Historic Battles Remembered

• Question 1 out of 10

  This battle halted Darius I’s first Persian invasion on a plain in northeast Attica and later lent its name to a 26.2-mile footrace.

  Thermopylae

  Marathon

  Plataea

  Salamis

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• Question 2 out of 10

  On June 18, 1815, Napoleon’s Hundred Days ended south of Brussels and Allied armies under Wellington and Prussian troops under Blücher sealed his final defeat.

  Leipzig

  Austerlitz

  Waterloo

  Borodino

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• Question 3 out of 10

  Fought July 1–3, 1863 in Pennsylvania, this three-day clash ended Lee’s northern advance and is regarded as the Civil War’s pivotal turning point.

  Antietam

  Chancellorsville

  Gettysburg

  Fredericksburg

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• Question 4 out of 10

  In the fall of 1777, these twin engagements at Freeman’s Farm and Bemis Heights ended Burgoyne’s campaign and convinced France to ally with the Americans.

  Brandywine

  Saratoga

  Yorktown

  Monmouth

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• Question 5 out of 10

  Fought June 3–6, 1942 almost entirely by carrier-based aircraft, U.S. foreknowledge from broken Japanese codes led to the sinking of four enemy carriers.

  Coral Sea

  Midway

  Guadalcanal

  Leyte Gulf

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• Question 6 out of 10

  From July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943, Soviet forces held and then encircled the German Sixth Army in a brutal urban siege on the Volga, turning the tide on the Eastern Front.

  Kursk

  Moscow

  Stalingrad

  Leningrad

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• Question 7 out of 10

  This opening clash in April 1775 saw Paul Revere’s midnight ride and marked the outbreak of armed conflict in the American Revolution.

  Lexington and Concord

  Bunker Hill

  Saratoga

  Yorktown

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• Question 8 out of 10

  This October 1781 siege south of Williamsburg forced Cornwallis’s surrender and ended major Revolutionary War hostilities.

  Savannah

  Camden

  Charleston

  Yorktown

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• Question 9 out of 10

  On July 21, 1861, inexperienced Union troops were routed near a Virginia stream, giving Stonewall Jackson his famous nickname.

  Second Battle of Bull Run

  First Battle of Bull Run

  Seven Pines

  Antietam

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• Question 10 out of 10

  This November 1965 engagement—the first major clash between U.S. airmobile forces and North Vietnamese infantry in the Central Highlands—proved the potential and limits of helicopter-borne assaults.

  Battle of Khe Sanh

  Battle of Ia Drang

  Battle of Hue

  Tet Offensive

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