List of battles by casualties

The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges and civilian casualties during the battles.
Large battle casualty counts are usually impossible to calculate precisely, but few in this list may include somewhat precise numbers. Many of these figures, though, are estimates, and, where possible, a range of estimates is presented. Figures display numbers for all types of casualties when available but may only include number killed due to a lack of total data on the event. Where possible, the list specifies whether or not prisoners are included in the count.
This list does not include bombing campaigns/runs or massacres such as the Rape of Nanjing, which, despite potentially massive casualties, are not typically classified as "battles", since they are usually one-sided engagements or the nation attacked is not officially at war with the attackers. Tactical or strategic strikes, however, may form part of larger engagements which are themselves battles, small campaigns or offensives.

Sieges and urban combat

This list, sorted by year, includes sieges as well as modern battles fought primarily in urban areas. Major military operations that included city fighting are listed [|below] this.

Major operations

This list includes major operations and prolonged battles or operations fought over a large area or for a long time. The durations of some operations, like the Battle of Moscow, are disputed, so casualty numbers may differ for that reason alone.

Operation	Year	Conflict	Casualties
Flanders and Rhine campaign		War of the Spanish Succession
Montenotte Campaign		War of the First Coalition	+
Ulm Campaign		War of the Third Coalition
French invasion of Russia		Napoleonic Wars	–1,040,000
German Campaign		War of the Sixth Coalition
Six Days' Campaign		War of the Sixth Coalition
Hundred Days		War of the Seventh Coalition
Peninsula Campaign		American Civil War
Battle of Chancellorsville		American Civil War	–30,500
Overland Campaign		American Civil War	–92,000
Appomattox Campaign		American Civil War
Battle of Liaoyang		Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Shaho		Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Mukden		Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Sandepu		Russo-Japanese War
Battle of Lule Burgas		First Balkan War	+
First Battle of Çatalca		First Balkan War
Battle of Bregalnica		Second Balkan War
Battle of Kilkis-Lachanas		Second Balkan War
Serbian campaign	–1915	World War I	–1,587,000+
Battle of the Frontiers		World War I
Battle of Tannenberg		World War I	–160,000
Battle of Galicia		World War I	–700,000
Battle of Cer		World War I	–65,500
First Battle of the Marne		World War I
First Battle of the Aisne		World War I	+
Battle of the Yser		World War I	+
First Battle of Ypres		World War I
Battle of Łódź		World War I	–390,000
Battle of the Drina		World War I
Battle of the Vistula River		World War I
Battle of Limanowa		World War I
First Battle of Champagne	–1915	World War I
Battle of Sarikamish	–1915	World War I	—85,000
Carpathian Front		World War I
Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes		World War I
Second Battle of Ypres		World War I	–107,000
Gallipoli Campaign		World War I	–552,000
Second Battle of Artois		World War I
Battle of Neuve Chapelle		World War I
Second Battle of Champagne–Third Battle of Artois		World War I	–440,000
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive		World War I	–1,087,000
Great Retreat (Russian)		World War I	+
Serbian Campaign		World War I	including prisoners
Erzurum offensive		World War I	—85,000
Battle of Erzincan		World War I
Battle of Mont Sorrel		World War I
Battle of Verdun		World War I	–976,000
Battle of Asiago		World War I
Brusilov offensive		World War I	–2,500,000
Battle of the Somme		World War I	–1,215,000
Monastir Offensive		World War I
Romanian Campaign	–1917	World War I	–933,000, including prisoners
Nivelle Offensive		World War I
Second Battle of the Aisne		World War I	–463,000
Battle of Arras		World War I	–288,000
Battle of Messines		World War I
Tenth Battle of the Isonzo		World War I
Third Battle of Ypres		World War I	+
Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo		World War I
Battle of Caporetto		World War I
Battle of Cambrai		World War I
German spring offensive		World War I
Battle of Amiens		World War I
Operation Michael		World War I
Battle of the Lys		World War I	–228,340
Third Battle of the Aisne		World War I
Second Battle of the Piave River		World War I	killed and wounded, 73,729 prisoners
Second Battle of the Marne		World War I
Battle of Soissons		World War I
Battle of Saint-Mihiel		World War I
Hundred Days Offensive		World War I
Meuse–Argonne offensive		World War I
Battle of Warsaw		Polish–Soviet War	, approximately, not including prisoners
Invasion of Manchuria		Second Sino-Japanese War
Asturias Offensive		Spanish Civil War
Battle of Jarama		Spanish Civil War
Battle of Guadalajara		Spanish Civil War
Aragon Offensive	–1938	Spanish Civil War	, including prisoners
Battle of Teruel	–1938	Spanish Civil War
Levante Offensive		Spanish Civil War
Battle of the Ebro		Spanish Civil War
Battle of Xuzhou		Second Sino-Japanese War
1938 Yellow River Flood		Second Sino-Japanese War
Battle of Wuhan		Second Sino-Japanese War	–700,000
Battles of Khalkhin Gol		Soviet–Japanese border conflicts	–75,000
Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang		Second Sino-Japanese War
Invasion of Poland		World War II	–914,000
Battle of the Bzura		World War II	–234,000
Winter Offensive	–1940	World War II	+
Operation Weserübung		World War II
Battle of France		World War II
Battle of Britain		World War II
Hundred Regiments Offensive		Second Sino-Japanese War
Battle of Keren		World War II	+ killed
Battle of Greece		World War II
Battle of Shanggao		Second Sino-Japanese War
Battle of Crete		World War II
Operation Barbarossa		World War II	–8,050,000
Battle of Białystok–Minsk		World War II	including prisoners
Battle of Smolensk		World War II	killed, captured, and missing 300,000 Soviet prisoners
Battle of Uman		World War II
Battle of Kiev		World War II	killed, captured, and missing
Battle of Bryansk		World War II	Soviet killed, captured and missing German casualties unknown.
