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Posted: 8/7/2005 10:57:13 AM EDT

[#1]

When Carlos Hathcock and John Burke took out a company of NVA in the elephant valley. Not for the reason's you might think, I'd like to see them stay that cool under the fire they were under at first. And him killing the NVA sniper sent to kill him when he shot him through the scope. You've all seen it, it's copied to every sniper movie ever made, and several other war movies.

Posted: 8/7/2005 12:22:31 PM EDT

[#2]

The Battle of Cannae, I can't believe that no one has mentioned it before.

It was Hannibal who taught the Romans how to wage war.

Second place would go to the Siege of Troy, though this may be influenced by the fact that I just watched the movie last week. While I don't doubt that the Iliad is based on actual events, I think that there may have been just a little exaggeration involved.

Posted: 8/7/2005 12:42:46 PM EDT

[#3]

Battle of the Bulge to see what it was my grandfather actually went through but never wanted to talk about. hinking.gif

Posted: 8/7/2005 1:27:45 PM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Utah/Omaha Beaches of course.

Little Bighorn

Good choices, these would also be mine.
How bout' seeing the start of Operation Barbarossa, or the Kursk tank battle.

Posted: 8/7/2005 1:29:01 PM EDT

[#5]

Teuteborg forest (sp?)

The Roman Legions vs. the Germanic tribes.

Posted: 8/16/2005 12:14:59 PM EDT

[#6]

Saratoga 1777

or maybe the Cowpens!

Posted: 8/17/2005 7:33:57 AM EDT

[#7]

None, if I had the choice in the matter.

If I didn't, King's Mountain. Those "hillbillies" were my folks. Shows what happens when outsiders and foreigners go threatening mountain folks who'd just as soon be left alone. I don't think we've changed much...

Posted: 8/27/2005 1:30:44 PM EDT

[#8]

1. The battle of Kadesh, 1280BC, Egyptians vs. the Hittites.
2. Gun fight at the OK corral(not a battle, but would like to have seen it)
3. Alamo
4. Battle of Yorktown
5. Battle of Jericho
6. Seige of Masada
7. Thermopylae(sp?)
8. Cannae
9. Any battle between the Roman 10th legion and a Germanic tribe
10. The last battle, between the Spartans and Atheneans, of the Pelopenisian(sp?) war.
11. Battle of Gaugamela (Alex vs Darius) - also marked the end of the chariot in battle.
12. San Jacinto - Long live Texas!

...well just a few.

Posted: 8/28/2005 11:09:15 AM EDT

[#9]

Lexington and Concord

Posted: 8/28/2005 11:29:31 AM EDT

[#10]

Ft Ticonderoga in 1757
Quebec 1759
Wyoming Valley, Not a Massacre, just militia getting their ass handed to them by Loyalists, 78
Cherry Valley,78

Posted: 8/28/2005 12:31:49 PM EDT

[#11]

During the War of the Rebellion: Gettysburg and Missionary Ridge
During The Great War: Belleau Wood
During W.W.II: Iwo Jima
During Korea: Chosin Reservoir
During 'Nam: Hue City
Post 'Nam: Mogadishu

Posted: 8/29/2005 10:24:00 AM EDT

[#12]

1.Lexington/Concord
2. Midway
3. Gettysburg
4. Battle of the Bulge
5. D-day
6. Thermopylae
7.Fallujah

Posted: 8/31/2005 11:07:50 AM EDT

[#13]

I'll have to vote for Stalingrad. Huge turning point for the war against the germans. Its like falluja on steroids!

Posted: 9/12/2005 2:14:31 AM EDT

[#14]

First and foremost, D-Day, so I can see what my grandfather saw. He luckily is very forthcoming about information regarding his "free walking tour of Europe" as he calls it. But words, I don't think, do not accurately describe what they saw. Some of the tank battles my great uncle encountered while a tanker during WWII also.

Any one of the small battles that resulted from the first Tet Offensive. Battle of San Jacinto, Battle of Sabine Pass.

Posted: 9/17/2005 2:39:43 AM EDT

[#15]

Marathon...the battle that saved western civilization.

Posted: 9/17/2005 2:47:54 AM EDT

[#16]

Lexington, MA
19 April 1775
"The shot heard 'round the world"

8 American colonists and 273 British were killed when the British tried to seize an arsenal and were confronted by armed colonists.

Posted: 9/22/2005 8:16:58 PM EDT

[#17]

Col. Joshua Chamberlain's charge during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Battle of Thermopylae.

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