List of battles by casualties

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The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but usually yielding similar combat-related or civilian deaths) and civilian casualties during the battles.

Contents

Large battle casualty counts are usually impossible to calculate precisely, but few in this list may include somewhat precise numbers. Many of these figures, though, are estimates, and, where possible, a range of estimates is presented. Figures display numbers for all types of casualties when available (killed, wounded, missing, and sick) but may only include number killed due to a lack of total data on the event. Where possible, the list specifies whether or not prisoners are included in the count.

This list does not include bombing campaigns/runs (such as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the bombing of Tokyo) or massacres such as the Rape of Nanjing, which, despite potentially massive casualties, are not typically classified as "battles", since they are usually one-sided engagements or the nation attacked is not officially at war with the attackers. Tactical or strategic strikes, however, may form part of larger engagements which are themselves battles, small campaigns or offensives.

For natural disasters, see List of natural disasters by death toll .

Sieges and urban combat

This list includes sieges, as well as modern battles fought primarily in urban areas. Major military operations that included city fighting are listed below. It is sorted by year.

SiegeYearConflictCasualties
(High est.)(Low est.)
Siege of Tyre 332 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 39,000
(including 13,000 enslaved civilians and 2,000 executed Persian soldiers)
34,000
Siege of Gaza 332 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 14,00011,000
Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) 213-212 BC Second Punic War 40,000
(including Archimedes)
9,000
Siege of Carthage 149-146 BC Third Punic War 450,000
(including 50,000 civilians enslaved)
200,000
Siege of Athens and Piraeus 87–86 BC Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War)400,000
(including prisoners)
200,000 [1]
Siege of Jerusalem (63 BC) 63 BC Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War)12,000+5,000
Siege of Alesia 52 BC Gallic Wars 200,000100,000
Siege of Constantinople 626 Sasanian–Byzantine wars 95,00070,000
Siege of Constantinople 717–718 Arab–Byzantine wars 170,000130,000 [2]
Siege of Yongqiu 756 An Lushan Rebellion 100,00065,000
Siege of Suiyang 757 An Lushan Rebellion 200,000+160,000
Siege of Chandax 960-961 Arab–Byzantine wars 74,00050,000
Siege of Yongzhou 1076 Lý-Song War 140,000 [3] 78,000 [4]
Siege of Nicaea 1097 First Crusade 11,0004,000
Siege of Ma'arra 1098 First Crusade 45,000 (including civilians and soldiers executed and cannibalized)25,000
Siege of Antioch 1097-1099 First Crusade 74,00050,000
Siege of Jerusalem 1099 First Crusade 90,00070,000
Siege of Tripoli 1099-1102 First Crusade 90,000105,000
Siege of Bukhara 1220 Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire 30,00015,000
Siege of Gurganj 1221 Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire 1,200,00090,000
Siege of Baghdad 1258 Mongol invasions and conquests 2,000,000 [5] 90,000 [6] [7]
Siege of Acre 1291 Fall of Outremer 20,00010,000
Siege of Caffa 1345-1347 Genoese–Mongol Wars 60,00015,000
Siege of Golubac 1428 Ottoman–Hungarian wars 20,00010,000
Siege of Constantinople 1453 Byzantine–Ottoman wars 54,000+34,000+
Siege of Vijaya 1471 Champa–Đại Việt War (1471) 300,000+130,000+
Siege of Tenochtitlan 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire 240,000100,000 [8] [9]
Siege of Szigetvár 1566 Ottoman wars in Europe 33,00023,000
Siege of Chittorgarh 1567–1568 Mughal-Rajput Wars (1558–1576) 40,00035,000
Siege of Ulsan 1598 Imjin War 30,00013,000
Siege of Nagykanizsa 1601 Long Turkish War 37,00025,000
Siege of Ostend 1601–1604 Eighty Years' War 115,00090,000
Siege of Osaka 1614-1615 Edo Period 500,000110,000
Siege of La Rochelle 1627-1628 Huguenot rebellions 35,00027,000
Capture of Maastricht 1632 Eighty Years' War 14,0009,500
Siege of Candia 1648–1669 Cretan War 149,739149,739
First siege of Anandpur 1700 Hill States-Sikh Wars 150,000+150,000+
Siege of Toulon 1793 War of the First Coalition 21,4007,400
Siege of Mantua 1796–1797 War of the First Coalition 51,00051,000
Siege of Genoa 1800 War of the Second Coalition 28,00028,000
Siege of Danzig 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition 17,90017,900
Second Siege of Zaragoza 1808–1809 Peninsular War 64,000 [10] 64,000
First Siege of Sevastopol 1854–1855 Crimean War 230,000 [11] 230,000
Third Battle of Nanking 1864 Taiping Rebellion 100,000 [12] 100,000
Siege of Petersburg 1864–1865 American Civil War 70,000 [13] 70,000
Siege of Vicksburg 1863 American Civil War 36,00020,000
Battle of Gettysburg 1863 American Civil War 50,00050,000
Siege of Paris 1871 Franco-Prussian War 332,142229,000
Siege of Plevna 1877 Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) 75,000 [14] 75,000
Siege of Port Arthur 1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War 100,000 [15] 100,000
Siege of Adrianople 1912–1913 First Balkan War 93,282 [16] 93,282
Siege of Liege 1914 World War I 25,3006,000
Siege of Przemyśl 1914 World War I 253,000253,000
Siege of Maubeuge 1914 World War I 94,00051,000
Siege of Antwerp 1914 World War I 58,00036,000
Siege of Kut 1915-1916 World War I 50,00036,000
Battle of Taiyuan 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War 130,000 [17] 130,000
Battle of Xinkou 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War 200,000[ citation needed ]200,000
Battle of Shanghai 1937 Second Sino-Japanese War 426,140 [18] 363,700 [19]
First Battle of Changsha 1939 Second Sino-Japanese War 80,000+80,000+ [20]
Battle of Nanchang 1939 Second Sino-Japanese War 75,328 [21] 75,328
Battle of Dunkirk 1940 World War II 88,000 [22] 88,000
Battle of South Shanxi 1941 Second Sino-Japanese War 120,000+120,000+ [23]
Siege of Tobruk 1941 World War II 18,60016,500
Siege of Odessa 1941 World War II 133,813 [24] 133,813
Battle of Kiev 1941 World War II 761,783 [24] 761,783
Second Siege of Sevastopol 1941–1942 World War II 236,437236,437
Third Battle of Changsha 1942 World War II 84,862 [25] 84,862
First Battle of Voronezh 1942 World War II 662,847662,847
Battle of Stalingrad 1942–1943 World War II 4,172,000 [26] [27] 1,250,000 [28]
Battle of Changde 1943 World War II 100,000100,000 [29]
Battle of West Hubei 1943 World War II 115,830115,830 [30]
Siege of Leningrad 1941–1944 World War II 4,000,000 [31] 1,117,000 [32] [33]
Warsaw Uprising 1944 World War II 200,000+200,000+ [34]
Siege of Budapest 1944–1945 World War II 422,000422,000 [35]
Battle of Berlin 1945 World War II 1,286,367
(including civilians)
1,057,665
(including civilians) [36]
Battle of Okinawa 1945 World War II 240,000130,000
Battle of Manila 1945 World War II 500,000 [37] [38] 100,000 [39] [40]
Battle of the Bulge 1944–1945 World War II 218,900161,370 [41]
Siege of Changchun 1948 [42] Chinese Civil War 425,000 [43] 78,808 [44] [45] [46]
Siege of Basra 1987 Iran–Iraq War 85,00085,000
First Battle of Grozny 1994–1995 First Chechen War 33,19232,000
Battle of Aleppo 2012–2016 Syrian Civil War 45,000 [47] 31,273 [48]
Battle of Mosul 2016–2017 War in Iraq (2013–2017) 71,355 [49] [50] [51] 18,200 [52]
Siege of Mariupol 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine 85,200 [53] [54] [55] 8,034 [56] [57] [58] [54]
Battle of Bakhmut 2022–2023 Russian Invasion of Ukraine 165,600 [59] 146,050 [59]
Battle of Avdiivka 2023–2024 Russian Invasion of Ukraine 54,000 [60] [61] 21,000 [61]

