What is the greatest battle ever?

Question

Please give me the battle with...

1.Highest Death Toll
and/or
2.Most people involved
and/or
3.Most heroic acts

Your answer isn't limited to just one war. The points are awarded to the person who answers all the questions. Thanks

Answer 1

Let's see the candidates:

Cro Magnon vs. Neanderthal:affected us for all eternity

Yorktown

Stalingrad

The Spanish Armada

battle of Marathon

Battle of Midway

battle of Thermopylae: 250,000 to 7000

Battle for Hue in 1968 during the Tet Offensive.

Leipzeg, Napolianic wars

Battle of Chalons (451 AD): stopped Atilla

Moscow 1941

Antietam (as opposed to Gettysburg)

Chosin Campaign 1950

Bttle of Britain:Never was so much owed by so many to so few

Battle of la Marne: stopped the German invasion

Cajamarca,Spanish Conquest of Peru, 1532

Waterloo,Napoleonic Wars, 1815

Cannae 216 BC

Vienna, Austria-Ottoman Wars, 1529

Hastings, Norman Conquest of England, 1066

kursk....the largest tank battle ever.

Battle of Tours:Had Europe lost, most the world would be muslim and vastly different than it would be today.

The one i almost picked best was:

Kharkov. I liked Manstein's skillful counter offensive and Paul Hausser's master work on the tactical level. The II. SS Panzer Korps along with supporting elements beat off a Soviet force that out numbered them 7 to 1 and retook the city.

and then there's:

Atomic Bombing of Japan

My pick is:

The United States dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 to hasten the end of World War II in the Pacific. Although it would be the first, and to date the only, actual use of such weapons of "mass destruction," the mushroom clouds have hung over every military and political policy since then.

And the human population has stared into the dark abyss of global suicide since those dreadful days in August '45..

Greatest military victory....hmmmm, i don't like the term 'great' for nuclear war, and aerial bombardment of citizens was pretty barbaric, but the consequences were pretty monumental...i guess war IS hell.

I could've picked Alien vs Predator....

Answer 2

As was said by others Stalingrad. The Battle was between the Axis powers and the Soviet Union. It was the Bloodiest Battle in history with at total of 1.5 Million killed and countless wounded. To put that into perspective, The whole force of the D-DAY invasion was 1.4 million. The fighting was so intense, the life expectancy of a new soldier to the battle was one day. Most heroic Acts... there were countless acts of heroism and valour in such a struggle of titans.

It was the turning point in the Eastern Front as D-Day was on the Western. Without victory here, the face of Europe might be very different. Germany Lost 1/4 of her forces in the East and could never recover.

Answer 3

The Kobyashi Moru incident! All three not applicable because it was rigged from the start! The greatest battle was at Herztgen Forest. So many enlisted became officers the hard way! They gave the men hot meals right before they were to go into battle. Every soldier knows the army never gives hot food unless they believe this will be your last meal you will eat! The battle was so bad there were just not enough trees for the officers to hide behind!

Answer 4

Ain Galoot battle between the Muslims leaded by QUTOZ and the tatarian army who invaded the whole of Asia and swept whole nations. This war stopped their crept twards the rest of the Asian countries and Europe as well. Iraq offered about million martyre in this war .

Answer 5

1)stalingrad a cople of million men
2) Stallingrad over 1 million casualties
3) they where not soldiers- But the 40 passengers of flight 93 in the face of near certain death did what they could to save lives and fought back!!!!

Answer 6

i would say The First battle of Mogadishu. Now the African Union fights with the Islamic Union, but the UN or NATO might return to Somalia soon

Answer 7

Stalingrad for all 3

The Highest Death toll
Most people involved
And in my opinion the most heroic acts.

Answer 8

1. Battle of Verdun, I think
2. Not sure.
3. Battle of Iwo Jima

All of this is in recent history, and purely subjective because heroic can be defined in many ways.

Answer 9

The first 2 worst war in the list happened in the 20 C!


55 million .........Second World War 20C
40 million........... Mao Zedong 20C
40 million ..........Mongol Conquests 13C

Answer 10

The most Americans died in the Battle of Gettysburg. Think about it, only Americans were involved on both sides.