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Battle for Route Coloniale 4, September-October 1950. The limestone cliffs at Coc Xa, where Group Bayard was surrounded and destroyed.
Exploring the limestone cliffs at Coc Xa, Battle for Route Coloniale 4, Indochina, September-October 1950. This is where Group Bayard was surrounded and destroyed.
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French Foreign Legion Campaigns and Battles

Easy Company, 506th PIR ‘Band of Brothers’ Battles

HISTORIC SITES

Armouries

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL WARS

1200 BC to 146 BC Ancient Greek Wars

509 BC to AD 476 Roman Wars

9th-11th Centuries Viking Invasions of England

  • 878 AD Battle of Edington
  • 991 AD Battle of Maldon

1066 Norman Conquest of England

  • 1066 Battle of Hastings, England

1095-1291 The Crusades

1215-17 First Barons’ War

  • 1215 Siege of Rochester Castle
  • 1216 Siege of Dover Castle

1296-1328 First War of Scottish Independence

  • 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge, Scotland
  • 1314 Battle of Bannockburn, Scotland

1337-1453 Hundred Years War

1455-1485 War of the Roses

  • 1471 Battle of Barnet
  • 1471 Battle of Tewkesbury
  • 1485 Battle of Bosworth

16TH-CENTURY CONFLICTS

1508-1516 War of the League of Cambrai

1493-1823 Spanish conquest of the New World

17TH-CENTURY CONFLICTS

1618-1648 Thirty Years War

1642-1651 English Civil War

  • 1642 Battle of Edgehill
  • 1645 Battle of Naseby
  • 1651 Battle of Worcester

1665-1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War

1672-1678 Franco-Dutch War

  • 1673 Siege of Naarden, Netherlands

1685 Monmouth Rebellion

  • 1685 Battle of Sedgemoor

18TH-CENTURY CONFLICTS

1701-1714 War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne’s War)

1740-1748 War of the Austrian Succession (War of Jenkins Ear)

1745-1746 Jacobite Rising

1756-1763 Seven Years War (French and Indian War 1754-1763)

Europe

  • 1756 Battle of Lobositz, Czech Republic
  • 1757 Battle of Prague, Czech Republic
  • 1757 Battle of Kolin, Czech Republic
  • 1757 Battle of Leuthen, Poland
  • 1759 Battle of Minden, Germany

The Americas

1775-1783 American Revolutionary War

19TH-CENTURY CONFLICTS

1792-1815 French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

  • 1805 Battle of Austerlitz, Czech Republic
  • 1808 Siege of Suomenlinna/Sveaborg, Finland
  • 1809 Fort St Louis, Martinique
  • 1815 Battle of Ligny, Belgium
  • 1815 Battle of Quatre Bras, Belgium
  • 1815 Battle of Waterloo, Belgium
    – 📝🔒 Field Note: Waterloo, Belgium, 18 June 1815

1812-1815 War of 1812

  • 1812 Battle of Queenston Heights, Canada
  • 1813 Siege of Fort Niagara, New York
  • 1813 Battle of Stoney Creek
  • 1813 Battle of Chateaugeauy, Canada
  • 1814 Battle of Chippawa, Canada
  • 1814 Battle of Fort McHenry, Maryland
  • 1814 Battle of Lundy’s Lane, Canada
  • 1815 Battle of New Orleans, Louisiana

1808-1833 Spanish American wars of independence

  • 1821 Siege of Real Felipe Fortress, Peru

1835-1836 Texas Revolution

  • 1836 Battle of The Alamo, Texas
  • 1836 Battle of San Jacinto, Texas

1835-1846 The Great Trek

  • 1839 Battle of Blood River, South Africa

1839-1842 1st Anglo-Afghan War

  • 1842 Retreat from Kabul

1856-1861 Kansas-Missouri Border War (Bleeding Kansas)