Major operations

This list includes major operations and prolonged battles or operations fought over a large area or for a long time. The durations of some operations, like the Battle of Moscow, are disputed; so numbers found in various sources may differ for that reason alone.

OperationYearConflictCasualties
Flanders and Rhine campaign 1713 War of the Spanish Succession 190,442[ citation needed ]
Montenotte Campaign 1796 War of the First Coalition 8,000+
Ulm Campaign 1805 War of the Third Coalition 62,000
French invasion of Russia 1812 Napoleonic Wars 920,000–1,040,000 [62]
German Campaign 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 745,000
Six Days' Campaign 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition 80,000 [63]
Hundred Days 1815 War of the Seventh Coalition 241,525
Peninsula Campaign 1862 American Civil War 36,463 [64]
Battle of Chancellorsville 1863 American Civil War 30,000 [65] –30,500 [66]
Overland Campaign 1864 American Civil War 87,000 [67] –92,000 [10]
Appomattox Campaign 1865 American Civil War 16,500 [13]
Battle of Liaoyang 1904 Russo-Japanese War 33,100
Battle of Shaho 1904 Russo-Japanese War 62,500
Battle of Mukden 1905 Russo-Japanese War 160,000 [68]
Battle of Sandepu 1905 Russo-Japanese War 22,400
Battle of Lule Burgas 1912 First Balkan War 42,162+ [69]
First Battle of Çatalca 1912 First Balkan War 22,000 [70]
Battle of Bregalnica 1913 Second Balkan War 36,620 [16]
Battle of Kilkis-Lachanas 1913 Second Balkan War 15,700
Serbian campaign 1914–1915 World War I 790,000–1,587,000+
Battle of the Frontiers 1914 World War I 664,191
Battle of Tannenberg 1914 World War I 145,000 [71] –160,000 [72]
Battle of Galicia 1914 World War I 645,000–700,000
Battle of Cer 1914 World War I 58,500–65,500
First Battle of the Marne 1914 World War I 513,000 [73]
First Battle of the Aisne 1914 World War I 263,541+
Battle of the Yser 1914 World War I 18,500+
First Battle of Ypres 1914 World War I 210,000 [74]
Battle of Łódź 1914 World War I 270,000–390,000 [75]
Battle of the Drina 1914 World War I 70,000
Battle of the Vistula River 1914 World War I 214,480
Battle of Limanowa 1914 World War I 251,120
First Battle of Champagne 1914–1915 World War I 139,532
Battle of Sarikamish 1914–1915 World War I 60,000—85,000 [76]
Carpathian Front 1915 World War I 930,751
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes 1915 World War I 216,200
Second Battle of Ypres 1915 World War I 104,208 [77] –107,000 [78]
Gallipoli Campaign 1915 World War I 503,000 [77] –552,000 [79]
Second Battle of Artois 1915 World War I 186,000 [77]
Second Battle of ChampagneThird Battle of Artois 1915 World War I 75,000 [78] –440,000 [77]
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive 1915 World War I 300,000–1,087,000 [77]
Great Retreat (Russian) 1915 World War I 1,943,800+
Serbian Campaign 1915 World War I 331,000 including prisoners [80]
Erzurum offensive 1916 World War I 80,000—85,000 [76]
Battle of Erzincan 1916 World War I 63,000
Battle of Mont Sorrel 1916 World War I 14,000
Battle of Verdun 1916 World War I 755,000 [81] –976,000 [77]
Battle of Asiago 1916 World War I 250,000 [77]
Brusilov offensive 1916 World War I 1,500,000–2,500,000 [82]
Battle of the Somme 1916 World War I 1,120,000 [83] –1,215,000 [77]
Monastir Offensive 1916 World War I 111,000 [84]
Romanian Campaign 1916–1917 World War I 240,000 [77] [ dubious discuss ]–933,000, including prisoners
Nivelle Offensive 1917 World War I 354,000 [85]
Second Battle of the Aisne 1917 World War I 350,000–463,000
Battle of Arras 1917 World War I 278,000–288,000
Battle of Messines 1917 World War I 42,000 [86] [87]
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo 1917 World War I 200,000 [88]
Third Battle of Ypres 1917 World War I 585,000+ [89]
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo 1917 World War I 273,000
Battle of Caporetto 1917 World War I 60,000 [90]
Battle of Cambrai 1917 World War I 95,000 [90]
German spring offensive 1918 World War I 1,539,000 [91]
Operation Michael 1918 World War I 494,616
Battle of the Lys 1918 World War I 204,300–228,340
Third Battle of the Aisne 1918 World War I 257,000
Second Battle of the Piave River 1918 World War I 131,494 killed and wounded, 73,729 prisoners
Second Battle of the Marne 1918 World War I 288,000 [91]
Battle of Soissons 1918 World War I 287,259
Hundred Days Offensive 1918 World War I 2,240,000 [91]
Meuse–Argonne offensive 1918 World War I 318,000
Battle of Warsaw 1920 Polish–Soviet War 130,000, approximately, not including prisoners [92]
Invasion of Manchuria 1931 Second Sino-Japanese War 35,000[ citation needed ]
Asturias Offensive 1937 Spanish Civil War 50,000
Battle of Jarama 1937 Spanish Civil War 40,000
Battle of Guadalajara 1937 Spanish Civil War 12,000 [93]
Aragon Offensive 1937–1938 Spanish Civil War 205,000, including prisoners
Battle of Teruel 1937–1938 Spanish Civil War 110,000 [94]
Levante Offensive 1938 Spanish Civil War 25,000
Battle of the Ebro 1938 Spanish Civil War 106,500 [94]
Battle of Xuzhou 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War 130,000 [95]
1938 Yellow River Flood 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War 800,000 [96]
Battle of Wuhan 1938 Second Sino-Japanese War 550,000–700,000 [97] [98]
Battles of Khalkhin Gol 1939 Soviet–Japanese border conflicts 42,000–75,000 [99] [100]
Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang 1939 Second Sino-Japanese War 49,000
Invasion of Poland 1939 World War II 310,000 [101] –914,000 [102]
Battle of the Bzura 1939 World War II 232,000 [103] –234,000 [103]
Winter Offensive 1939–1940 World War II 100,000+ [104]
Operation Weserübung 1940 World War II 12,800 [101]
