100 Worst Military Disasters in History

John T. Kuehn, PhD, is professor of military history at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, USA.

• IntroductionPart I Ancient Military Disasters1 Megiddo2 Marathon3 Salamis4 Syracuse Expedition5 Gaugamela6 Chang-Ping7 Cannae8 Zama9 Pharsalus10 Teutoburg Forest11 Adrianople12 Catalaunian Plains13 Yarmouk14 BaekgangPart II. Medieval Military Disasters15 Tours16 Hastings17 Hattin18 Kamikaze: The Second Mongol Invasion of Japan19 Lake Boyang20 Grünwald21 Agincourt22 Bosworth FieldPart III. Military Disasters from the Early Modern Period23 The Conquest of the Aztecs24 Lepanto25 The Spanish Armada26 Pyongyang27 Sekigahara28 The Sack of Magdeburg29 Breitenfeld30 Nördlingen31 Naseby32 Rocroi33 Ramillies34 Poltava35 Rossbach36 Quebec37 Kunersdorf38 Quiberon Bay39 The Siege of Pondicherry40 Yorktown Campaign41 Rivoli42 The Nile43 Second Battle of ZürichPart IV. Nineteenth-Century Military Disasters44 Trafalgar45 Jena–Auerstedt46 Tippecanoe47 Leipzig48 The Alamo49 San Jacinto50 Siege of Nanjing51 The Capture of New Orleans52 The Vicksburg Campaign53 Koeniggratz54 Sedan55 Battle of the Little Bighorn56 Isandlwana57 The Yalu58 Manila BayPart VI. Recent Military Disasters59 Tsushima Strait60 Tannenberg61 The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive62 Verdun63 Battle of the Somme64 German U-Boat Offensive in World War I65 Caporetto66 Shanghai67 Nomonhan68 France 194069 The Battle of Britain70 Crete71 Pearl Harbor72 Wake Island73 Singapore74 Bataan75 Midway76 The Destruction of PQ-1777 The Dieppe Raid78 El Alamein79 Operation Torch80 Guadalcanal81 Kursk (Operation Citadel)82 Ploesti Raid (Operation Tidal Wave)83 The Second Schweinfurt Raid84 Normandy Landings85 The Philippine Sea86 Imphal and Kohima87 Operation Bagration88 The Falaise Pocket89 Battle of Arnhem90 Operation Bodenplatte91 Battle of Osan92 Chinese Intervention93 Battle of Dien Bien Phu94 Ap Bac95 The Six-Day War (1967 Arab-Israeli War)96 The Tet Offensive97 Lam Son 71998 1973 Arab-Israeli War–Sinai (Yom Kippur War)99 Iran-Iraq War: The First Gulf War100 Iraqi FreedomIndex

The 100 Worst Military Disasters will be of interest to general readers and students of military history, including those seeking a solid starting point for further investigation into individual conflicts or common aspects of military misfortune.