Trending Battles — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, September 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Komaki and Nagakute. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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Ranked
5,546,630
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Battle of Komaki and Nagakute
1584 battle
224,444
views
views
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
217,176
views
views
3
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
195,430
views
views
4
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
179,510
views
views
5
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
162,612
views
views
6
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
140,193
views
views
7
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
124,998
views
views
8
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
106,344
views
views
9
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
103,044
views
views
10
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
99,088
views
views
11
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
94,773
views
views
12
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
90,577
views
views
13
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
80,760
views
views
14
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
78,762
views
views
15
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
78,549
views
views
16
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
78,215
views
views
17
Battle of Kulikovo
1380 battle between Russian principalities and Golden Horde
77,710
views
views
18
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
77,560
views
views
19
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
75,642
views
views
20
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
74,712
views
views
21
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
74,119
views
views
22
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
73,877
views
views
23
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
71,929
views
views
24
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
71,187
views
views
25
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
70,994
views
views
26
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
67,959
views
views
27
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
67,346
views
views
28
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
65,301
views
views
29
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
63,729
views
views
30
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
60,331
views
views
31
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
59,744
views
views
32
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
58,906
views
views
33
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
58,320
views
views
34
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
57,392
views
views
35
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
52,795
views
views
36
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
51,058
views
views
37
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
50,578
views
views
38
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
50,252
views
views
39
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
50,188
views
views
40
Noemvriana
1916 political dispute and conflict in Greece
49,555
views
views
41
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
49,042
views
views
42
Battle of Chapultepec
1847 battle of the Mexican–American War
46,640
views
views
43
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle of the First Indochina War
45,675
views
views
44
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
44,595
views
views
45
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
44,531
views
views
46
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
42,173
views
views
47
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
42,063
views
views
48
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
40,367
views
views
49
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
40,360
views
views
50
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
40,341
views
views
51
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
38,496
views
views
52
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
38,428
views
views
53
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
38,326
views
views
54
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
37,990
views
views
55
Battle of Castle Itter
battle year 1945 in which U.S. infantry and armour, Wehrmacht Heer, French prisoners and Austrian partisans took Castle Itter from the occupying Waffen SS
37,041
views
views
56
Battle of Wake Island
1941 battle of World War II
36,657
views
views
57
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
36,058
views
views
58
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
36,054
views
views
59
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
34,909
views
views
60
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
34,778
views
views
61
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
34,612
views
views
62
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
33,764
views
views
63
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
33,713
views
views
64
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
33,693
views
views
65
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
33,685
views
views
66
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
33,517
views
views
67
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
33,006
views
views
68
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
32,035
views
views
69
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
31,859
views
views
70
Battle of Königgrätz
1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
30,881
views
views
71
Battle of the Boyne
1690 battle
30,859
views
views
72
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
30,806
views
views
73
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
30,659
views
views
74
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
30,104
views
views
75
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
29,838
views
views
76
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
29,018
views
views
77
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
28,708
views
views
78
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
28,689
views
views
79
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
28,646
views
views
80
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
28,471
views
views
81
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
28,044
views
views
82
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
27,708
views
views
83
Battle of Arausio
battle between the ancient Roman Republic and several German tribes
27,629
views
views
84
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
27,614
views
views
85
Battle of Shizugatake
1583 battle in feudal Japan
27,595
views
views
86
Battle of Harlem Heights
1776 battle of the American Revolutionary War
27,583
views
views
87
Siege of Mariupol
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
26,987
views
views
88
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
26,709
views
views
89
Battle of Nagashino
1575 battle in Japan
26,599
views
views
90
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
26,445
views
views
91
Battle of Crete
1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete
26,310
views
views
92
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
26,267
views
views
93
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
26,233
views
views
94
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
25,911
views
views
95
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
25,789
views
views
96
Battle of Manzikert
1071 battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks
25,627
views
views
97
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
25,324
views
views
98
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 battle between Russia and Germany
25,232
views
views
99
Battle of Saipan
1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
25,153
views
views
100
Battle of Kostiantynivka
2025-2026 battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war
25,125
views
views