sparten

800,000–1,600,000 - Battle of Stalingrad (1942–1943)
670,000–1,500,000 - Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944)
700,000 - Battle of Moscow (1941–1942)
400,000–680,000 - Battle of Kiev (1941)
500,000 - Battle of Smolensk (1941)
370,000 - Battle of Voronezh (1942)
370,000 - Battle of Belarus (1941)
175,000–350,000 - Operation Bagration (1944)
230,000–350,000 - 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)
165,000–300,000 Battle of Chalons (451)
230,000 - Battle of Berlin (1945)
200,000 - Siege of Tenochtitlan (1520–1521)
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 Königsberg (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 (1939–1945)
70,000 - Second Battle of Anchialus (917)
69,000 - Battle of Leyte (1944)
66,000 - Battle of Donbass (1943)
56,000–66,000 - 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 (1985–1988)
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)
40,000–56,000 - 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)
30,000–50,000 - 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 (1944–1945)
37,000 - Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
36,500 - Battle of the Ebro (1938)
35,000 - Battle of Mukden (1905)
30,300–34,000 - 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)
20,000–30,000 - 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 (1864–1865)
7,000–11,000 - 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 (1939–1940)
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)
200–2,850 - Battle for Fallujah (November 8–November 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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Dreadnought

Wow look at those numbers and to think as humans we still havent learned

sparten

A nuclear war will make those numbers seem meaningless.

lwarmonger

Very true.

I think that the battle of Chalons should be taken off the list though. From everything I've read regarding the fall of the Roman Empire, most of the "hundreds of thousands" given for various sides were simply exaggeration. By 451 Rome was incapable of fielding large armies (like over 30,000), and most of the barbarian hordes didn't really number more than 100000 in their entirety, much less in terms of warriors. Even assuming that the Huns had a number of their vassal peoples (Germans, mostly), it is doubtful they and the Romans could have raised an army the size of the reported casualties... much less suffered that many.

Same holds true for the Siege of Tenochtitlan. The estimates I've heard have put Tenochtitlan's population at around 100,000. Even assuming bringing in other warriors and Spanish native allies, that is quite a stretch.

Officer of Engineers

Alot of battles didn't make the list. Vimy Ridge, Oratona, Dieppe, Canae, Carthage, Baghdad, Jerusalem, anything by old Genghis or Tammerlane.

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leib10

Notice how many took place on the Eastern Front.

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sparten

Here you go sir. some of them at least

30,000,000–60,000,000 - Mongol Conquests (13th century)
33,000,000–36,000,000 - An Lushan Rebellion (756–763)
25,000,000–Manchu Conquest of Ming China (1616–1644)
17,000,000 - Timur Lenk's conquests (1370–1405)
3,000,000–8,000,000 - Thirty Years War (1618–1648)

250,000–800,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Hulagu Khan (1258)
50,000–350,000 - Rape of Nanking, China (1937)
60,000–100,000 - Sack of Jerusalem, First Crusade (1099)
70,000 - Sack of Merv by Genghis Khan (1221)
70,000 - St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (France, 1572)
30,000–40,000 - massacred in Novgorod by Ivan the Terrible
25,000 - Sack of Magdeburg (Thirty Years War, Germany, 1631)
20,000 - Sack of Baghdad by Timur (1401)

As for Dieppe, I think you would have better sources than I.

Baghdad's been sacked, twice

Maybe you should show these figures to the anti-war lobby.

Praxus

All three battles against Persia by Alexander should be on the list, as well as the Battle of Platea, the Battle of Salamis, the Battle of Zama, Utica(more of a Massacre then a battle), et al. Not to mention numerous other battles in the 2nd Punic War alone.

For the time, these battles were absolutely massive. This is a time when the whole population of the earth was around 500 million (or less).

canadian boy

here's another war list for you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_toll

it includes many types of distasters as well

The Chap

Lepanto:

Largest material naval loss in numbers ever. In toto.

Addition:

"Battles" and "conflicts" seem to be muddled (sorry).

Thence; the tai'ping rebellion ( one incident noted above ). Altogether 30,000,000

Min.

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Dreadnought

The Bulge must be right up there with the rest.

The Chap

If we were to consider "class war" and/or the entire Marxist +spawn varients part of all of this then all mutations of communism (including the proto-moaist tai'ping jobby) , Then the ongoing war between the working class and their capitalist slave masters seems to take the Grand Prix.

To save any bother regarding defs:

Working Class = anyone who works for a wage
Capitalist = anyone who controls financial and therefore fiduciary power over erm, presumably the former.

Well I work (as infrequently as pos.) and I own stocks etc. Anyone with a pension fund has/does.

So why is China smiling now alongside Vietnam (would add Russia but smiling is a cultural taboo) vs Cuba where as I have stated before they smile for the camera but in private ...

Maximus

ANcient & medieval battles:

Battle of Catalunia, between The Huns & The Romans.

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leib10

IIRC, the United States suffered more casualties (KIA, wounded, and captured) during the Battle of the Bulge than any other battle we've engaged in (except for Civil War battles, which don't really count).

sparten

I think the whole Okinawa Campaign exceeded that.