Home›Battles and Campaigns›Battle Type›Pitched field battleBrowse ByPitched field battleThis dimension sorts battles by their basic type, a siege, a naval battle or a pitched land battle. Wikipedia notes that a battle is "a series of military engagements that is well defined in duration, area, and force commitment," definitions that vary by the kind of battle being fought. Browsing by battle type keeps battles of a similar kind grouped together.FactsPitched field battleSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEarliest Era RepresentedWell-attestedAncient 1Pitched field battleFilter Results20 entriesBattle EraAll490 BCE (1)333 BCE (1)331 BCE (1)216 BCE (1)202 BCE (1)732 (1)751 (1)1066 (1)1071 (1)1187 (1)1260 (1)1514 (1)1600 (1)1805 (1)1812 (1)1815 (1)1819 (1)1824 (1)1862 (1)1896 (1)LocationAllAdwa, Ethiopian Empire (modern Tigray Region, Ethiopia) (1)Ayacucho, Peru (1)Borodino, Russian Empire (1)Boyacá River bridge, near Tunja, present-day Colombia (1)Chaldiran plain, northwestern Iran (1)Marathon, Greece (1)Moussais-la-Bataille, France (1)Near Hastings, Sussex, England (1)Near Manzikert (modern Malazgirt, Turkey) (1)Near Sharpsburg, Maryland, United States (1)Sekigahara, Gifu Prefecture, Japan (1)Spring of Ain Jalut, Jezreel Valley, Galilee (1)WarAllAmerican Civil War (1)Ayyubid-Crusader War (1)Byzantine-Seljuk Wars (1)Crusades (1)First Italo-Ethiopian War (1)Greco-Persian Wars (1)Mongol Invasions and Conquests (1)Muslim Conquest of Transoxiana (1)Napoleonic Wars (2)Norman Conquest (1)Ottoman-Persian War (1505-1517) (1)Second Punic War (2)Spanish American Wars of Independence (2)Umayyad Invasion of Gaul (1)War of the Third Coalition (1)Wars of Alexander the Great (2)CommanderAllAlexander the Great (2)Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1)Charles Martel (1)George B. McClellan (1)Hannibal Barca (2)Mikhail Kutuzov (1)Napoleon Bonaparte (3)Robert E. Lee (1)Saladin (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 20Battle of AdwaPitched field battleBattle of Ain JalutPitched field battleBattle of AntietamPitched field battleBattle of AusterlitzPitched field battleBattle of AyacuchoPitched field battleBattle of BorodinoPitched field battleBattle of BoyacáPitched field battleBattle of CannaePitched field battleBattle of ChaldiranPitched field battleBattle of GaugamelaPitched field battleBattle of HastingsPitched field battleBattle of HattinPitched field battleBattle of IssusPitched field battleBattle of ManzikertPitched field battleBattle of MarathonPitched field battleBattle of SekigaharaPitched field battleBattle of TalasPitched field battleBattle of ToursPitched field battleBattle of WaterlooPitched field battleBattle of ZamaPitched field battleSources1. War and Military Atlas Periodizationtier 1InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, battle has a live Ancient subcategoryQuote, War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, battle has a live Ancient subcategoryAncient 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).Wikipedia: Battle of Waterlootier 2WikipediaContains: Battle of WaterlooView the SourceWikipedia: Battle of Kursktier 2WikipediaContains: Battle of KurskView the SourceWikipedia: Battle of Cambrai (1917)tier 2WikipediaContains: Battle of Cambrai (1917)View the SourceWikipedia: Atlantic U-boat Campaign of World War Itier 2WikipediaContains: First Battle of the AtlanticView the SourceComments (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.