List of orders of battle

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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).

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[edit] 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
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

[edit] 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

[edit] Franco-Prussian War

Battle or Campaign Order of Battle Date
Franco-Prussian War French and Prussian Armies July/August, 1870

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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 Soviet and Axis 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 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
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)

[edit] Modern era

Battle or Campaign Order of Battle Date
First Indochina War
Battle of Dien Bien Phu French Operational Group North-West and Viet Minh March 13 to May 7, 1954
Korean War
Korean War United Nations June, 1950
Korean War US Eighth Army, US Seventh Fleet, and US Air Force June, 1950
Iran-Iraq War Iranian and Iraqi armies 1980
War on Terrorism
Operation Enduring Freedom Allied order of battle October 2001 to 2003
U.S. operations in Afghanistan Afghanistan War order of battle October 2001 onward
British operations in Afghanistan Operation Herrick order of battle 2002 onward
Invasion of Iraq British Armed Forces March, 2003
2003- onwards US and Allies' operations in Iraq Iraq War order of battle May 2003 - present

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