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 The Battle of Hattin  Date 3–4 July 1187 Location  Horns of Hattin, Principality of Galilee (modern-day Israel) 32°48′13″N 35°26′40″E Result  Decisive Ayyubid victory Belligerents Kingdom of Jerusalem County of Tripoli Principality of Antioch Knights Templar Knights Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus Order of Mountjoy Ayyubid Sultanate Commanders and leaders Guy of Lusignan Surrendered Raymond III of Tripoli Balian of Ibelin Gerard de Rideford Surrendered Garnier de Nablus Raynald of Châtillon Surrendered Executed Humphrey IV of Toron Aimery of Lusignan Reginald of Sidon Joscelin III of Edessa Saladin Muzaffar ad-Din Gökböri Al-Muzaffar Umar Al-Adil I Al-Afdal ibn Salah ad-Din Strength 18,000–20,000 men 1,200 knights 3,000 men-at-arms 500 turcopoles 15,000 infantry 20,000–40,000 men 12,000 regular cavalry Casualties and losses Crusaders Casualties Most of the army 200 captured knights executed Captured turcopoles executed Captured infantrymen enslaved Muslims casua...

 The Battle of Ain Jalut Date 3 September 1260 Location  Near Ayn Jalut, Galilee, Israel Result  Mamluk victory Mongol invasion of Mamluk Sultanate is halted. Territorial changes Territories captured by the Mongols are returned to the Mamluks. Belligerents  Mamluk Sultanate  Ayyubid emirs of Kerak and Hamah   Ilkhanate of the Mongol Empire  Kingdom of Georgia  Cilician Armenia  Ayyubid emirs of Homs and Banias Commanders and leaders  Saif ad-Din Qutuz  Baibars  Al-Mansur of Hamah  Kitbuga †  Al-Ashraf of Homs  Al-Said of Banias Units involved Light cavalry and horse archers, heavy cavalry, infantry Mongol lancers and horse archers, Cilician Armenian troops, Georgian contingent, local Ayyubid contingents Strength 15,000–20,000 10,000–20,000 Casualties and losses Unknown most of the army The Battle of Ain Jalut (or Ayn Jalut, in Arabic: عين جالوت, the "Spring of Goliath") took place on 3 September 1260 between Mus...

 Battle of Agincourt Date 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day) Location  Azincourt, County of Saint-Pol (now Pas-de-Calais) 50°27′49″N 2°8′30″E Result English victory Belligerents  Kingdom of England      Kingdom of France Commanders and leaders  King Henry V  Duke of York †  Sir Thomas Camoys  Sir Thomas Erpingham  Charles d'Albret †  Jean Le Maingre (Surrendered)  Duke of Orléans (Surrendered)  Duke of Alençon †  Duke of Bourbon (Surrendered) Strength 6,000–8,100 men • About 5⁄6 archers • 1⁄6 dismounted men-at-arms in heavy armour 14,000–15,000 men or up to 25,000 if counting armed servants • 10,000 men-at-arms • 4,000–5,000 archers and crossbowmen • Up to 10,000 mounted and armed servants (gros valets) present Casualties and losses Up to 600 killed (112 identified)  6,000 killed (most of whom were of the French nobility) • 700–2,200 captured Battle of Agincourt, (October 25, 1415), decisive battle...

 Battle of Stalingrad The centre of Stalingrad after the battle Date 23 August 1942 – 2 February 1943 (5 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location  Stalingrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Volgograd, Russia) 48°42′N 44°31′E Result  Soviet victory Destruction of the German 6th Army Territorial changes Expulsion of the Axis from the Caucasus, reversing their gains from the 1942 Summer Campaign Belligerents  Germany                    Soviet Union  Romania  Italy  Hungary  Croatia Commanders and leaders Nazi Germany  Adolf Hitler  Maximilian von Weichs  Friedrich Paulus Surrendered   Hermann Hoth  Erich von Manstein  W. F. von Richthofen Kingdom of Romania  Petre Dumitrescu  C. Constantinescu Fascist Italy (1922–1943)  Italo Gariboldi Kingdom of Hungary (1920–1946)  Gusztáv Jány Soviet Union  Joseph Stalin  Georgy Zhukov  Nikolay Voro...