A Genie appears out of a bottle and asks…

[Asterios]

@wittmann:

Excellent question. We are watching Aladdin with our 3 year old too!
Nice one Mallery, but has to be Thermopylae. (Not fond of Persians.)

I’d have to agree with you since that battle while a defeat for the Spartans was a morale victory for Greece, and stipulated Strategy is superior to superior numbers.

[Mallery29]

That battle only has meaning because the Persian Navy got pwned….if it wasn’t for the terrible battle at sea, consider Greece conquered, and this damn love affair with this battle would not be so high (and history would greatly would be altered).

[Witt]

Yes,  Salamis was probably the bigger Victory. Those Persians did come a long way, only to get beaten every time. (Thank God.)
Unlike Alexander of course.

[Hobbes]

Sack of Rome by the Visigoths, 410 a.D. - the first time the city fell in 800 years and the end of the Western Roman Empire.

Just imagine fighting for the capital of the world and watch it fall to the hands of barbarians…

[Col. Ty Webb]

Battle of France

Show up at the front line, throw down your weapon, retreat and live to smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and have a disposition towards hatred against anyone who isn’t you.

[hkytown1]

Any Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving.

[ABWorsham4]

Fall of Constantinople 1453

[Guest]

Stalingrad.

[empireman]

@CWO:

@Gargantua:

Battle of Berlin…
Going out in a blaze of glory from the good end of an MG42, against an unstoppable, uncountable, and insurmountable red horde that just keeps coming.

During the Battle of Berlin, there was a Russian tank crewman who put on a spirited one-man last stand.  His tank had somehow gotten isolated during the street fighting for the city and was damaged by a German anti-tank round.  All but one of its crew were killed.  The surviving (though wounded) crewman kept working the main gun, loading and aiming and firing it by himself.  When the main gun ran out of ammunition, or was wrecked by another enemy hit (I can’t remember which), the Russian proceeded to fire the tank’s machine gun at the nearby Germans.  When that ran out of ammunition, he started lobbing grenades out of the tank to drive off the Germans who were pounding on the hull and demanding that he surrender.  A fresh Soviet unit finally arrived and forced the Germans to retreat.  The Russian soldiers got into the wrecked tank and found the last crewman inside.  He was dying of his wounds, but he was holding a knife in his hand, ready to use it on any German soldier who had tried to enter the tank.  After telling the other Russian soldiers what had happened, his final words were, “Thank you, comrades, for not leaving my body in the hands of the Fascists.”

Thats my last stand i would like

[dinosaur]

I’d have to be a spectator at Waterloo.

[special forces]

Why can’t i ever have the sex-genie!?

on-topic: don’t know particular battles, but somwhere in a jungle defending against a wild japanese bayonetted attack would sound fine.
(Waterloo would be interesting as well)

[Most Holy]

@dinosaur:

I’d have to be a spectator at Waterloo.

This one is it for me. To be at Napoleon’s side and have a translator of course.

[Witt]

Do you not speak Corsican or Italian,  Most Holy?

[Most Holy]

Nor French. Working on Russian, slowly.

[Witt]

Good luck with that. Any reason you fancied trying to learn Russian? I do have respect for those who learn different, out of the ordinary(my ordinary obviously)  languages.

[Most Holy]

Many Russian and former Soviet Union friends. Sad history. Much like Ireland my second favourite non native country. But I’m sure as hell not learning Gaelic.

[ABWorsham4]

As a Texan, I have to add the Alamo.

[Most Holy]

Second choice would be the Battle of Yavin.

[Witt]

@ABWorsham:

As a Texan, I have to add the Alamo.

or you could reverse the question and be with Hood at Gaines’ Mill, charging and wrecking Fitz John Porter’s line! (Were you born in Texas?)
What happened at Yavin,Most Holy?

[Most Holy]

WHAT HAPPENED AT YAVIN!?!?! Only the greatest battle of all time! A rag tag bunch of rebels destroyed the greatest weapon ever created by hitting an exhaust port not much smaller than a wamprat with a torpedo without even using targeting computers! a filthy hippie guided only by an ancient religion closed his eyes and pulls the trigger and the Galactic Empire was defeated. Sheesh don’t they teach history in your backwards country?