If you could watch ANY battle ?

Towton, 1461.
Armada, 1588.
Roundway Down, 1643.
Marston Moor, 1644.
Waterloo, 1815.
From good binocular distance.
With a Sick-bag.

Don't want to be anywhere near any battles after those periods. Far too dangerous.
Cheers,
Adam.

 

Thermopylae
Cannae
Waterloo
Gettysburg
Verdun
Kursk
Surigao Strait

 

Alesia,
Agincourt,
Trafalgar,
Hampton Roads,
Little Bighorn,
Jutland,
Dien Bien Phu.

 

The siege of Hegra 1940
Operaton Compass
Lightfoot 1942 (Highland and the ANZAC divs)
Holland/Germany 1945

 

WWII:
Guadalcanal (land and sea)
Bataan and Corregidor (the battle, not the death march!)
Overlord
Tarawa
Sicily
OP: Torch
Battle of the Bulge
Remegan/Rhine
Philipine sea
Market Garden
Leyte Gulf
Midway
Coral Sea
Britain
Kasserine Pass
Salerno
Anzio
Cassino
Malta
Kursk
Marshall Islands campaign
Singapore
Liberation of the Philipines
Hurtgen forest
Aleutians

WWI:
Somme
Gallopoli
Middle East
Meuse-Argone
Belleau Wood

Korea:
Inchon
Chosin
Pusan

Others:
Fredricksburg
New Orleans
Lake Erie
Yorktown
Trenton
Bagdad
Enduring Freedom
Ia Drang Valley
Hue
Haiti
Panama
Desert Storm
Falkans
7 days war
San Juan Hill
Tripoli

To name just a few ...

 

Your correct about Guadalcanal Ted
Sea battles
05-4/5/6/7/8-42 Coral Sea
06-4/5/6-42 Midway
10-11/12-42 Cape Esperance
10-23/24/25-42 Eastern Solomons
10-26-42 Santa Cruise
11-02-42 Empress Augusta Bay
11-13-42 Gaudalcanal
11-14/15-42 Gaudalcanal 2
11-30-42 Tassafaronga
07-06-43 Kula Gulf
07-13-43 Kolabangara
08-06-43 Vella Gulf
08-09-43 Savo Island
10-06/07-43 Vella Lavella
11-02-43 Empress Augusta Bay 2
11-25-43 Cape St. George (New Guinea)
All study worthy

 

Dunkirk
Battle of Berlin

 

Well, a can of worms indeed...I'm just going to keep listing until I get bored...

D-DAY
THE ATLANTIC, PARTICULARLY 'PAUCKENSCHLAG'
KURSK
BARBAROSSA
STALINGRAD
VERDUN
THE SOMME
IWO JIMA
GUADLACANAL
PEARL HARBOR
TARAWA
KASSERINE PASS
MONTE CASSINO
AGINCOURT
POZIERES
GALLIPOLI
AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
ANTIETAM
CONFEDERATE BATTERY WAGNER
PORK CHOP HILL
KHE SANH
LONG TAN
NUI DAT
IA DRANG '66
AND.....HURTGEN FOREST

BORED NOW! AND EXHAUSTED!

 

Many WWII battles but not only. Also:
Azincourt with Henry V
the siege of Orleans with Joan of Arc
the Great Armada
Trafalgar 1805
Shangai in 1937
Poitiers 732
Jutland
The Marne 1914
Vimy 1917

about time for a time machine!

 

I'd like to see;
The siege of Sevastapol.

Jutland.

The opening battle between Bismark/Eugan vs. Royal Navy.

The siege at KeSahn.........they say a B-52 raid is awesome.

 

Regent's Street, Swindon.
Pitched three way battles between Brits, Yanks & Canucks.

 

I'd watch William Wallace bust some heads at Sterling.

 

Culmination of the Battle of New Orleans - 8th January 1815.

 

Then I'd watch the rematch at Falkirk and see the power of the longbow against those closely packed scottish schiltrons.

 

Towton would be interesting. I'd like to watch Badon Hill too just to find out where it was and who led the fight.

 

Excellent choice Stefan!!! Yes, it would be interesting to see if it was the "real king Arturius" who defeated the Saxons as perceived in the newer" King Arthur " movie with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley.

 

Battle of Saratoga. It would be interesting to see the battlefields right next to my town being fought on nearly two and half centuries ago.

I have been reading a bit on the Revolution lately in McCullough's book 1776. Topic of interest as of late.

 

I'd like to see some of Desert Storm 1......in particular, the tank busting A-10 Thunderbolts.

Also the battle at SeeLowe Heights,on the outskirts of Berlin.

 

While not the heaviest area of action, I was part of the western flank controlled by 18th Airborne Corps. My unit - 18th Field Artillery Brigade - was towed M198/155 mm howitzers assigned to support the 101st Air Assault Division. There were also elements of the 82nd Airborne in our AO as well, as I can remember those M-551 Sheridans advancing through heavy sandstorms that blocked out most of the sunlight. Apart from MLRS's, which spark a vivid memory, were the low flying A-10's. Once they passed us it wasn't long before we heard their big ole 30 mike mikes, and , upon our own advancement, we came upon the burning hulks of BTR's, BMP's and the occasional T-72.

I think that the first Battle of Constantinople (1203-04) would have been interesting to see, particularly the Venetian seaborne attack through the Golden Horn.

 

I would also love to watch the invasion of Khwarezmia by Ghengis Khan and then sit back and eat some pop-corn while the Mongols poured molten silver into Inalchuq's eye's and ears, for his assult on the caravan and then the Ambassador's.