Famous Battlefields you've visited

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Solsbury Hill- believed to be the site of Mons Badonicus.

[Cort Haus]

I've been to the Boyne too. Also Mons, Ypres, and various places on the Franco-Belgian WW1 line.

Site of German paratrooper landings in Crete.

Battle (Hastings)

[Dauphin]

Solsbury Hill- believed to be the site of Mons Badonicus.

Where Peter fought Gabriel?

[Dauphin]

I've been to quite a few already mentioned. Additional one for now:

Ballarat:



Also famous for:

[duke o' york]

Jason and the golden turd.

Been to all of the Allied beaches in Normandy/Brittany, many of the WW1 battlefields, and another place by name of Builth Wells - the particulars of the fighting thereby we can no doubt expect MOBIUS to fill us in on.

[Hueij]

Well, since I live in Arnhem I don't have to visit it. The Battle of Arnhem is still visible all over the city center (they really ****ed up the restauration ) and in the towns around us. Two weeks ago it was remembrance day and every year there are less and less visiting Brit and Polish veterans

[Proteus_MST]

I have been at the redoubts of Dybbel where in the 2nd schleswig war in 1864,
germany defeated denmark, thanks to technological superiority (new artillery with a higher range)

[SlowwHand]

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[NoodleNaught]

i have been to pretty much every coastal fort in Washington and Oregon states. not sure if those count as battle sites though, as non of them ever saw combat.

[SlowwHand]

If there was no battle, it doesn't really count as a battlefield. You could count them as coastal forts. I've seen forts. Fort Belknap. Ft. Phantom Hill. The troops there saw duty against the Comanches and others. I didn't count them. I probably should have though.

[axi]

Marathon, Salamis, Thermopylae, Chaeronea, Mantinea.

There isn't much to see in ancient battlefields though.

[MOBIUS]

If there was no battle, it doesn't really count as a battlefield. You could count them as coastal forts. I've seen forts. Fort Belknap. Ft. Phantom Hill. The troops there saw duty against the Comanches and others. I didn't count them. I probably should have though.

God, it's not difficult is it!?

Famous. Battlefields. Simples!

Not obscure forts in the middle of nowhere unless they've been involved in a famous battle, e.g. the Alamo. 'Famous' can mean pivotal battles in obscure conflicts, e.g. the culmination of King Kamehameha I's campaign to unify the islands of Hawai'i.

Are we all clear now?

[MOBIUS]

@Cort and Duke, I'd love to visit the WWI sites, esp. Verdun (ironically, the only WWI site I've visited is Gallipoli!), I'd also love to visit the D-Day beaches one day as well.

As for Builth Wells, there were a couple of fairly obscure skirmishes there, specifically the Battle of Irfon Bridge, which resulted in the ignominious end of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and therefore the end of independent Wales. Oh well.

[N35t0r]

I've sailed through the River Plate, and crossed the path which the Graff Spee took while escaping to Montevideo, pursued by the Ajax and Achilles.

[Al B. Sure!]

Hey the Battle of Germantown was important. It was an American loss but the fact that the American colonists held their own against the British garnered a lot of international attention.

John Fiske, in The American Revolution (1891), wrote[16]:
“ ...The genius and audacity shown by Washington, in thus planning and so nearly accomplishing the ruin of the British army only three weeks after the defeat at the Brandywine, produced a profound impression upon military critics in Europe. Frederick of Prussia saw that presently, when American soldiers should come to be disciplined veterans, they would become a very formidable instrument in the hands of their great commander; and the French court, in making up its mind that the Americans would prove efficient allies, is said to have been influenced almost as much by the battle of Germantown as by the surrender of Burgoyne.

Very important battle.