Battles

Pivotal military engagements that have decided the fates of nations.

Ploegsteert in World War One

Oradour-sur-Glane massacre

Normandy

Mons in World War One

Meuse-Argonne in WW1

Italy in World War One

Italy Declares War on France and Britain

Lord David Trimble speaking at the 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates

History of The Northern Ireland Conflict

Gettysburg

George Washington and Valley Forge

Gallipoli campaign

The modern skyline of Dieppe, France, famous for The Dieppe Raid in WWII

Operation Jubilee, The Dieppe Raid

The Charge of the Light Brigade

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Into the jaws of death' | US troops disembark from a LCVP craft onto Omaha beach 6 June 1944

The largest seaborne invasion in history: The story of D-Day

Charles Lightloller

The officer who survived Titanic and saved lives at Dunkirk

Barnard Castle

The siege of Barnard Castle and the River Tees

The Three Greatest Viking battles

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Battle of Hampton Roads

The greatest naval battles of all time

Battle of Falklands 1914, William Lionel Wyllie,

The First Battle of the Falkland Islands: 1914

The Battle of Cannae

The Battle of Cannae: Fact file

A photograph of the buildings of Battle Abbey, where William the Conqueror and Kind Harold battled in 1066

The Battle of Hastings

Sir Keith Park: Battle of Britain's 'Defender of London'

The Western Front

Alberich: The operation that inspired Sam Mendes' 1917

Guernica: Could WW2 Have Been Stopped That Day?