Location / Name 

Attackers

Defenders

Victory

Bataille de Marignan

Battle of Marignano

22 000 Swiss soldiers and Milanese Allies

Francis I of France and Venetian allies (39 000 French soldiers and allies)

François 1er et Bayard

Francis I and Bayard

Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard (circa 1780-1850), Francis I at Marignano (Public Domain / Domaine public)

Bataille de Lépante

Battle of Lepanto

Don John of Austria, papal forces, Spain, Venice, Genoa, Malta and other allies (208 ships flotilla)

(300 navires, dont seuls une quarantaine furent rescapés)

Ali Pacha (approx. 300 ships, of which about 40 were able to sail away)

Don Juan d'Autriche et alliés

Don John of Austria and Allies

Fleet formation at the Battle of Lepanto

Source: William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott, A History of Sea Power, 1920 (Public Domain / Domaine public)

L'Invincible Armada

The Spanish Armada

130 navires espagnols

130 Spanish ships

197 navires anglais et hollandais

197 English and Dutch ships

Royaume d'Angleterre et République hollandaise

Kingdom of England and Dutch Republic

Map Courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy

Battle of Rocroi

Louis II Condé, Duc d'Enghien 

(le Grand Condé - France)

15 000 soldats et 7 000 cavaliers

Louis II Condé, Duke of Enghien (France)

15 000 soldiers and 7 000 cavalry units

 Commandant : Francisco de Melo

18 000 soldats et 9 000 cavaliers

Armies of Flanders and Spain

Commander : Francisco de Melo

18 000 soldiers and 9 000 cavalry units

France

Map Courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy

Battle of Vienna

100 000 soldats austro-allemands et 30 000 hommes de l'armée polonaise = 130 000 soldats

Jan III Sobieski (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)

30 000-man Polish relief army  + 40 000 troops from the Habsburg army + 60 000 allies = 130 000 troops

138 000 hommes

Ottoman army, commanded by Grand Vizier Merzifonlu Kara Mustafa Pasha

138 000 men

Jean III de Pologne

Jan III Sobieski

Jozef Brandt (1863), Battle of Vienna, Museum Wojska Polskiego (Public Domain / Domaine public)

Battle of the Boyne

James II d'Irlande

6 000 Français et 19 000 Irlandais catholiques

James II of Ireland

6 000 French and 19 000 Irish Catholics

36 000 soldats anglais et protestants

William III of Orange

36 000 English and Protestant soldiers

Guillaume III d'Orange

William III of Orange

Jan Wyck (circa 1693), Battle of the Boyne (Public Domain / Domaine public)

Bataille de Blenheim (Höchstädt)

Battle of Blenheim

Duke of Marlborough (England) and Austrian Commander Eugene de Savoy

Count Camille de Tallard (France) and Elector of Bavaria Maximilian II Emmanuel

Angleterre et Autriche

England and Austria

Maps Courtesy of the Department of History, United States Military Academy

Bataille de Poltava

Battle of Poltava

Charles XII de Suède

25 000 soldats

Charles XII of Sweden

25 000 soldiers

40 000 soldiers

Peter the Great (Russia)

40 000 soldiers

Russie

Russia

Denis Marten the Younger (1726), Battle of Poltava (Public Domain / Domaine public)

Battle of Fontenoy

Marshall Maurice de Saxe accompanied by Louis XV and 56 000 soldiers (France)

Duc de Cumberland   (Angleterre), Maréchal Konigseck (Autriche), Hollande et 50 000 soldats anglais, autrichiens, hanovriens et hollandais

Duke of Cumberland (British), Marshall Konigseck (Austria), Holland and 50 000 English, Hanoverians, Austrian and Dutch soldiers

France

Plan of the Battle of Fontenoy (1745) [Public Domain / Domaine public]

Bataille de Plassey

Battle of Plassey

Robert Clive (British East India Company)

3 000 soldats anglais et indiens

3 000 English and Indian soldiers

50 000 soldats

50 000 soldiers

British East India Company

Francis Hayman (circa 1762), Lord Clive meeting with Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey (Public Domain / Domaine public)

(Bataille des Plaines d'Abraham)

Siege of Quebec

(Battle of the Plains of Abraham)

James Wolfe (Great Britain), including English, Irish and German soldiers

Marquis de Montcalm (France), incluant des soldats français, canadiens et autochtones

Marquis de Montcalm (France), including French, Canadian and Native soldiers

Grande-Bretagne

Great Britain

Hervey Smith (1797), View of the taking of Quebec on 13th September 1759 (Public Domain / Domaine public)

Battle of Ste Foy (Sillery)

Chevalier de Lévis (France), incluant 6900 soldats français, canadiens et autochtones

Chevalier de Lévis (France), including 6900 French, Canadian and Native soldiers

General James Murray (England), including 3500 English soldiers

France

George B. Campion (circa 1850), The Battle of Sainte-Foy (Public Domain / Domaine public)

1760

(8 sept.)

Capitulation of Montreal

General Jeffery Amherst (Great Britain), including three British armies and 17 000 soldiers

Chevalier de Lévis et Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil, gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France (Royaume de France)

Chevalier de Lévis and Pierre de Rigaud, marquis of Vaudreuil and governor of New France (Kingdom of France)

Grande-Bretagne, Colonies américaines et alliés Iroquois

(Note : l'armée franco-canadienne n'abandonne aucun drapeau)

Great Britain, British America and Iroquois Confederacy

(P.S.: the Franco-Canadian army decided to burn their flags instead of giving them to Amherst)

Reddition des Français à Montréal en 1760 (circa 1800) [Public Domain / Domaine public]

Batailles de Saratoga

General John Burgoyne (England)

7 200 soldats / soldiers (bataille #1 / 1st battle)

6 600 soldats / soldiers (bataille #2 / 2nd battle)

Horatio Gates (forces coloniales américaines) avec le soutien du Comte de Vergennes (France), de l'Espagne et de la Hollande

Horatio Gates (American Colonial Forces) with the support of Comte de Vergennes (France), Spain and Holland

circa 9 000 - 15 000 soldats / soldiers

États-Unis d'Amérique

United States of America

Source: United States Army Center of Military History (1989).  [Public Domain / Domaine public]

Bataille de Yorktown

Siege of Yorktown

France (12 000 soldats / 12 000 soldiers)

United States (9 000 soldats / 9 000 soldiers)

Grande-Bretagne / Great Britain

Hesse-Kassel

9 000 soldats / soldiers

France / United States

Source: S.G. Goodrich, A Pictorial History of the United States, Philadelphia: J. H. Butler & Co., 1875, p. 277.

Battle of Valmy

Duke of Brunswick (Prussia)

35 000 soldats / soldiers

France

Général Kellerman (armée du Centre) et Général Dumouriez (armée du Nord)

General Kellerman (Middle army) and General Dumouriez (Northern army)

47 000 soldats / 47 000 soldiers

République française

French Republic

Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse (1835), Bataille de Valmy le 20 septembre 1792, Musée national du château de Versailles (Public Domain / Domaine public)