Battle of Moscow		World War II
Battle of Hong Kong		World War II	including prisoners
Battle of Malaya/Battle of Singapore	–1942	World War II	, and 60,000 prisoners
Battle of Bataan/Battle of Corregidor		World War II	killed
Battle of Lyuban		World War II
Battle of the Kerch Peninsula		World War II	+
Demyansk Pocket		World War II
Second Battle of Kharkov		World War II
Zhejiang-Jiangxi Campaign		Second Sino-Japanese War
Battle of Gazala		World War II
First Battle of El Alamein		World War II
Kokoda Track campaign		World War II
Case Blue		World War II
Battle of the Caucasus	–1942	World War II
Guadalcanal Campaign	–1943	World War II	–31,100
Battles of Rzhev	–1943	World War II	–3,080,000
Second Battle of El Alamein		World War II	–82,500
Operation Iskra		World War II
Battle of Kursk		World War II	–2,037,000
Operation Kutuzov		World War II
Allied invasion of Sicily		World War II	+ killed, and over 100,000 Italian POWs
Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation		World War II	–280,634
Battle of Smolensk		World War II
Dnieper Campaign		World War II	–2,480,000
Operation Husky		World War II
Allied invasion of Italy		World War II
Bougainville Campaign	–1945	World War II	killed, and 23,571 Japanese prisoners
Dnieper–Carpathian Offensive	–1944	World War II
Leningrad–Novgorod Offensive		World War II
Battle of Monte Cassino		World War II
Battle of Narva		World War II	all causes
Battle of Anzio		World War II	killed
First Jassy–Kishinev Offensive		World War II
Operation Ichi-Go		Second Sino-Japanese War	+
Battle of Normandy		World War II	–795,400
Battle of Cherbourg		World War II
Battle for Caen		World War II
Operation Dragoon		World War II
Battle of Saipan		World War II	killed, including mass suicides
Operation Bagration		World War II
Lvov–Sandomierz offensive		World War II
Falaise Pocket		World War II
Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive		World War II	, including prisoners
Operation Market Garden		World War II
Moro River Campaign		World War II
Baltic offensive		World War II	Soviet casualties; German casualties unknown
Battle of Aachen		World War II
Gothic Line offensive	-1945	World War II
Battle of Hürtgen Forest	–1945	World War II
Courland Pocket	–1945	World War II
Battle of Leyte Gulf		World War II	killed
Battle of the Bulge	–1945	World War II	–218,900
Vistula–Oder Offensive		World War II	including prisoners
Battle of Luzon		World War II	–345,330, including sick
Battle of the Rhineland		World War II	and 250,000 prisoners
Battle of Iwo Jima		World War II	–48,700
East Prussian Offensive		World War II	including prisoners
Battle of Okinawa		World War II	–158,400
Burma campaigns	–1945	World War II
Battle of West Hunan		World War II
Second Guangxi campaign		World War II
Liaoshen campaign		Chinese Civil War	, including captured
Huaihai campaign		Chinese Civil War	, including captured
Pingjin campaign	–1949	Chinese Civil War	, including captured
Shanghai Campaign		Chinese Civil War
Battle of Inchon		Korean War
UN offensive into North Korea		Korean War
Battle of Chosin Reservoir		Korean War
Battle of Dien Bien Phu		First Indochina War	, not including prisoners
Tet Offensive		Vietnam War
Operation OAU		Nigerian Civil War
Easter Offensive		Vietnam War
Operation Dawn 5		Iran–Iraq War
Battle of the Marshes		Iran–Iraq War
Russian invasion of Ukraine	–pres.	Russo-Ukrainian War	–500,000

Classical formation battles

These refer to battles in which armies met on a single field of battle and fought each other for anywhere from one to several days. This type of battle died out in favor of larger military operations.