Battle of France 1940 World War II 469,000 [105]
Battle of Britain 1940 World War II 38,800 [lower-alpha 1] [106] [lower-alpha 2]
Hundred Regiments Offensive 1940 Second Sino-Japanese War 62,900 [107]
Battle of Keren 1941 World War II 12,600+ killed
Battle of Greece 1941 World War II 46,295 [108]
Battle of Shanggao 1941 Second Sino-Japanese War 42,000
Battle of Crete 1941 World War II 16,007 [109]
Operation Barbarossa 1941 World War II 5,318,000 [110] –8,050,000 [111]
Battle of Białystok–Minsk 1941 World War II 429,886 including prisoners [112]
Battle of Smolensk 1941 World War II 595,606 killed, captured, and missing
300,000 Soviet prisoners
Battle of Uman 1941 World War II 223,853
Battle of Kiev (included in Barbarossa)1941 World War II 761,783 killed, captured, and missing
Battle of Bryansk 1941 World War II 700,000 Soviet killed, captured and missing
German casualties unknown.
Battle of Moscow (included in Barbarossa)1941 World War II 1,000,000 [113]
Battle of Hong Kong 1941 World War II 18,000 including prisoners [114]
Battle of Malaya/Battle of Singapore 1941–1942 World War II 143,800, and 60,000 prisoners [115]
Battle of Bataan/Battle of Corregidor 1942 World War II 30,000 killed [116]
Battle of Lyuban 1942 World War II 365,135
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula 1942 World War II 176,000+ [117]
Demyansk Pocket 1942 World War II 300,000
Second Battle of Kharkov 1942 World War II 300,000 [117]
Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign 1942 Second Sino-Japanese War 356,000 [118]
Battle of Gazala 1942 World War II 148,000 [119]
First Battle of El Alamein 1942 World War II 30,000
Kokoda Track campaign 1942 World War II 13,000
Case Blue 1942 World War II 1,400,000
Battle of the Caucasus 1942–1942 World War II 625,000
Guadalcanal Campaign 1942–1943 World War II 29,100 [120] –31,100 [121]
Battles of Rzhev 1942–1943 World War II 2,900,000–3,080,000
Second Battle of El Alamein 1942 World War II 39,400 [119] –82,500 [122]
Operation Iskra 1943 World War II 129,332 [123]
Battle of Kursk 1943 World War II 1,028,617 [124] [125] –2,037,000 [126]
Operation Kutuzov 1943 World War II 516,344
Allied invasion of Sicily 1943 World War II 36,000+ killed, and over 100,000 Italian POWs [127]
Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation 1943 World War II 202,654–280,634
Battle of Smolensk 1943 World War II 522,059
Dnieper Campaign 1943 World War II 1,582,000–2,480,000
Operation Husky 1943 World War II 16,000
Allied invasion of Italy 1943 World War II 17,092 [128]
Bougainville Campaign 1943–1945 World War II 21,929 killed, and 23,571 Japanese prisoners [129]
Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive 1943–1944 World War II 1,442,956
Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive 1944 World War II 385,604
Battle of Monte Cassino 1944 World War II 185,000 [130]
Battle of Narva 1944 World War II 550,000 all causes [131]
Battle of Anzio 1944 World War II 52,200 killed [132]
First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive 1944 World War II 195,000 [133]
Operation Ichi-Go 1944 Second Sino-Japanese War 1,300,000+ [134]
Battle of Normandy 1944 World War II 650,600 [135] [136] –795,400 [137] [136]
Operation Dragoon 1944 World War II 169,600
Battle of Saipan 1944 World War II 43,500 killed, including mass suicides [138]
Operation Bagration 1944 World War II 1,430,000 [139]
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive 1944 World War II 463,129
Falaise Pocket 1944 World War II 140,000 [140]
Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive 1944 World War II 485,424, including prisoners [141]
Operation Market Garden 1944 World War II 27,200 [142]
Moro River Campaign 1944 World War II 20,000
Baltic offensive 1944 World War II 280,120 Soviet casualties; German casualties unknown
Battle of Aachen 1944 World War II 21,000
Gothic Line offensive1944-1945 World War II 92,000
Battle of Hürtgen Forest 1944–1945 World War II 63,000 [143]
Courland Pocket 1944–1945 World War II 278,819
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944 World War II 12,000 killed [144]
Battle of the Bulge 1944–1945 World War II 161,370 [41] [145] –218,900
Vistula–Oder Offensive 1945 World War II 636,191 including prisoners
Battle of Luzon 1945 World War II 332,330–345,330, including sick [146]
Battle of the Rhineland 1945 World War II 82,000 and 250,000 prisoners [147]
Battle of Iwo Jima 1945 World War II 44,821 [148] –48,700 [149]
East Prussian Offensive 1945 World War II 806,778 including prisoners
Battle of Okinawa 1945 World War II 113,920 [150] –158,400 [151]
Burma campaigns 1942–1945 World War II 700,000 [152]
Battle of West Hunan 1945 World War II 50,000
Second Guangxi campaign 1945 World War II 1,000,000[ citation needed ]
Liaoshen campaign 1948 Chinese Civil War 542,000, including captured [153]
Huaihai campaign 1948 Chinese Civil War 689,000, including captured [154]
Pingjin campaign 1948–1949 Chinese Civil War 560,000, including captured [155]
Shanghai Campaign 1949 Chinese Civil War 213,073 [156]
Battle of Inchon 1950 Korean War 17,429 [157]
UN offensive into North Korea 1950 Korean War 51,700 [158]
Battle of Chosin Reservoir 1950 Korean War 66,000
Battle of Dien Bien Phu 1954 First Indochina War 31,500, not including prisoners [159]
Tet Offensive 1968 Vietnam War 65,000 [160]
Operation OAU 1968 Nigerian Civil War 30,000 [160]
Easter Offensive 1972 Vietnam War 150,000 [160]
Operation Dawn 5 1984 Iran–Iraq War 75,000
Battle of the Marshes 1984 Iran–Iraq War 55,000
Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022–pres. Russo-Ukrainian War 300,000 [161] –500,000 [162]

