Atlas of Battles

commander, 12 engagements

Battles of Dwight D. Eisenhower

Battles of Dwight D. Eisenhower

president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (1890–1969)

Dwight D. Eisenhower is recorded as a commander at 12 placed engagements in the atlas between 1940 and 1945: 7 battles and 5 campaigns across 7 present-day countries, most in France (6), Egypt (1), Morocco (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 9,081 km apart end to end, 826 km between engagements on average. Most belong to World War II (12).

North African campaignBattle of Port LyauteyInvasion of NormandySiegfried Line CampaignFalaise PocketBattle of NurembergWestern Allied invasion of GermanyOperation TorchAllied invasion of SicilyNormandy landingsOperation OverlordBattle of the BulgeOperation TorchAllied invasion of SicilyNormandy landingsOperation OverlordBattle of the BulgeMadridBerlinAthensCasablancaKyivViennaGenevaAmsterdamBarcelonaAlexandria1000 km41.183N, 12.280E
12 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1940: 1 engagements1942: 2 engagements1943: 1 engagements1944: 6 engagements6 in 19441945: 2 engagements19401945
12 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

North African campaign, 1940Battle of Port Lyautey, 1942Operation Torch, 1942Allied invasion of Sicily, 1943Normandy landings, 1944Operation Overlord, 1944Invasion of Normandy, 1944Siegfried Line Campaign, 1944Falaise Pocket, 1944Battle of the Bulge, 1944Battle of Nuremberg, 1945Western Allied invasion of Germany, 194519401945
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1940North African campaignKingdom of Egypt, EgyptAllied victory
8 November 1942Battle of Port LyauteyKenitra, Morocco3,575 km WAmerican victory
1942Operation TorchFrench protectorate in Morocco, Algeria433 km EAllied victory
1943Allied invasion of SicilySicily, Italy1,493 km EAllied victory
6 June 1944Normandy landingsNormandy, France1,839 km NWAllied victory
1944Operation OverlordNormandy, France3 km EAllied victory
1944Invasion of NormandyNormandy, France0 km NAllied victory
1944Siegfried Line CampaignNorthern France, France182 km NEAllied victory
12 August 1944Falaise PocketNormandy, France185 km SWAllied victory
1944Battle of the BulgeArdennes, France494 km NEAllied victory
16 April 1945Battle of NurembergNuremberg, Germany376 km EAmerican victory
1945Western Allied invasion of GermanyGermany, Netherlands501 km NWAllied victory; Fall of Nazi Germany; End of World War II...

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, White House, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.