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Battles, empires, leaders, and turning points in history ranked by enthusiasts. 35 community-voted history rankings.
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Top 10 Most Brutal Battles of the Medieval Era
Medieval warfare gets sanitised by film and overdone in fantasy. The actual battles were uglier, sl…
Most Brutal Battles of World War I
The First World War invented industrial-scale brutality, and these battles are the receipts. The ra…
Top 10 Biggest Misconceptions of World War II
Popular memory of the Second World War is a stack of half-truths reinforced by a century of films. …
Top 10 Major Events of the American Revolution
The American Revolution is taught as a clean arc from tea to treaty, which is both useful and misle…
Top Ten Major Events of the French Revolution
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Top 10 Greatest Battlefield Tactics of All Time
Tactics that survive across centuries are not just clever; they reveal something about how humans f…
Top Ten Battles that Most Changed History
Some battles are famous because they were big. Others are famous because the world after them looke…
Top 10 Warfare Practices Banned by the Geneva Convention
The Geneva Conventions are not a single document but a stack of treaties built on top of older laws…
Top 10 Most Chilling and Mesmerizing Photographs Taken During War
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Top 10 Greatest Siege Engines
Siege engines are the quiet protagonists of pre-gunpowder warfare. They decided who controlled citi…
Top 10 Countries Which Were Most Affected by World War II
Quantifying which country was most affected by the Second World War is morbid but useful, because t…
Top 10 Wars That Never Should Have Happened
Calling a war pointless is uncomfortable, because the people who died in it deserve more than that.…
Top 10 Biggest Military Disasters of All Time
Military history rewards the winners; the disasters teach more. This ranking sorts the campaigns th…
Top Ten Best Tanks from WW2
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Top Ten Greatest Armies of World War II
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Top Ten Greatest Russian Military Victories
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Top 10 Most Dangerous Warriors or Armies of All Time
Dangerous in this context means feared, effective, and able to project force well beyond what their…
Top 10 Most Likely Ways World War III Could Start
Speculating about how a global war might begin is morbid, but it is also the central exercise of st…
China's Top Ten Greatest Military Strategists
Chinese military thought stretches further back than most rivals and runs deeper than the Sun Tzu p…
Top 10 Worst Wars in History
Worst is doing a lot of work in this list. The criteria here are total deaths, civilian impact, geo…
Top Ten Ships From World War II
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Top 10 American Civil War Generals
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Best Allied Bombers of World War II
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Top Ten Nations with the Best World War I Uniforms
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Top 10 Best Guns of World War II
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Top 10 Most Powerful Militaries of All Time
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Top Ten Post-War Tanks
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Top 10 Greatest Revolutions of All Time
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Top 10 Best Fighter Planes of World War II
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Top 10 Wars in History
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Top 10 Modern Fighter Jets
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Greatest World War 2 Rifles
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Top 10 Greatest Military Tanks
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Top 10 Greatest Battles in History
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Best War Planes Ever
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