Trending Battles in USA — the 7 days to 25 October 2026
The 100 most-viewed battles on Wikipedia, the 7 days to 25 October 2026 (English-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Battle of Schliengen. Data as of 25 October 2026.
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810,632
Total Views (the 7 days to 25 October 2026)
1
Battle of Schliengen
1796 battle during the War of the First Coalition
30,466
views
views
2
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese surprise attack on the U.S
27,823
views
views
3
Battle of Trafalgar
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
26,747
views
views
4
Battle of Waterloo
1815 battle during the War of the Seventh Coalition
25,010
views
views
5
Normandy landings
1944 landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy
24,286
views
views
6
Battle of Stalingrad
1942 major battle of World War II
22,508
views
views
7
Battle of Midway
1942 World War II naval battle
15,578
views
views
8
Battle of Iwo Jima
1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II
15,321
views
views
9
Battle of Satala
530 battle
15,021
views
views
10
Battle of Cedar Creek
battle of the American Civil War in northern Virginia, 19 October 1864
14,836
views
views
11
Battle of the Alamo
9/11 2001 major battle of the Texas Revolution
14,160
views
views
12
Battle of Mogadishu
battle fought on 3 and 4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia
13,035
views
views
13
Fall of Constantinople
1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire
12,982
views
views
14
Battle of Gettysburg
1863 battle of the American Civil War
12,819
views
views
15
Battle of the Little Bighorn
June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War
12,741
views
views
16
Battle of Hastings
battle which occurred on 14 October 1066
12,503
views
views
17
Battle of Leyte Gulf
1944 the largest naval battle of World War II
12,483
views
views
18
Battle of the Somme
battle of the Western Front, World War I
12,380
views
views
19
Battle of Agincourt
1415 English victory in the Hundred Years' War
12,142
views
views
20
Battle of Leyte
1944 amphibious invasion of Leyte in the Philippines by American and Filipino guerrilla forces during WWII
11,783
views
views
21
Battle of Thermopylae
battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece
11,624
views
views
22
Battle of Attu
1943 battle in the Pacific theatre of World War II
11,081
views
views
23
Battle of Okinawa
1945 major battle of the Pacific War
10,901
views
views
24
Siege of Yorktown
siege, part of American Revolutionary War
10,271
views
views
25
Battle of Vienna
1683 battle between the Christian European States and the Ottomans
10,067
views
views
26
Battle of France
Nazi German invasion of France in 1940
10,002
views
views
27
Battle of Civetot
1096 battle
9,680
views
views
28
Battle of Verdun
1916 battle on the Western Front during the First World War
9,354
views
views
29
Battle of Austerlitz
1805 battle during the War of the Third Coalition
9,274
views
views
30
Battle of Berlin
1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il
9,269
views
views
31
Battle of Sekigahara
1600 battle preceding Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
8,766
views
views
32
Dunkirk evacuation
evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940
8,359
views
views
33
Battle of Kursk
World War II battle that took place in 1943
7,887
views
views
34
Charge of the Light Brigade
1854 charge of British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces
7,867
views
views
35
Battle of Antietam
1862 major battle of the American Civil War
7,682
views
views
36
Battle of Grathe Heath
1157 final battle of the Danish Civil War
7,653
views
views
37
Battle of Ia Drang
1965 battle of the Vietnam War
7,400
views
views
38
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
battle between a coalition of Germanic peoples and an Imperial Roman army, 9 BCE
7,386
views
views
39
Battles of Lexington and Concord
first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War (1775)
7,091
views
views
40
Battle of Sheriffmuir
battle at the height of the 1715 Jacobite Rising in England and Scotland
7,011
views
views
41
Battle of Britain
air battle waged between German and British air forces in 1940
6,906
views
views
42
Battle of Cannae
major battle of the Second Punic War (216 BCE)
6,884
views
views
43
Battle of Leipzig
major battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon (1813)
6,614
views
views
44
Second Battle of El Alamein
1942 major turning point in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War
6,019
views
views
45
Fall of Saigon
1975 capture of Saigon by the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam
5,981
views
views
46
Battle of Changjin Reservoir
1950 battle in the Korean War
5,903
views
views
47
Battle of Rorke's Drift
battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift
