Trending Battles — the 7 days to 24 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 24 October 2026. Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Trafalgar. Data as of 24 October 2026.
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1,074,024
Total Views (the 7 days to 24 October 2026)
1
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
41,419
views
views
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
35,530
views
views
3
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
34,293
views
views
4
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
34,178
views
views
5
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
31,058
views
views
6
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
25,656
views
views
7
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
19,855
views
views
8
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
19,510
views
views
9
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
18,452
views
views
10
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
17,826
views
views
11
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
16,472
views
views
12
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
15,867
views
views
13
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
15,737
views
views
14
Battle of Cedar Creek
battle of the American Civil War in northern Virginia, 19 October 1864
15,647
views
views
15
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
15,468
views
views
16
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
15,393
views
views
17
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
15,285
views
views
18
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
15,284
views
views
19
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
15,085
views
views
20
Battle of Satala
530 battle
15,084
views
views
21
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
14,976
views
views
22
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
14,884
views
views
23
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
14,865
views
views
24
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
14,610
views
views
25
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
14,478
views
views
26
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
13,912
views
views
27
Battle of Leyte
1944 amphibious invasion of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces during WWII
13,712
views
views
28
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
13,668
views
views
29
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
13,072
views
views
30
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
12,319
views
views
31
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
12,222
views
views
32
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
12,000
views
views
33
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
11,963
views
views
34
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
11,801
views
views
35
Battle of Attu
1943 battle in the Pacific theatre of World War II
11,271
views
views
36
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
11,181
views
views
37
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
11,068
views
views
38
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
10,444
views
views
39
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
10,135
views
views
40
Battle of Civetot
1096 battle
10,004
views
views
41
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
9,873
views
views
42
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
9,456
views
views
43
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
9,350
views
views
44
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
9,023
views
views
45
Battle of Navarino
1827 naval battle during the Greek War of Independence
8,971
views
views
46
Battle of Sheriffmuir
battle at the height of the 1715 Jacobite Rising in England and Scotland
8,469
views
views
47
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle of the First Indochina War
8,454
views
views
48
Battle of Grathe Heath
1157 final battle of the Danish Civil War
8,192
views
views
49
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
8,052
views
views
50
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
7,947
views
views
51
Battle of Philippi
battle of the Roman civil war
7,936
views
views
52
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
7,881
views
views
53
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
7,678
views
views
54
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
7,636
views
views
55
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
7,620
views
views
56
Battle of Mukden
1905 battle
7,599
views
views
57
Battle of Aachen
1944 major conflict of World War II
7,475
views
views
58
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
7,267
views
views
59
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
7,022
views
views
60
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
6,917
views
views
61
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
6,903
views
views
62
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
6,859
views
views
63
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
6,676
views
views
64
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
6,601
views
views
65
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
6,554
views
views
66
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
6,530
views
views
67
Incident at Pristina airport
1999 standoff after the conclusion of the Kosovo War, between Russian peacekeepers occupying the Pristina International Airport and approaching NATO forces which could have resulted in a full-scale war between Russia and NATO
6,381
views
views
68
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt
1806 pair of battles during the War of the Fourth Coalition
6,350
views
views
69
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
6,264
views
views
70
Battle of Komaki and Nagakute
1584 battle
6,149
views
views
71
Battle of Alesia
decisive Roman victory in which Rome secures the conquest of Gaul
6,038
views
views
72
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
5,993
views
views
73
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
5,844
views
views
74
Battle of Poltava
decisive battle in the Great Northern War between Tsardom Russia and the Swedish Empire in 1709
5,755
views
views
75
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
5,717
views
views
76
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
5,573
views
views
77
Liberation of Paris
1944 military action that took place during World War II
5,572
views
views
78
Battle of Kulikovo
1380 battle between Russian principalities and Golden Horde
5,561
views
views
79
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
5,515
views
views
80
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
5,494
views
views
81
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
5,459
views
views
82
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
5,418
views
views
83
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
5,404
views
views
84
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
5,403
views
views
85
Battle of Nagashino
1575 battle in Japan
5,324
views
views
86
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
5,309
views
views
87
Battle of Königgrätz
1866 decisive battle of the Austro-Prussian War
5,284
views
views
88
Battle of Changjin Reservoir
1950 battle in the Korean War
5,273
views
views
89
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
5,223
views
views
90
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
5,205
views
views
91
Battle of Tannenberg
1914 battle between Russia and Germany
5,123
views
views
92
Battle of the Maureaco Fields
battle between Romans and Huns in 451
5,101
views
views
93
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
5,081
views
views
94
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
5,027
views
views
95
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944 World War II Pacific naval battle
4,992
views
views
96
Siege of Mariupol
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
4,955
views
views
97
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
4,930
views
views
98
Battle of Caporetto
1917 battle of World War I
4,922
views
views
99
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
4,906
views
views
100
Battle of Saipan
1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
4,854
views
views