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Rank   Name Location(s) Combatants Part of Events
  1. 1
    Pearl Harbor
    United States of America, Empire of Japan
    Pacific War, World War II
  2. 2
    Normandy
    Kingdom of Greece, Nazi Germany, Free French, Netherlands, New Zealand
    World War II, Normandy Campaign
    Operation Neptune, Operation Cobra, Gold Beach, Operation Charnwood, Battle of Carentan, Operation Tonga, Mission Albany, Falaise pocket, Operation Atlantic, Omaha Beach Landing, Sword Beach Landings, Battle of Cherbourg, Utah Beach, Omaha Beach, Battle of Pierres Noires, Operation Jupiter, Attack on Panzer Group West's headquarters at La Caine, Operation Spring, Operation Lüttich, Battle for Brest, Operation Epsom, Operation Totalise, Battle of Verrières Ridge, The Battle of Bloody Gulch, Juno Beach, Battle of Villers-Bocage, Operation Perch, Battle of Ushant, Liberation of Paris, Operation Bluecoat, Operation Goodwood, Second Battle of the Odon, Operation Tractable, Operation Windsor, Operation Martlet, Juno Beach Landing, American airborne landings in Normandy, Hill 262 More
  3. 3
    Adams County
    Confederate States of America, United States of America, Union
    American Civil War, Gettysburg Campaign
    Anderson's assault, Big Round Top, Big Round Top cavalry charge, McLaws' Assault, Crawford's charge, Barlow Knoll, Slaughter Pen, Battle of Gettysburg, First Day, Stevens Knoll, Battle of Gettysburg, Second Day, Battle of Gettysburg, Third Day cavalry battles More
  4. 4
    Sharpsburg
    Union, Confederate States of America, United States of America
    American Civil War, Maryland Campaign
  5. 5
    Midway Atoll
    United States of America, Empire of Japan
    Pacific War, World War II
  6. 6

    Tet Offensive

    Vietnam
  7. 7
    Iwo Jima
    Empire of Japan, United States of America
    Pacific War, World War II
  8. 8
    Fort Ticonderoga, Ticonderoga
    Province of Massachusetts Bay, Kingdom of Great Britain, Connecticut Colony, Massachusetts Bay Colony More
    American Revolutionary War, Invasion of Canada
  9. 9
    Fairfax County, Prince William County
    Union, Confederate States of America, United States of America
    American Civil War, Manassas Campaign
  10. 10
    Guadalcanal
    Allies of World War II, Empire of Japan
    Pacific War, World War II
    Battle of Edson's Ridge
  11. 11
    Trenton
    Kingdom of Great Britain, Patriot, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse
    American Revolutionary War, New York and New Jersey campaign
    Washington's crossing of the Delaware
  12. 12
    Saratoga County
    Kingdom of Great Britain, Hanau, United States of America, Brunswick-Lüneburg More
    American Revolutionary War
  13. 13
    San Antonio
    Mexico
    Texas Revolution
  14. 14
    Charlestown
    Province of Massachusetts Bay, Kingdom of Great Britain, Patriot, Connecticut Colony More
    American Revolutionary War
  15. 15
    Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Ardennes
    Nazi Germany, United States of America, United Kingdom
    World War II
    Losheim Gap, Battle of Bastogne, Operation Bodenplatte, Elsenborn Ridge More
  16. 16
    Santiago de Cuba
    United States of America, Cuba
    Spanish-American War
  17. 17
    Little Bighorn River
    Arapaho, United States of America, Lakota, Cheyenne
    Great Sioux War of 1876-77
  18. 18

    Battles of Lexington and Concord

    Middlesex County
    Province of Massachusetts Bay, United Kingdom
    American Revolutionary War
  19. 19
    Fort Sumter
    Union, Confederate States of America
    American Civil War
  20. 20
    Khe Sanh
    South Vietnam, North Vietnam
    Vietnam War, Tết Offensive
  21. 21
    Hardin County
    United States of America, Confederate States of America, Union, Ulysses S. Grant More
    American Civil War
  22. 22
    Netherlands, Germany
    Canada
    World War II, Drive to the Siegfried Line
    Operation Berlin, Battle of Arnhem
  23. 23
    Marne River
    German Empire, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Kingdom of Italy, French Third Republic More
    World War I, Western Front, Spring Offensive
  24. 24
    North Sea, Atlantic Ocean
    World War I
    U-Boat Attack on Orleans, Massachusetts

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