Battle	Year	Conflict	Casualties
Battle of Megiddo	1457 BC	Thutmose III's first campaign in the Levant	16,000+
Battle of Kadesh	1274 BC	Second Syrian campaign of Ramesses II	30,000+
Battle of Qarqar	853 BC	Assyrian conquest of Aram	24,000+
Battle of Thymbra	547 BC	Lydian–Persian War	100,000
Battle of Marathon	490 BC	Greco-Persian Wars	5,000–8,000
Battle of Thermopylae	480 BC	Greco-Persian Wars	22,500
Battle of Plataea	479 BC	Greco-Persian War	51,500–257,000
Battle of Mycale	479 BC	Greco-Persian War	70,000
Battle of Leuctra	371 BC	Theban–Spartan War	4,300
Battle of Mantinea	362 BC	Theban–Spartan War	18,000
Battle of the Granicus	334 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	7,000
Battle of Issus	333 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	20,000-40,000
Battle of Gaugamela	331 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	53,500
Battle of the Persian Gate	330 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	48,500
Battle of the Hydaspes	326 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	23,310
Battle of Sentinum	295 BC	Third Samnite War	33,700
Battle of Heraclea	280 BC	Pyrrhic War	11,000–26,000
Battle of Asculum	279 BC	Pyrrhic War	9,500+
Battle of Beneventum	275 BC	Pyrrhic War	20,000
Battle of Messana	264 BC	First Punic War	7,400+
Battle of Changping	260 BC	Warring States period	700,000
Battle of the Bagradas River (240 BC)	240 BC	Mercenary War	8,000+
Battle of Telamon	225 BC	Roman–Gallic wars	56,000+
Battle of Ticinus	218 BC	Second Punic War	9,500+
Battle of the Trebia	218 BC	Second Punic War	35,000
Battle of Lake Trasimene	217 BC	Second Punic War	30,000
Battle of Cannae	216 BC	Second Punic War	50,000+
Battle of Silva Litana	216 BC	Second Punic War	24,000+
Battle of the Silarus	212 BC	Second Punic War	15,000 +
Battle of the Metaurus	207 BC	Second Punic War	12,000
Battle of Julu	207 BC	Chu–Han Contention	400,000+
Battle of Wei River	204 BC	Chu-Han contention	200,000+
Battle of Utica	203 BC	Second Punic War	45,000+
Battle of Gaixia	203 BC	Chu-Han contention	100,000+
Battle of the Arius	200 BC	Antiochus's Bactrian Campaign	3,750
Battle of Cynoscephalae	197 BC	Second Macedonian War	23,700
Battle of Thermopylae (191 BC)	191 BC	Roman–Seleucid War	14,000
Battle of Magnesia	190 BC	Roman–Seleucid War	53,350
Battle of Pydna	168 BC	Third Macedonian War	21,000
Battle of Noreia	115 BC	Germanic Wars	24,000
Battle of the Muthul	109 BC	Jugurthine War	25,000
Battle of Arausio	105 BC	Germanic Wars	85,000
Battle of Aquae Sextiae	102 BC	Germanic Wars	90,000
Battle of Chaeronea	86 BC	Mithridatic Wars	50,000
Battle of the Colline Gate	82 BC	Sulla's civil war	50,000
Battle of Saguntum (75 BC)	75 BC	Sertorian War	11,000
Battle of Chalcedon	74 BC	Mithridatic Wars	19,000+
Battle of the Silarius River	71 BC	Third Servile War	11,000
Battle of Tigranocerta	69 BC	Mithridatic Wars	10,000+
Battle of the Lycus	66 BC	Mithridatic Wars	10,000+
Battle of Bibracte	58 BC	Gallic Wars	12,000+
Battle of Axona	57 BC	Gallic Wars	11,000+
Battle of Carrhae	53 BC	Roman–Persian Wars	24,000
Battle of Pharsalus	48 BC	Caesar's Civil War	17,000
Battle of Philippi	42 BC	Liberators' civil war	24,000
Battle of Actium	31 BC	Final War of the Roman Republic	7,500+
Battle of the Teutoburg Forest	AD 9	Roman–Germanic wars	20,000
Battle of Idistaviso	AD 16	Roman–Germanic wars	20,000+
Battle of Watling Street	AD 61	Iceni Revolt	80,400
Battle of Mons Graupius	AD 84	Roman conquest of Britain	10,360
Battle of Adamclisi	AD 102	Dacian Wars	18,000+
Battle of Sarmizegetusa	AD 106	Dacian Wars	21,000+
Battle of Carnuntum	AD 170	Marcomannic Wars	20,000+
Battle of Issus (194)	194	Year of the Five Emperors	20,000
Battle of Lugdunum	197	Year of the Five Emperors	90,000
Battle of Guandu	200	Three Kingdoms	78,000
Battle of Red Cliffs	208	Three Kingdoms	100,000
Battle of Barbalissos	252	Shapur I's first Roman campaign	60,000+
Battle of Edessa	260	Shapur I's first Roman campaign	65,000+
Battle of Emesa	272	Crisis of the Third Century	61,000+
Battle of Châlons (274)	274	Crisis of the Third Century	56,000+
