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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.
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."
Battles are generally presumed to have been land/field battles, unless otherwise stated. Lists of aerial operations and battles Air raids on Australia, 1942–1943; Air raids on Hong Kong during WWII; Aircraft carrier operations during World War II; List of air operations during the Battle of Europe. List of Allied attacks on the German ...
This was the deadliest conflict since World War 2 with over 5 million people killed. Most people have never heard of it despite it ending less than 20 years ago.
The battle during the day of 18 October was one of attrition. French troops held on to their respective positions, but were steadily being worn out and depleted by fierce and intensifying Allied attacks throughout the day. The French artillery had only 20,000 rounds left. [58] Later that night, Napoleon was treating the battle as a lost cause. [59]
Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
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).