Last stands

1942 major battle of World War II

battle of 480 BCE during Persian invasion of Greece

1453 capture of the Byzantine capital by the Ottoman Empire

1945 last major offensive of the European theatre of World War Il

490 BCE battle in the Greco-Persian wars

1945 major battle in which US Forces captured the island of Iwo Jima from Japan during World War II

battle in October 680 between the army of Ubayd Allah ibn Ziyad and al-Husayn ibn Ali

Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II

Ottoman Empire's invasion of Malta in 1565

1836 major battle of the Texas Revolution

military overthrow of the Popular Unity coalition government in 1973 in Chile

1314 battle during the First War of Scottish Independence

The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, involved nearly three hundred Lakota people killed by soldiers of the United States Army. Between 250 and 300 Lakota people were killed, and 51 were wounded. Twenty-five U.S. soldiers were killed and 39 were wounded. Nineteen soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor specifically for Wounded Knee, and overall 31 for the campaign.

battle in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

June 1876 battle of the Great Sioux War

war between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom fought in the Zulu lands in South Africa in 1879

battle in 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

1527 siege

1097–1098 siege during the First Crusade

1637 siege

battle in the Anglo-Zulu War, specifically the defence of the mission station of Rorke's Drift

778 battle between Charlemagne and Basques

1566 battle in Hungary during the Ottoman–Habsburg wars

1614-1615 series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan

1279 battle

battle

1914 siege

1918 battle

1942 part of the battle of Gazala in the Western Desert Campaign of World War II

battle between Alexander the Great and Ariobarzanes near Persepolis in a small mountainpass known as the Persian gate along the Royal road

1560 battle

1941 battle of World War II

219 BCE battle between the Carthaginians and the Saguntines in the Roman-allied town of Saguntum (in modern-day Sagunto, Spain), triggering the Second Punic War

main engagement of the Third Punic War in which the Roman Republic besieged the Punic city of Carthage in c. 149–146 BCE

battle in Latvia, 1260

552 battle between Byzantine Empire and Ostrogothic Kingdom during Gothic War

1920 battle

late 6th century BC Roman army officer who defended the Pons Sublicius against Lars Porsena's Etruscan army

investment, capture and fall of Tenochtitlan by the Spanish Empire

1877 last stand of the Samurai

1897 battle in British India

1939 early battle of World War II

2003 major battle of the Iraq War

1942 intense phase of Imperial Japan's invasion of the Philippines during World War II

end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire

1552 battle that occurred during the Ottoman-Hungarian Wars

1597 fought during the Japanese invasions of Korea

1942 culmination of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II

7th-century battle in Korea

1863 battle

1988 battle

Ottoman siege of Trebizond in 1461

battle

final battle of the Persian conquest of Babylonia

2000 battle

1648 siege of Prague, Bohemia

1361 battle fought in the town of Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden between the forces of Danish king Valdemar IV and Gutnish country yeomen

1539 siege during the 1515–1577 Spanish-Ottoman War

siege marking the end of the First Jewish–Roman War

1582 battle of Tenmokuzan (天目山の戦い, Tenmokuzan no Tatakai) in Japan, also known as the Battle of Toriibata, is regarded as the last stand of the Takeda clan.