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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Historic Battles Remembered

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