This is a list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for each battle. The battles are listed in chronological order by starting date (or planned start date).
Up to the Crimean War
| Battle or Campaign |
Order of Battle |
Date |
| Battle of Lepanto |
Holy League and Turkish fleets |
October 7, 1571 |
| Thirty Years' War |
| Battle of Breitenfeld |
Holy Roman Empire, Catholic League, Sweden, and Saxony |
September 17, 1631 |
| Battle of Rain |
Sweden and the Catholic League |
April 15, 1632 |
| English Civil War |
| Battle of Marston Moor |
Scots, Parliamentarians and Royalists |
July 2, 1644 |
| Battle of Naseby |
Parliamentarians and Royalists |
June 14, 1645 |
| War of the Spanish Succession |
| Battle of Blenheim |
Allied and Franco-Bavarian armies |
August 13, 1704 |
| American Revolutionary War |
| Battle of Long Island |
American and British armies |
August 27, 1776 |
| Battle of Brandywine |
American and British armies |
September 11, 1776 |
| Battle of Paoli |
American and British armies |
September 21, 1776 |
| Siege of Yorktown |
American, French, and British armies |
September 28–October 17, 1781 |
| Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) |
| Battle of Reval |
Russian and Swedish fleets |
May 13, 1790 |
| French Revolutionary Wars |
| Glorious First of June |
British and French fleets |
June 1, 1794 |
| French Revolutionary Wars |
| Battle of Tory Island |
French and British navies |
October 12, 1798 |
| Napoleonic Wars |
| Battle of Trafalgar |
British and Franco-Spanish fleets |
October 21, 1805 |
| Battle of Austerlitz |
French, Austrian and Russian |
December 2, 1805 |
| Battle of Eylau |
France, Russia, and Prussia |
February 7-8, 1807 |
| Battle of Albuera |
France and Anglo-Allied |
May 16, 1811 |
| Battle of Tolentino |
Austria, Naples |
May 2-3, 1815 |
| Battle of Quatre Bras |
France and Anglo-Allied |
June 16, 1815 |
| Waterloo Campaign |
French, Anglo-Allied and Prussian |
June 16-18, 1815 |
| Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) |
| Battle of Athos |
Russian and Turkish navies |
July 1, 1807 |
| Barbary Wars |
| Bombardment of Algiers |
British, Dutch, and Algerian Navies |
August 27, 1816 |
| Crimean War |
| Battle of Sinop |
Fleets of the Russian and Ottoman Empires |
November 30, 1853 |
| Battle of Balaclava |
British, French and Russian armies |
October 25, 1854 |
American Civil War
- See also: American Civil War
| Battle or Campaign |
Order of Battle |
Date |
| 1861 |
| First Battle of Bull Run |
Confederate Army of the Potomac and Army of the Shenandoah
and Union Military Department of Washington |
July 21, 1861 |
| Battle of Wilson's Creek |
Confederate Army
and Union Army of the West |
August 10, 1861 |
| 1862 |
| Battle of Pea Ridge |
Confederate Army of the West
and Union Army of the Southwest |
March 7-8, 1862 |
| Battle of Kernstown I |
Confederate Valley District
and Union 1st Division, V Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 23, 1862 |
| Battle of Shiloh |
Confederate Army of Mississippi
and Union Army of the Tennessee and Army of the Ohio |
April 6-7, 1862 |
| Siege of Corinth |
Union Department of the Mississippi and Confederate Army of Mississippi |
April 29-June 10, 1862 |
| Battle of Williamsburg |
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and Union Army of the Potomac |
May 5, 1862 |
| Battle of Cedar Mountain |
Confederate Left wing, Army of Northern Virginia
and Union I Corps, Army of Virginia |
August 9, 1862 |
| Second Battle of Bull Run |
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
and Union Army of Virginia and detachments, Army of the Potomac |
August 29-30, 1862 |
| Battle of Chantilly |
Confederate Left wing, Army of Northern Virginia
and Union III and IV Corps, Army of the Potomac |
September 1, 1862 |
| Battle of Antietam |
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
and Union Army of the Potomac |
September 17, 1862 |
| Battle of Iuka |
Confederate Army of the West and Union Army of the Mississippi |
September 19, 1862 |
| Second Battle of Corinth |
Confederate Army of Tennessee and Union Army of the Mississippi |
October 3 - 4, 1862 |
| Battle of Prairie Grove |
Union Army of the Frontier and Confederate I Corps, Trans-Mississippi Army |
December 7, 1862 |
| Battle of Fredericksburg |
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
