What makes a battle decisive? -- 1274 B.C. Kadesh--greatest chariot battle -- 479 B.C. Plataea--Greece wins freedom -- 331 B.C. Gaugamela--Alexander's genius -- 197 B.C. Cynoscephalae--Legion vs. Phalanx -- 31 B.C. Actium--birth of the Roman empire -- 260-110 B.C. China--struggles for unification -- 636 Yarmouk & al-Qadisiyyah--Islam triumphs -- 751 Talas & 1192 Tarain--Islam into Asia -- 1066 Hastings--William conquers England -- 1187 Hattin--crusader desert disaster -- 1260 Ain Jalut--can the Mongols be stopped? --
1410 Tannenberg--cataclysm of knights -- Frigidus, Badr, Diu--obscure turning points -- 1521 Tenochtitlán--Aztecs vs. Conquistadors -- 1532 Cajamarca--Inca vs. Conquistadors -- 1526 & 1556 Panipat--Babur & Akbar in India -- 1571 Lepanto--last gasp of the galleys-- 1592 Sacheon--Yi's mighty turtle ships -- 1600 Sekigahara--Samurai showdown -- 1683 Vienna--the great Ottoman siege -- 1709 Poltava--Sweden's fall, Russia's price -- 1759 Quebec--battle for North America -- 1776 Trenton--the revolution's darkest hour.
1805 Trafalgar--Nelson thwarts Napoleon -- 1813 Leipzig--the grand coalition -- 1824 Ayacucho--South American independence -- 1836 San Jacinto--Mexico's big loss -- 1862 Antietam--the civil war's bloodiest day -- 1866 Königgrätz--Bismarck molds Germany -- 1905 Tsushima--Japan humiliates Russia -- 1914 Marne--Paris is saved -- 1939 Khalkhin Gol--sowing the seeds of WWII -- 1942 Midway--four minutes change everything -- 1942 Stalingrad--Hitler's ambitions crushed -- Recent & not-so-decisive decisive battles.
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