Battle of Adrianople	378	Gothic War	40,000+
Battle of the Fei River	383	Sixteen Kingdoms period	700,000+
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains	451	Hunnic Invasion	165,000
Battle of Zhongli	507	Northern and Southern dynasties	200,000+
Battle of Dara	530	Iberian War	8,000+
Battle of Callinicum	531	Iberian War	28,000+
Battle of Taginae	552	Gothic War	8,000+
Battle of the Volturnus	554	Gothic War	18,000+
Battle of the Salsu	612	Goguryeo–Sui War	302,300
Battle of Nineveh	627	Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628	9,000+
Battle of al-Qadisiyyah	636	Muslim conquest of Persia	31,000
Battle of Muzayyah	633	Muslim conquest of Persia	10,000
Battle of Ullais	633	Muslim conquest of Persia	35,000
Battle of River	633	Muslim conquest of Persia	15,000+
Battle of Ajnadayn	634	Muslim conquest of the Levant	55,000
Battle of Yarmouk	636	Muslim conquest of the Levant	70,000
Battle of Walaja	636	Muslim conquest of Persia	22,000
Battle of Nahavand	642	Muslim conquest of Persia	28,500
Battle of Guadalete	711	Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula	20,000+
Battle of Marj Ardabil	730	Second Arab-Khazar War	25,000+
Battle of Tours	732	Umayyad invasion of Gaul	13,000
Battle of Akroinon	740	Arab–Byzantine Wars	13,200+
Battle of Talas	751	Muslim conquest of Transoxiana	50,000+
Battle of Xiangji Temple	757	An Lushan Rebellion	110,000+
Battle of Pliska	811	Byzantine–Bulgarian wars	29,000
Battle of Ashdown	871	Viking activity in the British Isles	9,000
Battle of Brenta	899	Hungarian invasions of Europe	14,000+
Battle of Lechfeld	955	Hungarian invasions of Europe	15,000
Battle of Arcadiopolis	970	Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria	27,000
Battle of the Gates of Trajan	986	Byzantine–Bulgarian wars	27,000
Battle of Kleidion	1014	Byzantine–Bulgarian wars	45,000
Battle of Gwiju	1019	Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War	90,000+
Battle of Dandanaqan	1040	Seljuk-Ghaznavid Wars	35,000+
Battle of Fulford	1066	Viking invasions of England	5,000
Battle of Stamford Bridge	1066	Viking invasions of England	13,000
Battle of Hastings	1066	Norman Conquest	6,000
Battle of Manzikert	1071	Byzantine-Seljuk Wars	25,000
Battle of Langensalza (1075)	1075	Saxon Revolt of 1073-1075	8,600
Battle of Nhu Nguyet river	1077	Lý–Song War	150,000
Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081)	1081	First Norman invasion of the Balkans	5,000+
Battle of Civetot	1096	People's Crusade	50,000+
Battle of Dorylaeum	1097	First Crusade	7,000+
Battle of Ascalon	1099	First Crusade	13,000+
Battle of Nakło (1109)	1109	???	30,000+
Battle of Ager Sanguinis	1119	Crusades	12,000
Battle of Azaz	1125	Crusades	6,000+
Battle of Crug Mawr	1135	Norman invasion of Wales	13,000
Battle of Legnano	1177	Guelphs and Ghibellines	9,000+
Battle of Montgisard	1177	Ayyubid–Crusader War	25,850
Battle of Hattin	1187	Ayyubid–Crusader War	17,000–20,000
Battle of Philomelion (1190)	1190	Third Crusade	5,100
Battle of Arsuf	1191	Third Crusade	8,000+
Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa	1212	Reconquista	60,000
Battle of Yehuling	1212	Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty	150,000
Battle of Muret	1213	Albigensian Crusade	16,500
Battle of Bouvines	1214	Anglo-French War	9,000
Battle of Parwan	1221	Mongol invasion of Central Asia	65,000+
Battle of the Kalka River	1223	Mongol invasion of Rus'	50,000
Battle of Sanfengshan	1232	Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty	125,000
Battle of Legnica	1241	Mongol invasion of Poland	30,000
Battle of Mohi	1241	Mongol invasion of Europe	15,000
Battle of Mansurah	1250	Seventh Crusade	21,000
Battle of Ain Jalut	1260	Mongol invasions of the Levant	21,000
Battle of Kōan	1281	Mongol invasions of Japan	150,000+
Third battle of Bach Dang river	1288	Mongol invasion of Vietnam	85,000
Battle of Jaran Manjur	1298	Mongol invasions of India	20,000+
Battle of Yamen	1279	Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty	100,000
Battle of Kili	1299	Mongol invasion of India	130,000
Battle of Bapheus	1302	Byzantine–Ottoman wars	3,000
