A series of conflicts between Persian Empire and Greek city-states. Persian Empire with their dominating position in Middle East was looking to expand their influences to the west and the Greeks were in their way. Twice Persians have invaded Greece and later Greeks have counter-attacked th...
Battle of MarathonBattle of SalamisBattle of ThermopylaeBattle of Artemisium
Alexander III of Macedon (also known as Alexander the Great) became the king of Macedonians after his father Philip II was assassinated by his bodyguard. Alexander wanted to takeover two of his father’s projects - unify the Greek city-states and use their military power to attack the Per...
Battle of the GranicusBattle of IssusBattle of Gaugamela
Second Punic War, often called the Hannibalic War, was conflict between Carthage and the Roman Republic. In 218 BC Carthaginian commander Hannibal begun his famous offensive towards the Rome, but realizing the Roman power on the seas he chose not to attack directly on the Apennine Peninsul...
Battle of Cannae
Gallic Wars was series of campaigns of Roman Republic, led by Julius Caesar, against numerous Gallic tribes. The Romans tried to invade the land towards the English Channel and expend their borders, but mainly the target for Julius Caesar was to gain the political power within the empire a...
Battle of Alesia
Internal conflict within Roman Republic between two factions: Julius Caesar and his supporters (called the Populares) and Roman Senate (the Optimates). Senators were trying to overpower the Julius Caesar and stop his aspirations to become the single ruler of the republic. The conflict star...
Period in Chinese history when three provinces have rebelled against the central power of the emperor at the end of Han dynasty. States of Wei, Shu and Wu for 60 years were simultaneously the centres of power in China. Of course this lead to brutal wars between them, that sometimes involve...
Battle of Red Cliffs
In times before Kingdom of Poland the pagan tribes of Polans were under constant attacks from the neighbours (Christian Germany and Czech) or fighting with each other. The Piast dynasty begun to merge the lands in more organized and united nation, but still as pagans they were fighting for...
Battle of Cedynia
The time-frame of consolidation of Sweden is still disputed - it is unclear at what point Swedes were forming the united country and at what point the process has ended. During the Middle Ages the area was consisted of self-governing provinces and there were local conflicts between the nob...
Battle of LenaBattle of Gestilren
In 1095 Pope Urban II started the movement that aimed regain Christians control over Jerusalem and holy places in Middle East. To do that he twisted the rules of Christianity - since that point it wasn’t a sin to kill other people, it was only sin to kill Christians. The movement was at ...
Battle of MontgisardSiege of KerakBattle of HattinSiege of Jerusalem
First Barons’ War was internal English conflict between King John I, known as King Landlack, and the English barons that tried to force him to make political reforms that would reduce the power of the ruler and gave more liberty to free people (especially the nobles themselves). After ra...
Siege of Rochester
After king Edward I of England have claimed feudal suzerainty of Scotland the leaders of Scots (like Andrew Moray and William Wallace) have revolted. The conflict was going on for over 30 years, even though the English side have significant advantage, in both numbers and technology used by...
Battle of Stirling BridgeBattle of FalkirkBattle of Bannockburn
While the County of Flanders was part of French Kingdom since Treaty of Verdun in 843, they kept a lot of independence from French crown. French king Philip IV was determined to strengthen his kingdom and one of the elements was to strip Flanders of that special status, especially since Fl...
Battle of the Golden Spurs
War between allied Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the Teutonic Knights. The Teutonic Knights were brought to this region in order to help local Christian towns attacked by pagan hordes from the east, but the Knights did more than that - they have built castles, stro...
Battle of Grunwald
A series of conflicts between Ottoman Empire and Holy Roman Empire lead at that time by the Habsburg dynasty. The conflicts were going on for over 200 years being inspired by religious and political reasons. Ottoman Empire, after conquering Middle East and lands around Mediterranean Sea, w...
Battle of Vienna
Also known as Dutch War of Independence, it was a revolt of Seventeen Provinces (part of Habsburg Netherlands) against the religious hegemony of Philip II of Spain, the sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands. Due to his military superiority Philip II easily regained most of the territory, b...
Siege of Haarlem
When Russian czar Feodor died the time of "sad times" (smutnoye vremia) started, when several people tried to take over the power over Russia. False Dmitriy I, who gathered some support, asked Poland for military help to establish his position as czar. Small Polish forces made the "interve...
Battle of Moscow
English Civil War was series of conflicts between the English Parliament and King Charles I. The basis for the conflict was the way Charles I saw his role as a king - as divine given power to decide over the land and laws, while Parliament was trying to introduce the constitutional monarch...
Battle of EdgehillBattle of Naseby
Series of conflicts between England and Dutch States that derived from the merchant expansion of both countries - for centuries both sides were competing for fisheries and trade in Europe, the discovery of new parts of the world opened brand new chapter. The colonies in Americas, Far East ...
Battle of ScheveningenFour Days’ BattleHolmes’ BonfireRaid on the Medway
The first actual world war - although only European countries were involved in the conflict their influences on colonial lands made the war affect Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India and the Philippines. Also the war is know under different names in differ...
Saint Francis Raid
In 1770s the relations between Great Britain and its colonies in North America were tensed on many levels. Long period of wars in Europe left British economy in difficult situation. The simple solution was to rise the taxes in the colonies, but the as can be expected Americans were not hap...
Battle of Long IslandBattle of TrentonBattle of CamdenSiege of Yorktown
A series of local wars declared against Napoleon’s French Empire by opposing coalitions (that included United Kingdom, Austria, Russia, Ottoman Empire, Prussia, Spain and others). After French Revolution Napoleon Bonaparte made use of the newly reorganized army to stop Austria from invad...
November Uprising of 1830 (also known as Polish-Russian War or the Cadet Revolution), was an armed rebellion of Polish insurgents against the Russian Empire. At that time Poland as a country didn’t formally exist since its area was annected by the three empires around - Russia, Prussia a...
After Mexican dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna forced new laws that made the government more centralized it provoked secession movements in several Mexican states, including Texas. The Texians (residents of Mexican Texas) began to look forward to independence. The militia force through...
Battle of the AlamoBattle of San Jacinto
Conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empire, the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia. It was one of the wars, where the strategic or tactical wins were less important than the prestige and internal political reasons - Russian Empire ...
Battle of Balaclava
The American Civil War was a conflict between the southern and the northern states of United States of America. The conflict aroused around the legislation that abolished the slavery in the northern states. The southern states that were concentrated on agricultural production rather than i...
First Battle of Bull RunBattle of FredericksburgBattle of ChancellorsvilleBattle of Gettysburg