Favourite Battle - Page 2 - Historum

pablo668 · April 24th, 2010, 07:23 AM

Thou shalt not yield to lord nor loon nor shalt thou yield to me, but yield thee to the braken bush that grows oer yon lillee.

Or something like that.

Bannockburn for me.
Robert the Bruce using cunning, grit and skill to overcome a larger english force led ineptly by Edward II.

Fluer_de_lis · April 25th, 2010, 10:36 AM

D-Day
Battle of Verdun

**Sargon of Akkad** · April 25th, 2010, 11:22 AM

Battle of Verneuil.

**Salah** · April 25th, 2010, 12:03 PM

Pharsalus and Adrianople both fascinate me. And also Hattin

Gaius · April 25th, 2010, 04:50 PM

^Pharsalus is definitely one of my favorites.

A good one was the battle of Badger's Mouth, where the Mongols attacked in the winter with probably around 60,000 cavalry and defeated a Chinese army with superior numbers (high estimates put them over 200,000 soldiers) and with a superior position (the "badger's mouth"). The Chinese army (Jin dynasty) set up at the mouth of a narrow pass through large mountains, in order to neutralize the Mongol's cavalry. The Chinese had a wall built along the mountains, but unfortunately for them the Mongols weathered the cold and climbed ABOVE the wall. Genghis Khan sent a force of probably 10,000 over the mountains to attack from the rear, while the rest of his army prepared to plow through the pass.

The Mongols smashed through the front lines of the Jin army, but obviously faltered against so many. And then the sneaky beavers from the mountains came into play, hitting the flank of the Chinese with no doubt thousands upon thousands of arrows. It was no doubt one of the biggest massacres in history, and it's said that 10 years after the battle, skeletons could still be seen as much as thirty miles apart.

Melisende · April 25th, 2010, 04:54 PM

Hattin
Jacobs Ford
Battle of Britain

**Son of Cathal** · April 25th, 2010, 05:34 PM

The Battle of Amiens, the "black day of the German Army"-Erich Ludendorff

**Labienus** · April 26th, 2010, 07:40 AM

Dyrrhachium, Alesia, Pharsalus, Arsuf, Jaffa and Assaye. My six favorite battles.

Krystian · April 26th, 2010, 08:55 AM

Battle of Vienna - 1683 : a combined christian army led by the polish king Jan Sobieski lift the ottoman siege of Vienna and thus save Europe from the muslim menace (at least for the moment).

Siege of Malta - 1565 : A handulf of knights Hospitaller defend Malta from a much larger ottoman army.

Battle of Warsaw - 1920 : The polish army led by Jozef Pilsudski save Europe from the soviet menace.

Battle of Pliska - 811 : The bulgarian army anahilates the byzantine army, after the greeks had burned the bulgarian capital to the ground and slaughtered its inhabitants (including babies smashed in the wheat mills).

Battle of Varna - 1444 : The christian army led by the young polish king Wladyslaw Warnenczyk almost completely destroy the turkish army in their attempt to liberate the Balkans from turkish yoke, afterwards however the polish king makes the stupid decision to charge the 5000 strong Janissary corps that protects the Sultan only with his 500 knights. He dies in the charge and the battle is lost (unfortunately).

Battle of Jaffa - 1192 : Richard the Lionheart beats a few thousand muslims led by Sallah Ad Din with just a few knights and 2000 mercenary crossbowmen.

SilverWolf · May 1st, 2010, 03:37 PM

Waterloo cuz its EPIC. without prussia, the british probably would've lost.
Austerlitz cuz it shows how good napoleon was
Thermopylae. stoopid phoencians lettin the spartans die -_-