Battle of Amroha	1305	Mongol invasion of India	34,000
Battle of Bannockburn	1314	First War of Scottish Independence	19,000
Battle of Demotika	1352	Byzantine civil war of 1352–1357	8,000
Battle of Vijaya	1377	Champa–Đại Việt War (1367–1390)	95,000
Battle of Kulikovo	1380	Great Troubles	136,000
Battle of Roosebeke	1382	Hundred Years' War	27,600
Battle of Maritsa	1389	Serbian-Ottoman wars	57,000
Battle of Kosovo	1389	Serbian-Ottoman wars	60,000
Battle of the Terek River	1395	Tokhtamysh–Timur war	100,000
Battle of Nicopolis	1396	Ottoman wars in Europe	30,000
Conquest of Delhi	1398	Timur's Indian campaign	100,000
Battle of Ankara	1402	Ottoman–Timur War	15,000+
Battle of Grunwald	1410	Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War	13,000
Battle of Agincourt	1415	Hundred Years' War	14,000
Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động	1426	Lam Sơn uprising	30,000
Battle of Hermannstadt	1442	Hungarian–Ottoman War (1437–1442)	24,000
Battle of Zlatitsa	1443	Crusade of Varna	22,000+
Battle of Varna	1444	Crusade of Varna	60,000+
Battle of Kosovo (1448)	1448	Ottoman–Wallachian wars / Ottoman–Hungarian wars	27,000
Tumu Crisis	1449	Ming–Mongol War	200,000+
Battle of Castillon	1453	Hundred Years' War	4,000
Battle of Chojnice	1454	Thirteen Years' War	9,000
Battle of Towton	1461	Wars of the Roses	28,000
Second Battle of St Albans	1461	Wars of the Roses	2,000
Night Attack at Târgoviște	1462	Wallachian-Ottoman Wars	20,000
Battle of Vaslui	1475	Moldavian-Ottoman Wars	40,000+
Battle of Valea Albă	1476	Moldavian–Ottoman Wars	30,000+
Battle of Breadfield	1479	Habsburg–Ottoman wars	13,000+
Battle of Kabul	1504	Campaigns of Babur	20,000+
Battle of Ravenna	1512	War of the League of Cambrai	13,500
Battle of Flodden	1513	War of the League of Cambrai	15,500
Battle of Chaldiran	1514	Ottoman–Persian Wars	7,000
Battle of Orsha	1514	Lithuanian–Muscovite War (1512-1522)	21,000–45,000
Battle of Marignano	1515	War of the League of Cambrai	11,000–15,000
Battle of Ridaniya	1517	Ottoman wars in the Near East	13,000
La Noche Triste	1520	Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire	4,800+
Battle of Pavia	1525	Italian War of 1521–1526	13,000
First Battle of Panipat	1526	Mughal Conquest	20,000–50,000
Battle of Mohács	1526	Ottoman–Hungarian wars	30,000
Battle of Sződfalva	1527	Hungarian campaign of 1527–1528	21,000
Battle of Ghaghra	1529	Mughal Conquest	13,000
Battle of Gorjani	1537	Habsburg–Ottoman wars in Hungary (1526–1568)	22,000
Battle of Mühlberg	1547	Schmalkaldic War	9,500
Battle of Molodi	1572	Russo-Crimean Wars	29,000–33,000 or 100,000
Battle of Nagashino	1575	Sengoku period	18,000
Battle of Alcácer Quibir	1578	Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts	19,000
Battle of Gembloux	1578	Eighty Years' War	6,000
Battle of Chungju	1592	Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)	8,000–16,000 100,000
Battle of Călugăreni	1595	Long War (Ottoman War)	11,000–16,000
Battle of Keresztes	1596	Long Turkish War	30,000
Battle of Sacheon	1598	Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)	30,000
Battle of Sekigahara	1600	Sengoku period	30,000+
Battle of Nieuwpoort	1600	Eighty Years' War	6,700+
Battle of Kircholm	1605	Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)	8,400
Battle of Klushino	1610	Polish–Muscovite War	5,400
Battle of Wisternitz	1619	Thirty Years' War	6,700
Battle of White Mountain	1620	Thirty Years' War	3,450
Battle of Shen-Liao	1620	Qing conquest of the Ming	75,000
Battle of Rohilla	1621	Early Mughal-Sikh Wars	14,000
Battle of Lutter	1626	Thirty Years' War	9,700
Battle of Wolgast	1628	Thirty Years' War	3,100
First Battle of Breitenfeld	1631	Thirty Years' War	31,900
Battle of Lahira	1631	Early Mughal-Sikh Wars	36,773
Battle of Fürth	1632	Thirty Years' War	5,000
Battle of Lützen	1632	Thirty Years' War	11,160
Battle of Amritsar	1634	Early Mughal-Sikh Wars	7,000
Battle of Nördlingen	1634	Thirty Years' War	17,000
Battle of Kartarpur	1635	Early Mughal-Sikh Wars	50,700-97,000
Battle of the Downs	1639	Eighty Years' War	15,000+
