Sunday, February 17, 2013

Top 10 battles of the world

1. Battle of Marathon - Athens and their allies beat the persians showing that the persions were not as strong as they thought.
2. Antietam - Bloodiest battle. Union defeated confederates. Both north and south drastically changed.
3. Waterloo - Napolean was defeated here. If they would have won things would be different
4.Yorktown - During revolutionary war and british forces surrendered
5. Stalingrad - Battle that was the turning point during WWII
6. Gettysburg - Union won during civil war
7. Battle of hastings - large army invaded changing everything for England
8. Battle of tours - Islamic empires win battles keeping in control
9 Vienna - Vienna fought off the ottomans and kept themselves safe
10. Adrianople - Battle which started germanic intrusions on roman area

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