"5 must see battlefields b4 you die?" Topic

Include those you have been to and those you have not. For me?

Normandy beaches,
Arnhem,
Bannockburn (have been),
Sekigahara,
Kawanakajima.

Gettysburg(been there)
King's Mountain(been there)
Sekigahara
Waterloo
Da Nang (kin folk died there)

Gettysburg (been there but liked Brice's Crossroads better)
Bastogne (been there want to go back again)
Balete Pass (Dad fought over the top of that)
Normandy
Waterloo

Gettysburg (been there)
Waterloo (been there)
Alamo (been there)
Little Big Horn
Rorkes Drift & Islandwanda

Hastings
Waterloo
Normandy
Gettysburg
Bastogne

Been to all but the last.

None, I'm to old to want to see a battle field again, Ex-battle fields makes for a totally different question.

Gettysburg (been)
Alamo (been)
Bastogne
Normandy
Waterloo

Rorke's Drift / Isandlhwana
Gettysburg
Alamo (been there)
Omaha Beach
Verdun

Gallipoli WW1
Ameins WW1
Kokoda WW2
Milne Bay WW2
Long Tan Vietnam

regards
Allan

Battlefield Earth, I could do with a laugh.

Im listing ones I have never been to.

Normandy Beaches
Waterloo
Mobile Bay
Mount Suribachi
Maginot line

Waterloo (been there)
Gettysburg (been there)
Normandy
Thermopylae
Flanders Fields

Sharpsburg (Antietam)
Gettysburg
Vicksburg (been)
Alamo (been)
Arnhem (been)

I think I might like to see Verdun too.

Been there several times:
* Concord & Lexington (families in my town were wakened at 2am when the town bell rang, they gathered and marched to the battle)
* Gettysburg (all the cannons in place, the event markers, and especially the cut fresh flowers marking personal spots are all very moving)

Personal would like to see:
* Belleau Wood (Grandfather died in the 30's from complications of the mustard gas)

Other would like to see:
* Normandy
* Waterloo

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Definitely nice to have seen, not sure I'd call it a must see, and great mural at the visitor's center:
*Bannockburn

Culloden – big chunk of my family moved to the US afterwards
Cowpens (been there)family was there
King's Mountain (been there)family was there
Guilford Courthouse(been there)family was there
Iuka – (been there) ****** Yankees burnt the family homes, stole the horses(my family bred horses), menfolk joined the CSA afterwards, (since their grandfathers/great-grandfathers had fought to establish the union they had remained neutral until then) which eventually left the family as sharecroppers on other peoples land until after WWII.

Then there's the long list of places that my grandfathers and Dad and uncles served.

Culloden
Greasy Grass [Little Bighorn for the Wasichu]
Antietam
Normandy
Khe Sanh/Dien Bien Phu.
And maybe San Pasqual.

Normandy landing areas (been there)
Battle of Bulge area; Bastogne, St Vith, (been there)
Verdun (been there)
Waterloo (been there, and was not as impressed as I thought I would be)
Masada (been there)
Gettysburg (been there)

Gettysburg
Waterloo
Nagashino
Balaclava
Breitenfeld

Also enjoyed seeing (not battlefields – but related)
Valley Forge
Andersonville and the POW museum there

Want to visit:
Thermopylae
Marathon
Waterloo
Gettysburg
"Thirtieth Milestone" (from the novel "Eagle in the Snow", so quasi-fictional)
Little Bighorn
Isandhlwana
Teutoburg Wald

Have seen:
Omaha Beach and environs
Vicksburg
Alamo (hardly a "battlefield" today, tho')
Culloden
Bannockburn
San Jacinto
Verdun

Gettysburg
Normandy
Waterloo
Isandhlwana
Hastings

DM

El Alamein
Sinai
Gettysburg
Southern Hungary actually found an old baytonet

Gettysburg (been)
Normandy
Pearl Harbor
Waterloo

and San Jacinto, but mostly to see the Texas…

Gettysburg (been there many times)

Cowpens (been there…the park is well preserved and the tour shows off the subtle terrain elements that were so key to the battle.)

Bastogne and other nearby sites (planning to go)

Vicksburg and nearby sites (been there)

Alamo

Well, aside from places I have been, and fields that my Dad fought on in WW2 from Normandy to Duisburg

Chickamaugua

The Somme

Verdun (my dad visited it after WW2, he was a high point guy and qualified to come home long before they brought folks home, so he traveled a lot.)

Stalingrad (or Volgagrad or whatever its named now)

Carthage/Zama

That's keeping it to five, naturally there are many others.

As a Texan I have to say that for the folks listing the Alamo, well, there isn't much there. Even the Chapel, which is what we think of when we think of the Alamo isn't as it was during the battle. In NYC there a plague honoring a rear guard action by the Continental Army as they retreated in 1776, its right on 42nd Street across from Grand Central Station, you really cannot close your eyes and envision what happened, that's what the Alamo is like.

Gettysburg (been)
Waterloo (been)
Koniggratz (been)
Borodino
Leuthen

Mollinary

Blenheim
Waterloo
Austerlitz
The Boyne
Gettysburg

I have been to Waterloo and the Boyne, very atmospheric – there are lots of other that are great battles bt would there be any point- Zama for example or Gaugamela- what would there be to see, even if we knew the exact location?

@Mike Crouch & Grand Duke, I spent two hours at Culloden on a dense fog packed day. You couldnt see 10 feet in the mist. It was a very moving experience.

I also spent 9 hours one day walking the twin battlefields of Sterling and Bannockburn. Sterling is best viewed from the volcanic craig nearbye where Wallices troops supposedly staged before the battle.

Waterloo & Grevelotte St. Privat while not in my top 5 are sees as well.

Verdun (must see to see the destructive power of war between 2 Great Powers one century later)
the Boyne
Auerstedt/Kösen
Essling/Wagram (not seen)
Dennewitz

Antietam. Been – Nicely preserved, and in the midst of an interesting area.

Ypres – one of my Grandfather's cousins is buried not far from there.

Mars La Tour

Antietam, when they do the illumination.

Gettysburg

Normandy, not just the beaches

Newbury

Guadalcanal

Gettysburg -- DONE
Normandy
Vimy
Waterloo
Thermopylae

Gettysburg
Little Bighorn
Waterloo
Normandy
Monmouth

None.

I enjoy visiting battlefields but I don't HAVE to visit any as a bucket list.