Battle of Song-Jin	1641	Qing conquest of the Ming	60,000
Second Battle of Breitenfeld	1642	Thirty Years' War	14,000
Battle of Rocroi	1643	Thirty Years' War	19,000
Battle of Freiburg	1644	Thirty Years' War	12,000
Battle of Jankau	1645	Thirty Years' War	15,500
Battle of Lens	1648	Thirty Years' War	9,500
Battle of Zusmarshausen	1648	Thirty Years' War	5,000
Battle of Berestechko	1651	Khmelnytsky Uprising	30,000–40,000
Battle of the Dunes	1658	Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)	9,600
Battle of Samugarh	1658	Mughal Conquest	32,000
Battle of Khajwa	1659	Mughal Conquest	20,000
Battle of Saint Gotthard	1664	Battle of Saint Gotthard	12,000
Battle of Khotyn (1673)	1673	Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676)	32,000
Battle of Lund	1676	Scanian War	14,000
Battle of Vienna	1683	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	19,500
Battle of Mohács (1687)	1687	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	12,500
Battle of Fleurus	1690	War of the Grand Alliance	10,600−28,000
Battle of Slankamen	1691	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	28,000
Battle of Landen	1693	War of the Grand Alliance	28,000
Battle of Zenta	1697	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	30,300
Battle of Narva	1700	Great Northern War	19,900
Battle of Schellenberg	1704	War of the Spanish Succession	11,000
Battle of Blenheim	1704	War of the Spanish Succession	32,000
Battle of Chamkaur	1705	Mughal-Sikh Wars	112,500
Battle of Fraustadt	1706	Great Northern War	16,500
Battle of Ramillies	1706	War of the Spanish Succession	15,600
Battle of Almansa	1707	War of the Spanish Succession	22,000
Battle of Lesnaya	1708	Great Northern War	11,000
Battle of Poltava	1709	Great Northern War	14,300
Battle of Malplaquet	1709	War of the Spanish Succession	95,000
Battle of Helsingborg	1710	Great Northern War	10,700
Battle of Villaviciosa	1710	War of the Spanish Succession	12,000
Battle of Gulnabad	1722	Hotaki-Safavid War	17,000
Battle of Hohenfriedberg	1745	War of the Austrian Succession	18,530
Battle of Fontenoy	1745	War of the Austrian Succession	14,000
Battle of Lobositz	1756	Seven Years' War	7,000+
Battle of Leuthen	1757	Seven Years' War	11,800
Battle of Prague	1757	Seven Years' War	27,570+
Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf	1757	Seven Years' War	10,000+
Battle of Rossbach	1757	Seven Years' War	10,000
Battle of Breslau (1757)	1757	Seven Years' War	12,000
Battle of Zorndorf	1758	Seven Years' War	30,000
Battle of Krefeld	1758	Seven Years' War	5,200
Battle of Kunersdorf	1759	Seven Years' War	35,000
Battle of Minden	1759	Seven Years' War	12,700
Battle of Torgau	1760	Seven Years' War	32,560+
Third Battle of Panipat	1761	Marathas and Afghans	129,000+
Battle of Kup	1762	Afghan-Sikh Wars	20,000
Battle of Villinghausen	1761	Seven Years' War	13,000+
Battle of Freiberg	1762	Seven Years' War	10,500
Battle of Kagul	1770	Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)	21,000
Battle of Porto Novo	1781	Second Anglo-Mysore War	9306
Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút	1785	Siamese-Vietnamese Wars	50,000
Battle of Rymnik	1789	Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792)	21,000
Battle of Jemappes	1792	War of the Second Coalition	3,500
Battle of Mardanpur	1794	Maratha and Patiala	8,333-52,333
Battle of Loano	1795	War of the First Coalition	10,000
Battle of Arcole	1796	War of the First Coalition	11,000
Battle of Rivoli	1797	War of the First Coalition	17,500
Battle of Trebbia	1799	War of the Second Coalition	17,000–23,000
Battle of Novi	1799	War of the Second Coalition	19,500
Battle of the Pyramids	1798	War of the Second Coalition	10,000+
Battle of Stockach	1800	War of the Second Coalition	9,800
Battle of Marengo	1800	War of the Second Coalition	16,400
Battle of Montebello	1800	War of the Second Coalition	7,275
Battle of Pozzolo	1800	War of the Second Coalition	13,000+
Battle of Höchstädt	1800	War of the Second Coalition	7,000
Battle of Hohenlinden	1800	War of the Second Coalition	16,000+
Ulm campaign	1805	War of the Third Coalition	62,000
