# Battlefields you have visited. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 22, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993 "2011-07-22T15:53:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/1 "2011-07-22T15:53:30Z")
I would have done this as a poll, but there are just too many possibilities. For me, it’s the following: **US Revolutionary War** _Harlem Heights_ – sort of; it’s not marked well, but there are areas on the Columbia University campus where where it was fought. _Bennington_ – Actually, in New York state, not in Bennington. The monument in Bennington marks the objective of the British – a grainery – but they never got near it. Very impressive terrain – a small clearing at the top of a hill; the British had a great position and it’s amazing that the Colonials defeated them (though there seemed to have been a lot of British overconfidence). _Saratoga_ – both Freeman’s Farm and Bemis Heights. **US Civil War** _Gettysburg Antietam First Manassas Second Manassas_ _Fredricksberg Chancellorsville Wilderness_ – just drove by; it’s next to Chancellorsville and seeing one puts you on the other **World War II** _Pearl Harbor_ – the Arizona Memorial _Normany_ – Juno, Gold, and Omaha beaches. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/2 "2011-07-22T15:54:31Z")
The ones close by in North Carolina Fort Fisher (Civil War) Moore’s Creek (Revolutoionary War) ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/3 "2011-07-22T16:49:00Z")
Most of the Civil War sites near DC during a trip in the 80s (Gettysburg, Chancellorville, etc.) Pea Ridge in Arkansas (another Civil War battlefield) Pearl Harbor Several sites across Scotland on visits (Culloden, the stuff near the Wallace monument) ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/4 "2011-07-22T16:54:49Z")
In Wisconsin we’d start our canoe trips down the Little Pecatonica at Bloody Lake, site of a battle (brawl) during the Blackhawk War. In the navy 1987 I loitered on the flying bridge as we passed through the Surigao Straights in the Phillipines, where the USN had “capped the T” of the IJN 33 years previously, the last time it was done in naval warfare. And of course we got into dress whites and rendered honors when we pulled into Pearl Harbor past the Arizona ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/5 "2011-07-22T16:57:37Z")
Off the top of my head: Pearl Harbor Gettysburg Shiloh Little Big Horn Glorieta Pass Picacho Pass Chickamauga Wilson’s Creek San Pasqual The Alamo ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/6 "2011-07-22T16:58:24Z")
My husband is interested in battlefields, so I’ve [DEL]been subjected to[/DEL] visited: Kennesaw Mountain Pickett’s Mill Chickamauga Lookout Mountain/Chattanooga Snake Creek Gap/Resaca Dug Gap Horseshoe Bend, AL (Creek War) Cyclorama (Battle of Atlanta) and doubtless been taken to others by my educational-experience-loving parents, but I don’t remember which ones. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/7 "2011-07-22T17:02:14Z")
In no particular order: Gettysburg (American Civil War) Pearl Harbor (World War II) Bunker Hill, Lexington, and Concord (also the sites of the Boston Massacre and Tea Party) (American Revolutionary War) Berlin Wall (also Nazi Party rally sites in Nuremburg) (Cold War) First Defenestration of Prague (Hussite Wars) Second Defenestration of Prague (Thirty Years War) Some of those aren’t exactly battlefields, but still significant. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/8 "2011-07-22T17:16:10Z")
I’m from California, where I believe our battlefields are mostly under the LA freeway :p. While I haven’t gotten to go see any cool battlefields back east yet, I did go to New Orleans last year and head out to[Chalmette Battlefield](http://www.nps.gov/jela/chalmette-battlefield.htm) (site of the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812). Naturally, I sang [The Battle of New Orleans by Johnny Horton](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxB42cjHTGg) the _entire time_. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/9 "2011-07-22T17:19:36Z")
War of 1812 - Chalmette Battlefield, location of “Battle of New Orleans.” ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/10 "2011-07-22T17:19:38Z")
I suppose I could add that I’ve visited the Reichstag, the goal of Russian troops during very heavy fighting in Berlin. ---
**Author:** ![jonesj2205](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecc23a/32.png) [@jonesj2205](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jonesj2205)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/11 "2011-07-22T17:21:49Z")
Revolutionary War Bunker Hill Saratoga Brandwyine Civil War Gettysburgh World War II Normandy Pearl Harbor ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/12 "2011-07-22T17:22:51Z")
Lexington Concord All in one day! It was a whirlwind tour. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/13 "2011-07-22T17:26:21Z")
Field of Blackbirds (about 5 centuries later) Vukovar (about 2 hours after the city fell) ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/14 "2011-07-22T17:29:29Z")
**American Civil War** Gettysburg Shiloh Kennesaw Mountain Hartsville\* (TN) Stones River (TN) Chickamauga Franklin (TN) Nashville Chattanooga / Lookout Mountain Vicksburg **American Revolution** Bunker Hill **War of 1812** Battle of Lake Erie\*\* New Orleans **Texas Revolution** Alamo Goliad San Jacinto \*I used to live there. Every December, they still do a re-enactment. \*\*Technically not really a battlefield, but I’ve boated around Put-In-Bay on Lake Erie and visited the monument on South Bass Island. ETA: You can’t spit here in middle Tennessee without hitting an American Civil War battlefield or monument, so I’ve been to a few. ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/15 "2011-07-22T17:33:43Z")
**Revolutionary War** Lexington and Concord Guilford Courthouse King’s Mountain **Texas Revolution** The Alamo **US Civil War** Gettysburg Manassas Fredericksburg Chattanooga Ft. Fisher Ft. Sumter **World War II** Pearl Harbor ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/16 "2011-07-22T17:53:00Z")
Gettysburg. Being as I was 15 I just thought it looked like a crummy old field, though I guess I was somewhat moved as I later tried to write a play wherein Bob Dylan played at the Battle of Gettysburg. Yorktown. My Dad insisted I see it because one of our ancestors got his hair frozen to the ground there. Looked like a field to me but it had some pretty butterflies. Glorieta Pass, as I recall, at least had some ruins to check out. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/17 "2011-07-22T17:57:18Z")
