List of battles by casualties
Classical formation battles
These refer to battles in which armies met on a single field of battle and fought each other for anywhere from one to several days.

List of battles by casualties

Section Title: Classical formation battles
Table Section Text: These refer to battles in which armies met on a single field of battle and fought each other for anywhere from one to several days.

Battle	Year	Conflict	Casualties

Battle of Thymbra	547 BC	Lydian–Persian War	Approximately 100,000

Battle of Marathon	490 BC	Greco-Persian Wars	5,000–8,000

Battle of Thermopylae	480 BC	Greco-Persian Wars	22,300–22,500

Battle of Plataea	479 BC	Greco-Persian War	51,500–257,000

Battle of Chaeronea	338 BC	Rise of Macedon	20,000 or more

Battle of the Granicus	334 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	15,000 or more

Battle of Issus	333 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	50,450

Battle of Gaugamela	331 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	53,500

Battle of the Hydaspes	326 BC	Wars of Alexander the Great	23,310

Battle of Sentinum	295 BC	Third Samnite War	33,500

Battle of Heraclea	280 BC	Pyrrhic War	11,000–26,000

Battle of Kalinga	262 BC	Kalinga-Maurya Empire	150,000–200,000 (including civilians)

Battle of Changping	260 BC	Qin's wars of unification	700,000 (according to ancient sources)

Battle of the Trebia	218 BC	Second Punic War	35,000

Battle of Lake Trasimene	217 BC	Second Punic War	Approximately 30,000

Battle of Cannae	216 BC	Second Punic War	56,000–92,000 or more

Battle of the Metaurus	207 BC	Second Punic War	12,000

Battle of Zama	202 BC	Second Punic War	21,500

Battle of Magnesia	190 BC	Roman–Syrian War	53,350

Battle of Pydna	168 BC	Third Macedonian War	21,000

Battle of Arausio	105 BC	Germanic Wars (Cimbrian War)	84,000

Battle of Carrhae	53 BC	Roman–Persian Wars	24,000

Battle of Pharsalus	48 BC	Caesar's Civil War	17,000

Battle of the Teutoburg Forest	9 AD	Roman–Germanic wars	20,000

Battle of Watling Street	61 AD	Iceni Revolt	80,400

Battle of Mons Graupius	84 AD	Roman conquest of Britain	10,360

Battle of Red Cliffs	208	Three Kingdoms	Approximately 100,000

Battle of Edessa	260	Roman-persian wars	50,000 or more

Battle of Adrianople	378	Gothic War	40,000 or more

Battle of Fei River	383	Wu Hu Era	150,000 or more

Battle of the Catalaunian Plains	451	Hunnic Invasion	165,000 (doubtful, according to one ancient source)

Battle of Salsu	612	Goguryeo–Sui Wars	302,300

Battle of al-Qādisiyyah	636	Muslim conquest of Persia	31,000

Battle of Muzayyah	633	Muslim conquest of Persia	10,000

Battle of Ullais	633	Muslim conquest of Persia	35,000

Battle of River	633	Muslim conquest of Persia	more than 15,000

Battle of Walaja	636	Muslim conquest of Persia	22,000

Battle of Saniyy	633	Muslim conquest of Persia	5,000

Battle of Nahāvand	642	Muslim conquest of Persia	28,500

Battle of Yarmouk	636	Muslim Conquest of the Levant	Approximately 70,000

Battle of Didgori	1121	Georgian–Seljuk wars	Approximately 210,000 [not in citation given]

Battle of Hattin	1187	Ayyubid–Crusader War	17,000–20,000

Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa	1212	Reconquista	Approximately 60,000

Battle of Yehuling	1212	Mongol conquest of the Jin Dynasty	Army of 50,000 annihilated.

Battle of the Kalka River	1223	Mongol invasion of Rus'	Around 50,000

Battle of Legnica	1241	Mongol invasion of Poland	Approximately 30,000

Battle of Mohi	1241	Mongol invasion of Europe	Approximately 15,000

Battle of Yamen	1279	Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty	Approximately 100,000

Battle of Bannockburn	1314	First War of Scottish Independence	Approximately 19,000

Battle of Kulikovo	1380	List of Mongol and Tatar raids against Rus'	Approximately 136,000

Battle of the Terek River	1395	Tokhtamysh–Timur war	Approximately 100,000

Conquest of Delhi	1398	Timur's Indian campaign	Approximately 100,000

Battle of Ankara	1402	Ottoman–Timur War	15,000 or more

Battle of Grunwald	1410	Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War	Approximately 13,000

