1 Trafalgar:
1805 Nelson crushes the combined Franco-Spanish fleet in the Napoleonic Wars.
2 Corunna: 1809 Glasgow-born Sir John Moore held back the French in the Peninsular War.
3 Waterloo: 1815 Wellington defeats Napoleon to end the Napoleonic Wars.
4 The Alamo: 1836
The Alamo falls to the Mexicans in the Texas Revolution.
5 The Siege of Sebastopol: 1855
In the Crimean War, the Russian port falls to the British after an 11-month siege.
6 Gettysburg: 1863 Victory for the Union forces at this Pennsylvania battle saw the tide turn in the American Civil War
7 Little Bighorn: 1876
At Custer's Last Stand the general and his 7th Cavalry are routed during the Indian Wars.
8 Rorke's Drift: 1879
The British win this strategic battle in the Zulu War.
9 The Siege of Khartoum: 1884-85
General Gordon and 4000 others are massacred by the Mahdi Army.
10 Spion Kop: 1900 British troops are defeated in the Second Boer War.
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