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¿Question #226699?
Blinko: What battlefield sites are honored in Europe? In the USA, mostly Civil War sites and Pearl Harbor.

Grimsalt: In American Europe, the most famous tourist attraction is the French defeat of 1759 at the Plains of Abraham in Quebec city. Meanwhile, the six battlefields of the bloody 1837-38 Patriot Rebellion get a hallway in a repurposed Montreal prison (shared HQs with the public TV network station and a crown corporation, the one for alcohol) — it's under a bridge wrapped in anti-suicide fences in the slums where two highways intersect.
pricero1: Scores of them from 1066 to 1945.
sparkous: Mémorial de Verdun – Champ de bataille
ocdspectrum: Remember the Alamo! (not the car rental place)
purplewurple: I was born in Nijmegen. There's a bridge over the river Waal there, called The Crossing, that has 48 (I believe) lights that turn on one by one every night at the speed of a soldier's march, to honor the 48 (American) soldiers who lost their lives crossing there during Operation Market Garden. (Not a lot of monuments for the civilian victims of the (American) bombing of the city, though)
Woelf: They have a hard time narrowing down the locations and specific battles. There were just so many.
mattomaw: In Ireland there are battles that span centuries. Most of the most famous ones are from battles against the english, especially against Cromwell, but they cover lots of other time periods as well. There are lots of memorials to do with the War of Independence and the civil war, but these are more skirmishes rather than full on battles. The rest of Europe? Where do you start?