Saying Japan's end was attacking America is like saying Germany's end was attacking Poland.

How important can New Orleans be? It came after the War was over!

It showed what a few pirates, southern dudes and a very poorly funded army could do to top notch, experienced British troops. Aside from that nothing.

It's been done before; see Southampton Sack (by...Monaco, of all countries).

Battle of Antietam. Made England and France decide not to aid the Confederacy, and convincing Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

[qoute]Battle of Pydna
Roman army in manipular system put the phalanx formation out of date decisively.[/qoute]

Nope, this did not bring phalanx formation out of date ( hoplite phalanx nor pike phalanx) The Macedonians lost the battle for 3 reasons.

1. Hilly area not good for pikes or calvary. Both being a dominate factor for their army.

2. There are different versions but this is the most sufficient. Roman scavengers met with some Macedonias ions and a skirmish broke out. after a while the generals on both sides realized this is no longer a skirmish and hasty got into formation.

3. Once the battle truly started the Romans were getting no where since pikes are literary a wall of spears. Romans did a planned retreat. Got the pikes on hilly ground. Gaps were made in the wall. Romans took the opportunity and punched hard were they were weak. And the right wing of Macedonian calvary never joined battle which was a huge mistake.

Phalanxes were still used by the Greeks and romans even after this.

Are you learning roman history? You been bring it up lately.

Roman-selucid wars. After wards rome became the only Mediterranean power.

It's a shame folk know all this history which is so far away it can be considered mythological, yet I bet you can't even name all Soviet communist leaders, nor the other famous ones.

Leon and Leonid is more important than Leonidas.

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It's a shame folk know all this history which is so far away it can be considered mythological, yet I bet you can't even name all Soviet communist leaders, nor the other famous ones.

Leon and Leonid is more important than Leonidas.



It is history and not mythology. It is not a shame. You can learn the same things from people that far back to people of today's world.

Leonidas did nothing special well kinda. Him and 300 Spartans and 1100 ally troops ( yes not just 300 like most people think) held back a massive force. But really it wasnt a shocking surprise. Greeks had better armour and weapons compared to persia. 1 greek cost about 8-10 Persians. Also it was a choke point battle. No strategy just hold the funnel.

I bet could name many people of significnce that out way your communist lovers.

Correct me if wrong xy.

Vladimir Lenin
Iosif Stalin
Nikita Kruschev
Leonid Brezhnev
Gorbachev (first name leaves my mind)

@Lucid
So. .. the phalanx formation lost. Point valid, even if phalanx was still used, since it had lost.

Battle of Baltimore
Influential morale point for America in the War of 1812 and after that.

Every ruler/transitional period in Soviet Union lasting more than a year:

(Transnational period beginning in 1923, Lenin's second stroke, to roughly 1927, when Stalin started to get real power (Trotsky was removed from the party exiled to Kazakhstan in 1928))
Stalin (27-53)
Khrushchyov (53-64)
Brezhnev (64-80)
(Transitional Period; Brezhnev died in 1982, but actually lost power in 1980)
Andropov (82-84)
Cherenko (84-85)
Gorbachyov (85-91)

Other important ones:

Romania: Nicolae Ceaușescu (65-89); a complete madman who shot on protesters and bathed in dolphin blood
Albania: Enver Hoxha (41-85); a communist leader who decided to side with China in the Chinese-Soviet split; builded a bunker for every three folk
Ygoslavia: Josip Tito (43-80) Quit the alliance with Soviet Union in 1947; both sides liked him, despite him being neutral.

So. .. the phalanx formation lost. Point valid, even if phalanx was still used, since it had lost.


Your point was that phalanx was out o date. They stilled used it until about 400 ad

Mikhail Gorbachev

They used it a lot later than that. The pike formations of the European middle ages were direct descendents of the phalanx. More especially the Macedonian sarrissas. The Scots won the battle of Bannockburn in the 15th century with pikes. And the Swiss also had notable success. Battle of Novara 16th century.

Later they fused pike and musket troops to make the formations of the 17th and 18th century. Such as the Landsknecht pikemen used by most of the major European players, and later the Terico used by Gustavus Adolphus and the Swedes when they were running around Germany bitch slapping everyone else. Before pure gunpowder formations helped by the advent of the bayonet eventually took over.

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Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC) since if Hasdrubal would have succeeded to unite his forces with the ones of his brother, they could have taken Rome

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The two world's most decisive, bloodiest and important battles:

For WW1
Battle of Verdun:
belligerents: France and Germany
Most recent estimates 976,000 to 1,250,000 casualities, 70.000 soldiers died in both French and German sides for each month of the battle.
Most decisive battle of WW1, the French were victorious despite losses were huge. Finally the front broke. On 19 December 1916 the German army command concluded that they had suffered a defeat at Verdun. The German army had once and for all been pushed back to its original positions. The battle of Verdun had come to an end.
The Battle of Verdun lasted for nearly 300 days and became the longest and one of the most costly battles in human history.



For WW2:
Battle of Stalingrad :
belligerents: USSR and Germany
Total of 1,7 to 2,2 million casualities lasted 5 months, decisive Soviet victory, and German defeat.This was the decisive battle of World War II because it ended the German offensive as well as destroying much of the German armies.The victory at Stalingrad proved to be the end of Nazi Germany’s peak and the beginning of its rapid decline until its final destruction in 1945.
Hitler and his short lived empire collapsed as a result of the battle of Stalingrad because it destroyed much of the German forces and also ended the offensive in Russia. This eventually turned the tide and led to not only the destruction of Germany but also ushered in a new era of global politics and never again would a war of such magnitude ever be forced upon the world.


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Moscow battle was more important, also, I don't think the Verdun was that important. The Middle Powers were winning the war right until September 1918 or around there. I'd say the Vardar offensive and Third Transjordan offensive really won the war.

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Stalingrad and Verdun had the most impact in the 2 world wars, no doubt on that. Moscow for ww2 and the battle of Somme for ww1 also were major battles we can agree on that. But Stalingrad and Verdun still are the most famous and symbolic wars, as few battle were as psychologically, morally and strategically important.

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