Classical formation battles

These refer to battles in which armies met on a single field of battle and fought each other for anywhere from one to several days. This type of battle died out in favor of larger military operations.

BattleYearConflictCasualties
Battle of Megiddo 1457 BC Thutmose III's first campaign in the Levant 16,000+
Battle of Kadesh 1274 BC Second Syrian campaign of Ramesses II 30,000+
Battle of Qarqar 853 BC Assyrian conquest of Aram 24,000+
Battle of Thymbra 547 BC Lydian–Persian War 100,000 [163]
Battle of Marathon 490 BC Greco-Persian Wars 5,000–8,000 [164]
Battle of Thermopylae 480 BC Greco-Persian Wars 22,500 [165]
Battle of Plataea 479 BC Greco-Persian War 51,500 [165] –257,000 [166]
Battle of Mycale 479 BC Greco-Persian War 70,000
Battle of Leuctra 371 BC Theban–Spartan War 4,300
Battle of Mantinea 362 BC Theban–Spartan War 18,000
Battle of the Granicus 334 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 7,000 [lower-alpha 3] [167]
Battle of Issus 333 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 20,000-40,000 [168]
Battle of Gaugamela 331 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 53,500 [169]
Battle of the Persian Gate 330 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 48,500
Battle of the Hydaspes 326 BC Wars of Alexander the Great 23,310 [169]
Battle of Sentinum 295 BC Third Samnite War 33,700 [170]
Battle of Heraclea 280 BC Pyrrhic War 11,000–26,000 [170]
Battle of Asculum 279 BC Pyrrhic War 9,500+
Battle of Beneventum 275 BC Pyrrhic War 20,000
Battle of Messana 264 BC First Punic War 7,400+
Battle of Kalinga 262 BC Kalinga-Maurya Empire 250,000+ (including civilians) [171]
Battle of Changping 260 BC Warring States period 700,000 (ancient source & includes prisoners) [172]
Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC) 240 BC Mercenary War 8,000+
Battle of Telamon 225 BC Roman–Gallic wars 56,000+
Battle of Ticinus 218 BC Second Punic War 9,500+
Battle of the Trebia 218 BC Second Punic War 35,000 [173]
Battle of Lake Trasimene 217 BC Second Punic War 30,000 [173]
Battle of Cannae 216 BC Second Punic War 50,000+ [174]
Battle of the Metaurus 207 BC Second Punic War 12,000 [175]
Battle of Julu 207 BC Chu–Han Contention 400,000+ (including prisoners)
Battle of Utica 203 BC Second Punic War 45,000+
Battle of Zama 202 BC Second Punic War 21,500 [175]
Battle of the Arius 200 BC Antiochus's Bactrian Campaign 3,750
Battle of Cynoscephalae 197 BC Second Macedonian War 23,700
Battle of Thermopylae (191 BC) 191 BC Roman–Seleucid War 14,000
Battle of Magnesia 190 BC Roman–Seleucid War 53,350 [176]
Battle of Pydna 168 BC Third Macedonian War 21,000 [176]
Battle of Noreia 115 BC Germanic Wars (Cimbrian War)24,000
Battle of the Muthul 109 BC Jugurthine War 25,000
Battle of Arausio 105 BC Germanic Wars (Cimbrian War)85,000 [177] [178] [179]
Battle of Aquae Sextiae 102 BC Germanic Wars (Cimbrian War)90,000 [180]
Battle of Chaeronea 86 BC Mithridatic Wars (First Mithridatic War)50,000 [181]
Battle of the Colline Gate 82 BC Sulla's civil war 50,000 [182]
Battle of the Silarius River 71 BC Third Servile War 11,000
Battle of Chalcedon 74 BC Mithridatic Wars (Third Mithridatic War)19,000+
Battle of Tigranocerta 69 BC Mithridatic Wars (Third Mithridatic War)10,000+ [183]
Battle of Bibracte 58 BC Gallic Wars 12,000+ [184]
Battle of Axona 57 BC Gallic Wars 11,000+
Battle of Carrhae 53 BC Roman–Persian Wars 24,000 [185]
Battle of Pharsalus 48 BC Caesar's Civil War 17,000 [186]
Battle of Philippi 42 BC Liberators' civil war 24,000 [187]
Battle of Actium 31 BC Final War of the Roman Republic 7,500+ [188]
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest AD 9 Roman–Germanic wars 20,000 [189]
Battle of Idistaviso AD 16 Roman–Germanic wars 20,000+ [190]
Battle of Watling Street AD 61 Iceni Revolt 80,400 [191]
Battle of Mons Graupius AD 84 Roman conquest of Britain 10,360 [192]
Battle of Adamclisi AD 102 Dacian Wars 18,000+
Battle of Sarmizegetusa AD 106 Dacian Wars 21,000+
Battle of Carnuntum AD 170 Marcomannic Wars 20,000+
Battle of Issus (194) 194 Year of the Five Emperors 20,000
Battle of Lugdunum 197 Year of the Five Emperors 90,000
Battle of Guandu 200 Three Kingdoms 78,000 [193]
Battle of Red Cliffs 208 Three Kingdoms 100,000 [193]
Battle of Barbalissos 252 Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 60,000+ [194]
Battle of Edessa 260 Perso-Roman wars of 337–361 65,000+ [195]
Battle of Emesa 272 Crisis of the Third Century 61,000+
Battle of Châlons (274) 274 Crisis of the Third Century 56,000+
Battle of Adrianople 378 Gothic War 40,000+ [196]
Battle of the Fei River 383 Sixteen Kingdoms period 700,000+ [197]
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains 451 Hunnic Invasion 165,000 (ancient source) [198]
Battle of Dara 530 Iberian War 8,000+ [199]
Battle of Callinicum 531 Iberian War 28,000+
Battle of Taginae 552 Gothic War 8,000+
Battle of the Volturnus 554 Gothic War 18,000+
Battle of the Salsu 612 Goguryeo–Sui War 302,300 (ancient source) [200]
Battle of Nineveh 627 Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628 9,000+
Battle of al-Qadisiyyah 636 Muslim conquest of Persia 31,000 [201]
Battle of Muzayyah 633 Muslim conquest of Persia 10,000
Battle of Ullais 633 Muslim conquest of Persia 35,000 [202]
Battle of River 633 Muslim conquest of Persia 15,000+ [203]
Battle of Ajnadayn 634 Muslim conquest of the Levant 55,000
Battle of Yarmouk 636 Muslim conquest of the Levant 70,000 [2]
Battle of Walaja 636 Muslim conquest of Persia 22,000 [204]
Battle of Nahavand 642 Muslim conquest of Persia 28,500 [205]
Battle of Marj Ardabil 730 Second Arab-Khazar War 25,000+
Battle of Tours 732 Umayyad invasion of Gaul 13,000 [206]
Battle of Akroinon 740 Arab–Byzantine Wars 13,200+
Battle of Talas 751 Muslim conquest of Transoxiana 50,000+
Battle of Xiangji Temple 757 An Lushan Rebellion 110,000+
