View Major Ancient Battles
* c. 1457 BC Battle of Megiddo - Egyptian forces, led by Thutmose III, rout the Canaanite forces under the King of Kadesh.
* c. 1299 BC Battle of Qadesh - Hittites of king Muwatallis surprises Rameses II but he turns the tide, result is a draw
* 609 BC Battle of Megiddo - Necho II of Egypt defeats and kills King Josiah of Judah
* 490 BC Battle of Marathon August or September. Athens under Miltiades defeat the punitive Persian expedition of Darius I of Persia and Artaphernes, Phidippides dies after running a long distance to tell the Athenians of the victory
* 413 BC Battle of Syracuse The Athenian expedition in Sicily, under Nicias and Demosthenes, is utterly destroyed.
* 334 BC Battle of the Granicus - Alexander the Great defeats the Persian army in Western Asia Minor
* 333 BC Battle of Issus - Alexander the Great defeats the main Persian army under King Darius III in northern Syria.
* 218 BC Battle of the Trebbia - Hannibal defeats a Roman army at the Trebbia river by using a surprise flank attack.
* 216 BC Battle of Cannae - Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman force through the use of double envelopment.
* 202 BC Battle of Zama - Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal in the final battle of the Second Punic War.
* 83 BC Battle of Mount Tifata Sulla defeats the popular forces of Caius Norbanus in the First Roman Civil War.
* 53 BC Battle of Carrhae The Roman Triumvir Crassus is defeated and killed by the Parthians
* 9 September Battle of the Teutoburg Forest The German leader Arminius defeats the Roman legions of Publius Quinctilius Varus
* 410 Sack of Rome August 24. The Visigoths under Alaric sack Rome.
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