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World War I: 1,660 Battle of the Falkland Islands: 1914 World War I: 1,900 Battle of Dogger Bank: 1915 World War I: 1,081 Battle of Jutland: 1916 World War I: 12,000 Battle of Cape Machichaco: 1937 Spanish Civil War: 35 Battle of Cape Palos: 1938 Spanish Civil War: 765 Battle of the River Plate: 1939 World War II: 196 Attack on Mers-el-Kébir ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
Battle of Carrhae (53 BC). [17] [18] Crassus with 40,000 soldiers marched into Parthia, expecting to be victorious, chose to march a direct route through the desert instead of the mountains of the north. He and his army were entirely annihilated by 9,000 Parthian soldiers. Battle of the Teutoburg Forest; Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9 AD).
The timeline of wars has been split up in the following periods: List of wars: before 1000; List of wars: 1000–1499; List of wars: 1500–1799; List of wars: 1800–1899; List of wars: 1900–1944; List of wars: 1945–1989; List of wars: 1990–2002; List of wars: 2003–present
With an estimated death toll in an excess of a million, the bloodletting at Stalingrad far exceeded that of Verdun, one of the costliest battles of World War I." [39] According to military historian Louis A. DiMarco, "In terms of raw casualty numbers, the battle for Stalingrad was the single most brutal battle in history."
World War II: September 1, 1939 September 2, 1945 6 years and 1 day Jebel Akhdar War: 30 January 1954: 10 October 1959: 5 years, 8 months, 1 week and 3 days Paraguayan War: 1864: 1870: 5 years, 3 months, 2 weeks and 2 days Second Congo War: 2 August 1998: 18 June 2003: 4 years, 10 months, 2 weeks and 2 days Russian Civil War: 7 November 1917: ...
This article lists battles and campaigns in which the number of U.S. soldiers killed was higher than 1,000. The battles and campaigns that reached that number of deaths in the field are so far limited to the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, one campaign during the Vietnam War (the Tet Offensive from January 30 to September 23, 1968) and one campaign during the Iraq ...
This battle occurred in 1794, during the height of the Age of Sail. This list of naval battles is a chronological list delineating important naval battles that have occurred throughout history, from the beginning of naval warfare with the Hittites in the 12th century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century. If a battle has no ...