Battle of Pliska 811 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars 29,000
Battle of Ashdown 871 Viking activity in the British Isles 9,000
Battle of Brenta 899 Hungarian invasions of Europe 14,000+
Battle of Lechfeld 955 Hungarian invasions of Europe 15,000
Battle of Arcadiopolis 970 Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria 27,000
Battle of the Gates of Trajan 986 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars 27,000
Battle of Kleidion 1014 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars 45,000
Battle of Gwiju 1019 Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War 90,000+
Battle of Dandanaqan 1040 Seljuk-Ghaznavid Wars 35,000+
Battle of Fulford 1066 Viking invasions of England 5,000
Battle of Stamford Bridge 1066 Viking invasions of England 13,000
Battle of Hastings 1066 Norman Conquest 6,000 [lower-alpha 3] [207]
Battle of Manzikert 1071 Byzantine-Seljuk Wars 25,000
Battle of Langensalza (1075) 1075 Saxon Revolt of 1073-1075 8,600 [lower-alpha 3]
Battle of Nhu Nguyet river 1077 Lý–Song War 150,000 [208] [209]
Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) 1081 First Norman invasion of the Balkans 5,000+
Battle of Civetot 1096 People's Crusade 50,000+
Battle of Dorylaeum 1097 First Crusade 7,000+
Battle of Ascalon 1099 First Crusade 13,000+
Battle of Nakło (1109) 1109 ??? 30,000+
Battle of Ager Sanguinis 1119 Crusades 12,000
Battle of Azaz 1125 Crusades 6,000+
Battle of Crug Mawr 1135 Norman invasion of Wales 13,000
Battle of Legnano 1177 Guelphs and Ghibellines 9,000+
Battle of Montgisard 1177 Ayyubid–Crusader War 25,850 [lower-alpha 3]
Battle of Hattin 1187 Ayyubid–Crusader War 17,000–20,000 [210]
Battle of Philomelion (1190) 1190 Third Crusade 5,100
Battle of Arsuf 1191 Third Crusade 8,000+
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa 1212 Reconquista 60,000 [211]
Battle of Yehuling 1212 Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty 150,000 [lower-alpha 3]
Battle of Muret 1213 Albigensian Crusade 16,500 [lower-alpha 3]
Battle of Bouvines 1214 Anglo-French War 9,000
Battle of Parwan 1221 Mongol invasion of Central Asia 65,000+
Battle of the Kalka River 1223 Mongol invasion of Rus' 50,000 [lower-alpha 3] [212]
Battle of Sanfengshan 1232 Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty 125,000
Battle of Legnica 1241 Mongol invasion of Poland 30,000 [213]
Battle of Mohi 1241 Mongol invasion of Europe 15,000 [214]
Battle of Mansurah 1250 Seventh Crusade 21,000
Battle of Ain Jalut 1260 Mongol invasions of the Levant 21,000
Battle of Kōan 1281 Mongol invasions of Japan 150,000+
Third battle of Bach Dang river 1288 Mongol invasion of Vietnam 85,000 [215]
Battle of Jaran Manjur 1298 Mongol invasions of India 20,000+
Battle of Yamen 1279 Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty 100,000
Battle of Kili 1299 Mongol invasion of India 130,000
Battle of Bapheus 1302 Byzantine–Ottoman wars 3,000
Battle of Amroha 1305 Mongol invasion of India 34,000
Battle of Bannockburn 1314 First War of Scottish Independence 19,000 [216]
Battle of Demotika 1352 Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357 8,000
Battle of Vijaya 1377 Champa–Đại Việt War (1367–1390) 95,000
Battle of Kulikovo 1380 List of Mongol and Tatar raids against Rus' 136,000
Battle of Roosebeke 1382 Hundred Years' War 27,600
Battle of Maritsa 1389 Serbian-Ottoman wars 57,000
Battle of Kosovo 1389 Serbian-Ottoman wars 60,000
Battle of the Terek River 1395 Tokhtamysh–Timur war 100,000 [217]
Battle of Nicopolis 1396 Ottoman wars in Europe 30,000
Conquest of Delhi 1398 Timur's Indian campaign 100,000 [218] [219]
Battle of Ankara 1402 Ottoman–Timur War 15,000+ [220]
Battle of Grunwald 1410 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War 13,000 [221]
Battle of Agincourt 1415 Hundred Years' War 14,000[ citation needed ]
Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động 1426 Lam Sơn uprising 30,000 [222]
Battle of Hermannstadt 1442 Crusade of Varna 24,000
Battle of Zlatitsa 1443 Crusade of Varna 22,000+
Battle of Varna 1444 Crusade of Varna 60,000+
Battle of Kosovo (1448) 1448 Ottoman–Wallachian wars / Ottoman–Hungarian wars 27,000
Tumu Crisis 1449 Ming–Mongol War 200,000+[ citation needed ]
Battle of Castillon 1453 Hundred Years' War 4,000 [223]
Battle of Chojnice 1454 Thirteen Years' War 9,000
Battle of Towton 1461 Wars of the Roses 28,000 [224]
Second Battle of St Albans 1461 Wars of the Roses 2,000 [225]
Night Attack at Târgoviște 1462 Wallachian-Ottoman Wars 20,000 [226]
Battle of Vaslui 1475 Moldavian-Ottoman Wars 40,000+[ citation needed ]
Battle of Valea Albă 1476 Moldavian–Ottoman Wars 30,000+[ citation needed ]
Battle of Breadfield 1479 Habsburg–Ottoman wars 13,000+
Battle of Kabul 1504 Campaigns of Babur 20,000+ [227]
Battle of Ravenna 1512 War of the League of Cambrai 13,500 [228]
Battle of Flodden 1513 War of the League of Cambrai 15,500
Battle of Chaldiran 1514 Ottoman–Persian Wars 7,000
Battle of Orsha 1514 Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1512-1522) 21,000–45,000
Battle of Marignano 1515 War of the League of Cambrai 11,000–15,000 [229]
Battle of Ridaniya 1517 Ottoman wars in the Near East 13,000 [230]
La Noche Triste 1520 Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire 4,800+
Battle of Pavia 1525 Italian War of 1521–1526 13,000
First Battle of Panipat 1526 Mughal Conquest 20,000–50,000 [231]
Battle of Mohács 1526 Ottoman–Hungarian wars 30,000 [lower-alpha 3] [232]
Battle of Sződfalva 1527 Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528 21,000
Battle of Ghaghra 1529 Mughal Conquest 13,000 [233]
Battle of Gorjani 1537 Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568) 22,000
Battle of Mühlberg 1547 Schmalkaldic War 9,500
Battle of Molodi 1572 Russo-Crimean Wars 29,000–33,000 or 100,000 [234]
Battle of Nagashino 1575 Sengoku period 18,000 [235] :80–82
