Famous Battlefields you've visited

[Provost Harrison]

Last week I took a battlefield tour of the Battle of the Boyne

Basically the battle that kept Ireland under English yoke, the fact that Northern Ireland is still British, and the fact that the pesky Orange Order still marches on 'The Twelfth' to generally stick two fingers up to the Catholics - basically a pretty massive deal to Irish people!

So, who's been where then...?

I've been to Cardiff on a Saturday night. That's like a battlefield...

[kittenOFchaos]

I've had a guided tour of the battlefield of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift led an ex-major in the British Army. It was very atmospheric and one of the best experiences of my life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Isandlwana

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Rorke's_Drift

I've also been to Bannockburn and lived at Nevilles Cross (where the Scottish got heavily defeated on English soil and the King was later captured.)

I've also walked along some of the remains of Hadrians Wall.

Whilst in Canada I visited the Plains of Z Abraham where Wolfe's forces defeated Montcalm.

I've visited the Normandy Beaches, the Battlefields of the Somme, Passendale, Ypres, Messines Ridge and many more. I can't recommend a visit to Ypres enough, it a wonderful place to vist with superb museums, beautiful graveyards and of course, the 'Last Post' at the Menin Gate. I also know of a wonderful B&B if anyone is planning a trip.

I will one day visit Gettyburg and the site of Antietam as I've read many histories about the American Civil War and find it a fascinating subject.

[MOBIUS]

Wow, majorly jealous there, KoC!

I'd love to do Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift - not got round to visiting SA yet. What I have done is visit the South Wales Borderers Museum in Brecon, just down the road from me...

Hadrian's Wall is awesome and I've managed most the major sights - particularly in and around Vindolanda.

The American Civil War is indeed fascinating, I'd have loved to have seen Antietam and Gettysburg in particular.

[germanos]

I've been to Verdun and visited several war-cemeteries from WWII: most of them in Holland, a few in France and most notably (for me) a big one just on the east-bank of the Oder where the Soviets from the Battle of Berlin lie.

As an archaeologist I see the aftermath of warfare quite often. A battlefield I visited was in Syria, where I visited an archaeological excavation of a 2nd Millenium BC (IIRC) City that was at some point beseiged and had the entire area of the main city gate covered in sling-bullets. (they look like pebbles in the pic)
In Holland I've done several digs where I've found WWII ammunition in the upper layers (Nijmegen (operation Market Garden) and Veere (Zeeland/Sealand)) and dug up trenches from the seige of Breda from the Dutch War of Independance (80-jarige oorlog)

[David Floyd]

Pea Ridge
Vicksburg
The Alamo
San Jacinto
USS Texas
USS Lexington

[Dry]

Normandy (Omaha beach, Riva bella, Pegasus bridge)
Bastogne
Waterloo

[Supr49er]

American Revolution:
Morristown
Trenton
Monmouth

US Civil War:
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Chickamauga
Kennesaw Mountain

[Comstar244th]

Fort Pulaski in Savannah Georgia. This was the first recorded use of Rifled cannon against a fixed fortification and it was devastating. Harper's Ferry - The largest number of US trooops to surrender until bataan in WW II
Chancelorsville
Bull Run
Antietam - the largest recorded number of us casualties in a single day
Savannah - The bloodiest battle of the american revolution (loss for the patriots)
The Alamo

And while it may not be a battlefield....
----> Arlington National Cemetary - Shrine to american dead everywhere and former estate of Robert E Lee

"It is well and good that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it" - Robert E Lee (Often called the most beloved general in american history)

[Hueij]

Oh I forgot the Raid on the Medway, when the Dutchies gave us a bloody nose in our own backyard...

Sorry for that

[Dinner]

Hastings, Gettysburg, Battle of San Pasqual (Mexican-American War), and various other civil war and revolutionary war battlefields. I honestly don't remember most of the Civil War and Revolutionary War battlefields as it was part of an 8th grade two week field trip to the east coast. I believe we went by bus from Virginia to Massachusetts stopping off at all the major cities and seeing all the major historical places.

Edit: Oh, I forgot Normandy. We skipped over the WW1 battle fields though as my aunt was keen to get to the wine country and go get drunk.