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
1American Civil War5271861 to 1865
2World War II3131939 to 1945
3American Revolutionary War2201775 to 1783
4Peninsular War2001808 to 1814
5Eighty Years' War1701568 to 1648
6World War I1611914 to 1918
7Seven Years' War1271756 to 1763
8Western Front1211914 to 1918
9Eastern Front1201941 to 1955
10Thirty Years' War1151618 to 1648
11War in the Vendée1141793 to 1796
12Crusades1071095 to 1291
13French Revolutionary Wars1061792 to 1802
14War of the First Coalition1061792 to 1797
15Hundred Years' War1031337 to 1453
16Pacific War1011941 to 1945
17Middle Eastern theater of World War I961914 to 1918
18War of the Spanish Succession921701 to 1714
19First Carlist War841833 to 1840
20Korean War831950 to 1953
21Arab–Byzantine wars83AD 629 to 1050
22Great Northern War821700 to 1721
23Greek War of Independence811821 to 1829
24War of 1812771812 to 1815
25Napoleonic Wars751803 to 1815
26Vietnam War751955 to 1975
27French Revolution751789 to 1799
28War of the Sixth Coalition691813 to 1814
29Franco-Prussian War651870 to 1871
30Second Punic War62218 BC to 201 BC
31Spanish Civil War621936 to 1939
32Hussite Wars611419 to 1434
331939 Invasion of Poland591939
34Second Sino-Japanese War581937 to 1945
35Norman Invasion of Wales561051 to 1204
36Albigensian Crusade501209 to 1229
37War of the Second Coalition481798 to 1802
38Russian Civil War481917 to 1922
39Polish–Soviet War471919 to 1921
40January Uprising471863 to 1864
41War of the Austrian Succession461740 to 1748
42First English Civil War461642 to 1646
43Austro-Prussian War431866
44Chinese Civil War431927 to 1950
45Second Boer War421899 to 1902
46Mexican-American War411846 to 1848
47Franco-Spanish War401635 to 1659
48Nine Years' War401688 to 1697
49Franco-Dutch War391672 to 1678
50Byzantine–Bulgarian Wars39AD 680 to 1355
51Reapers' War371640 to 1659
52WWI Eastern Front361914 to 1918
53Almoravid conquest of al-Andalus361086 to 1147
54Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire361532 to 1572
55French Wars of Religion351562 to 1598
56Philippine Revolution351896 to 1898
57Ottoman Wars in Europe351354 to 1683
58Genpei War351180 to 1185
59Spanish–Moroccan conflicts34
60Mediterranean and Middle East Theater of World War II341940 to 1945
61War of the Pyrenees331793 to 1795
62Third Carlist War331872 to 1876
63Anglo-Spanish War331585 to 1604
64Western Sahara War331975 to 1991
65War of the Fifth Coalition321809
66Byzantine–Seljuq Wars321048 to 1308
67Russo-Polish War321654 to 1667
68Western Front311939 to 1945
69Finnish War311808 to 1809
70Ottoman–Spanish War311515 to 1577
71First Balkan War301912 to 1913
72Mongol invasions and conquests301206 to 1337
73Dutch–Portuguese War291601 to 1661
74Hungarian Revolution of 1848291848 to 1849
75Peloponnesian War29431 BC to 404 BC
76Boshin War281868 to 1869
77Cretan War of 1645-1669281645 to 1669
78Crimean War281853 to 1856
79First Japanese Invasion of Korea271592 to 1593
80Philippine–American War271899 to 1902
81Second Northern War261655 to 1660
82French invasion of Russia261812
83Muslim conquest of Persia26AD 633 to AD 654
84Gallic War2658 BC to 51 BC
85Long War251593 to 1606
86Gothic War of 535–55425AD 535 to AD 554
87War of the League of Cambrai251508 to 1516
88Tenth Russo-Turkish War251877 to 1878
89Irish Confederate Wars251641 to 1653
90Irish Rebellion of 1798251798
91War of the Third Coalition241805 to 1806
92Scanian War241675 to 1679
93Second French intervention in Mexico241861 to 1867
94Finnish Civil War241918
95Caesar's Civil War2449 BC to 45 BC
96Marinid–Zayyanid Wars241250 to 1411
97November Uprising241830 to 1831
98Paraguayan War241864 to 1870
99Khmelnytsky Uprising231648 to 1657
100Timurid conquests and invasions231369 to 1426

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.