5,870
views
views
48
Battle of Aachen
1944 major conflict of World War II
5,830
views
views
49
Battle of Jutland
1916 naval battle during World War I
5,778
views
views
50
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
5,755
views
views
51
Battle of Lepanto
1571 naval battle between the Holy League and the Ottoman Empire
5,726
views
views
52
Battle of Tours
battle fought in 732 by Merovingian Franks against the Umayyad Caliphate
5,697
views
views
53
Battle of Stamford Bridge
1066 battle in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
5,681
views
views
54
Battle of Borodino
1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
5,649
views
views
55
Battle of Plassey
1757 battle which established the British Raj in India
5,631
views
views
56
Battle of Hattin
Victory of Ayyubid forces under Saladin against Crusader joint forces, 1187
5,545
views
views
57
Battle of Mukden
1905 battle
5,477
views
views
58
Battle of Bunker Hill
1775 early battle of the American Revoluntionary War
5,337
views
views
59
Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II
5,269
views
views
60
Battle of Zama
final battle of the Second Punic War
5,257
views
views
61
Battle of Culloden
final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
5,251
views
views
62
Battle of Dien Bien Phu
The decisive battle of the First Indochina War
5,211
views
views
63
Operation Red Wings
2005 military operation during the War in Afghanistan
5,041
views
views
64
Battle of Moscow
1941 World War II campaign in Russia
4,984
views
views
65
Battle of Peleliu
1944 battle between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II
4,977
views
views
66
Battles of Saratoga
1777 major turning point of the American Revolutionary War
4,836
views
views
67
Third Battle of Ypres
2015 argentina
4,824
views
views
68
Battle of Blair Mountain
1921 violent American labor dispute
4,817
views
views
69
Battle of Antonov Airport
battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
4,778
views
views
70
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
4,710
views
views
71
Second Battle of Fallujah
Late 2004 battle of the Iraq War
4,612
views
views
72
Battles of Khalkhin Gol
1939 Soviet–Japanese battle in Mongolia
4,536
views
views
73
Battle of Isandlwana
1879 first major encounter in the Anglo–Zulu War
4,534
views
views
74
Battle of Bakhmut
battle in the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and 2023
4,528
views
views
75
Maersk Alabama hijacking
2009 piracy incident
4,475
views
views
76
Battle of Marathon
490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars
4,458
views
views
77
Gulf of Tonkin incident
1964 naval confrontation between North Vietnam and the United States
4,418
views
views
78
First Battle of the Marne
1914 First World War battle
4,400
views
views
79
Battle of Bannockburn
1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence
4,394
views
views
80
Battle of Shiloh
1862 battle of the American Civil War
4,346
views
views
81
Battle of Bosworth Field
1485 last significant battle of the Wars of the Roses
4,236
views
views
82
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
4,086
views
views
83
Siege of Malta
Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565
4,074
views
views
84
Battle of Actium
31 BCE decisive confrontation of the Final War of the Roman Republic
4,070
views
views
85
Battle of Navarino
1827 naval battle during the Greek War of Independence
4,006
views
views
86
First Battle of Bull Run
1861 first major land battle of the American Civil War
3,984
views
views
87
Battle of New Orleans
battle of the War of 1812
3,917
views
views
88
Battle of the Philippine Sea
1944 World War II Pacific naval battle
3,862
views
views
89
Fall of Kabul
Taliban capture of the capital of Afghanistan in 2021
3,854
views
views
90
Battle of Cowpens
1781 battle
3,826
views
views
91
Battle of Manzikert
1071 battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks
3,773
views
views
92
Battle of Tora Bora
2001 battle between the United States-led coalition and the Taliban in Afghanistan
3,751
views
views
93
Battle of Nicopolis
Ottoman victory and raising of the siege of the fortress of Nicopolis in September 1396
3,744
views
views
94
Battle of Tarawa
battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, at the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands
3,651
views
views
95
Battle of the Atlantic
1939 longest continuous military campaign in World War II
3,634
views
views
96
Battle of Saipan
1944 battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands
3,614
views
views
97
Battle of Philippi
battle of the Roman civil war
3,611
views
views
98
Battle of Balaclava
1854 battle of the Crimean War
3,606
views
views
99
Battle of Crécy
1346 battle of the Hundred Years' War
3,596
views
views
100
Battle of Saragarhi
1897 battle in British India
3,549
views
views