Trending Battles in USA this week
The 100 most-viewed battles this week on Wikipedia (USA). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Normandy landings.
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Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
27,521
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Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
20,484
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3
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
15,522
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4
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
14,879
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5
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
13,642
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6
Battle of the Alamo
1836 major battle of the Texas Revolution
10,754
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7
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
10,741
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8
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
10,093
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9
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
9,742
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10
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
9,536
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11
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
9,350
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12
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
9,232
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13
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
9,167
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14
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
8,945
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15
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
8,400
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16
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
8,219
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17
Battle of Vienna
battle near Vienna on 12 September 1683, between the Christian European states and the Ottomans, won by Christians commanded by Polish king
7,878
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18
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
7,796
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19
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
7,219
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20
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
7,069
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21
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
7,053
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22
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
6,727
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23
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
6,679
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24
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
6,286
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25
Battle of the Nile
1798 naval battle during the French invasion of Egypt
6,036
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26
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
6,019
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27
Battle of Pavia
24 February 1525, was the decisive engagement of the Italian War of 1521–26
5,634
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28
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
5,604
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29
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
5,574
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30
Conquest of Ceuta
Portuguese conquest of Ceuta (1415)
5,162
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31
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
5,104
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32
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
5,018
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33
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
4,998
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34
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
4,819
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35
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
4,812
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36
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
4,775
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37
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
4,770
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38
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
4,736
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39
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Egyptian forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
4,617
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40
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
4,552
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41
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
4,389
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42
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
4,306
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43
Battle of Plataea
479 BCE land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece
4,229
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44
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
4,044
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45
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
4,032
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46
Battle of Shiloh
1862 battle of the American Civil War
4,032
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47
Battle of Salamis
480 BCE naval battle fought between an alliance of Greek city-states and the Persian Empire
3,997
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48
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
3,881
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49
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
3,851
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50
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
3,818
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51
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
3,767
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52
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
3,765
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53
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
3,737
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54
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
3,695
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55
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
3,637
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56
Battle of Issus
second great battle of Alexander's conquest of Asia
3,624
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57
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
1990 major conflict between the Ba'athist Iraq and the state of Kuwait
3,622
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58
Battle of Los Angeles
anti-air shelling during WWII in Los Angeles, CA, against apparently nothing
3,605
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59
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
1954 battle of the First Indochina War
3,576
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60
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
3,573
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61
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
3,527
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62
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
3,526
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63
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
3,410
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64
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
3,401
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65
Battle of Kostiantynivka
2025-2026 battle in the Russo-Ukrainian war
3,400
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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
3,395
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67
Battle of Changjin Reservoir
1950 battle in the Korean War
3,367
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68
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
3,288
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69
Battle of Grunwald
1410 battle between the Teutonic Knights and Poland–Lithuania
3,286
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70
First Battle of Bull Run
1861 first major land battle of the American Civil War
3,264
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71
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
3,236
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72
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
3,195
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73
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
3,191
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74
Battle of Guadalete
711 battle between the Visigothic Kingdom and the Umayyad Caliphate; decisive Umayyad victory leads to the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom an
3,173
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75
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
3,167
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76
Battle of Minden
1759 battle
3,138
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77
Battle of Kadesh
battle between Egyptians and Hittites fought in 1274 BCE
3,109
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78
Battle of Karbala
battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali
3,103
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79
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
3,087
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80
Battle of Chancellorsville
1863 major battle of the American Civil War
3,023
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81
Battle of the Wilderness
1864 battle of the American Civil War
2,975
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82
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
2,969
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83
Battle of Dunkirk
1940 battle in the Second World War between the Allies and Germany
2,961
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84
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
2,942
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85
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
2,906
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86
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
2,894
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87
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
2,874
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88
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
2,856
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89
Battle of Leipzig
huge and heavy battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
2,855
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90
Battle of the Hydaspes
battle fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BCE against King Porus of the Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River (Jhelum River)
2,822
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91
Battle of the Atlantic
1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
2,796
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92
First Battle of Fallujah
Early 2004 battle of the Iraq War
2,785
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93
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
2,780
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94
Battle of Leuctra
battle between Thebes and Sparta, 371 BCE
2,769
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95
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
2,743
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96
Battle of Gaugamela
decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire
2,696
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97
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 occup
2,690
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98
Battle of Montgisard
1177 battle of the Crusades
2,677
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99
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
2,671
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100
Battle of New Orleans
battle of the War of 1812
2,641
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