Battle | Year | Conflict | Casualties |
Battle of Thymbra | ! 547 BC | Lydian–Persian War | 100,000 |
Battle of Marathon | ! 490 BC | Greco-Persian Wars | 5,000–8,000 |
Battle of Thermopylae | ! 480 BC | Greco-Persian Wars | 22,300–22,500 |
Battle of Plataea | ! 479 BC | Greco-Persian War | 51,500–257,000 |
Battle of Chaeronea | ! 338 BC | Rise of Macedon | 1,000-4,000 |
Battle of the Granicus | ! 334 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | Around 7,000 |
Battle of Issus | ! 333 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 20,000-40,000 |
Battle of Gaugamela | ! 331 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 53,500 |
Battle of the Hydaspes | ! 326 BC | Wars of Alexander the Great | 23,310 |
Battle of Sentinum | ! 295 BC | Third Samnite War | 69,420 |
Battle of Heraclea | ! 280 BC | Pyrrhic War | 11,000–26,000 |
Battle of Kalinga | ! 262 BC | Kalinga-Maurya Empire | 150,000–200,000 |
Battle of Changping | ! 260 BC | Qin's wars of unification | 700,000 |
Battle of the Trebia | ! 218 BC | Second Punic War | 35,000 |
Battle of Lake Trasimene | ! 217 BC | Second Punic War | 30,000 |
Battle of Cannae | ! 216 BC | Second Punic War | 56,000–92,000 or more |
Battle of the Metaurus | ! 207 BC | Second Punic War | 12,000 |
Battle of Zama | ! 202 BC | Second Punic War | 21,500 |
Battle of Magnesia | ! 190 BC | Roman–Seleucid War | 53,350 |
Battle of Pydna | ! 168 BC | Third Macedonian War | 21,000 |
Battle of Arausio | ! 105 BC | Germanic Wars | 84,000 |
Battle of Carrhae | ! 53 BC | Roman–Persian Wars | 24,000 |
Siege of Alesia | ! 52 BC | Gallic Wars | 100,000–150,000 |
Battle of Pharsalus | ! 48 BC | Caesar's Civil War | 17,000 |
Battle of Philippi | ! 42 BC | Liberators' civil war | 24,000 |
Battle of Actium | ! 31 BC | Final War of the Roman Republic | 7,500 or more |
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest | ! #0009 AD | Roman–Germanic wars | 20,000 |
Battle of Watling Street | ! #0061 AD | Iceni Revolt | 80,400 |
Battle of Mons Graupius | ! #0084 AD | Roman conquest of Britain | 10,360 |
Battle of Red Cliffs | #0208 | Three Kingdoms | 100,000 |
Battle of Edessa | #0260 | Roman–Persian Wars | 50,000 or more |
Battle of Adrianople | #0378 | Gothic War | 40,000 or more |
Battle of Fei River | #0383 | Wu Hu Era | 150,000 or more |
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains | #0451 | Hunnic Invasion | 165,000 |
Battle of Salsu | #0612 | Goguryeo–Sui War | 302,300 |
Battle of al-Qadisiyyah | #0636 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 31,000 |
Battle of Muzayyah | #0633 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 10,000 |
Battle of Ullais | #0633 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 35,000 |
Battle of River | #0633 | Muslim conquest of Persia | More than 15,000 |
Battle of Walaja | #0636 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 22,000 |
Battle of Nahavand | #0642 | Muslim conquest of Persia | 28,500 |
Battle of Yarmouk | #0636 | Muslim conquest of the Levant | 70,000 |
Battle of Gwiju | #1019 | Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War | 90,000+. |
Battle of Nhu Nguyet river | #01077 | Lý–Song War | 150,000 |
Battle of Didgori | #1121 | Georgian–Seljuk wars | 210,000 |
Battle of Hattin | #1187 | Ayyubid–Crusader War | 17,000–20,000 |
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa | #1212 | Reconquista | 60,000 |
Battle of Yehuling | #1212 | Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty | Around 50,000 |
Battle of the Kalka River | #1223 | Mongol invasion of Rus' | Around 50,000 |
Battle of Legnica | #1241 | Mongol invasion of Poland | 30,000 |
