Fiercest Battle in History

ok, so we are tlking ancient eh??

1. battle of guandu, an army of 700,000 defeated by 70000 due to fierce tactics and diversion strategy, both sides fought very fiercely

2. battle of chibi, two navies go ahead in a battle in which more than 400,000 participated in the yantze river, fierce in spy works and grusume naval battles, in the end a fire attacked ended it all in whcih the northern side was annilated
 
well his battles were not very famous as its the usual routine of pillage and ownage


however note millions died under his cavary's hoofs since they masscred everywhere they went
 
Of Civil War battles, I think the combat at The Bloody Angle should definitely be mentioned. The fighting was often hand-to-hand, and it continued with few breaks for almost 20 solid hours. Bodies were 2 and 3 deep in places, and some large trees along the angle took so many rifle hits that they eventually fell across the trenches killing even more men.
 
ya but slowloading muskets going off trying to each other doesnt seem as more brutal or fierce than riflemen and machines going at each other
 
ya but slowloading muskets going off trying to each other doesnt seem as more brutal or fierce than riflemen and machines going at each other
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I suggest you watch the movie "Glory" then. Much more realistic in battle casualties than most Civil War epics.
 
From what I have read recently, some of the WW2 Pacific War battles
involving the US Marines and the Australians against the Japanese were just terrible.

The Battle of Peleliu Island is not well known. At that time the Arnhem landings got all the news. The press corp were told it would only last a few days so few went ashore. It lasted for two months. It was a shocking hell hole for the US Marines who fought there. 1250 Marines were killed. The brilliant Australian combat cameraman Damien Parer was killed there as well as several other press people.
 
You cant really scale them...I mea you cant say "this battle was about a 10 and this one was about a 7"....Im ena, you just cant measure it. My step dad told once told me that he saw battles where one company comander was sue heavy artilliary is raining down across the field, and another wasent too bothered by the bombardment. A hand to hand skermish in Gaza where an Israeli officer kills the armed terrorist using his helmet(he was out of ammo), is no less fierce than on Israeli tank rgiment stopping 3 syrian divisions....
 
well, let me argue that stalingrad indeed deserves teh title

soldiers had to drink the water out of their machineguns and pee into them to survive

sewers were fought in as well

anybody that try to look over the other side gets an instant blow in the brains

artillery barages in city streets on both sides with aircraft overhead and mortar, grenade, heavy machinegun fires, that simple shook the ground and fragments were in the millions

in one day a hill was fought and changed hands several times

later found in the mamave hill that every scoop of dirt contained several thousand pieces of fragements and shells

the land was frozen and the unburied bodies presented a really deathly look to the city
 
The battle where the Order of the Draco took eastern Europe back, lead by the man know now days as Dracula.
 
Fiercest Battle in History

Battle of Ypres. (1915) “Kindermord zu Ypern”
Specifically the first major use of gas by the Germans at
Langemarck (22 april 1915), when 177 tons (180.000kg)
of chlorine were released from cylinders over a front of 6 km...

Battle of Verdun (1916) In terms of casulties and the
sheer suffering of combatants, Verdun has good claim
to being one of the most terrible battles of history...

Battle of Stalingrad (1942-43) This entered the realm
of legend almost as soon as the guns fell silent in the
vast industrial city on the river Wolga on 2 february 1943.
As the closest and bloodiest battle on the eastern front,
it was a German disaster and a Sovjet triumph...

Battles of Cassino (1944) “Monte Cassino”
Cassino cost Allies some 49.000 killed and wounded.
Although the Germans also lost heavily, they succeeded
In disengaging without being cut off. Many observers were
Reminded of WW1, and some Germans thought conditions
at Cassino were even worse than at Stalingrad...

Battle of Kursk (1943) The greatest tank battle in history,
but also an important air battle. Through an inferno of
blazing armoured vehicles and scorched and shattered bodies
surrounded by shell-cases and stale bread this battle is concidered
a Sovjet “Pyrrhus” victory...

Battle of Sevastopol (1941-42) “Crimea campaign”
By november 1941 the Germans had captured all the Crimea
apart from Sevastopol, surrounded by forts with armoured
emplacements burried deep in concrete and rock.
Sevastopol fell after 250 days of siege on 4 july, only
after the Germans used toxic gas to kill the Sovjets
in their underground installations. One of the few times
in WW2 when chemical weapons were used...

Battle of Chosin Resevoir (1950) Korean War
Battle in the Korean War, shortly after Chinese entry into the conflict.
Large numbers of Chinese soldiers swept across the Yalu river,
encircling the United Nation (UN) troops at the Chosin Reservoir.
A brutal battle in freezing weather followed, ultimately resulting in
a pyrrhic victory for the Chinese, as they incurred very heavy losses
resisting the fighting withdrawal of the Allied Marines...

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (1954) First Indochina War
“Operation Castor” occurred in 1954 between Viet Minh forces under
Vo Nguyen Giap and French airborne and Foreign Legion forces.
The battle was fought near the village of Dien Bien Phu in northern
Vietnam and became the last battle between the French and the
Vietnamese in the First Indochina War which had begun in 1946.

Battle of Hue (1968) Tet offensive, Vietnam War
The heaviest fighting of the Vietnam war took place in the city of Hue,
durring the Tet offensive. Specifically clearing the modern industrial part
of the city, on the banks of the river Perfume, reguired intense house
to house fighting. After two months of struggle the US Marines
controlled the city and had their victory, one of few in this war
dominated by North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces...
 
Many of the Battles during WW2 on the Eastern Front where extremely bloody affairs, with no quarter given or asked. Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk, and the Crimea were all fought to the bitter end and involved at least a million men apiece.
 
What about Okinawa or Iwo Gumia (spelling please)

But i belive the fiercest battle has to be something in the American civil war. Bunch of wooden toothed bastards standing 25 yards apart trading lead, all of them believing in an ideal that strongly is quite impressive.
 
yeah, as Rabs said, none of these are the fiercest, but theyr up there, but Guadalcanal, Saipan, Tinian, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, any of those. the battle of the bulge, not the fiercest, but it should be mentioned.
 
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