Battle of Dürenstein	1805	War of the Third Coalition	10,000
Battle of Austerlitz	1805	War of the Third Coalition	45,300
Battle of Schöngrabern	1805	War of the Third Coalition	5,000
Battle of Jena–Auerstedt	1806	War of the Fourth Coalition	52,000, including prisoners later killed
Battle of Lübeck	1806	War of the Fourth Coalition	18,800
Battle of Eylau	1807	War of the Fourth Coalition	40,000
Battle of Friedland	1807	War of the Fourth Coalition	28,000–50,000
Battle of Bailen	1808	Peninsular War	21,000
Battle of Espinosa de los Monteros	1808	Peninsular War	6,600
Battle of Gamonal	1808	Peninsular War	3,600
Battle of Aspern-Essling	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	42,900
Battle of Landshut	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	9,000
Battle of Eckmühl	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	13,700
Battle of Abensberg	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	8,200
Battle of Ebelsberg	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	15,340
Battle of Piave River	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	7,000
Battle of Wagram	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	77,000–79,000
Battle of Znaim	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	9,000
Battle of Raab	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	14,300
Battle of Talavera	1809	Peninsular War	13,900
Battle of Somosierra	1808	Peninsular War	2,500
Battle of Bussaco	1810	Peninsular War	5,900
Battle of Slobozia	1811	Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)	20,000
Battle of Salamanca	1812	Peninsular War	18,800
Battle of Smolensk	1812	French invasion of Russia	24,000
Battle of Shevardino	1812	French invasion of Russia	10,000
Battle of Borodino	1812	French invasion of Russia	74,000
Second Battle of Polotsk	1812	French invasion of Russia	22,000
Battle of Maloyaroslavets	1812	French invasion of Russia	16,000
Battle of Vyazma	1812	French invasion of Russia	9,500
Battle of Wolkowisk	1812	French invasion of Russia	6,000
Battle of Krasnoi	1812	French invasion of Russia	28,000
Battle of Berezina	1812	French invasion of Russia	60,000
Battle of Vitoria	1813	Peninsular War	13,000
Battle of Lützen	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	31,155–52,000
Battle of Bautzen	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	45,000
Battle of Hanau	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	15,000
Battle of Dresden	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	48,000
Battle of Wartenburg	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	4,000
Battle of Großbeeren	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	5,000
Battle of Dennewitz	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	33,000
Battle of Leipzig	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	124,000
Battle of Orthez	1814	Peninsular War	5,100
Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube	1814	War of the Sixth Coalition	8,000
Battle of Wavre	1815	Hundred Days	5,000
Battle of Quatre Bras	1815	Hundred Days	10,000
Battle of Ligny	1815	Hundred Days	28,000
Battle of Waterloo	1815	Hundred Days	47,000+
Battle of Tolentino	1815	Neapolitan War	5,000
Battle of Ayacucho	1824	Peruvian War of Independence	3,400+
Battle of Jamrud	1837	Afghan-Sikh Wars	11,000+
Battle of Inkerman	1854	Crimean War	15,857
Battle of Choloki	1854	Crimean War	5,500
Battle of Kurekdere	1854	Crimean War	3,409
Battle of Alma	1854	Crimean War	9,100+
Battle of Magenta	1859	Second Italian War of Independence	14,900+
Battle of Solferino	1859	Second Italian War of Independence	39,500+
Battle of Jiangnan	1860	Taiping Rebellion	140,000+
First Battle of Bull Run	1861	American Civil War	4,690
Battle of Shiloh	1862	American Civil War	24,000
Battle of Antietam	1862	American Civil War	23,000–26,193
Battle of Fredericksburg	1862	American Civil War	17,300–17,962
Battle of Richmond	1862	American Civil War	5,900+
Battle of Gaines' Mill	1863	American Civil War	15,000+
Battle of Gettysburg	1863	American Civil War	51,000
