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    Posted: 17-Apr-2005 at 17:37
What is your opinion about the greatest batlle in the history
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What do you mean by greatest? In term of involved men? Importance? Or if it does matter for us?

In my opinion,  Battles of Tours, Chalons and Bouvines in good position. Mainly because they have a strong meaning for France.

In term of involved men, the Battle of Borodino is a good claimant to the title with something like 250.000 men involved.


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crusades....christianity vs islam....for wat reason?...dont ask me...
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Verdun during WW1, it was the longest battle ever also, it was more a little war inside of bigger war rather than a battle strictly speaking. It has all the stats to be one of the greatest battle if not the greatest.
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I believe that the battle of Kursk , WWII is the greatest battle from all points of view...

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Operation Barbarossa was the biggest military campign ever, and took the most prisoners and most ground in the shortest time ever.
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     Stalingrad, both bloddiest and greatest.

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i think it was the battle of kiev in russia ww2,the biggest encircling move of all time with 1 million russians surrendering.
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Originally posted by Subotei

i think it was the battle of kiev in russia ww2,the biggest encircling move of all time with 1 million russians surrendering.


No, 600,000 Red Army personnel surrendered.

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For greatest amounts of deaths in a single day easily Cannae - which would also be the greatest death toll in two hours of battle.

For greatest battle, as in the one with the gravest consequences, I would say the Battle of Kursk.  It would mark the end of Hitler's evil Empire, without chance of peace - a world with Hitler, even one confined to Germany, would have been a totally different world.

For longest battle, easily Verdun.

The the battle which marked a transition I would say Gustavus Adolphus' battles during the Thirty Years War - marked the transition from tactics resembling phalanxes and conhorts, to more flexible lines, modelling modern tactics.
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crusades....christianity vs islam....for wat reason?...dont ask me...

I disagree. A big factor for the crusades was that the Pope wanted more power.. he wanted to recapture the Holy Land, and since the Muslims were in his way, he declared war on them. Also, he wouldn't of mind if he got his hands on the Byzantine Empire as well, to bring them back to the light... of Catholisism..
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Cannae romans lost around 70,000 people correct me if im wrong

in battle og chang ping in ancient china between qin and zhao .zhao lost 400,000 peoples.
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Cannae romans lost around 70,000 people correct me if im wrong

in battle og chang ping in ancient china between qin and zhao .zhao lost 400,000 peoples.



The casualty count is between 73,000 to 80,000.  The Romans entered the field with slightly over 80,000 men.  They came out with around 600.  So, the casualty count is nearer to 80,000 men.
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I would have to say..the China-Burma Campaign Battles by Japan
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     Definately wrong. The British and Americans had the least amount of equipment and soldiers then any other theater of operations.
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The Japanese lost an immense amount of troops in that campaign and the fact that it ranged from indochina, to southern china to burma to assam regions of northeaster india gives it an epic proportion. Truly, defining Japanese expansionism and portraying British and American defending and maintaing the line in India.
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The distribution of Japanese forces during the war answers this.

At the end of 1943 Japan had 75 army and army air divisions, these were deployed,

Japan - 7

Korea - 2

China - 44

Pacific - 12

SE Asia - 10



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Most cassualties on the less time

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about people killed i think is the dardenel war took place in ww1.nearly 250000 turkish soldiers killed and at least 200000 anzac english greek french soldiers killed.victory of turks suprised all europe  because they used to ottomans as an ill man
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