and Union Army of the Potomac |
December 13, 1862 |
| Battle of Stones River |
Confederate Army of Tennessee
and Union Army of the Cumberland |
December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863 |
| 1863 |
| Battle of Chancellorsville |
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
and Union Army of the Potomac |
April 30-May 2, 1863 |
| Battle of Vicksburg |
Confederate Army of Mississippi
and Union Army of the Tennessee |
May 18-July 4, 1863 |
| Battle of Winchester II |
Confederate Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
and Union 2nd division, VIII Corps |
June 13-15, 1863 |
| Battle of Gettysburg |
Confederate Army of North Virginia
and Union Army of the Potomac |
July 1-3, 1863 |
| Battle of Salineville |
Confederate Cavalry vs. Union Army |
July 26, 1863 |
| Battle of Chickamauga |
Confederate Army of Tennessee
and Union Army of the Cumberland |
September 18-20, 1863 |
| 1864 |
| Battle of Olustee |
Confederate District of East Florida
and Union District of Florida |
February 20, 1864 |
| Battle of the Wilderness |
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
and Union Army of the Potomac and IX Corps |
May 5-7, 1864 |
| Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
Convederate Army of Northern Virginia
and Union Army of the Potomac and IX Corps |
May 8-21, 1864 |
| Battle of Cold Harbor |
Confederate Army of Northern Virginia
and Union Army of the Potomac |
May 31 – June 12, 1864 |
| Battle of New Market |
Confederate Department of Western Virginia
and Union Department of West Virgnia |
May 15, 1864 |
| Battle of Kennesaw Mountain |
Confederate Army of Tenneesee
and Union Army of the Cumberland, Army of the Tennessee, and Army of the Ohio |
June 27, 1864 |
| Battle of Monocacy Junction |
Confederate Army of the Valley District
and Union Middle Department |
July 9, 1864 |
| Battle of Peachtree Creek |
Confederate Army of Tennessee
and Union Army of the Cumberland |
July 20, 1864 |
| Battle of Kernstown II |
Confederate Army of the Valley District
andUnion Army of Western Virginia |
July 24, 1864 |
| Battle of Cedar Creek |
Confederate Army of the Valley
and Union Army of the Shenandoah |
October 19, 1864 |
| Battle of Franklin II |
Confederate Army of Tennessee
and Union IV and XXIII Corps |
November 30, 1864 |
| Battle of Nashville |
Confederate Army of Tennessee
and Union army |
December 15-16, 1864 |
| 1865 |
| Battle of Bentonville |
Confederate Army of the South
and Union Grand Army of the West |
March 19-21, 1865 |
Franco-Prussian War
World War I
- See also: World War I
| Battle or Campaign |
Order of Battle |
Date |
| Battle of Tannenberg |
German Eighth Army and Russian Northwest Front |
August 17-September 1, 1914 |
| Battle of Mons |
British Expeditionary Force and German First Army |
August 23, 1914 |
| Siege of Tsingtao |
German and Japanese forces |
October 31 - November 7, 1914 |
| Battle of Dogger Bank |
British and German Fleets |
January 24, 1915 |
| Battle of Jutland |
British and German fleets |
May, 1916 |
| Battle of Vimy Ridge |
Canadian Corps and German Sixth Army |
April 9-12, 1917 |
| Battle of Hill 70 |
Canadian Corps and German 7th and 185th Infantry Divisions and 4th Guard Infantry Division |
August 15-25, 1917 |
| Battle of Caporetto |
Italian Second Army and German/Austro-Hungarian Fourteenth Army |
October 24 - November 19, 1917 |
| Battle of Cambrai |
British III, IV, V, VII, and Tank Corps and German Second Army |
November 20-December 3, 1917 |
| Battle of Jerusalem |
Forces of U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and Ottoman Empire |
December 8-26, 1917 |
| Battle of Amiens |
British Fourth, French First, and German Second and Eighteenth Armies |
August 8, 1918 |
Inter-war period
| Battle or Campaign |
Order of Battle |
Date |
| Spanish Civil War |
| Battle of Guadalajara |
Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie and Republican IV Corps |
March 8 to 23, 1937 |
| Second Italo-Abyssinian War |
| Second Italo-Abyssinian War |
Italian Army and Ethiopian Army |
October 1935-May 1937 |
| Second Sino-Japanese War |
| January 28 Incident |
Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army and Chinese Shanghai Front |
January 28 - March 3, 1932 |
| Operation Nekka |
Japanese Kwangtung Army and Manchukuoan Force |
January 1-May 31, 1933 |
| Defense of the Great Wall |
Chinese Northeastern Army |
