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Derang3d: What single battle of before 1900 do you know the most about?

pwilz: Probably the details of the American Civil War. If I had to pick a single battle, I'd say Vicksburg, but I know more about the strategic level than the tactical level.
RealGuest: Probably Cannae. Also perhaps the most stunning defeat ever. 50 to 70 thousand Romans slain on a single field in a single day. After which, Rome had lost at least 20% of it's adult male population in the war, having lasted a little over a year and a half at that point. That would be the proportional equivalent of approximately 20 million men today in the US or about 6 or 7 million in just the single battle of Cannae.
Woelf: The Battle of Endor.
BOBBYCAN: "One if by land, two if by sea", and later all the limeys went home.
TheGrimReeple: Thermopylae. I'd just done a reasonably in depth unit on early Sparta when 300 was released, and bored people to tears pointing out everything it got wrong.
PolarDad: Does Wrestlemania III count?
pricero1: Hastings or Waterloo.
rayzg: The War of 1812