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Another battle often noted for being a victory against all odds was the Battle of Agincourt (1415), [10] [11] which saw a depleted English army, led by King Henry V and composed of 5,000 to 8,000 longbowmen, achieve victory over a superior French army of 15,000 to 30,000 cavalry and heavy infantry; the English were outnumbered, possibly by as ...
Epic game. Epic is a collective term for a series of tabletop wargames set in the fictional Horus Heresy and Warhammer 40,000 universes. Whereas Warhammer 40,000 involves small battles between forces of a few squads of troops and two or three vehicles, Epic features battles between armies consisting of dozens of tanks and hundreds of soldiers. [1]
Battle of Chosin Reservoir. A column of the US 1st Marine Division moves through Chinese lines during its breakout from the Chosin Reservoir with a M46 Patton medium tank. Chinese forces recover northeastern Korea; UN withdraw to and evacuate from Hungnam. The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, also known as the Chosin Reservoir Campaign or the Battle ...
e. The Battle of Karbala (Arabic: مَعْرَكَة كَرْبَلَاء, romanized: maʿraka Karbalāʾ) was fought on 10 October 680 (10 Muharram in the year 61 AH of the Islamic calendar) between the army of the second Umayyad caliph Yazid I (r. 680–683) and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad ...
Battle of Saragarhi. The Battle of Saragarhi was a last-stand battle fought before the Tirah Campaign between the British Indian Empire and Afghan tribesmen. [8] On 12 September 1897, an estimated 12,000 – 24,000 Orakzai and Afridi tribesmen were seen near Gogra, at Samana Suk, and around Saragarhi, cutting off Fort Gulistan from Fort Lockhart.
Roman–Parthian Wars. Battle of Carrhae †. Marcus Licinius Crassus (/ ˈkræsəs /; 115 – 53 BC) was a Roman general and statesman who played a key role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire. He is often called "the richest man in Rome". [6][7]
As part of the larger Congo Crisis (1960–1964), the siege of Jadotville began on 13 September 1961, lasting for five days. [15] While serving under the United Nations Operation in the Congo (Opération des Nations Unies au Congo, ONUC), a small contingent of the Irish Army's 35th Battalion, designated "A" Company, were besieged at the UN base near the mining town of Jadotville (modern-day ...
Painting by Adolphe Yvon. The Battle of Kulikovo (Russian: Куликовская битва, romanized: Kulikovskaya bitva) [a] was fought between the forces of Mamai, a powerful Mongol military commander of the Golden Horde, and Russian forces led by Grand Prince Dmitry of Moscow. [7][8][9] The battle took place on 8 September 1380, [10] at ...