Home›Modern›Battle Era›By Century›19th centuryBrowse By19th centuryThis dimension groups battles by the broader era in which they were fought. Wikipedia notes that battles such as "the Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, and the Battle of France" all took place within "World War II," one example of how battles cluster into a shared era. Browsing by era lets a visitor compare battles fought in the same period.Facts19th centurySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEraWell-attested1775 to 1944 119th centuryFilter Results15 entriesBattle TypeAllbattle (1)Defensive engagement (fortified outpost defence) (1)Defensive wagon-laager battle (1)Naval fleet battle (line of battle action) (1)Pitched battle (ambush of a marching column) (1)Pitched cavalry engagement (1)Pitched field battle (7)Siege (1)LocationAllAdwa, Ethiopian Empire (modern Tigray Region, Ethiopia) (1)Ayacucho, Peru (1)Borodino, Russian Empire (1)Boyaca River bridge, near Tunja, present-day Colombia (1)Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (1)Isandlwana, Zulu Kingdom (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (1)Kerreri, near Omdurman, Sudan (1)Ncome River (Blood River), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (1)Near Sharpsburg, Maryland, United States (1)Off Cape Trafalgar, Atlantic Ocean (1)Rorke's Drift, Natal Colony, South Africa (1)Warren County, Mississippi, United States (1)WarAllAmerican Civil War (3)Anglo-Zulu War (2)First Italo-Ethiopian War (1)Great Sioux War of 1876 (1)Mahdist War (1)Napoleonic Wars (2)Spanish American Wars of Independence (1)War of the Third Coalition (2)CommanderAllArthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1)George B. McClellan (1)George G. Meade (1)Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (1)Mikhail Kutuzov (1)Napoleon Bonaparte (3)Robert E. Lee (2)Ulysses S. Grant (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 15Battle of Adwa19th centuryBattle of Antietam19th centuryBattle of Austerlitz19th centuryBattle of Ayacucho19th centuryBattle of Blood River19th centuryBattle of Borodino19th centuryBattle of Boyacá19th centuryBattle of Gettysburg19th centuryBattle of Isandlwana19th centuryBattle of Omdurman19th centuryBattle of Rorke's Drift19th centuryBattle of the Little Bighorn19th centuryBattle of Trafalgar19th centuryBattle of Waterloo19th centurySiege of Vicksburg19th centurySources1. 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.