View Great 19th Century battles
* 1836 Battle of the Alamo February 23 - General Santa Anna defeats Texans. Wm. Travis and Davy Crockett killed in siege
* 1846 Battle of Palo Alto May 8 - US Gen. Zachary Taylor defeats Mexicans under Mariano Arista
* 1854 Battle of Alma
* 1854 Siege of Sevastopol October 17–September 11, 1855
* 1870 Battle of Sedan September 1 - MacMahon’s French lose to Germans, the rise of the Second Reich