Battle of Alcácer Quibir 1578 Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts 19,000
Battle of Gembloux 1578 Eighty Years' War 6,000
Battle of Chungju 1592 Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) 8,000–16,000 [236] 100,000 [237] [238]
Battle of Călugăreni 1595 Long War (Ottoman War) 11,000–16,000[ citation needed ]
Battle of Keresztes 1596 Long Turkish War 30,000
Battle of Sacheon 1598 Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598) 30,000 [239]
Battle of Sekigahara 1600 Sengoku period 30,000+ [240]
Battle of Nieuwpoort 1600 Eighty Years' War 6,700+
Battle of Kircholm 1605 Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611) 8,400
Battle of Klushino 1610 Polish–Muscovite War 5,400
Battle of Wisternitz 1619 Thirty Years' War 6,700
Battle of White Mountain 1620 Thirty Years' War 3,450
Battle of Shen-Liao 1620 Qing conquest of the Ming 75,000
Battle of Rohilla 1621 Early Mughal-Sikh Wars 14,000
Battle of Lutter 1626 Thirty Years' War 9,700
Battle of Wolgast 1628 Thirty Years' War 3,100
First Battle of Breitenfeld 1631 Thirty Years' War 31,900
Battle of Lahira 1631 Early Mughal-Sikh Wars 36,773 [241]
Battle of Fürth 1632 Thirty Years' War 5,000
Battle of Lützen 1632 Thirty Years' War 11,160 [242]
Battle of Amritsar 1634 Early Mughal-Sikh Wars 7,000
Battle of Nördlingen 1634 Thirty Years' War 17,000 [243]
Battle of Kartarpur 1635 Early Mughal-Sikh Wars 50,700-97,000 [244] [245]
Battle of the Downs 1639 Eighty Years' War 15,000+ [246]
Battle of Song-Jin 1641 Qing conquest of the Ming 60,000[ citation needed ]
Second Battle of Breitenfeld 1642 Thirty Years' War 14,000 [247]
Battle of Rocroi 1643 Thirty Years' War 19,000 [248]
Battle of Freiburg 1644 Thirty Years' War 12,000
Battle of Jankau 1645 Thirty Years' War 15,500 [249]
Battle of Lens 1648 Thirty Years' War 9,500
Battle of Zusmarshausen 1648 Thirty Years' War 5,000
Battle of Berestechko 1651 Khmelnytsky Uprising 30,000–40,000 [250]
Battle of the Dunes 1658 Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) 9,600
Battle of Samugarh 1658 Mughal Conquest 32,000 [246]
Battle of Khajwa 1659 Mughal Conquest 20,000 [246]
Battle of Saint Gotthard 1664 Battle of Saint Gotthard 12,000
Battle of Khotyn (1673) 1673 Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676) 32,000
Battle of Lund 1676 Scanian War 14,000 [251]
Battle of Vienna 1683 Ottoman–Habsburg wars 19,500 [252]
Battle of Mohács (1687) 1687 Ottoman–Habsburg wars 12,500
Battle of Fleurus 1690 War of the Grand Alliance 10,600−28,000 [253] [254]
Battle of Landen 1693 War of the Grand Alliance 28,000 [255]
Battle of Zenta 1697 Ottoman–Habsburg wars 30,300 [256]
Battle of Jinji 1698 Mughal Conquest 16,000 [255]
Battle of Narva 1700 Great Northern War 19,900 [257] [258]
Battle of Schellenberg 1704 War of the Spanish Succession 11,000 [255]
Battle of Blenheim 1704 War of the Spanish Succession 32,000 [255]
Battle of Chamkaur 1705 Mughal-Sikh Wars 112,500
Battle of Fraustadt 1706 Great Northern War 16,500 [259]
Battle of Ramillies 1706 War of the Spanish Succession 15,600 [260]
Battle of Almansa 1707 War of the Spanish Succession 22,000
Battle of Lesnaya 1708 Great Northern War 11,000 [261] [262]
Battle of Poltava 1709 Great Northern War 14,300 [263]
Battle of Malplaquet 1709 War of the Spanish Succession 95,000 [260]
Battle of Helsingborg 1710 Great Northern War 10,700 [264]
Battle of Villaviciosa 1710 War of the Spanish Succession 12,000
Battle of Gulnabad 1722 Hotaki-Safavid War 17,000
Battle of Hohenfriedberg 1745 War of the Austrian Succession 18,530
Battle of Fontenoy 1745 War of the Austrian Succession 14,000 [265]
Battle of Lobositz 1756 Seven Years' War 7,000+
Battle of Leuthen 1757 Seven Years' War 11,800 [266]
Battle of Prague 1757 Seven Years' War 27,570+
Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf 1757 Seven Years' War 10,000+
Battle of Rossbach 1757 Seven Years' War 10,000 [267]
Battle of Breslau (1757) 1757 Seven Years' War 12,000
Battle of Zorndorf 1758 Seven Years' War 30,000[ citation needed ]
Battle of Krefeld 1758 Seven Years' War 5,200
Battle of Kunersdorf 1759 Seven Years' War 35,000 [268]
Battle of Minden 1759 Seven Years' War 12,700
Battle of Torgau 1760 Seven Years' War 32,560+
Third Battle of Panipat 1761 Marathas and Afghans 129,000+ [269] [270]
Battle of Kup 1762 Afghan-Sikh Wars 20,000 [lower-alpha 3] [271]
Battle of Villinghausen 1761 Seven Years' War 13,000+
Battle of Freiberg 1762 Seven Years' War 10,500
Battle of Kagul 1770 Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) 21,000 [272]
Battle of Porto Novo 1781 Second Anglo-Mysore War 9306
Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút 1785 Siamese-Vietnamese Wars 50,000 [273]
Battle of Rymnik 1789 Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) 21,000 [274]
Battle of Jemappes 1792 War of the Second Coalition 3,500
Battle of Praga 1794 Kościuszko Uprising 26,000
Battle of Mardanpur 1794 Maratha and Patiala 8,333-52,333 [275]
Battle of Loano 1795 War of the First Coalition 10,000
Battle of Arcole 1796 War of the First Coalition 11,000 [276]
Battle of Rivoli 1797 War of the First Coalition 17,500
Battle of Trebbia 1799 War of the Second Coalition 17,000–23,000 [277]
Battle of Novi 1799 War of the Second Coalition 19,500 [278]
Battle of the Pyramids 1798 War of the Second Coalition 10,000+
Battle of Stockach 1800 War of the Second Coalition 9,800
Battle of Marengo 1800 War of the Second Coalition 16,400 [279]
Battle of Montebello 1800 War of the Second Coalition 7,275
Battle of Pozzolo 1800 War of the Second Coalition 13,000+
Battle of Höchstädt 1800 War of the Second Coalition 7,000
Battle of Hohenlinden 1800 War of the Second Coalition 16,000+
Ulm campaign 1805 War of the Third Coalition 62,000 [279]
Battle of Dürenstein 1805 War of the Third Coalition 10,000
Battle of Austerlitz 1805 War of the Third Coalition 45,300 [280]
Battle of Schöngrabern 1805 War of the Third Coalition 5,000
