Atlas of Battles

ranked list, by engagements

Wars with the most placed engagements

The hundred wars and campaigns with the most placed battles, sieges and naval actions in the atlas. The count reflects how thoroughly a war's engagements are recorded with coordinates as much as its size.

Wars with the most placed engagements

WarEngagementsYears
1World War II1,1591939 to 1945
2World War I5941914 to 1918
3American Civil War5821861 to 1865
4Pacific War4111941 to 1945
5American Revolutionary War2421775 to 1783
6Peninsular War2071808 to 1814
7Vietnam War1941955 to 1975
8Eighty Years' War1781568 to 1648
9Reconquista142AD 722 to 1492
10Seven Years' War1291756 to 1763
11Thirty Years' War1191618 to 1648
12French Revolutionary Wars1181792 to 1802
13Napoleonic Wars1161803 to 1815
14War in the Vendée1141793 to 1796
15Chinese Civil War1111927 to 1950
16Hundred Years' War1111337 to 1453
17War of the First Coalition1081792 to 1797
18Spanish Civil War1071936 to 1939
19Arab–Byzantine wars107AD 629 to 1050
20Crusades1031095 to 1291
21War of the Spanish Succession1011701 to 1714
22Korean War981950 to 1953
23Great Northern War931700 to 1721
24War of 1812871812 to 1815
25First Carlist War841833 to 1840
26Greek War of Independence831821 to 1829
27War of the Second Coalition811798 to 1802
28Second Sino-Japanese War771937 to 1945
29Mongol invasions and conquests771206 to 1337
30French Revolution771789 to 1799
31War of the Sixth Coalition731813 to 1814
32Russian Civil War731917 to 1922
33Second Punic War67218 BC to 201 BC
34Franco-Prussian War651870 to 1871
35Hussite Wars611419 to 1434
36Norman Invasion of Wales561051 to 1204
37Gregorian Reform50
38Albigensian Crusade501209 to 1229
39War of the Austrian Succession491740 to 1748
40Austro-Prussian War481866
41Polish–Soviet War471919 to 1921
42January Uprising471863 to 1864
43Nine Years' War461688 to 1697
44First English Civil War461642 to 1646
45Ottoman–Spanish War451515 to 1577
46Iran–Iraq War451980 to 1988
47Mexican-American War431846 to 1848
48Second Boer War421899 to 1902
49Japanese invasions of Korea401592 to 1598
50Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars40AD 680 to 1355
51Franco-Spanish War401635 to 1659
52Anglo-Spanish War401585 to 1604
53Franco-Dutch War391672 to 1678
54Almoravid conquest of al-Andalus391086 to 1147
55Western Sahara War391975 to 1991
56War of the Pyrenees381793 to 1795
57Philippine Revolution371896 to 1898
58Reapers' War371640 to 1659
59Ottoman Wars in Europe361354 to 1683
60Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire361532 to 1572
61French Wars of Religion351562 to 1598
62War of the Fifth Coalition351809
63Finnish Civil War351918
64Genpei War351180 to 1185
65Byzantine–Seljuq Wars341048 to 1308
66Russo-Polish War341654 to 1667
67Third Carlist War331872 to 1876
68Finnish War321808 to 1809
691948 Arab–Israeli War321948 to 1949
70human history31
71Paraguayan War311864 to 1870
72Dutch–Portuguese War301601 to 1661
73Yom Kippur War301973
74First Balkan War301912 to 1913
75Hungarian Revolution of 1848301848 to 1849
76Timurid conquests and invasions301369 to 1426
77Peloponnesian War30431 BC to 404 BC
78Falklands War301982
79Boshin War291868 to 1869
80Crimean War291853 to 1856
81Second Northern War281655 to 1660
82Gulf War281990 to 1991
83Philippine–American War281899 to 1902
84Cretan War of 1645-1669281645 to 1669
85Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts27
86War of the League of Cambrai271508 to 1516
87War of the Third Coalition261805 to 1806
88Caesar's Civil War2649 BC to 45 BC
89Muslim conquest of Persia26AD 633 to AD 654
90Tenth Russo-Turkish War261877 to 1878
91Gallic War2658 BC to 51 BC
92Long War251593 to 1606
93War of the Pacific251879 to 1884
94Gothic War of 535–55425AD 535 to AD 554
95Irish Confederate Wars251641 to 1653
96Irish Rebellion of 1798251798
97Scanian War241675 to 1679
98Second French intervention in Mexico241861 to 1867
99King William's War241688 to 1697
100Ottoman–Habsburg Wars241526 to 1791

Sources and method

Counts are Wikidata records with coordinates whose part-of chain reaches the war. Wars whose battles lack coordinates in Wikidata rank lower than their history would suggest.