1861-1865 American Civil War

  • 1861 Siege of Fort Sumter, South Carolina
  • 1861 Battle of 1st Manassas, Virginia
  • 1861 Battle of Wilson’s Creek Missouri
  • 1862 Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee
  • 1862 Battle of Fort Henry and Donelson, Tennessee
  • 1862 Battle of Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  • 1862 Battle of Drewry’s Bluff
  • 1862 Seven Days Battle, Virginia
  • 1862 Battle of Chickahominy Bluff
  • 1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek
  • 1862 Battle of Gaines Mill
  • 1862 Battle of Savages Station
  • 1862 Battle of White Oak Swamp
  • 1862 Battle of Malvern Hill
  • 1862 Battle of Yorktown , Virginia
  • 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas
  • 1862 Battle of Perryville, Kentucky
  • 1862 Battle of 2nd Manassas , Virginia
  • 1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
  • 1862 Battle of Antietam, Maryland
  • 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg , Virginia
    – 📝🔒 Field Note: Fredericksburg, 13 December 1862 — Confederate defences at Marye’s Heights
  • 1863 Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence Kansas
  • 1863 Siege of Fort Wagner, South Carolina
  • 1863 Battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
    – 🎧Lee’s Greatest Victory: The Battle of Chancellorsville, 1863
  • 1863 Battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
  • 1863 Battle of Hoover’s Gap, Tennessee
  • 1863 Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • 1863 Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
  • 1863 Battle of Chattanooga, Tennessee/Georgia
  • 1863 Battle of Lookout Mountain, Georgia
  • 1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Georgia
  • 1864 Battle of the Crater, Virginia
  • 1864 Siege of Petersburg, Virginia
  • 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia
  • 1864 Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia
  • 1864 Battle of Olustee, Florida
  • 1864 Battle of Atlanta, Georgia
  • 1864 Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
  • 🔒1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
    – 🎧Battle of Franklin, Tennessee, 1864: Hood’s Suicidal Assault
  • 1864 Battle of Fort Harrison
  • 1864 Battle of Nashville, Tennessee
  • 1864 Battle of the Wilderness, Virginia
  • 1864 Andersonville Prison Camp, Georgia
  • 1865 Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina
  • 1865 Siege of Fort Fisher, North Carolina
  • 1865 Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia

1866 Austro-Prussian War

1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War

1609-1890 American Indian Wars

1879 Anglo-Zulu War

1878-1880 2nd Anglo-Afghan War

1883-1886 Tonkin Campaign and Sino-French War

The Wild West

1899-1902 2nd Anglo-Boer War

1744-1932 The Saudi States & Arabian Peninsula Conflicts

20TH-CENTURY WORLD WARS

1914-1918 World War One

1939-1940 The Winter War

1939-1945 World War Two

New Guinea Campaign 1942-44

Guadalcanal Campaign 1942-43

D-Day and the Normandy Campaign 1944

Operation MARKET GARDEN 1944

Battle of the Bulge 1944-45

  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Belgium/Luxembourg
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Bastogne
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Malmedy
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Stand at Elsenborn Ridge
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Stoumont
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – St Vith
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Halting KG Peiper at Stavelot
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Cheneux
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – La Glieze
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Chaumont
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Schoenburg
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Houffalize
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – 506 PIR Attack on Foy
  • 1944 Battle of the Bulge – Easy Company at Boi Jacques

Final operations

  • 1945 The Eagles Nest, Germany

POST-1945 CONFLICTS

1950-1953 Korean War

1946-1954 French Indochina War

1955-1975 Vietnam War

1983-2009 Sri Lanka Civil War

Martian machine FICTIONAL CONFLICTS IN REAL LOCATIONS

c. 1907 H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds

  • 1907 Horsell Common & the Destruction of Woking
  • 1907 Battle of Shepperton and Weybridge
  • 1907 Essex Coast, HMS Thunder Child versus the Martian Fighting Machines