Battle of Mohi | #1241 | Mongol invasion of Europe | 15,000 |
Third battle of Bach Dang river | #1288 | Mongol invasion of Vietnam | 85,000 |
Battle of Jaran Manjur | #1298 | Mongol invasions of India | Over 20,000 |
Battle of Yamen | #1279 | Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty | 100,000 |
Battle of Bannockburn | #1314 | First War of Scottish Independence | 19,000 |
Battle of Kulikovo | #1380 | List of Mongol and Tatar raids against Rus' | 136,000 |
Battle of the Terek River | #1395 | Tokhtamysh–Timur war | 100,000 |
Conquest of Delhi | #1398 | Timur's Indian campaign | 100,000 |
Battle of Ankara | #1402 | Ottoman–Timur War | 15,000 or more |
Battle of Grunwald | #1410 | Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War | 13,000 |
Battle of Agincourt | #1415 | Hundred Years' War | 14,000 |
Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động | #1426 | Lam Sơn uprising | 30,000 |
Tumu Crisis | #1449 | Ming–Mongol War | 200,000 or more |
Battle of Towton | #1461 | Wars of the Roses | 28,000 |
Night Attack at Târgoviște | #1462 | Wallachian-Ottoman Wars | 20,000 |
Battle of Vaslui | #1475 | Moldavian-Ottoman Wars | 40,000 or more |
Battle of Valea Albă | #1476 | Moldavian–Ottoman Wars | 30,000 or more |
Battle of Kabul | #1504 | Campaigns of Babur | 20,000 or more |
Battle of Ravenna | #1512 | War of the League of Cambrai | 13,500 |
Battle of Marignano | #1515 | War of the League of Cambrai | 11,000–15,000 |
Battle of Ridaniya | #1517 | Ottoman wars in the Near East | 13,000 |
First Battle of Panipat | #1526 | Mughal Conquest | 20,000–50,000 |
Battle of Mohács | #1526 | Ottoman–Hungarian wars | Probably 30,000 |
Battle of Ghaghra | #1529 | Mughal Conquest | 13,000 |
Battle of Lepanto | #1571 | Ottoman–Venetian wars | 22,566–27,566 |
Battle of Molodi | #1572 | Russo-Crimean Wars | 29,000–33,000 or 100 000 |
Battle of Chungju | #1592 | Japanese invasions of Korea | 8,000–16,000 100,000 |
Battle of Călugăreni | #1595 | Long War | 11,000–16,000 |
Battle of Sacheon | #1598 | Japanese invasions of Korea | 30,000 |
Battle of Sekigahara | #1600 | Sengoku period | 60,000 or less |
First Battle of Breitenfeld | #1631 | Thirty Years' War | 20,000 or more |
Battle of Lützen | #1632 | Thirty Years' War | 11,000–14,000 |
Battle of Nördlingen | #1634 | Thirty Years' War | 17,000 |
Battle of the Downs | #1639 | Eighty Years' War | 15,000 or more |
Second Battle of Breitenfeld | #1642 | Thirty Years' War | 14,000 |
Battle of Jankau | #1645 | Thirty Years' War | 15,500 |
Battle of Berestechko | #1651 | Khmelnytsky Uprising | 30,000–40,000 |
Battle of Samugarh | #1658 | Mughal Conquest | 32,000 |
Battle of Khajwa | #1659 | Mughal Conquest | 20,000 |
Battle of Lund | #1676 | Scanian War | 14,000 |
Battle of Vienna | #1683 | Ottoman–Habsburg wars | 19,500 |
Battle of Bijapur | #1686 | Mughal Conquest | 17,000 |
Battle of Landen | #1693 | War of the Grand Alliance | 28,000 |
Battle of Zenta | #1697 | Ottoman–Habsburg wars | 30,300 |
Battle of Jinji | #1698 | Mughal Conquest | 16,000 |
Battle of Blenheim | #1704 | War of the Spanish Succession | 32,000 |
Battle of Fraustadt | #1706 | Great Northern War | 16,500 |
Battle of Ramillies | #1706 | War of the Spanish Succession | 15,600 |
Battle of Poltava | #1709 | Great Northern War | 14,300 |
Battle of Malplaquet | #1709 | War of the Spanish Succession | 95,000 |
Battle of Fontenoy | #1745 | War of the Austrian Succession | 14,000 |
Battle of Leuthen | #1757 | Seven Years' War | 11,800 |
Battle of Zorndorf | #1758 | Seven Years' War | 30,000 |
Battle of Kunersdorf | #1759 | Seven Years' War | 35,000 |
Third Battle of Panipat | #1761 | Marathas and Afghans | 150,000-200,000 |