I’ve only been to a few: Queenston Heights (Battle of 1812) – I got to climb Brock’s Monument while we were there. Very nice view from the top, as I recall. Little Bighorn (Indian Wars, 1876) – Visited this one three times now. I’m rather fascinated with this battle and the characters involved. Batoche (Northwest Rebellion, 1885) – A pivotal location in Canada’s early years as a nation. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/18 "2011-07-22T18:17:08Z")
If you can make an argument for St. Petersburg during the blockade being a battlefield, I think that’s the only one I can count. Seen the sign that’s still on the wall of a building on Nevsky Prospect warning comrades which side of the street was more dangerous to walk on… ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/19 "2011-07-22T19:56:49Z")
Towton Moor > **[Home - Towton Battlefield Society](https://www.towton.org.uk/)** > > TowtonBattlefieldSociety Preserving the Towton Battlefield as a site of historic interest for the general public. OBJECTIVES The objectives of the Towton Battlefield Society are threefold. Namely, to: 1) promote the permanent preservation as a site... Marston Moor > **[Battle of Marston Moor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marston_Moor)** > > 1643 > 1644 > 1645 Battle of ferrybridge, this was only a small engagement with around 3000 killed > **[Battle of Ferrybridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ferrybridge)** > > The Battle of Ferrybridge, 28 March 1461, was a preliminary engagement between the houses of York and Lancaster before the larger battle of Towton, during the period now known as the Wars of the Roses. > After proclaiming himself king, Edward IV gathered together a large force and marched north towards the Lancastrian position behind the Aire River in Yorkshire. > On 27 March the Earl of Warwick (leading the vanguard) forged a crossing at Ferrybridge, bridging the gaps (the Lancastrians having pr... Bramham Moor - I go past there most days > **[Battle of Bramham Moor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bramham_Moor)** > > The Battle of Bramham Moor on 19 February 1408 was the final battle in the Percy Rebellion of 1402 – 1408, which pitted Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, head of the rich and influential Percy family, against the usurper King of England, Henry IV. The Percys had previously supported Henry in his coup d'etat against his cousin King Richard II in 1399. > King Henry and Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland had fallen out in the aftermath of the Battle of Homildon Hill in 1402, a victory ... Battle of Pendas Fields - it has other names > **[Battle of the Winwaed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Winwaed)** > > The Battle of the Winwaed (Welsh: Maes Gai; Medieval Latin: Strages Gai Campi) was fought on 15 November 655\[notes 1\] between King Penda of Mercia and Oswiu of Bernicia, ending in the Mercians' defeat and Penda's death. According to Bede, the battle marked the effective demise of Anglo-Saxon paganism. > The roots of the battle lay in Penda's success in dominating England through a number of military victories, most significantly over the previously dominant Northumbrians. In alliance with Cadwa... Battle of Barnet - this was a pretty important engagement, but I’ll bet most Londoners have little idea of it > **[Battle of Barnet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Barnet)** > > The Battle of Barnet was a decisive engagement in the Wars of the Roses, a dynastic conflict of 15th-century England. The military action, along with the subsequent Battle of Tewkesbury, secured the throne for Edward IV. On Sunday 14 April 1471, Easter Day, near Barnet, then a small Hertfordshire town north of London, Edward led the House of York in a fight against the House of Lancaster, which backed Henry VI for the throne. Leading the Lancastrian army was Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, w... Stamford bridge > **[Battle of Stamford Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stamford_Bridge)** > > Hingston Down > Alcea · York · Englefield · Reading · Ashdown · Basing · Meretun · Chippenham · Edington/Ethandun · Cynwit > Rochester · Farnham · Buttington · First Stamford · Benfleet · The Holme · Tettenhall · Tempsford · Derby · Second Stamford · Corbridge · Brunanburh · Stainmore · Maldon · First Alton · St Brice's Day · Pinhoe · Thetford · Ringmere Battle of Wakefield - most round here call it the Battle of Sandal > **[Battle of Wakefield](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Wakefield)** > > The Battle of Wakefield took place in Sandal Magna near Wakefield in northern England, on 30 December 1460. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster and his Queen Margaret of Anjou on one side, and the army of Richard, Duke of York, the rival claimant to the throne, on the other. > For several years before the battle, the Duke of York had become increasingly opposed to the weak Kin... Battle of Boroughbridge > **[Battle of Boroughbridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Boroughbridge)** > > The Battle of Boroughbridge was fought on 16 March 1322 in England between a group of rebellious barons and the forces of King Edward II, near Boroughbridge, north-west of York. The culmination of a long period of antagonism between the King and Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, his most powerful subject, it resulted in Lancaster's defeat and execution, ending the Despenser War. This allowed Edward to re-establish royal authority and hold on to power for almost five more years. > Though not a part of ... ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993/20 "2011-07-22T20:06:44Z")
I see no one’s been to the [Perryville Battlefield](http://www.perryvillebattlefield.org/) in Perryville, Ky., said to be one of the bloodiest of the Civil War — my only contribution. I like that this battle was on Oct. 8 (1862), the date Dave Berry says everything in history happens on. Also it’s my brother’s birthday. 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/battlefields-you-have-visited/589993.md?page=2)