All battles

12 battles on the list. Linked battles have a full record; the rest are proposed and will be written in turn.

All Western & Central Europe Eastern Europe & Russia Mediterranean & Middle East South & Central Asia East Asia & Pacific Sub-Saharan Africa Americas

Date	Battle	Sides	Why it mattered	Region
1521	Fall of Tenochtitlan	Spain and Tlaxcalan allies under Hernán Cortés against Aztec Empire under Cuauhtémoc	Ended the Aztec Empire	AM
1532	Cajamarca	Spain under Francisco Pizarro against Inca Empire under Atahualpa	Capture of the Inca emperor began Spain's conquest of Peru	AM
1759	Plains of Abraham	Britain under James Wolfe against France under the Marquis de Montcalm	Led to the fall of New France	AM
1777	Saratoga	American Continental Army under Horatio Gates against Britain under John Burgoyne	Brought France into the American Revolutionary War	AM
1781	Yorktown	America and France under Washington and Rochambeau against Britain under Cornwallis	Effectively ended the American Revolutionary War	AM
1824	Ayacucho	Patriots under Antonio José de Sucre against Spanish royalists under José de la Serna	Secured independence for Spanish South America	AM
1863	Chancellorsville	Confederacy under Robert E. Lee against Union under Joseph Hooker	Lee split his army to beat one twice its size	AM
1863	Gettysburg	Union under George Meade against Confederacy under Robert E. Lee	Turning point of the American Civil War	AM
1863	Vicksburg	Union under Ulysses S. Grant against Confederacy under John C. Pemberton	Gave the Union the Mississippi and split the Confederacy	AM
1932	Boquerón	Paraguay under José Félix Estigarribia against Bolivia	Opening battle of the Chaco War	AM
1939	River Plate	British cruisers under Henry Harwood against German cruiser Graf Spee under Hans Langsdorff	First naval battle of WWII	AM
1961	Bay of Pigs	Cuba under Fidel Castro against Cuban exiles (Brigade 2506) backed by the U.S.	Failed invasion that strengthened Castro	AM