Battle of Kagul | #1770 | Russo-Turkish War | 21,000 |
Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút | #1785 | Siamese-Vietnamese Wars | 50,000 |
Battle of Rymnik | #1789 | Russo-Turkish War | 21,000 |
Battle of Arcole | #1796 | War of the First Coalition | 11,000 |
Battle of Trebbia | #1799 | War of the Second Coalition | 17,000–23,000 |
Battle of Novi | #1799 | War of the Second Coalition | 19,500 |
Battle of Marengo | #1800 | War of the Second Coalition | 16,400 |
Ulm Campaign | #1805 | War of the Third Coalition | 62,000 |
Battle of Austerlitz | #1805 | War of the Third Coalition | 45,300 |
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt | #1806 | War of the Fourth Coalition | 52,000 including prisoners later killed |
Battle of Eylau | #1807 | War of the Fourth Coalition | 40,000 |
Battle of Wagram | #1809 | War of the Fifth Coalition | 77,000–79,000 |
Battle of Talavera | #1809 | Peninsular War | 13,900 |
Battle of the Danube | #1811 | Russo-Turkish War | 20,000 |
Battle of Salamanca | #1812 | Peninsular War | 18,800 |
Battle of Borodino | #1812 | French invasion of Russia | 74,000 |
Battle of Berezina | #1812 | French invasion of Russia | 60,000 |
Battle of Vitoria | #1813 | Peninsular War | 13,000 |
Battle of Leipzig | #1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 124,000 |
Battle of Dresden | #1813 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 48,000 |
Battle of Ligny | #1815 | Hundred Days | 28,000 |
Battle of Waterloo | #1815 | Hundred Days | 47,000 or more |
Battle of Inkerman | #1854 | Crimean War | 15,857 |
Battle of Shiloh | #1862 | American Civil War | 24,000 |
Battle of Antietam | #1862 | American Civil War | 23,000–26,193 |
Battle of Fredericksburg | #1862 | American Civil War | 17,300–17,962 |
Battle of Gettysburg | #1863 | American Civil War | 51,000 |
Battle of Chickamauga | #1863 | American Civil War | 34,000 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House | #1864 | American Civil War | 30,000 |
Battle of Stones River | #1862–63 | American Civil War | 24,000 |
Battle of Königgrätz | #1866 | Austro-Prussian War | 47,500 |
Battle of Tuyutí | #1866 | Paraguayan War | 7,000–16,000 |
Battle of Mars-la-Tour/Battle of Gravelotte | #1870 | Franco-Prussian War | 34,000 |
Battle of Sedan | #1870 | Franco-Prussian War | 26,000 |
Battle of Adwa | #1896 | First Italo-Ethiopian War | 17,300 |
Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican | #1896 | Philippine Revolutionary War | 2,000–15,000 |
Battle of Omdurman | #1898 | Mahdist War | 20,430 |
Battle of Sakarya | #1921 | Greco–Turkish War of 1919–22 | 61,000 |
Operation | Year | Conflict | Casualties |
Ulm Campaign | #1805 | War of the Third Coalition | 62,000 |
French invasion of Russia | #1812 | Napoleonic Wars | 920,000-1,040,000 |
Six Days' Campaign | #1814 | War of the Sixth Coalition | 80,000 |
Peninsula Campaign | #1862 | American Civil War | 36,463 |
Battle of Chancellorsville | #1863 | American Civil War | 30,000–30,500 |
Overland Campaign | #1864 | American Civil War | 87,000–92,000 |
Appomattox Campaign | #1865 | American Civil War | 16,500 |
Battle of Mukden | #1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 160,000 |
Battle of Lule Burgas | #1912 | First Balkan War | 42,162+ |
First Battle of Çatalca | #1912 | First Balkan War | 22,000 |
Battle of Bregalnica | #1913 | Second Balkan War | 36,620 |
Serbian Campaign | #1914 | World War I | 437,361, including prisoners |
Battle of the Frontiers | #1914 | World War I | 664,191 |
Battle of Tannenberg | #1914 | World War I | 145,000–160,000 |
Battle of Galicia | #1914 | World War I | 645,000–700,000 |
