Favorite Battle

Originally posted by Majkes Originally posted by ataman The battle of Trzciana 1629 (the Poles vs the Swedes commanded by Gustaw Adolf). My ancestor captured Swedish banner in that battle.   Was Your ancestor one of Winged Hussars?

The siege of Constantinople is in my opinion the greatest battle of all time. The Byzantines had to defend their capital with only about 7000 me against the giant Ottoman army of 350,000 men. It was fifty to one for the Byzantines, but even with this large gap in forses, The Byzantines were able to hold out for months against their extremly large army and killed a large amount of their forces, but none the less, the Byzantines lost and the RomanEmpire Finally ended.

Constantine, are you sure? 10.000? This the first time that i hear so low numbers 

Originally posted by Vikingrage The Battle of Thermopoly. 300 Spartans vs The Persian Army.

how many other forces were there? i have heard that the athens navy came later, but when the 300 spartans were fighting, there were other greeks there too right?

Originally posted by Quinnthology Originally posted by Vikingrage The Battle of Thermopoly. 300�Spartans vs The Persian Army. � how many other forces were there? i have heard that the athens navy came later, but when the 300 spartans were fighting, there were other greeks there too right?

According to Herodotus,Greek troops were 5.200 (Diodorus Siculus adds 1000 Lacedaemonian "psiloi"-auxiliaries.)
300 of them were Spartans.
    

The Greek Army was up against the Persian Army, the Greek army was outnumbers by far. The Greek army went and retreated, except for the Spartans and 200 thesbians. The Spartan General said to his army "It is time to do our duty." rather then retreat. The Spartan General let some spartans who had small children return to their familes, the rest stayed leaving 300 + 200 thesbians against the Persian army. Ive heared all sorts of numbers, my History teacher said it was about a Million Persians against 500 Greeks. But Ive also heared it was 100,000 Persians which lost 20,000 to the Spartans at Thermopolae.

Battle of Britain

Malta

Stalingrad

All of the Ironbottom Sound

Kursk

Vaslui

1.Battle of Chalons

Originally posted by Heraclius  Cannae and Ilipa jointly, two examples of supreme genius on the battlefield, from disadvantage to the total annihilation of the opposing army with startling ease.

Took the words right out of my mouth Heraclius. Definatly my favourite battles. Though Agincourt would have to come pretty close.

My favourite battles in the bulgarian history are:
Battle of Anchialus in 917
Battle of Pliska in 811
Second Siege of Constantinople 717-718

My favourite battle at all is the battle of Kursk.