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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.
20 September 1792 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Valmy
6 November 1792 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Jemappes
26 June 1794 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Fleurus (1794)
5 August 1796 · French Revolutionary Wars
Battle of Castiglione
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
7–8 February 1807 (26–27 January Old Style) · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Eylau
14 June 1807 (2 June Old Style) · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Friedland
16 January 1809 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Corunna
21–22 May 1809 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Aspern-Essling
5–6 July 1809 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Wagram
27–28 July 1809 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Talavera
16 May 1811 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Albuera
22 July 1812 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Salamanca
7 September 1812 (26 August Old Style) · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Borodino
20–21 May 1813 · Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Bautzen
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
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
5 November 1854 (24 October Old Style) · Crimean War
Battle of Inkerman
23 August 1914 · World War I
Battle of Mons
26 August 1914 · World War I
Battle of Le Cateau (1914)
26–30 August 1914 · World War I
Battle of Tannenberg (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
2–12 May 1915 · World War I
Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive
25 September – 16 October 1915 · World War I
Battle of Loos
22–25 November 1915 · World War I
Battle of Ctesiphon (1915)
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)
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
Battle of Belleau Wood
15–23 June 1918 · World War I