First Battle of the Marne | #1914 | World War I | 513,000 |
First Battle of Ypres | #1914 | World War I | 210,000 |
Battle of Łódź | #1914 | World War I | 130,000 |
First Battle of Champagne | #1914-15 | World War I | 139,532 |
Battle of Sarikamish | #1914-15 | World War I | 60,000—85,000 |
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes | #1915 | World War I | 216,200 |
Second Battle of Ypres | #1915 | World War I | 104,208–107,000 |
Gallipoli Campaign | #1915 | World War I | 503,000–552,000 |
Second Battle of Artois | #1915 | World War I | 186,000 |
Second Battle of Champagne–Third Battle of Artois | #1915 | World War I | 75,000–440,000 |
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive | #1915 | World War I | 300,000–1,087,000 |
Great Retreat | #1915 | World War I | 1,943,800+ |
Serbian Campaign | #1915 | World War I | 331,000, including prisoners |
Erzurum Offensive | #1916 | World War I | 80,000—85,000 |
Battle of Verdun | #1916 | World War I | 755,000–976,000 |
Battle of Asiago | #1916 | World War I | 250,000 |
Brusilov Offensive | #1916 | World War I | 1,600,000 |
Battle of the Somme | #1916 | World War I | 1,120,000–1,215,000 |
Monastir Offensive | #1916 | World War I | 111,000 |
Romanian Campaign | #1916–17 | World War I | 240,000 - 933,000, including prisoners |
Nivelle Offensive | #1917 | World War I | 354,000 |
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 |
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo | #1917 | World War I | 200,000 |
Third Battle of Ypres | #1917 | World War I | Over 585,000 |
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo | #1917 | World War I | 273,000 |
Battle of Caporetto | #1917 | World War I | 60,000 |
Battle of Cambrai | #1917 | World War I | 95,000 |
Spring Offensive | #1918 | World War I | 1,539,000 |
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 |
Hundred Days Offensive | #1918 | World War I | 2,240,000 |
Meuse–Argonne offensive | #1918 | World War I | 318,000 |
Battle of Warsaw | #1920 | Polish–Soviet War | About 130,000, not including prisoners |
Invasion of Manchuria | #1931 | Second Sino-Japanese War | 35,000 |
Battle of Guadalajara | #1937 | Spanish Civil War | 12,000 |
Battle of Teruel | #1937–38 | Spanish Civil War | 110,000, including prisoners |
Battle of the Ebro | #1938 | Spanish Civil War | 106,500 |
Battle of Xuzhou | #1938 | World War II | 130,000 |
1938 Yellow River Flood | #1938 | World War II | 800,000 |
Battles of Khalkhin Gol | #1939 | Soviet–Japanese border conflicts | 42,000—75,000 |
Invasion of Poland | #1939 | World War II | 310,000 |
Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang | #1939 | World War II | 49,000 |
Winter Offensive | #1939–40 | World War II | 100,000+ |
Operation Weserübung | #1940 | World War II | 12,800 |
Battle of France | #1940 | World War II | 469,000 |
Hundred Regiments Offensive | #1940 | Second Sino-Japanese War | 62,900 |
Battle of Keren | #1941 | World War II | 34,000 including over 12,600 killed |
Battle of Greece | #1941 | World War II | 46,295 dead |
Battle of Shanggao | #1941 | World War II | 42,000 |
Battle of Crete | #1941 | World War II | 16,007 dead |
Operation Barbarossa | #1941 | World War II | 5,000,000–6,000,000 |
Battle of Białystok–Minsk | #1941 | World War II | 429,886 including prisoners |
Battle of Smolensk | #1941 | World War II | 595,606 killed, captured, and missing; 300,000 Soviet prisoners |
Battle of Moscow | #1941 | World War II | 1,000,000 |
Battle of Hong Kong | #1941 | World War II | 18,000 including prisoners |
Battle of Malaya/Battle of Singapore | #1941–42 | World War II | 143,800, and 60,000 prisoners |
