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I don't know that much about battles, but I'm going to have to say Gettysburg.
Battle of Iraq. I guess that's what they are calling it these days.
Siege of Leningrad was pretty bad. That Stalingrad, and Berlin during WW2 have the most deaths, but Leningrad went on for almost 3 years.
Casualty wise for a straight up battle between armies you're pretty much going to have to go with almost any battles during the Chinese imperial era or the formation of the Qin dynasty. There isn't anything even close. Unless you count the Somme offensive as one battle.
Here is something that few ever think of;
It all depends on who you ask. I have been in war, and I would have to say Con Thien. That was the worst of my experiences.
If you asked a soldier who was at Normandy, that is what he would say. If you asked a Marine who was at Iwo Jima, that is what he would say.
So, in the opinions of those who were there, it would be the worst of their experiences. However, if you were to judge it in lives lost then you would have to look up the body count – yet even that would not be accurate for it would be judged differently by the winner vs the loser in their own historical accounts.
Anyway, that is just my not-so-humble opinion.
Some of the guys at Normandy would say Bastogne. Or Arnhem.
Omaha Beach was not the sum total of the Normandy landings keep in mind. Most of them had it tougher once they got into the hedgerows or the pointless assault at Hurtgen Forest.
The Battle of Shiloh.
Not even the worst battle in Tennessee.
Although I guess Chickamauga was technically partly in Georgia, so you could split the difference.
Ok and what was?
Yeah I have never heard of Con Thien.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Thien
I assume he meant Con Thien. "Meat Grinder"
See above. Chickamauga was an ugly desperate campaign of maneuver, ending in a battle, made to break a siege by attacking occupied high ground. Shiloh was a furball of a single battle caused by both sides taking the same opposing tactics (attack the flanks). I figure sieges are worse than battles and they tend to cause higher casualties.
Wikipedia lists the Battle of Leipzig in 1813 as the most bloody one with 110,000 killed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leipzig
The battle of Stalingrad on the Russian Front. It had more than a million dead.
Battle Of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in history.
The worst battle on American soil was Gettysburg. But the worst in the history of humanity is the Battle of Stalingrad.
I don't care what people say, the situation in Iraq is a war not a battle. I have 5 siblings in the military, 3 have been to Iraq and not one of them is the same due to what they have seen over there.
Stalingrad ww2
The battle of Stalingrad… 2.0 million soldiers went on conflict in the battle, and only 100,000 thousand survived and went on their life… The Germans thought they had fully conquered the soviets counting in fact 95% of the city at a time was fully held by the nazis… At that time there was 800,000 Germans but the soviets counter-offensive of 1.2 million soldiers pushed back the Germans along with 500,000 soviets dead and 300,000 in the Germans in the counter attack… It was until the soviets successfully marched to berlin