Poll: Which of these battles have you heard of? Mod needed.

[Jan H]

Everyone knows that the only date that everyone knows is 1066...

Was that the invasion of England by William the Conqueror?

And ABBA didn't make a song about it...

 

[aronnax]

You can't trust Wikipedia.

Yes Wikipedia is ran by evil pro turkish, anti Rhodian extremist and are trying to change history one page at a time to make Turkey ever so much more glorious

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

The OP never claimed these were the most important battles in human history, just wanted to know who had heard of them. So listing more improtant battles means nothing.

 

[Mott1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Rhodes_%281522)

See the result where it says Ottoman capture Rhodes

You responded to a post that was in reference to the Knights Hospitaliers at the Siege of Malta in 1565. I naturally assumed that you erroneously assigned the Ottoman victory there, not at Rhodes.

 

[REDY]

I will write these, about which I dont know nothing
8. The Battle of the Red Cliffs - I am sure that I have never heard about it
13. 'Ain Jalut - what?
14. Battle of Qadesh - some in middle East
18. Lexington and Concord - some in north america
20. Actium - Romanian Era surely, I feel that I should have heard about it. It should be some ship battle.
22. Malta - Hmm some invasion from Ottomans to Maltese Knights? I realy dont know
24. Yo Mama Hill!/Other - its a joke, right?

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

I will write these, about which I dont know nothing
8. The Battle of the Red Cliffs - I am sure that I have never heard about it
13. 'Ain Jalut - what?
14. Battle of Qadesh - some in middle East
18. Lexington and Concord - some in north america
20. Actium - Romanian Era surely, I feel that I should have heard about it. It should be some ship battle.
22. Malta - Hmm some invasion from Ottomans to Maltese Knights? I realy dont know
24. Yo Mama Hill!/Other - its a joke, right?

赤壁之戰 or the battle of chi bi was a naval battle in 208ad between the chinese kingdoms of wei and the allies of shu han and wu.

Ain jalut was a battle in the southern levant in 1260 where the bahri mamluk dynasty of egypt dealt the first major defeat to the mongols.

Qadesh was an ancient battle in turkey I believe between egypt and the hittites.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Qadesh was an ancient battle in turkey I believe between egypt and the hittites.

it was in the Levant. Ramses II also lied about how awesome his victory was.

20. Actium - Romanian Era surely, I feel that I should have heard about it. It should be some ship battle.

Cleopatra + Mark Anthony vs. Augustus Caesar.

 

[The Yankee]

赤壁之戰 or the battle of chi bi was a naval battle in 208ad between the chinese kingdoms of wei and the allies of shu han and wu.

To be insanely accurate (since that's what the History forum is all about), none of those Three Kingdoms were founded by 208. The edifice of the Han Dynasty was still intact, even if it didn't mean much of anything at that point. The battle did, however, lay important groundwork for the founding of those Three Kingdoms.

 

[cybrxkhan]

To be insanely accurate (since that's what the History forum is all about), none of those Three Kingdoms were founded by 208. The edifice of the Han Dynasty was still intact, even if it didn't mean much of anything at that point. The battle did, however, lay important groundwork for the founding of those Three Kingdoms.

thuogh it wasn't "official", there were pretty much Three Kingdoms anyways... funny thing is, the novel that came off it (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) has two-thirds of the plot centered around before the first kingdom was declared.

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I've heard of most of them, though not all. I italicised the ones I actually know about, at least at a decent level.

1. D-day
2. Monte Casino
4. Waterloo
5. Marathon
6. Thermophilae
10. Carrhae
11. Teutobergald Forest
12. The Seige of Constantinople
15. Seige of Tenochtitlan
16. Seige of Vienna
17. Battle of Hastings
18. Lexington and Concord
19. Trafalger
20. Actium
21. Stalingrad
23. The Alamo

 

[Dachs]

6. Thermophilae

Though it's horribly misspelled, anyone who saw the movie 300 knows the basics...and ONLY the basics...of that battle.

Yes Wikipedia is ran by evil pro turkish, anti Rhodian extremist and are trying to change history one page at a time to make Turkey ever so much more glorious

Agreed. On a more serious note, have you seen this article?

 

[sabo]

8. The Battle of the Red Cliffs
10. Carrhae
13. 'Ain Jalut
24. Yo Mama Hill!/Other



These are the only ones I HAVEN'T heard of.

