Decisive Battles - Random Trivia Questions

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy's The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World was published in 1851, and several authors have added their suggestions to the list to cover most of recent history since then. How many of these famous battles (or collection of related battles) can you name from these brief descriptions?

Decisive Battles Questions

• Q1) August (or maybe September) 11, 490 B.C.: King Darius I of Persia attempts to conquer Greece.
• Q2) October 14, 1066: Duke William's Norman army fights King Harold II's English army at Senlac Hill.
• Q3) September 19 and October 7, 1777: The Continental Army outnumbers British and Hessian (and Canadian and Iroquois) forces by almost two-to-one.
• Q4) June 18, 1815: The French Empire takes on the coalition forces of the U.K., Prussia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Hanover, Nassau, and Brunswick.
• Q5) December 26, 1862 to July 4, 1863: The Union army attempts to wrest control of the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River.
• Q6) July 3, 1866: Prussia combats the Austrian Empire in Bohemia.
• Q7) May 27 to 28, 1905: Japan and Russia wage war on the water in steel battleships.
• Q8) September 5 to 12, 1914: French and British troops face off against German armies near Paris.
• Q9) August 13 to 25, 1920: The "Miracle at the Vistula" turns things around and leads to the Treaty of Riga a half-year later.
• Q10) June 4 to 7, 1942: Shortly after the Battle of the Coral Sea, Japan launches another major attack on the U.S. in the Pacific.
• Q11) July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943: Germany and Russia fight for control of the city formerly known as Tsaritsyn.
• Q12) January 30 to September 23, 1968: North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces tangle with South Vietnamese, American, South Korean, and other armies throughout South Vietnam.