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The Most Important Battles in US History By Clark Benson [94 more lists]
NOTES: I added the Vicksburg Campaign instead of Battle of Vicksburg because I felt the impact was greater for the full campaign. Yet I added Battle of Atlanta as a proxy for Sherman's March because there wasn't an item for Sherman's March. Messy business, this Ranking. . .
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Pearl HarborUnited States of America, Empire of JapanPacific War, World War II - 2
Adams CountyConfederate States of America, United States of America, UnionAmerican Civil War, Gettysburg CampaignAnderson'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 - 3
Battles of Lexington and Concord
Middlesex CountyProvince of Massachusetts Bay, United KingdomAmerican Revolutionary War - 4
Midway AtollUnited States of America, Empire of JapanPacific War, World War II - 5
Vicksburg Campaign
Union, Confederate States of AmericaWestern Theater of the American Civil WarGrant's Operations Against Vicksburg, Yazoo Pass Expedition - 6
NormandyKingdom of Greece, Nazi Germany, Free French, Netherlands, New ZealandWorld War II, Normandy CampaignOperation 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 - 7 Saratoga CountyKingdom of Great Britain, Hanau, United States of America, Brunswick-Lüneburg MoreAmerican Revolutionary War
- 8 CharlestownProvince of Massachusetts Bay, Kingdom of Great Britain, Patriot, Connecticut Colony MoreAmerican Revolutionary War
- 9 Iwo JimaEmpire of Japan, United States of AmericaPacific War, World War II
- 10 DeKalb County, Fulton CountyUnion, Confederate States of AmericaAmerican Civil War, Atlanta Campaign
- 11 Fort SumterUnion, Confederate States of AmericaAmerican Civil War
- 12 Salerno, Calabria, TarantoUnited States of America, Nazi Germany, Kingdom of Italy, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom, British Raj MoreWorld War II, Italian CampaignOperation Slapstick, Operation Baytown, Operation Avalanche
- 13 Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, ArdennesNazi Germany, United States of America, United KingdomWorld War IILosheim Gap, Battle of Bastogne, Operation Bodenplatte, Elsenborn Ridge More
- 14 Netherlands, GermanyCanadaWorld War II, Drive to the Siegfried LineOperation Berlin, Battle of Arnhem
- 15 Fairfax County, Prince William CountyUnion, Confederate States of America, United States of AmericaAmerican Civil War, Manassas Campaign
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Tet Offensive
Vietnam - 17 GuadalcanalAllies of World War II, Empire of JapanPacific War, World War IIBattle of Edson's Ridge
- 18 North Sea, Atlantic OceanWorld War IU-Boat Attack on Orleans, Massachusetts
- 19 PhilippinesMexico, Australia, Empire of Japan, United States of AmericaPacific War, World War II
- 20 Okinawa IslandEmpire of Japan, United States of America, United KingdomPacific War, World War II
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Operation Phantom Fury
FallujahUnited States of America, United Kingdom, Iraqi insurgency, IraqIraq War
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