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| Peloponnesian War | Conflict in 4th century BC between Athens and Sparta |
| Punic Wars | Series of wars between Rome and Carthage which led to Carthage's defeat. The Romans salted the earth so nothing would ever grow there |
| Thermopoly | 300 Spartans held off the Persians giving time for the Greeks to regroup |
| Marathon | Epic battle between the Greeks and Persians which resulted in the Greeks defeating the Persians and preventing an invasion |
| Thirty Years War | 1618-1648, Peace of Westphalia. Religious War in Europe |
| Battle of Hastings | William the Conqueror conquered England defeated King Harold 1066 |
| Agincourt | Major battle in the Hundred Years War between England and France |
| Franco-Prussian War | 1870-1871. Conflict between France and Prussia which led to the unification of Germany. Main leader of the conflict for Prussia was Chancellor Otto von Bismarck |
| Lexington-Concord | First battle of the American Revolution |
| Yorktown | Last battle of the American Revolution. Washington defeated General Cornwallis |
| Saratoga | Considered a major turning point in the American Revolution. France provided aid after this battle. Hero was Benedict Arnold |
| Trenton-Princeton | Washington led his troops across the Delaware on Christmas Eve |
| Bull Run-Mananas | First Battle in the Civil War |
| Gettysburg | 1863 Pennsylvania, American Civil War Union defeated the Confederacy and thwarted attempt to invade the North |
| Vicksburg | 1863, Union under Grant captured the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi cutting the Confederacy in two. |
| Atlanta | 1864, General Sherman defeated a Confederate army led by General Hood. Started his march through Georgia |
| Fort Sumter | Fort in Charleston SC, first shots of the Civil War |
| Fort Wagener | Fort near Charleston SC. Fighting featured the famous 54th Massachusetts Regiment |
| Russo-Japanese War | 1904-1905 Japan won. Mediated by President T. Roosevelt, Treaty of Portsmouth. He won the Noble Peace Prize |
| Spanish-American War | 1898-1901, US defeated Spain and conquered Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Guam |
| Battle of Ypres | During World War I, featured first use of poison gas by Germany |
| Battle of the Bulge | World War II, Dec 1944. Final German offensive against the Western Allies |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Dec 1943-Jan. 1943 Soviet Union defeated Germany crushing the Sixth Army led by General von Paulus |
| Battle of Kursk | 1943 Germany vs the Soviet Union. Largest tank battle ever |
| Battle of El-Alamein | Egypt 1942, Britain defeated Germany and ended German offensive in the Middle East. British were led by Montgomey and Germans by Rommel |
| Midway | World War II 1942, US destroyed 4 Japanese Aircraft carriers |
| Iwo Jima | 1944, US versus Japan bloody battle for an island near Japan. Best known for the photo of several Marines raising a large flag on Mt. Sarabachi |
| Okinawa | 1945, World War II, last major battle between the US-Japan |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 UN forces led by the US blocked a North Korean invasion of South Korea |
| Tet Offensive | Vietnam War, January 1968. Attempt by the Viet Cong to attack every major city in South Vietnam. While militarily it failed it was a political victory |
| Dien Bien Phu | Vietnam, 1954. Major battle between the Viet Minh and the French which led to French withdrawal from Vietnam |
| Operation Desert Shield/Storm | 1990-1991, US led effort to roll back Sadam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. The US commander was Norman Swartzkopf Jr. |
| Mexican-American War | Conflict during the Polk administration which led the US gaining most of the Southwest from Mexico |
