The Battle of Hastings and the invasion of England in 1066 by William the Conquerer. One of the best surviving records of this is the famed Bayeux tapestry, a remarkeably well survived 70 m piece of embroidered wool linen on display at the Musee de la Tapisserie de Bayeux on rue de Nesmond in the town of Bayeux in Normandy.
Lord Nelson’s Battle at Trafalgar
The Battle of Britain during WWII-
The Battle of Waterloo(Belgium)-1815/Napolean
Battle of the Bulge-Nearly defeated in 1944, Hitler staged a savage December counterattack on the 50 mile Belgian “bulge” in the Allied lines stunning the Allies and costing 80,000 American dead or wounded
Yrpes, Belgium. A memorial marking where 54,486 Allied soldiers died during WWI is accompanied by buglers who sound every night at 8pm at the Menin Gate. In fact, the last 3 mile assault toward Paschendaele cost one Allied life for each inch of ground gained
Verdun, France-
D-Day Allied Invasion of June 6, 1944 on German occupied France. Codenamed Operation Overlord, over 12,000 aircraft; 150,000 ground troops; 200,000 airborne troops; 5,300 ships and landing craft; and 1,500 tanks were involved in this top-secret assault. Mention Churchill masterminding the evacuation at Dunkirk
