Little Bighorn
Batoche, Sask.
Pearl Harbor
Bunker Hill
Plains of Abraham
…and various North American/European/Chinese cities that would have seen battles as well (e.g. Toronto and Washington, D.C. were both attacked in the War of 1812).
I went to Perryville when I was about 6. As was my usual reaction to battlefields, I thought it just looked like a field, and my sister losing her lunch in the car afterwards was more memorable. This would have been around '71 and maybe they didn’t have Civil War re-enactors then. (Could have livened things up.)
The house I grew up in. Definitely a battlefield site.
Oh, and also Fort Ticonderoga.
Revolutionary War:
Cowpens (South Carolina)
King’s Mountain (SC/NC - right on the line)
96 (South Carolina)
Bunker Hill
Indian Wars:
Horseshoe Bend (Alabama - Creek War)
Fort Gadsden (Florida - Seminole War)
Fort Mims (Alabama - Creek War)
Civil War:
Chickamauga (Very close to where I grew up.)
Lookout Mountain/Chattanooga
Antietam
Fort Pulaski
Surprising that I haven’t visited more actual Civil War battlefields but then again, the Civil War is all around us down here. Markers everywhere. Skirmishes and battles all over the place. I currently live a couple of blocks from where the heaviest fighting occurred in the Battle of Atlanta, and my house is just below Atlanta’s easternmost line of fortification.
Of the parks and facilities listed above, I was really surprised at how nice the Horseshoe Bend facility is, given that it’s out in the middle of nowhere. Same for Cowpens and King’s Mountain. Really nice facilities and interesting stops.
I should add that those are just the formal battlefield parks (with facilities) I have visited. There are battlefields all over the South where there are no facilities, just maybe a few roadside markers. Didn’t include those.
Carthage
Little Bighorn
Manassas
The Ardennes
Waterloo
Wounded Knee
The Alamo
Harper’s Ferry
Vietnam (but not willingly)
Multiple European cities that were bombed/occupied
When I lived in the eastern part of West Virginia, I took a trip over to Antietam. I find that battle to be interesting because the impression the school textbooks gave me is so much different than what actually happened. I had always thought Antietam was a glorious Union victory when, in reality, it was kind of a flimsy one (and one hell of a missed opportunity, given the Union’s discovery of Special Order 191).
I went there once. It was closed. They were doing some kind of renovation. :mad:
But hey, I’ve been to Waterloo, where Napoleon did surrender. (sort of) I was inspired by Victor Hugo, who toured the site when it was still a living memory. Some day I want to visit Borodino.
I’ve seen most of the famous Civil War battlefields, except in Virginia, where there are just too damn many of them. And except for Perryville. :mad: My favorite: Palmito Ranch, a roadside marker in the Rio Grande Valley. It was the last battle of the Civil War. The Confederates won.
Seven Years War
Louisberg, Nova Scotia
Plains of Abraham, Québec
North-West Rebellion
Batoche
WWII
Dieppe
Normandy
Paris
When I was younger, my brother and sister were fascinated by the Civil War after seeing North and South so we went to Shiloh pretty often.
so that’s
Shiloh
Memphis
Gettysburg
Pearl Harbor (Arizona Memorial)
I forgot that I had been to Big Hole National Battleground, where Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce fought their largest battle against American military forces.
Norman Conquest - Battle and Hastings
French & Indian War - Plains of Abraham
Waterloo
American Civil War - Petersburg, Virginia & Alexandria, Louisiana
Northwest Rebellion 1885 - Batoche
WWI - Ypres
WWII - Ardennes
Corregidor - The Battle of the Philippines
I am sure there are more, particularly from the War of 1812 and WWI & II, but these are the ones that stick out in my mind.
The Alamo
Goliad
San Jacinto
I might be traveling to South Africa for business in the next year or so. I’m going to make it a point to visit Roarke’s Drift.
Civil War sites:
Gettysburg
Shiloh
First Manassas/Bull Run
Atlanta (they seemed to have rebuilt it pretty well after the burning.)
American Revolutionary War:
Yorktown
Valley Forge (no battle site per se, but site of famous encampment)
Indian wars:
Battle of Fallen Timbers, near present day Maumee OH .
As a geezer, an old soldier and sort of a half-ass student, I’ve had the chance to see a few, some of them pretty obscure.
Waterloo
Valmy
Kaiserslautern,
Hanau
Wagram
Augsburg
Marengo
Regensburg
Lexington and Concord
Bunker Hill
Monmouth, NJ
Trenton and Princeton
Valley Forge
Brandywine
Yorktown
Bull Run, First and Second
Cedar Mountain
Balls Bluff
Seven Days/Richmond
Antietam
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Wilderness and Spotsylvania
Cold Harbor
Petersburg-Richmond
Sailors Creek
Appomattox Court House
Atlanta, Peachtree Creek, Ezra Church
Brandy Station
Fort Donnellson and Fort Henry
Shiloh
Corinth
Tupelo
Champions Hill (damned near impossible to find on the ground)
Black River Bridge
Vicksburg
Jackson, MS
Pea Ridge/Elk Horn Tavern
Wilsons Creek
Shenandoah Valley
Fallen Timbers
Squaw Rock /Mack-O-Chee Creek
Little Big Horn
Beechers Island
Spirit Lake
Sioux Uprising of 1862 (New Ulm, MN)
White Hill
Washita
Sand Creek
Braddock’s Defeat
St Claire’s Defeat
The Somme
Ypres
Verdun
Chateau-Thierry
Belleau Woods
Cantigny
Meuse-Argonne
Normandy landing grounds
St. Lo
Ardennes
Bastogne
Ramagen
Ober-Saltzburg and the Eagle’s Nest
Pearl Harbor
Arnhem
Gettysburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House. I lived in SCH for three months.
Also, just over this weekend, Blair Mountain. It’s criminal what they’re going to do to it. The state turned over the only access road to a strip-mining outfit.
French and Indian War:
Battle of Carillon (N.Y.)
Revolutionary War:
Battle of Ticonderoga (N.Y.)
Siege of Fort Stanwix (N.Y.)
Battle of Bunker (Breed’s) Hill (Mass.)
Battle of Lexington and Concord (Mass.)
Battle of Groton Heights (Conn.)
Battle of Machias (Me.)
War of 1812:
Battle of Sodus Point (N.Y.)
Battle of York (Toronto)
Civil War:
Battle of Gettysburg (Penna.)
Battle of Antietam (Md.)