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War consist of many battles some involve rather clever thinking. So in history what battle stands out to you? Reasons are nice to.

My favorite- The Battle of Midway in WWII. The Japanese lost 4 carriers 2 cruisers, and 3 destroyers thought numbered Americans lost the Yorktown and a destroyer.

The Worst- The battle of Bull Run (also called the battle of Manassas). (Civil War; pay attention in history!) A bunch of people made a picnic out of this (literally). People came out to watch this blunder of a battle making a family outing???? A bunch of over confident and unorganized yanks got their tails handed to them by a horde of angry southerners.

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Originally posted by blindcheesecake
War consist of many battles some involve rather clever thinking. So in history what battle stands out to you? Reasons are nice to.

My favorite- The Battle of Midway in WWII. The Japanese lost 4 carriers 2 cruisers, and 3 destroye ...[text shortened]... ks got their tails handed to them by a horde of angry southerners.
My favorite was the fight for the pass when Mike o'Reilly fought off the Posleen and then managed to save the farm. When the Devil Dances? John Ringo.

My most unfavorite was when Joe-Jim failed to gain the air lock and Bobo was killed and a couple of pairs of breeders won onto the surface of a planet. Heinlein "orphans of the sky".

Don't seem right somehow. Just don't seem right.

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Now that I think about it my favorite battle came from a moon called Endor in a galaxy far far away. You can't beat it, war on three fronts a shield bunker, death star, and Jedi.

The stupidest has got to be the “Yoda acrobatics” in the Clown Wars, wait I mean the Clone Wars. Yoda flies around like he belongs in that Flubber movie, I thought I was watching some lame late night comedy show. It was funny....

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Battle of Britain, WWII

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The Battle of Kursk, and the Battle of Stalingrad on Germany's eastern front in WWII both rank among the greatest battles in modern history. Of course, the winning general is one of the best in history.

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Best: Alesia, Aquae Sextae, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Stalingrad, Thermopylae (Under Cato, not Leonidas)

Worst: Mark Clark's Italian Campaign in WWII, Teutoberg Forest, Pharsalus, Carrae (M. Crassus vs the Parthians), Thermopylae (under Leonidas)

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The battle of Thermopylae - Sparta (and a few other Greeks) versus Xerxes and Persian army.

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I like Chalons where the Romans and Visigoths defeated Attila in one of the bloodiest battles in the history of the ancient world. It is claimed that the Romans could have destroyed the Hun army by continuing the battle a second day, but wanted to keep the Huns as a force to possibly use against other barbarians and deigned to do so.

Antietam is a frustrating battle. The bloodiest day in American military history, US General McClellan could have inflicted a fatal defeat on Robert E. Lee but held 20,000 troops in reserve and didn't use them at all. Lee was barely able to hold his line and would have cracked had McClellan exploited his initial successes with available fresh troops. The war might have ended by the end of 1862 if the Union had a more aggressive commander that day.

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The battle of Troy. How long was it, nine years? A siege that has never been duplicated, and probably never will.

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Nice choices, Calwriter! Well done, sir.

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Originally posted by blindcheesecake
War consist of many battles some involve rather clever thinking. So in history what battle stands out to you? Reasons are nice to.

My favorite- The Battle of Midway in WWII. The Japanese lost 4 carriers 2 cruisers, and 3 destroyers thought numbered Americans lost the Yorktown and a destroyer.

The Worst- The battle of Bull Run (also called the ...[text shortened]... confident and unorganized yanks got their tails handed to them by a horde of angry southerners.
When the 300 spartans led by king leonedas held of the persions so as to save athens. They all died.

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The best battle is the one that is avoided.

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Originally posted by XanthosNZ
The best battle is the one that is avoided.
So you resign all your games? 😛

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Originally posted by trawets113
When the 300 spartans led by king leonedas held of the persions so as to save athens. They all died.
They all died true, but they did give the rest of Greece the time they needed to marshal their troops and then to defeat the Persians. Sometimes the greatest effect of a battle is not by the victor. The Alamo in Texas would be another example of this. A delaying action can still be considered a victory even when the outcome of the battle is a loss.

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Originally posted by trawets113
When the 300 spartans led by king leonedas held of the persions so as to save athens. They all died.
To be historically accurate, the Battle of Thermoplayae did not "save" Athens as after the defeat of the Greek force Athens was evacuated and then burned by the Persians. The Persian fleet was then defeated at the battle of Salamis which caused the Persian Emperor to return to Persia with the bulk of his forces; a fairly large force left behind was virtually destroyed the next year by the Greeks at the Platea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Wars

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