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222 poems, 384 memoirs, diaries and letters, 137 histories and 81 novels that name 132 of the battles.
Public-domain texts from Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive and Wikisource, chosen for each battle page; every title opens the poem, or the passages about the battle, with a link to the whole text at its library. Grouped by battle, earliest first.
draft The works were matched to the battles automatically and have not been through review yet.
8 November 1620 · Thirty Years' War
Battle of White Mountain
17 September 1631 (7 September in the Julian calendar then used by Protestant Germany and Sweden) · Thirty Years' War
Battle of Breitenfeld (1631)
5–6 September 1634 (26–27 August in the Julian calendar then used by the Swedes and Protestant Germany) · Thirty Years' War
Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
23 October 1642 · English Civil War
Battle of Edgehill
19 May 1643 · Thirty Years' War
Battle of Rocroi
2 July 1644 · English Civil War
Battle of Marston Moor
14 June 1645 · English Civil War
Battle of Naseby
3 September 1650 · English Civil War
Battle of Dunbar (1650)
14 June 1658 (4 June Old Style) · Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)
Battle of the Dunes (1658)
12 September 1683 · Great Turkish War
Battle of Vienna
27 July 1689 · Williamite War in Ireland
Battle of Killiecrankie
1 July 1690 (Old Style; 11 July New Style) · Williamite War in Ireland
Battle of the Boyne
13 August 1704 · War of the Spanish Succession
Battle of Blenheim
11 May 1745 · War of the Austrian Succession
Battle of Fontenoy
21 September 1745 · Jacobite Rising of 1745
Battle of Prestonpans
16 April 1746 · Jacobite Rising of 1745
Battle of Culloden
18 June 1757 · Seven Years' War
Battle of Kolín
23 June 1757 · Seven Years' War
Battle of Plassey
5 November 1757 · Seven Years' War
Battle of Rossbach
5 December 1757 · Seven Years' War
Battle of Leuthen
25 August 1758 · Seven Years' War
Battle of Zorndorf
1 August 1759 · Seven Years' War
Battle of Minden
13 September 1759 · Seven Years' War
Battle of the Plains of Abraham
17 June 1775 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Bunker Hill
26 December 1776 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Trenton
3 January 1777 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Princeton
19 September and 7 October 1777 · American Revolutionary War
Battles of Saratoga
4 October 1777 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Germantown
28 June 1778 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Monmouth
16 August 1780 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Camden
17 January 1781 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Cowpens
15 March 1781 · American Revolutionary War
Battle of Guilford Court House
15–17 November 1796 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Arcole
14–15 January 1797 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Rivoli
21 July 1798 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of the Pyramids
14 June 1800 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Marengo
3 December 1800 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Hohenlinden
2 December 1805 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Austerlitz
14 October 1806 · Napoleonic Wars
Battles of Jena and Auerstedt
16 January 1809 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Corunna
5–6 July 1809 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Wagram
27–28 July 1809 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Talavera
3–5 May 1811 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro
16 May 1811 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Albuera
22 July 1812 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Salamanca
21 June 1813 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Vitoria
26–27 August 1813 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Dresden
16–19 October 1813 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Leipzig
25 July 1814 · War of 1812
Battle of Lundy's Lane
8 January 1815 · War of 1812
Battle of New Orleans
16 June 1815 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Ligny
16 June 1815 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Quatre Bras
18 June 1815 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Waterloo
21 April 1836 · Texas Revolution
Battle of San Jacinto
22–23 February 1847 · Mexican–American War
Battle of Buena Vista
20 September 1854 (8 September Old Style) · Crimean War
Battle of the Alma
5 November 1854 (24 October Old Style) · Crimean War
Battle of Inkerman
4 June 1859 · Second Italian War of Independence
Battle of Magenta
24 June 1859 · Second Italian War of Independence
Battle of Solferino
21 July 1861 · American Civil War
First Battle of Bull Run
11–16 February 1862 · American Civil War
Battle of Fort Donelson
6–7 April 1862 · American Civil War
Battle of Shiloh
1 July 1862 · American Civil War
Battle of Malvern Hill
28–30 August 1862 · American Civil War
Second Battle of Bull Run
17 September 1862 · American Civil War
Battle of Antietam
11–15 December 1862 · American Civil War
Battle of Fredericksburg
31 December 1862 – 2 January 1863 · American Civil War
Battle of Stones River
30 April – 6 May 1863 · American Civil War
Battle of Chancellorsville
1–3 July 1863 · American Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
18–20 September 1863 · American Civil War
Battle of Chickamauga
23–25 November 1863 · American Civil War
Battles for Chattanooga
5–7 May 1864 · American Civil War
Battle of the Wilderness
8–21 May 1864 · American Civil War
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
30 November 1864 · American Civil War
Battle of Franklin (1864)
15–16 December 1864 · American Civil War
Battle of Nashville
3 July 1866 · Austro-Prussian War
Battle of Königgrätz
6 August 1870 · Franco-Prussian War
Battle of Wörth (1870)
16 August 1870 · Franco-Prussian War
Battle of Mars-la-Tour
18 August 1870 · Franco-Prussian War
Battle of Gravelotte
1 September 1870 (capitulation 2 September) · Franco-Prussian War
Battle of Sedan (1870)
22 January 1879 · Anglo-Zulu War
Battle of Isandlwana
1 July 1898 · Spanish–American War
Battles of San Juan Hill and El Caney
2 September 1898 · Mahdist War
Battle of Omdurman
10–11 December 1899 · Second Boer War
Battle of Magersfontein
23–24 January 1900 · Second Boer War
Battle of Spion Kop
15–24 August 1914 · World War I
Battle of Cer
23 August 1914 · World War I
Battle of Mons
26 August 1914 · World War I
Battle of Le Cateau (1914)
5–12 September 1914 · World War I
First Battle of the Marne
10–13 March 1915 · World War I
Battle of Neuve Chapelle
22 April – 25 May 1915 · World War I
Second Battle of Ypres
25 September – 16 October 1915 · World War I
Battle of Loos
1 July – 18 November 1916 · World War I
Battle of the Somme
9 April – 16 May 1917 · World War I
Battle of Arras (1917)
16 April – 9 May 1917 · World War I
Second Battle of the Aisne
7–14 June 1917 · World War I
Battle of Messines (1917)
31 July – 10 November 1917 · World War I
Battle of Passchendaele
31 October – 7 November 1917 · World War I
Third Battle of Gaza
20 November – 7 December 1917 · World War I
Battle of Cambrai (1917)
- A treasury of war poetry, British and American poems of the world war, 1914-1919. Second series
- Cambrai and Marne
- The Gold Stripe. A tribute to the British Columbia Men who have been killed, crippled and wounded in the Great War [Volume1,1918]
- O. A. C. Review Volume 34 Issue 4, December 1921
- Undertones of war
9–29 April 1918 · World War I
Battle of the Lys (1918)
27 May – 6 June 1918 · World War I
Third Battle of the Aisne
28–31 May 1918 · World War I
Battle of Cantigny
1–26 June 1918 · World War I