Top Ten Battles in Modern History
First Battle: The Battle of Hastings (1066)
The Battle of Hastings, the last successful conquest of England in history, cleared all the obstacles to William's succession to the English throne in that battle alone, so that 1,000 years later William's blood was still flowing through the English royal family, and in the 300 years since then England's The language of the aristocracy was French, which is why so many words evolved from French have been added to modern English, making it a part of the continental language.
The Second Battle: Battle of Cajamarca (1532)
The Battle of Cajamarca was an important battle in Spain's conquest of the Inca Empire, after which the Inca Emperor was captured, and Spain began to colonize the Incas and establish the colony of Peru.
The Spaniards obtained the largest amount of "ransom" in history, and a large amount of gold and silver flowed into the Spanish treasury, and the "Spanish gold coin" became the currency with the highest gold content in contemporary times and the most common currency used in international trade, and Central and South America also became the world of Spanish. Until the death of Atahualpa, the Incas against the Spanish war really started, and at this time the strength of the Spanish colonial army has been greatly strengthened.
The Third Battle: The Battle of Vienna (1683)
The Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa was executed by the Sultan in Belgrade. This battle was a turning point for several kingdoms in Central Europe since their ongoing 300-year feud with the Ottoman Empire. After the battle, the Ottoman Empire, which until then had been able to maintain its momentum of expansion despite occasional defeats on land and sea, gradually began to turn from offense to defense.
In the 16 years following the battle, the Austrian Habsburgs gradually recaptured southern Hungary and Transylvania from the Ottomans, destroying a large number of Ottoman troops.
Fourth battle: Yorktown (1781)
It played a crucial role in the history of the American War of Independence. It can be said that after this battle, it was a foregone conclusion that the United States would gain its independence from British colonial rule.
Shortly after the battle, the British cabinet of North, which advocated the continuation of the war against the United States and the suppression of the American independence movement at any cost, collapsed, and the newly appointed cabinet of Rockingham advocated negotiation with the independents and was ready to recognize the independence of the United States in order to end the war.
The British and American representatives started the secret peace negotiation on 12 April 1882 behind the backs of the French.
Fifth Battle: Battle of Leipzig (1813)
Happened in October 1813 near Leipzig, Germany. Napoleon fought hard with 180,000 men against an allied army of 300,000 men from Russia, Prussia, Austria and other countries, and was finally defeated. Napoleon returned to the west bank of the Rhine in defeat and finally returned to Paris. In the following year, the Senate declared Napoleon's emperorship abolished. During the entire battle, the anti-French coalition suffered about 54,000 dead and wounded, while the French army suffered about 37,000 dead and wounded.
The Battle of Leipzig was the fiercest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, and Napoleon's defeat meant that Napoleon's last hope of ruling Germany had been dashed, and the anti-French allied forces entered Paris on March 31, 1814. He retained the title of "Emperor" and his territory was limited to Elba.
The Sixth Battle: Waterloo (1815)
There have been many exciting accounts of the Battle of Waterloo by historians and literary scholars, but they have rarely mentioned its impact on the world's financial industry --- although such an impact did exist, and it is clear that we need to look at history from multiple perspectives. If financial history is left out, then our reading of Waterloo is incomplete.
In short, Waterloo was fought for only one day, but that one day was enough to change the fate of many. After the Battle of Waterloo, the anti-French allied forces soon captured Paris, and the infamous French Emperor Napoleon had to announce his abdication once again, after which he was exiled to the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. Wellington, the British commander who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, also became famous. However, many historians point out that the biggest winner of Waterloo was not General Wellington, but the Rothschild family. Nathan. Rothschild fought a good war by utilizing the powerful information network he laid down. In a sense, Napoleon's Waterloo became the Rothschilds' triumphal arch!
Seventh Battle: American Civil War (1861)
Also known as the Civil War, it was the only civil war in the history of the United States, in which the two parties involved were the United States of America in the north and the Confederate States of America in the south. The war began with the Confederacy's shelling of Fort Sumter and ended with a victory for the Northern Confederacy. The war began with the North fighting to preserve the unity of the country, but later evolved into a revolutionary war to eliminate slavery.
The Civil War was the first large-scale war after the Industrial Revolution, during which the standards of modern warfare, such as tactics, strategic thinking, and field medical care, were established. The vast majority of the 3.5 million men who fought were volunteers. The war left 750,000 soldiers dead and 400,000 maimed, with associations estimating that the number of casualties may have been higher, and an unknown number of civilians were affected.
The Civil War impressed observers of Europa at the time, with Karl Marx stating that the Civil War represented a great war like no other in military history. The Civil War was of supremely great, world-historical, progressive and revolutionary significance.
The Eighth Battle: the Second World War (1939)
The Second World War was a just war against fascism, provoked by the German Third Reich, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Japanese fascists, which caused great disasters to the whole of mankind. As having an unshirkable responsibility for the war, whether Germany and Japan can reflect y on the war is an important condition for it to be forgiven by the people of the world who have suffered y from the war, and thus to become a political power. While European countries are determined to turn the page on the dark history of 60 years ago, the question of history is still y troubling Asian countries.
After the Second World War, Germany and Japan adopted very different attitudes towards history: Germany set up a systematic mechanism for reflecting on the war and made a thorough introspection of the war; after the Second World War, Japan denied all kinds of denials, and since the end of the war has been doing its best to deny the aggressive nature of its foreign wars and to distort the historical facts of the tragic disasters inflicted on the invaded countries and their people.
The Ninth Battle: the Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
It was the main turning point of the Great Patriotic War of the former Soviet Union in the Second World War, the turning point of the Second World War, and one of the bloodiest and largest battles in human history.
The Axis side lost a quarter of its forces on the Eastern Front in the battle and was never the same until its eventual collapse. For the Soviet side, victory in the battle marked the beginning of the recovery of fallen territories and ultimately ushered in the final victory in May 1945 over Nazi Germany.
The Tenth Campaign: Huaihai Civil War (1948)
From November 6, 1948 to January 10, 1949, it lasted sixty-six days. The Kuomintang army has invested seven corps, two pacification areas, thirty-four armies, eighty-six divisions, **** about 800,000 people, deployed aircraft up to 2,957 sorties. The PLA forces involved in the war, the East China Field Army sixteen columns, the Central Plains Field Army seven columns, together with the East China Military Region, the Central Plains Military Region local troops **** about 600,000 people.
The battle **** eliminated the Kuomintang Army Xuzhou suppression of the General Forward Command and its command of the five corps department, twenty-two military departments, fifty-six divisions, a pacification area.
The Battle of Huaihai was the largest of the three battles in the strategic decisive battle of the Liberation War.