Military history

Summary

The history of human warfare.

Military Unit Types

Classified by Era

• Antiquity
  • Infantry
  • Cavalry
  • Chariotry
  • Archery
  • Slingman
  • Hoplite
  • Macedonian phalanx
  • Roman legion
    • Marius' army
    • auxiliaries
  • Greek fire

• Medieval (See also: Medieval warfare)
  • Knight
  • Cataphract
  • Condottieri
  • Horse archer
  • Pikeman
  • Longbowman
  • Artillery
  • Fyrd
  • Fortification

• Modern
  • Musketeer
  • Rifleman
  • Marine
  • Armory
  • Conscription
  • Aviation

Famous wars and battles

For more complete list of wars you may want to see War

• Ancient
  • Greek Wars
    • Trojan War (c. 1200 BC)
    • Persian Wars (499-479 BC)
      • Battle of Marathon (491 BC)
      • Battle of Salamis
      • Battle of Thermopylae
    • Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)
    • Wars of Alexander the Great (334-323 BC)
  • Roman Wars
    • Punic Wars (264-241 BC, 218-202 BC, 149-146 BC)
    • Julius Caesar's campaigns?
    • Battle of Pharsalus (48 BC)
    • Battle of Actium (31 BC)
• Medieval
  • European
    • Battle of Poitiers
    • Battle of Lechfeld (955)
    • Crusades (1096-1291)
    • Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212)
    • Bannockburn (1314)
    • Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
      • Crécy (1346)
      • Battle of Agincourt (1415)
      • Siege of Orleans (1429)
    • Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
      • Battle of Tewkesbury
      • Battle of Bosworth Field

• Pike & Shot
  • Dutch Independence (1568-1648)
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588
  • Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
  • English Civil War (1642-1649)
  • Anglo-Dutch Wars
  • Great Northern War (1700-1721)
  • Queen Anne's War
  • War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714)
  • King George's War
  • War of Jenkin's Ear
  • War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
  • Seven Years War (1756-1763)
  • French and Indian War (1754-1763)
  • American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
  • French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars (1789-1815)
    • Battle of Trafalgar 1797?
    • Battle of Waterloo 1815
• Age of Rifles
  • War of 1812 (1812-1814)
  • Greek Independence (1821-1829)
  • Mexican-American War (1846-1848)
  • Taiping Rebellion (1850-1865)
  • Crimean War (1854-1856)
  • American Civil War (1861-1865)
  • Austro-Prussian War (aka Seven Weeks War) (1866)
  • Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
  • Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878)
  • Chinese-Japanese War (1894-1895)
  • Spanish-American War (1898)
  • Boer War (1899-1902)
• Early 20th Century
  • Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
  • Balkan Wars (1912-1913)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Russian Revolution (1917-1918)
  • Chinese Revolution (1926?-1949)
  • Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
  • World War II (1939-1945)
• Mid 20th Century
  • First Arab-Israeli War (1948-1949)
  • Korean War (1950-1953)
  • Vietnam War (1950-1975)
  • Second Arab-Israeli War (1956)
• Late 20th Century
  • Six-Day War (1967)
  • Yom Kippur War (1973)
  • Afghan Civil War (1979-1989)
  • Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
  • Falklands War (1982)
  • Operation Just Cause (aka The Invasion of Panama) (1989-1990)
  • Second Gulf War (aka Desert Storm) (1991)
  • The Kosovo War

You may also want to see List of battles

Famous Commanders

• Julius Caesar (Antiquity)
• Napoleon Bonaparte (French Emperor)
• Mao Zedong (Chinese communist leader)
• Hannibal Barca
• Alexander the Great (Antiquity, Greek ruler)
• El Cid
• George Patton (WWII American commander)
• Horatio Nelson
• Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington
• Erwin Rommel (WWII German commander)
• Field Marshall Montgomery (WWII British commander)
• Dwight Eisenhower (WWII American commander)

Military Writers

• Clausewitz
• Sun Tzu
• Julius Caesar
• Jomini
• Mao Zedong

This list is inevitably going to be pretty complete, at least with the ancient and medieval stuff...

See also: Weapons, Imperialism, Colonialism, War, History