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    Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 1 - Stalingrad - 1942
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    #1 - Stalingrad - 1942

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    A series giving a bird's-eye view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This programme looks at a pivotal point of the Second World War, when the Russian army stopped the Nazi advance at Stalingrad

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  2. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 2 - Trafalgar 1805
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    #2 - Trafalgar 1805

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    Trafalgar is perhaps the most famous naval engagement in military history. Admiral Lord Nelson's victory over a combined fleet of French and Spanish ships put an end to Napoleon's dream of invading England. Follow the strategy of the famous battle that killed Britain's most famous naval hero.

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  3. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 3 - Pearl Harbour
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    #3 - Pearl Harbour

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    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

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  4. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 4 - The Battle of Marathon
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    #4 - The Battle of Marathon

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    The Battle of Marathon was an armed confrontation that defined the outcome of the first medical war. It happened in the year 490 a. C. and took place in the fields and the beach of the city of Marathon, located a few kilometers from Athens, on the east coast of Attica. He faced on the one hand the Persian king Darius I, who wanted to invade and conquer Athens for his participation in the Ionian revolt, and, on the other hand, the Athenians and their allies (from Plataea, among others). A feat remembered in this battle by Herodotus was that of Pheidippides, who walked the road from Athens to Sparta to ask for help from the Spartan army. Sparta refused to help the Athenians, claiming to meet on dates of religious celebrations.

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  5. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 5 - The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima
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    #5 - The Lost Evidence of Iwo Jima

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    The Battle of Iwo Jima (19 February – 26 March 1945) was a major battle in which the United States Marine Corps (USMC) and United States Navy (USN) landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) during World War II. The American invasion, designated Operation Detachment, had the purpose of capturing the island with its two airfields: South Field and Central Field.

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  6. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 6 - D-Day
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    #6 - D-Day

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    The Normandy landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The operation began the liberation of France (and later Western Europe) and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

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  7. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 7 - The Battle of Waterloo - 1815
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    #7 - The Battle of Waterloo - 1815

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    Series giving a bird's-eye view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition looks at how Wellington's positioning of his men out of the line of fire broke with centuries of military tradition - and changed the course of European history forever.

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  8. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 8 - Chalons
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    #8 - Chalons

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    The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (or Fields), also called the Battle of the Campus Mauriacus, Battle of Châlons, Battle of Troyes or the Battle of Maurica, took place on June 20, 451 AD, between a coalition – led by the Roman general Flavius Aetius and by the Visigothic king Theodoric I – against the Huns and their vassals – commanded by their king Attila. It proved one of the last major military operations of the Western Roman Empire, although Germanic foederati composed the majority of the coalition army.

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  9. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 9 - Battle of Hastings 1066
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    #9 - Battle of Hastings 1066

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    Documentary series giving a close-up view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition examines the meeting of Harold and William the Conqueror at Hastings in 1066, which changed the Anglo-Saxon world for ever.

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  10. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 10 - Merrill’s Marauders
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    #10 - Merrill’s Marauders

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    Merrill’s Marauders (named after Frank Merrill) or Unit Galahad, officially named the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), was a United States Army long range penetration special operations jungle warfare unit, which fought in the Southeast Asian theater of World War II, or China-Burma-India Theater (CBI). The unit became famous for its deep-penetration missions behind Japanese lines, often engaging Japanese forces superior in number.

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  11. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 11 - The Battle of Austerlitz
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    #11 - The Battle of Austerlitz

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    The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805/11 Frimaire An XIV FRC), also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, was one of the most important and decisive engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle occurred near the town of Austerlitz in the Austrian Empire (modern-day Slavkov u Brna in the Czech Republic). The decisive victory of Napoleon's Grande Armée at Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to a rapid end, with the Treaty of Pressburg signed by the Austrians later in the month. The battle is often cited as a tactical masterpiece.

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  12. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 12 - Gallipoli
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    #12 - Gallipoli

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    During World War I (1914-1918), French, British, and allied forces (Australian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, Irish and Indian) fought the Gallipoli campaign (1915-1916) in and near the peninsula, seeking to secure a sea route to relieve their eastern ally, Russia. The Ottomans set up defensive fortifications along the peninsula and contained the invading forces.

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  13. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 13 - Midway
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    #13 - Midway

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    The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place from 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea.

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  14. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 14 - The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863
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    #14 - The Battle of Gettysburg - 1863

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    Series giving a close-up view of some of the bloodiest battles in history. This edition focuses on the three-day bloodbath at Gettysburg which was a turning point in the American Civil War.

