Trending Battles in USA — September 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, September 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Normandy landings. Data as of 26 October 2026.
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Ranked
3,508,609
Total Views (September 2026)
1
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
135,764
views
views
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
129,036
views
views
3
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
107,562
views
views
4
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
106,807
views
views
5
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
93,152
views
views
6
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
88,258
views
views
7
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
75,315
views
views
8
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
70,598
views
views
9
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
63,955
views
views
10
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
61,483
views
views
11
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
59,514
views
views
12
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
56,521
views
views
13
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
55,885
views
views
14
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
55,757
views
views
15
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
53,744
views
views
16
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
53,526
views
views
17
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
51,345
views
views
18
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
51,091
views
views
19
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
50,311
views
views
20
Noemvriana
1916 political dispute and conflict in Greece
49,163
views
views
21
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
46,156
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
45,981
views
views
23
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
45,514
views
views
24
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
45,250
views
views
25
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
44,519
views
views
26
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
42,776
views
views
27
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
40,492
views
views
28
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
38,383
views
views
29
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
37,101
views
views
30
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
35,747
views
views
31
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
35,146
views
views
32
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
35,016
views
views
33
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
34,347
views
views
34
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
32,584
views
views
35
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
31,983
views
views
36
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
31,552
views
views
37
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
31,532
views
views
38
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
31,469
views
views
39
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
31,423
views
views
40
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
29,125
views
views
41
Battle of Wake Island
1941 battle of World War II
28,695
views
views
42
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
28,407
views
views
43
Battle of the Boyne
1690 battle
28,139
views
views
44
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
27,848
views
views
45
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
26,793
views
views
46
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
26,626
views
views
47
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
26,260
views
views
48
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
26,225
views
views
49
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
25,966
views
views
50
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
25,715
views
views
51
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
25,259
views
views
52
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
24,218
views
views
53
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
24,031
views
views
54
Battle of Arausio
battle between the ancient Roman Republic and several German tribes
23,927
views
views
55
Battle of Takur Ghar
battle of the War in Afghanistan
23,919
views
views
56
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
23,760
views
views
57
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
23,504
views
views
58
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
23,315
views
views
59
Battle of Sedan
1870 battle during the Franco-Prussian War
23,253
views
views
60
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
23,057
views
views
61
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
23,036
views
views
62
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
23,007
views
views
63
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
22,970
views
views
64
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
22,708
views
views
65
Battle of Shiloh
1862 battle of the American Civil War
22,496
views
views
66
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
22,032
views
views
67
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
21,963
views
views
68
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
21,929
views
views
69
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
21,610
views
views
70
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
21,352
views
views
71
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
21,262
views
views
72
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
21,164
views
views
73
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
20,745
views
views
74
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
20,378
views
views
75
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
20,058
views
views
76
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
19,766
views
views
77
First Battle of Bull Run
1861 first major land battle of the American Civil War
19,766
views
views
78
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
19,674
views
views
79
Battle of Meligalas
1944 battle between ELAS and Security Battalions
19,673
views
views
80
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
19,618
views
views
81
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
19,436
views
views
82
Battle of Bir Hakeim
1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II
19,290
views
views
83
Battle of Manzikert
1071 battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks
19,060
views
views
84
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
18,907
views
views
85
Battle of Hürtgen Forest
1944 series of battles fought between US and German forces during World War II in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany
18,865
views
views
86
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
18,386
views
views
87
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
1759 battle between British and French near Quebec City, Canada
18,376
views
views
88
Battle of the Atlantic
1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
18,375
views
views
89
Siege of Marawi
2017 battle in the Philippines
18,314
views
views
90
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
18,211
views
views
91
Battle of Los Angeles
anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
18,089
views
views
92
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
17,784
views
views
93
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
17,591
views
views
94
Battle of Chickamauga
1863 battle of the American Civil War
17,435
views
views
95
Battle of Karánsebes
friendly fire incident during the Austro–Turkish War of 1787–1791
17,275
views
views
96
Battle of Karbala
battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
17,156
views
views
97
Battle of Saragarhi
1897 battle in British India
17,153
views
views
98
Battle of Changjin Reservoir
1950 battle in the Korean War
16,659
views
views
99
Battle of Poitiers
1356 battle of the Hundred Years' War
16,652
views
views
100
Battle of Crete
1941 battle during WWII on the Greek island of Crete
16,588
views
views