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt 1806 War of the Fourth Coalition 52,000, including prisoners later killed [281]
Battle of Lübeck 1806 War of the Fourth Coalition 18,800
Battle of Eylau 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition 40,000 [281]
Battle of Friedland 1807 War of the Fourth Coalition 28,000–50,000 [282]
Battle of Bailen 1808 Peninsular war 21,000
Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros 1808 Peninsular war 6,600
Battle of Gamonal 1808 Peninsular war 3,600
Battle of Aspern-Essling 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 42,900 [283]
Battle of Landshut 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 9,000
Battle of Eckmühl 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 13,700
Battle of Abensberg 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 8,200
Battle of Ebelsberg 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 15,340
Battle of Piave River 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 7,000
Battle of Wagram 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 77,000 [281] –79,000 [284]
Battle of Znaim 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 9,000
Battle of Raab 1809 War of the Fifth Coalition 14,300
Battle of Talavera 1809 Peninsular War 13,900 [285]
Battle of Somosierra 1808 Peninsular War 2,500
Battle of Bussaco 1810 Peninsular War 5,900
Battle of Slobozia 1811 Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) 20,000 [286]
Battle of Salamanca 1812 Peninsular War 18,800 [287]
Battle of Smolensk 1812 French invasion of Russia 24,000 [288]
Battle of Shevardino 1812 French invasion of Russia 10,000
Battle of Borodino 1812 French invasion of Russia 74,000 [289]
Second Battle of Polotsk 1812 French invasion of Russia 22,000
Battle of Maloyaroslavets 1812 French invasion of Russia 16,000
Battle of Vyazma 1812 French invasion of Russia 9,500
Battle of Wolkowisk 1812 French invasion of Russia 6,000
Battle of Krasnoi 1812 French invasion of Russia 28,000
Battle of Berezina 1812 French invasion of Russia 60,000 [289]
Battle of Vitoria 1813 Peninsular War 13,000 [287]
Battle of Lützen 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 31,155–52,000 [290] [291]
Battle of Bautzen 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 45,000
Battle of Hanau 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 15,000
Battle of Dresden 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 48,000 [280]
Battle of Wartenburg 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 4,000
Battle of Großbeeren 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 5,000
Battle of Dennewitz 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 33,000 [292]
Battle of Leipzig 1813 War of the Sixth Coalition 124,000 [63]
Battle of Orthez 1814 Peninsular War 5,100
Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube 1814 War of the Sixth Coalition 8,000
Battle of Wavre 1815 Hundred Days 5,000
Battle of Quatre Bras 1815 Hundred Days 10,000
Battle of Ligny 1815 Hundred Days 28,000 [293]
Battle of Waterloo 1815 Hundred Days 47,000+ (not including prisoners and missing) [294] [295]
Battle of Tolentino 1815 Neapolitan War 5,000
Battle of Ayacucho 1824 Peruvian War of Independence 3,400+
Battle of Jamrud 1837 Afghan-Sikh Wars 11,000+
Battle of Inkerman 1854 Crimean War 15,857 [296]
Battle of Choloki 1854 Crimean War 5,500
Battle of Kurekdere 1854 Crimean War 3,409
Battle of Alma 1854 Crimean War 9,100+
Battle of Magenta 1859 Second Italian War of Independence 14,900+
Battle of Solferino 1859 Second Italian War of Independence 39,500+
Battle of Jiangnan 1860 Taiping Rebellion 140,000+
First Battle of Bull Run 1861 American Civil War 4,690
Battle of Shiloh 1862 American Civil War 24,000 [297]
Battle of Antietam 1862 American Civil War 23,000 [66] –26,193 [298]
Battle of Fredericksburg 1862 American Civil War 17,300 [66] –17,962 [299]
Battle of Richmond 1862 American Civil War 5,900+
Battle of Gaines' Mill 1863 American Civil War 15,000+
Battle of Gettysburg 1863 American Civil War 51,000 [300] [301]
Battle of Salem Church 1863 American Civil War 9,500+
Battle of Chickamauga 1863 American Civil War 34,624 [302]
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House 1864 American Civil War 30,000 [303]
Battle of Stones River 1862–1863 American Civil War 24,000 [304]
Battle of the Wilderness 1864 American Civil War 28,700
Battle of Cold Harbor 1864 American Civil War 18,000
Battle of Changzhou 1864 Taiping Rebellion 35,000
Battle of Hubei 1864 Taiping Rebellion 60,000+
Battle of Königgrätz 1866 Austro-Prussian War 47,500 [305]
Battle of Münchengrätz 1866 Austro-Prussian War 3,000
Battle of Tuyutí 1866 Paraguayan War 7,000–16,000 [306]
Battle of Curupayty 1866 Paraguayan War 4,300
Battle of Ytororó 1868 Paraguayan War 3,300+
Battle of Acosta Ñu 1869 Paraguayan War 5,102[ citation needed ]
Battle of Piribebuy 1869 Paraguayan War 2,210
Battle of Mars-la-Tour/Battle of Gravelotte 1870 Franco-Prussian War 34,000 [305]
Battle of Sedan 1870 Franco-Prussian War 26,000 [307]
Second Battle of Orleans 1870 Franco-Prussian War 8,740
Battle of Le Mans 1871 Franco-Prussian War 30,000
Battle of Tabaruzaka 1877 Satsasuma Rebelion 8,400
Battle of Isandlwana 1879 Anglo-Zulu War 6,300
Battle of Kambula 1879 Anglo-Zulu War 2,134
Battle of Arica 1880 War of the Pacific 3,600+
Battle of Adwa 1896 First Italo-Ethiopian War 17,300 [308]
Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican 1896 Philippine Revolutionary War 2,000–15,000 [309]
Battle of Omdurman 1898 Mahdist War 20,430 [310]
Battle of Sakarya 1921 Greco–Turkish War of 1919–22 61,000 [311] [312]
  1. including approximately 35,000 civilian casualties due to bombing
  2. including approximately 35,000 civilian casualties due to bombing
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Estimated casualty figure