Same here, unless Yo Mama Hill!/Other was the same battle as the Radioactive Monkey's when they screame "all your base are belong to us"

THEN I've heard of it.

 

[dosed150]

Was that the invasion of England by William the Conqueror?

And ABBA didn't make a song about it...

thats waterloo the battle in belgium where the british and prussians beat napolean


300 messes up on numbers there were 300 spartans but they completely forgot the other roughly 7000 greeks on their side

 

[Junglecutter]

I've heard of:


1. D-day
4. Waterloo
6. Thermophilae
12. The Seige of Constantinople
15. Seige of Tenochtitlan
16. Seige of Vienna
17. Battle of Hastings
18. Lexington and Concord
19. Trafalger
21. Stalingrad
22. Malta
23. The Alamo

I know a lot more battles that are not on the list

 

[Head Serf]

Here are the ones I know.

1. D-day
2. Monte Casino
4. Waterloo
5. Marathon
6. Thermophilae
7. Gaugamela
9. Dien Bien Phu
10. Carrhae
11. Teutobergald Forest
12. The Seige of Constantinople
15. Seige of Tenochtitlan
16. Seige of Vienna
17. Battle of Hastings
18. Lexington and Concord
19. Trafalger
20. Actium
21. Stalingrad
22. Malta
23. The Alamo

19 out of 24, not too bad I guess.

 

[Traitorfish]

1. D-day
2. Monte Casino
3. Austerlitz
4. Waterloo
5. Marathon
6. Thermophilae
7. Gaugamela
8. The Battle of the Red Cliffs
9. Dien Bien Phu
11. Teutobergald Forest
12. The Seige of Constantinople
14. Battle of Qadesh
15. Seige of Tenochtitlan
16. Seige of Vienna
17. Battle of Hastings
18. Lexington and Concord
19. Trafalger
21. Stalingrad
22. Malta
23. The Alamo

20/24. Not too bad, I suppose, even if I must admit that my knowledge about some of them is pretty sketchy. And considering that the 24th one never actually occurred.

300 messes up on numbers there were 300 spartans but they completely forgot the other roughly 7000 greeks on their side

To be fair, the movie (and comic) did include the other Greek troops, and even highlighted the fact that the Spartans were the minority of the Greek army. It downplayed the role of the other Greeks in the battle, that's for sure, but it did not "completely forget it", by any means.

 

[ohcrapitsnico]

To be fair, the movie (and comic) did include the other Greek troops, and even highlighted the fact that the Spartans were the minority of the Greek army. It downplayed the role of the other Greeks in the battle, that's for sure, but it did not "completely forget it", by any means.

To be fair, Sparta and Greece for that matter was not a democracy or free at all, in fact Persia was far more free.

 

[Kraznaya]

To be fair, Sparta and Greece for that matter was not a democracy or free at all, in fact Persia was far more free.

Really? While Sparta was an oppressive state with more slaves than population, this is also true of the Persians, who generally ruled by the sword and suppresed a far larger population than all of Greece. Considering the root of modern democracy and philosophy originates in Greece, a victory for Persia probably wouldn't be good for personal freedom everywhere. Democracy was lost for Persia after Darius' ascension.

 

[Traitorfish]

To be fair, Sparta and Greece for that matter was not a democracy or free at all, in fact Persia was far more free.

Quite true, but my point was that the film did acknowledge the contributions of non-Spartan troops at Thermopalye, even if it downplayed them considerably. Whatever ideologies the creators to chose to attach to the Spartans is not relevant to that.
However, it's worth remembering that the whole film takes place from the Spartan perspective, as is shown at the end when whatsisname is telling the story to the Spartans at Platea, so the ideologies expressed represent those of ancient Sparta, not the modern world. Whether "freedom" is a fitting ideal for a Spartan to express is questionable, but that doesn't mean it's just the creators super-imposing their beliefs onto the characters.

 

[Dachs]

To be fair, Sparta and Greece for that matter was not a democracy or free at all, in fact Persia was far more free.

Except for that minor state called Athens. You know, one of the world's first democracies. To be honest, I don't see how a absolutist quasi-theocratic kingdom that is relatively tolerant of certain minorities is more free than the progenitor of Western democracy.