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Bloodiest Battles in History
800,0001,600,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (19421943)
670,0001,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (19411944) 700,000 - Battle of Moscow (19411942) 400,000680,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941) 500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941) 370,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942) 370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941) 175,000350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944) 230,000350,000 - Battle of Kursk (1943) 300,000 - Battle of the Somme (1916) 270,000 - Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive (1942) 270,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1944) 260,000 - Battle of Verdun (1916) 260,000 - Battle of the Caucasus (1942) 165,000300,000 Battle of Chalons (451) 230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945) 200,000 - Siege of Tenochtitlan (15201521) 190,000 - Battle of West Ukraine (1941) 180,000 - Battle of France (1940) 170,000 - Battle of the Lower Dnieper (1943) 170,000 - Battle of Kφnigsberg (1945) 150,000 - Battle of Rostov (1941) 150,000 - Battle of Okinawa (1945) 150,000 - Battle of Passchendaele (1917) 132,000 - Battle of Normandy (1944) 130,000 - Battle of Gallipoli (1916) 130,000 - Battle of Budapest (1945) 125,000 - Third Battle of Nanking (1864) 125,000 - Battle of Lemberg (1914) 115,000 - Battle of the Frontiers (1914) 100,000 - Battle of Chernikov-Poltava (1943) 100,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1943) 90,000 - Battle of the Aisne (1917) 83,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1941) 80,000 - Battle of the Somme (1918) 80,000 - Battle of the Marne (1918) 74,000 - Battle of Polyarnoe-Karelia (1941) 72,000+ - Battle of Belgorod (1943) 70,000 - Second Battle of the Atlantic (19391945) 70,000 - Second Battle of Anchialus (917) 69,000 - Battle of Leyte (1944) 66,000 - Battle of Donbass (1943) 56,00066,000 - Battle of Cannae (216 BC) 65,000 - Battle of Lvov-Sandomir (1944) 64,000 - Battle of the Aisne (1918) 62,000 - Battle of Artois (1915) 61,000 - Battle of the Baltic (1944) 60,000 - Battle of Basra (19851988) 60,000 - Battle of Monte Cassino (1944) 60,000 - Battle of Arras (1917) 60,000 - First Battle of Ypres (1914) 60,000 - Battle of Champagne (1915) 40,00056,000 - Tet Offensive (1968) 55,000 - Korsun Pocket (1944) 55,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1943) 50,000 - Meuse-Argonne offensive (1918) 50,000 - Eleventh Battle of the Isonzo (1917) 50,000 - Battle of Hsuchow (1927) 30,00050,000 - Battle of Naissus (268) 45,000 - Fourth Battle of Kharkov (1943) 44,000 - Battle of the Crimea (1944) 42,000 - Battle of the Seelow Heights (1945) 40,000 - Battle of Imphal (1944) 38,000 - Battle of the Bulge (19441945) 37,000 - Battle of Tannenberg (1914) 36,500 - Battle of the Ebro (1938) 35,000 - Battle of Mukden (1905) 30,30034,000 - Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) 32,000 - Battle of Lepanto (1571) 31,000 - Battle of Thapsus (46 BC) 31,000 - Battle of Taierzhuang (1937) 30,000 - Battle of Saipan (1944) 30,000 - Battle of Konotop (1659) 30,000 - Battle of Marignan (1515) 30,000 - Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (9) 20,00030,000 - Battle of Munda (45 BC) 29,000 - Battle of Iwo Jima (1945) 25,000 - Battle of Pydna (168 BC) 26,000 - Katyn Massacre (1940) 22,500 - Battle of Leipzig (1813) 20,000 - Battle of the Trebia (218 BC) 18,500 - Battle of Borodino (1812) 16,500 - Battle of Halhin Gol (1939) 15,000 - Battle of Waterloo (1815) 15,000 - Battle of Lake Trasimene (217 BC) 11,000 - Battle of Heraclea (180 BC) 11,000 - Siege of Petersburg, Virginia (18641865) 7,00011,000 - Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC) 10,500 - Battle of Asculum (279 BC) 10,360 - Battle of Mons Graupius (83 or 84) 10,000 - Battle of the Metaurus (207 BC) 10,000 - Battle of Celaya (1913) 8,700 - Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC) 7,058 - Battle of Gettysburg (1863) 6,592 - Battle of Marathon (490 BC) 5,350+ - Battle of Suomussalmi (19391940) 5,000+ - Battle of Dara (530) 5,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) 4,808 - Battle of Antietam (1862) 4,360 - Battle of Chickamauga (1863) 4,329 - Battle of Isandlwana (1879) 4,175 - Battle of Leuthen (1757) 3,477 - Battle of Shiloh (1862) 3,205 - Second Battle of Bull Run (1862) 2002,850 - Battle for Fallujah (November 8November 14, 2004) 2,800 - Battle of Midway (1942) 2,400 - La Noche Triste (1520) 2,000+ - Battle of Manzikert (1071) 1,705 - Battle of Cold Harbor (June 1-3, 1864) 1,700 - Battle of Vicksburg (1863) 1,000+ - Battle of Dyrrhachium (48 BC) 868 - First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861) 622 - Jamestown Massacre (1622) 567 - Battle of Rorke's Drift (1879) 495 - Battle of Monongahela (1755) 383 - Battle of the Alamo (1836) 366 - Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) 350 - Battle of Spion Kop (1900) 302 - Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) If you will notice the most bloodiest seem to be from the Eastern Front.
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