Raids and sacks

ActionYearConflictCasualties
Sack of Rome (455) 455 fall of the Western Roman Empire 400,000+
Sack of Thessalonica (1185) 1185 third Norman invasion of the Balkans 10,000+
Sack of Berwick (1296) 1296 First War of Scottish Independence 17,000
Sack of Rome (1527) 1527 War of the League of Cognac 48,000
Sack of Naples 1544 Ottoman–Habsburg wars 50,000
Sack of Magdeburg 1631 Thirty Years' War 26,900
Raid on the Medway 1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War 650
Dieppe Raid 1942 World War II 6,860
Battle or ActionYearConflictCasualties
Battle of Salamis 480 BC Second Persian Invasion of Greece 50,000?
Battle of Cape Ecnomus 256 BC First Punic War 50,000
Battle of Dan-no-ura 1185 Genpei War 20,000
Battle of Yamen 1279 Song-Yuan Wars 110,000
Third battle of Bach Dang river 1288 Mongol invasion of Vietnam 85,000
Battle of Chaul 1508 Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts 840
Battle of Lepanto 1571 Ottoman–Habsburg wars 40,000
Battle of São Vicente 1583 Eighty Years' War 166
Battle of Solebay 1672 Third Anglo-Dutch War 3,100
Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue 1692 Nine Years' War 10,000
Battle of Pondicherry 1759 Seven Years' War 1,589
Battle of Chesma 1770 Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) 12,000
Battle of Dogger Bank 1781 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War 988
Battle of Vyborg Bay 1790 Russo-Swedish War (1788–90) 6,000–12,000
Battle of the Nile 1798 French campaign in Egypt and Syria 8,997
Battle of Copenhagen 1801 War of the Second Coalition 2,800
Battle of Trafalgar 1805 War of the Third Coalition 4,853
Battle of Navarino 1827 Greek War of Independence 6,000
Battle of Sinop 1853 Crimean War 3,366
Battle of Hampton Roads 1862 American Civil War 392
Battle of Riachuelo 1865 Paraguayan War 997
Battle of the Yalu River 1894 First Sino-Japanese War 1,730
Battle of the Yellow Sea 1904 Russo-Japanese War 566
Battle of Tsushima 1905 Russo-Japanese War 5,162
Battle of Lemnos 1913 First Balkan War 146
Battle of Coronel 1914 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 1940 World War II 1,669
Operation Juno 1940 World War II 1,662
Last battle of Bismarck 1941 World War II 2,249
Battle of Cape Matapan 1941 World War II 2,303
Battle of Cape Bon 1941 World War II 817
Battle of the Java Sea 1942 World War II 2,336
Battle of Midway 1942 World War II 3,364
Battle of Santa Cruz Islands 1942 World War II 766
Battle of Savo Island 1942 World War II 1217
Naval Battle of Casablanca 1942 World War II 636
Battle of the Bismarck Sea 1943 World War II 2,903
Battle of Leyte Gulf 1944 World War II 15,500
Battle of San Carlos 1982 Falklands War 65

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    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Pacific War</span> Theater of World War II

    The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania. It was geographically the largest theater of the war, including the Pacific Ocean theater, the South West Pacific theater, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Soviet–Japanese War in the last few months of the war.

    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Military history of Canada</span>

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    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Orlov revolt</span> 1770 Greek uprising against the Ottoman Empire

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    The Russo-Turkish War of 1787–1792 involved an unsuccessful attempt by the Ottoman Empire to regain lands lost to the Russian Empire in the course of the previous Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774). It took place concomitantly with the Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791), Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) and Theatre War.

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    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Battle of Bitlis</span>

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    During warfare, some units take more casualties than other units. Sometimes, the casualty rate is disproportionately high. This article displays the highest percentage of casualties among American units, including those wiped out as an effective force.

    <span class="mw-page-title-main">Russian invasion of Ukraine</span> Ongoing armed conflict in Eastern Europe

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