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  15. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 15 - The Armada - 1588
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    #15 - The Armada - 1588

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    The English Armada (Spanish: Invencible) known as the Counter Armada or the Drake–Norris Expedition, was an attack fleet sent against Spain by Queen Elizabeth I of England that sailed on 28 April 1589 during the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) and the Eighty Years' War.

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  16. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 16 - Battle of the Bulge
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    #16 - Battle of the Bulge

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    The Battle of the Bulge, also known as the Ardennes Offensive, was the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. The battle lasted for five weeks from 16 December 1944 to 28 January 1945, towards the end of the war in Europe.

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  17. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 17 - The Third Crusade
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    #17 - The Third Crusade

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    The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by three European monarchs of Western Christianity (Philip II of France, Richard I of England and Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor) to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187. For this reason, the Third Crusade is also known as the Kings' Crusade.

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  18. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 18 - The battle of Alesia
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    #18 - The battle of Alesia

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    The battle of Alesia or siege of Alesia (September 52 BC) was the climactic military engagement of the Gallic Wars, fought around the Gallic oppidum (fortified settlement) of Alesia in modern France, a major centre of the Mandubii tribe. It was fought by the Roman army of Julius Caesar against a confederation of Gallic tribes united under the leadership of Vercingetorix of the Arverni. It was the last major engagement between Gauls and Romans, and is considered one of Caesar's greatest military achievements and a classic example of siege warfare and investment; the Roman army built dual lines of fortifications – an inner wall to keep the besieged Gauls in, and an outer wall to keep the Gallic relief force out. The Battle of Alesia marked the end of Gallic independence in the modern day territory of France and Belgium.

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  19. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 19 - Cannae
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    #19 - Cannae

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    The Battle of Cannae was a key engagement of the Second Punic War between the Roman Republic and Carthage, fought on 2 August 216 BC near the ancient village of Cannae in Apulia, southeast Italy. The Carthaginians and their allies, led by Hannibal, surrounded and practically annihilated a larger Roman and Italian army under the consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro. It is regarded as one of the greatest tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history.

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  20. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 20 - The Six-Day War
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    #20 - The Six-Day War

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    A series giving a close-up view of various battles in history. This edition recalls the crisis in the Middle East in June 1967, when tension on three borders escalated into a full-scale war between Israel and her Arab neighbours.

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  21. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 21 - The Battle of Britain
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    #21 - The Battle of Britain

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    The Battle of Britain (The air battle for England), was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) of the Royal Navy defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe. It was the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces.

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  22. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 22 - Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II
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    #22 - Battle of Kadesh - Ramesses II

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    The Battle of Kadesh or Battle of Qadesh took place between the forces of the New Kingdom of Egypt under Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire under Muwatalli II at the city of Kadesh on the Orontes River, just upstream of Lake Homs near the modern Lebanon–Syria border. The battle is generally dated to 1274 BC from the Egyptian chronology, and is the earliest pitched battle in recorded history for which details of tactics and formations are known. It is believed to have been the largest chariot battle ever fought, involving between 5,000 and 6,000 chariots in total.

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  23. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 23 - The Battle of Agincourt
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    #23 - The Battle of Agincourt

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    The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory in the Hundred Years' War. It took place on 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) near Azincourt, in northern France.[b] The unexpected English victory against the numerically superior French army boosted English morale and prestige, crippled France, and started a new period of English dominance in the war that would last for 14 years until France defeated England in the Siege of Orléans in 1429.

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  24. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 24 - The Battle of Inchon
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    #24 - The Battle of Inchon

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    The Battle of Inchon, also spelled Battle of Incheon, was an amphibious invasion and a battle of the Korean War that resulted in a decisive victory and strategic reversal in favor of the United Nations Command (UN). The operation involved some 75,000 troops and 261 naval vessels and led to the recapture of the South Korean capital of Seoul two weeks later. The code name for the operation was Operation Chromite.

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  25. Great Battles in History Season 1 Episode 25 - Tobruk
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    #25 - Tobruk

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    The Siege of Tobruk was a siege imposed by the Axis Forces for 240 days on the town-fortress and Allied port of Tobruk in 1941, in the context of World War II. The siege began on April 10, when a German-Italian force led by Erwin Rommel attacked Tobruk, placing the city under a siege that would continue until November 27, when British 8th Army forces lifted the siege during Operation Crusader.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Stalingrad - 1942" is the best rated episode of "Great Battles in History". It scored 1/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/2/2009. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Trafalgar 1805".