Trending Battles in France — the 7 days to 27 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 27 October 2026 (French-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Bir Hakeim. Data as of 27 October 2026.
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118,337
Total Views (the 7 days to 27 October 2026)
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Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
14,744
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views
2
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
4,212
views
views
3
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
3,792
views
views
4
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
3,767
views
views
5
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
3,480
views
views
6
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
2,550
views
views
7
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
2,300
views
views
8
Attack on Mers-El-Kebir
1940 battle
2,088
views
views
9
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
1,942
views
views
10
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
1,929
views
views
11
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
1,876
views
views
12
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
1,861
views
views
13
Battle of Marignano
1515 battle between Switzerland and France
1,720
views
views
14
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
1,703
views
views
15
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
1,698
views
views
16
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
1,689
views
views
17
Battle of Valmy
1792 battle during the War of the First Coalition
1,580
views
views
18
Battle of Coutras
1587 battle in the French Wars of Religion
1,548
views
views
19
Battle of Navarino
1827 naval battle during the Greek War of Independence
1,434
views
views
20
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
1,413
views
views
21
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
1,401
views
views
22
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
1,396
views
views
23
Battle of Caporetto
1917 battle of World War I
1,382
views
views
24
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
1,356
views
views
25
Battle of Ulm
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
1,274
views
views
26
Second Battle of the Aisne
1917 battle on the Western Front of World War I
1,272
views
views
27
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
1,267
views
views
28
Battle of Bouvines
battle which ended the 1213–1214 Anglo-French War
1,267
views
views
29
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
1,226
views
views
30
Battle of Entrames
1793 battle
1,210
views
views
31
Battle of Vigo Bay
1702 naval battle
1,184
views
views
32
Battle of Philippi
battle of the Roman civil war
1,108
views
views
33
Battle of Dakar
1940 WWII battle
1,079
views
views
34
Battle of Berezina
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
1,036
views
views
35
Battle of Chipyong-ni
1951 battle of the Korean War
1,007
views
views
36
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
964
views
views
37
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
940
views
views
38
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
938
views
views
39
Battle of Camarón
1863 battle
937
views
views
40
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
918
views
views
41
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
917
views
views
42
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
898
views
views
43
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
881
views
views
44
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
876
views
views
45
Battle of Monte Cassino
1944 assaults by the Allies against the Winter Line in Italy held by Axis forces during the Italian Campaign of World War II
844
views
views
46
Battle of Philippeville
1955 attack in the Algerian War
837
views
views
47
Battle of Algiers
1956 urban guerrilla warfare carried out by the National Liberation Front (FLN) against the French Algerian authorities
836
views
views
48
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
834
views
views
49
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
833
views
views
50
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
823
views
views
51
Siege of Orléans
siege in 1428-29
800
views
views
52
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
792
views
views
53
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
778
views
views
54
Battle of Eylau
1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
775
views
views
55
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
761
views
views
56
Battle of Stirling Bridge
1297 battle of the First War of Scottish Independence
758
views
views
57
Battle of Saguntum
1811 battle during the Peninsular War
751
views
views
58
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
745
views
views
59
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
737
views
views
60
Liberation of Paris
1944 military action that took place during World War II
734
views
views
61
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
732
views
views
62
Uzbin Valley ambush
2008 military Skirmish Between Taliban and French ISAF Forces in Afghanistan
711
views
views
63
Battle of Solferino
1859 major battle of the Second Italian War of Independence
702
views
views
64
Battle of Rocroi
1643 French victory against Spanish forces
701
views
views
65
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
680
views
views
66
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
657
views
views
67
Battle of Marengo
1800 battle during the War of the Second Coalition
641
views
views
68
Battle of Wagram
1809 battle during the War of the Fifth Coalition
640
views
views
69
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
632
views
views
70
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
628
views
views
71
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
625
views
views
72
Battle of Kufra
1941 World War II battle between an Anglo-French force and the Italians
623
views
views
73
Battle of Kirk Kilisse
1912 First Balkan War battle
619
views
views
74
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
603
views
views
75
Battle of Ksar Ghilane
1943 battle in Tunisia
600
views
views
76
Battle of Montcornet
engagement of the Battle of France on 17 May 1940
599
views
views
77
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
586
views
views
78
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
560
views
views
79
Battle of Castillon
1453 battle during the Hundred Years' War
557
views
views
80
Battle of Tolbiac
refers to Franco-alamannic battles in the years 496 & 503 (Clovis) at what is now Zülpich, near Cologne
541
views
views
81
First Battle of El Alamein
1942 battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
512
views
views
82
Battle of Kolwezi
1978 battle of Kolwezi
511
views
views
83
Battle of Königgrätz
1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
493
views
views
84
Battle of Poitiers
1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War
480
views
views
85
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
479
views
views
86
Battle of Patay
1429 battle
476
views
views
87
Battle of Stonne
1940 battle
470
views
views
88
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
470
views
views
89
Siege of Paris
1870 siege during the Franco-Prussian War
468
views
views
90
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
457
views
views
91
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
428
views
views
92
Battle of Friedland
1807 battle during the War of the Fourth Coalition
427
views
views
93
Battle of Vrbanja Bridge
1995 Bosnian War confrontation
427
views
views
94
Battles of Narvik
battles fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940
423
views
views
95
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
418
views
views
96
Battle of the Bridge of Arcole
1796 battle during the War of the First Coalition
418
views
views
97
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
416
views
views
98
Battle of Sheriffmuir
battle at the height of the 1715 Jacobite Rising in England and Scotland
413
views
views
99
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1759 battle between British and French near Quebec City, Canada
410
views
views
100
Battle of Messines
1917 offensive conducted by the British Second Army
406
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