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Famous battles

Order these battles by the year they were fought. You place all 31 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the famous battles timeline game works

Famous battles fill this deck, with a one-line summary of who fought and who won printed under each name. You're ordering them by the year each battle was fought. One battle starts on the timeline with its year showing. Choose where each new card fits among the battles already placed. A good read reveals the year; a wrong one still puts the battle in its true place and costs one of your three lives.

The deck crosses most of recorded history, from the ancient world to the modern era, on land and at sea. The summary under each title names the sides, and that's your best clue: if you know who was at war with whom, you can narrow it down. The Napoleonic years are crowded, and medieval battles can be centuries apart even when they feel alike.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 43 times. An average run places 9.5 cards, and 77% of all placements land in the right spot. 9% of runs place every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Battle of Blenheim missed 59% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Battle of Little Bighorn missed 42% of the time, usually by about 4 places
  • Battle of Vienna missed 42% of the time, usually by a single place

The safest card is Battle of Waterloo, placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 31 cards you might be dealt, with 3 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Battle of Watling Street Romans crushed Boudica's British revolt
  • Battle of Milvian Bridge Constantine defeated Maxentius for Rome
  • Battle of Tours Charles Martel's Franks halted the Umayyad advance
  • Battle of Hastings Normans under William defeated King Harold
  • Battle of Manzikert Seljuk Turks routed the Byzantine army
  • Battle of Hattin Saladin destroyed the Crusader army
  • Battle of Bannockburn Scots under Bruce beat the English
  • Battle of Crecy English longbowmen defeated the French
  • Battle of Agincourt Henry V's English overwhelmed the French
  • Battle of Bosworth Field Henry Tudor defeated Richard III
  • Battle of Vienna Holy League broke the Ottoman siege
  • Battle of Blenheim Grand Alliance defeated France
  • Battle of Poltava Russia crushed Sweden's Charles XII
  • Battle of Culloden British forces defeated the Jacobites
  • Battle of the Plains of Abraham British took Quebec from France
  • Battle of Saratoga Americans defeated a British army
  • Battle of Yorktown Americans and French forced Cornwallis to surrender
  • Battle of Austerlitz Napoleon defeated the Austro-Russians
  • Battle of Trafalgar Nelson's fleet beat the French and Spanish
  • Battle of Waterloo Coalition ended Napoleon's rule
  • Battle of Antietam Bloodiest single day of the U.S. Civil War
  • Battle of Gettysburg Union turned back Lee's invasion
  • Battle of Little Bighorn Sioux and Cheyenne wiped out Custer
  • Battle of Tsushima Japan destroyed the Russian fleet
  • Battle of the Somme Costly British and French offensive
  • Battle of Britain RAF repelled the German air assault
  • Battle of Midway U.S. navy crippled Japan's carriers
  • Battle of Kursk Soviets stopped the German tank offensive

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