Battle of Agincourt	1415	Hundred Years War	Approximately 14,000

Tumu Crisis	1449	Ming–Mongol War	200,000 or more

Battle of Towton	1461	Wars of the Roses	28,000

Night Attack at Târgoviște	1462	Wallachian-Ottoman Wars	20,000

Battle of Vaslui	1475	Moldavian-Ottoman Wars	40,000 or more

Battle of Valea Alba	1476	Moldavian-Ottoman Wars	30,000 or more

Battle of Kabul	1504	Campaigns of Babur	20,000 or more

Battle of Ravenna	1512	War of the League of Cambrai	13,500

Battle of Marignano	1515	War of the League of Cambrai	11,000–15,000

Battle of Ridaniya	1517	Ottoman wars in the Near East	13,000

First Battle of Panipat	1526	Mughal Conquest	20,000–50,000

Battle of Mohács	1526	Ottoman–Hungarian Wars	Probably 30,000

Battle of Ghaghra	1529	Mughal Conquest	Approximately 13,000

Battle of Lepanto	1571	Ottoman–Venetian Wars	22,566–27,566

Battle of Chungju	1592	Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)	8,000–16,000 100,000

Battle of Byeokjegwan	1593	Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)	6,000

Battle of Călugăreni	1595	Long War(Ottoman War)	11,000-16,000

Battle of Sacheon (1598)	1598	Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98)	30,000

Battle of Sekigahara	1600	Sengoku period	60,000 or less

First Battle of Breitenfeld	1631	Thirty Years' War	20,000 or more

Battle of Lützen	1632	Thirty Years' War	11,000–14,000

Battle of Nördlingen	1634	Thirty Years' War	17,000

Battle of the Downs	1639	Eighty Years' War	15,000 or more

Second Battle of Breitenfeld	1642	Thirty Years' War	14,000

Battle of Jankau	1645	Thirty Years' War	15,500

Battle of Berestechko	1651	Khmelnytsky Uprising	30,000–40,000

Battle of Samugarh	1658	Mughal Conquest	32,000

Battle of Khajwa	1659	Mughal Conquest	20,000

Battle of Lund	1676	Scanian War	14,000

Battle of Vienna	1683	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	19,500

Battle of Bijapur	1686	Mughal Conquest	17,000

Battle of Landen	1693	War of the Grand Alliance	28,000

Battle of Zenta	1697	Ottoman–Habsburg wars	30,300

Battle of Jinji	1698	Mughal Conquest	16,000

Battle of Blenheim	1704	War of the Spanish Succession	32,000

Battle of Fraustadt	1706	Great Northern War	16,500

Battle of Ramillies	1706	War of the Spanish Succession	15,600

Battle of Poltava	1709	Great Northern War	14,300

Battle of Malplaquet	1709	War of the Spanish Succession	95,000

Battle of Fontenoy	1745	War of the Austrian Succession	14,000

Battle of Leuthen	1757	Seven Years' War	11,800

Battle of Zorndorf	1758	Seven Years' War	30,000

Third Battle of Panipat	1761	Marathas and Afghans	Approximately 100,000; up to 200,000 (including civilian camp followers)

Battle of Arcole	1796	War of the First Coalition	11,000

Battle of Marengo	1800	War of the Second Coalition	16,400

Ulm Campaign	1805	War of the Third Coalition	11,500

Battle of Austerlitz	1805	War of the Third Coalition	24,300

Battle of Jena–Auerstedt	1806	War of the Fourth Coalition	52,000 including prisoners later killed

Battle of Eylau	1807	War of the Fourth Coalition	40,000

Battle of Wagram	1809	War of the Fifth Coalition	77,000–79,000

Battle of Talavera	1809	Peninsular War	13,900

Battle of Salamanca	1812	Peninsular War	18,800

Battle of Borodino	1812	French invasion of Russia	74,000

Battle of Berezina	1812	French invasion of Russia	60,000

Battle of Vitoria	1813	Peninsular War	13,000

Battle of Leipzig	1813	War of the Sixth Coalition	124,000

Battle of Ligny	1815	Hundred Days	28,000

Battle of Waterloo	1815	Hundred Days	47,000 or more (not including prisoners and missing)

Battle of Blood River	1838	Zulu purge of Voortrekkers	3,000 or more to Zulu side only (not including wounded)

Battle of Inkerman	1854	Crimean War	15,857

Battle of Shiloh	1862	American Civil War	24,000

Battle of Antietam	1862	American Civil War	23,000–26,193

Battle of Fredericksburg	1862	American Civil War	17,300–17,962

Battle of Gettysburg	1863	American Civil War	51,000

Battle of Chickamauga	1863	American Civil War	Approximately 34,000

Battle of Spotsylvania Court House	1864	American Civil War	Approximately 30,000

Battle of Stones River	1862 – 1863	American Civil War	Approximately 24,000

Battle of Königgrätz	1866	Austro-Prussian War	47,500

Battle of Tuyutí	1866	Paraguayan War	7,000–16,000

Battle of Mars-la-Tour/Battle of Gravelotte	1870	Franco-Prussian War	34,000

Battle of Sedan	1870	Franco-Prussian War	26,000

Battle of Adwa	1896	First Italo-Ethiopian War	17,300

Battle of Binakayan-Dalahican	1896	Philippine Revolutionary War	2,000–15,000

Battle of Omdurman	1898	Mahdist War	20,430

Battle of Mons/Battle of Le Cateau	1914	World War I	18,000

Battle of Sakarya	1921	Greco–Turkish War of 1919–22	61,000

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The Battle of Salsu is listed among the "classical formation" battles.

final_sentence: The Battle of Salsu is listed among the "classical formation" battles.