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1. After this engagement, the 'Hochseeflotte' (German High Seas Fleet) was never to leave port again during World War I, even if it could be argued that it won a fine tactical victory against all the odds.
2. After many setbacks, the Royal Canadian Regiment and militia detachments finally managed to quell the Metis Rebellion at which battle?
3. One of the most costly battles ever in human lives, it bled both the French and German armies white through attrition over several months. Beyond strategical and tactical reason, the French resolved to hold it at all cost, and the Germans to take it whatever it took ...
4. Known as the battle of the 3 emperors, Napoleon decisively defeated the Russian and Austrian armies there, forcing peace upon Austria. This battle was to be known as one of Napoleon greatest tactical successes
5. The greatest tank battle of the Second World War, it would be the last time the famed Panzer Divisions would be used in a strategically offensive role. This battle effectively broke the back of the Panzer arm of the Wehrmarcht
6. After failing to break Julius Caesar's siege, Gaulish Chieftains could not relieve Vercingetorix in his fortified town, and he was forced to surrender, bringing most of Gaul into Pax Romana
7. Would have the battles of that war gone that way, it's possible that Canada would still be a French colony. British and American colonial troops under General Amherst really did their utmost trying to take that fort defended by French regular regiments under command of the Marquis de Montcalm.
8. In this battle of the War of Independence, the British sallying out of Boston may have won the day and taken the field, but this was a Pyrrhic victory, with the British suffering three times the number of casualties they inflicted.
9. A very costly victory, the fall of this town after a long siege ensured that the Confederacy was split into two parts unable to communicate with each other and helped ensure its final defeat. The losing general was Pemberton.
10. This was the first successful attack by *carrier-based* aircraft on a fleet moored in port and achieved fantastic results at very little cost.
11. One of Frederick II's greatest victories in the Seven Years' War in 1757. He attacked the Austrians from front and flank in oblique order and in the end routed them completely, taking over 20000 prisoners and 116 guns
12. The first recorded mass utilisation of a chemical weapon, the Germans pioneered its use, but soon all major World War I belligerents would use it. At which battle was asphyxiant gases used for the first time?
13. Another use of toxic gases in battle, this time in a much more recent context, that is, the Iran-Iraq war. And guess what, the villain using chemical weapons was none other than Saddam Hussein ...
14. A remarkable victory of the English longbow over French cavalry in the Hundreds Years' War, In this specific battle the French King, Jean le Bon, was actually captured.
15. In 732, Charles Martel, an ancestor of Charlemagne, stopped an Arab invasion led by Abd al Rahman near that town. This was the highwater mark of the Muslim incursions in France; after this battle they were soon forced back to the other side of the Pyrenees ...
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