Battle of Salem Church	1863	American Civil War	9,500+
Battle of Chickamauga	1863	American Civil War	34,624
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House	1864	American Civil War	30,000
Battle of Stones River	1862–1863	American Civil War	24,000
Battle of the Wilderness	1864	American Civil War	28,700
Battle of Cold Harbor	1864	American Civil War	18,000
Battle of Changzhou	1864	Taiping Rebellion	35,000
Battle of Hubei	1864	Taiping Rebellion	60,000+
Battle of Königgrätz	1866	Austro-Prussian War	47,500
Battle of Münchengrätz	1866	Austro-Prussian War	3,000
Battle of Tuyutí	1866	Paraguayan War	7,000–16,000
Battle of Curupayty	1866	Paraguayan War	4,300
Battle of Ytororó	1868	Paraguayan War	3,300+
Battle of Acosta Ñu	1869	Paraguayan War	5,102
Battle of Piribebuy	1869	Paraguayan War	2,210
Battle of Mars-la-Tour/Battle of Gravelotte	1870	Franco-Prussian War	34,000
Battle of Sedan	1870	Franco-Prussian War	26,000
Second Battle of Orleans	1870	Franco-Prussian War	8,740
Battle of Le Mans	1871	Franco-Prussian War	30,000
Battle of Tabaruzaka	1877	Satsuma Rebellion	8,400
Battle of Isandlwana	1879	Anglo-Zulu War	6,300
Battle of Kambula	1879	Anglo-Zulu War	2,134
Battle of Arica	1880	War of the Pacific	3,600+
Battle of Adwa	1896	First Italo-Ethiopian War	17,300
Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican	1896	Philippine Revolutionary War	2,000–15,000
Battle of Omdurman	1898	Mahdist War	20,430
Battle of Sakarya	1921	Greco–Turkish War of 1919–22	61,000

Naval battles

Battle or Action	Year	Conflict	Casualties
Battle of the Delta	1179 BC	Late Bronze Age collapse	5000-10,000
Battle of Salamis	480 BC	Second Persian invasion of Greece	50,000
Battle of Cape Ecnomus	256 BC	First Punic War	50,000
Battle of Actium	31 AC	War of Actium	7,500
Battle of the Masts	655	Arab–Byzantine wars	20,000
Battle of Dan-no-ura	1185	Genpei War	20,000
Battle of Yamen	1279	Song-Yuan Wars	110,000
Third battle of Bach Dang river	1288	Mongol invasion of Vietnam	85,000
Battle of Chaul	1508	Mamluk–Portuguese conflicts	840
Battle of Lepanto	1571	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	40,000
Battle of São Vicente	1583	Eighty Years' War	166
Battle of Solebay	1672	Third Anglo-Dutch War	3,100
Battles of Barfleur and La Hougue	1692	Nine Years' War	10,000
Battle of Pondicherry	1759	Seven Years' War	1,589
Battle of Chesma	1770	Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)	12,000
Battle of Dogger Bank	1781	Fourth Anglo-Dutch War	988
Battle of Vyborg Bay	1790	Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)	6,000–12,000
Battle of the Nile	1798	French campaign in Egypt and Syria	8,997
Battle of Copenhagen	1801	War of the Second Coalition	2,800
Battle of Trafalgar	1805	War of the Third Coalition	4,853
Battle of Navarino	1827	Greek War of Independence	6,000
Battle of Sinop	1853	Crimean War	3,366
Battle of Hampton Roads	1862	American Civil War	392
Battle of Riachuelo	1865	Paraguayan War	997
Battle of the Yalu River	1894	First Sino-Japanese War	1,730
Battle of the Yellow Sea	1904	Russo-Japanese War	566
Battle of Tsushima	1905	Russo-Japanese War	5,162
Battle of Lemnos	1913	First Balkan War	146
Battle of Coronel	1914	World War I	1,660
Battle of the Falkland Islands	1914	World War I	1,900
Battle of Dogger Bank	1915	World War I	1,081
Battle of Jutland	1916	World War I	12,000
Battle of Cape Machichaco	1937	Spanish Civil War	35
Battle of Cape Palos	1938	Spanish Civil War	765
Battle of the River Plate	1939	World War II	196
Attack on Mers-el-Kébir	1940	World War II	1,669
Operation Juno	1940	World War II	1,662
Last battle of Bismarck	1941	World War II	2,249
Battle of Cape Matapan	1941	World War II	2,303
Battle of Cape Bon	1941	World War II	817
Battle of the Java Sea	1942	World War II	2,336
Battle of Midway	1942	World War II	3,364
Battle of Santa Cruz Islands	1942	World War II	766
Battle of Savo Island	1942	World War II	1217
Naval Battle of Casablanca	1942	World War II	636
Battle of the Bismarck Sea	1943	World War II	2,903
Battle of Leyte Gulf	1944	World War II	15,500
Battle of San Carlos	1982	Falklands War	65