What was the deadliest military battle ever fought?

Answer 1

My bad, here's the breakdown, i thought Stalingrad was the worst:

2,000,000 - Brusilov Offensive (4 June-20 September 1916)
1,800,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
552,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916)
500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
400,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
370,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
330,000 - First Battle of the Marne (1914)
310,000(est) - Battle of Gaugamela (331 BC)
300,000 - Battle of the Somme (1916)

Answer 2

I'm suprised no one has mentioned the battles of Verdun, Tannenberg, and the Somme. All fought during World War I. In each of those battles not less the 1 million soldiers were killed.

World War I is know for some of the deadliest fighting. It was the first industrialized war and armies failed to adapt to the new technology. A common tactic used on both sides of the war was to group everyone up tightly and walk (not run) towards enemy postitions which often had machine gun emplacements. Also remember that World War I saw the wide use of chemicle weapons such as Mustard Gas. Not a fun prospect at all.

Answer 3

Stalingrad was the deadliest battle in World War II and probably the deadliest ever fought. Over 1.1 million people were killed in the fighting. For the US, the Battle of the Bulge (also WWII) was the deadliest ever fought.

Answer 4

Verdun in WW1 was also quite deadly, the French had over 800,000 casualties, I don't know the totals for all nations, however.

If you are speaking of the deadliest single day it almost certainly would have been in the First World War. The Battle of Stalingrad (WWII)resulted in more dead over a longer period of time.

Answer 5

Battle of the Somme 1st of July 1916, an estimated 420,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 Germans. The totals are unclear because of the heavy use of artillery. Many bodies worn destroyed.

Answer 6

Probably the battle of stalingrad in 1942/43 the germans lost their entire sixth army of about 600,000 men in a few months. the germans who were taken prisoner were sent to camps in siberia and in 1949 only about 1,000 returned home to germany. before they surrendered, the germans must have inflicted unimaginable casualties on the red army forces, we will never know because no records were kept, a horrific battle and the last great conventional one before nuclear weapons made such large massing of forces obsolete

Answer 7

The Battle of the Somme

Answer 8

I don't know but...in 2Oth Century, the Battle of La Somme, Verdun, Stalingrad, D-Day, Tarawa, Ia Drang.

Answer 9

The one going on now and for the past few years. We the west are fighting the extreme and the ones within (Kooks who show weakness) slowing but surely we are losing. Why the people who don't want to face the truth. The battle now is the most important in our history.

Answer 10

Stalingrad