Battle of Bataan/Battle of Corregidor | #1942 | World War II | 30,000 killed |
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula | #1942 | World War II | Over 176,000 |
Second Battle of Kharkov | #1942 | World War II | 300,000 |
Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign | #1942 | World War II | 356,000 |
Battle of Gazala | #1942 | World War II | 148,000 |
Case Blue | #1942 | World War II | 1,400,000 |
Battle of Voronezh | #1942 | World War II | 662,847 including prisoners |
Guadalcanal Campaign | #1942–43 | World War II | 29,100–31,100 |
Battles of Rzhev | #1942-1943 | World War II | 2,900,000–3,080,000 |
Second Battle of El Alamein | #1942 | World War II | 39,400–82,500 |
Operation Iskra | #1943 | World War II | 129,332 |
Battle of Kursk | #1943 | World War II | 257,125–388,000 |
Allied invasion of Sicily | #1943 | World War II | At least 36,000 killed, and over 100,000 Italian POWs |
Battle of Smolensk | #1943 | World War II | 522,059 |
Dnieper Campaign | #1943 | World War II | 1,582,000 – 2,480,000 |
Allied invasion of Italy | #1943 | World War II | 17,092 killed |
Bougainville Campaign | #1943–45 | World War II | 21,929 killed, and 23,571 Japanese prisoners |
Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive | #1943–44 | 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 |
Battle of Narva | #1944 | World War II | 550,000 all causes |
Operation Shingle | #1944 | World War II | 52,200 killed |
First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive | #1944 | World War II | 195,000 |
Ichi-Go | #1944 | World War II | 1,300,000+ |
Battle of Normandy | #1944 | World War II | 650,600–795,400 |
Battle of Saipan | #1944 | World War II | 43,500 killed, including mass suicides |
Operation Bagration | #1944 | World War II | 1,430,000 |
Falaise Pocket | #1944 | World War II | 140,000 |
Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive | #1944 | World War II | 485,424, including prisoners |
Operation Market Garden | #1944 | World War II | 27,200 |
Battle of Hürtgen Forest | #1944–45 | World War II | 63,000 |
Battle of Leyte Gulf | #1944 | World War II | 12,000 killed |
Battle of the Bulge | #1944–45 | World War II | 161,370–218,900 |
Vistula–Oder Offensive | #1945 | World War II | 636,191 including prisoners |
Battle of Luzon | #1945 | World War II | 332,330–345,330, including sick |
Battle of the Rhineland | #1945 | World War II | 82,000 and 250,000 prisoners |
Battle of Iwo Jima | #1945 | World War II | 44,821–48,700 |
East Prussian Offensive | #1945 | World War II | 806,778 including prisoners |
Battle of Okinawa | #1945 | World War II | 113,920–158,400 |
Burma campaigns | #1942–45 | World War II | 700,000 |
Battle of West Hunan | #1945 | World War II | 50,000 |
Second Guangxi campaign | #1945 | World War II | 1,000,000 |
Arab–Israeli War | #1948–49 | Arab–Israeli conflict | 12,000–19,000 |
Liaoshen campaign | #1948 | Chinese Civil War | 542,000, including captured |
Huaihai campaign | #1948 | Chinese Civil War | 689,000, including captured |
Pingjin campaign | #1948–49 | Chinese Civil War | 560,000, including captured |
Shanghai Campaign | #1949 | Chinese Civil War | 213,073 |
Battle of Inchon | #1950 | Korean War | 17,429 |
Invasion of North Korea | #1950 | Korean War | 51,700 |
Battle of Chosin Reservoir | #1950 | Korean War | 66,000 |
Battle of Dien Bien Phu | #1954 | First Indochina War | 31,500, not including prisoners |
Tet Offensive | #1968 | Vietnam War | 65,000 |
Operation OAU | #1968 | Nigerian Civil War | 30,000 |
Easter Offensive | #1972 | Vietnam War | 150,000 |
Operation Dawn 5 | #1984 | Iran-Iraq War | 75,000 |
Battle of the Marshes | #1984 | Iran-Iraq War | 55,000 |