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History 2



   
 The Boer War  The Russo-Japanese War  The Great War
 Sino-Japanese War  Spanish Civil War  World War II
 The Falklands War  The Gulf War  Wives of Henry VIII
 Assassinations  (previous page)  (next page)
 

Battles of the 20th Century


Boer War 1898 - 1902
 

1899 Colenso Boers British
  (Natal) (Botha) (Buller)
1899/1900 Siege of Mafeking British Boers
  (Natal) (Baden-Powell)  
1900 Paardeberg British Boers
  (Orange Free State) (Roberts) (Cronje)
1900 Spion Kop Boers British
  (Natal)   (Buller)
also: Sieges of Ladysmith and Kimberley

Russo-Japanese War 1901-1905
 
1904 Telissu Japanese Russians
  (Korea)   (Stackelberg)
1904 Port Arthur Japanese Russians
sea (Korea) (Togo)  
1905 Tshushima Japanese Russians
sea (Sea of Japan) (Togo) (Rozhdestvenski)
1905 Siege of Port Arthur Japanese Russians
  (Korea) (Maresuke) (Stossel)
1905 Mukden Japanese Russians
  (Manchuria) (Oyama) (Kuropatkin)
 
1912 Lule Burgas Serbs/Bulgars Turks
  (Bulgaria)    
  
The Great War (World War I) 1914-18
 
1914 Mons British slowed advance  of the Germans
  (Belgium) (French) (von Kluck)
1914 Lemberg (Lvov) Russians Austrians
  (Ukraine)    
1914 The Marne (1st) British / French Germans
  (France) (Joffre) (von Moltke)
1914 Tannenberg Germans Russians
  (Poland) (Hindenburg/Ludendorff) (Samsonov)
1914 Ypres (1st) British/French (contain)  Germans
  (Belgium) (French/Foch) (inconclusive)
1914 Coronel Germans British
sea (South Pacific) (von Spee) (Craddock)
1915 Ternapol Russians Germans
  (Poland) (Brusilov)  
1915 Gallipoli (The Dardanelles) Turks Allies (with ANZACS)
  (Turkey) (von Sanders) (Hamilton & Monro)
1915 Ypres (2nd) British/French (inconc) Germans
  (Belgium)   (Falkenhayn)
1915-17 Isanzo (12 battles) Austrians/Germans Italians
  (Slovenia)   (Cadorna)
1916 Verdun French Germans
  (France) (Petain) (Falkenhayn)
1916 Siege of Kut-el-Amara Turks British
  (Mesopotamia)    
1916 Jutland British (inconclusive) Germans 
sea (North Sea/Skagerrak) (Jellicoe/Beatty) (Scheer)
1916 The Somme (1st) British (indecisive) Germans 
  (France) (Haig) (Falkenhayn)
1917 Caporetto Austrians/Germans Italians
  (Italy) (von Below) (Cadorna)
1917 Ypres (3rd) (Passchendaele) Allies Germans
  (Belgium) (Haig) (Ludendorff)
1917 Arras (Vimy Ridge) Allies Germans
  (France) (Haig) (Falkenhausen)
1917 Cambrai British (indecisive) Germans
  (France) (Byng) (von der Marwitz)
1918 The Somme (2nd) Allies Germans
  (France) (Foch)  
1918 Meggido British Turks
  (Palestine) (Allenby)  

Sino-Japanese War 1937-45
 
1937 P’inghsinkuan China Japan
  (China) (Jung-chen) (Itagaki)

Spanish Civil War
 
1938 Ebro Republicans Nationalists
  (Catalonia, Spain) (Modisto) (Franco)
1939 Barcelona Nationalists Republicans
  (Catalonia, Spain) (Franco)  

World War II 1939 - 45
 
1939 River Plate British Germans
sea (South Atlantic) (Harwood) (Langsdorf)
1940 Dunkirk British (evacuation) Germans
  (France)    
1940 Mers-el-Kebir British French Fleet
sea (Algeria) (Somerville)  
1940 Britain British (RAF) German (Luftwaffe)
air (Southern England)   (Goering)
1940 Taranto British (FAA) Italian Fleet
sea/air (Mediterannean) (Cunningham)  
1941 Matapan British Italians
sea/air (Mediterannean) (Cunningham) (Iachino)
1941 Hood/Bismarck British Navy German Battleship 
sea/air (N Atlantic)    
1941 Pearl Harbour Japanese Americans
sea/air (Hawaii) (Nagumo)  
1941 Wake Island Japanese Americans
sea/air (Pacific)   (Cunningham)
1941/42 The Blitz Germans British
air (England) (Goering)  
1941-43 North Atlantic German submarines Allied shipping
sea (Atlantic)    
1942 Singapore Japanese Allies
  (Malaya)   (Percival)
1942 Tobruk British and ANZACS Italians
  (N Africa) (Wavell) (Graziani)
1942 El Alamein British Germans & Italians
  (Egypt) (Montgomery) (Rommel)
1942 Midway Americans Japanese
sea/air (Pacific) (Spruance) (Yamamoto)
1942 Coral Sea Americans (indecisive) Japanese
sea/air (Pacific) (Fletcher) (Tagaki)
1942/43 Stalingrad Russians Germans
  (Russia) (Zhukov) (Paulus)
1942/45 Bombing of Germany British/Americans Germans
air Germany (Harris et al) (Goering)
1943 Kursk Russians Germans
  (Russia)    
1943 Guadalcanal Americans Japanese
sea/air (Pacific) (Kincaid) (Kondo)
1943 Guam Americans Japanese
sea/air (Pacific)    
1944 Monte Cassino/ Anzio Germans Allies
  (Italy) (Kesselring von Vietinghoff) (Lucas)
1944 Normandy Invasion Allies Germans
  (France) (Eisenhower/Montgomery) (von Rundstedt)
1944 The Bulge (Ardennes Off) Allies Germans
  (Belgium) (Patton) (von Rundstedt)
1944 Philippine Sea Americans Japanese
sea/air (Pacific) (Spruance) (Jisaburo)
1944 Formosa Americans Japanese
sea/air (Pacific) (Halsey)  
1944 Leyte Gulf Americans Japanese
sea/air (Pacific) (Halsey) (Ozawa)
1945 Imphal-Kohima British Japanese
  (Burma) (Slim)  
1945 Iwo-Jima Americans Japanese
  (Pacific) (Nimitz) (Tadamichi)
1945 Okinawa Americans Japanese
  (Pacific) (Nimitz/Spruance) (Yahara)
 
1954 Dien Bien Phu Vietminh French
  (Vietnam) (Giap)  

Vietnam War
 
1968 The Tet Offensive S Vietnamese/ Americans Viet Cong
  (Vietnam) (Westmorland) (Giap)

Falklands War 1981 - 82
 
1982 Goose Green British Argentines
  (Falkland Is) (Jones)  
1982 Mt Longdon British Argentines
  (Falkland Is) (Moore) (Menendez)
1982 South Atlantic British Argentines
sea/air (Falklands) (Woodward) (Lami Dozo)

The Gulf War
 
1991 Desert Storm American lead coalition Iraqis
  (Iraq) (Schwarzkopf) (Hussein)
 


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