Antiquity · Second Punic War
Battle of Cannae
2 August 216 BC
The perfect pincer: a smaller army surrounds and wipes out another almost twice its size.
RomeCarthageExplore the battleMiddle Ages · Hundred Years’ War
Battle of Agincourt
25 October 1415
Mud, arrows and stakes: an exhausted English army destroys the flower of the French nobility.
EnglandFranceExplore the battleEarly Modern Period · Thirty Years’ War
Battle of Nördlingen
5 and 6 September 1634
Assault after assault, the Swedes crash against a hill defended by the tercios. By midday, the army that seemed invincible has fallen apart.
SpainImperialistsSwedesExplore the battleModern Period · War of the Seventh Coalition (the Hundred Days)
Battle of Waterloo
18 June 1815
Napoleon stakes his empire on a single afternoon. Wellington holds out, Blücher arrives in time, and an era comes to an end.
FranceAnglo-alliesPrussiaExplore the battle