offensive battle (desert warfare) (1)Pitched battle (ambush of a marching column) (1)Pitched cavalry engagement (1)Pitched field battle (7)Prolonged offensive and defensive battle (attrition warfare) (1)Prolonged offensive battle (trench warfare) (1)Prolonged siege and blockade (1)Siege (2)Siege and land campaign culminating in surrender (1)Sustained aerial campaign (1)Battle EraAll1777 (1)1781 (1)1805 (2)1812 (1)1815 (1)1819 (1)1824 (1)1838 (1)1862 (1)1863 (2)1876 (1)1879 (2)1896 (1)1898 (1)1905 (1)1914 (1)1915 (1)1916 (3)1917 (1)1940 (1)1941 (2)1942 (4)1943 (1)1944 (2)LocationAllAdwa, Ethiopian Empire (modern Tigray Region, Ethiopia) (1)Ayacucho, Peru (1)Borodino, Russian Empire (1)Boyaca River bridge, near Tunja, present-day Colombia (1)British airspace and the English Channel (1)El Alamein, Egypt (1)Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey) (1)Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1)Isandlwana, Zulu Kingdom (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (1)Kerreri, near Omdurman, Sudan (1)Kursk Oblast, Soviet Union (1)Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg), Soviet Union (1)Midway Atoll (1)Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union (1)Ncome River (Blood River), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (1)Near Sharpsburg, Maryland, United States (1)Normandy, France (1)North Sea, near the Jutland Peninsula, Denmark (1)Off Cape Trafalgar, Atlantic Ocean (1)Rorke's Drift, Natal Colony, South Africa (1)Singapore (1)Somme river region, France (1)Southwest of Cambrai, Nord department, France (1)Stalingrad, on the Volga River, Soviet Union (1)Stillwater, New York, United States (1)The Ardennes, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany (1)Tsushima Strait (1)Verdun, France (1)Warren County, Mississippi, United States (1)Yorktown and Gloucester, Virginia (1)WarAllAmerican Civil War (3)American Revolutionary War (2)Anglo-Zulu War (2)Eastern Front (World War II) (4)First Italo-Ethiopian War (1)Great Sioux War of 1876 (1)Mahdist War (1)Napoleonic Wars (2)Russo-Japanese War (1)Spanish American Wars of Independence (1)War of the Third Coalition (2)World War I (6)World War II (8)CommanderAllArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1)Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (3)Dwight D. Eisenhower (2)Erich Ludendorff (2)Erwin Rommel (2)Ferdinand Foch (1)Georg von der Marwitz (1)George B. McClellan (1)George G. Meade (1)George Washington (1)Georgy Zhukov (4)Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1)Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1)Mikhail Kutuzov (1)Napoleon Bonaparte (3)Paul von Hindenburg (2)Robert E. Lee (2)Ulysses S. Grant (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 34Battle of AdwaModernBattle of AntietamModernBattle of AusterlitzModernBattle of AyacuchoModernBattle of Blood RiverModernBattle of BorodinoModernBattle of BoyacáModernBattle of BritainModernBattle of Cambrai (1917)ModernBattle of GettysburgModernBattle of IsandlwanaModernBattle of JutlandModernBattle of KurskModernBattle of MidwayModernBattle of MoscowModernBattle of OmdurmanModernBattle of Rorke's DriftModernBattle of StalingradModernBattle of the BulgeModernBattle of the Little BighornModernBattle of the SommeModernBattle of TrafalgarModernBattle of TsushimaModernBattle of VerdunModernBattle of WaterlooModernBattles of SaratogaModernFall of SingaporeModernFirst Battle of the AtlanticModernGallipoli campaignModernNormandy landingsModernSecond Battle of El AlameinModernSiege of LeningradModernSiege of VicksburgModernSiege of Yorktown (1781)ModernSources1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)tier 1InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentenceBoundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).War and Military DataBrief, structure wave 0902 paragraph, Modern-ends-1944 sentenceEvery Modern subcategory prose across all six 0831 spine types now ends at 1944, narrowed from the earlier open-ended from 1775 onward wording, for consistency with the boundary this and the 0901 wave both use.Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.