Battles/Wars

Question 1

Battle Culloden

Answer 1

April 16, 1746

British def. Jacobites

Question 2

Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (AKA Battle of Chalons or Maurica)

Answer 2

June 20, 451 AD

Romans (Aetius) def. Huns (Attila)

Question 3

Fall of Constantinople

Answer 3

May 29, 1453

Ottomans (Mehmed II) def. Byzantines

Question 4

Battle of Marathon

Answer 4

490 BC

Greeks def. Persians

Question 5

Battle of Thermopylae

Answer 5

480 BC

Persians (Xerxes I) def. Greeks (Leonidas)

Question 6

Battle of Salamis

Answer 6

480 BC

Greeks (Themistocles) def. Persians (Xerxes I)

Question 7

Battle of Plataea

Answer 7

479 BC

Greeks def. Persians (Mardonius)

Question 8

Battle of Hastings

Answer 8

October 14, 1066

Normans (William the Conqueror) def. Anglo-Saxons (Harold II Godwinson)

Question 9

Battle of Tours

Answer 9

October 10, 732 AD

Franks (Charles Martel) def. Umayyads

Question 10

Gempei War

Answer 10

1180-1185

Minamoto def. Taira

Question 11

War of the Spanish Succession

Answer 11

1701-1714

Question 12

Siege of Orleans

Answer 12

1428-1429

French def. English

Question 13

Battle of Agincourt

Answer 13

October 25, 1415

English (Henry V) def. France

Question 14

Thirty Years War

Answer 14

1618-1648

Question 15

Battle of Sekigahara

Answer 15

October 21, 1600

Tokugawa Ieyasu def. Ishida Mitsunari

Question 16

Viking Raid on Lindisfarne

Answer 16

June 8, 793 AD

Question 17

Battle of Waterloo

Answer 17

June 18, 1815
7th Coalition (Duke of Wellington) def. French (Napoleon)

Question 18

Siege of Vienna

Answer 18

1529

Austria- Hungarians def. Ottomans (Suleiman II)

Question 19

Battle of Cajamarca

Answer 19

November 16, 1532

Spanish (Pizarro) def. Incans (Atahualpa)

Question 20

Battle of Leipzig

Answer 20

October 16-19, 1813

6th Coalition def. French (Napoleon)