January 1-May 31, 1933 |
| Suiyuan Campaign (1936) |
Japanese Inner Mongolian Army and Chinese Suiyuan Provincial Forces |
October - November, 1936 |
| Battle of Beiping-Tianjin |
Japanese First Army and Second Fleet and Chinese 29th Route Army |
Early July to early August, 1937 |
| Operation Chahar |
Japanese Peiping Railway Garrison Force, Kwangtung Army, and Chahar Expeditionary Force |
August 1937 |
| Tianjin–Pukou Railway Operation |
Japanese 2nd Army and Chinese 1st Army Group |
August to November 1937 |
| Battle of Shanghai |
Japanese and Chinese forces |
August 13-November 26, 1937 |
| Battle of Taiyuan |
Japanese North China Front Army and Chinese 2nd War Area |
September 1 - November 9, 1937 |
| Battle of Pingxingguan |
Japanese Army and Chinese 1st Route Army |
September 24 - 25, 1937 |
| Battle of Xuzhou |
Japanese and Chinese forces |
December 1937 to May 1938 |
| Battle of Northern and Eastern Henan |
Japanese North China Front Army and Chinese 1st War Area |
January to June, 1938 |
| Battle of Lanfeng |
Japanese First Army and Chinese First War Area |
May 1938 |
| Amoy Operation |
Japanese Fifth Fleet and Chinese Amoy Area |
May 10 - 12, 1938 |
| Canton Operation |
Japanese 21st Army and Chinese 12th Army Group |
October to December, 1938 |
| Swatow Operation |
Japanese Fifth Fleet and Chinese forces |
June 21 - 27, 1939 |
| Battle of South Guangxi |
Japanese and Chinese forces |
November 15-November 30, 1939 |
| Battle of Changde |
Japanese 11th Army and Chinese 6th and 9th War Areas |
November 2 - December 20, 1943 |
| Winter War |
| Winter War |
Finnish Army |
November 30, 1939 - March 13, 1940 |
World War II
- See also: World War II
| Battle or Campaign |
Order of Battle |
Date |
| European Theater of Operations |
| Polish Campaign |
German Army, Polish Army
and Soviet Army |
September 1939 |
| Winter War |
Finnish Army |
December 1939 |
| Norwegian campaign |
Allies and German |
April 1940 |
| Battle of France |
Allies and Axis |
May 10, 1940 |
| Operation Sealion |
German |
September 1940 (planned) |
| Balkans Campaign |
German Army |
April 6 - May 3, 1941 |
| Dieppe Raid |
Allied and German |
August 1942 |
| Battle of Kursk |
German and Soviet |
July 4 - July 20, 1943 |
| Operation Perch |
British and German |
June 6 - 19, 1944 |
| Battle of Villers-Bocage |
British and German |
June 13, 1944 |
| Operation Goodwood |
British and German |
July 18 - July 20, 1944 |
| Operation Market Garden |
Allied and German |
September 17 - 25, 1944 |
| Battle of Debrecen |
Axis and Soviet |
October 1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge |
Allied and German |
December 16, 1944-January 25, 1945 |
| Mediterranean and African Theater of Operations |
| East African Campaign |
British (and Commonwealth) and Italian ground and naval forces |
June 1940 - November 1941 |
| Operation Brevity |
British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces |
May 15 - 16, 1941 |
| Battle of Crete |
British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground and naval forces |
May 20 - June 1, 1941 |
| Battle of Alam el Halfa |
British (and Commonwealth), German and Italian ground forces |
August 30 - September 5, 1942 |
| Second Battle of El Alamein |
British Eighth Army, PanzerArmee Afrika, Italian Army Africa |
October 24 - November 4, 1942 |
| Sicily Campaign |
Allies and Axis |
July - August, 1943 |
| Operation Diadem |
Allied 15th Army Group and German Army Group C |
May - June, 1944 |
| Gothic Line |
Allied 15th Army Group and German Army Group C |
August 1944-April 1945 |
| Pacific Theater of Operations |
| Battle of Malaya |
Allied and Japanese |
December 7, 1941 - February 14, 1942 |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor |
Japanese |
December 7, 1941 |
| Battle of the Coral Sea |
Japanese and U.S. Navies |
May 1942 |
| Battle of Midway |
Japanese and U.S. Navies |
June 4 - 6, 1942 |
| Battle of the Aleutian Islands |
Imperial Japanese Navy Alaskan Strike Group |
June 6, 1942 – August 15, 1943 |
| Battle of Guadalcanal |
Japanese and U.S. |
August, 1942 - February, 1943 |
| Battle of Saipan |
Japan and U.S. |
June 15 - July 9, 1944 |
| Borneo Campaign (1945) |
Allied and Japanese |
May 1 - August 15, 1945 |
| Operation Downfall |
Allied and Japanese |
August 1945 (planned) |
Modern era
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